Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . National Child Labor Committee CITY HOMES A row of tenements in New York where most of the wometheir rooms finishing garments and children work in. National Cliild Labor Committee THE YOUNGEST TOILER IS FIVE Artificial flowers paid for at eight cents a gross in crowded New York tenement houses where all must work to live 10 Such are our neighbors, and theirlittle children are their gifts to Amer-ica. Hard, terribly hard, is the lot of thepoor little children—tho
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . National Child Labor Committee CITY HOMES A row of tenements in New York where most of the wometheir rooms finishing garments and children work in. National Cliild Labor Committee THE YOUNGEST TOILER IS FIVE Artificial flowers paid for at eight cents a gross in crowded New York tenement houses where all must work to live 10 Such are our neighbors, and theirlittle children are their gifts to Amer-ica. Hard, terribly hard, is the lot of thepoor little children—those who survive—of the tenements of our great cities,living in homes of some two rooms withtheir large famihe?, often mixed indis-criminately with additional are two blocks on the East Sideof New York, covering less than nineacres in all, that house eight thousandsouls. The social settlements, play-grounds, day nurseries, fresh air vaca-tions, the institutions of differentchurches, amd all the rest of the splen-did work of splendid people, are noblydoing their insufficient little to allevi-ate this twisting and stunting of humanlife. Civic reform is gradually forc-ing its way against political landlords, Jacobs Riis oncewrote, should be bo
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