Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-07-11
OLD SERIES, VOL. %, NO. 81.
Annual Vacation.


HARRisBURG, July g. 1S6S.--The regular
annual vacation at the institutions receiving
| soldiers orphans at the expense of the State
will commence on Friday, July Gath, and
terminate on Monday, August ,3lst. school
duties being resumed on Tuesday, Septem.
Der 1st.
The principals, superintendent and man
ayers OF these institutions will please Oh
serve the following regulations:
/. No child will be permitted to leave tho
! institution to which it belongs without a
written trtough or ledUe Of absence, signed
by the superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans,
and countersigned by the principal superin-
tendent or managers of the institution, spe-
| cifying the cause of absence, and its length.
This leave of absence, for which blanks have
been furnished, to be carried by the child
while absent, and shown whenever re.
quested. I'D .....
2. No leave of absence will be granted to
any child, unless pronounced by the attend
ing physician, after special examination had
for the purpose, entirely free from sore eyes,
and the other contagious diseases. Upon
their return, after vacation, children must
be re examined, and all doubtful cases iso-
iated until known to be entirely cured. The
presence OF these vexations and annoying
diseases in any institution is regarded as an
evidence of inexcusable neglect and mis-
management on the part of the attending
| physician and the authorities of such insti.
tuition, and will not be tolerated. =,
3. No child will be sent home except at
the written request of the mother, guardian
or friends. All others must be furnished
with proper care and attention, and permit
| ted to enjoy vacation at the institution, free
| from study and labor, except such as may
| be necessary for tile comfort of those re-
| naming. The labor required must not ex
ceed the regular detail period of two hours
per day. The library and reading rooms
and the play grounds must be open to them,
under proper supervision, the remaining
portion of the day.
Children should be conveyed to and from
the proper railroad station free of charge.
All other expenses Of travel, and at home,
must be borned by their mothers or friends,
4. No child will be deprived of vacation
as punishment, no matter what the nature
of the offense rsay have been. To 60 SO
would be cruel If in any case, as for in
| stance where it is known that vacation
would be spent amid bad association and
demoralizing influences if children were
permitted to go home, principals, superin-
tendents or managers think best to deny
them the privilege, they must be able ,tc
produce the clearest proof of the existence
of the facts upon which the detail is based
5. Each girl will take with her, clean and
in good condition, and legibly marked with
her name, change of underclothes anc
stockings, two dresses, hat, sack and shoes
and each boy, in like condition, change o
underclothes and stockings, two pairs o
pants, one jacket, cap, and shoes. All othel
clothing will remain at the institution, ex
cept in the case of transfers. Girls will mo-
take their blue winter dresses.
| The articles of clothing taken, with thei
condition, must be entered on the check te
the furlough, and re-examined and checked
! oil, with appropriate remarks as to care anC
condition when returned. g..
6. Those ordered by transfer to othcl
schools will take oil their clothes, and will
be instructed to go direct from their homes
to the schools to which they arc ordered
when their furloughs expire. Every article
of clothing taken with them, with its con
dition, will be entered on the CHECK as
record, and on the back of the furlough fol
the information Of the principal of the schoo
to which they are transferred.
z. The objects of vacation should be ex
| planned to the children, and the duty anc
necessity of good conduct and care of clio
thing while absent, prompt return, &c.
carefully end repeatedly impressed upor
them.
1t ia hoped and believed that, with few
exceptions, attention to study and industria
instruction, and to the cultivation of gooG
manners and habits, has been attended with
so much success that this visit home will be
gratifying to mothers and friends and Gre
ditable to the institutions to which these
wards of the State belong. 1t is also hoped
that after enjoying the cessation from study
and the visits to home and friends, which
vacation allows, children will be promptly
returned in good condition, gratieed and
refreshed, and encouraged to pursue, with
renewed energy and zeal, the exercises OF
their respective schools and homes during
the ensuing year. Aud if notwithstanding
past discouragements, these hopes are even
partially realized, the fact will be regarded
by the undersigned and his eoIa5ofers as
compensation, in some measure at least, for
the severe labor, weighty responsibilities
and constant arxieties of the past year, and
as an encouragement to work with increas-
ed energy and hope to achieve still greater
results in future. GEO. T. M'FARLAND,
Superintendent Soldiers Orphans
TIE ministers of the gospel in Chambers
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