Insurance, form of saving, 115.
Intellectual life, 136.
Interest rates to poor, 158.
Interstate Commerce Commission,

wages, 67.
Iowa, bureau of Labor Statistics,

clothing, 105, 162.
Irregularity of work, 124.
Italians, diet of, 89, 94; superstitions

of, 148; unemployment of, 30; wages

of, 62.
James, A. E., wage statistics, 63.
Jersey City, tenements, 73.
Kansas, unemployment, 33, 42.
Kindliness of poor, 140.
Knopf, S. A., clothing, 108.
Labor and the church, 150; earnings,

68; organized, 30, 62; women, 52.
Laborers, opinions of, 148; sensuality

of, 137.
Law, housing, 72, 76, 169.
Leipziger, Henry M., 177.
Lennox, Miss Elizabeth, budgets, 9.
Le Play, family monographs, 12.
Levasseur, Emile, food, 89.
Liquors, consumption of, 144.
Lithuanians, 62.
Little Palermo, 76.
Living wage, 154, 159, 161.
Lodgers, 78; amelioration of lot of, 170;

as sources of income, 67.
Lodging houses, evils of, 84.
London, dockyards, 127.
Los Angeles, Sonoratown, 75.
Losses of the poor, 154.
Loss, from disease, 131.
Luxuries, in standard of living, 2; in

food, 100.
Machinery and onemployment, 40; and
wages, 46.
Mackay, 112.
Maine, wages, 60, 62, 68.
Malnutrition, 94.
Manhattan, home tenure, 79; tene-
ments, 70.
Manual training, 176.
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Manufactures, classified earnings, 64.
Marriages, hasty, 139; prospective ef-
fect of, on wages, 54.
Massachusetts, classified wages, 53,
65, 184 ; family expenditures, 13 ; food
cost, 89; hours of labor in, 125; rela^
tion of prosperity to wages in, 45;
report on Southern mill operatives,
92; secondary occupation, 68; textile
wages, 63, variation of employment,
37.
Medical attention, 132.
Men, as sources of income, 57.
Methodists and laborers, 151.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
120; welfare work of, 172.
Michigan, accidents in, 127; state em-
ployment bureau, 165 ; wages, 61.
Middletown, living wage, 160.
Midwlves, New York, 130.
Milliners, unemployment of, 38.
