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necessitated by the needs of the family. A mother may call on her children to help her with the or- dinary house work.

We presup pose, of course, that the assistance domanded is propertiodata to the strength of the child. We also pre- suppose that their cirgumstances

sight are such that this work is not de-stary 4 months” meaning to the social position of

On Parts- the family, because a child has the

On demand right to be supported according to

Credits, 4 months' the state of life of her parents.

sight Everyone sees that a milkman's daughter ought to help with milk-1

But it would hardly ing the cows. be in keeping with a duke's duties" to his daughter to compel her to the same task. Again,

will deny that a mother who is compelled by the poverty of the family to do work for others. might reasonably take her daughter and get her to help with the work, Nor do we feel any principles of liberty outraged if, to help in sup- porting the younger children, an clder child is placed in domestic annual service at a monthly or wage, provided always the work is not above her strength.

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Irrevocable Element Let us now push the case a little beyond what the ordinary domestic service system implies. Let us sup- pose that, instead of placing the child in service at so much per month or per year, the parents were to agree to give her in ser vice into a family for fixed period of, say, three, four, or five years in return for a sum of money paid in advance: Instinctively we feel that we should not sanction such a con- tract except in exceptional circum- stances, the reason being that we feel that the child has been re- moved from the protection of her parents in a manner altogether dif! ferent from the ordinary ease of domestic service. An element of If a irrevocability has entered in. clause in the contract were 10 give the parents the right to recall their child in case of ill-treatment or if we get satisfactory assurance that the family in whone, service she was placed was sure to treat her with affection and consideration, to care for her, in fact, as would her own parents, then we should feel more; reconciled to such a contract.

"A Sound Principle" To come back, finally, to the case Iwe put above-let us suppose that a family in dire straits selis their child as a mui-tsai for a fixed num ber of years not exceeding the age af emancipation, and with a con- dition attached that, in case of ill- treatment they shall have the right to take her back, it is difficult to see that the case would differ material- ly from the last case which we have been considering. We don't like ¡ it. We feel that a chill should have the protection of her own par- ents during her growing years. That feeling represents sound prin- ciple of ethics.

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us that, in a particular case the par-despair. He approached the Sisters ents have neither the means to sup- and asked them to help him. port nor the ability to protect a would have been useless to re-pur- child. if it is put to us, further chase the child and send her His habits of more, that they can get the child back to her father." taken as a muî-tsai in a family life made it certain that the child where she is certain to be as well, would merely exchange one life of if not better looked after than in misery for another.

An Offer Accepted her own home, it is difficult to see

The Sisters, therefore, offered to why we should, in the name of

father with the ethics condemn such a transfer of provide the

to get back his parental authority, even though the money necessary parents, in doing it, have profiled child if he were willing to allow them to care for it in future. The financially by the transaction.

father agreed and the life of little A Kan has become a happy and Must we condemn care-free onc.

contract.

A Right To Obedience The grounds for condemning the system outlined above do not apply the Sisters, os ethical grounds, 1 in this case because the parents purchasing the child? Clearly they have a right to obedience from their have no intention of claiming such children during the period of dominion over the child as would tutelage, and that is the only right have been claimed by the heartless which they are yielding up in the ruffians from whose power they

They are either bind-

No. She will live rescued her. ing the child to a lifelong service, under the care of the Sisters, re- nor giving to her purchaser the ceiving from them a splendid train- right to select a husband for her ing and education.! But when she without her consent. Their duties to is in a-position to marry or to earu educate, support and protect their her own living she will be as free child are better provided for in the to leave the convent as if she had contract than if the child were to been there as a paying boarder. remain in her own home. She is

ethical we condemn, on no worse of under this head, grounds, the father who handed his mutatie mutandis, than the daugh-child

over to the Sistera, sur-

Must

ter of rich man sent for a rendering all right to demand the period of years to a boarding school child back?

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haps, the first act of truly father-

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cation and support of the child in In other her new surroundings. words, the parents must have some. thing approaching moral certainty that those to whom they are ea

trusting the care of their child are

of such a moral standing that they will be to the child in loco parentis, giving her the same care as she would receive in her own home. It is clear that, for Christian parents, there must be moral certainty that the child will have adequate oppor- tunity for instruction in and prac tice of her religiuna condition which it is difficult to satisfy in any other way than by securing that the child will be placed with none but A Christian family. In a further article, I hope to show that, even considering the mul-tsal problem in its social, as distinct from its ethl cal aspect, it may be useful to take such a mitigation of the system into consideration.

ITALIAN PRESTIGE

DECISION TO CONTROL EMIGRATION

As I write these lines, a pictureby affection that the child received? rises up before me of one of the happiest children I have seen in China. I was on a visit to a mis-

We conclude, therefore, that sion station on the West River and while the mui-tsal system as com- called to see the school which the only practised is indefensible on native' Chinese Sisters had opened ethical grounds because it involves In the town. As we entered, a little entering into a contract by which child ran to meet us, jumping, certain rights are alienated by those

¡do

thorè not possess romping, fuller of the sheer joy of who innocent and care-free childhood rights, there is a limited sphere than any child I had seen for many within which the system might be days. I turned to the Chinese priest quite defensible on ethical grounds. who accompanied me and said to We maintain, in other words, that him; "Who is the child? I did circumstances may arise in which it not know that the Sisters kept would be lawful for parents to hand boarders, nor had they an orphan-over their children to others, pro-

Rome, May 23. age. But they had made one ex-vided the contract contains nothing

In the course of a debate in the ception. There was a man in the which will infringe the natural

free choice at marriage Italian Chamber on the estimates. town who was an inveterate opium rights to smoker and gambler. Having spent and to the free disposal of their for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his last penny, he sold his lives by the children themselves Signor Mussolini referred to Italy's they reach an age growing prestige abroad and enid little daughter as a muitsai to a when

which children are no that this prestige would be foster ruffian more heartless than himself, at for the paltry sum of ten dollars. longer subject to their parents ed by controlling Italian emigra The child was treated with the most the age of emancipation as it tion. Be emphasised that Italy teartless cruelty by her new mas is called, and provided also that the particularly wished to establish

with Jugoslavia. The father, realizing what parents see to it that ample provi- friendship he had done and powerless to reme-elon is made for the protection, edu- Trans-Ocean.

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