Working Lads' Clubs (Classic Reprint)
Russell, Charles E. B.
Excerpt from Working Lads' ClubsFor the uninitiated, lads' clubs may be at once described as institutions whose chief end is to provide youths of the poorer classes with an opportunity of becoming happier, healthier, and better citizens than they are likely to become if they spend their leisure in loafing about the streets. The means employed are diverse: some clubs are devoted almost exclusively to amusement and physical development by means ...
