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now so common in Scotland. These baths and water-closets, 

 very curiously, do not make the house any dearer; on the 

 contrary, I think the houses are better than before, at the 

 same rent, leaving these extra conveniences and luxuries out 

 of consideration. 



I am often sorry to see so many of the houses building 

 around us so carefully imitating the faults of previous houses, 

 and sometimes adding one of their own. Little talent has 

 been applied to the building of small houses in our neighbour- 

 hood, although we find that the subject has not been neglected, 

 especially in agricultural districts, which we sometimes are apt 

 to regard as the dark corners of the earth. Drawings of some 

 will be found, very neat, in Morton's Encyclopeedia, but the 

 expense is not given ; it would, however, be different from the 

 same building in Manchester. One thing seems never to be 

 looked at in bulling houses, namely, the size of a fanaily. 

 Apparently, a poor man is supposed to have only a small 

 family and a rich man a large one. It is true, to some extent, 

 as far as domestics and visitors are concerned ; but there ought 

 certainly to be houses for working men with large families, 

 not finished more elegantly than those now made, but merely 

 extended, so that the increase of rent might be as small as 

 possible ; now, however, a house rises in its style and finish 

 with the number of its rooms, and the man who needs it 

 cannot have it. An extra bedroom might be added without 

 costing more than a few pence of rent per week, whereas he 

 would probably have to pay some pounds a year, perhaps 

 equal to from two to four shillings a-week, to get the same 

 accommodation, causing him also to go into a different class 

 of street, and into a house demanding by its appearance a 

 style of furniture which he cannot pretend to. I have often 

 marvelled at this want of accommodation. 



It is well known that the poor man pays most for his house, 

 and we would think it should therefore have the most care. 

 Unless the position and all the surroundings of a house be 



