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    vilege of looking into their neighbours' yards or gardens . And yet it may be done . Set every alternate house back on the site of the yard , and bring the yard forward to the site of the house , like the alternating squares of a chess-board . Two rows of houses would then be formed , fronting each way , with each yard between

    the two opposite houses ; the windows being only back and front , each would only be enabled to survey his own yard or garden , and moreover there would be the advantage of shelter from the sun in summer and from the wind in winter . By this method perfect privacy might be attained , and yet no greater space of ground would be required . But such an arrangement would not

    alter the internal economy of the dwellings themselves , nor would they be at all unadapted for social living . I can easily imagine the time will arrive when from , five hundred to a thousand families will join in the plan I am about to propose , for increased numbers will always produce increased economy under a wise arrangement ; but the proposition of any

    thing new , in this our precedent-ridden land , is so sure of meeting opposition , that it is advisable to begin on the calculation of a small number . I will therefore take sixty families , averaging five members each , and it surely would not be difficult to find sixty rational heads of families , with limited incomes , who would wish

    those incomes to produce them a greater amount of comfort , if the means could be shown . Imagine , then , a long gallery , something like the Burlington or Lowther Arcade , say about three hundred and fifty yards in length , and from twelve to fourteen feet in width , lighted by skylights or lantern-lights in the roof . In the centre of the gallery ,

    on either hand , a doorway , with double doors , suspended like those of banking-houses , opens into a building about thirty-five feet square , with a ground-floor , cellars , &c . and two stories above . One of these buildings is divided into various apartments , the gTound-floor being occupied with the larder , kitchen , and its various fires , gas-jets , and steam-apparatus , and a portion of it

    partitioned off to contain a steam-engine of sufficient power to perform all the drudgery of the establishment . The two floors above , to be divided into as many compartments as are required for the various kinds of work to be performed , washing , shoecleaning , clothes-brushing , &c , and also servants' apartments , and into which spindles and drums from the engine are to be introduced . The engine would be a great economizer of fuel and

    labour . Its boiler could be made to furnish all the steam required in cookery . Its power would also be applied to chop meat , and to do all other choppings and beatings and kneadings of bread . One apartment would be a laundry , where alkali and highpressure steam would cleanse linen , and press out the superfluous moisture far better than any Kensington splashing-woman ; and moreover the steam-engine would never atrike for higher wage *

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    574 Housebuilding and Housekeeping .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/44/