oup will have the greatest care from the prison officials.
Every effort will be made to guide its members into better ways of life.
They will be looked after by a physician, who will give them plenty of
exercise and training to make their bodies strong. There will be a regular
system for educating them, and training their minds into the knowledge
that to be happy they must be good, and that sensible men will obey the
law.

When they are sent back into the world after their term of imprisonment
is over, they will have learned how to be useful and honest men, and every
effort will be made to help them to lead good lives.

The next, Group B, and also Group C, will be treated in much the same sort
of way as Group A, except that these groups will be disciplined more
severely than the first one.

Little time will be wasted over Group D. The men in it will be treated in
the ordinary way, and the only especial attention they will get will be to
see that they are never mixed with the other groups.

It is hoped that, through these means, many men who are not really
criminals at heart may be brought back to decency and good citizenship.

New York State is not alone in this desire to reform its criminals.

Last year, two Houses of Reform were established in Kentucky, one for boys
and one for girls. These prisons are situated in healthy parts of the
country, and they are built on what is called the "Cottage Family Plan."
This means that they are divided into cottages, each of which holds about
twenty-six criminals. Locks, bolts, and bars are not used any more than
necessary. Each cottage is in the care of a matron, who has orders to keep
it as much like a home as possible.

The young prisoners are taught to be good citizens, and the result has
been very fine.

* * * * *

We were talking about right whales not very long ago. Now, if we may
believe what we hear, a fine large right whale has been caught off the
Long Island coast, and the fishermen are highly pleased.

It seems that one of the beach patrol caught sight of some whales out at
sea. Hurrying to the telephone, he called up the Life-Saving Station at
Amagansett, and handed on the news.

The whole fishing population of Amagansett immediately turned out, and in
a few minutes five boats were launched, and were quickly in pursuit of the
whales.

A good many of the Amagansett men were old whalers, so they knew exactly
what to do, and soon coming up with a