Bread 1d. Cheese 1d. ¼ lb. of meat 3d. Potatoes and onions 2d. Jam 1d. ½ pint of beer 2d. --- 10d. Another meal: Cantaloup Glacé. Tortue Claire. Bisque Nantua. Truites Saumonées Michigan. Mousse de Jambon à l’Escurial. Selle d’Agneau Montefiore. Poularde Strasbourgeoise. Salade Indienne. Cailles flanqués d’Ortolans. Asperges Verts. Sauce Mousseuse. Pêches Framboisines. Friandises. Fanchonettes Suisses. Hock, Claret, Port, Coffee, and Liqueurs. This dinner for twenty people cost £60, or £3 a head, without wine. If the figures in these instances, with regard to food expenditure, really represented quantities consumed, the dangers from overfeeding in the one set of cases would far exceed the dangers from underfeeding in the other. The cheerful bell that announces the servants’ midday meal no doubt heralds the consumption of a vast amount of food; but it is a debatable point whether sheer waste does not account for almost as much. Quarts of cream are emptied down the sink, joints and birds only half eaten are thrown away, and the pig-tub receives a rich enough allowance of vegetables, fruit, and cakes to satisfy the appetite of a large family. In fact, in one house, where the household books averaged £63 a week, the matter was looked into, and a reduction was made to £34 without any diminution in the number of servants. * * * * * Dancing is a form of amusement appreciated by all classes. At ---- Hall, Fulham, and many other similar places the tickets for the Saturday night dance cost 9d. each. If two hundred people are present, the cost would be £7 10s.; allowing 3d. a head for refreshments (£2 10s.), the total amount will be £10. At ---- Hotel, S.W., a ball was given lately for two hundred people, costing £1237. Granting that the amount of enjoyment derived from these two entertainments is equal, though in all probability there would be more genuine and honest pleasure in the former than in the latter, the two sums simply represent the different standards of living. That ten or even twenty times as much may be spent to give people who are accustomed to a higher scale of living the same amount of pleasure is perhaps intelligible, but it seems to require a sum which amounts to one hundred and twenty-three times as much. * * * * * Two bachelors take a night’s lodging. The one, a working man, goes to ---- House, S.E.