On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    342 HOUSE BUILDING.

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Ii. When Mode Of We Building Last Put Ho...

    term sufficient Sing for le-floor the needs house of , to a mean famil the -furnished separate comp suite letely of rooms with , y

    great kitchens a large staircase building and other which , and offices is divided common , occupy by to ing an all " , one . entrance This floor mode or -door half of from a building floor the of

    is usual on the Continentand as fresh houses are rising every , quarter day , and ive the warning fumes that of brick building fields is still penetrating going on every it is time new

    that we g understandor at least consider what may be , the most convenient kind of , house to be built . That

    stair-containinghous satisfaction es with we two have rooms proof only in on . the one number floor do of not villa give residences universal

    leas p comparativel lanned t on in the the y few ground coun and try hi floor g fashion h , rented but with these as space all must the increases sitting necessaril built -rooms in in value y the be at

    -London Most peop sty le le agree are not in so the agreeable remark to that live houses in as country ones , but 66 want they of silence '' themselves and try to be or contented are silenced . But by it the is possible answer ,

    space , absence that want of of space is of not so much for the is cause quite of as discomfort valuable in as

    economy space , space more many comfortable foreign cities , That where we our do not informants always recogniz say the e houses the faults are

    . better of our own houses , le proves like children only that may we have suffer seen a long nothing time

    without ; grown knowing peop why , , until some more , experienced stranger comes That by our and houses enlightens their hihl ignorance inconvenient . and uncomfortable

    to those used to Sing appear le-floor g ones y , any one who has met many foreigners in England can certify . The celebrated Spanish lish

    novelist Caballerowhose name has reached even Eng readers houses , and has offered holds , up his our countrymen " English homes a picture " which of our we London fondly

    discomfort imagine , must Fern be an the Cab envy allero has of the spent world some , , time as the in Eng acm land e of

    and therefore . speaks from experience . A Spaniard of moderate , income brings his young wife to London ;

    " He hired a very small house , we say very small , because in London all lo the houses there are You small went . It through was in the the suburb street door of Kensington into a long , " because rent in s the are

    fron wer t t of . which was a narrow staircase built of woodas they passage all are , and covered par with a species of carpet-cloth fastened to each , step with kitchen a . ,

    littlebrass rod . In the hollow of this staircaseanother descended to the _, dug and in offices the , front which of the house always n d nder _guarded ground , b , and iron lig rails hted by On a the pit left which of the is

    , ay . p with assage two ther windows e were tw looking o doors on to the the first street was that , and of the a little second squar gave e drawing admittance -room windows frontinthe

    to a little dining-room , which had two g garden , a tiny

    342 House Building.

    342 HOUSE BUILDING .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/54/