diminishes, as in the West. And this development will be not only in the interest of the servants but also in the interest of woman. For the housewife who deserves to keep servants is either frail and incapable of work, or worn out by the work of the house and the number of her children, or a working woman performing, outside her home or within it, a task that surpasses housework in material and moral usefulness.

But she who sends her children to the kindergarten or to the schools, hands her house over to the servants, and gives herself up to adornment and card-playing — is she, do you think, worthy of being served? The answer, of course, is no.

Many of our women are of this sort — of those who spin away their hours on the loom I have described. It behooves these women to choose one of two

things: either to work outside the home, or to do the work of the home and dispense with servants.

This is a proposal that may not please those who have grown used to the soft and easy life. But what do these ladies think of the woman who works in her house and outside her house at one and the same time, and who, on top of this, finds time to exercise political rights and to concern herself with social affairs?