CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEWORK

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1329, 5 January 1912, Page 9

CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEWORK

Groups of families in the new "garden cities" at Home are finding a way to happier domestic existence by having their cooking and daily clean up done on co-operative lines. People .said at first that the system wouldn't work—there would be delays, irritation, jealousies, and so on. Hut it is working. It has succeeded at Letchworth nnd at. Brent Village, Finchley. An association has been formed to introduce it in the new suburb at Humpstcad, and it is to be the chief attraction of a model village which is being established at Ruislip. All of the houses at the Brent Village (this is practically a suburb of London) have been built without kitchens as a sign of good faith, ami there is not a Mary Ann to lie found in any of diem. The cooking is done in a spacious, well-managed central building, and the residents can either assemble for their meals in a dining hall there—which most of them do—or if they prefer to stay at home they can have the iood conveyed a few yards to their own dining-rooms. The servants are quartered in the "administrative building," and they do the cleaning up of the private houses as well as the cooking. This convenient and economical plan will go much further. Householders of moderate means are everywhere saying that they are being discouraged from keeping servants. Good ones are always difficult to get, and it is not worth while to keep second raters now that, in addition to being paid wages on a rising scale, they have to be ensured against accidents and sickness. The last straw is Mr. Lloyd-George's invalidity insurance scheme, which, it is predicted, will result in a short time in hundreds of thousands of servants (the total number in the United Kingdom is over 2,000,000) losing their employment. If tho householder cannot save otherwise, he will reduce the number of his domestics.

Weddings—Shower Bouquets for brido and bridesmaids. Only the Choicest of Flowers used. -Specially packed, and sent to any part of the Dominion. Miss Murray, 36 Willis Street (Florist to his Excellency Lord Islington).*

SEA BATHERS BEWARE. Take care of your hair. Miss Milsom has special preparations for homo treatment, also excellent creams and summer lotion tor sunburn, tanning, and freckles. Miss Miljotn diagnoses all cases, treats and teaches ladies and gentlemen their own home treatment. Hair restored to natural colour without injurious dyes. Delightful Face Massage, Shampooing, Manicuring, Hair-dressing taught. Hairwork of every description. Only bt-st quality English hair used. Switches and Curls, large variety. Feather-weight Natural Hair Pads, from ss. Electrolysis (permanent and painless, qualified under Madam Barclay, New York). Telephone 811. Miss Milsom (onp. Stewart, Dawton's), Willis Street, Wellington.*

It is bccbmi.i» more and more difficult to acquire a small farm on anything like reasonable terms, which permits of an excellent, prospect for the purchaser. For this reason great interest will be taken in (lie subdivision of the Hautotara Estate at Martinborough. There will really occur at this miction pale of freehold land on Tuesday, January IC, a rare chance. While the property is of substantial quality, there is room for wonderful improvement, with subsequent increase of value. Slessrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co., Ltd., publish in this issue full particulars of tho toininf; sale of these small frirms. They range in area from 100 acres to 310 acres, and constitute good dairying, , cropping, and grazing country. It must bo remembered, moreover, that this land is not in the backblocks —it is quite cccessible country within easy reach of the railway. It is", too, in the centre of an important pastoral, agricultural, and dairying district.■There are, it should be mentioned,-'.sev-eral cheese factories quite close l>y. There is. it is obvious, an even greater future before this locality than has hitherto existed.

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