Can society afford to shut out the intellectual and mentally progressive element, or must it accept as normal these salaries and make it respectable to begin on them?
It is the strain which unessential social conventions give to the young families that leads the business father to speculate in order to get into the $10,000-a-year class, and that leads the young scientific and literary man to take extra work outside of his normal duties.

This sort of thing cannot go on without serious danger to the Republic.

Cleanliness and good manners should be insisted upon, but they may be secured on $3000 a year if too much else is not required.

How to secure them on $1500 is a problem to be solved, for cleanliness costs more each decade.
After all is said, if the young people have an earnest _purpose_ in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

The sacrifices one must make in the house superficially, in the consideration of a certain class, are cheerfully borne and soon forgotten.
Little discomforts which affect only one's feelings and not one's health make rather good stories after they are over.