Show v vI r I Too High T Taxes I But even the terror of the has has- Interesting reading are the real estate pages of ot the English newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- news news- papers these days All sorts of ot beautiful old estates are going under under under un un- un- un der the hammer hammel- You can buy ElIzabet Elizabethan an mansions in exquisite parks with oaks centuries old Youcan Youcan You Youcan can man manor houses which carry with them the lordship of ot the manor and in one case advertised this month where the estate coincided coincided coincided coin coin- with the parish the buyer would also become by virtue of his ownership lay rector of the parish B But Bt t the astonishing part lies liei in inthe inthe inthe the prices You can buy beautiful stone houses built to last for centuries centuries cen cen- tunes and In the midst nf of fine nM matured grounds for actually y- y yle le less s than you would pay here for a stucco co bungalow on a bare foot fifty-foot lot If It only they could be transplanted transplanted transplanted trans trans- planted here But the why and the wherefore of ot this Is also interesting The reason wh why so many fine old English homes are for sale cheap is that their owners can no longer Inger afford d to keep th them m. m High cost of ot servants is one Item Hem but the principal one Is taxes Taxes taxes taxes' The English householder householder householder house house- holder cannot pay them unless his house is very small or his fortune large Those owners w who ho have flave fair fair- sized estates and fortunes only large enough to have maintained those es estates estates estates es- es tates on the prewar price and tax scale are now nov squeezed out They must sell and as half halt of ot their neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors hors are In the same fix they must sell for what they can get We Ve do not need to point the moral here The moral points itsel itself I Some of ot the rolls of papyrus burled buried by lava In the volcanic erupI eruption tion at Herculaneum In 79 A D. D have been unrolled and deciphered even though scorched and stuck together X-rays X are used now to treat leprosy |