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ensure good co-operative meals for the body and 

 better food for the mind than those who have 

 to consider every penny are often able however 

 desirous to supply individually. The Association 

 House will be built and conducted entirely on a 

 sound financial basis, so that no lady will feel 

 herself degraded by the acceptance of charity, or 

 obliged to incur obligations which would be re- 

 pugnant either to her refinement or to her self- 

 respect. The first Associated House has already 

 been planned. It looks charming, and will be 

 convenient. The rents will range from 73. 6d. to 

 i os. 6d. a week. 



THE NON-CHARITABLE ALMSHOUSES 



How many of us know the mothers of our 

 servants, the "moral aristocracy of the poor," 

 who, perhaps supported by a small pension or 

 the loving contributions of their dutiful children, 

 are yet compelled to live in the sordid, crowded 

 quarters of the town, though their age and char- 

 acters demand that in the late afternoon of life 

 they should pass their few remaining days where 

 they can see the sun set and hear the birds sing. 



Such people as I have in my mind are not fit 

 occupants for Almshouses. They need all the grace 

 and seclusion of such houses without the alms and 

 its inalienable stigma. So one of the hopes of the 

 Garden Suburb Trust is to meet this need by 

 building a paying Almshouse, where each loved 

 widow or old couple can have their room, their 

 "bit of garden," and the larger common sward 



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