Woman’s work in the home will not always remain the low domestic thing that it is. Scientific information and the aid of experts are invaluable in home management and child-rearing, no less than in the rotation of crops and the development of fatter hogs and slimmer dahlia stems. Child rearing will some day be included in matters where efficiency and modern methods will prevail. This may very well involve some form of institutional raising. If such is the case, it will be wise to understand in advance that this will date from a period when our culture is determined by human beings more than by money; and that the institutions of the future will be administered by those who today make a success of their individual establishments, rather than by those who today make a failure of the institutions entrusted to their care. Against this theory, most persons advance the objection that the majority of present day institutions are failures. This does not necessarily imply that those of the future, once wisely conceived, and adequately run, will be failures. There was a time when any man could start a small furnace and manufacture steel, if he wished to. Each small manufacturer competed with another equally small. Some produced good material, others poor. Would anyone suggest that the U. S. Steel Company be returned to that condition? So will people of the future, when enlightenment has come to them, realize the advantages accruing from specialized rearing of children by competent persons, over the present haphazard system. There are comparatively few women who are fitted for maternity. It requires more than love. It requires tact, patience, infinite interest in the small minds. Not one woman in one hundred is so equipped. Nor, would fifty percent of the women of today choose maternity, if they thought they could reject it honorably. Women become mothers, in at least fifty percent of the cases, first because they do not know how to avoid it, second because they believed it a social obligation. Many mothers never learn to love their children, consequently, their care of them is a drudgery that is ruinous to parent and child alike. In this one matter of the home, woman is remaining backward. She has accepted all other advances, but she will not learn to systematize her home. She hoots at all scientific advice. There have been institutions working for years to lighten woman’s labor in the home, and not one woman in a thousand has accepted their findings. Most women sacrifice their lives to household drudgery, toiling daily over scrub board, mop, and stove, despite the fact that even now, all of this work can be cut in half by a small amount of systematizing, and the use of scientific appliances. The day will come, however, when woman will be converted to these things, and then her life will be freer for other enjoyment.