The Irish standard., 1892-03-26

ing, spelling, arithmetic, penmanshiI
grammar, history, geography, freehan
drawing, linear drawing, stenograph
and typewrlting. We have obtained
good many desirable situations for bot
boys and girls, who have made them
selves proficient in the latter studies
In the female department we have a kin
| dergarten school, and in the male depart
ment we have military training unde
the direction of an officer of the Sixty
ninth regiment of New York, who come
up twice week and trains the boys il
| battalion, and the results Of this train
! ing have been wonderfully successful
We have recently established III The
female department cooking school, the
first course Of lectures being given by
Miss Julia Corson, the we'll known edu
Gator i'll domestic economy.
The second system Of instruction is
pursued in or industrial schools ano
factories. In the male department there
is instruction n in shoemaking, printing
electrotyping, cane chair seating, glove
knitting. In the female department the
principal Industries are gloyemaking
dressmaking, cooking, housework and
embroidery.
In some cases we send some Of our
boys to farms; but we consider it Of more
Importance to teach them some trade, or
some kind of skilled labor, in the school.
We have nearly 800 children in the shoe
factory and the stocking factory, and
about seventy-five in the printing office.
This means of giving boy a trade does
not exist in private families; most boys
who would be sent out would go on
farms, and there would not be the same
chance for promotion or advancement.
AT the same time when we do have ap-
plications for boys or girls to go out in
good homes we endeavor to supply the
demand. ......
Whenever the parents of children, or
their near relatives, reach a better con-
dition of life, Or il they have been disso-
Lutte, reform their methods Of living, and
desire to get their children back, being
worthy of receiving them, We surrender
the chi1dred to them. We think that a
ereat deal is due to the natural claim
which parent has upon his own chill
dren, and we do not think that families
ought to be broken except in case of
absolute necessity, snd when once broken
we think they should be restored as soon
as the circumstances will permit.
The following interesting groupings Of
facts, figures and results will give the
reader some idea Of the work of the pro-
tectory: Of 2313 boys cared for in the
male department of the protectory dur
ing the year ending September 30, 1891,
1884 were born in the United States; 1873
were born in Italy; 81 in Ireland; 3S in
Germany; 36 in England; the rest in
France, Scotland and other European
countries. l.-.
OF total of $40 girls cared for in the
female department. for the same period
of time, ia were born in the United
States; 40 were born in ITALY; 80 in Ire
land; in England; in Canada; in
Germany; 4 in France; in Hungary.
There were received into the male de-
partment out of total of 2313 boys, 28O
"homeless" boys, and out of $40 girls re-
ceived in the female department, 21 be-
longed to the same condition at the time
of their commitment.
Children who were orphans at the time
of their reception numbered 331 boys
and Ia girls, in all AS orphans; 574
boys and 2l4 girls, in all 7S8, had only
fathers living; $50 boys and ls4, girls, in
all ia, had only mothers living; and 878
boys and 298 girls, in all l176, had both
parents living. These facts throw a
gloomy light upon the numbers of par
ents neglecting their children. But
when we continue the inquiry as to par
ents INTO the field Of lntemperance, we
find IS boys and % girls, in all SO, who
had Incorporate parents, both fathers
and mothers: 2s3 boys and 100 girls, in
all 383, who had intemperate fathers,
while 50 boys and 30 girls, in all l19, had
mothers. 1t is somewhat
reassuring to know that large majority
had both parents temperate, viz, 1875
boys and 652 girls, in all 1928 children
In regard to the subject of state aid
for institutions of this kind, think that
state aid ought to be given in all cases
where children are not cared for by their
parents, where they are neglected and
found running around the streets If
there is nobody to take care of them the
city should. The law requires judges to
commit such children to institutions Of
their faith. OF course, the different reli-
gious denominations of the city desire to
ret the children Of their own faith into
tbn;r hands inst ae tha Catholics astah.