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Show '" 1 ' ' I The thousands of cliiU inil themselves, in tho ATI 1"N. - summer months with UUjUfl Witt ttt tttUtS nothing to think of save 3 what the suggestions of By MRS. ANNIE G. MURRAY, their preoccupied el.lcrs of the ChllUran'slnMllutloni Department. Doiton Ullll their OWIl ClllUllSll SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSISSSSX Jmiiglnntions lirdvldc il-ustrntc il-ustrntc tho force the lines thnt i ' Satan finds some inlschli'f sltll- '' r For lillo hands to do. Tlio withdrawal of all mental discipline for threo months cannot be n wholesome tiling for a growing child whore energies require ait outlet. Of course there are vacation schools in our larger cities supported by tho city where children uro taught sloyd, sewing, and even how Id play, and there are many school yar,ds kept open, where younger children have' plenty of sand and shovels so they may revel in the joy of playing in the dirt without danger. s . " Yet, I think, there are much more serious problems connected with the care of tho children of a big city. An immense amount of elTort is still demanded for the alleviation of condit'ons surrounding certain of tho city children which are far worse than tie conditions growing out of. the neglected school children in the summer months. There nre all-the-vcar-round problems that are awaiting solution. All the spare effort that could be gathered might be profitably employed on these "problems. Tho cry of the infants rises far above the complaint of the school children. The children's institutions of thej-ily harbor liiiidreds of living liv-ing products nnd illustrations' of the unhappy'an'd unwholesome conditions thnt still prevail. These pitiful little victims are taken under the protection of tho city at ris early an" age as possible; it would be even better if they could be so gunrded before they arc bom. We shnll not not have arrived at the solution of tho real children's problem until we have succeeded in removing conditions under which it is practically impossible for the child to escape contamination or arrest , of natural normal growth, of mind and body. These conditions aro sometimes some-times purely 'mntcrinl, arising from extreme poverty, but nearly always aggravated, when not originated, by the habits of the parents nnd the environment en-vironment of the home. Itisiho cry of the children nrising from this quarter jtsut'sfc ''Jfca to which wc should pay tho most sym- ' " & i pathetic heed. 1 ' |