Show CO OPERATIVE cooperative HOME there are certain needs common to all human beings in civilized life we mus must t have food and t this h is food must possess qualities beyond mere power to sustain life it must be carefully prepared with reference to the refined tastes begotten and fostered by civilization our bodies must be clothed and refinement here steps in and brings our desires and needs above what would be required in a barbarous age we must have shelter and this with us means more than the bark hut but of the savage or the tent of the bedouin Bedou ln so also in the matter of intellectual culture our massive structures which tower in sublime magnificence and stretch forth their arms in loving benediction upon our race and which are the pride and glory of this generation would be powerless for good and a useless expenditure in a land where the population was composed chiefly of serfs a and ana slaves civilization has created needs not desires merely but positive needs necessities of our nature which must be supplied and so each advancing step in civilization culture and refinement as every new enfoldment of our being b brings F ings with it increased demands we find forced upon us the necessity for the solution of problems hitherto solved systems suited to the past become cumbersome and oppressive as we advance and if we will examine into the social needs of today we will find that our present system of home life is altogether an and cumbersome affair and far from promoting the best interests of the individual or of society at large and any plan which has for its objects the bringing of our home life into an adaptation to our needs and of extending its kindly arms over those who have never been so fortunate as to have experienced its benefits is certainly worthy the attention of all thinking people how dependent we all are upon the perfect harmonious arian arlan arrangement gement of our homes for our highest enjoyment of life I 1 the first desideratum desi in a home beyond the fundamental idea of a r shelter helter is to secure privacy and as much quietness aa as possible and complete temporary tem isolation when desired every family must have the brivil ge of enjoying their peculiar vocation or pleasure without annoyance from others and in the opposite direction we have equally as great greata a need to be supplied for inasmuch as we are social beings we need intellectual intellect ual uil ard social companionship and unless our home can meet this demand of our being it were imperfect in in a vital point of its structure we need moreover to have our daily wants supplied in the best and at the same time most economical manner and in order to do this we must have lave nave a scientifically constructed builder building g with all the best modern machinery thereby adapting it to health safety comfort and economy of labor there is no way of securing all these requirements quire ments in our present system of isolated homes the wealthy have it within their power measurably to merit these wants but this is not the case ease with the masses and only by operation cooperation co can they be so secured associated or cooperative homes properly arranged would be an incalculable blessin blessing C to a very large majority of lation it is not necessary here to show how much more economically of fuel and food the labor of cooking would be performed for the benefit of several families in one kitchen and under one superintendence than where done for alike a like ilke number of persons in several houses and by several cooks and under as many superintendents for all our public institutions wherein the physical wants are provided for are samples of this system of economy here we have provisions bought at wholesale butter brought direct from the country and the mechanical appliances for heating lighting ventilating and laborsaving labor saving m chines adlof nil all of which appe appeal alto aito to the thrifty housekeeper or domestic economist as important to bring wa within thin the reach of society at large lel lei a site be selected with special reference referee ce to its itis adaptability tor for a cooperative home within easy access to places of business by street calm cars and with space not only for commodious buildings but grounds surrounding them hem which may be ornamented let a building be erected possessing in its architect ural design both inter internal and external all the requisites of an attractive associated home let lit this be arranged to together ether with the land and carr carriage lage house at an expense pense of and sold in shares of 1000 each this share giving to the holder the exclusive ownership of one suite of rooms together with the joint ownership in the kitchen laundry dining room parlors lecture rooms or dancing hall schoolroom school room or kindergarten and also carriage house and the land upon which these buildings are erected the home which a man can at present purchase for 1090 will not bear any comparison with the luxuries secured under this system of operation cooperation co of course each shareholder is subject to ills his proportion of the tho taxes and of expenses for general improvements and ana an d in this particular ho lie will find rind ills his expenses materially lessened under this system he secures for his family board and washing fuel and lights at actual cost as there is to be no iio profit made out of the home homell by any one the money making must be done in their individual vocations outside this is simply ther their home if there ber be those among their number who wish to lighten their expenses by labor in the house the preference when help is needed will of course be given to those who are stockholders pro vided aided possess the requisite ability we must have a system of organized labor and trained and skilled hands to work in it and talented minds to direct and guide in it and this will provide a school for instruction in domestic work there can be no schools in cookery where there are no dinners to be eaten there can be no instruction st given where there is no work to be done and here where there is the work to be done for three hundred or four hundred there