Excerpt from The Sorosis, Vol. 17: October, 1910 June, 1911 The children are always adorable no matter where they are found. My particular friends were Jews and Italians, with whom I became acquainted while making investigations in respect to eyestrain among school-children. There was little cross-eyed, bow-legged Annie, who was characterized as shy and unmanageable in school. The principal said to me, You never will persuade her mother to let you take her to the clinic. She will swear at you; you will find her a regular tornado. However, I started out, climbed three dirty ights in a tene ment, felt the wall where I could not see my way, and finally found the right number, but_ no one was at home. After knocking, some one - rather half a dozen, appeared from vari ous dark places and jabbered Yiddish at me. Finally some one made me understand that the tailor on the first oor was Annie's father. I interviewed him. He was quite polite and told me that Annie did need glasses and that I could take her to the clinic, although he didn't know what his wife would say. The mother was not there, so I decided to go back to school after Annie. The principal informed me that Annie would not go with me since she was afraid of strangers. However, Annie took my hand and we started up the street. I was feeling quite elated at my success when we saw Annie's mother running frantically towards us. As soon as she began to talk a crowd collected, fifty or sixty dirty urchins, and some disreputable older people. All of my persuasive powers and arguments were used but to no purpose. Mrs. T. Would not allow that child to go with me. Then she in turn became eloquent and told me that even the poor people loved their children. Yes, we want to do everything for them. It is kind of you to take an interest in Annie, and then - she put her arm around me in a most affectionate manner. The little Jewish kiddies seemed to enjoy it. I felt too prominent in the midst of that Jewish throng on a narrow East Side street. I was so hemmed in by children that I hardly saw how to make an escape. Uppermost in my mind was the thought that my first case was a failure but just as I was leaving, Mrs. T. Said: I will take Annie to an oculist this very after noon. Some days later I visited the school and found that the child was wearing glasses. Several months later her eyes were very nearly straight. Her teacher remarked that she was doing much better in school and was quite friendly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."