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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue VIII, 14 August 1897, Page 244

An eccentric old peer—now dead and gone—tried in vain for fifty years to get a Bill passed preventing window-cleaners from standing outside the windows. * I introduced it,’ he said, 1 not for the sake of the windowcleaners, but for the sake of the people below, on whom they might fall. The idea of the Bill was suggested to me by the fear that a window-cleaner might fall on myself.’ Among the luxuries of these days are portable houses. If you want to carry a comfortable dwelling with you when you are going to the mountains, you can get one that will fold up like an umbrella ; it is made of wood and wire net. For a summer home at the seashore you can procure a ready-made house in sections, all ready to be put together. Really handsome cottages can be purchased in this way, and the railroad will deliver the structure complete, in pieces, on the lot where it is to be put up. Within a few hours you can move in and begin housekeeping, realising in actual fact the story of Aladdin and his famous palace that grew like a mushroom in one night.