+----------------+----------------+---------------+--------------+ | | During School |During Holidays| Total | | |Year (39 weeks).| (13 weeks). | during year. | | +----------------+---------------+--------------+ | | £ _s._ _d._| £ _s._ _d._| £ _s._ _d._| | | { 13 7 6 | | | | | { 3 7 0 | | | |Lodgings | { to be | 0 8 6 | 17 13 0 | | | { reserved in | | | | | { holidays. | | | |Board | 34 11 3 | 2 5 0 | 36 16 3 | |Lunches, teas, | | | | | &c. | | 0 16 8 | 0 16 8 | |Furniture | 1 5 6 | | 1 5 6 | |Washing | 3 7 11³⁄₄ | 3 7 11³⁄₄| |Dress | 16 0 5¹⁄₂ | 16 0 5¹⁄₂| |Books | 2 15 4¹⁄₂ | 2 15 4¹⁄₂| |Fares | 3 16 6¹⁄₂| 8 3 11 | 12 0 5¹⁄₂| |Amusements | 2 18 6 | 0 12 11 | 3 11 5 | |Subscriptions, | | | | donations, &c.| 1 17 11 | 1 17 11 | |Presents | 5 18 3³⁄₄ | 5 18 3³⁄₄| |Postage and | | | | stationery | 4 15 1¹⁄₂ | 4 15 1¹⁄₂| |Miscellaneous | 1 9 9 | 1 9 9 | |Doctor and | | | | medicine | 0 19 5 | 0 19 5 | |Not spent | 20 12 4¹⁄₂ | 20 12 4¹⁄₂| | | +--------------+ | | Total |130 0 0 | +----------------+--------------------------------+--------------+ The social outlook of a working woman is very largely determined by the amount she can afford to spend on dress, and her view of life is perhaps most clearly indicated in the consideration of this item of expenditure. And no accounts of expenditure are of much value without some accompanying expression of the spender’s contentment or dissatisfaction with the results of her expenditure. In reply to my question on the subject of dress, No. 2 informs me that £16 a year was quite enough for her dress:--