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The Barnardo Homes will not receive lads who are over sixteen, whereas the Army takes them up to eighteen. So it comes about that Barnardo's sometimes send on cases which are over their age limit to Sturge House. I saw the boys at their dinner, and although many of them had a bad record, certainly they looked very respectable, and likely to make good and useful men.
I had saved a few of the driest papers and used them as a pillow. "'Hi, little cove! a policeman said, as he poked his baton under my armpit next morning. 'What are you doing here? I began to whimper, and he took pity on me and showed me the way to Dr. Barnardo's Home; but when I got out of his sight, I went off in another direction, for I had heard that many boys got whipped down there.
And as we walked along I listened to the story of Dr. Barnardo's first Arab boy. His love for waifs and strays as a child increased with years; it had been impressed upon his boyish memory, and when he became a young man and walked the wards of the London Hospital, it increased. It was the winter of 1866. Together with one or two fellow students he conducted a ragged school in an old stable.
Barnardo's Homes, by the Waifs and Strays Society, by the Church Army, and, above all, perhaps, by another Society, with which I have had the honour to be connected in a humble capacity for many years, that for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Still it remains true that the Salvation Army is unique, if only on account of the colossal scale of its operations.
Barnardo's cosy room at Stepney Causeway. It was a bitter cold night outside, the streets were frozen, the snow falling. In an hour's time we were to start for the slums to see baby life in the vicinity of Flower and Dean Street, Brick Lane, and Wentworth Street all typical localities where the fourpenny lodging-house still refuses to be crushed by model dwellings.
The boys and girls admitted to the fifty Homes under Dr. Barnardo's care are of all nationalities black and white, even Hindus and Chinese. A little while ago there were fourteen languages spoken in the Homes. "And what about naming the 'unknown'?" I asked. "What about folk who want to adopt a child and are willing to take one of yours?"
They swore habitually after the manner of the Barrack-room, which is cold swearing and comes from between clenched teeth, and they fought religiously once a week. Jakin had sprung from some London gutter, and may or may not have passed through Dr. Barnardo's hands ere he arrived at the dignity of drummer-boy.
Stephen looked at his thinly clad mother and remembered that a few days before he had seen a mantle priced at twenty guineas in the windows of Barnardo's. Well that's done, said Mr Dedalus. We had better go to dinner, said Stephen. Where? Dinner? said Mr Dedalus. Well, I suppose we had better, what? Some place that's not too dear, said Mrs Dedalus. Underdone's? Yes. Some quiet place.
I am told that they are out and this and that girl is receiving twopence or threepence for minding baby until mother comes home once more. The whole thing is too terribly real; and now, now I begin to understand a little about Dr. Barnardo's work and the urgent necessity for it. "Save the children," he cries, "at any cost from becoming such as the men and women are whom we see here!"
Mary's Chapel. Roddy and she were sent there after they had had chicken-pox and when their whooping-cough was getting better. They were not allowed to go to the church at Barkingside for fear of giving whooping-cough to the children in Dr. Barnardo's Homes; and they were not allowed to go to Aldborough Hatch Church because of Mr. Propart's pupils.
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