onsibility. The committee
add that it will be almost impossible to make kind-hearted people
believe this, since they are more moved {63} by the sight of present
suffering than by the hope of future permanent improvement, to secure
which some measure of present suffering may be necessary." [9]

Collateral Readings: "An Adventure in Philanthropy," Edwin C. Martin in
"Scribner's," Vol. XI, pp. 230 _sq_. "Charity and Home Making," the
present writer in "Charities Review," Vol. VI, No. 2. "Married
Vagabonds," the same, in Proceedings of Twenty-second National
Conference of Charities, pp. 514 _sq_. "Drunkards' Families," Rev. W.
F. Slocum in Proceedings of Fifteenth National Conference of Charities,
pp. 131 _sq_. "The Social Value of the Saloon," E. C. Moore in
"American Journal of Sociology," Vol. III, No. 1. "Substitutes for the
Saloon," F. G. Peabody in "Forum" for July, 1896. "Law and Drink,"
Frederick H. Wines in "Charities Review," Vol. VII, Nos. 3 and 4.

[1] "Rich and Poor," p. 105.

[2] pp. 72 _sq_.

[3] "Charities Review," Vol. VI, pp. 121 _sq_.

[4] See Proceedings of the Twenty-second National Conference of
Charities and Correction, New Haven, 1895, pp. 514 _sq_.

[5] "Public Relief and Private Charity," p. 105.

[6] See on this subject the Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth National
Conference of Charities and Correction at Toronto, 1897, pp. 5 _sq_.

[7] Miss Z. D. Smith in Report of Union Relief Association of
Springfield, Mass., 1887.

[8] "Charities Record," Baltimore, Vol. I, No. 1.

[9] Seventh Report of Boston Associated Charities, p. 39.

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CHAPTER IV

THE HOMEMAKER

The wife brings us to another aspect of the home, though it cannot be
too often repeated that all aspects are so inextricably interwoven that
they must be considered together. When the wife takes the means
provided, the raw material from which a home is to be made, she engages
in a very complicated form of manufacture, including in its processes
the buying, preparation, and serving of food, the care of the household
possessions, the buying, making, and care of clothing, the training of
children, and many minor departments. These are only processes,
however, and, unless the maker have an ideal picture in her mind of
what a home should be, neither some nor all of these processes will
make a home.

In dealing with the homemaker, the friendly visitor becomes more
directly a teacher, though {65} it is o