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Chapter 6 No.6

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nious and perfect that it was a

rule. The arrangement and adornment of every house in Mizora were evidently for the comfort and happiness of its inmates. To purchas

a commodious and handsomely decorated park. The back was adorned with an upper and lower piazza opening upon the park. The suites of rooms were so arranged as to exclusively separate their occupants from all others. The park was undivided. The center was occupied by a fountain larg

y a dozen families who were not rich enough to own large places separately. A separate residence would be built for each family, but the ground would be laid off and ornamented like a private park. Each of the dozen families would thus have a

its ornaments. The established custom was never to remove or alter property thus purchased without the consent of the other shareholders.

I saw in Mizora were owned and kept up in this manner. Sometimes as many as twenty families united in the purchase of an estate, and constructed artificial lakes large enough to sail upon. Artificial cascades and founta

size. They were always frequented by children, who could romp

usive privileges of the rich, were here the common pleasure of every one. There was no distinction of classes; no genteel-poverty people, who denied themselves necessities tha

o the people of my country this social happiness, this equality o

wer courts to sustain. Educated Labor will work out its own salvation against Capital. Let the children of toil start in life with exactly the

l never submit to it," wa

taught without money and without price. The power of capital is great, but stinted and ignorant toil will rise again

in which I was educated has such a history. Its gutte

"unless you educate them. Give their bright and active minds the power of kn

ed to be told that the rich and powerful had a monopoly of intellect: Nature was not partial to them, for the children

reditary dignity and pride of birth. No one could be more pronounced in a consciousness of inherited nobility than I. I had been taught from infancy to regard myself as a superior being, merely because the accident of birth had made me so, and th

ntellect is our only standard of excellence. It alone occup

tion with her mother, th

be unnoticed if perpetrated by one of them. Nature alone did not favor them Imbecile and immoral minds fell to the lot of the aristocrat as often as to the lowly born. Nature's laws are inflexible and swerve not for any human wish. They outraged them by the admixture of kindred blood, and degeneracy was often the result. A people should a

ir high mental culture, refinement and elegance. Certainly no "grande dame" of

cially such a one as Mizora, so I soon found myself on a familiar footing with my friend's "a

f my country do to sculpture, painting and literature. The Preceptress told me that such would be the case with my people when education became universal and the poor could start in life with the same intellectual c

ugh for a generation to be born and mature. The bright and eager intellects of poverty will turn to Chemistry to solve the problems of cheap Light, cheap Fuel and cheap Food. When you can clothe yourselve

hat to them, they wou

the great thinkers of your country, I am inclined to believe

een opposed and ridiculed until proven practicable, and I took

ay ventured to ask my friend's permission to enter her kitchen. Surprise was manifested

imes as free to my gues

all. I undertook to explain that in my country, good breeding forbade a guest entering the host's kitchen, and freq

rate, scouring and sponging dry as it went. Two vessels, one containing soap suds and the other clear water, were connected by small feed pipes with the brushes. A

nd saw that the jar not only reversed the machine, but caused it to spring to the right about two feet, which was its width, and again begin wo

. They dipped their pretty hands in perfumed water and dried them o

on to perform the arduous physical labor. The whole domestic department was a marvel of ingenious me

ould become the custom in my country to make machinery perform the labori

ry cook was required to be a chemist of the highest excellence; another thing

d there was no stirring or tasting. A glass tube, on the principle of a thermometer, determined when each article was done. The perfection which they had attained as culinary chemists was a source of much gratification to me, both in the taste of food so delicious and palatable, and in its who

tific preparation of food, and the establishment of schools where cooking was taught as an art

that period of life when your people become decrepit and senile. The human body is like a lamp-wick, which filters the oil while it furnishes

r of a grown person trying to convey to the immature min

ted to culture and refinement, its dignity. A tree has a million leaves, yet each individual leaf, insignificant as it may appear, has its special share of work t

will see this and rise to a social, if not intellectual equality

d enlightenment will solve for

ermit and encourage the outgrowth of equality in refinement, she giv

nery and explained its use and convenience, had the same grace and dignity of manner

Steam was employed in the cleaning process, and the drying was done by hot air impregnated with ozone. This removed from white fabrics every vestige of discoloration or stain. I saw twelve dozen fine damask tab

re complicated make, were ironed by machines constructed to suit them. Some articles were dressed by having hot air forced rapidly through them. Lace curtains, shawls, veils, spreads, tidies and all similar articles, were by this process made to look like new,

st laces, nothing but hot air impregnated with ozone was employed. These were consecutively forced through the fab

appetites differed greatly. What was palatable to one would be disliked by another, and to prepare food for a large number of customers, without knowing or being able to know exactly what the demand would be, had always resulted in large waste, and as the people of Mizora were the mo

d, and which our knowledge of chemistry enables us to keep in health and productiveness. But there is always more or less earthy matter in all food derived from cult

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