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CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING IN LONDON.

(From the Spectator.). There has arisen close to the St. James's Park station of the District Kailway within the last year a fantastic building, in a Brobdignagian style of architecture, a dozen stories high. Here A. H. Hankey has spent, or is spending, a quarter of a million of money to induce Englishmen to abandon the axiom that each man's house is his castle, by showing that man had better abide in flats than in either houses or castles ; and in educating a select number of our upper classes in the theory and practice of refined socialism. There are, or are to be, 250 sets of apartments, each set distinct, at an average rent of 500 dollars a year; but with a common kitchen, .common coffeeroom, saloon, and reading-room, servants supplied by the management, aud fixed charges for everything. The experiment is a very interesting one, and ought to succeed, tried on such a scale, amid a population which affords such an area for experiment as that of the wealthier, unsettled classes of London. The main difficulty will, we imagine, arise in the organization of the service. The Briton may relinquish his regard for his house, but will hold longer to the wish to have his own household about him.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5185, 3 November 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

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CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING IN LONDON. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5185, 3 November 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING IN LONDON. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5185, 3 November 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

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