The following gives a somewhat fuller picture of these workers:--"Mrs. ---- is a widow and has no children. She looks about sixty and is probably about fifty. She lives on the top floor in model dwellings (three rooms, for which she pays 5_s._ 9_d._) Her husband died in 1891 of consumption, and she does not know what she would have done had she not been made forewoman (in a book-folding room). She does not see how a pieceworker can support herself. She must live at home. Most of the girls working under her live at home and give their mothers 7_s._ a week, keeping the rest for themselves. She was doing some washing and mangling when I called. A little girl comes to help clean, but otherwise she does everything for herself." A fairly large employer in London stated that his "girls are living with their parents and work for pocket-money." Another "would think that about half lived at home." One woman stated, "A bit of extra money comes in handy. It is nice for a woman to put a little by--you cannot expect her to save out of her husband's money"; another said: "A woman ought never to let her husband know what she earns--if she is foolish enough to do that, he at once becomes lazy and extravagant. A woman should only work after marriage either to save a little money, or to help a sick or delicate husband." A well-known London general stationery dealer reports: "Some of the women employed are the wives of the porters and packers, but in the majority of cases the husbands are worthless, and the earnings of the women are the chief support of the household." In one case reported upon, a girl, working in a Bible and prayer-book house, having to support herself, could not do it, and began pilfering prayer-books to make both ends meet. She was turned away as a thief. For the purpose of throwing light upon the problems with which this chapter deals, particulars have been obtained from one firm in London where eighty-six women are employed. The married women are described as follows:-- 1. A widow. 2. Has a husband, a bookbinder in good work, but they are extravagant. 3. Has a husband in work. 4. A widow. 5. A widow with a daughter to support. 6. A widow. 7. Has a husband in work. Has been summoned for boys not attending school. 8. Has a husband who drinks. Looks after her children and goes home at dinner time. 9. A widow with recalcitrant boy. 10. Has a husband in work. 11. Has a husband irregularly employed. Very poor and slatternly. 12. Has a husband who drinks. Of the unmarried workers, one learned the trade when on in years because, owing to a misfortune, she had to bring up her brothers and sisters. She was very slow and her earnings only averaged about 7_s._ per week. Two support themselves. The others live at home and pay 6_s._ or 7_s._ per week, or hand over everything they make, and receive back small sums for pocket-money.