He had no women compositors, and employed only 12 men, and he did not see how he could work the two together, though he did not see why women should not do all the setting-up and the display work, though they could not lift the formes. He did not think the Union objected. It never had been the custom though. He never had women to work _cutting machines_. The men would object. Women never rose to mind the _printing litho machines_; he did not think they could do it. He had only one _platen machine_, worked and fed by a boy; but in some places, where cheap things were done by this machine, _e.g._, paper bags, girls attended to it. Men used to do _folding_ in his youth, and they still did _stationers' folding_, notepaper, etc., in some houses. HOME WORK.--The firm gave out a certain amount of folding when there was a press of work. The forewoman knew of old hands and others who could do it at home. He considered that to be quite a convenient arrangement. INFLUENCE ON FAMILY INCOME.--Many of the job hands were married women, who liked to come out occasionally for a few extra shillings. Others were single girls, who preferred to be paid by the piece, and go about from house to house, making as much as time workers for shorter hours. 10. _Paper Colouring and Enamelling Firm in London, also engaged in Showcard Mounting and Varnishing and Book-edge Gilding. Employer's and Manager's Information._ Both were very communicative. The former, after repeated questions from me as to how things were done, took me over the whole place, intending only to show me the varnishing, and finally letting me see everything. He is a working-class master who has risen. His father had a small business, and he has made it a big one. It is one of the biggest firms in the trade. TRAINING.--_Card Mounting._--The firm indentures apprentices, who agree to stay three or four years. They are taken on at fourteen years of age, and are paid 4_s._ a week for the first year, and then receive a portion of their piece work earnings, varying according to efficiency, from one-fourth, one-half, three-fourths, two-thirds, and so on, according to skill. They come for a month first to see if they suit. _Paper Colouring and Enamelling._--In this department apprentices are also indentured for two years. They are taken on at fourteen, and are paid 4_s._ a week first year, then a portion of their piece earnings as above. _Varnishing and Sizing._--No training is given for this. Girls must be tall, or they are no use. Any girl will be "good at it" after three weeks. The employer remarked that parents could not afford to pay a premium. It was very provoking when girls went off after four years, when a lot of trouble had been spent in teaching them. I was shown some cards which a girl, who was supposed to be competent, had spoilt by pasting the sheet on so that there was a blister; 385 out of 500 were similarly spoilt, and they cost 6_d._ each, he said.