The "ugly sixties" bred not only distressful village "villas," but unpleasant city houses of this type, which are to-day a real menace to wholesome living.

Many such blocks may be found in any of our older cities, casting a depressing influence upon all who come in sight of them, and deteriorating the manners and morals of all who live in them.

For these have gone the way of the other classes mentioned and become perverted from the uses they were designed for.

In the seventies there were still motherly women who had come to town to make a home for the children no longer content out of it.

They were willing and capable of mothering a few other children and lonely teachers and clerks, so the boarding-house began as a real family home for the homeless.