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484 MISCF.LLANFOUSClothes, (actual 1914) :Mother 7,000Wife 4,200Son ... ... ... ... ... (5,000Man 14,000. 51 ,70OSon s education :Tuition (school, 30 months term).... 1,000 10,000Books and supplies... ... ... 3,400Miscellaneous:Man s smokes Ml work; JO cash per day... 3,000.Man s tea at work; 30 cash per day.9,000Tobacco and lighters used inside home ... ... 7,200Odds and ends inside home ... ... ...8,400Servant s wage, 800 per month, plusft od A: lodging 9,(iOOTotal Expenses tor the year .197,980Income :Man s wage as writer at S12.00 silver per month is$72.00 per year 308,000"Wife s earnings, using the Singer machine to sew upgarments ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 38,000Income on 82.00 silver loaned at 1.2^ per month or14,4% per year = S28.80 43,200Total Income for the year 189,200There is necessary :i deposit of $50.00 silver on thehouse.ObservationsAnalysis of the above budgets reveal many interestingthings : Note the number of broken families: theConditionscontract worker in the vegetable gardenliving alone, his wife a servant in a Chinesefamily and. the boy working out iii another place; thehouse coolie working for a foreign family in the city and hisfamily working the farm in the country. The shoemakeremploys three workmen who sleep and eat with him andtheir families are elsewhere. It is also found that many ofthe carpenters in the city work here while their families arein the country. With this number of eases and incidents if

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