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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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an be made to goin this work. Yes, I answered slowly, as I fin-ished some tentative scribbling on the back of my check-book, I see—onechild for one month at one franc a day:thirty francs, or six dollars cash expendi-ture. One month of country air, onemonth of good, nourishing food, and achance to get a head start on the high roadto health again—besides, I thought tomyself, remembering that fathers words,returns mental and spiritual that onecannot calculate. As you say, you canmake a little money go a long way—Ishould like to see if a little money thatwas going as far as Paris, cant bemade to go a little farther still in yourhands. As I was leaving, he handed me someleaflets, giving the statistics of all theVacation Colonies in Switzerland for1904, and as I read, how, over forty-threehundred poor children had been given anouting that year by this one society, notcounting the large numbers of childrensent to the country by other societies, and Digitized by Google 464 An Awakening.
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AN AWAKENING.—GAMES ON THE LAWN. many taken for regular daily afternoonexcursions through the summer months,I wondered how the statistics of oneAmerican city, say New York, forinstance, with about the same populationas all of Switzerland—would comparewith these. Certainly the need of chil-dren in America, to be got out of reekingtenement-hom e districts is infinitelygreater than that of Swiss children who econdition cannot begin to be compared inmisery and in poverty, with theirs. Irecalled an article which had failed tomake much of an impress ion on me at thetime, in which Jacob Riis made a pleafor the four or five thousand children inNew York tenements alone crippled andmaimed by that terrible scourge of ill-nourished childhood—bone tuberculosis,of whom, only one in a hundred is givena chance to prove how Gods fresh air canwork its work of healing. I thought of the sixty thousand such children he mentioned, scattered over theUnited States, criminally neglected; mostof whom are

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