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AND A LIVING 



half-blind children, no such degrading occupa- 

 tions as picking over slop-barrels I 



It is clear that the woman with the child pick- 

 ing the refuse and being jostled by bumptious 

 policemen, and the men looking for work at shov- 

 eling snow, would be much better off on a farm, 

 and that it would be much better for them to be 

 sent to the farm than kept in the large city to 

 help along the unearned uncrement in the most 

 unsanitary districts; that the families of work- 

 men, who had only money enough to go into the 

 slot-machine parlors and " nickel " theatres, but 

 the men of which are of good ability to work, 

 should, of their own volition, rather select the 

 farm, and thus be enabled to come to the city 

 once or twice a year and take in the better forms 

 of amusements. And the fellow who, whatever 

 his proclivities may have been, could not enjoy 

 ethical expositions because he was not dressed 

 well enough to enter the rooms of the society, 

 would certainly be better off if he were on the 

 farm, as would the entire community. The 

 young and able-bodied men of our cities who 

 idle away their time in gambling, drinking and 



