A 1909 article from the Westminster Review, reprinted in a 1911 debater's handbook on child labor, arguing against the British half-time system. Under that system children aged twelve to fourteen worked half a day in mills and factories and attended school the other half. The author describes the daily routine, the physical, mental and moral harm to children (especially girls), and Lancashire school examinations of sight and hearing. She argues for legislation raising the half-timer age to fifteen, trade schools and housewifery classes, and abolition of half-time.