Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . eper has hardl_\- risen from his couch,when audlher sHps into the still warmblankets. It is in the homes of those \-ery farremo\-ecl from the well-to-do, yet distincth-bcNond the grip of poverty, thatone is most chilled in are miles upon miles ofobscure streets, some clean, someuntidy, all melancholy, where everyhouse is outwardly like its neigh-bour from chimney-pot to base-ment. The workmans dwelling is, of course, unknown in the Cit\proper and the regions bordering .\N EASl-KND ONK
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . eper has hardl_\- risen from his couch,when audlher sHps into the still warmblankets. It is in the homes of those \-ery farremo\-ecl from the well-to-do, yet distincth-bcNond the grip of poverty, thatone is most chilled in are miles upon miles ofobscure streets, some clean, someuntidy, all melancholy, where everyhouse is outwardly like its neigh-bour from chimney-pot to base-ment. The workmans dwelling is, of course, unknown in the Cit\proper and the regions bordering .\N EASl-KND ONK-ROOMED TENEMENT. apology for a table-cloth. One chair hasthe upper bar of itsback missing. Thereis another, but it hasno back at all. Byits side is a small tinbath full of fireplace is empty,but as it is summerthat is unimportant. The tenement houseis not to be foundonly in the east. Thewest, too, has its slumdistricts where dilapi-dated house-fronts,broken casements,slatternl)- women, andneglected children areeloquent of the horrorswithin. Occasionally,the occupant of a one-136. .MODEL DWELLINGS (l-AKKINGDOX KOADI. 314 LIVING LONDON. thereon. It is equalh- a stranger to thefashionable quarters of the west. But inpractically every other district these mono-tonous four- and six-roomed maybe seen running at right angles to well-known thoroughfares. But we must wanderfar from tram and omnibus route to realisehow vast is the area dedicated to thesecheerless-looking abodes. In the smaller ofthese streets the houses are only a couple ofstoreys high. The interiors are as a rulepleasantl} disappointing, for though all isplain and homel\-, c\en perhaps a littlerough, \et there is generally simple housewife in these small dwellings isalmost invariably a thrift), tireless she less so, instead of having her ownhumble roof-tree she and her husband wouldbe lodgers in some tenement, little lesssqualid than that into which we have alread)peeped. In s
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