(1) Hand folding and cementing of envelopes (includes putting band round packet). (2) Machine folding and cementing of envelopes (includes putting band round packet). (3) Black bordering. (4) Stamping, plain and relief. (5) Printing of addresses for circulars, etc. (small machines). (6) Packing twelve packets in long packets and sample packing. (7) Vellum sewing (folding, sewing, and looking over). (8) Perforating (in same room). (9) Machine ruling. The number of women at each process in the part of factory seen were as follows:-- (1) About 27, (2) 30, (3) 1, (4) 4 stamping, (5) about 8, (6) 3 and 1 sample packer (probably many more), (7) 4 sewing, 1 looking over, 2 hanging about, (8) 1, (9) 4. There are 42 other workers who are all older hands. The girls employed in (1) are a superior grade to those in (2) and will not mix at all. Wages about the same. (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) are more or less same grade as (1); (9) are lower than (2). REGULARITY.--The work here is steady all the year round. HEALTH.--All the girls are healthy, and the work is quite healthy. HOURS.--They work 51 hours per week. PROSPECTS.--Envelope hand folders can rise to be cementers or forewomen (envelope hand folders being themselves a superior class to machine folders or machine rulers); packers can rise to be sample packers. 16. R., _Stationery Firm (Christmas Cards, etc.) in London. Visit to Works_. WORK.--There are three departments:-- (1) _Relief Stamping_, with 20 regular hands. These girls work the presses, which are of the newest kind, and some of which are very heavy. They do monograms and all sorts of designs on menus, wedding cards, Christmas cards, ball cards, etc., and stamp in gold, silver, or colours. (2) _Hand Painting_, with 21 regular hands. This means filling in stamped-out or printed designs of various kinds of cards with colour, _e.g._, figures of soldiers, flowers, and so on. (3) _Packing Department_, with about 12 regular hands. They do up the cards in packets, fold and gum special wedding envelopes, paste pictures on to cards, tie the little ribbon bows on cards, and do all the many little processes required for finishing this kind of work. REGULARITY.--The work of this firm is very seasonal. The busy time is for about three months before Christmas, but they are specially rushed for the six weeks before Christmas. The regular hands are kept on all the year round, but about 25 or 30 extra are employed for the packing room for six weeks before Christmas. In the other departments they get a few married hands just to come in and help. They are now (July) preparing books of Christmas cards, but the orders for private Christmas cards do not come in till November and December. The girls who work in the packing room pack scents, etc., at other times of the year.