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Show WHAT WOMAN HAS DONE, OTHER WOMEN CAN DO! N. E. A. Staff Special. NEW YORK, Feb. It As' much room as you need: No more room than you need! Household devices and arrangements arrange-ments which save both your heels and your head! Closets enough! - Fresh air and sunshine! Paradise? No. Just a dream of Paradls made to come true by Miss. Blanche Geary, head of the economics i bureau nf the national board, of the Toung Women's Christian association. TO MEET HUMAN NEEDS. "Cooperative cottage apartment plan" is the name Miss Geary has given her Idea. "it really HhftiiM havf S humaner name." Mins Geary smiled, "because the idea sprang from such a very human need, the need of a home, not only as a place to live In. but as a possession to love.' This new solution for the "need- of-a-home" problem Is primarily a plot of ground 325 by Q0 feet. In the country, hut within easy commuting distance of the city. This Is divided into twenty-six Individual In-dividual plots. 40 by 125 feet. I On each nf these individual plots a cottage is erected. 1 Iu purchase and r nnt "Kll"", the, i scheme is cooperative, the cottage colonists purchasing the lanrl jointly and the building of the cottages being be-ing given to one contractor. A committee of housing experts saves the Inexperienced hnmepuilder from the pitfalls of Ignorance or the disadvantages of individual dickering. IDEAL HOUSE PLANS. r ' - 1 - i tin fil Livw; judm.- l ,V? f r-r 1 jU JOCCH . J gV "r gZUMCWZ CEARY There ia no waste room in this Y. W. C. A. cottags apartment. As soon as a cottage Is completed it and its plot become the property of the individual purchaaer. Take the business woman, nursing an unsatisfied domestic Instinct to play at he sekeeping In a home ahe can call her own. What would be I more ideal for her or for her and 1 her business woman friend, than the three-room cottage, with a kitchen and living room on the first floor and a lrr bedroom on the second? Then there is the six-room cottage for the larger group with a kitchen, dining room and living room on the first floor and three bedrooms on the eecond. |