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344 HOUSE BUILDING.
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Ii. When Mode Of We Building Last Put Ho...
its storey ori to in another Scott , must Coningsburg either h h ave still been retains terribl the simp confused licity b of y y
or the else broken g . much steps and afraid the of ladders staircases that in now general supp , l to y th have eir p called lace , very inconvenientunless he would
have the Than called e's our castl modern e " rude houses and rude and inconvenient , " toofor the _" difficulties of the ascent which gave Wilfred time , to
servants muffle his encounter face in his twen mantle ty times , " were a day not more ; for Coningsburg tlian our domestic h had
leading within its to walls the roof , only which four is flig but hts of a modest stairs , number including" when one
five compared feet wide with cann our ot handsomest , be allowed to London be difficult mansions of ascent , and amongst stairs
staircases . from There this is continual no doubt need that of if we ascending don't , our long servants staircases do s often uffer
remembere while carry d ing and burdens cannot to be the too upper often rooms repeated , and it that mus , most t be
reason stairs physicians is the inj treadmill urious are , agreed to women has that been , the whether discontinued peculi strong ar ex for ercis or female weak e of , , mounting for convicts which .
for A practical the three treadmill hundred in every female house servants cannot who therefore advertise be desirable almost
dail cannot y in afford the " Times to advertise , " or the . We overtasked have been maids told of of all one -work tall who and ht home
aristocratic mansionwhere the children when broug from servant their up the walk staircases by , the to nurs the e are nursery always , their carried parents by a finding manionafter
that this added fatigue of mounting to the upper regs it their is all walk she is too can much do to for get their herself strength w , ithout and the the nurse additional finding
up burden The advantages of carrying of her the charges Single into -floor the house bargain are . of two distinct
onl kinds two ; one or is three the rooms complete privacy liveand in in which this the respect occupants it would of
be a y great boon to those may who must , otherwise live in lodgings ; professional the families not and onl literary y of good men artizans , and also but independent of clerks , of strugg unmarried ling
women . The needs or means of all these requires but two or constructed three that is rooms not to ; houses be but found for on domestic in the a Sing lodg comfort le ing -floor -house they princi . A need few le have admirabl a privacy been y
built for the accommodation of the working-class p , but there is somewhat also need superior of others in similarl their finishings y planned , , for but the contain use . of ing those rooms to
whom disagreeabl the y brick unfamiliar -paved . entries Many sing and le bar women e plastered who have walls mean are s
344 House Building.
344 HOUSE BUILDING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/56/
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