dleness and vacuity to which he was accustomed as a boy. No
help having been extended to him in the moment of his first irritable
revolt against industry, his whole life has been given a twist toward
idleness and futility. He has not had the chance of recovery which the
school system gives a like rebellious boy in a truant school.

The unjustifiable lack of educational supervision during the first
years of factory work makes it quite impossible for the modern
educator to offer any real assistance to young people during that
trying transitional period between school and industry. The young
people themselves who fail to conform can do little but rebel against
the entire situation, and the expressions of revolt roughly divide
themselves into three classes. The first, resulting in idleness, may
be illustrated from many a sad story of a boy or a girl who has spent
in the first spurt of premature and uninteresting work, all the energy
which should have carried them through years of steady endeavor.

I recall a boy who had worked steadily for two years as a helper in a
smelting establishment, and had conscientiously brought home all his
wages, one night suddenly announcing to his family that he "was too
tired and too hot to go on." As no amount of persuasion could make
him alter his decision, the family finally threatened to bring him
into the Juvenile Court on a charge of incorrigibility, whereupon the
boy disappeared and such efforts as the family have been able to make
in the two years since, have failed to find him. They are convinced
that "he is trying a spell of tramping" and wish that they "had let
him have a vacation the first summer when he wanted it so bad." The
boy may find in the rough outdoor life the healing which a wise
physician would recommend for nervous exhaustion, although the tramp
experiment is a perilous one.

This revolt against factory monotony is sometimes closely allied to
that "moral fatigue" which results from assuming responsibility
prematurely. I recall the experience of a Scotch girl of eighteen who,
with her older sister, worked in a candy factory, their combined
earnings supporting a paralytic father. The older girl met with an
accident involving the loss of both eyes, and the financial support of
the whole family devolved upon the younger girl, who worked hard and
conscientiously for three years, supplementing her insufficient
factory wages by evening work at glove making. In the midst of t