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Title: Street-land; its little people and big problems
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Philip, 1898-
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Publisher: Boston, Small, Maynard
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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STREET-LAND Street children thus reflect all that is vitalfor the time being in the life of the community.They mirror the good as well as the bad.When Peter Pan comes to town, an epidemic offlying spreads with lightning rapidity throughthe streets to the remotest blind alleys and im-agination is once more enthroned. On theother hand, brutality crops out on every streetcorner whenever a Jack Johnson battles withsome forlorn white hope. At such times letthe peddler beware of the budding white hopesborn and bred in Street-Land. The street also hums with activities whichare anything but fun. Child labor in some ofits worst forms still prevails in Street-Land.The newsboys, bootblacks and peddlers are notonly better known, but are better off, perhaps,than the wood-gatherers, coal-pickers and mar-ket boys. The latter types of street workersare not even mentioned in some of our bestchild labor legislation. In spite of enormous handicaps, the play lifeof Street-Land, like its work program, is
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IN STREET-LAND 23 varied, though too often abortive. The mostpopular games are those which require leastspace; craps and marbles, for instance. Peggy,which has a touch of baseball in it and which,therefore, appeals strongly to boy nature, isunfortunately squelched before the boyshave a chance to warm up. Top time is veryspectacular. Hoop-rolling comes and goesevery season like the city snow. Rope-jump-ing is always discouraging because it is sure tobe interrupted by an express wagon. The frequent changes of the street surfacewithout warning utterly eliminate many kindsof play dear to the hearts of children. Likethe sudden introduction of new machinery inindustry, the adjustment is painful. Yet thechildren, unlike the workers, get no sympathyat all,—perhaps because they do not strike orprotest in adult fashion. When the face of thestreet was unpaved, think what it meant tochildren in dry as well as rainy weather.With the change to asphalt mudpie-makingdisappeared from Street-Land. Th

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