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Show CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING- Cooperative housekeeping is about t-; be tried on a email scale in London. Lon-don. The building is several Btorics high, on the first floor being the kitchen, a common dining room, housekeeper's iconi, pantries and other domestic offices. Above this are several stories, consisting of moderate-sized suites of rooms conveniently con-veniently arranged. They do not contain anything but sleeping and reception rooms, because tho inhabitants inhab-itants arc supposed to dine down stairs, aud, as there is a capital lift, there can be no difficulty in so doing except in cases of illness. The three top flats are delightful on a fine day. Those who inhabit them will have a magniflcent and ever-changing view when the Westminster fogs will allow them to see anything at all. There are no high buildings to shut out St. James' and the Green parks, with the -row of palaces at the top, and away over acres of chimney-pote lie the hills of Hampstead aud Hihgate, looking look-ing blue and distant through the haze. On tho south side is to be seen the Crystal palace glittering with every ray of sunshine, however feeble, and Norwood Hill still dotted with huge old timber. Beneath he the abbey and new aquarium, and a view of every tower and steeple from St, Paul's to Notlinghill. At the top of the house is a room of double height, designed to contain the organ which was most unfortunately burned the other day, and which was, we believe, a splendid instrument. It is proposed pro-posed that the management of everything every-thing shall be in the hands of a committee com-mittee chosen from the residents, and that they shall be their own eaterers, ai d mamigo everything in the way ndopu d at some of the most successful success-ful clubs. It is an experiment in which many people are interested, and in the present case it may possibly possi-bly succeed, owing to the comparatively compara-tively favorable conditiona under which it started. It is hardly necessary, neces-sary, however, to say there are many things against it. English people are not naturally sociable. They have not learned how to live in public. |