The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-04-09

such degree that he should be able to
make a livelihood thereby. There are
classes in painting and frescOing, plaster
ing. brcklaying blacksmthing. plumbing.
mechanism, carpentry and building pattern
making, printing, bOOkbinding. umbrella
making. boat building, brass finishing, cab
met making and upholstery, moulding,
stone cutting. cooking. barbering. tailoring,
shoe making, farming and gardening. pho.
Biography and etching.
The domestic department is not so fully
described in the report as one would wish,
but we are given few glimpses: In fam
lily as large as that sheltered under the roof
of the RefOrmatOry there are necessarily
many features which may be classed under
the head of domestic. First among these.
as matter of course. come the kitchen and
dining room facilities. In connection with
the kitchen work there has recently been
established cooking school. Here COM
petent instructor takes in hand few men
who are initiated into the mysteries of Gull.
nary operations. There is dining room
specially set apart for the use of the citizen
employees and for the paroled inmates din
ing as officers. All the members of the up.
per first grade also have dining room
privilege. The food furnished to men In
this grade does not differ materially from
that which is furnished to the other in
mates. but served as it is. at table. with the
ordinary table appurtenances. it constitutes
decided incentive to the average inmate
to hasten his progress from the lower to the
upper grade. The StOrerOOm is very i'm
pOrtant item in the domestic arrangements.
Here are stored a great variety of articles
from needles and pins to big boots and over
coats for the farmers and outside workers
in stormy weather. People must not only
be ted. clothed and shOd and generally we'll
kept, but they are also liable to become i'll.
The apartments which are set apart for the
hospital are situated high up in portion
of the buildings farthest away from noise
and hustle. and conveniently situated in
point of light and air. Underneath the hos.
pital are dormitores and general rooms of
the officers. The appliances include baths.
reading rooms and recreation rooms and are
intended to supply in a great measure
something akin to hOmelke features in the
life OF those who make their homes vOlun.
tarily within the walls of the institution.
The whole institution is Illuminated by
roo incaudescent lights and 35 are lights.
| ENvOI.
There is tradition in the institution that
some men. leaving the RefOrmatory to take
night train out inte the world again,
sometimes look back with more or less re-
gret upon the home that has been theirs SO
long, and carry away with them, not so
marked an impression of the exterior lights
that shine about them outside the enclosure.
as of the general light of knowledge and in.
dustry that has been shed upon them dur
ing their stay in the institution; and that
this remembrance. grounded upon the very
influences described in this pamphlet, SO
predOminates. in many instances, that there
remains no tangible shadow except that
resting within the focus of last glimpse
of the Reformatory buildings as the way is
wended down the hill.