Her picture of the corruption of politics (for young ladies at that time encountered most formidable rivals in the professional politicians who made the gratuitous task of serving on district school boards the stepping-stone to higher things), her description of the homes on which the light of a woman school director’s countenance had never fallen, her hushed fears that the school buildings were hotbeds of wasted school supplies and unplumbered pestilence, fairly stirred the fatherly man.
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Mr. Stuart Chase has touched upon the problem in his sug: gestive book Men and Machines. But the difficulty does not lie chiefly with mechanical appliances: it lies rather with the mechanical spirit, the spirit of standardisation, and that seems inseparable from a normal, harmonious, classical static, or Utopian world. We might smash all the machines, as they did in Erewhon, and spiritually find ourselves none the richer. Arcadian simplicity may be as tedious and stifling as the zippy atmosphere of Zenith; indeed, Sheila Kaye-Smith has found unplumbed stupidity in unplumbered villages.
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Situations are routine, but the unplumbered and therefore overflooded bathroom and the finger jammed into the firehose nozzle provide laughter because of treatment by veterans of the comedy field.
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Any way you take it, the Saturday night bath in an un-plumbered farm house is no joke and after it’s over you have a special feeling of having accomplished something.
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