s. d. Rent (one room, small; one window, upstairs) 3 6 Husband’s fares 1 0 Husband’s pocket-money 1 0 State sickness insurance 0 4 Four weeks’ burial insurance (Mr. H. had been ill on half pay, and burial insurance had stood over) 1 0 Soap, soda 0 3½ 1 cwt. coal 1 6 Gas 0 6 Wood 0 2 Newspaper 0 1 Boracic powder 0 1 Cotton 0 2 Needles 0 0½ Buttons 0 1 Paid off loan (5s. borrowed from a brother during husband’s illness) 1 0 ------ 10 9 This leaves for food, 9s. 3d. between three people, or an average of 3s. 1d. a head. s. d. 9 loaves 1 10½ 8 ozs. tea 0 8 2 lbs. moist sugar 0 4 1 tin of milk (a smaller tin than Mrs. W.’s) 0 3½ ½ lb. butter (slightly better than Mrs. W.’s) 0 7 2 lbs. flour 0 3 8 lbs. potatoes 0 4 Vegetables 0 7 Salt, mustard, sauce 0 2½ Fruit 0 6 Fish 1 0 Bacon 0 4½ Mineral water (recommended by doctor for Mr. H. during his illness) 0 3 Meat 2 0 ----- 9 3 Owing to Mr. H. getting home to his meals, there is more elasticity in this menu. Much less meat is eaten, and fish and bacon appear instead. More bread, more tea, more vegetables are eaten, and fruit is added. The usual breakfast is bread, butter, and tea; the dinner a small amount of meat, with potatoes and vegetables; the evening meal, fish or bacon, with potatoes, as well as the eternal bread, butter, and tea. All these four young people are steady and intelligent. They have enough to eat, but they are put to it for proper clothing already. The H.’s will have to move sooner than the W.’s if their family increases, as their room, though a pleasant one, is not above half the size of the other.