Crossword-Solution: CRECHES 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There are the tuberculous poor, the girl-mothers, the creches, the new-born babies, the soup kitchens, the visiting trained nurses, the clinics, the blind, the vicious, the vacation colonies, the swimming lessons, the gymnastics, the tramps and their woodyard, &c., and every organization has its Christmas tree, with distribution of presents when the season of rejoicing comes around.

The scheme has succeeded, and has since been greatly enlarged; the Jesuits have now agents in every shape--some as incumbents of parishes, as lay supporters, men and women, guilds and sisterhoods; they have encouraged works of charity, schools, hospitals, refuges for the fallen and destitute, _creches_, mothers' meetings, and other institutions, all excellent in themselves, knowing how much such would forward their object.

The industrial emancipation of women, the correlated disorganisation of the secluded "home," had rendered _creches_ a necessity for all but very rich and exceptionally-minded people.

But both Denton and Elizabeth being, as I have explained, strange old-fashioned young people, full of nineteenth-century ideas, hated these convenient _creches_ exceedingly and at last took their little daughter to one with extreme reluctance.

The _creches_ were not too much like orphanages, of course, but the younger generation of Phaedra had been put in a very rough situation by the adults.