10.30.—Turn down beds, clean grate, scrub floor. 11.30.—Make beds. 12.0.—Mother, who has done the marketing, brings in the food; begin to cook dinner. 12.15.—Children all in, lay dinner, and, with mother’s help, tidy children for it. 1.0.—Dinner, which mother serves while Mrs. G. nurses baby who wakes about then. 1.30.—Tidy children for school again. 1.45.—Start them off and sit down with mother to their own dinner; wash up, tidy room, clean themselves. 3.0.—Go out, if it is not washing-day or day for doing the stairs, with baby and boy of three. 3.45.—Come in and get tea for children. Put boy of three to sleep, nurse baby. 4.15.—Children come in. 4.30.—Give children tea. 5.0.—Wash up and tidy room. Tidy children and self. 6.0.—Take up boy of three and go out for a “blow in the street” with all four children. 7.0.—Come in and put children to bed. Nurse baby. 7.30.—Husband returns; get his supper. 8.0.—Sit down and have supper with him. 8.30.—Clear away and wash up. Sew while husband goes to bed. “Talk wile ’e’s doin’ it.” 9.0.—Send mother off. Get everything ready for the morning. Mend husband’s clothes as soon as he gets them off. 10.0.—Nurse baby and go to bed. We now come to the day of a mother of six children, with two rooms to keep. Mrs. T., whose menu has already been given, is the wife of a builder’s handyman on 25s. a week. The two rooms are upstairs in a small house, and, as there is no water above the ground floor, Mrs. T. has a good deal of carrying of heavy pails of water both upstairs and down. She is gentle and big and slow, never lifts her voice or gets angry, but seems always tired and dragged. She is very clean and orderly. Her husband is away all day; but he dislikes the noise of a family meal, and insists on having both breakfast and tea cooked specially for himself, and eats alone. 6.0.—Nurses baby. 6.30.—Gets up, calls five children, puts kettle on, washes “necks” and “backs” of all the children, dresses the little ones, does hair of three girls. 7.30.—Gets husband’s breakfast, cooks bloater, and makes tea. 8.0.—Gives him breakfast alone, nurses baby while he has it, and cuts slices of bread and dripping for children. 8.30.—He goes, gives children breakfast, sends them off to school at 8.50, and has her own. 9.0.—Clears away and washes up breakfast things. 9.30.—Carries down slops, and carries up water from the yard; makes beds. 10.0.—Washes and dresses baby, nurses him, and puts him to bed. 11.0.—Sweeps out bedroom, scrubs stairs and passage. 12.0.—Goes out and buys food for the day. Children home at 12.15. 12.30.—Cooks dinner; lays it. 1.0.—Gives children dinner and nurses baby. 1.45.—Washes hands and faces, and sees children off to school. 2.0.—Washes up dinner things, scrubs out kitchen, cleans grate, empties dirty water, and fetches more clean from yard. 3.0.—Nurses baby. 3.30.—Cleans herself and begins to mend clothes. 4.15.—Children all back. 4.30.—Gives them tea.