... WHOMt IT ATy CON;CERN-. A. Halr and Co., Paternoster Row. The writer, a benevolent enthusiast, seeing how many children are worked in factories and other places, and how hard some poor labourers have to work for a mere subsist- ance, writes in rhyme on ...

... enacted and the Queen sanctioned on behalf of children is a long one; it ineludes protection to children in factories, in mines, in brickfields, ine chinmneys, on canals, and in agricuitural gangs; children of paupers, apprentices on the high seas, street ...

... ITHE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN I . THEAThES. Lord Cranbrook and Mr Matthews yesterday I received a deputation from the London School Board, I who urged that the lemployment of children in t theatres either led to their education being interfered c with ...

... prefe- rence to the recommendation of the Factory Com- mission. Certain itis that tie finestopportunity will be lost by the bill in question that was ever afford- ed for extending that benefit to the children employ- ed in manufactories, and that too ...

... the claims of the Brickyard Children resulted in the Act for their protection, writes to call at. tention to the miserable condition of the boat- men's families, and to urge that the Government ; shall include the children of our floating popula- t tion ...

... the parents as well as on the children. Once every month they were invited to hear the children sing and repeat poetry, Bible stories and texts, and to look at their ,writinig, sums, and needlework. On Sunday the .children passed part of the day at the ...

... ents. An masemnbly fol- de- owed a ital BOARD CHILDREN AND- THE CHRIiSTeAS PAN re. ?? the meeting of the London School' lern Board on Wednesday, Mr Lafone' called atteu- by tion to the number of children who were being neo employed in connection. with ...

... The importance of the lat.er point is strikingly proved by the roiiclusion arrived at by Dr Ferguson, a factory tispector, that among factory children between 11' and 16 years of age the growth was nearly four times as fast on milk for breakfast and s.ipper ...

... improve nr fathers' work, and, as in other mn factories it is found that some have exclusive year ability in a particular branch of manufacture from ti only-a peculiar native facility which, in so ws large a factory, can he exclusively devoted to itswa1 owwas ...

... attained in factory bookkeeping as in commercial accounts, and eve think the L authors make out their case. The work is coin. prised in eight chapters, one of which is intro- ductory and is devoted to an account of the development of the factory system. ...

... school, more par- taa ticularly when its tercentenary is approachingol and how impossible it would be to give a satiha- t factory explanation of many details of its present tele life without some reference to the past. lepin consequently very wisely resolved ...

... romping ! with children than for work. In conse- quence of his inability to provide for the X lsupport of his wife this individual gets into 'serious troubles, which, however, by a number of happy accidents, are overcome in a satis- factory manner. As Hans ...