The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-05-06

CHAPTER XXXV.
THE ART OF TANNING LIONS AND chill
Next morning while Judge Kendo,
| was giving Margaret directions for th'
day, Judge Knox was shown in, and ad
vancing with extended hand, he said
"Let me congratulate you, my dea'
young lady, on your imminent success
You have routed the enemy, horse
foot and dragoons
Placing his hat on the table and
cane in corner, he continued ad'
dressing Judge Kendon, gesticulatiae
in his peculiar way.
ut was the cleanest back down you
ever saw; even his Reverence was
beat. I attended regularly in case my
services should be wanted to counter.
plot brother Browulow; but our young
lawyer here managed her own case
splendidly;" and throwing up his head
ho relieved his throat of the pressure
of his cravat, settled into chair and
rubbed his hands vigorously
Margaret thought she had done just
as he directed, and could not suppress
her wonder that any management could
have been necessary to redress griev-
ance so glaring; end Judge Kendon
remarked:
II do not feel like congratulating
her, as there is danger she may fancy
she has a mission for this particular
work and of redressing grievances in
benevolent institutions, l fear, as of
making books, there would be no end,
as | doubt if this one differs materially
from the great majority. The develop
ments have explained to me a fact I
have often noticed, viz, that children
in orphan asylums always differ from
others of similar age. There is a want
of buoyancy and a general tendency to
good behavior, primness which re-
minds ono in comparing them with
other children, of trimmed hedge or
ycw tree cut into the figure of a man,
beside ha xthorne in a copse, or will
low by the water courses"
"Exactly! cxactly!" said his visitor,
"my own observation. My attention
was first called to the abuses in this
Home, by a visit to its model school
In the twenty minutes I spent there
not child changed its position except
upon order. Two or three of the young.
er had dropped asleep; and I thought
from the eleam of the teachers eye
they would be walked by the taws which,
hung on her desk. One boy Of seven
mispronounced a diphthopg, and was
made to stand in disgrace by way o.
sharpening his Intellect I have beer
school director, and whenever see 8
school where the pupils appear to be
strung on wires, like the puppets IN thu
shows which amused our grandfathcrs
and all move by the will of the teach
er, think Of the Snowman in "rh'
Wan9 ering Jew" whose lions were ST
very we'll behaved in public, because
they had been tortured by red hot irou
in private, and permitted to try thel
teeth and claws on the iron armor o
their keeper" A hundred weigh
of hay never can be made into squar
bale without being put under screw
and mischief never was crushed out Q
toys eye without heavy pressure.
know when was boy myself | aevc
looked like the picture Of any Saint
have ever seen and I grew up to b
to|erable, tolerable. I have visited
good many schools, and mover met on
where the children learned so fast an
behaved SO well, as one kept by youn
girl out West. l went with the Stat
Superintendent quite unexpectedly. ]
was a little country school and war;
afternoon. One child sat on a stot
with her book in her lap, and her hea
on the teachers knee sou1.d asleep. /
class stood round her reading; an
one urchin looked on the book wit
her, while he held her long hair in on
hand and caressct it with the other, q
we often see boys stroke pigeon. H
appeared to have taken it down for th
purpose, as he made some attempt t
taste n it up when we appeared. A
the other side girl was patting he
check as if unconsciously, while sh
read in her turn. It was enc of tn
prctticst sights l have ever seen; an
the progress made by the children ",
quite wonderful"
"How I should like to know tn;
teacher said Margaret. "Shc mu
have been like my mother; but VIII
i, the reason orphans are not sent
school like other children and with otl
er children Why should they
kept apart, taught to beg their ov
living and reminded hourly Of their d
pcndance? Their education at leas
should be furnished on an equali
with other children; and let their as
lums simply supply the place Of tt
lost home. Their appearance daily
a public school, would be the best s
curity against cruelty in the hem,
, and they should be supported witho
any appeal on their part to Chart
This habit Of begging must make the
!. mean.spirited."
While she spoke Mrs. Kendon 6