A NEW PROFESSION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 556, 10 July 1909, Page 11

A NEW PROFESSION.

• The English correspondent of an tralian paper gives some instances of the working of that clause in the Childrens Act which forbids a child being taken into a pub-.lie-house, • and incideutly she conveyes an impression. -'.that it' was. high ; tim'o . such a provision was made. No one,, she says, grossed that \ the result would be';;,to {irovide a now occupation for tho confinned oafer. The otior day a father, a mother, and an infant of four parsed a public-house. The; parents looked ..wistfully at the door, arid then :at .tlie ,bairi)..' In a moment a loafer was .on tlie spot, j'"ln yo'rgo;.l'll look: after-'or.' 1 '- In oilier places the Vpublicrhouse . keeper- finds it wor.tn . his while to: provide one of - these temporary nurses/- arid- there, are cases on record in which' the' cattle-troilgh has been emptied

upon ..a-; busy day; and .used as a'cradle., rA full-sized,cattle-trough will >;hold two . or ,' more; babies; .'of' average size. ■ But •••! eveD these ."'expedients 'sink. into; : insignificance. ■ when,compared.with the device of a certain : disreputable'. mother, in the . North of Eng--1 land. She saw that a policeman was watching .her, and deliberately approachod the publicihouso door. / the, new Act.". |lp With...the warning, -the unsuspecting policeman'■'.. caught at tho,.juvenile wraps. "You'va got hold of the child," cried the; ■ mother. "Yes;, you mustn't take it ■in there.' The new' Act, you know."' "Let it go." "."Not a bit." ; "Then hold-it till I rome ; out." The ' unfortunate guardian of 'the. law was • fixed.'''Clearly, to enter ;the

public-house in tho of tiie mother,: was impossible. He. preferred to remain oitcide with:the wee mite until its lawful guardian was satisfied. ... .