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Title: The Survey October 1916-March 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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. Now it happened very fortunately that one of the visitorsto these playgrounds had been the niece of a Mr. Lee, afriend of ours living in Calcutta. So when on our trip we mother feared. For a long while it was the headquarters ofthe thugs. These thugs, selected in childhood by the priestsfrom the most promising of the young folk, were trained atthe temple as robbers. Arrived at manhood, they were sentforth to rob and slay, a percentage of their booty going tothe priesthood. It is said that formerly children were sacri-ficed at the Kalighat of these thugs; now the sacrifices arelimited to young goats. Such is the background of our word thug.Approaching this temple, we noticed that most of the vis-itors were women with children, many of them sick. Theentrances were through long lines of stalls devoted to thesale of various votive offerings which had been blessed bythe Brahmin priests. In front of the shrine itself was a mobof women, each struggling with the others for an opportunity 9t
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HON IN INDIA Learning at the Ballif/hata playground to use corrugated iron where palm thatch and mud walls have been the building materials since history dawned. Most playground efforts in the Orient include manual training and vocational education. Children of artisans who still use the methods of the third century before Christ are being taught t adapt themselves to the new industrialism that is upon them. Efforts are made to intelligently preserve the beauty of the old handiwork—not to „..j;.; ;.. j^»*-„.. .v ruthlessly destroy it reached Calcutta and visited the Lees, we had a strong sup-porter for our plea that Wellington Square in front of thememorial will be an excellent location for a public play-ground. Mr. Lee became still more interested as we recalledthe achievements in America and discussed possibilities ofsimilar plans for India. Finally he said, Will you go to the Kalighat? Manyyears experience among the Bengalese has convinced me thereis no place where t

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