My last set of tables, as I have already said, are not those of a wage-earner. The average expenditure is here given for three sets of three years, the personal allowance being £30, £40 and £50 for the successive periods (rising to £60 during the last year of the third period). Books and subscriptions and presents are the other items of expenditure not given here. TABLE VI. _Accounts of Expenditure on Dress of No. 8, living at Home, and receiving an Allowance._ AVERAGE AMOUNT SPENT DURING THE THREE YEARS. +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------+ | | 1883-85. | 1889-91. | 1894-96. | | +-------------+-------------+------------+ | | £ _s. d._| £ _s. d._| £ _s. d._| |Dresses | 13 9 8 | 17 15 6 | 22 1 0 | |Coats, cloaks, umbrellas | 3 16 11 | 6 5 0 | 5 12 9 | |Millinery | 2 14 4 | 3 3 6 | 4 10 3 | |Underclothing, handkerchiefs| 3 0 8 | 3 7 6 | 5 13 10 | |Boots and Shoes | 3 13 5 | 2 19 2 | 3 9 2 | |Gloves | 2 2 8 | 1 18 1 | 1 16 11 | |Ties, collars, &c. | 0 13 1 | 0 17 8 | 0 18 4 | |Miscellaneous | 0 8 6 | 0 9 0 | 0 19 9 | | +-------------+-------------+------------+ | Total | 29 19 3 | 36 15 5 | 45 2 0 | | +-------------+-------------+------------+ | Personal allowance | £30 | £40 | £50-£60 | +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------+ No. 8 writes:-- “In addition to the allowance I had various presents of money. While receiving £30 I had evening dresses given me. My mending and altering are done by a maid at home. Up to 1888 I occasionally had dressmaking done at home, but now put it all out. Being so busy a person and not caring for dressmaking or millinery, I have done none myself for the last seven years or more. The average yearly glove expenditure of the three periods is less now than in 1885. This is probably accounted for by the fact that I don’t require so many white evening gloves as when I had many dances.” The accounts I have presented here have no claim to be regarded as typical. They are merely samples of the kind of material needed to enable us to discover the type. THE AGE LIMIT FOR WOMEN. _December, 1899._ “Rather than remain braced and keen to watch the world accurately and take every appearance on its own merits, the lazy intellect declines upon generalizations, formalized rules and Laws of Nature.” --“Idlehurst, a Journal kept in the Country.”