½ lb. sugar, 1½d.; 4 ozs. butter, 3½d.; bread, 3d 0 8 One tin of milk, 3½d.; meat, 6d.; potatoes, 2d; Quaker oats, 2½d.; rice, ½d. 1 2½ Boot club 1 0 Gas 0 1 ----- 2 11½ ----- In hand 2 6½ _Friday_, 3s.: 2 ozs. tea, 2d.; ½ lb. sugar, 1½d.; 4 ozs. butter, 3½d.; bread, 3d. 0 10 Suet, 2d.; flour, 2½d.; treacle, 1½d. 0 6 Gas 0 2 Five days’ pay for neighbour’s girl to take out the baby 0 6 ----- 2 0 ----- In hand 3 6½ _Saturday_, 3s. + 3s. 6½d. = 6s. 6½d.: 2 ozs. tea, 2d.; ½ lb. sugar, 1½d.; 4 ozs. butter, 3½d.; bread, 6d. 1 1 One tin of milk, 3½d.; bacon, 6d.; eggs, 2d.; potatoes, 2d.; greens, 2d. 1 3½ Gas 0 1 Sunday’s joint 2 0 Bakehouse 0 2 Blacklead, hearthstone, matches, soda 0 4 Husband’s shirt 1 0 Baby’s birth certificate 0 3 Girl to mind baby 0 2 ----- 6 6½ In the case of women who handle the whole week’s wage at once, there is generally great need of more cupboard space. Occasionally a scullery helps to solve the problem, and there is often a very shallow cupboard beside the chimney, high enough from the floor to be clear of mice and beetles, and out of reach of children. A kitchen with the copper in it is a bad place for keeping food; a kitchen infested with any kind of vermin is also a bad place to keep food; a kitchen which is plagued with flies is equally impossible. The women whose lives are passed in such kitchens may feel that, in spite of the extra expense and waste, daily buying of perishable food is a necessity.