Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-29
class from a hall century to a century

class from half century TO a century
ago.
Many of the hamlets are massed
about by trees, have afchitecturally
beautiful little churches, chapels. club
houses, libraries and the neatcst Of
shops. Nearly all are tidy and clean.
The pottefs' villages Of Sialiordshire are
good Illustrations Of them all. Within a
five-mile radius OF iianley, Burslem and
Stroke, you can find 10000 homes OF
potters, nearly all in pretty hamleis or
in shady village lanes, and villages Of
long, single streets. The poorest potter
OF the district lives rs snugly as did the
master-potter manufacturer OF forty and
fifty years ago.
His cottage is Of brick. 1t has two
stories, and the blessing OF perfect
drainage. On the ground floor are a
parlor with a pretty fireplace, large
living.Toom provided with huge CRATE,
hobs and Jockey bar" for swinging
pots and kettles; and behind this is a
scullery, with fine little garden at the
rear. The upper floor comprises two
large secping.rooms.
This gives every family iiye.roomcd.
completely detached house and garden.
Ordinary workmen earn omtwenty-iive
to thirty shillings weekly. II there
happen to be daughters, one may be a
'paintress," coloring the cheaper wares
and earning eight shillings, and per.
haps another 'bumishcr, earning six
shillings, per week. Many families thus
secure from ,hirty.hve 10 forty shillings
per week while thei, rent and rates do
not exceed five shillings per week
for such q home.
Nearly all Of these workmen's village
homes have front area Hover plats la
the gardens Of all ore m1zes OF ilowcrs
aud vines and beds OF vegetables In
sumner Every parlor has It's solemn.
voiced ''grandiaiher's clock" It also
boasts chesisof linen, drawers Of comior.
table clothing, and many cheap and
pretty pieces OF furniture; while ON the
mantle or bureau top is always found
some iancilul sketch, painting or curious
model. the result OF emulation TO win
prizes for invention in new processes, or
Tor unique and original designs IN
modelling and decoration. The murder.
Gus truck" system Is unknown In Eng
land. as It should be In America and
every penny due every man is paid him
each Saturday noon. We are very fond,
about election time, Of telling our work
men what lucky dogs they are. ! wish
they truly possessed the home comfort
and pleasant environment that English
workmen's villages almost universally
disclose.
Another and most interesting type Of
villages and village life may be found in
the region comprised In southwestern
Narwickshrc. northern Gloucestershirg,
eastern Herelordshire and southern
Worcestershire, between the towns OF
Standardization, Hereford Worches
ter and Gloucester. The antiquity Of
most Of these villages is as great and
their characteristics as those Of the
stone hamlets Of Cumberland. Like
the latter most are OF stone and from
500 to 500 years old. Here is every.
thing curious and ancient in old oa,
doors and hinges, lancilul chimney.
pieces, massive oak lintels, doors and
balustrades, mulioned windows and
panelcd rooms When the habitations
are not Of. stone they are the still more
picturesque ancient Tudor half timbered
houses. These IN their gables with
crowning pinnacles, their odd porches,
small but massive doors, mullioned win
dows and huge chimneys, overhangng
stories and jumbles OF protecting win
dows, are no less quaint and curious
than their interiors, with their spacious,
low.ccilinged rooms paneled with oak
Of cbon blackness, often elaborately