(Josselyn & Taylor Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa).] This crowding is causing the refinements of life to be disregarded, is depriving the children of their rights, and doing them almost more harm than comes to the tenement dwellers, for they have the parks to play in and are not kept within doors.
Mr.Michael Lane in his "Level of Social Motion" claims that present tendencies are leading to a level of $2000 a year and a family of two children as an average.

Mr.Wells claims as a tendency in living conditions the practically automatic and servantless household.

In connection with the Mary Lowell Stone Home Economics Exhibit a design of an approach to this kind of a dwelling was asked for in sketch.

The accompanying plans were made by a firm who have had not only experience in this kind of domestic building, but who have sympathy with and personal knowledge of similar conditions in widely separated parts of the country.
These sketches are not of an _ideal_ house and not for a given plot of land, but only a hint of what Mrs.Michael Lane "must expect if she attempts to build in the country or suburbs." Since these were drawn many changes have come about in costs and in materials available.

The architects expressly disclaim the word "model" in relation to them.