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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 89
tain amount of work. This cannot be avoided
even by the help of the most perfect apparatus
and by co-operative methods, provided the
house is not to be replaced by the barrack.
And since the custom of keeping servants will
soon cease because, probably, there will be no
servants to keep, all women will be forced to
do housework, or find the remedy already dis-
covered in America where bureaus supply
domestic help for a fixed time for a fixed price.
In London, too, there is at present a guild for
general houseworkers who are trained for oc-
cupation and work under regularly estab-
lished conditions. In the country, not only
wives but daughters will be needed for agri-
cultural labour, when there are no more hired
labourers to be had. This will be a natural
corrective against that pressure towards out-
side fields of labour, that has taken the daugh-
ters in multitudes away from home, and has
crowded and overflowed the cities with them.
Finally if we weigh the economic loss oc-
casioned by the fact that women after five or
ten years’ preparation have to give up work
or study as a result of marriage, it is easy to
see that the modern work of women has had
results which must soon lead to earnest
thought, in balancing up the accounts for or
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