Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1842-02-08
DOMESTIC LABOR.

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than in the department OF
DOMESTIC LABOR.
There is but step between our mode of perform
ing culinary operations, and the mOnOtonouS and
complicated mode OF rude barbarlans. Domestic
Labor receives little or no aid either fiom combine
tom and unity, or from natural power and machin-
cry. 81 great is the waste and implication That
upon an average estimate. II requires 3Go cooks u
prepare the food for 21DO people; this gives 20
cooks to every POO people ; cooks TO every y;
aud one cook 10 every family OF from seven 10 eIght
persons. Now 1t may be seen, by inquiry al oar
largest and best regulated Hotels that IN them only
cook Is required Tor every 40, 50, or 100 per
sons. We find then, that our form Of society re-
qures BOO women 20 do the work Of only - or 30
Much has been SAID, much has been attempted
for the purpose OF elevatng the condition of females
but, doubtless, our first work Is 10 release them
from domestic bondage, and provide for them lucrt-
tive aud ennoblng pursuits. Nothing occupies tue
attention and consumes the time OF greater uuu
Der of tine females IN our country than doing, a u
Is called " Tie house lC0rE " yet nothing. things
are, more complicated, HOnDtonous aud per- ieN-
ing in itsbearings; more insignificant and uusat-
Isiactory in IT. results tending more 10 degrade
and paralfze the nobler sentiments aud aspirations
OF the mud. The h0usC-Work. that Is now done by
300 n, would, under Fourer's plan be done
by 30 leaving 30 unemployed, and ready to en-
gage IN other branches OF productive industry. The
continuation OF such roasfe # manual ta5or, II
can, IS any ludicIOus system, be avoided, surely
barOarous aud unpardOnabie, IN the extreme. la
the new system instead ofthe 300 kitchens aud BOO
COOKS, which 800 families now have there would
Ice only one kitchen, with its several departments.
and - or 80 cooks. In splendid culinary cstab-
lshment supplied with every natural convenience.
tins number of hands would prepare the food for uO
families, WIKI the same ease that one cook now pre-
pa res the food for single family. Tins, alone,
would be another stride at labor saving great
the one we nave already taken. when we snapped
,I,r . -fafa and he t,rf hmm and
the spinning factory
But thls combination and harmony Of Domestic
Labor would require the anuihilat Of the present
system Of isolated households, aud the utrodgct
OF
ARCHITECTURE RADICALLY NEw.
MI varieties and kinds of edi-ies which are
necessary to man, and which now scattered and
isolated, viii be combined and interviewer into
vast construction winch viii form the palace o tAe
Association. FMS eddce must b. planned and
adapted the domestic and the social relations 10
the wants and pleasures OF 3OO families"
I'hs Palace must contain "a set OF separaic apart
menis for each family, adapted 10 their wants aud
wishes Also public rooms. halls and parlorS, tor
sucal concourse, for entertainments, for concerts
and for rc4lglous meetings also Chape, tor heli-
g.oGs worship, and or the asscuiolaee oi te entire
people when necessary also, rooms ior ;hc 4hter
branches Of manufacturing, also, warehouses iar
the produc of tire different branches al industry
and i9r the storage at the products 900 demand from
abroad also nagnIi. ent culinary establishment.
divided uto bakery, bodery, a wasucry, X. N p,
and adj ,ccnt u this, from four l. cleni extensive
banquet halls. where tables MI be spread oi di. ~
varieties If diet aud at diiiersn t pr.c. 10 sut
every variety ot taste and condition. e iil f.-
system person may vary hI- table aud c'uptng
often a. the desire may dictate, whereas lie ma
jJrliy at present an their iso.lfeI Gac.. ug- due
u4onoionously and m.seraJ.y throughout tAs cutr-
year
plan Of the cGice referred 90 hl- been = yen