Show CO cooperative OPERATIVE FAMILY HOTEL howel THE tue philadelphia prem stress contains the outline of a plan for the establishment of a family hotel by which citizens c can an have the convenience of d a home without its dis comforts A family hotel it asserts can be built to combine complete completeness nebs nees comforts conveniences and facilities for pleasant social intercourse and entertainments and other attractions of a well conducted hotel with desirable domestic privacy the beauty enjoyment and delights of a separate house the of a home life and genial influences of the family circle such a hotel properly managed will furnish the press thinks all the necessary accommodations cheaper than they can be bo obtained through housekeeping house keeping it gives a plan aplan which is devised for th the 0 city of louisville but which it thinks contains many hints of value for fon Philadelphia Thil adelphis and other cities the plan is nothing more nor non less than cooperation operation co I 1 it says let a hundred or more men favorable to the proposition organize themselves into a joint stock company with a capital ital itai of loo in shares of or more each payable parable in five in st almerit stal stai menth ments in the course of one year and a half with the first payment of in thoo aggregate let ae acres of grou ground fid lid be selected and bought and jn in the centre of which a building oan can be erected containing say on one hundred and fifty goo good of capacious rooms and chambers wide halland hailand hall hail and cor ld idars r 8 reading room reception j or drawing room parlor dining hall I 1 billis billiard i rd and refreshment saloon all alt airy 4 well lighted and ventilated kachen kitchen furnace laundry pantry storerooms store rooms cellars bathrooms bath rooms closets and other requisites of 0 a good hotel with porches and verandas ornaments and embellishments as will secure com 1 I fort abd and convenience as well as graca and beauty the cost of such a building including icehouse ice house well cistern anak out houses picket fence fence around around and improvements of the square laying bout out walks and lawns planting out ii shrubs and flowers ac they estimate r roin rain ain oln that country at en eia board and lodging should be engaged anby alby three or four months one month six montus months or twelve months at rates varying according to the length of time tiffie and the season the location size il j furniture and number of rooms meals should be taken in the dining hall ball and at fixed hours and furnished in case pf af sickness or for other causes absom at somewhat higher rates in private rooms child ren under ten years of age and servants IJ can be admitted for half price calcut ati actions aro bro made to prove that a family ean can dan be furnished with all the things Iw necessary to life in luxury at a far lower U rate than at private housekeeping house keeping it argues that a great many things and ap 1 P chances rooms furniture fuel light etca indispensable for cor coi comfort niort and con ven veni ence enco lor for the few per persons in a p private r II 1 house serve with bui but slight alight a additions d in quantity as well for the gany many in the hotel reducing the afo proportion of expenses for each we append the remarks of the press upon this subject the family hotel removes it says the dread of having servants to manage id and a terrible tomorrow to morrow to provide for i it does away with the daily kitchen work sweeping washing and scrubbing set wash days weeks of or spring cleaning and increasing troubles cares labor and drudgeries drudge ries of housekeeping house keeping it mals makes an end to the vain expensive and ruinous striving after a standard of hou bou bouses houses in size fri 6 architectural beauty and location corres rah ri bonding with the real or imaginary social ir u standing of the occupant at a cost often ja 1 quite out of proportion pro potion to his real wealth and ana income sueh such hotel life ilfe will amford afford to the mother of a family the father in nine cases out of ten being absent all day earning bread and busy la in his store counting room or office assi assisted sted by a nurse time opportunity and inclination to take thol thorough ough care of her infants and children to guard train and educate them physically morally ally aily and mentally to teach them genteel 4 manner manners 3 kindness obedience correct deportment politeness cleanliness and every virtue the mothers will there really have the chance leisure and thoughtfulness the health and strength streng strength tV to occupy themselves 1 with to direct and watch over their children to speak and read to and instruct them in the elemen elementary tazy and gradually higher t branches of science literature and art and to form their character and habits for a future life of usefulness respectability contentment tent ment and happiness such in many cases at present cannot be Q sufficiently done by mothers pre oc aupied pled pied and household kitchen and nursery labors troubles ana and cares nursery and school room alone will give nearly sufficient occupation and pastime to mothers a great number of whom are in delicate health feeble sickly and broken down besides attending to the wardrobe making and repairing of clothes and dress for children ana and themselves will require many a day and hour reading writing correspondence practicing of or music drawing painting embroidery works ac social intercourse paying visits and entertaining visitors conversation and jre xe creation promenades drives and rest will completely consume any remnant of leisure time |