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CHAPTER VIII
CHILD LABOUR AND THE CEIMES OF CHnJ)EEN
Leaving aside questions of heredity and
kindred topics, and considering only the con-
ditions under which the child is born, developed,
and reared, it is terrible to contemplate the
misfortunes which happen to children through
lack of insight on the part of their mothers.
Doctors are never tired of telling what mal-
formations tight-lacing causes. How many
children in the first year of their life become
blind through neglect. We only mention
here some of the troubles which crude ignor-
ance or lack of conscience on the part of the
mothers inflict on themselves or on their child-
ren. There must be noticed too the uncer-
tainty and the want of system in the care of
children that come from such ignorance. A
thorough improvement in all these things is
not to be expected until women have secured
universal suffrage, and until they, at the same
age in which men serve their ^’’ears of militarj’’
service, are legally obliged to pass through
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