Necessarily this list had to be somewhat elastic and considerably below the ideal. The people at the head of the Consumers' League were practical persons of wide experience and they went on the principle that half a loaf is better than none at all--that every little bit helps. After consultations with the employers and the Working Women's Society, a standard was adopted from which no retreat has been made. Whatever changes have been made, have been on the side of greater strictness. To-day it stands as follows: WAGES A Fair House is one in which equal pay is given for work of equal value, irrespective of sex, and in which no sales-woman who is eighteen years or over--and who has had one year's experience as sales-woman receives less than six dollars a week. In which wages are paid by the week. In which the minimum wages for cash-children are three dollars and a half per week, with the same conditions regarding weekly payments. HOURS A Fair House is one in which the number of working hours constituting a normal working day does not exceed nine. At least three-quarters of an hour is given for luncheon. A general half-holiday is given on one day of each week during at least two summer months. A Vacation of not less than one week is given with pay during the summer season. All overtime is compensated for. Wages are paid, and the premises closed for the seven principal legal holidays, viz., Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, the Fourth of July, Decoration Day, and Labor Day. PHYSICAL CONDITIONS A Fair House is one in which work, lunch and retiring rooms are apart from each other, and conform in all respects to the present Sanitary Laws. In which the present law regarding the providing of seats for sales-women is observed, and the use of seats permitted. OTHER CONDITIONS A Fair House is one in which humane and considerate behavior towards the employees is the rule. In which fidelity and length of service meet with the consideration which is their due. In which no children under fourteen years of age are employed. In which no child under the age of sixteen years works for more than nine hours a day. In which no child works, unless an employment certificate issued by the Board of Health has been first filed with the employer, and the name, etc., of the child has been entered on a register kept by the employer. In which the ordinances of the city and the laws of the State are obeyed in all particulars.