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Show Tlie QuMllon ef Hie lur. We bear constantly this, "What shall bo done with our girls?" Lot mo supple uienl that with "What shall he done witt our boys:" What are we to do for the in coming generation? Never mind tba' which Is yet to be. What era we to tic with tins 300,0o0childrii who go Uiw:1khI In New York city today, with the 50,o0t who roam the streets of New York with nothing to do today, with the 8,000 men sender boy, of whom 2,000 nru fc-radu ate d from service every year, turned Imwe, untrained, undisciplined, nlmrp o neo dies, upon the community The man whe writes, al the close of a period of fifty years hence, the memories of half a century, cen-tury, will have a curious story to tell This great city, like a maKtiet, draws the youth of all section of tho country bilher. Tliey come with menial luipir-tioiis, luipir-tioiis, with hearts full of desire, with willing baud to encouuter rebufiliiKi, 10 meet disappointments, to be surrounded with danger and temptation and ultimately ulti-mately to fail into that terriil iu(nwif wonder, of apprehension, of llief that society owes lliem a living, and, not paying pay-ing It debU, must l Ciirupelieil, In torn way or other, to dugorge. IJuaard 10 New York Pre. |