£ _s._ _d._ Rent (share of) 22 10 0 Rates ” 7 4 3 Water ” 1 6 0 Gas ” 3 13 0¹⁄₂ Coal ” 4 1 0 Service ” 6 17 6 “Housekeeping”[6] 44 3 4¹⁄₄ Luncheons, teas, and dinners away from home[7] 31 1 10¹⁄₂ Furniture 2 13 3 Flowers 1 2 3 Dress 42 1 4³⁄₄ Books 14 1 2 Newspapers 2 3 9¹⁄₂ Fares 13 8 5 Holiday[8] 7 18 8 Amusements 4 19 6 Clubs 3 1 0 Subscriptions, donations 27 15 4 Presents[9] 18 17 0 Postage and stationery 3 2 10¹⁄₂ Miscellaneous 5 0 10 Doctor and medicine 0 0 0 Insurance 31 2 10 Savings 40 0 0 --------------- Total expenditure £338 5 4 =============== Income tax Not stated Balance Not stated [6] The housekeeping done by the other occupier, and separate account of each item not kept. Under this head are included half the cost of food for household of three people and servant, and of laundry, garden, kitchen requisites, house repairs, &c. [7] This includes daily lunches and teas, and lunches and dinners to guests at clubs, restaurants, &c. [8] Spent unusually little on holidays this year. [9] Includes five months’ contribution towards payment of one relative to live with and take care of another. Details of dress expenditure for one year have been given me by Nos. 5 and 6, as well as by No. 4. In addition, I have received the dress accounts for one year of a clerk living at home and receiving board and lodging free, and those for nine years of a lady receiving an allowance for her personal expenditure. I give the accounts of the wage-earning women first. TABLE V. _Accounts of Expenditure on Dress of No. 4 (a High School Mistress), Nos. 5 and 7 (Clerks), and No. 6 (a Journalist)._ AMOUNT SPENT ON