Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-01-23
NUMBER 80.
The State Reform Sch:oi.

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with very slight apparent cOnstraint. The boys
and girls looked healthy, well cared for and
cheerful their exercises in reading. seoSra-
ply and arithmetic were exceedingly cred
liable and the whole appearance and con-
duct of the scholars showed that they are
under wholesome and clevating influences
and that the institution is school rather
than prison.
The success of the experiment, if it was
such, of the grls' department is especially
gratifying. They occupy separate build
ing, with ample and convenient rooms and
accommodations; have their own grove
and play ground and have no communion
ton with the boys except that all meet in the
chapel for prayers, and in the Sunday
school. Under the careful watch oil the
Superintendent, matron and teachers, no Ill
results whatever have followed the establish
ment of the girls school in the same |
grounds; while some beneficial results are
noticed. The girls are instructed in sewing |
and houscwork as well as in their studies.
They make their own clothes and the COM
mon clothes of the boys, knit all the SOCKS
for bo,b schools with a knitting machinc) |
and do the washing and ironing of their own
department.
The cases of many Of these girls when
they were received into the school. were ex-
,rcmeIv discour,.,ip, but all have shown
very porl,cd ;mnrovemcnt in character and
habits Some VIII, were terribly vicious,
Jir,,. ,,J d;soasc,I havr beconc mo-, only
cIc,pIv anil correct in their persons and out
ward deportmcn,-.ls all are compelled to
bc-lut obcdicnt. industrious and trust
worthy. Six Girls have been sent out 10
places in good families AMI all of them, so
far As is known. are living correct lives. One
has married a respectable young man and is
settled comrnrtoblv in life with every pros
pect of being Il decent and worthy member
of society. Others are in good homes and
doing we'll. The rescue "f these Girls from
vicious surrounding, AMI be saving OF them
| from lives thai bid fair to bc worse than
death. is n worl, beyond all price.
| of the BOYS, We believe that about
ffty hsy. been bound out to places,
during the past wear, after they had
established in the school characters
which made il safe to send Ihem out.
There ,r, no bi,h fences or barre d enclos-
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spect. obedience and often affection of the
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work tbe v,lu,, Of which tu the State cannot
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