In some points there has seemed to be universal agreement. In others, there have been flatest contradictions of opinions, amusingly so, sometimes, if one could forget the trials and struggles involved. One, for instance, affirms with much positiveness that help by the hour, in place of resident labor, is entirely impossible. "How can shop and store hours be compared with those in a house, or the work be readjusted to conform to such a plan? Hasn't the problem two sides? Is it unreasonable of me to desire a late dinner when we are hurried at breakfast, irregular for luncheon, and dinner at night is the only meal the family may take together and enjoy leisurely ?" The next paper taken up assured me, no less positively, that the plan is admirable, the writer has tried it and finds it a great relief and no more expensive, all things considered.

Laundry Work

The question of laundry work, done in the house or sent out, brought forth as contradictory views, although such conclusions could easily be derived as that all would find it a relief to send laundry work out if it could be done as well, under as sanitary conditions, and no more expensively. (Not many seemed to have much idea of the actual difference in expense.) It was easy to see, also, that in practically no community thus far reported from, are there satisfactory laundries, and prices are reported as too high to be tolerated. Where are the clubs ready to devote some of their time and attention to the solution of this problem for their communities? One has done so, very satisfactorily.

These differences of opinion spring largely from the great differences in local conditions and in personal experiences, yet they emphasize the fact that each home has its own peculiar problems to be worked out, and the most that can be hoped for from suggestion from without is the laying of fundamental principles, together with opportunity of studying the experience of others as a guide in deciding our own course of action.