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Show The Dreams 6t cn Utopian Sect. All people are supposed to seek happiness and some achieve it. ' Jiot all are Utopians, though, and it is not likely 'that the . society ' which has established estab-lished itself in Ascona, a little place on the.borders of Italy and Switzerland, will find many followers in this busy world. This little society, which numbers num-bers thirty-eight individuals, seeks to solve the problem prob-lem of how to live happily. For this purpose there has been founded the Ascona community, the members of which are pledged to observe certain simple rules of living, which they have carried out now for three years. They eat no nipat, but live principally on-fruits and herbs, and they wear one simple garment only, and no hats. There are sixteen six-teen women in the sect. ' They know no laws save those of nature, and they amuse themselves with Wagnerian music. The founder of the colony is a Iielgian. Each new member is initiated on his finding find-ing sufficient. money to buy a plot. of . land, by the cultivation of which he is expected to support himself., him-self., - |