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140 by practice for [[red underline]] 2 or three years, but unfortunately many of the best leave either before or after this period so that the problem is never settled. [[/red underline]] [[two red !! in margin]] I suggested to him that they should introduce the [[red underline]] 4 hour system and leave it optional to work two turns of 4 hours each or one turn of 4 hours. [[/red underline]] This would enable to have a [[red underline]] wider range of selection [[/red underline]] among women and permit those who are married to devote 4 hours to their work and leave them the remainder of the day to household duties. [[two red !! in margin]] The money they would thus make altho insufficient to full support would constitute an [[strikethrough]] val [[/strikethrough]] increase to the income of their husband, or would [[red underline]] constitute a fund for the wife and thus render the task [[/red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 141 [[red underline]] easier for young married couples. [[Two large red !! in margin]] [[Vertical underlined note in margin written in red]] Better use of women help. [[/Vertical note]] It would allow earlier marriages which now have to be deferred until the young man earns [[/red underline]] enough to support a wife who often spends her time in idleness. Four hours regular occupation a day would allow her to distribute her work so that she may be available to her children or house duties. [[red underline]] There are many women, married and unmarried who have now at least four idle hours a day, in which instead of being productive they often spend money in shopping or theatres. [[/red underline]] I advised [[red underline]] Thurber [[/red underline]] to try the system as an experiment in some smaller town. He [[red underline]] seems favorably impressed [[/red underline]] with my suggestion I stayed at University club to night