Not unless there is an undercurrent of principle which carries him along.

Without this principle strong enough to give an impetus over hard places in the early stages of life, the individual and the family will surely drift into the hotel and boarding-house, where everything is done on a money basis and nothing for love of one's kind; where a tip salves the hurt of menial work.

These habits once gained are hard to break up; therefore it is much better for young people to begin life doing some things for themselves in a house where machinery responds to their call without a tip, where they may economize without loss of self-respect.

We need to revive some of the pagan ideals of the beauty and value of the human body and human life which consists in the care and use of this body.
There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.
The point of view is most important.
The first steps toward social betterment will come through a cooperation of three forces: (1) a recognition of the need; (2) an awakening of social conscience to the duty of supplying the need; and (3) the movement of moneyed philanthropy to fulfil the requirement quickly.
As was natural, sympathy flowed first to the class which had the most visible need, not necessarily the greater need.
The New York Model Tenement Association has shown the world how easy it is, when there is a will, to find a way.

That association has already taken the first step in advanced housing, and reduced the cost of safe and rentable city shelter to its lowest terms.