"IT DOES NOT PAY TO BUILD COTTAGES."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—At this time we can scarcely glance at a newspaper without seeing appeals for help towards sending the worn-out toilers and drooping children of our cities to the country or the seaside. In true and touching language the contrast is set forth between the rookeries and slums of the city- " districts where most families occupy but one room" and the health-giving delights of fresh air, sea-breezes, sands, woods, and fields. Yet all the while the process is in full swing that manufactures conditions the lamentable results of which philanthropy strives in vain to heal. All the while the depopulation of remote villages and hamlets is going on, and week after week the cottage famine is driving unwilling exiles from their native places to swell the number,of dwellers in the tenement houses of the towns.—I am, Sir, &c.,
ELLA FULLER MAITLAND.
Loe Vean, St. Feock, Cornwall.
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