better shape to buckle down to the work they ought
to be doing in the world. And if they do buckle
down to the work, they will follow Dr. Barnardo s
lead, only on a scale as large as the nation is large.
They won t cram yearnings for the Beautiful and
True and Good down the throat of the woman
making violets for three farthings a gross, but they
will make somebody get off her back and quit cram
ming himself till, like the Romans, he must go to a
bath and sweat it out. And to their consternation,
they will find that they will have to get off that
woman s back themselves, as well as the backs of a
few other women and children they did not dream
they were riding upon-

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