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Show HOMES ARE SCARCE Lack of Cottages for Rising Generation Gen-eration It' Serious Problem. Many Married Couplea Are Forced to Walt for Many Yea re for Habit, alien Engagamenta Laat Many Veara. j lyondon. The Chelmsford laborer who waa forced Into a workhouse be-catae be-catae there la no cottngti procurable la no Isr'aled victim of the dearth of rural bousca. It la quite a common thing In tha country for marrlngea to he postponed for years solely owing to want of homes. Cloao to Dumuow la a noturloua marrlngvlusa district, and In spite ol a number of would-be vllluge bene, dicta. In number or liuniliig detishlro vlllagea engagements of ten and fifteen years' standing are common. The couplea either wult Indefinitely till a cottage Is available or migrate to the towns or emigrate. An observant nioiorli-l through Uie enaiern mlillnnils could soon reckon up a hundred vanished homesteads atlll traceable by either mine or roctungulnr foundntlone covered cov-ered by the work of worms and moles. Only wealthy landlords ran afford u build cottages. The duke of lied- ford. In CaiuurUlgeahlre; the' duke of liurcleugh, In parte of Northampton and Huntington; the university, cot-leges, cot-leges, and, best of all, the erclraiaatW cal commissioners have built man J good cottages for moderate rente; a, J have dona It In eplte of fluanrlul lot! Borne smaller landowners have doi.f their beat to erect cheap cottag, i There la one notnble and moat auc ceaalul example near Salisbury, where (he use of local concrete haa solved the problem; but In general every other village In the remoter parts of tha rountiy la abort of cotlnma Here other lurul bodies have built, but In almost all r.i.es the rente are more than laboiera ran pay. I Aiia I bylaws prevent buildings. They permit the folk to live In unhealthy un-healthy cottages; they permit over ciowdlng and all aorta of Insnnllary conditions, simply hrrausv they dare not turn out the Inhabitants. At the same time thry enlnrco tbo letter of absurd regulations upon anyone drawing dr-awing to build, and so dlarnurHge enterprise. en-terprise. IPyond Kit question the rural birth rate la Immensely diminished dimin-ished by the progieaslve want of rot-lagee rot-lagee A gardener with children finds his services absolutely unsaleable, and "no encumhriinrea" hag become a cardinal virtue. The oiily solution of the great na tlonal questlun la the cheap roltnn A, nieinber of a lendlrg firm of build era said to a repreae.itatlve of tbli Journal that If cottages were aland kirdlied they could saslly. build 121 1 1. Unit, s by nienna of concrete alalia liut absolute atandardlxntlnn would tx hereasnry. Comfortable cottnges havi canity been bul it In anme of thi ow Intensive gurdena for 0 Will tleee French gsnlenera are delighted qj't the Anglian workmen will not efcept a home of wood ard corru gated Iron. ' I ' , , |