76 Ellen Key also be classed as educational work. It is a voluntary gathering without statutes, an agreement between women of the well-to-do class to invite workingwomen to their homes, and through pleasant and helpful association with them to diminish the distance between the classes. Ellen Key had once heard a young working-girl, say: "It is not your better food and finer clothes we mostly envy, but it is the many intellectual enjoyments which are so much more within your reach than ours. " This gave her the idea. On the 1st of March, 1892, she commenced to arrange these socials with the assistance of some friends. A number of ladies, twelve in each group, took turns in inviting to their homes young women employed in some manual labour, to become acquainted with them and thus bridge the gap between the different grades of society. The journalist Rene writes about these social gatherings: "Ellen Key also loves to spread joy. Each and every one who knows anything at all about her life knows that though her days are crowded with serious work, study, and research she yet gives many hours to through her lectures at the People's Institute, she came in touch with workingwomen. But "Tolfterna" were founded on the idea of rmttnal exchange, and that constituted their novelty.