The second necessity of social quarantine is to surround all children with good-character-forming and health-giving industrial facilities and make them so attractive that none shall escape their allurements. Society fails of its most important duty while there is any lack of facilities for the best known methods of child protection and training. More kindergartens or manual-training schools than are needed to accommodate _all_ growing children that need them, is an evidence of the forethought, wisdom and strength of a community. One waif turned away from care, through lack of facilities for care, is evidence of criminal neglect in which each member of the community shares. Care of the _last_ waif is worth more to a community than the care of hundreds of the first ones reached. * * * * * As the "family is the basis of society," so is the kindergarten the basis of education, and _Character-Building Schools the basis of Good Government_. The strength of early character-building tuition--of social quarantine--is mother love exercised without prejudice or over-indulgence. The instinct of mother love in the hearts and souls of women who are not themselves mothers has been the means of developing the blessings of the kindergarten, and the wonderful enthusiasm of all good kindergartners is evidence of the value to growth--of true merit--of the method of Froebel. In the development of the kindergarten woman has shown her strength and capacity as an architect and builder of character, and in the establishment, maintenance and management of character-building institutions she has proved that she is master of all the branches of administration of these fundamental nurseries of good government. The evident, urgent and growing need of beginning at the root of society and building character from its first foundation as the only efficient means to social reform; the proving of mother care to be the most potent factor in character-building; the increasing willingness of woman, in this era of our civilization, to share the division of political responsibility; and the need of complete and thorough measures to attain speedy reform, all together, call for a stride in evolution that shall provide for a system of Perfect Social Quarantine and for a Mother Organization to establish and maintain it on lines of the best intelligence. * * * * * This is the sum and substance of the contention of this book; and hence the title.