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    HOUSE BUILDlNa. 345

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

    rooms to make live a comfortable now for the liome greatest in a part little of Sing their le-floor lives suite in the of

    cheerless , uncomfortable quarters afforded by an ordinary lodging But -house the . absence of staircases makes the large Single-floor

    house and means also a ensuring desirable th their accommodatio occupy alw ing the the n priv for whole families of of home any , whose ordin The siz ary e

    of saving house servants , of has fati and secured gue less to them strain em , and on ay the consequent s health of acy diminished their mistress . numb , the er and its tability

    for convenience female service of the house only , in b cases y reason of illness of its , uniform allsufBcient adap level , for all

    domestic merit consideration work when . the Femal labour e streng of carry th ing is heavy - weights up out for loyment

    for the stairs women is how dispensed with families . In would looking prefer to keep emp a neat many

    the carry p In arlour the level ing sing -maid up floor , le heavy -flo instead or of burdens houses bring of ing a even ( coals man parcels the , -servant trays one , labour & to , c . if ) it could all may of the ascending be be work avoided avoided to of .

    b descends y those who in a choose shaft or , to by any using level the and " lift up is , " extrem a moveabl , ely e simp floor le that and

    , of easil A the y few worked porters weeks fa at y since any railway woman a gentl terminus . eman soug in London ht the services to accompany of one

    him home from to assist a long him illness in carry the ing hysician his had wife , peremp downstairs torily .

    but ordered Recovering small her the a change drawing a of room -room and was scene chosen p , and for as the the back purpose room ; was but

    stairs the patient and , none thoug of h able the family to leave were bed , strong could enoug not step h to down attemp the t

    had the removal it , from the alone sufferer . This , and story many may invalids provoke remain a laug wearil h he , but both y we in

    refreshing their sick- and rooms useful , when because a chang the s e tairs of prove scene a practical would barrier

    barrier to their the venturin consequences g forth , . are If sometimes it does not the prove worse . an We effectual knew

    for of three a cas , years e of sprained through the ancl young e , the lady cure being of in which obli the ged was twenty to delayed mount four

    toand descend from her bed-room , once - hours , We . have before observed how much practically larger the

    hei proximity be g _adapted ht from of to the all any ground the purpose rooms . A makes required spare s a ervant house without ' s , as room reference every can room be to turned attic their may . into h it could not be if it were a

    An ap a artm library ent , no thoug longer required as a housekeeper ' s spare room , may

    House Buildlna. 345

    HOUSE BUILDlNa . 345

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/57/