Breakfasts Bread 3½ lbs. Butter 3½ ozs. Coffee 7 pints. Dinners Mutton 13½ ozs. Beef 4½ ozs. Bacon 3 ozs. Irish stew 1 pint. Boiled pork 4½ ozs. Bread 14 ozs. Potatoes and greens 4½ lbs. Suppers Bread 3½ lbs. Butter 3½ ozs. Tea 7 pints. A WOMAN'S DIET FOR A WEEK. (COST, 4s.) Breakfasts Bread 2-5/8 lbs. Butter 3½ ozs. Coffee 7 pints. Dinners Mutton 12 ozs. Beef 4 ozs. Bacon 3 ozs. Irish stew 1 pint. Boiled pork 4 ozs. Bread 1¾ lbs. Potatoes and greens 3 lbs. Suppers Bread 2-5/8 lbs. Butter 3½ ozs. Tea 7 pints. When you read down that list and think of the scare headlines that appeared in London daily papers during the Inquiry--"Splendid Paupers," "Luxuries for Paupers," "A Pauper's Paradise"--you may well ask, Are we living in bountiful England? Or have we fallen upon an England of meagre diet and mean men, an England that whines like a miser when called upon to feed on homely fare its broken-down veterans of industry? Dickens is dead, else would he have shown us Bumble reincarnated in the editors of certain London newspapers. CHAPTER XV TURNING WORKHOUSE CHILDREN INTO USEFUL CITIZENS A Home for Little "Ins-and-Outs"--Technical Education for Workhouse Children--A Good Report for the Forest Gate Schools--Trophies won by Scholars--The Children's Pat-a-Cakes. After he had fed the old people and clothed the old people, and in other ways brought into their darkened lives a little good cheer, Crooks turned his care upon the workhouse children. The Guardians' school at Forest Gate lay four miles from the Union buildings at Poplar. With five or six hundred children always under training in the school there still remained varying batches of neglected little people in the workhouse. The greater number of these belonged to parents who came into the House for short periods only.