"Why are houses named instead of being numbered? Many an irrotating half-hour have I spent in new roads where there were only names.
met a contractor recently and asked hin why. He said half the houses in that new road were occupied by people whd were experieneing the joys of house poss tion for the first time. 'And there's fa strange emptiness—especially to 8 woman—about a house that's never been occupied,' he said.
"They people it' with pleasant ghosts—by calling it after the place associated with their happiest memories. Many of the houses in this road are named after the places where their owners spent their: honeymoons. 'That's why there's a 'Clovelly,' a 'Sandown,' and an Elm Cot'—although there isn't an elm for 20. mil C.F." in the Daily Herald.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.