The women are working very little harder than in the days before the war. Only for nearly two years they have had no drinking man to come home at midnight either quarrelsome or sulky; no man’s big appetite to cook for; no man to wash for or to mend for. They have lived in absolute peace, gone to bed early, to a long unbroken sleep, and get twenty-five cents a day government aid, plus ten cents for every child. – Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928)