It has gone back to its primitive use--shelter from weather and a sleeping-place, a temporary one at that.

A real-estate authority has made the assertion that three fifths of the rent-payers in large cities are made up of non-householders and one half of these are confined to one room--mostly women.

This indicates a change in requirements for the housing of the individual as distinguished from the family.

And it is this element which has complicated city living to a great extent, and to which attention has been drawn by the accusation that home life is shirked by it.
To the bachelor man and maid are added the commercial traveller who leaves wife and possibly child behind four fifths of the time.

For him, as for several other classes of young business men, the locality which he can choose for headquarters changes with the requirements of business.