Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-03-05
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From the Phdlanr.
THE EDIFlCE--MODE OF LIVING.

teal common sense, would not build on
their lands three hundred separate houses,
with three hundred kitchens, &c, but
would erect in the central part of their
Domain large and commodious Edifce
for the residence of the members. This
Edifce would be planned with The greatest
regard to comfort, economy, health and
convenience; and these advantages could
be secured at an expense less than the cost
of three hundred ordinary and inconvenient
S 'parate dwellings, as the least calculation
will show.
Because three hundred families reside
N large and commodious Edlfce, there
is no need that the p ivacy OF domestic life
should be destroyed. Domestic privacy
and retirement will be fully preserved in
the residence Of an association; families
will have their seperate apartments Of
various sizes. and composed Of more or
les rooms according TO their wants, means
or tastes. The private apartments will
be separated by division walls, and the do
mestic circle will no more be intruded upon
than IN any other situation. In the palaces
of Princes and in hotels, we see that fami-
ties I've under the same roof without any
interference with the family tie or the
privacy Of domestic life, and this will also,
be the case in Association. The walls,
which divide the departments of families,
will shut out all noise from each other;
the doors will open upon large covered
corridor or inclosed plazza, from eighteen
to twenty-four teet wide, which will wind
around one entire side of the Edice. This
covered corridor will form the means Of COM
munication between all parts of the edifce;
the inhabitants can at all times 60 through it
to the workshops, placed in one wing of
the building, to the dining halls, the lecture
rooms, the library, to concerts, the ex-
change, &c. &c, and visit each other with
out exposure to the inc.emency of the
weather or sudden fluctuations of tempera-
ture.
How do people live in their isolated houses!
In the cities, without pure air, and exposed
10 The weather in going from their warm
rooms into the open street, which is the
cause Ct vast amount of disease; and in
the country they are cut off almost entire
ly from the pleasures Of social itercourse,
and debarred from the benefits of spacious
Libraries, concerts and other intellectual and
refining influences and enjoyments. Blu,
three hundred families living in an asso-
citation, could pussess all these advantages
and thus combine oil the resources and
pleasures Of town and country life.
How delightful to live amid such oppor-
tunilies Of improvement and pleasure, and
the enjoyment of varied social relations
with persons refined and elevated, and u
nited in interests and telling! There will
he no gloomy hours to waste in istless
apathy; no lonesome days to spend in
cnnui and forced idleness; but pleasing
and attractive ell. ployment and the greatest
variety in pursts and occupations. An
association properly organized will be col
icctire or social family; Of which the isola-
ted family is but a fragment, and will COM
bine all the resources Of Industry, art and
science. "This Social Family will enjoy
the pleasures and advantages Of life in full!
security, without the wranglings and ankle
,y of smaller families and lonely indvidu-
ais. 1t will be more Independent and
more provdent, more cheerful aud induI-
gent than the individual family, and also
more benevolent and hospitable. 1t will
not be sunk in selfish fears, AID gloomy
discipline, and wearisome monotony, and
infan,ine disqutetude, and jealou. wrang-
llngs, and Sickness, and ill-temper, and
domestic incapacity, and poverty, and dis
sipation, and anxiety, and litigation and the
thousand and one other ills of family con-
traction in the present world of isolation,
complication and duplicity."
The interests OF this Social Family
will agree with those of other Social Fami-
lies or associations, and will not be like
individual families, at war with ali the
world in some degree or other. Ii will
have a church of It's own for sacred wor-
ship; a commodious and elegan, edifce OF
its own for lis domestic comforts; concerts,
! festivities and amusements in subordina'ion
TO unitarv art, and las and true refine
mcnt. IL will have IFS financial and com.
mercial establishments, and be centre of
agriculture, mama ractures and domestic in
dusiry. Il .ili have schuol for all its
children, graduated in various degrees OF
learning 10 suit different ages; il will have
its scientific collections, lis libraries,
laboratories and an observatores for adults.
1t will be family Of families, town and
country residence at once, shere perfect
personal liberty and independence will ex-
list, without monastic rules, arbitrary regu-
lations or 'epulsi*e discipline"
What contrast, in social and intellect
ual point ofview, Will there exist between
Association and the present social Order
based on separate familiesl Let US ex-
anime This contrast in PRACTICAL poist oil
view, or as regards material arrangements,
and more in detail than we have before
done. We will, at the same time, sum up
what we have already said upon this sub
Iject.
Three hundred families require at pres
ent three hundred separate houses, three
hundred kitchens, three hundred kitchen
fires, three hundred sets of cooking u,en,
sls, three hundred cooks 10 do the cooking,
hundreds of useless doors, wnGews and
division walls, hundreds Of pamries, stair
ways and chimneys, hundreds of CRATES,
stoves or fire places-and if they are farm
ing families, three hundred little farms, all
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