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Show They Have I.lttla to IJe For. The illustration presented herewith gives an idea of the remarkable conditions condi-tions under which existence is eudur?d in certain portions of F,ngland. "In this old rotten van," writet: tho taker of 'OP Biif JiPt3f A VAN AND ITS fHX'tTANTH. the photograph from which the picture is reproduced, "which I saw near Rugby a fortnight ago, 8 feet 4 inches by 5 feet 8 inches by 5 feet 3 inches, there were one man, one woman and eight lsiys and girls from four to sixteen yearn old. It was their only home, and all were iu a most pitiable state, and not one of them could tell a letter, except the mother, who could rend fairly well." I It is said that 50,000 jieople in the j British Islands have no other homes than these houses on wheels, and a general demand is being mado for tho passage by parliament a movable dwellings bill, under the ovis:ons of which the sufferings of thivmtortunates may be j in some measure alkylated. |