They belong to but they are not inside the inmost circle.

If one alone is left the life of the personal home is broken for the elderly, however dear and kind the children may be.

For such there surely needs something easier than the attempt to maintain a separate home with half its life gone.

And also something more independent and more secure than either enforced residence with children or compulsory use of the ordinary commercialized boarding house.
=To Prevent Premature Old Age.=--The second social demand, that premature old age shall be more effectively prevented, is one that is pressed upon this generation with new and imperative considerations.

A knowledge of health conditions shows that although infant mortality is greatly lessened and infectious and epidemic diseases greatly brought under control, the diseases of middle age, such as hardening of arteries and kidney and digestive disorders, have increased relatively, while insanity is much more frequent than of old.