The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-08


every day, at the end of which time it
is returned through the sewerage chute
to the fertilizing tanks at the farm.
No other garments than these are worn
and they are considered to be hygienic-
ally perfect The cost of their produc-
ton is less than that of laundering
suit of underclothes used to be. although
there are three layers of the material,
adapted so as to have the effect of
wearing both under and overgarments
In appearance they are of a bright steel
color and exceptionally graceful when
draped
The public hall is vast palace Of
glass. supported on columns of the same
transparent fabric. the center of which
is occupied by the rostrum, where any
one can speak aud be heard instantly
by everyone in the hall or even in their
houses if necessary. The seating ca
pacity of the hall, each seat being avail
able either for sitting or reclining upon,
and made of aluminium, is about thirty
thousand.
The story of not only one world, but
of many, is told in a never-ending pan
Drama. which passes by means of cleo
trio currents round the building upon
the walls, something new constantly
dropping into the place of what passes
away To the residents of the earth of
earlier ages this panorama would rep
resent nothing, as the symbols which
are used would be beyond their compre-
hension. 1t is mixture of picture and
writing, the necessary evolution of
system of communicating by thought,
as practiced by the higher fraternities
of the earth at this epoch, under whose
control education and publicity naou-
rally rest.
The panorama is carried over wires
on a reduced scale into every house,
but it is habit, something equivalent
to perpetuation of attendance at re-
igious assemblies, for the people to
gather daily in the hall for discussion
and amusement. Every male citizen is
on duty one day each year in the pro-
duction and supply department. Other
wise there is little to be done, as there
are no laws, but natural ones, which
are perpetual, and there is neither the
inclination to break them or the oppor-
tunity, all cases of atavism being rele-
gated to the hospital or college in in
fancy.
Death still reaps his harvest, but fu-
neral ceremonies have been simplifed
Upon the roof of each house is little
floral bower where it is the custom of
the people to spend much of their
time. Upon the death of an occupant
of the house, which occurrence has
been expected for some time, owing to
communication from the higher com
munities, no sudden death having been
recorded in many centuries, and people
only dying from natural decay, to
which all animal organisms are inevita-
the roof of the house, the death being
recorded simultaneously in every city
of the world.
From the roof it is removed in an
aerial catafalque to the mouth of one
of the VOLCANOES in active operation,
which appear to have been left for the
purpose of natural crematories, and
into the abyss it is respectfully lowered
by the simian undertaken.
The roof of the public hall forms the
depot for all aerial vehicles, except
those for personal use, which are con-
structed on the principle which the
original mammoth fauna had suggested,
and by studying which man ultimately
solved the problem of rising above the
ground
Upon this roof is situated all the re-
ceiving apparatus in connection with
electricity, and from it connection is
made with all the transaerial traffic
lines, as well as the meteorological de-
partment.
In regard to the houses, there is lit
tie enough to describe, for in this mat
ter as in others, man finally came to
respect and initiate the simplicity
which nature had so unerringly taught
him, and when it reached the point, as
it finally did, that personal service
from one person to another was pro-
nounced unlawful, and was abolished,
as slavery had been before it, no one
was anxious to have more work to per-
form than was necessary. These mil
lennial houses, then, built entirely Of
aluminium and glass, consist of but
two apartments, twenty feet square,
one above the other, and roof garden,
all precisely alike. Pneumatic tubes
lead into these rooms from the public
hall, one for supplies, such as food and
clothing, another for water, which is
continually running and empties itself
through pipes into the earth outside,
and drawing through it into the stream
in the center of the plaisance. There
are also apparatus for lighting, heat
ing or cooling by electricity, and by
turning valve on from the roof. the
two rooms are cleaned of every particle
of dust, which is forced by heavy
pressure of compressed air into the re-
fuse chute, down which it is carried to
the fertilizing department of the farm.
The simplicity of the furniture is
striking, divans being projected from
two sides of each of the apartments,
upon which are scattered few fiber
cushions. which, when used for one
week, are sent away in the same man
ner as the clothing and towels. Beyond
the things enumerated, millennial man
has no material requirements
Nature has brought the hirsnte
growth down to the same diminutive
proportions shown in the vegetable
world, in which all plant life not spe-
cially cultivated has become dwarfed,
owing to certain changes in the at
mospheric conditions. The scant crop
of hair is of curly type, doubtless
from the amount of negro blood which
has been absorbed by the Circassians-
the only remaining type, or, rather, the
residuum OF humanity. As to tooth
brushes there are no teeth to clean, as,
the necessity of them having ceased,
the gums have grown out to cover the
space they formerly occupied in the
mouth. As far as mirrors are con-
cerned, the walls, being highly bur
nished, answer that purpose, and the
compressed air, with which the houses
are deodorized and cleaned daily, is
perfumed more deliciously than any
lady's boudoir, whilst fountains in the
plaisance and in the public hall dis
tribute universal atmosphere of san
itary fragrance.
Owing to geological changes of
character calculated to leveling the
earth's surface, and also owing to the
great engineering works carried on dur
ing the preceding centuries by man
kind, for the purpose of intersecting
the large bodies of land by canals,
thereby facilitating inter-oceanic traffic,
before the secret of aerial navigation
was accomplished, wonderful changes
of climate were brought about The
currents of the ocean were altered
and were so scientifically directed as to
serve the purpose of equalizing the
temperature in almost all parts of the
globe, currents from the frozen poles
being directed to the parched wilder
nesses of Asia, Africa and Australia,
and currents from these places being
sent in other directions to carry the I'M
welcome heat they accumulate to cold
err zones. This was one of the greatest
engineering feats Of the ancients, and
conduced wonderfully to the develop