Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-03-01

be sent to school according to the law of
Massachusetts, for 20 weeks each year, until
IA years of age. The visitor reports to Mr.
Wrighington the advantages or disadvanta-
ges of the place, age and requirements of
the child desired, and the child is selected
and sent to the place, notice being sent to
the visitor of the fact. In case the child
proves unsatisfactory, it may be returned to
the school after giving due notice to the
superintendent or to the visitor appointed
for the district, who will always stand ready
to advise and assist with regard to any diff
culties that may arise. When child is
placed out in, family, il becomes the duty
of the visitor to visit and report to Mr.
Washington the condition of the child under
her charge at least as of9en as once in three
months, and more frequently if the exigen-
cies of the case require. The visitor is also
expected to assume an authoritative care of
the girls under her charge, and the girls are
instructed that, although strict obedience to
all reasonable demands of their employers is
required, they yet have the liberty of appeal
to the visitor in cases of real or fancied
wrong. With a judicious visitor it viii be
apparent how readily she may disabuse
girls mind of the idea of a fancied wrong,
and that she will not delay in the attempt to
convince the employer of real one. The
visitor also advises the girls in regard to
their Duties encourages them in right doing
and in every way supplements the efforts of
bers of society. The work of the visitor IN
no way interferes with the rights and duties
imposed by the state upon the board of
health, 1unacy and charity and the trustees
of the several institutions, but is simply a
| new method devised by which greater and
more individual care can be taken of the
girls under their supervision.
We want homes for these children, good
homes, where a child may at first do no SER
vice except by calling for love and care as a
household pet, but where, if rightly trained
from its earliest years, it may grow up to fill
some void left in the household by death or
marriage and SO become a comfort to its
adopted parents. We want for them places
where the care given to them shall be in part
paid by the services rendered by them. At
| the primary school there is large proper
ton of healthy, promising children who
| could, even when quite young, be made SER
viceable in many ways in a family. There is
also numbe- of delicate and invalid chill
| dren for whom payment of board at $1.50 a
week will be provided when they are placed
out. The boarding out of children is subject
| to certain rules and regulations which will be
furnished on application. There are many
l families in the State whose members are anx-
1 ious to do good in the world, and who are
animated by the true missionary spirit, who
| find it difficult to know just what to do. To
| these families we appeal for help in our work.
It is not necessary that they should have
| money or that they should live in the busy
| cities or villages. An isolated farmhouse
| will often furnish better home for our girls
| than the most attractive village house. We
| wish to find homes where the girls would
i earn the Puritan habits of honesty, sobriety
/ and frugality, where they will learn to be
| good housekeepers and to make and mend
their clothing, where they can learn the best
way of taking care of homes of their own
and where they can be made worthy of such
homes. It will require, on the part of the
employer, time, patience and tact. A par
| of the compensation will come from the la
Dor performed by the girls, but the greater
compensation must come in the satisfaction
| which it is to be help to these children o
the State