Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-16

should be done by trained nurses and
 kindergarten teachers who live in the
 colony as the friends and social equals
 of its members. In other words, 1t IS
 my idea that the caring for children
 should be recognized as profession
 and that servants should have nothing
 to do with it. It is my idea that 1t
 should be done in place built for the
 purpose, with floors for babies to crawl
 where there Is no dirt for them to eat,
 with playgrounds for children where
 there are no stoves and no boiling wa. ter, no staircases and wells, no cats
 and dogs, no workbaskets. lamps, pi-
 amos, sewing machines, jam closets.
 inkstands and authors writing tables.
 Instead there should be sleeping rooms
 and bedrooms and sun parlors for
 nursing mothers, separate building
 for the sick, kindergarten rooms and indoor playgrounds for bad weather,
 and big all outdoors romping ground.
 with sunny places and shady places,
 swings, rocking horses, sand piles and
 all other accessories of a children's
 heaven.
 Every member of the community
 propose would have his own home.
 to which he would invite his personal
 friends as he chose, and the other mem-
 bers of the community he would meet
 in the same way that he meets ac-
 quaintances in business and politics,
 in theaters, restaurants and clubs. In
 a colony of hundred families there ought to be persons of every kind of
 inclination, and 1t would not be in the least necessary for any one to associ- ate with those who are not congenial.
 This spirit, if wisely and earnestly cul-
 tivated, would solve the servant prob
 lem" for the colony and solve the health problem for It's members as well.
 In this community every member would be credited for the time he worked, and 1t ought to become the custom for the men to help with the harvests and the women with the pre- serving of fruit and the children with the berry picking and the s-eeding of the gardens. have no doubt that there are thousands of young men and women in New York city, students of art and music and the professions, who would be glad of chance to earn their way in community where class feeling did not make labor degrading. I appreciate the difficulties in the way of such project, the chances at pres ent against coal heaver being so- cially possible person, and I am not insisting that the day laborers should share in the privileges of the commu- nifty. But I do think that this should certainly be the case with those whom we select to care for and teach our chill dren and also. If possible, with those whom we permit to prepare and serve our food. If I am not willing to shake n mans hand or sit next to him in reading room do not see why should be willing to eat what he has cooked.
 Building For Social Purposes.
 There would be laundry In the colo ny, boat, livery. and bath houses. a drug store. ( general store, a refresh ment room. There would, of course, be complete telephone service, cleo tric lights and hot water or electric heating throughout the buildings There would be a resident physician. and perhaps before long teachers of music and languages might find 1t worth while to join the colony. There would. of course, be building for so- cial purposes, with large piaEzas for summer and sun parlors for winter. There would be hall for lectures. concerts. theatricals and dancing. There would be reading room and a library of periodicals and recent books. It Is your custom to spend. say, $50 or S100 year for these. and you could achieve your purpose comparatively for fifth of the ex- pense. There would be a gymnasium and a swimming pool and. of course. tennis and croquet and baseball grounds. There would be stages to meet all trains and closed conveyances to convey people to and from the din ing hall in bad weather. There would be livery stable, at which you could hire or keep a rig for about one-fourth what 1t would cost you elsewhere.
 think that such community should be planned for the accommodation of a number of members and the necessary working force and should be limited to these. Not all of the mem- bers need be stockholders, of course. Others might he admitted to the bene- Ats of the association, but in that case the stock should pay dividends, and In any case the management of the cor poration would have to be vested ex- clusively h the stockholders. For the of the various indus tries there would have to be a superin- tendent, a man of first class executive ability. responsible to the board of d. rectors. and there would be a corps of managers of departments, each a thor oughly experienced man: a manager of the farm and stables. of the truck and flower gardens. of the purchasing de- partment and the cooperative store, Of the catering department, of the buIld- Ings and grounds. the power plant and he heating department. How many such men there should be and what they should be paid. how many em- ployees of all sorts would be necessary. Is one of the questions upon which ex. pert advice Is needed am willing to get complete set of figures for the eu. terprise I have outlined. provided that hear from . sufficient number of peo- pie to make it worth yhIle lam n.r