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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB. 
Address on ‘‘Child Labor by Ev- 
erett Lord. 
The Manchester Woman’s elub 
held its semi-monthly meeting at the 
Congregational chapel Tuesday af- 
ternoon, the president, Mrs. Emma 
EK. Stanley, presiding. 
During the business session, Mrs. 
K. S. Knight gave a fine report of 
her observations at the Domestie 
Science convention at Winchester 
on Monday. 
The February District Nurse fund 
committee reported the proceeds of 
their entertainment as $39. Mareh 
27, there will be an entertainment 
in the chapel given under the aus- 
pices of the March committee for 
the same fund. The April commit- 
tee is composed of Mrs. C. M. Dodge, 
Mrs. A. S. Dow, Mrs. David Fenton, 
Mrs. Wiliam Follett, Mrs. R. T. 
Glendenning, Miss Lila G. Gold- 
smith, Mrs. M. J. Gorman, Miss 
Annabel Harraden, Mrs. W. L. Har- 
ris and Mrs. J: G. Haskell. ‘The 
nominating committee was an- 
nounced as Mrs. Ruth Hoare, Mrs. 
Maud Carter and Miss Annie E. 
Lane. Children’s Day will be ob- 
served April 2. All elub mothers 
having children from 5 to 16 years 
are privileged to bring all of them 
and one extra child guest outside of 
the family. All juvenile guests over 
that number will be charged 25 
cents. Miss Bessie L. Taft will en- — 
tertain with a Mother Goose Story 
Ilour. 
The entertainment program 
opened with a finely rendered violin 
solo by Miss Bella Porter, ‘‘Souvenir 
in D’’ by Franz Drdla. Miss Sten- 
house accompanied Miss Porter very 
sympathetically. 
The speaker of the afternoon was 
Everett Lord of Boston, an Ex-Sup- 
erintendent of Schools and a former 
Secretary of the National Child La- 
bor Association. He proved most 
conversant with his subject through 
his practical association and work 
with and for the advancement of 
children. 
In part Mr. Lord alluded to Dr. 
Mosso’s great book on ‘‘Fatigue.’’ 
Dr. Mosso, as examining surgeon for 
the Italian army, had a great op- 
portunity to discover the physical 
deficiences of recruits for the army, 
through unrestricted child labor in 
Italv. The same deficiency was also 
found when reeruiting the Enelish 
factorv workers for the Boer war. 
Child labor is deteriorating the 
English race. Aristotle prophesied 
the advent of machinery. Te_ be- 
lieved it was to elevate work. It has 
in many respects, and in others done 
great harm. Machinery has enslaved 
rather than improved the races. 
The loss of citizenship is another. 
serious aspect of child labor. It is 
so dangergqus, injurious and such a 
menace to the mental, physical and 
moral uplift, that boys and girls of 
tender age, thrust out into the world, 
do not live long enough or acquire 
knowledge enough to arrive to that 
stage in their lives. 
Orphans as young as five years of 
age were observed by Mr. Lord, 
working in the cotton mills of the 
south. In New England it is not 
legal to have a child working in 
factories or mills under 14 years. 
They are there though, at 9 and 10 
years of age. It is hard to enforce 
the law in every case in its entirety. 
Other factories and mills Mr. Lord 
has visited regarding child labor are 
the cigar factories, silk mills, an- 
thracite coal mines, glass manufac- 
tories, canning factories, department. 
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stores and on the stage. 
In respect to the injurious side 
of these industrial places, the 
cigar factories are poisonous to 
young children. The moral dangers 
of night work at silk mills are most 
demoralizing. As to the work at the 
‘‘breakers’’ in the coal mines, boys 
from 10 to 14 years, who pick over 
the coal as it continually thunders 
down the chutes are quite pitiful 
looking objects, black, dirty and 
saturated body and lungs with coal 
dust. They become at a very early 
age unfitted for any work whatever. 
Child labor in the wonderful and 
magical glass factories is gradually 
being displaced by ‘‘TIron Boys,”’ 
who hold the moulds in which is put 
the hot melted glass. Human boys 
used to be employed, wearing masks 
in this dangerous work. 
The canning factories too, have a 
large quota of children employed. 
The most ‘‘blind allv’’ work to de- 
teriorate children is that of bundle 
or cash girls in department stores. 
The unprejudiced view of the 
newspapers is not helping the ecru- 
sade much regarding children on the 
stage. 
What are the causes for child 
labor? Competition, ignorant parents, 
improfitable school systems and the 
desire of independence. ‘“‘It is time 
the school system found something 
to interest the 14-vear-old boy,’’ as- 
serted Mr. Lord. ‘‘The teacher tires 
of a dull boy at that age and is glad 
to see him slip out of her sight.’’ 
Tlow a bov of 18 or 20 realizes his 
educational mistake when his great 
opportunity comes! Everytime a 
ehild is emploved it means an adult 
out of work. The child lacks all 
civic and moral training also. The 
get most of a factory worker’s wages 
hquor and patent medicine venders 
eventually. When their physical bur- 
den is more than they can bear, they 
furnish new recruits for the tramp 
world. It is the great duty of the 
Women’s clubs to help stamp out 
child labor. 
During the social period Mrs. 
Edna Peabody served as hostess of 
the day. Presiding at the tea table 
were Mrs. Valentine and Mrs. Maud 
Carter. Quite a number of the 
younger matrons and members 
served. They included Mrs. C. E. 
Williams, Mrs. J. A. Lodge, Mrs. 
David Fenton, Mrs. W. R. Bell, 
Misses Vera Kitfield and Ruth J. 
Blaisdell. 
Bold Robbers in Ipswich. 
Many houses in the exelusive 
‘‘Appleton Farms’’ district of the 
Ipswich summer colony were broken 
into last week on Friday and Satur- 
day. Silverware, plate, clothing and 
draperies to an estimate value of 
$5,000 have been taken. The houses 
robbed ineluded ‘‘New House,’’ the 
palatial summer home of Francis R. 
Appleton of New York, treasurer of 
the Waltham Watch Company. The 
Appletons are in Europe. 
Other summer homes entered were 
those of Mrs. Gerald L. Hoyt, James 
Appleton, the late Charles Tucker- 
man, former treasurer of the Old 
Colony Trust Company of Boston, 
and Bayard Tuckerman, professor 
of English at Princeton University. 
A detective is in Ipswich making an 
investigation. 
Can Shoot Deer. 
Hereafter it will not be necessary 
for the Essex county sportsman who 
wants to shoot a deer in the fall of 
the year to journey to Worcester 
county or further west in Massachu- 
setts to do so legally. 
Representative A. Willis Bartlett 
of Salisbury secured an amendment 
to the law at the State House yes- 
terday, so that the same open season 
which has been in vogue in western 
Massachusetts for a year or two will 
be allowed in Essex county, one 
week in the middle of November. 
Mr. Bartlett told the house that in 
Essex county, particularly that see- 
tion he represented, between the 
Merrimae river and the New Hamp- 
shire line, there are so many that 
they are causing the farmers con- 
siderable trouble. 
The rent in the elothes will not 
nay the rent of the house. 
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