In the year 1886-87 the orders given for Baron's Court work enabled Mrs.Dixon to pay out regularly about five pounds a week, not including casual private orders.

For the current year the orders have been much larger, and the expenditure proportionally greater.

Mrs.Dixon's storehouse was full of goods to-day.

The long knickerbocker stockings which she showed us were remarkably good, some in "cross-gartered" patterns, handsomer, I thought, than similar goods in the Scottish Highlands--and all of them staunch and well-proportioned.
For socks such as are supplied to the volunteers and the troops the War Office pays 8-3/4d.

a pair.
It was pleasant to learn from Mrs.Dixon that these people thoroughly appreciate the spirit which prompted and still directs this enterprise.
Last spring when the Duchess was thought for a time to be hopelessly ill, a young girl came down to Baron's Court weeping bitterly.