7.0.—When he has gone, put baby down and eat breakfast. 7.30.—Wash up; do a little washing every day for baby; air bed; carry down dirty water; bring fresh up from yard (second floor). 8.30.—Baby wakes; give her a bath and dress her; nurse her; let her lie and kick while sweeping room and blacking grate and scrubbing stairs; make bed; carry baby out, and do shopping for dinner. 11.0.—Come in and nurse baby; get dinner ready. 12.15.—Husband comes in; give him dinner. He leaves a few minutes to one o’clock. 1.0.—Wash up, and nurse baby; take her out for a walk, if fine, for as long as can bear it. She is heavy. Come in when time to nurse her again, and sit down to sew. Make all her clothes and most of own, and mend husband’s. 4.30.—Get tea ready and cook relish. 5.0.—Husband comes in; give him tea, and help him clean himself in warm water; wash up and carry down dirty water, and bring up clean water. 6.0.—Nurse baby and get her to bed; husband not strong, and likes to go to bed early; sit and sew till time to nurse baby at nine o’clock. Get everything ready for morning. 9.30.—Go to bed. One week in every three the husband works at night, instead of the day. The wife finds this less convenient for her, and is certain that it over-strains him, as he cannot sleep properly in the day, though she tries to be as quiet as ever she can. But the baby is bound to disturb him, as the room is very small. During this week, dinner is whenever he gets up, and all the cleaning and washing has to be squeezed in afterwards. The next case is that of Mrs. O., who has but two children alive, both very young. Two rooms have to be looked after, and extremely well looked after, for Mr. O. is the gentleman who keeps 5s. a week out of 25s., and expects 4s. 4d. a week spent on his own extra food. He likes the place nice, and cannot see that his wife need ever go out except for the purpose of buying the family food. He believes that women are prone to extravagance in dress, and does not encourage Mrs. O. in any such nonsense. When it was necessary that she should come once a fortnight to the weighing centre, to have the baby weighed, the price of a pair of boots had to be saved out of several weeks’ food, much to the annoyance of Mr. O., who could not understand why any of his family should ever leave the two rooms where they live. Her day runs as follows: 7.0.—Get up and get husband’s breakfast; nurse baby while he has it. 7.30.—He goes to work. Get little girl dressed, get her breakfast, and have it with her. 8.0.—Wash up. 8.30.—Get baby’s bath and wash and dress him. 9.0.—Nurse him and put him to sleep. 9.30.—Do beds and sweep bedroom, and carry up water (first floor). 11.0.—Start to make little girl a frock till baby wakes; nurse him when he does. 12.15.—Get dinner for self and child ready (husband has dinner away from home). 1.0.—Have dinner.