Th e women's committee's impressive scheme encompassed rules on windows, ventilation, and "laborsaving devices" for the housewife, such as the American "kitchen cabinet" that would save "unnecessary walking to and fro" (ibid., 9). Most importantly, the committee experimented with "wide possibilities of communal life"— gardens, playgrounds, social centers— since its members believed that "full attention should be given to the organisation of the resources available for social and intellectual development" (ibid., 20). Th e committee stressed the material conditions for women's emancipation.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 292