The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-02-20

WHICH the Ultimate success OF the boy IS made d
depend, SELF RELIANCE, cannot be successfullv
taught in Reformatories conducted upon the co,,
GHEasrsp plan. why cannot it be tapeh,
with success in such Institutionsg" Weanevsr
that the training in the Reformstorv should :.
tar as practicable. look towards the osts;de nc.
which the pupil will be called upon TO lead. II
the inside training differs very widely from TIN,
which viii fall TO the lot of the bow outside ,bsr
all must see that it would be powerless as an
agency TO help the boy TO NEE, and orercon.
fes difficulties. All of these schools looL "a.
wards the emigration of these bows to the
West, to occupy the unoccupied forests On
undula,ing prairies Send some of these l.ds
with hearts glowing with romance to some of ON,
forest States--lct them be called to endure vh.,
many young man has endured in the West n
one of her hardy pioneers-liie in a cabin With
Its chimney of sticks and mud, its punchecu
| floors, fortunate il it is possessed of single
pane OF glass 10 permit the light o! Heaven Ia
enter the solitary room. Furniture of homs.
made manufacture, three legged stools for clairs
hickory bark serving the doutle purpose Of
substitute for gass and cordaSe, all kinds Of hard.
ships and privaiions to battle put a youth IN
such place with his AK, jack knife. and well de-
,eloped sinews and muscles and nothing else, and
say to him care out YOUR portitian. Saw this
to youth, who. all through hir probationary
HE had never wanted for anything-who had
lived in the large brick or stone palace, who had
been schooled in a room fitted up with the latest
modern style OF furniture, who il he wanted light
could turn darkness 10 jay by the gas-meser.
whose water bad been furnished by steam. or
whose dinners had been cooked bv steam. how
suddenly would his resolution ;ail--ho~ soon he
would give mp; yea, give up before the struggle
began, aud why: Simply because his previous
training had fitted bin for life in other circnm.
stances; be had been educated to live in another
World-thus he j. wholly unprepared to NEE,
such difficulties ss this new mode of life has 10
offer bun
That which cannot BE- successfully accompsh.
ed in the congregaisi plan is easily secured nv
| the breaking # the children into small f,m
iics-tlius placing these bows in the same relation
to active life thss Rod other children sustain.
ing The dscing~ ed the puphs should be
constructed PLAINLY, ard plainly furnished. sep
Grated also tar a. practicable fom those mod.
ern convenicnces which tend 90 in,lac. the bo,
To lean GA these convepiences. and regard them
as indispensable Go success Ma house sufficient.
| r. capscious Tor The accommodation oi txen,v
| boys should cos' ov rome thousand dollars. The
furniture should Toe plaia AID substantial, such rs
| the worthy poor are supplied with. 1t il no,
important nor desirable that these children be
| entirely kept above rant Some of the most
| successful lessons which have ever beer taught
upon The subject If seif reliance have beea
taught by the pinching hand OF poverty.
Let boy be trained it is stated in the a,h
Annual Report of the Chicago Reform School
q ia the small home or on the family plan. one
"hc has never READ by Gas light, whose pumping.
cooking and Washing have never been performed
by steam; one who knowes what il j. 10 90 a
hall mile tor water IN case of the failure OF the
well; one who has been often pncied by the
want, and oltcntimcs defeated IN the accomplish
ment Of his pans-lct hoy trained 90 out
20 lead frontier life. and his education has just
| fitted him for the worl;. H. does rot expect to
| find everything fitted 10 his hand lie goes forth
prepared To graphic with difficulties. and prepares
his mind to expect all kinds OF Inconvenience
but he goes forth to conquer
Take such lad as described above, 50 trsh-
ed, so used TO hardships, SO prepared 10 Crap
pie with difficulties and misfortune, aud you win
find 'he one VINO Is never known TO turn back IN
| ~ of H.. fsg D. IL.
enemy, and be always comes cut victorious.
But again, this family system in Gods appoint
ed system-wise reasons exist for the establish.
meni of the family and orc prominent reason
consists in the feet that each mind il brought %.
der the special influence and power Of the en-.
taker. Schools which have been established a
this principle Of the family supplied with Agi
cultural labor, have Invariably been successful
The most successful Reiormstories in the wosN
are conducted after this model
But permit the writer to quote few psn.
graphs pertinent 10 this subject, from the esccl
lent Report Of VI. Demtz, honorary councillor 81
the Imperial Court of Paris
" The idea 81 occupying in lsbors Of husband
~, children whom desertion, evil dispositions. q
bad examples expose without defence, 10 the
dangers which surround them In the great GER
ters Of population is one Of long standing. The
moral influence OF Agriculture VAS recognizeda
at early pcriod-antquty proclaimed it ny The
mouth of Cato He who ts the earth (aaid
! this Sage) thinks not of doing evil"
Agein, in December 1919, VI. Corne, acting
organ of Commissioner named by the LegIsls-
tive Assembly books On the division # the chit
dren into small groups the mos; certain element
Of their moral regeneration. Those men in the
different part of Europe who have given them
selves TO the study Of these questions all PROBES
the same opinion.
"Tbc division into families renders superiuies'
dencc a, oEce more easy, morn active and more
Jealous: more easy because il extends over bos
a small number more active bec1use II makes oil
! the responsibility rest on tie head Of ore person
oslv, whose authority i well defned. ard whore
duties are exactly prescribed; more jealous he
cause it produces In thelnip,s of the superiotes-
dents. sentiments Of sympathy and beaeveAe"es.
under tie Influence Of this responsibility ana
| q hfs spent IN COMMON with their charge. Tier
j. I'D place where this family agricultural plan ~
/ been established bnt that il has been socce~
/ Tho Red Gi.i School, near London, when ns
/ been established s'ter The French Mode scno0
4. Rstrcv Is rio:s,le saeces- Of this family e.
/ licultural plan" 81 Demeiz. 10 the same pape
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