Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-16
A Home Colony As Planned by
 Upton Sinclair
Cooperative Project, Outlined by the Author, to Improve and
 Simplify Domestic Life
 of Mankind.
Volunteers to Undertake the Enterprise With as Few as Twenty Families. Will Devote His Time to It For Years if Need Below He
 Would Solve the Serv-.
 ant Problem.

Would Solve the Serv-.
 ant Problem.
 By UPTON SINCLAIR in the lndepend ent. June IA.
 M HAVE problem to solve. I write an article about it for the reason that there are others troubled witt
 it, and I believe that number. ot people might solve 1t together where each would fail by himself.
 In carrying out my purpose am obliged to discuss what the world would call my private affairs" So explain at the outset that I am a so. cialist and consider that the private affairs of most individuals constitute the most important public affair now existing. I discuss my own because they are typical and because they hap. pen to be the ones with which am most familiar.
 The problem is the one commonly known as the servant problem" in- vite you to consider the situation of a man who is possessed of small fam fly and small income and wishes to be free to turn his attention to intel. ectual pursuits.
 Ideal Place to Rear . Child.
 For the past two years we have lived upon farm, and farm is the ideal place to bring up child, you have read in the books. At the outset hun ger for companionship seized our Da- vid, and he found his way to neigh bor's and played with little girl who suffered. After week or two we found that he was suffering, too, and stopped the visits, but too late, and now, for all know, he may continue to say every word three times over as long as he lives. And when he was not learning to stutter he was up in the pear orchard stufflng himself or behind the house swimming the baby ducks and his shoes in the washtub or out In the kitchen mixing himself a pudding of pepper cruets, candlesticks and milk. So 1t was found necessary to get some one to take care of him, so little by little the problem has arisen, for you must understand that 1t Is not merely question of finding govern ess or kindergarten expert; 1t is a question of setting up and keeping un- der way home for him. and 1t is a question of an establishment of serv- ants.
 The mistake was in the beginning you say-if you object to servants you ought never to have married. But is man to be denied the privilege of par enthood just because he happens to possess an intellect? And is 1t for the best interests of the race that It's fu- ture generations should be furnished exclusively by the ignorant and cal lous? And If authors, artists, scientists and philosophers are to reproduce their kind what Is to be done? Shall they have to marry their housekeepers? I have made many sacrifices for my art, but confess that that one would have staggered me.
 Of course we can do 1t If we must. We can stick to the farm and raise all our own food and keep our health and do 1t all at moderate expense. but how pitiful 1t is! We cannot travel; we can never hear any music or attend the theater; we can have only books and our own thoughts winter and summer, year in and year out. We cannot send our child to kindergarten, to school; he can never be with other children. Can mere writer of original books afford house in the city or city prices for Impure food? And of course we cannot keep a wide awake boy In a boarding house or apartment. No, we must have our own home and in the country. so our thoughts come back from every flight. Let us make one des- pcrate effort to try to get good serv- ants and then pay them anything and keep them, and then when we get the machine running let us get a little house near by and keep 1t for our own and allow no one there and go and live there and eat cold food and do our own work whenever we wish to be alone with our thoughts.
 That was our plan until I took the resolution to write this article. There are hundreds and even thousands in exactly the same plight, I said And why should they an sink back and reconcile themselves to the monstrous of isolated housekeepingi
 As preliminary to explaining what I wish 10 propose I shall ssate one thing that I do not propose. I am not dreaming any sort of self supporting colony. to set a new ideal and realize the cooperative commonwealth. What I am making here Is a simple business profession for an association of people who may possess a moderate income to secure the benefits of the application of the machine process to their domes- tic affairs.
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 Here am I on my little farm living .s my ancestors lived. like q cave nan or q feudal baron I have my little castle and my retainers and depend eufs to atteod me. and ve przctjce a