The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-09

devoted ladies therein engaged. Many
would not credit that the street view Of the
building is the front of an immense estab-
lishment, with no less than three large
squares, and that herein is located probably
the most completely organized charity in
the East. The young ladies' boarding
school, for Europeans, has an attendance
of eighty pupils; but the departments de-
voted to the reform and amelioration Of
our human kind more particularly deserve
our attention they claim sympathy and
support and it may not be the least effect
i've course to allude shortly to what has
been done by the kind-hearted Sisters for
the last few years. AS the report says,
their kind offices extend from the cradle to
institutions would swell the list of "found
Dead" are taken to the Founding House,
nursed and cared for, and III they survive)
educated in the Infant Schol. Here is q
plain statement of good done: ga very
large percentage of those taken in die in q
ehort time; they are most frequently at
many saved who, as soon as they can walk
'and talk o little, find their way into the
infant school, whore there are now about
fifty OF sixty healthy, happy little things,
learning. to be clean and orderly and to
hold their tongues; the first elements Of ali
little castaways is the Orphanage, where
they are taught reading, writing and needle
work, besides the regular duties Of house.
And here we have obligations met and
daties performed by the Sisters which may
be termed directly municipal, theugh,
give thought to this public aspect Of their
work. "During the past year several girls
of ton years old and upwards have been
sent into the convent by the police, who
had found them abandoned on the streets
without home or employ ment." But more
nos ey ass az ns
or get respectfully married and the Pre-
feet assures us, in the report, that the
convent-bred girls are sought after by their
cOuntrymen because Of their mudesty, good
manners, and ability to do many tiIings
which Chinese girls as rule are not Taught
to do. Ten were married last year from
the convent, and IL We had any Others of o
fitting age they could have been married
ALSO" This must be regarded as o thor
0ughly complete training; but the Sisters
do not even then forget their pupils, and
they assemble at the Sunday school for
religious instruction. And, to crown all,
"when old age and infirmit,es come upon
the Chinese women, there 10 AL asy lum for
them in the convent, where they pass their
time washing, spinning, and Ia other en-
Payments suited to their age and health"
Here, indeed, is one of the most compre-
hen sive systems of benevolence which
charity and large-heartedness ever organ
lied aud for such deeds of holy love and
devotedness the Sisters Mt Tien-Tsin were
repaid with outrage, mutilation and death.
There is yet another branch, called the
Good Shepherd School, or Refuge for girls
rescued from q life of public sin and shame,
where they are trained to a better life and
in this department much good has been
effected. The report, after IL brief allusion
to this delicate, sisterly work, gives n sum
mary of the labors accomplished during
the last few years and the total amount
of good effected by the nuns, as represent
ed only by dry figures, is truly astonishing,
not to speak of the spread of education in
the commercial and other boys schools.
" Two hundred destitute Chinese infants
have been saved from death and trained up
to be useful women and girls. Upwards Of
three hundred girls of over ten years of
age have been rescued from misery, fed,
clothed and taught. These girls and in
fants, but for the Sisters, must eventually
have become, in one way or other, o charge
upon the colony. Eighty of those girls
have been respectfully married" The Re-
formatory for the boys has been the means,
on the other hand, of imparting steady
habits and knowledge of trades to about
q hundred ex-ragamufins, most of whom
are doing well. And yet the Project in
forms us that the Sisters swami more
work they would like to have charge of q
public hospital" We are constrained to
give this well-d eserved tribute to the liv-
ing and to the dead "May not say that
! the good Sisters of Charity have overlooked
nothing, forgotten no age, no grade OF
Chinese female life in their efforts to do
goOd7 Indeed the good done by the Sis
tiers to the colony has been immense, and /
hope the Government will appreciate It.
Many infant lives they have saved, many
women rescued from sin, many virtuOus
mothers of families they have trained up
and established in life. They have worked
very hard and very upselfishly. Six Of
their little band are now lying in the ceme-
| tery in Happy Valley, martyrs in the cause