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Rh “What happens after the children have finished their schooling?”

“When the children have done with school they are transferred to homes where they obtain industrial training, the girls being for the most part trained for domestic service, either as laundry-maids, housemaids or nursemaids, and the boys for various occupations, such as farming, printing, shot-making, carpentering, etc. There is always a great demand for the boys and girls brought up in these homes. Some idea of the seriousness of the servant problem may be formed from the fact that at one of these girls' homes there were no less than 674 applications received for young domestic servants in the course of one year, although there were only twelve girls ready to be placed out. Another class of homes is for girls and boys who are physically disabled through having been crippled by some accident, or, sad to relate, the wilful neglect of those who ought to have looked after them. There is one home near Leeds, for instance, where girls who are physically unfit for domestic service are trained to earn their own living by knitting hosiery by machine, and if they have some intellect and the use of their hands they can be taught a trade by which to support themselves in afterlife. In fact, several girls have already gone out from the homes, and are in regular employment in factories in various parts of the country.”

“Where are these homes for cripples situated?”