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Show WHAT WOMAN HAS J DONE, WOMEN CAN DO! There is no waste room in this v. w. C, . cottico apartment. (. ii -v staff Special.) NEW YOKE. Feb. 10. As much room as you need! No more room than you need! Household devices and arrangements arrange-ments which save both your reels and your head' I Closets egough! Fresh air and sunshine' Paradise' No Just, a dream of 1 Paradise made to come" true by Miss Blanche Geary, head of the Economics i bureau of the National Hoard of the , Young Women's Christian association. TO MEEK m MAN SHEDS "Co-operative cottage apartment 'plan" is the name Miss Gear)' has i given her Idea. "it really should have a 'humam-r' name," Miss Geary smiled, "because jthe idea sprang rrom such a very hu-'man hu-'man need. th need of a home, not lonly as a place to live ln. but as a P"-1 P"-1 session to love." This new solution for the 'necd-of-' B -home" problem Is primarily a plot of ground 32fx60O feet, n the ecu jtry. but within easy commuting distance dis-tance of the city. This Is divided Into twenty-six indl- - vlduul plots. -I0xl2& fcot. n each of these individual plots s cottiuo is erected. In purchase and construction, the scheme I' co-oporative, tho cottage , colonists purchasing the land Jolntl: and he building of the cottagei being ,'iven to one contractor. A committee of housing experts iavei the Inexperienced homobuiider from the pitfalls of Ignorance or the disadvantages of Individual dickering. IDJ iii HOUSE PI As soon us a cottage Is completed, It and lift plot bocumc. the property of the Individual purchaser. Take the business woman, nursing an unsatisfied domestic Instinct to play at housekeeping In a home she can call her own. What could be more Ide -1 for her or for her and her business-woman friend, than the threo- ;room coPago, with a kitchen and living liv-ing room on the first floor and a large 'bedroom on tho second? Then there Is the six-room cottage for the larger group with a kitchen, dining room and living room on the Iflrst floor and three bedrooms on the second. |