CHAPTER V.
POSSIBILITIES IN SIGHT PROVIDED THE HOUSEWIFE IS PROGRESSIVE.
"We are far from the noon of man: There is time for the race to grow."-- TENNYSON.
"There appears no limit to the invasion of life by the machine." H.G.

WELLS.
The house as a centre of manufacturing industry has passed (for even if village industries do spring up, the work-rooms will be separate from the living-rooms); the house as a sign of pecuniary standing is passing: what next?
Why, of course, the house as the promoter of "the effective life." Rebel as the artistic individual may at this word, it expresses the spirit of the twentieth century as nothing else can.

Social advance must be made along the line of efficiency, even if it lead to something different and not at first sight better.

The appeal to self-interest is soonest answered.

The man or woman with any ambition will keep clean, will buy better milk for the baby, will pay more for rent if he or she is convinced that it will bring in or save money in the end, because money has been the measure of success in the nineteenth century.