very eagerly for the words that were coming
and which were got at sometimes with some
little difficulty.

And now the moment had arrived when the
examination of the witnesses for the defence
must begin. These were fewer in number than
those called for the prosecution, and here, as in
the case for the prosecution, there was one of
importance beyond all others. What Jane
Cantanker had done for the prosecution, Cornelius
Vampi must do for the defence, and more. Upon
his evidence everything now hinged.

A MOST DESIRABLE FAMILY
MANSION.

MONSIEUR GODIN-LEMAIRE is the proprietor
and manager of an iron-foundry at Guise,
near St. Quentin. He is great for his patent
mantelpieces of enamelled iron imitating marble,
great for his kitchen-ranges, but greater for the
benevolent ingenuity that he has shown in
providing hearth and home for his seven
hundred workmen, and their wives and children.
Every invention has a name. The name of M.
Godin's Workman's Home is the Familistère. It
is the familistery of Guise, or its family
mansion; but in English we may as well call it the
Workman's Home.  Four years ago this Home
was established, and its fame is now beginning
to reach Paris and London. To Paris it has
been described in a pamphlet called A Study,
by A. Oyon. For London, it has been described
by Signor Tito Pagliardini in the Social Science
Review, and Signor Pagliardini's article has
been reprinted for diffusion as a pamphlet,
entitled A Visit to the Familistery, and
published by Mr. G. A. Hutchinson, of Whitefriars-street.

The Workman's Home, founded by M. Godin,
consists of two lofty and handsome buildings
at one end of the principal street of Guise. A
third building is to be added to these. They
are not bare and repulsive of aspect, but good
specimens of decorative architecture in red
brick, with violet edgings, ornamented cornice,
pilasters, entablatures, dressings to all the doors
and windows. Why should there not be a little
taste bestowed upon the construction of a
Workman's Home: a little suggestion of the refining
home influence, in its very aspect?

The two buildings already erected, form the
back and right side of a square; the third building,
yet to come, will complete the left side;
and two annexes will then, complete the square,
and give a facility of covered communication
between all the buildings. This Family
Mansion stands in about fifteen acres of lawn, grove,
and garden, on a peninsula formed by the Oise,
where a bridge over the river leads to M. Godin's
own house on the other side.

Now, if we take one of the blocks of buildings
in M. Godin's Workman's Home, and,
without describing its arrangements too
minutely, look at its principle of construction, we
find that it is four stories high, and so built as
to enclose an open square. It has, therefore,
abundant openings to light and air. Thick
party walls limit the danger of fire, and the
walls everywhere are thick enough to secure
privacy to every little home within the building.
Light balconies, reached by broad and
easy staircases, projecting from each story,
surround the inner court, and form the way home
for the workmen and their families. Each
inhabitant goes straight, by way of the balcony,
to his own door; the court below is the safe
playground of the children, upon whom each of
the mothers can look down from the balcony
at any time. This court, too, is a great
playground, serviceable in all weathers, where there
need be little damage to the clothes that the
poor parents take so much pains to keep tidy,
for its ground is of beaten polished cement, and
it is covered in by an immense skylight that
rises above the roofs. On grand occasions, as
on the festival of the blacksmiths' saint, St.
Eloi, or a distribution of prizes, the great
playground is transformed into a ball-room, with a
band of eighty performers: the band of the
Philharmonic Society of this Familistery.

Every set of rooms has a cellar as well as a
granary, but there are also underground drains
for drying the ground, as well as the amplest
provision of the drainage, too commonly wanting
in homes of the poor. And, beyond all this.
there is a great crypt under the court,
connected with a system of free ventilation by
continual change of air in the sheltered playground,
as well as throughout the buildings. In the hot
season the court is watered. The water, raised
by steam into great reservoirs at the top of the
building, is made also to supply fountains that
play on each landing; and the supply of water is
in each workman's home so ample, that its
consumption by the inmates averages rather more
than five gallons a head. There are hot and
cold baths, of which gratuitous use is allowed to
invalids and children. In fact, the wise founder
of these homes has known how, without rules
of any sort, to give what is described as " a
leading passion" for cleanliness to all who
occupy them. The dust-holes are emptied daily;
utmost attention is paid to drainage and
ventilation, the closets are cleaned three times a day
by the women of the establishment, who are
employed in the general fight against dirt in the
court and in the balconies, and on the stairs,
and in the rooms of single men. The married
women vie with one another in maintaining
complete cleanliness within the threshold of
their outer doors.

To the workman's wife, as to the workman,
time is money, and she is spared all loss of time
in running about the town for supply of
domestic wants. On the ground floor ot the Home,
are retail shops, under the direction of a
manager. There, may be bought vegetables, meat,
bacon, rabbits, wood and coal, groceries and
chandleries; there, is a dairy; there, is a wine,
beer, and cider shop; there, may be bought
necessary draperies, shoes, needles and threads,
all at wholesale price, with less than a