Out of; 600.000 children in -Now York schools,- .nearly 466,000 . were found to-be physically defective. Nearly one-third of the cases riccuriod; in families with an income of more-than £4 a week, and only one-eighth in homes where the weekly wage fell below £2. Seventy-five percent. of .the New York children have defective teeth. . Many of theso children knew not the virtues of a tootlir brush, and were not too conversant even with soap. • •! V <' - ' ' Wo knit stockings for-dukes to wear, on shooting.;.expeditions, ;; land ; .lace.;,for the trousseaiix. of princesscs,'. a|id omhroidered baby, lineti,,..so' .that, nothing, less■■ than a millionaire's nursory couiu . afford it, 'and rugs so^expensive that one is afraid to.stand on'theni. andi wo don't .try to.;inako anything for 'ourselves, or to beautify our, own homes or run 1 own nersous.—"lrish Homestead."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 9
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