friends to drive you to greater expense than you have determined
upon, lest the end of the first two years of life find you in debt with no
fair start for the baby, whose life should begin in an atmosphere of quiet
assurance that all is well. It is not impossible that the nervous
irritability and recklessness of many are due to the atmosphere of
childhood. Then remember that _the welfare and security of the child is
the watchword of the future_.

A FEW BOOKS.

Anticipations. H.G. Wells.

Mankind in the Making. H.G. Wells. Scribners.

A Modern Utopia. H.G. Wells. Scribners.

Twentieth-century Inventions: a Forecast. Geo. Sutherland.
Longmans, Green, & Co.

The Level of Social Motion. Michael Lane. Macmillan.

The Theory of the Leisure Class. Thorstein Veblen. Macmillan.

The Woman who Spends. Whitcomb and Barrows.

Physical Deterioration: Its Causes and their Cure. A. Watt Smyth.
E.P. Dutton.

Shelter. Syllabus 94, Home Education Dept, Univ. of N.Y.
State Library, Albany.

Report of the Tenement-house Commission.

INDEX.

A

Adaptation
lack of
"Anticipations"
Advisers, home
Age, spirit of the
Air
Altruria
Albert's, Prince, advice
Apartment houses
Architects
Architecture, domestic
Arts, constructive

B

Bachelor
apartment
Back, bending the
strength of
Badges of toil
Boarding houses
origin of
Breakfast
Building
laws
loan associations
Building trades
Bureau of Labor, U.S.

C

Capital
Care of rooms
human body
Carpentry in high school
Centrifugal force
Children
deterioration of manners of
Choice
City
houses
Civilization
Class to work for
Cleaning machine
Cleanliness
Clothing
Colonial houses
period, housebuilding of
Southern type of, houses
Commuter, trials of
Companionship
Compromise
Concrete
Consciousness, social
Construction
Consumption, destructive
Conveniences
Cooperation
Cost
increasing
of housing and total income
per person and per family
Country
Crowding

D

Dayton scheme
Debt
Demand
business
Democracy
Deterioration of houses
Dirt
Discomforts
Discontent
Dishonesty in standards
Dole, Charles
Domestic comfort
machine
progress, retarded
unrest
Drainage
Drudgery
Dust

E

Economics, home, exhibit
household
social
Economist
Economy
Effective life
workers
Effectiveness
Efficiency
loss of
Energy
Engineering, definition of
Engle's law
Environment
Euthenics
Evolut