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Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.

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You cannot have too much of the flag in the right way, and there would be nothing wrong about that. Just go into one of the Children’s Aid Society’s ragged schools, where the children are practically all from abroad, and see how they take to it. Watch an Italian parade, in which it is always borne side by side with the standard of United Italy, and if you had any doubts about what it stands for you will change your mind quickly. The sight of it is worth a whole course in the school, for education in citizenship.
 
 
One Way of bringing the Children into Camp: Basket-weaving in Vacation School.
 
  And then it looks fine in the landscape always. It always makes me think there that I added to the