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Show SUPPLY OF OFFICE BOYS WAY BELOW THE DEMAND WITH tho ending of tho summer season, tho metropolis is crying for fifty thousand olllco hoys, tho old-rnshloncd old-rnshloncd kind prererred. Each year the cry for boys that goes up from tho skyscrapers becomes more Insistent. In-sistent. New York's greedy business maw gobbles up some seventy thous-nnd thous-nnd youngHtei-s u year as olllco boys, nnd, though there are Just about enough boys to supply tho demand, business men complain that to so-euro so-euro tho right kind of boys la u vory dllllcult matter Indeed. It Is a curious fact about New York's grent army of olllco boys that a small proportion of them uro graduates grad-uates of the public schools. Tho schools graduate less than ten thousand thous-and boys n year, and fully hair of theso enter tho high schools to equip themselves for business or other ca-. ca-. reers. so thut prolmbly not more than 'four thousand of- theso annual graduates become olllco boys. The average ago of theso young business men is fourteen years und bIx months. WOMEN with tens of thousands of dollars a year to spend In porsonnl adornment, and wl)o huvo run thu gamut of novelties in dresses nnd diamonds dia-monds In Now York, nro getting rid of their surplus allowances fairly well now by Investing In expensive leather. Mrs. John .lacob Astor has purchased purchas-ed mnny expensive leather belts, ench wrought by muster workman nnd most of thorn gilded richly. Tho buckles aro solid gold. Here is a little secret about a fashion fash-ion tip which Mrs. Astor wub believed to hnvo given to hor friends. Tho maid charged with tho duty of dressing dress-ing the former Philadelphia bllo by mistake lit led her with ono of these nourished children, G.GIH.OOO with en lnrged glands, and 0,025,000 with do fectlve breathing In thu United States "In Now York city the estimated figures are: Malnutrition, 18,000; en larged glands, 187,000, nnd defective breathing, 2:10,800. "A large percentage of the' defects Indicated ure easily remedied, and many could bo prevented by proper cure, though, except In enso or do-rectivu do-rectivu vision, thu causes 'are not nl-whys nl-whys easily determined." A comprehensive plan for dealing with the physical defects of schooj children Is outlined In the report, In-eluding In-eluding these things: A thorough physical examination of all children. H Tho enforcement of existing laws und securing of proper authority, whero this is now lacking, to compel parents who refuse to tnko necessary Enforcement of healthy tenement-house tenement-house nnd child-labor laws, The establishment, In connection with boards of education, of depart-meats depart-meats or school hygiene, whoso duties shall be to sco that school buildings nru so constructed and so conducted thnt thoy cuunot themselves produca or aggravate physical defects, and the school curriculum Is so devised as neither to produce nor aggravate such -defects. |