Show HOMES AARE d lack of cottages for rising generation Is serious problem many married couples are forced to walt wait for many years for habitation engagements last many years london the chelmsford laborer who was forced into a workhouse because there is no cottage procurable Is no Isca isolated ted victim of the dearth ot of rural houses bouses it Is quite a common thing in the country tor for marriages to be postponed tor for years solely owing to want of houses close to dunmow dunkow Is a notorious marrin geless district and in ot of a number ot of would be village benedicts dicas in a number ot of hunting bonshire don shire villages engagements of ten and fifteen years standing are common the couples elther either wait indefinitely till a cottage Is available or migrate to the towns or emigrate an observant motorist through the eastern midlands could boon boort reckon up a hundred vanished homesteads still traceable by either ruins or rectangular foundations covered by the dorkof work of worms and moles only wealthy landlords can afford lo 10 build cottages the duko duke ot of ded bed lord ford ta in the dulie duke ot of Duc cleugh in parts of northampton and huntington the university colleges and best of all the ecclesta ecclesiastical sti commissioners have built i many good cottages for moderate moil erato rents and have done it in spite of financial loss some smaller landowners have done their best to erect cheap cottakis cot to Is one notable and most successful example near salisbury where the use of local concrete has solved the problem but in general ev every cry other village in the remoter remoler parts of the country la Is short of cottages here other local bodies have built but in almost all cases canes the ants rents aro are more than laborers can pay local bylaws prevent buildings they permit the folk to live in unhealthy cottages they permit overcrowding and all sorts sorta of conditions simply because they dare not turn out the inhabitants at the same time they eu enforce torce the letter ot of absurd regulations upon anyone desiring to build and so EO discourage enterprise ter prIse beyond all question the rural birth rate Is immensely diminished by the progressive want of cottages A gardener with children finds ands his bis services absolutely and no encumbrances has become a cardinal virtue the only solution of the great national question Is the cheap cottage A member of a leading firm of build era ra said eald to a representative of ebli journal journal that it if cottages were stand they could easily build LIZI cottages by means meane of concrete con creta slabs i but absolute abao luto would bt bi necessary comfortable cottages haig davs recently been built in some ot of th tb now intensive gordens gardens for LEO citi abeso french gardeners aro are delighted but the english workmen will no accept a home of wood and carru gated iron |