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necessary evils of her burdened life. This is not all. She needs also sanitary and building laws that will render her poor home more comfortable, not a generator of every ill. She needs such school laws and supervision as will vitalize her meager education by more effective and stimulating methods ; and schools enough to include all the youth of the country, with compulsory edu- cation for the neglected street vagrants. She needs revival of the handicrafts and technical training. She needs parks close at her door, cheap transportation, good music, rational amusements without separation of the sexes. At least, the favored classes, by moral support and more active personal interest, might bring about strict enforcement of such legal provisons in behalf of workers as already exist, but which disuse and the selfishness of individuals often convert into mere skeletons of once vital enactments.

CLARE DE GRAFFENRIED. WASHINGTON, D C.