One or two wives of my acquaintance have persuaded their husbands that these higher things are all-important.

The home has been given up.

In company with other strivers after higher things, they live now in dismal barracks differing but little from a glorified Bloomsbury lodging-house.

But they call them "Mansions" or "Courts," and seem proud of the address.

They are not bothered with servants--with housekeeping.