The Strain of the World.
This story has just reached us of a boy of the slums. “We asked the doctor if we could have him home,” his mother said, “but he said No; Jim couldn’t stand the strain of the world.” Jim’s mother is a widow. For years she went out charing to keep the three children. They are all sickly, and Jim, after a nervous breakdown, is in a mental hospital. ,He has been there for two or three years now. It is good and kind to be keeping Jim, but surely it would be wiser and better and cheaper to pull down the slums which made him, and to issue free milk to all poor children, than to go on manufacturing these sad being -who cannot stand the strain of the W’orld.
Eleven Italians 'have become naturalised British subjects in Malta this year, against three in 1934 and threet in 1933.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 273, 23 November 1935, Page 5
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