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Child Labour and Child Crimes 329
to, a home where the mother, as a result of
working out of the home, is hindered from car-
ing for her children. They have suffered from
the custom of sleeping together, the result of
overcrowded dwellings, with its demoralising
influence. It may be the child has commenced
to make his living on the street as messenger,
cigar picker, or newspaper boy, or has been
engaged in such like occupations, and so in his
immediate neighbourhood has seen the luxuri-
ous living of the upper classes, which he
strives to imitate. Hardly a week passes that
the street youngster does not read about the
embezzlements, fraudulent acts in the capital-
istic classes, frequently committed by grey-
headed men, whose childish impressions go
back to the good old time, on whom the lax
education of the present could not have any in-
fluence. No day passes in which he does not
see how the representatives of the upper
classes, old and young alike, satisfy their de-
sires for pleasure. But from the child of the
tenement and the street, people expect Spar-
tan virtue or try to thrash it into him. It is
hard to say which is greater here, stupidity
or savagery.
While the upper classes show that they are
crude, immoderate, lazy, devoted to enjoying
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