When asked whether under the existing circumstances in the poorest Chinese homes it was not better for children, to be in factories than at home or on the street, Dame Adelaide Anderson replied that this same question was put in England in the early days of factory reform, and that she thought it depended upon whether children in the factory were given sufficient opportunity for play, which should be the privilege of all young, growing things. No hygienic conditions could make up for that lack. With regard to the need for children's earnings in the home, she said she could only quote the experience of other countries, that when young children, who made inefficient workers, were
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