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life, imbibe the family standards of refinement, lay by money,
marry suitably, and become the fathers and mothers of a sturdy
race. But these are the exceptions in the great mass of domestic
service. Personally I do not believe we should have so much of
the moral trouble which is round us if domestic service were made
more honourable and more attractive to girls of fifteen and
upwards. The fault does not lie primarily with the servant, but
with the employers who employ on a system that none other of
the organized working classes would accept as regards hours and
restrictions of liberty. There is a call for great fairness here, and
it will be a happy thing if the needed reform can come from within
and not from without. We know the difficulties of small households,
 we know the difficulties of making a reform if we insist on
regarding our standard of living as rigidly fixed, but if we see a
gleam of light, as we do in one direction at least, in the purpose
of many daughters to take a new share in household things, may
we not expect also that we shall be able to see more clearly in
other respects? We must let nothing that is merely presupposition
 or traditional practice hinder us from justice as to
fresh air, recreation, and proportion of work, or no idleness of will
or lack of earnest attempt allow us to slide along tolerating and
bemoaning a condition which goes very far to strip our homes of
the atmosphere of rectitude and happiness. Perhaps a word
ought to be said here about another class of private employment.
The woman governess is often in an invidious position. She
ought to be regarded as a professional woman and her place in
a home ought to be at least as good as the place of a tutor. Her
loneliness and social discomfort are not creditable to us.

4. Hospitality Relationships.—Hospitality is the power of
receiving others and giving them the best of your best. It is of
international importance. If we understand it rightly it stands
for the peace of the world. And yet we are told and we know
that true hospitality has either lapsed or certainly is on the wane.
If as we expect, all our incomes will be greatly reduced by war
taxes, is this not a strong suggestion that we have before us the
chance of restoring true hospitality and of breaking through the
artificial ideas of entertaining which have come among us?
Surely we ought to be more interesting to our friends and
acquaintances than the food we give them to eat in a hotel or the
seats we give them at a play, for which they will subsequently
make us an equivalent return. We can purchase such food and
pleasure for ourselves, we cannot purchase the sheer human
pleasure of living in the midst of a happy family group
alive with their own interests and courteous as to ours, even if
we have to face the proverbially dull leg of mutton and the solid
rice pudding. But this rather than an effort at complicated
digestion followed by an effort of concentrated amusement would