SLUMS AND BASEMENT HOMES
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mrs. Pelly's interesting and sympathetic support of the appeal for Nursery Schools is the outcome of personal experience and hard study and work. To those whose work lies among mothers and children in their homes, it may seem to need a word or two to supplement its content.
Even in the much-discussed slums of Paddington there are model homes, though sometimes only consisting of two rooms, where intelligent working mothers rear healthy children—mothers who may never have heard of a nursery school, and who yet can cook, sew, cut out and mend, can train their children and give them a happy and natural childhood until school days, which in the MSC of Church Schools is often at the age of three or four years.
Nursery schools will always be needed. Yet may not the training of young mothers and the elimination of slum and basement homes be held as the "counsel of perfection " ?—
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