But her four shillings are useful in the family exchequer; they are the deciding factor in Sally's life! So on through all the succeeding years of the developing family life comes the recurring anxiety of getting her children "out." These anxieties may be considered very small, but they are as real, as important, and as grave as the anxieties that well-to-do people experience in choosing callings or professions for sons and daughters to whom they cannot leave a competency.
And all this time the family are near, so very near to the underworld.
The death of Jones, half-timer as he is, would plunge them into it; and the breakdown or death of Mrs.Jones would plunge them deeper still.
What an exciting and anxious life it really is! Small wonder that many descend to the underworld when accident overtakes them.

But for character, grit, patience and self-denial commend me to such women.

All honour to them! may their boys do well! may their girls in days to come have less anxieties and duties than fall to the lot of working men's wives of to-day..