SUBMERGED TENTH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 4

SUBMERGED TENTH.

A ceo riling to a recent <jl.is>arva'.'.t visitor lo t;io world's metropolis, the "submerged tenth'' have heL>n materially raised in the scale of civilisation. Bi'ggifr.s to abound on the London streets, now you are but seldom accosted for alms. The ragged children who were formerly a. feature of the streets have disappeared. It used to be heart-rending to see young children, boys and girls, in the depth of winter clothed in rags, without shoes or stockings, and with their feet hound up with dirty rags, selling matches, bootlaces, etc., or doiri" little service- for tJte passer-by for a penny, ("lie children are now compul■soriiy sent to school, where thoy are Hi warm rooms, <ind nrc. in inanv instances, provided with food. .Rural England -wa* getting into the limbo of forgotten things, the general spread of education and the motor vehicles were in a measure responsible for this. The farm labourer now dis(inins t-o wear a smock /rock and model .viMaces abound, though thay have failed to attract the young farm labourer, who now looks't-o London .as the goal of his ambitions.