$2000 In the bank nothing.
But what shelter can this refined, intelligent family find to-day for $400?
Certainly nothing with modern conveniences.

The lack of these is _made up by women's work_--hard, rough work.

And that is the crux of the servant problem to-day.

It is the reason why more families do not go into the country to live.

The work required in an old house to bring living up to modern standards is too appalling to be undertaken lightly.
In England the Sunlight Park and other plans, in America the Dayton and Cincinnati schemes, are samples of what is being done for the $500 to $800 family, but where are the examples (outside the Morris houses) for the salaried class for whom we are pleading?
The great army of would-be home-makers are forced into a nomadic life by the exigencies resulting from the great combines--a shifting of offices, a closing of factories, a breaking up of hundreds of homes.