_Card Mounting._--About 30 or 40 girls were employed at this. This consists in putting the advertisements, calendars, and so on, on to the big sheets of cardboard and finishing them off. There are various different processes. The board has to be cut, and this is done either by a man or a girl who feeds the rotary cutting machine. The sheet of card is "lined," _i.e._, the back pasted on, and edges pasted over if required. Then the picture (or calendar) that is to go on it is pasted down, the girls covering the backs of about four pictures (or calendars), and then pressing them down one after another. For some work eyelets are then punched, and in the best work the edges are bevelled by a little machine consisting of a wheel in a trough, along which the edge is pushed. In the case of a good deal of School Board work there is a narrow band of tin or brass at the top which finishes it off, and out of which comes a brass loop by which to hang it up. The men cut the brass into slips, and the girls work about five hand machines, the principle of which is that you put in your map (_e.g._), put the tin or brass slip of metal in the right position, pull down a handle, lift it up, and the work comes out with the metal band pressed down on each side and the loop fixed in the middle. For other work, such as big maps, charts, diagrams, and so on, wooden rods are used as rollers, etc., and the work of fastening is done by girls. _Paper Colouring and Enamelling by Hand._--Only 12 women were engaged upon this work--a considerable decrease. The sheet of paper to be coloured is placed in front of the girl, who then wets it over with the colour (black when I saw it) by means of a brush like a whitewash brush (the manager said that they were whitewash brushes with the handles taken off), which she dips into a bowl. She then takes another round brush, about 10 ins. in diameter, and brushes over the whole surface, so that the colour lies quite evenly. The sheet of paper is then hung, as it were, on to a clothes line to dry. These lines stretch over the room. Enamelling is done in identically the same way, only it is enamel, not colour, which is put on. Enamelled paper is the very shiny coloured paper used for end pages of books, for covering confectionery and similar boxes, etc. Marbling is never done by this firm. All the coloured paper is in plain colours, marbling being a quite different process. _Book-edge Gilding._--Only men are employed in this. REGULARITY.--The _card mounting_ department is specially busy before Christmas with calendars, almanacs, etc., but advertisement cards are turned out all the year. _Paper colouring_ comes in rushes, but is not a seasonal trade. _Varnishing_ is sometimes busier at one time than at another, but it is not seasonal. The work of this firm is such that no job hands are employed.