resent
Houses of Refuge; but the improved effects on the children would more
than counterbalance to the community the smaller income of the Asylum.
Nor is it certain that farm and garden labor would be less profitable to
the Institution.

If we are correctly informed, the only Alms-house which supports itself
in the country is one near New Haven, that relies entirely on the growth
and sale of garden products. Under the Farm and Family School for
children, legally committed, we should have, undoubtedly, a far larger
proportion of thorough reforms and successes, than under the congregated
and industrial Asylums.

The most successful Reformatories of Europe are of this kind. The "Rauhe
Haus," at Hamburg, and Mr. Sydney Turner's Farm School at Tower Hill,
England, show a greater proportion of reformed cases than any
congregated Reformatories that we are familiar with. The Mettrai colony
records ninety per cent, as reformed, which is an astonishingly large
proportion. This success is probably much due to the _esprit du corps_
which has become a tradition in the school, and the extent to which the
love of distinction and honorable emulation--most powerful motives on
the French mind--have been cultivated in the pupils.

We do not deny great services and successes to the existing congregated
Reformatories of this country. But their success has been in spite of
their system. From the new Family Reformatories, opened in different
States, we hope for even better results.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH FOUNDLINGS?

Some of our citizens are now seeking to open in New York a Foundling
Asylum to be conducted under Protestant influences. A Roman Catholic
Hospital for Foundlings was recently established, and is now receiving
aid from the city treasury. In view of these humane efforts, attended,
as they must be, by vast expense, it becomes necessary to inquire what
is the best system of management attained by experience in other
countries. Of the need of some peculiar shelter or shelters for
illegitimate children in this city there can be no question. Those who
have to do with the poorer classes are shocked and pained by the
constant instances presented to them, of infants neglected or abandoned
by their mothers, or of unmarried mothers with infants in such need and
desperation, that infanticide is often the easiest escape. Something
evidently should be done for both mo