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Quantity of Food Cost Carbon- aceous Nitro- genous Breakfast—Bread and Cocoa. s. d. oz. oz. 2½ lb. Bread 3¾ 22½ 3¾ 1½ oz. Cocoa 1½ ¾ ¼ 1 pint Tinned Milk 1 1¼ ½ 2 oz. Sugar ½ 1½ — Dinner—Lentil Soup, Toasted Cheese. 1½ lb. Lentils 3 15 6 1 lb. Cheese 8 4½ 5½ 1½ lb. Bread 2¼ 13½ 2¼ Tea—Rice Pudding and Bread. ¾ lb. Rice 1½ 10½ ¾ 1½ pint Tinned Milk 1½ 2¼ 1 2 oz. Sugar ¼ 1½ — 1½ lb. Bread 2¼ 13½ 2¼ Total 2 1½ 86½ 22¼

And how drear and uninteresting is this food compared to that on which people of another class normally live! No refreshing cups of afternoon tea; no pleasant fruit to give interest to the meal. Nothing but dull, keep-me-alive sort of food, and not enough of that to fulfil all Nature’s requirements.

But let us take another day’s meals, which can consist of hominy, milk, and sugar for breakfast; potato soup and apple-and-sago pudding for dinner; and fish and bread for tea; when fish is plentiful enough to be obtained at 3d. a pound, and when apples are to be got at 1½d. a pound, which economical housekeepers know is not often the case in London.