. Review of reviews and world's work. , itis Mr. Billings and his new wife. Go ahead,boys ! To me, trying vainly to sleep in the villagehotel in the midnight hour with a tin-pan sere-nade to the newly married teacher going on un-der the wmdow, there came in a lull, with thechallenge of the loudest boy, Mr. Billings!If you dont comedown, we will never go home,an appreciation of the Woodbine system ofdiscipline which I had lacked till then. It w^asthe Radetzky plan over again, of giving the boysa chance, to make them stay on the farm. If it is difficult to make the boy stay, it issometimes even
. Review of reviews and world's work. , itis Mr. Billings and his new wife. Go ahead,boys ! To me, trying vainly to sleep in the villagehotel in the midnight hour with a tin-pan sere-nade to the newly married teacher going on un-der the wmdow, there came in a lull, with thechallenge of the loudest boy, Mr. Billings!If you dont comedown, we will never go home,an appreciation of the Woodbine system ofdiscipline which I had lacked till then. It w^asthe Radetzky plan over again, of giving the boysa chance, to make them stay on the farm. If it is difficult to make the boy stay, it issometimes even harder to make the father of a hundred families picked on New YorksEast Side as in especial need of transplanting tothe land, just seven consented when it came tothe journey. They didnt relish the societyof the stumps. The Jews colonies need manythings before they can hope to rival the attrac-tion of the city to the man whom the slum hasrobbed of all resources. They sum themselvesup in the social life of which the tenement has. CLASS OF (CHILDREN AT WOODBINE KINDERGARTEN. 696 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^/EIV OF REVIEWS, such unsuspected stores in the closest of touchwith ones fellows. The colonies need businessopportunities to boom them, facilities for market-ing produce in the cities, canning-factories, storecellars for the product of the vineyards—all ofwhich time must supply. Though they havegiven to hundreds the chance of life, it cannotbe said for them that they have demonstratedyet the Jews ability to stand alone upon theland, backed as they are by the Hirsch-Fundmillions. In fact, I have heard no such claimadvanced. But it can at least be said that forthese they have solved the problem of life and ofthe slum. And that is something ! Nor is it all. Because of its being a concertedmovement, this of south Jersey, it has been, soto speak, easier to make out. But already, uponthe experience gained there, 700 families, withsome previous training and fitness for farming,ha
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