, 1872-12-05
FREEZING SCHOOL CHILDREN.
a Popular Movement by the HUI
name Society.
1t fnterferes in Behalf Of Child rem Kept Waiting
Outside for the Nine O. clock Bell"
Mr. Branson's Interview with School
Principal.

Red tape is good thfnt;. The world would
not get through it's mu1tifs zious relations With
out red tape. But it will rot answer to 1ook 10
red tape for everything. For instance, 1t WILL
not warm the public school-h ouses, the thermo1n-
eter at zero. Nor, when the school-houses are
warmed, will it warm hal so we'll as red con-
1orters the school childre kept standing ID the
yard for the latest preci $50 tick Of someoodys
watch. Patrick A1cGillic, 1ddy's mother taxes In
washing. She has no eli ,ck. Ten minutes are
not wide margin for que at 9 o'clock for Mrs.
McGi11icuddy, Small blan ID to her, poor woman,
that ahe does not carry j 7rgensen chronometer
such as the Board of Education furnishes
as free gift to every one Of its teachers. Con
sequence, Peter McGilicu ldy, aged 9. Mary and
Polly, and Bridget and Sal phira, and the rest of
the McG's, all OF tender years, short coated,
with no lambs wool und Ergarments, are kept
standing out OF doors un I'll the London-made
chronometer of the Prin eIpal tells o'clock.
Poor little epizoots. How they shiyer and snuff
de, and pass through all tag&'s Of cold, cough,
codin-and these funerals are expensive. Pat
rick McGilhcuddy, Senior, was 'uried last year,
God rest his soul, with tn !e1ve ca r1iages.
Ihs Illinois Humane S ociety's agent, passing
one OF our public. school 3, the Of her day, heard
Gathering like unto a 1,al s:orn1. He COM
pared it to shot dropping on t. n roof. He
paused: He was busy; He ! lad under one arm
lame terrier dog, and IN his eye, metaphorlc
of course, five fresh cases o. abused hipporhi-
norhen. But he heard the cl after. peeped over
tie fence, andfound it to prot eed from the teeth
%e ct svo hundred children, 'aiting TO- get in:
them had lclcles on their CHI MS and noses. It
was evident they had colds IL their heads. And
AZ because it was not Q clock. And these
S fa4eRs sEe bst ea I'd 5s ot am1 ths
progeny of sheep.-we re there to be
punctual at the stroke of 9. # not there at g.
re mus. commence another paragraph, the sub
]ect Is too awful to bo brou ght in at the tail OF
a sentence.
# not there ct e-the L icGillicuddy boy the
either e.: lghs had the group md TERRIBLE tine ct
H. Als uste1aneereaehed = Il le fragme Mt pckL
was q reader Of Dickens, and thou, ;ht Patrick
was referring to Pickwic K and propo sed to send
for;a copy But Mrs. 4 .cGilIc, iddy h lew better,
ana to9S MN door, d nun an fne1
boy va5 thinking of The awful peril
hasoo, he Vas a+ IN, Of! being lat 2 at the a ]
that she did not believe that Itt E Pat would 1ay
straight in his grase should he co me to that
less there we're na!ely" cut On the tombstone
the words, "E1cus'ed by Super intendent Pick
not there at 9-locked out 81 ID sent home to
parents who cannot read nor wri! ;e, for written
excuse. Mrs. ldcGilicuddy t,nce went six
squares and lef heavy wash ing to get her
age shop on alsted street, to write the note.
That's the Way poor Patrick SO t his Group, and
to: this expensive machinery sas his mother
honal prospects.
The Humane society's agent fn.Ss aft,,r q
search through Webster, Wcrces;ter, Johnaon,
The Bible and inquiry at the Medical Colleges
discovery. Some Gradgrind in the Bosud o.
Education should get the information the
first post. Who knew children we're amin els ?
and like other animals the better for blan, tets
and care2 Why will not the Board OF Educat lon
act on this suggestion? and, here ne leave t. 10
case to Mr. Rranaon
TIE HUMANE SOCIETY Drscovvpv
1b the Editor Of Tie Chicago TRIBUNE: 4
sR: Some time siuce some of the parents Of chill
dren which attending the aayes School corner Of
a Treatment to which they were subjected IN being
PEELED II to re fensn 9usien II The cold if they arrived
plaint in some Of the city papers made appear tst
our as'snnoa en- Ton!u not BE- improperly directed
"any living creature" as viii be seen by reading he
ststute. So We felt that these Itt1e children were
parents directed them We Therefore eaed ei upon
Ms: Mer9an the Principal Of tho school, and stated
thought agent Tha % soety fer the Preven r.
ton Of Cruelty TO- Animals" should cali to
haTe the matter in1esueated a aad dest4ed
rs to maze statement to the public Of our conclu-
etons So Some me- Children whom knew called into
ONCE ana Wore catechsed and very clearly stated
that the5 had sometes been kept out in the cold
Resas Pee at aoop-time Mr ezrnan explained II at
rules for the public schools that the do ors
should be opened at 81 O'clock when the weather was
TeEy s9d, otherwise they remained closed until the
rule but the Judgment Of the Principal as to the tern
pera4re that should open or close the DOORS Il Tough
that the orders to admit very small child ren af
al tines 4 was also explained that the gener al rule
school, the exceptions being, when they lived long |
distance a"ay, say mile, OF extremely wet " cold
Reglsse1a are in the hall, the door, where chill
d1en may warm their feet and bench was pointed |
either go out forego ali pastime This al appear@
a1so e1 GoPed s,
child was allowed to 80 out Of the building whor
ing through the balls met children who hn
heard Of, OF had forgotten, the rule. The doors
them, and such an one might perish outside befone
NJ: Merrimon, from ali tie evidence We were abb,
to gather appears to want to do what is right, mi
little irnportunate in his manner, being eeunewh:t
sharp and nervors @ Where 1iga discipline called
{estaton OF spirit might easily be constr ued INTO
tyranny. Il
1anceent Of the child The Ct play or sociability
ess &c achoo hoe b oa
Of eta7ing of the care Of the child until til hour a.
for play-roos inside the building and le very en-
forcemeut Of the rules would necessarily provoke the
complaints mnde.
Ne think every principle Of hu1nanits nianism de-
1nands recognition Of he rights Of children, as
ant Of these rights is that of int e1ourze With
each other under the care Of their teachers. Our
present drsysten kills ont ali ID the child
and abs it cold and hearlezs though shrewd and H.
telDgent
into payrooms accessible to the children during ali
tmes OF play, and aways under the Supervision Of
some competent moral instructor. Is oon as child
at the schoo1house should be 7nder the care
Of the Principal or some Of his sbordu lates and il
stay also. Little boys or girls CONF az from home
where there is liberty, lore, ,md nfecuon-
where mother to .the door and !
opens it Mt the first ca1l-to the nuhIic |
schoohouEe whose massive doors re too heavy for it
to open and sympathetic hand ear o hell, 4 goaa