What wonder the white plague is always with us?
What remedy so long as millions sleep in closets with no air-currents passing through?
Accepting the French rule, the artisan who rents the model tenement at $3.50 per week should earn $3 a day wage for six days.

If he earn only $2, then more than one quarter must go for housing.

There are hundreds of Italian families in New York who pay only $2 _per month_ for such shelter as they have, but it is only providing for the primitive idea of mere shelter, not for the comforts of a true home life.

After the fashion of early man, these people spend their lives in the open air, eat wherever they may be, and use this makeshift shelter as protection from the weather and as a place of deposit for such articles as they do not carry about with them and for such weaklings as cannot travel.
As man rises in the scale of wants he pays more, in attention and in money, for housing, because he leaves wife and children to its comforts while he goes forth to his daily tasks.

As ideals rise, the proportion rises until even one third of his earnings goes for mere shelter.