In our social round, so long as we can go from door to doon in 9 swift. moving vehicle we are not so badly affected by conditions, but progress fon foot is distressing. "Beggars, filth, Jdirt and disease are everywhere, the foul afflicted creatures get unpleasantly near and claw one's cloth-Ing. Sordid groups of street dwellers, and she results of habits of the good old China style offend those who would take their walks abroad.
One of our worst diMleulties is that presented to mothers of children of fall Junior ages. For the tiny ones there are practically' no open spaces where they can go with absolute safety. At. times Jessfield Park {s almost as crowded as Nanking Road, and the journey to and from is not food. Other parks are similarly crowded, and unless parents have a food garden at home—and the modern tendency to live in flats often Dreeludes. this—one wonders: what mothers do with small children. 'The older ones are no better off, Young, rowing bodies must have' outlets for energies, but how they achieve this at present it is dimeult to say. Schoolgirls are denied the sports in which their friends at home revel and enjoy so easily, and so far as tone can see there seems little toft for them after school hours but the pie-ures and homeside'tea-parties. A truly (terrible situation both for themselves and their parents. Older girls can join the clubs and get sports there—if they have the moncy—but with the limited diversion of tea and Jdance parties, the activities of the young are Indeed sadly curtailes
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