"At first,yes,there might be some such mechanical action in her;but it would be purely mechanical,and it would soon cease.When the Standard Household-Effect Company came down on the temporal-manly with a penalty for violation of the lease,the eternal-womanly would see the folly of her ways and stop;for the eternal-womanly is essentially economical,whatever we say about the dressmaker's bills;and the very futilities of putting away and taking out,that she now wears herself to a thread with,are founded in the instinct of saving."

"But,"I asked,"wouldn't our household belongings lose a good deal of character if they didn't belong to us?Wouldn't our domestic interiors become dreadfully impersonal?"