The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

moral anu Industrial results hopelessly in
ferior to them OF course, a private in
stitution is not merely on account of it's
privacy desirable refuge for poor child
rem. There are institutions and ins.itu-
| tlOns, as the Committees of the State and
Local Boards appear to have discovered in
their recent visits to those of Brooklyn. A
handsome building, a taking name and an
insu ufAcient supply of hired officials do not
make real hOme for destitute children,
| even when free from the imputatiou of
being a County House. Love cannot be
bought at u fixed price, aud that love for
Gods creatures which comes from a su-
| preme love of Him, is 80 great u necessity
! in the training "f little ones, that even the
Commissioners noted the difference between
two of the Protestant nsylums visited by
them, in one of which both the matrons and
her assistants were simply salaried off cials,
and another which was in charge of one of
the Protestant sisterhOods established by
the EpiscopaIian denomination. In the
one there was real devotion to the work
undertaken, and the results were commend
able in the other the children were poorly
cared for, and the house was, happily, only
half filled. More money would doubtless
procure more, and more efficient, help, but
it is impossible in the nature of things that
money can buy devotion, although 1T can
| sometimes produce a fair imitation of it.
AS for the Catholics of Brooklyn, we
have just reason to be proud of the recent
Investigations. Ia the pursuance of their
duties the Commissioners visited all our
asylums and industrial schools, and have
been recorded in the daily press as con-
vinced that the 'great social problem of
doing away with pauperism" had been
solved by them. One of them, the Industrial
School in Congress Street, under the charge
of the Sisters of Charity, DIR. Hoyt, the
Secretary of the State Board, who has for
years been occupied in visiting aud study
| ing charitable institutions, declares to be
"the best systematjzed industrial charity"
that be knows. In this institution four
hundred girls are educated, taught various
trades and all manner of needle work, and
cared for until they are eighteen years old,
when they are provided with sufficient
wardrobe, thirty dollars and a good place
if they choose to go to one. Some two
thirds of them elect to do 30, but those who
choose are at liberty to remain with the
tain the house. In fourteen years the
Directors of the school have not been call
ed to expend anything for the clothing of
the inmates. ''These girls'' says Mr.
Thomas Carroll, one of the representatives
of our Catholic charities who was invited
to meet the Commissioners and discuss
ways and means with them, 'these girls,
with the aid of the Sisters, have paid for
the clothing and more too. Their united
earnings have built handsome asylum
worth $3.50, ,O00." In our other institutions,
where the children are younger, SO great
economic results are not, of course, to be
expected. But in all of them the visitors
found the children thoroughly cared for
and trained, even from infancy, to habits
of neatness and industry. There were
not two opinions about them. All that
could be done by Christian charity to re-
| pair the loss of parental care had here been
| done, and done without State aid.