Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. Words printed in italics are noted with underscores: _italics_. THAT LAST WAIF OR SOCIAL QUARANTINE HORACE FLETCHER'S WORKS THE A.B.-Z. OF OUR OWN NUTRITION. Thirteenth thousand. 462 pp. THE NEW MENTICULTURE; OR, THE A-B-C OF TRUE LIVING. Forty-Eighth thousand. 310 pp. THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE; OR, ECONOMIC NUTRITION. Fifteenth thousand. 344 pp. HAPPINESS AS FOUND IN FORETHOUGHT MINUS FEARTHOUGHT. Fourteenth thousand. 251 pp. THAT LAST WAIF; OR, SOCIAL QUARANTINE. Sixth thousand. 270 pp. THAT LAST WAIF OR SOCIAL QUARANTINE A BRIEF BY HORACE FLETCHER _Advocate for the Waifs_ _Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science_ NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 1909 MATTHEW, xviii; 1, 2 and 14 1. At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 2. And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them. 14. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish? COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY HORACE FLETCHER CONTENTS 1903 PREFACE, ix PREFACE, 9 THE LOST WAIF, 17 MENACE OF THE HAVE-TO-BE, 39 SOCIAL QUARANTINE FIRST, 71 QUARANTINE, 93 UNCIVILIZED INCONSISTENCIES, 105 QUARANTINE AGAINST IDLENESS, 131 QUARANTINE AGAINST MISUNDERSTANDING, 145 QUARANTINE AGAINST MALADMINISTRATION, 157 SUGGESTIONS FOR LOCAL QUARANTINE ORGANIZATION, 169 SARAH B. COOPER, 191 CORROBORATIVE TESTIMONY, 221 "AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM," 227 SUMMARY, 233 LOGICAL SEQUENCES, 251 APPENDIX: IT HAS BEGUN, 263 DEDICATION, 269 "_It was Juvenal who said, 'The man's character is made at seven; what he then is, he will always be.' This seems a sweeping assertion, but Aristotle, Plato, Lycurgus, Plutarch, Bacon, Locke, and Lord Brougham, all emphasize the same idea, while leading educators of a modern day are all united upon this point._" [_Sarah B. Cooper, to the National Conference of Charities and Correction of the United States and Canada._]