revenge, the lover following his rival, the outraged husband
seeking his wife's paramour, or similar themes. It was estimated
that one-sixth of the entire population of the city had attended
the theatres on that day."

The same would generally be true of other large cities.

Nor is this low and vicious standard of cheap amusements confined
to large cities; it is bound to prevail also where our backward
people come into contact with white villages and communities. The
cock fights and other demoralizing amusements of Spanish-speaking
peoples and the dances of the Indians must be superseded by
entertainment that is wholesome and helpful.

Through its own agencies and as it co-operates with others
for betterment Home Missions must take into account the urgent
demand for wholesome amusement for those who, on account of the
conditions of their environment, are so much in need of the cheer
and joy of attractive and elevating forms of entertainment.

Home Missions responds to the cry of the city's need through the
ministry of the deaconess, who in turn is nurse, or visitor, or
leader of kindergarten, day nursery, rescue home, or orphanage.

* * * * *

A gentle-voiced Italian mother it was whose ten children filled
to overflowing the three-room tenement home, one room of which was
without means of light or air. She lifted to her arms the youngest
child of less than a year, clad in one ragged little garment, while