If the state or if any private Agency or Foundation could provide the "plant," a suitable building and its repairs and fundamental expenses of upkeep, with one salaried superintendent whose character and ability could be guaranteed, the running expenses of a Boarding Home could be met easily by the limited means of many who now lack the security of an institutional provision and in consequence lack also many essentials of old-age comfort.
A skilled budget-maker could determine the numbers required in each household to make the board low and a sympathetic social worker could suggest the cooeperative features of management most likely to give successful results in the composite home.

The entrance age in such a Boarding Home could be lower than that required in the usual type of privately endowed Home for the Aged and thus a felt need be met for a suitable home for those between the ages of fifty-five and sixty-five.
In these privately endowed Homes for the Aged the entrance fees range from $100 to $1,000, and beneficiaries are required to give up all the property of any kind of which they may be possessed when they enter this permanent residence.

This is not unjust, but it is often an added trial to the independent nature.

There is need of far larger provision for the old in Homes for Aged Men, Aged Women, and Aged Couples.

No one can give anything but gratitude for the opportunities they now offer or fail to hope for their increase.