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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