BIRTHRATE AND HOUSEWORK
E. Estcourt's excellent letter recalls some features of a Pro I suggested as subject for the " Foundation Oration " at Univers:: College in March, 1918. The committee, however, in its blindness, demanded what it called " Art," and my " Confessions of a Keeper" n as substituted. An air-raid punctuated, but did not interrupt; the Per' formance in the "Botanic Theatre " of countless memories, now blotted out by the more efficient bombing of the present war. I divagate: rn! scheme was this—a square built like a college round its quad, but con- sisting of three-storey houses, the " quad " an area of lawn for one et two tennis-courts, leaving space for small flower-plots and seats in front of each house. This college-like building would be run like a residua club by a committee of householders with paid secretary. An institutional section of it would comprise a day nursery and small sanatorium, a laundry and gas-heat distribution centre, secretary's quarters with soli committee-room, a communal kitchen and dining-room on ground and first floors, and above a hall with stage for meetings or lectures, concerat
plays to be produced, along with scenery and dresses, by local take the music supplemented by records, no piano. Of a morning WO
might be posed in this ball for painters. To carry all this a double quadrangle of buildings would be desirable, with connecting Passage', way, and the service elements I have enumerated grouped either side of it. Applications from newcomers would be subject to approval
the committee, as in a club, and any who proved undesirable sho be, liable to termination of tenancy, privately negotiated. Much oa
be added, but I must forbear.—Yours faithfully, D. S. MAcou- Hampstead Way, N.W. rr. •
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