In a city from which that grand source of wild mirth, hopeless sorrow
and confirmed madness, alcohol, has been expelled, it could hardly be
expected that much insanity would be found. The few who are insane are
placed in houses licensed as asylums, but not different in appearance
to other houses in the city. Here the insane live, in small
communities, under proper medical supervision, with their own gardens
and pastimes.
The houses of the helpless and aged are, like the asylums, the same as
the houses of the rest of the town. No large building of pretentious
style uprears itself for the poor; no men badged and badgered as
paupers walk the place. Those poor who are really, from physical
causes, unable to work, are maintained in a manner showing that
they possess yet the dignity of human kind; and that, being worth
preservation, they are therefore worthy of respectful tenderness. The
rest, those who can work, are employed in useful labours, which pay
for their board. If they cannot find work, and are deserving, they may
lodge in the house and earn their subsistence; or they may live from
the house and receive pay for work done. If they will not work, they,
as vagrants, find a home in prison, where they are compelled to share
the common lot of mankind.
Our model city is of course well furnished with baths, swimming
baths, Turkish baths, playgrounds, gymnasia, libraries, board schools,
fine-art schools, lecture halls, and places of instructive amusement.
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