Chapter XVIII

Wages

>>>>Some sell their lives for bread;
>>>>Some sell their souls for gold;
>>>>Some seek the river bed;
>>>>Some seek the workhouse mold.
>>>>Such is proud England s sway,
>>>>Where wealth may work its will;
>>>>White flesh is cheap to-day,
>>>>White souls are cheaper still.
>>>>-- Fantasias

When I learned that in Lesser London there
were 1,292,737 people who received 21 shillings
or less a week per family, I became interested as
to how the wages could best be spent in order to
maintain the physical efficiency of such families.
Families of six, seven, eight, or ten being beyond
consideration, I have based the following table
upon a family of five, a father, mother, and three
children; while I have made 2 1 shillings equiva
lent to $5.25, though actually, 21 shillings are
equivalent to about $5.11.

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