+--------+---------------------+-------------+-------------+ | | | Washing | Total | | | | | | | | +-------------+-------------+ | 1887 | | £ _s._ _d._| £ _s._ _d._| | Jan. 1 | Messrs. Slater & Co.| -- | 5 0 0 | | “ 5 | Smith | -- | 1 0 0 | | “ 6 | Whiteley’s account | -- | 6 10 0 | | “ 7 | Income Tax | -- | 10 0 0 | | “ 8 | Water Rate | -- | 2 4 0 | | “ 9 | Poor Rate | -- | 5 0 0 | | “ 10 | Christmas Rent | -- | 25 0 0 | | “ 11 | One quarter Gas, } | | | | | due Christmas } | -- | 5 0 0 | | “ 15 | Housemaid | -- | 5 0 0 | | “ 16 | Parlourmaid | -- | 6 0 0 | | “ 17 | Cook | -- | 7 10 0 | | “ 18 | Worth | -- | 20 0 0 | | “ 19 | Mrs. Jones | 2 0 0 | 2 0 0 | | “ 20 | Potatoes | -- | 0 10 0 | | “ 25 | Fish account | -- | 3 0 0 | | “ 27 | Sundry Groceries | -- | 2 0 0 | | “ 28 | Coal | -- | 5 0 0 | | | +-------------+-------------+ | | Total | 2 0 0 |110 14 0 | +--------+---------------------+-------------+-------------+ etiquette for doctors to send in their bills made out in items, instead of that business way of ‘To medical attendance, &c.,’ for I cannot see why they should not. Even a lawyer gives items of his detestable accounts; and what should we say to a modiste who sent in her bill, ‘To dress and draperies to date,’ without items? I like to know what I am paying for; and why should not my case, mentioned above, be the case of many? One word before I leave the doctor--pay his bill at once; no one is kept waiting longer than a doctor; no one _usually_ deserves his money more; it is a disagreeable bill to keep about, and should be always settled as soon as possible.