The Cost of Shelter by Ellen H. Richards
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been in charge of the office of a savings and loan association and is the
only woman member of the Indianapolis fire insurance inspection board. Six houses are to be erected at once in various parts of the city." No better use of money or effort can be made at the present time than in similar endeavors to meet the needs of the time. The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention. When the social conscience is once awakened the bride with $2000 a year will not be expected to begin where her mother left off. The young people will be provided with just as comfortable and just as sanitary homes, but they will not be expected to entertain lavishly in order to show the wedding presents before they are broken. They will be visited, even if they live in an unfashionable quarter on a side street. Is it not more honest? If society would put its stamp on the manner of life adapted to the welfare of the young people, it would not be unfashionable to live within one's income. The tyranny of things is very real and most distressing in connection with this problem of shelter and all that it involves. There is only needed a social awakening to result in an adjustment of men's views as to what is good and right. New social habits adapted to the age we live in will be accepted by the next generation as good form. |
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