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Show 1 Evil of the Tenement House. 1 Tho worst phaso of city life is M . found In tho tenement houses, whero B l whole families nro crowded together H y In single rooms, and tho most ordl- H nnrj' decency Is Impossible. Think of H nlno persons nleoping, eating and pre- H paring food In n room eight feet by H twolve, and scarcely high enough to H allow its occupants to stand erect! H Imagine tho conditions of llfo whero H fourteen porsons of both sexes and H of ages vnrylng from nlno years to H adult manhood nnd womanhood, hord H h,,, together in a collar without divisions H '' or partitions of any kind. Hundreds H of peoplo aro found living in tcno H ., ment rooms with an avorago of six H persons to a room. Exchange M 1 |