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scrubbing Its floors, t^e year 2022 will unscrew the brass edges or unstitch the tapes and peel off the dirty surface of the floor or curtains. Then I every year a new floor board will be J laid. One may hope that standard B chairs, tables, carpets, will be peeled in the same way. SB Similar reforms apply to cooking, a ^B great deal of which will survive ^B among old fashioned people, but a SB great deal more of which will prob- ^B ably be avoided by the use of syn- ^fl thetic foods. It is conceivable, though not certain, that in 2022 a H complete meal may be taken in the m shape of four pills. This is not en- ^ tirely visionary; I am convinced that corned ^eef hash and pumpkin pie will still exist, but the pill lunch will ?roll by their side. But at that time few private dwellings will be built: in their stenH will
rise the community dwellings, where the majority of mankind will be living. They will probably be located in garden Bpaces and rise to forty or fifty floors, housing easily four or five thousand families. This is not exaggerated, since in one New York hotel to-day three thousand people sleep i every night. It would mean also that each ( block would have a local authority of its < own. I imagine these dwellings as afford- 1 ing one room to each adult of the family | and one room for common use. Such cook- l ing as then exists will be conducted by the < local authority of the block, which will also i undertake laundry, mending, cleaning and will provide a complete nursery for the i children of the tenants. i Perhaps at that time we shall have at- j tained a dream which I often nurse, name- 1 ly, the city roofed with glass. That city < would be a complete unit, with accommoda- | Hons for houses, offices, factories and open j spaces, all this carefully allocated. The | root would completely do away with < weather and would maintain an even tern- ; perature to be fixed by the taste of the ( period. Artificial ventilation would sup- ] press wind. As for the open spaces, if the temperature were warm they would ex- l
hibit a continual show of flowers, which < would be emancipated from wlifter and i summer; In other words, winter would not t come however long the descendants of Mr. l Hutchinson might wait. t The family would still exist, even though ] it is not doing very well to-day. It Is in- , conceivable that some sort of feeling be* r
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,cF ' w^f^i JBPpl|p^^jMi W. L. GEORGE, the distinguished British autt tween parents and children should not persist, though I am of course unable to tell what that feeling will be. I Imagine that the link will be thinner than it Is to-day, because the child is likely to be taken over by the State, not only schooled but fed and ?lad, and at the end of Its training placed In a post suitable to Its abilities. This may be affected by birth control, which In 2022 will be legal all over the world. There will be stages: the first results of birth control will be to reduce the birth rate; then the State will step in. as it loes in France, and make it worth peo
pie's while to have more children; then the State will discover that it has made things too easy and that people are having children recklessly; finally some sort of balince will establish Itself between the State lemand for children and the national supply. Largely the condition of the family will le governed by the position of woman, be
-ause woman is the family, while man is nerely Its supporter. It is practically cer ;ain that In 2022 nearly all women will lave discarded the idea that they are prlnarily "makers of men." Most fit women *111 then he following an individual career. Ml positions will he open to them and a ;reat many women will have risen high, rhe year 2022 will probably see a large
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y number of women in Con^ - a press, a great many on the judicial bench, many m . in civil service posts and is perhaps some in the mi President's Cabinet. But it is unlikely that ^ women will have an ^ achieved equality with T1 i.|" men. Cautious feminists At EsS Bk such as myself realize ^f | that things go slowly and ^ that a brief hundred tf,i
r years win noi wipe out im the effects on women of m< 30,000 years of slavery. rr1 ar Women will work, partly m( heeausc they want to and partly because they will so be able to. Thus women w' tin will pay their share in the upkeep of home and t)o family. The above sug- bu gestion of community no buildings, where all the household work will be u' ca; done by professionals, will liberate the average trj wife and enable her out of her wages to pay her ^ share of the household work which she dis- nr1 likes. an Marriage will still exist much as it is Ati to-day, for mankind has an Inveterate taste faf for the institution, but divorce will prob- nn ag ably be as easy everywhere as it Is in Nevada. In view, however, of the lm- Hti proved position of woman and her earning Th power, she will not only cease to be entitled to alimony, but she will be expected, ^ after the divorce, to pay her share of the thl maintenance of her children. or As regards the politics of 2022, I should lsr expect the form of the State to be much / th< the same. A few rearrangements may a8 have taken pla^e on the lines of self-de- or termination; for ?Instance, Austria may Bu have united with Germany, the South pu American republics may have federated, pil Ac., but I do not believe that there will be 1 i a superstate. There will still be republics an and monarchies; possibly, In 2022, the It Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Norwegian tin kings may have fallen, but for a variety of tal reasons, either lack of advancement or oci
inni titu riiim nii'iup, we may export silll vir to And kings in Sweden, .lugo-Slavia, gw Greece, Rumania and Great Britain. on On the inside, these States may have kli slightly changed, for th9ro prevails a ten- an dency to socialization which has nothing to do with socialism. Most of the Euro- tht pean governments are unconsciously na- dif tionalizing a number of industries, and a l
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