The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-18
Life at LIano.

THEY r. silently slipping
Up az buildings, with
an implement for l,o..4lding in their
hands. Also the school kids have the
fever. too. Those who got it worst
were Geo. Cox, shoemaker; Roede,
harness maker; B. Babb. Max Bea-
vers and Truman Benthall. Let us
hope the disease is catching; then new
quarters will be quickly made for those
who will soon want to come and live
among us. You want to know some
thing of how we live. Well. we live
in various ways. No one tries to make
any one live his or her way-but we
do have real plan Of cooperative
living and there is real reason for
the plan Of course we will never try
to force it; but it will come into gen
eral use as we become educated to
the new scheme Of things. AT the Col
ony the home should be a real home,
where privacy can be enjoyel; where
there will be as little, as possible of
work to do and where all members Of
the family will share equally in the me-
! cessary home work Our meals should
be taken at the hotel or general eat
ing house Ga cafeteria is preferred)
where anything that the Colony ca:
furnish will be furnished, giving III
lcolonist his choice of foods, All wasl
ing should be done at the Colony lsus-
dry, the same as the shoe repairing ~.
the shoe shop, or plows mended
the blacksmith shop. Women sh9ule
feel it privilege to render useful ser,
vice to the community and get away
from house slavery. Our visiting
should be done in community groups
and not in private homes, unless spe-
ciaIly invited to do so. 1t changes the
whole scheme of life. Instead of our
women watching for an opportunity to
make fashionable call with the mere
leaving of a card, our women are at
work, cooking. washing, mending and
other useful work during work hours,
and then they meet each other as
large family should meet each other;
and when they get together for an ey-
ening's pleasure, it should be for plea
sure's sake and not because of custom
or fashion. Let our homes be real
homes and place Of rest, recreation
and private use. Let us cooperate in
all our work in our Colony institutions
and save expense, labor, and time. A
cooperative existence is big thing
and hard for most women to see; be-
cause she has had the beauties of home
life preached to her and she confounds
home and drudgery as the same thing.
The print shop is still short of help
and your Colonist will be day late
but it will come. We are growing so
fast at our publication plant that it
becomes necessary to build an extern
sion to the plant. A comrade from ILL
nois is trading us another linotype and
we have bot new folding machine,
which will expedite matters some. Oh
you printerl Where art thou? Now
is the time to come help your overbur-
dened brethren in good work. The !
psychological meeting had a full at
tendance and the food question was /
up again. A real joke came across i
when one member (who is a good jok-
cry gave advise on food to eat and then
admitted he had partaken of stewed
monkey and fried worms and had en-
joyed them. Yes! Life here is not
always serious; we have more real fun
than most people and we have the in
dividual worries completely wiped
away. The community welfare is our
constant care and as it grows and pros
pers in wealth and spirit, we as indi-
viduals enjoy better and more COM
plete life and our aim is to set an ex-
ample of cooperative production and
distribution that will permit of a life
of real brotherhood, in which life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness is
open to all who wish to join in with it.
1893
Friday. Mch. 10. ~ A beautiful
bright day and everybody is busy. The
land cIearers are on the job early and
late pulling stumps and filling up holes
and hauling refuse from the ground ,
Siemens and Kapotsy are running the !
two tractors to-day and are plowing
and discing the cleared land. Pete {
Kemp is hauling logs for the saw mill. 4
and the mill crew is converting them