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    578 Housebuilding and Housekeeping .

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    be done almost without the consciousness of any labour performed by the occupants of the bed-rooms themselves . In such a dwelling neither bells nor servants would be required , save for the innrm or helpless . And every such dwelling might possess a hot and cold bath , which any inmate might use , at any hour of the day or night , with scarcely any personal exertion , and absolutely independent of any external aid . The upper end of the garden might be enclosed and roofed with glass to form a greenhouse into which one of the parlour-windows might open , and the inmates would have another room , provided with beautiful plants , in which to read or work , or otherwise pass many happy hours . This greenhouse might be warmed by the same arrangement of hot-water pipes as the rest of the establishment , and jets of water might be made to throw a shower of cold or warm rain on the plants at pleasure . The garden beyond might also be watered by the same process . It is evident that in such a dwelling the inmates might entirely dispense with domestic service , without incurring any painful drudgery whatever .

    * There are no fires to make , no doors to lock , No maids to scold about an unair'd bed . The most fairy lady might dwell therein alone , and never do aught to soil the purity of her hands . And supposing a single man of refined habits , and consequently disliking personal sendee , to live in such a dwelling , what would be his daily routine ? Let us go through with it .

    The last thing , on coming in at night , he would shut his halldoor , so that the spring-lock might be opened by the servants of the establishment with the pass-key . He would find his slippers in the proper recess near the door , and leave his boots or shoes in their place . He would then leave a written memorandum for

    the cook or restaurateur , as to his next morning ' s breakfast , specifying the items he might require for himself or friend or friends , and written by the light of the hall gas-lamp , fixed in the wall , and serving to light both dwelling and gallery , a ground glass in the interior preventing any intrusive vision . * He enters the little bathroom , and takes a warm or cold bath , according a *

    the season disposes him , by touching the spring of the warm or cold water-cock . He then retires to his bed-room , which is also supplied with a gas-jet , and if not disposed to read , he turns it down , and sleeps on his water bed or mattress , which requires little adjustment . He rises in the morning , wakened , if he chooses , by a bell pulled b y one of the servants in th « gallery . He then takes his bath , and goes into his greenhouse , wneTe he amuses himself with inspecting his plants , and turning the

    water-* Gat should nerwr be burnt in the atmosphere of either shop or dwelling-room-It should reflect through glata , like the lighti of a ihip ' e powder-room , and thus * U uapleasant ¦ meir would be aroided .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 578, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/48/