Mrs. Mary Gallin, dead from starvation, with an emaciated baby four
months old crying at her breast, was found this morning at 513 Myrtle
Avenue, Brooklyn, by Policeman McConnon of the Flushing Avenue
Station. Huddled together for warmth in another part of the room
were the father, James Gallin, and three children ranging from two to
eight years of age. The children gazed at the policeman much as
ravenous animals might have done. They were famished, and there was
not a vestige of food in their comfortless home."--New York Journal,
January 2, 1902.

In the United States 80,000 children are toiling out their lives in
the textile mills alone. In the South they work twelve-hour shifts.
They never see the day. Those on the night shift are asleep when the
sun pours its life and warmth over the world, while those on the day
shift are at the machines before dawn and return to their miserable
dens, called "homes," after dark. Many receive no more than ten
cents a day. There are babies who work for five and six cents a day.
Those who work on the night shift are often kept awake by having cold
water dashed in their faces. There are children six years of age who
have already to their credit eleven months' work on the night shift.
When they become sick, and are unable to rise from their beds to go
to work, there are men employed to go on horseback from house to
house, and cajole and bully them into arising and going to work. Ten
per cent of them contract active consumption. All are puny wrecks,
distorted, stunted, mind and body. Elbert Hubbard says of the child-
labourers of the Southern cotton-mills:

"I thought to lift one of the little toilers to ascertain his weight.
Straightaway through his thirty-five pounds of skin and bones there
ran a tremor of fear, and he struggled forward to tie a broken