carefully after their
clothing, their education, their religious instruction, and even their
habits of economy. The outlay by the Government for these various
objects is considerable. In 1869, the traveling expenses of these little
waifs reached the sum of 170,107 francs. The payments to the peasants to
induce them to educate the foundlings amounted to 85,458 francs for the
same year; the savings of the children, put in official savings-boxes,
amounted to 394,076 francs, while 15,936 francs were given out as
prizes.

The moral effects have been encouraging. In 1869, out of the 9,000
_eleves_ from thirteen to twenty-eight years, only thirty-two had
appeared before Courts of Justice for trifling offenses; thirty-two had
shown symptoms of insubordination, and nearly the same number had been
imprisoned.

It should be remembered that this bureau has charge of the whole class
of juvenile paupers, or Almshouse children, in Paris, as well as
foundlings, whom it treats by placing out in country homes. In 1869, it
thus provided for and protected 25,486 children, of whom 16,845 were
from one day to twelve years, and 9,001 from twelve to twenty-one years.
For this purpose, it employed two principal inspectors, twenty-five
sub-inspectors, and two hundred and seventy-eight physicians.

The expense of this bureau has been wonderfully slight, only averaging
two dollars and sixty cents per annum for each child. In an Asylum the
average annual expenditure for each child could not have been less than
one hundred and fifty dollars. This Bureau Ste. Apolline must be
carefully distinguished from the private bureaus in Paris for assisting
foundlings, under which the most shocking abuses have occurred, the
death-rate reaching among their subjects 70.87, and even ninety per
cent.

The "boarding-out" system has been a part of the Alms-house system of
Hamburg for years, and has proved eminently successful and economical.
In Berlin, more than half the pauper children, and all the foundlings,
are thus dealt with. In Dublin, both Protestant and Catholic
associations have pursued this plan with destitute orphans and
foundlings, with marked success. The Protestant Society had, in 1866,
453 orphans under its charge, and had placed out, or returned to
friends, 1,256; its provincial branches had 2,208 under their care, and
had placed out 5,374. All the orphans placed out by the Society are
apprenticed. Great care is used in inspecting the homes in w