Human Physiology. 



learn to work in kitchen, laundry, nursery, in the group of 

 cleanliness, waiting on the tables, and all the processes of an 

 orderly and beautiful life. 



Assuredly such a thing is possible. One man of head and 

 heart and means could begin it, picking his families carefully, 

 as one should for a first essay. And what a change from the 

 ugly, grimy, monotonous, sad life of the London artisan it 

 would be from the narrow streets, stifling courts, and wretched 

 dwellings of the poor from the drunken public-house, and 

 dirty little shops from the children playing in the gutters and 

 educated in the slums from the vice and wretchedness, the 

 crime and misery among which so many intelligent and skilful 

 workmen are compelled to pass their lives and bring up their 

 families. Instead of all this they might have, at a less cost, and 

 for less painful labour, spacious and healthy dwellings on wide 

 streets, enclosing beautiful gardens, neat and comfortable 

 clothing, well-prepared meals, with good library and reading- 

 room, pleasant recreations, and enlivening social enjoyments. 



Working men's clubs are amove in the right direction, but they 

 leave out the working men's sweethearts, wives, and children. 

 They separate men from their families, and all the charm and 

 benefit of female society. If they provide workmen with some- 

 thing better than the dram-shop, still they desolate the home. 

 All clubs are partial and imperfect; the full realisation is to be 

 found in a social organisation which shall include both sexes, 

 all ages, widely varying talents and capacities, and unite indus- 

 try, art, and society. 



In the reorganisation of large towns, or centres of industry 

 and art, politics and literature, commerce and finance, it is 

 probable that very beautiful social organisations would be 

 formed in their suburban districts. One can imagine the 

 lovely heights in the neighbourhood of London Hampstead, 

 Highgate, the Surrey Hills, Surbiton, Richmond, crowned with 

 the palaces, clustered villas, and cottages, and gardens of such 



