The comfort of those whose work is done and who have leisure to enjoy life was never so easily secured as to-day.

To turn the key and take the train at an hour's notice, leaving no cares to follow, tends to a serene old age.
Moralists may squabble over the discipline of living with one's mother-in-law, and of the loss to the children of grandmother's petting, but at least physical content and mental satisfaction have increased.

Has selfishness also?
Who shall say?
And anyway it is a part of the progress of the age, and what are we to do about it?
For one group of single persons the change has been only beneficial.

It was a strict code of the early nineteenth century that a single woman should find shelter under the roof of some family house, however independent, financially, her condition.

Latch-key privileges were denied her.