KEEPING LATE HOURS.
EFFECT ON CHILDREN. The interference of entertainments with the sleep and rest of children was deplored by Dr. E. H. Wilkins, director of school hygiene, at the Welfare of Youth Conference at Auckland. A harmful effect, he declared, resulted from the nervous excitement and unnatural morbid effect of much of the subject matter of the modern film. The evil of children keeping late hours, however, was not confined to the picture theatre. A large number of mothers, many of whom should be ashamed not to'know hotter, showed a lamentable disregard for the needs of children by allowing them to go to numerous evening parties and entertainments and take part in performances. It was a shame that children’s health, their nervous stability and their mental, moral and physical welfare should be thus sacrificed by the foolish indulgence and in many caaes the vanity of parents.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1922, Page 4
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147KEEPING LATE HOURS. Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1922, Page 4
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