The same inside comforts in one quarter the space, minus the isolation and garden, may be had in a suburban block for one half that sum.

This is probably the least expensive shelter to-day for the family whose duties require one or more members of it to be in the city daily, for, as the centre of the city is approached, land rent increases, so that dwelling space must be again curtailed one half or rent doubled.

The majority take half a house or go into the city and put up with one quarter the space.
The curtailment of space in which families live is going on at an alarming rate, although not yet seriously taken into account by the sociologist for the group we are studying.
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8 and 9 .-- House for "Mrs.L.," Anywhere in temperate America, to cost $5000, if it must not more (*remainder cut off).] [Illustration: Figs.

10 and 11 .-- House for "Mrs.L.," Anywhere in temperate America, to cost only $3000, if possible.