The domestic arts are gone, with their absorbing interests for the children, their educational value, and incentive to activity.

A household in a tenement receives almost no raw material.

For the hundreds of children who have never seen wheat grow, there are dozens who have never seen bread baked.

The occasional washings and scrubbings are associated only with discomfort.

The child of such a family receives constant stimulus of most exciting sort from his city street life, but he has little or no opportunity to use his energies in domestic manufacture, or, indeed, constructively in any direction.