would be abundant opportunity to give instruction in in all branches branche 4 of culinary art and domestic service generally with but little inconvenience and parents should pay for their daughters instruction st in this branch of industry as they do for their sons sous in their trades there is one subject of importance which inest not be I 1 lost ost sight of in establishing a complete home and that is provision for the care and comfort of children A nursery and a kindergarten would here be important institutions of incalculable value to both parents and children there is suell such an aversion at the present time to the parental relation that any means by which we can systematize the care and in man an argement of children thus inn ina in a measure relieving the mother and giving her a portion of time for rest and recreation will work a revolution in the sentiments of the community upon this all important subject to every well developed and well balanced woman who has not been perverted by disease or false education the maternal instinct is the strongest faculty in her nature and it is fearful to contemplate the perverting power our social system has had upon her soul and this unholy influence has reacted upon the men until today children are considered a curse rather than a blessin blessing g and every device of art and 0 are brought into requisition that we may defeat the holy purpose of marriage and preserve our homes childless preaching or denunciation will not avail to effect any change for the better something practical must be don done somme esome radical radic iii improvement must be effected in our mode of living whereby maternity will not of necessity involve crucifixion the benefits which would accrue to mothers and children in a systematized operative cooperative co home are so patent that it seems seems almost needless to enlarge them it would be well to divide the children into three groups or classes for nursery kindergarten kinder garten and the public school the kindergarten should always precede the public school and here would be afforded an excellent opportunity for kindergarten kinder garten instruction the nursery should be by a thoroughly competent woman and all the guardians of the children should be educated and true ladies in the highest sense of the term and should possess a certain amount of medical knowledge only such ladies should be thought quail qualified nned fled for this position and they would be companions and guides of mothers especially young mothers there is a vast amount of injury done to tile tho minds and be bodies of young children through the ignorance and carelessness of young r mother others and the neglect of fiur nursery maids which would here liere be prevented A volume might le be written upon this point but I 1 pass on the opportunity which such a home would present for social secial life and culture is not of trifling importance upon this feature of associated ted ilfe ille ilfe life I 1 will w it give the thoughts of an english glish writer E 31 K ring king lolff who seems to have fathomed the subject and presented ted it in such a banmer manner as tta 0 reach the internal consciousness of all who carb care care eare 1 t to P give it a reading there were several letters in the daily news neus a short time ago age lamenting tile the want of home amusements ments sand and the dullness of evenings atheme at home the gentlemen said they heard their wives songs over and over again till they were tired of them conver atlon was rather a dead and dragging affair reading to ones seif self an unsociable thing and also apt to degenerate into a doze shakespearian Shak esperian readings were recommended and a society has I 1 believe belleve been founded to inaugurate these readings but that meets the difficulty but a very short way if at all because whenever a party is required to carr earr carryout carry earry out a plan of amusement it is an evening at home to on anyone y one of the party all the rest birve have to from home to seek it bt be one cannot be amused ty LY shakespearian Shak esperian readings many man would thin think is it a bore some in the same family might prefer music musie some come dancing some conversation and in that case the tate of kil kii ill cill must be P either elther sacrificed d to io the tates of the one ono or each member ef of t the h e fam family I 1 ly must take cabs in two or three different directions to find their favorite amusements but where two or three hundred people were living under one roof every individual might be gratified and meet their coteries by walking only the length of a passage social reforms haye a much st stronger ronger rODger influence upon national character than political ones no reform would have a more powerful lu influence fluence than such a home reform by bringing the masculine intellect more closely to bear u upon poil poti the feminine and the moral character of the woman to bear more directly upon the man maa taking out of the mans hand ina lna in a great mea measure I 1 the power of domestic tyranny hyso so injurious to his own charac ter and so degrading to the woman many is by placing the means AC of pleasant and elevating social intercourse between old and young boys and girls men and women substituting an intercourse which is free because healthy and natural mor tor one which is free only because morally diseased licentious and deadly one of tile the chief causes which produce a morbid taste for vicious s pleasures lies in the solitary life hundreds of young people have to live suddenly cut oft off from all home influence and having hardly any means mens of social intercourse un connected with dissipation for such as these then as na well welt as for ourselves a homa home reform is a most crying neeland nee dand to those who would elevate the moral tene tone and alid life of the country those who woud would do justice justlee to those below them and those who would give the best chance to their children of the means of educating both their minds and a scheme deserves I 1 think the most earnest attention and assis assistance talim 4 BABA bara B clias cilas 1 ian lan am cleveland herard herald c |