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402 MODERN HOXJSEBUILDING.
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dant sleeping near her In the adjoining room ; but in very few houses ,, arid in none of those -built on the usual system , is this _arrangement
possible . Our staircases , with their draughts and cold chills , and the real exertion , required to mount them , are serious
inconveniences to delicate mothers and youngsensitive children . For any invalid the stairs are a nuisance , and many sighs are secretly breathed for the power of being * wheeled on the sofa into the cheerful
family sitting-room for an hour , when the peremptory physician has forbidden any physical effortbut recommends mental
amuse-, ment and , if it could be had , " variety . " The _advantages of the single-floor house are these in point of
comfort—saving of fatigue in stair-mounting , even temperature , contiguous rooms ; in point of economy— -fewer servantsand smaller
, expenditure on heat and light . There is , besides , another—that where there are suites of apartments of every size in the most
respectable streets , no family need be obliged , as they now often are , to occupy a larger residence than they actually nilfor
thesake of the situation . A small family of sisters , or a , childless couple with a moderate incomerequire but four or five rooms and
a kitchenbut are unablewhile , the houses are all built on one lan to find so , small a residence , in the same streets with their relations p _,,
• who spend eight hundred or a thousand a year . Six-roomed houses are not to be found there ; the rooms of such tenements are
adapted to the supposed requirements of an inferior class , and are small and low pitched , with vulgar appointments . A good-sized
sitting-room and airy bedrooms can only be found in a hmise of three or four storeyswith underground kitchensa long passage
and portico . So the , useless second kitchen , back , sitting-room , back drawing-roomand superfluous attics must be accepted as the
, necessary accompaniments , of the four or £ . ve good rooms that-are required . The staircases are to be carpeted , and duly provided
with lamps , mats , & c , and the supernumerary rooms are , to most housekeepers , an inducement to furnish them likewise . The
housealso possesses a j ) ortico and white stone steps , which require to be cleaned and stoned every morning . The other work of this - small
family might not be too great for one servant to accomplish , but if " only one is kept , there is often very serious inconvenience . Even :
a general servant cannot be in two places at once , and if she leavesher roast in the kitchen , to answer a bell or finish some work
upstairs * she commonly finds destruction and cinders awaiting heron her return ; nor can _ahewhile at work in the bedrooms , even
hearthe door-bell or that of the _^ area . Much has been written lately , wisely and foolishly , about the
difficulty of marrying on an income under four or iive hundred a year , and parents are blamed for persuading their daughters
toreject true and heartfelt affection unless a home can be found for them equal at least in comfort to that which they are about to
quit . But parents are not so much to blame as at first sight .
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402 Modern Hoxjsebuilding.
402 MODERN _HOXJSEBUILDING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/42/
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