In such homes the grandmother is often still seen to be really useful.

She may make it possible for the young mother to earn outside the home.

She may, if skilled in sewing, ease the expense of ready-made clothes.

She may, at least, and usually does, relieve the mother of much care of the babies.

There are several reasons why more aged men are sent to public institutions for final care than aged women of the same general type of family, but the most important reason is that most women have skill in domestic matters; and domestic service is needed everywhere, no matter how many unemployed walk the streets.