+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+ | | Salary | Salary | | | £120. | £150. | +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+ |Board and lodging during | £ _s._ _d._| £ _s._ _d._| | term, say 40 weeks | 50 0 0 | 60 0 0 | |Half-rent during holiday | 4 0 0 | 5 0 0 | |Railway and other expenses | | | | for six weeks of holiday | | | | with friends | 4 0 0 | 4 0 0 | |Six weeks of holidays at own| | | | expense | 12 0 0 | 15 0 0 | |Educational books | 2 0 0 | 3 0 0 | |Dress | 15 0 0 | 20 0 0 | |Petty cash for omnibuses, | | | | amusements, presents, | | | | charities, etc. etc. | 6 0 0 | 9 0 0 | |Laundry | 3 10 0 | 3 10 0 | |Medical attendance and | | | | provision against sickness| 7 10 0 | 7 10 0 | |Sum available towards | | | | provision or old age | 16 0 0 | 23 0 0 | +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+ | |120 0 0 |150 0 0 | +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+ It will be observed that these teachers are even here supposed to have friends who will put up with them for six weeks. And attention may be especially called to the magnificent sum that can be set apart for educational books and lectures. Frivolous books, such as the works of Walter Scott, Thackeray, George Eliot, George Meredith, Browning, R. L. Stevenson, must be presented by friends or borrowed in all their grime and dirt from a free library. If this is the position of a favoured thousand, the position of the rest may be inferred. Of the whole number, however, a considerable proportion are teachers in elementary schools, and do not come from Class _H._ I have no means of separating the two. Imagination may be stimulated by perusing the employment columns of such a paper as _The Lady_, where advertisements appear for governesses at unconscionably low salaries, reaching occasionally to almost a minus quantity when some more than ordinarily audacious matron offers a comfortable home to a governess in return for the education of her children and twelve shillings a week.