The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-25

THE BOY A WORLD WIDE PROBLEM From Sixty Years in Waifdom."
 A boy in the English midlands who worked at the potteries sixty years ago was the victim of shocking brut- alities. Thrashed with a ropes end, his blood glued his shirt into the wound dints, and his mother had to get 1t off by bathing his back. This boy at tended a Sunday school, and was under the teaching of laboring man. Last year the old potter wrote a book, in which he paid this tribute to his teacher:
 q remember, as I sat among the other scholars, Ralph Lawton's face shone as if transfgured as he sat in his pew under the gallery. He little thought that sixty years after the vision of his ecstasy would be like bright cloud hanging over an old scholars life, at once an inspiration and a joy"
 But whether the man be a sweep or a prime minister. it is only along such lines that a chiId's nature can be reach cd and the character buttressed, the will directed. and the aspirations quickened.
 In that simple story there Is the work in germ. It's unlimited muItipli- cation Is what London needs. The man who wants hope for his boy can be reached afterwards. Magistrates, po- lice court missionaries, jail chaplains. schoolmasters, ali asert that 6 mission to parents as parents Is crying need But who will go?--or shall we not say, Who can go? The man who has gained the love of a boy is the only man with a chance.
 Such is the workl You begin with the child. For, as the Talmud says, The world stands on the breath of the school children"
 Quintin Hogs under Adelphi arch with a candle. bible. and two cross ing sweepers Is the beginnings poly technic is the finish--of an ideal school
 And this is where the millionaire should come in. Men are found who can give with imagination. Libraries. baths. and other institutions are given to towns and borouRhs by wealthy men; why not inexpensive sclloos that would be self-supporting from the mo- ment they are opened?
 But though the movement would welcome miIlionaires, it has never yet waited for them. DO what you can with what you have" has been its mot tO
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 American Medicine.
 It is strange how slow men are to recognize that In all matters of practi- cal hygiene the women are necessary We shall never have clean cities until they undertake the job. nor shall we know how to be good national house. keepers until the privates housekeep- CTS of the nation extend their heredt- tary function to public needs and du- tias. Every time the women are given a chance to clean up dirty city, carry on a crusade against public dissraces and immoralities, they are successful und there is at once a new order of things, In one State the men, the eat ers of meat and makers of laws. leg ally allowed the butchers to carry on their work in such a diseased and dis xusting manner that the health and moral of the whole people were af- fectedy One woman alone reformed and cleaned up the whole abuse and made the slaughter houses of the State models of hygienic order and decency. Here Is another instance: In Michi- gan city. Kalamazoo, the women grew tired of filthy streets and disregard of law and they got permission to clean one street for a while. on the same con- 6itions as the contractor had not clean ed 1t. They did the work, enforced slumbering ordinances to wake up, demonstrated to the city that clean illness is as easy and as cheap as filthi- ness. and now the men and politicians of Kalamazoo say they have learned their lesson and that they will carry out the reform in all the streets of the city. The movement was instituted by Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, who also did such marvellous work in the Michigan slaughter houses. There should be a women's Civic Club or City improvement League in every Ameri- can city and town.
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 There was @ time when man plan ned a house with the aid of the archi- tect, and with out the woman being in any way consulted as to her likes and