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26 HOUSE BUILDING.
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17.—HOUSE BUILDING.
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houses iC One can at 't £ hel 300 p wond...
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26 House Building.
26 HOUSE BUILDING .
17.—House Building.
17 . —HOUSE BUILDING .
Houses Ic One Can At 'T £ Hel 300 P Wond...
houses iC One can at 't £ hel 300 p wondering annum where do come all the from peop . " This who was rent t the he
remark we heard per but the other day from a friend , returning from once the observa that a lounge the tion speaker throug should h was be the pronounced an new honourable streets puerile and member squares , we may of ; the and sta lower te lest at
house . But the question , " Where do the people who pay t these ionat el gh l rents incomes come from so common " and the and corollary frequen , t Are ? must propor be
ren answered ts of y good by arge th h ouses alread are y painfull now out y recognized of all propor fac t t that to the the
incomes of those who live in them . u Rent should never cost more than one-sixth or one-seventh of the income" is the
, difficul advice t to t follow he old in house London keeper That ' s book house —good -rent advice should , bu be t hi very h g
. in a large city is but natural , but it is practically raised higher the b One y acciden suburb is locality tal s almost : circumstances the immense inaccessibl peculiar extent e to the of to the labouring the city siz , whic e of and h London renders artisan .
. class , extravagant who must reside rents near for wre the t i ched r work accommodation , and compels them in the to
pay or cen comfor tral part t suffer of the heavil city . from Anoth this er class cause , w ho composed either in of income clerks y ,
emp and fessional l t oymen heir families t ) ; and busines ( these s men p ensi quen when vely tly educated they live attemp in l and odg t well t g s main -connected near tain their a
t pro ry fe t , and secure a ho me gen w t hich eel a mus ppearance t , appear wi tha th t of lo a w ge r en tleman t by , going they
nearly further th e dif y ference from the in centre the inc : r this eased they rices do ga of in , but th they ielse pay
peveryng m and ornin the expenses from Hammersm of transit it . A for man instance attending will find siness his ever dail y y
g , , to then omnibus his he home must fare late no hurry inconsiderable at ni off ht after having a item hasty been of breakfast his compelled expenses , onl to y ; to and din return e even and
with perhap a s smaller take tea income also in g cannot the , city think nearer of his living business so far . from A clerk his
s emp triving loyment to mak , so e he a takes home lod in gings a common in the lod city ging ; and -house his , has wife a , the
weary other inmates time of it of . the Her house kitchen and is all down her stairs household with that work of and
There her domestic is no privacy life is of open home , to for the her supervision . She has of to strangers leave her .
children in her second-floor room while she prepares her dinner
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/26/
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