POOR LITTLE CHILDREN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 29, 29 October 1918, Page 6

POOR LITTLE CHILDREN

<jir,--Agaiii lias come louud the time foe exploiting (good word that!) the little children, i'airy plnys with numerous ballets, executed 'by "dots, as the reporter calls them-said dots being children of very fender, really of nureeiy age. And these dots have lo go through all the fatigue and excitement of learning their dances, rehearsing the plays, and then performing before the public for 6ome two hours each night, when they ought to be fast asleep, if only they were naturally ami properly treated. Again, I say, I don't understand (he mothers of the present day. Where is their motherly instinct? It ought to protect their children from such unnn.tural excitement, and should see to it that they are brought up with sound and healthy bodies and miuds. Why should these dots be taught dancing at nil? It "only brings about the desire of teachers and foolisli parents to see their dots perform in public, and so they are exploited to the detriment of their bodily p.ud meiitnl health. I sown to bo alono in writing about this matter, but I know many people are with me in diajike of this treii tin cut of tho dote, who form an important part of the population. I am glad to know this: a lady in Welling, ton, who is intimately concerned in the education of girls, declines to give li«r patronage to the.sp-entertninments. Surely tho best interests of Iho little ones ■should bo oonsideW by their mouthers. If the mothers will not t'o their duty. 1 suppose the State will some day have to step in. But that would be■•■disiwtroiis to tho life of the home, which life shouM be mftde better and better, its betterment toping largely dependent upon the mother, —I am, etc., CHAS. P. I'OWLES.