A FEW BOOKS

Anticipations. H.G. Wells.

Mankind in the Making. H.G. Wells. Scribners.

A Modern Utopia. H.G. Wells. Scribners.

Twentieth-century Inventions: a Forecast. Geo. Sutherland. Longmans, Green, & Co.

The Level of Social Motion. Michael Lane. Macmillan.

The Theory of the Leisure Class. Thorstein Veblen. Macmillan.

The Woman who Spends. Whitcomb and Barrows.

Physical Deterioration: Its Causes and their Cure. A. Watt Smyth. E.P. Dutton.

Shelter. Syllabus 94, Home Education Dept, Univ. of N.Y. State Library, Albany.

Report of the Tenement-house Commission.

 

INDEX

A

Adaptation
  lack of
"Anticipations"
Advisers, home
Age, spirit of the
Air
Altruria
Albert's, Prince, advice
Apartment houses
Architects
Architecture, domestic
Arts, constructive

B

Bachelor
  apartment
Back, bending the
  strength of
Badges of toil
Boarding houses
  origin of
Breakfast
Building
  laws
  loan associations
Building trades
Bureau of Labor, U.S.

C

Capital
Care of rooms
  human body
Carpentry in high school
Centrifugal force
Children
  deterioration of manners of
Choice
City
  houses
Civilization
Class to work for
Cleaning machine
Cleanliness
Clothing
Colonial houses
  period, housebuilding of
  Southern type of, houses
Commuter, trials of
Companionship
Compromise
Concrete
Consciousness, social
Construction
Consumption, destructive
Conveniences
Cooperation
Cost
  increasing
  of housing and total income
  per person and per family
Country
Crowding

D

Dayton scheme
Debt
Demand
  business
Democracy
Deterioration of houses
Dirt
Discomforts
Discontent
Dishonesty in standards
Dole, Charles
Domestic comfort
  machine
  progress, retarded
  unrest
Drainage
Drudgery
Dust

E

Economics, home, exhibit
  household
  social
Economist
Economy
Effective life
  workers
Effectiveness
Efficiency
  loss of
Energy
Engineering, definition of
Engle's law
Environment
Euthenics
Evolution
Expense
Expenses
  operating
Experience in doing
  lack of
Experts, house
Extravagance

F

Family
  table
Farm life
Flat
Flats
Floors, hard-wood
  lignolith
Food
Force
  for regeneration
Foreigner
Friction due to house

G

Garden
Gardening
Gas-stoves
Group system

H

Habit, perils of
Habits
Hands
Heating
Home
  abandonment of
  advisers
  Anglo-Saxon meaning of
  building of
Home economics
  feeling
  life
  love of
  makers
  means privacy
  ties loosened
Homeless
Homestead
Hospitality
Hot water
House
  building
  Colonial
  evidence of social standing
  -keepers
  -keeping, twentieth-century
  -maids, physical inefficiency of
  planning in High School
  plans
  suburban
Houses
  city
  colonial, of New England
  four classes of
  modern
Housing

I

Ideal
Ideas
Improvements
Income
Individual
Industries, disappearance of
Installment plan
Invasion of residential districts
Invention
Investment

K

Kitchen
  accompaniments
  remodelled, in Providence
Kitchenette

L

Labor, Bureau of
  -saving devices
Lack of
  adaptation
  business training
  experience
  faithful service
  harmony
   study
Land
Landlord
Land-scheme promoter
Lane, Mr. Michael
Leaven of progress
Legacy
"Level of Social Motion"
Life
  effective
  frontier
  fuller
  home
  open air
  private, shabby
  restrained
Light
Living, decent
  sane
  cost of
Location
Lodge, Sir Oliver

M

Machinery
Maid's rooms
Making of things
Man, early
  primitive
Manners
Marriage, responsibility of
Meals
Mechanical
  progress
Menial
Middle, leaven of progress in
Model Tenement Association, New York
Money
  basis
  measure of success
  spender
  value
Morison, Geo. S
Morris Building Co
Mulock, Miss

N

Nasmyth, James
Natural selection
Nature
  love of
  return to
Neill, Chas. P., extracts from address by
New Epoch, The

O

Opinion, public
Owen, Robert
Own or rent
Ownership

P

Parks
Parsons, Wm. Barclay
Patronage of the arts
Permanence in homestead, lack of
Pettingill, Miss   [Transcriber's Note: Pettengill in text.]
Philanthropist
Philanthropy
Physical ill-being in
  domestics
  school children
  wage-earners
Place of the house
Plans
Plumbing
Possibilities in sight
Preeminence, social
Primitive man
Principle, fixed
  race
Privacy
Private life shabby
Productive work
Progress
  leaven of
  race
Protection

Q

Question, a difficult

R

Race principle
Readjustment
Real estate
Refuge
Regeneration, force for
Rent
  or own
  -payers
Residential districts, invasion of
Responsibility of marriage
Restaurant
Restrained life
Return to nature
Rights to property, etc.
Roosevelt, President

S

Sanitarian
Sanitary
  English, Inspectors Association, President of
Sanitation
Saving
Schools, public
Science
Scrubbing
Selection, natural
Self-interest
  -preservation
Service
  faithful, lack of
Sewer connection, houses without
Shelter
Shelter, marrying for
Sheltering the children
Simplicity
Social advance
  aspiration
  betterment
  conditions
Social conscience
  consciousness
  convention
  economics
  ostracism
  pleasure
  preëminence
  science
  significance
  standing
  welfare
Society
Sociologist
Sociology
Somerville
Space
  diminishing
Spender
Spirit of the age
Standards
Stone, Mary Lowell, Home Economics Exhibit
Structure
Stuckert, Mrs
Study, lack of
Suburban
  houses
  living
  square
Suburbs
Sun-parlors
Sunlight Park, England

T

Table, family
Tax
Temporary home
Tenant
Tenement
  N.Y. Model, Association
Tennyson
Tenure,
  permanence of
  shortness of
  uncertain
Transition period
Tuberculosis

U

U.S. Bureau of Labor
Unrest, domestic
Unsanitary
Utopian

V

Veblen
Ventilation
Village houses
  influx from

W

Wage-earners
Waste, conspicuous
Watchword of the future
Water, hot
Wedding presents
Well-being of community threatened
Wells, H.G.
White plague
Wife
Window
Woman
Women, corporation of
Women's work
Work,
  menial
  productive
  women's
Workers, effective
Working men

Y

Young people
Youth, American