, 1908-12-16

In one place the doctor has built @ WhOle
town of villas, consisting of a number OF
small houses, each of which accommodates a
party of children under a "mother's" guild
ance and inspection. Besides that, these
children are given healthy and beaurifu!
surroundings, and thereby greater posi-
biities of development, a love for the .coun-
try and for ,country-life is awakened ins them
in order that they probably may not later on
add to the overcrowding Of the cities. Over
in Canada settlements have been made, pre-
sided over by people from these homes IN
England, and to them are sent the young
who are deemed fit for emf grafton. "But
we follow them and keep an eye en- them for
many a year, said one with whom we talked.
Particulars Of this widespread work, of
its gradual growth, and also of the hard
times and economical difficulties it has had
to fight against, are too lengthy to be dealt
with here. Should any be 50 interested as to
desire information concerning these matters,
l beg to direct such to q whole series Of
Literature about DR.. Barnardo and his work,
partly a description Of same by W. Stead
or by Mr.. Bait. 1 will, however, mention
here that the homes are supported by
private bounty, G2O0,0 600 st9. being collected
yearly. One home only receives q small
Goyernm2n mt grant, but efforts are being
made at present to obtain such grants for
more of the homes. The daily expenses are
indeed enormous, the expenditure daily be-
ing, for the chjldren's food only, G240.
We now enter one Of the sleeping halls
a room exceedingly large, lightsome, and
airy, which qualifications are all highly de-
sirable 80 children sleep here on long rows
of beds covered with blue and white cover
lets. How gratifying is it to think that all
these little fellows nightly lay themselves to
rest on clean and proper beds with the Sc
cure feeling of getting, on the morrow,
enough food and clothes. But for Dr.. Bar.
nurdo they would have been obliged to lie
under the open heavens, in sheds, and in
the dirty corners of like places, which home
less jim on his. nightly wanderings exhibit
cd to the doctor as the sleeping places Of
hundreds of poor children.
Our guide tells us that is the Younger
boys, those of eleven years of age, who sleep
in this ha and that they are now in school.
The home has it's own school and chapel in
al adjoining building. When. the boys Of
about Il to IS years old, are finished at
tending the children's school, they enter the
various industrial schools established for
them by The home, and there, under the
guidance Of a mechanic, learn the trades
they have most desire and talent for. The
work done by the pupils is turned to good
use in the homes. All The bread eaten there
is made Ivy the pupils, they make their own
shoes, make and wash their own clothes.
patch and darn the old ones &c. The BOYS
in the io;ners department had for the year
made LOO wooden trunks for those emigra-
ting to Canada. The articles made over the
number required are sod.
We go from Workshop to workshop.
Zealously and seriously these little fellows
work. Perhaps q little too seriously for
their years. Not a word is heard, even in
the r0oms in which, for one reason or an
other, no teacher is present, and not a smile
is exchanged. But the little workers, with
their bright eyes and round cheeks seem
corte&ted and healthy, and, though plainly
dressed, ale clean and tidy. Bravely and
calmly they look up when approached or
addressed by a teacher.
10 som of the workshops we enter the
boys are engaged in going through the
theory of the work they are about to accom-
plish. On the blackboard III the'saddler's
shop we see written: Tell about the most
important parts Of a gigs harsess.: And
the boys are at the time deeply engros5ed
in the task. In the brush makers shop
they are engaged in drawing a picture of
what they are about to ma e. We gain IN.
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