ation is a necessity, and that so are some things to
make life easy--a little service, a little time, and flowers and books
or magazines.

Discuss the whole subject of economy in the home and get suggestions
from each member as to what she considers the best place to cut one's
expenses.

X--WHAT IS HOME FOR?

This is a fascinating subject and the first paper opens up a wide field;
it is on Home as a Business Enterprise. This will show that a home may
be merely a school of economics, with all the thought centered on that
side of its life; or it may be merely a savings bank, with the idea of
laying aside money back of everything. Or it may be an industrial
institution with every one working all the time and no recreation or
amusement permitted. Show the absurdity of these different positions.

The second paper may take up the trained housekeeper as manager of the
home. This may make it plain that if a woman understands her business
she should run her house easily, economically, cheerfully, socially. In
other words, she will use her brains to make housekeeping intensely
interesting and satisfactory.

The third paper should speak of comfort _versus_ elegance in home life;
of the rarity of finding the two combined; of furnishing a house simply
yet artistically; of entertaining within one's means; of the
appreciation of music and books as a necessary part of life; of the
ideal family life.

The discussion may take such lines as these: What sacrifices to economy
are worth while? What luxuries are necessities? Is benevolence
compatible with a small income? Is education to be regarded as an
investment? Are our children growing up thinking that money is the
principal thing in the minds of their parents?

If the year's work on domestic economy is to be a success, it should
have some practical outcome; perhaps a study class may be organized to
develop the ideas of home efficiency, or there may be a reading club to
present new ideas in books and magazines and discuss them, or, as has
been suggested, there may be a cooking class formed.

Among the books to be consulted are: "Increasing Home Efficiency," by
Martha B. Bruere and Robert W. Bruere (Macmillan); "The Modern
Household," by Marion Talbot and S. P. Breckinridge (Whitcomb and
Barrows); "How to Live on a Small Income," by Emma C. Hewitt (Jacobs);
"Home Problems from a New Standpoint," by C. L. Hunt (Whitcomb and
Barrows); "Living on a Little," by C. F. Benton (The P