on, inasmuch as
adoption restores the home in a real sense.

The work among the children may be divided into temporary work and
permanent work. By temporary work we do not mean work that is
superficial, for it may be the most permanent and lasting in its
results, but we mean work that is undertaken which influences the
children for a limited amount of time only. The slum nursery or
kindergarten is of this type, but as we have already described it in
connection with the Slum Department, it needs only mention here. Another
line of temporary work is the Sunday School work of the Army, but that
comes under the religious work and not the social.

An important line of temporary work, however, is the summer outing for
the poor children. In each of our large cities these excursions for the
poor children have been carried out on a large scale. Arrangements are
made with a railroad or a steamboat company; the children are collected,
hundreds at a time, and cared for by parties of Salvationists, they are
taken out to the country for the day. Children who have never seen the
country, and who do not know what a tree, a green hill, or the running
water looks like, are thus given an entirely new outlook upon the world,
and a lasting impression is made on their minds. In Kansas City, this
line of work has been developed still further. One of the large parks
has been handed over to the Army by the city authorities, and in it has
been established a summer camp. Tents are pitched on the grass under the
trees, and poor families are brought out here for a week at a time. In
this way hundreds of families have experienced a little of summer
vacation who otherwise would never have left their slum dwellings.

The permanent handling of the children as opposed to the temporary,
begins with the Maternity Homes which are managed in connection with the
Rescue Homes, and continues on through the Orphanages. The children
cared for in this permanent way are the babies from the Maternity Homes
and orphans. From this it must not be supposed, with regard to the
Maternity Homes, that there is any intentional separation or even a
suggested separation of the child from the mother, but in many cases,
after a time, a partial separation is necessary. The mother is
influenced and taught to care for and love her offspring, but after
spending some months in the Home, she may take a situation of some sort,
often as a domestic servant, and here she cannot take her