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Show To Save Children on the Street. To one who loves children and would see them grow up after the old rule, "healthy, wealthy and wise," it is simply appalling to note how carelessly parents allow them to be on the streets ; at all hours of the night Returning from the theatre lately I noted no fewer than forty little girls and boys, k without the protection of older per- sons, on a certain boulevard. None of these was over 14 years old and some of the girls were very nicely dressed in dainty garments with huge bows of bright ribbon on their heals, betokening parents in at least comfortable comfort-able circumstances. Most . of the children chil-dren seemed to be under 10 years rf age. A few of the little ones were apparently newsboys, dirty urchins who ought to be cared for by the probation pro-bation officers if they have no parents capable of looking after them. I have long believed that a curfew law such as the good priest "back of the yards" has established to keep children chil-dren -indoors after dark would save many from becoming criminals. I feel very strongly, on this point, for no hour of the night seems too lata to find small children in the street. I wake in the night and hear them. This is a vital matter if we would do effective work in preventing young people from becoming criminals. The .subject should .be agitated until a remedy is found. Little girls and boy? v. i. mrougn tn? downtown streets, flnd hang around the entrances of theatres thea-tres begging under the pretense of Felling gum or papers. . : Tf the men will do nothing to prevent i hi.?. I hope that the women will take it up. save the children lind prevent ; -j-jiV. |