Chapter XIX
Reading edition
THE BEST REMEDY FOR JUVENILE PAUPERISM.
Effects of Overcrowding—No Local Charities a Complete Remedy—Asylums not Sufficient—Best Asylum, the "Farmer's Home"—Advantage in the United States—Unlimited Demand for Labor—Best Remedy Emigration to the West—Objections to the Plan—How they were Met—Incident of a Waif—Humanity of our Countrywomen—Method of Placing Out the Children—Difficulties of the Local Committees…………..pp. 223-233