The parents themselves will be in need of outside advice and assistance, and here will be the opportunity for a committee re cently formed in connexion with this branch of welfare work, It will obviously be no useful reform if the children are dismissed from the mills simply to run wild in, the streets, without opportunity of schooling or useful manual training, and means will have to be devised for dealing with this aspect of the matter. There recently issued from a Chinese Government office an elaborate set of regulations designed to cover the problem, some of them quite impossible of application in present circumstances. One of these provided that the mill-
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