together: But as they were
Jogging on, the _Wolf_ spy'd a Bare Place about the _Dog's_ Neck
where the Hair was worn off. Brother (says he) how comes this I
prethee? Oh, That's Nothing, says the _Dog_, but the Fretting of my
_Collar_ a little. Nay, says T'other, if there be a _Collar_ in the
Case, I know Better Things than to sell my Liberty for a Crust.

THE MORAL

...'Tis a Comfort to have Good Meat and Drink at Command, and Warm
Lodging: But He that sells his Freedom for the Cramming of his
Belly, has but a Hard Bargain of it.

In modern business enterprises, there is hardly a single instance of an
employer who is willing to board his employees, nor would he consider
for a moment the proposition of allowing them to remain at their place
of employment all night and of providing sleeping accommodations for
them. Neither in consideration of benefiting them, nor with the view of
benefiting himself by thus making sure of having them on hand for work
early the next morning, would he ever consent to such an arrangement.
When he needs some one to watch over his interests in the night time,
he engages a night watchman, a very much more economical plan than to
provide lodging for all his employees.

Why should the housewife be the only employer to assume the burden of
a double responsibility toward her employees? Perhaps in the country,
where it might be impossible for them to live outside her home, such
a necessity might arise, but in cities and suburban towns, there is
absolutely no valid reason why household employees should sleep, eat,
and live under their employer's roof. It is a custom only, and truly
a custom that would be "more honored in the breach than in the
observance."

HOUSEWORK LIMITED TO EIGHT HOURS A DAY

In the home woman's work is said to be never ended. If this be true, it
is the fault of the woman who plans the work, for in all the positions
of life, work can be carried on indefinitely if badly planned.

It is the essential thesis of this little volume that the domestic labor
of women should be limited to a fixed number of hours per day in private
houses.

It is not unusual at the present day for a woman to work twelve, or
fourteen hours a day, or even longer, when she earns her living as a
household employee. A man's mental and physical forces begin to wane at
the end of eight, nine, or ten hours of constant application to the same
work, and a wom