A Pre-War Picture and a Post From Our London Correspondent, What a change is here. The ambition of every woman six or seven years ago was to live in as big and imposing a house as her husband's income would allow her to do. Oh! materialistic age! Was not the size of his house the criterion of his position in life? Two young people married on, let us say, £250 a year. They took villa, perhaps in Putney or Sur-biron, furnishing it with loving care out of hard-earned savings. He-e they would spend their early roar-ried life—the happiest years of all—the wife doing most of the work. anxiously awaiting the passing of the hours when her husband would return from his day in the City. She would be waiting to greet him and they would be as happy as kings.
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