up under two general hexds—Orphanages tunate young in this Bisco may be summed The institutions for helping the unf-r-
Free Schools, Of the first there are two of special importance.
'1—The Orphan Asylum and the Benevolent Institute. This is located in the native city not a very great distance from the South-gate. This institution has four or five branch offices in different parts of the city for receiving and forwarding inf The child, more often a girl than " boy, is received into the asylum, where a nurse is found who keeps the little one for small amount of six hundred cash per She takes it to her home but has the asylum every month for inspection. If not, the child is reclaimed. 'At the age of four or five the orphan is returned to the asylum to be disposed of 8s those in authority may deem best. Quite often the former foster-parent permanently re-adopt the child, or it is given into some good family' or, if a ron looked after by the Chinkiaog Orphan it] she is betrothed. The number of chil-
'Asylum is about two hundred—with less than twenty in the Asylum itself Benevolent Institute phanago is for boys only, and they are bore the ago of six. They are fed, clothod and taught free of a') expenses, As soon as practicable they put into Camilies or apprenticed, about eighty boys in this Orphanage with five teachers in charge. There is nothing of the kind for homeless girls at this the most perilous age of life, from six to fifteen. ages for children there are about twenty 3.—Free Schools.—Besides the Orphan-ree Day-schools in Chinkiang, with, perhaps, three hundred boys singing away at the classics. Two of these schools are in connection with free dispensaries. The money for the support of these schools does not come from government funds, as in our Western countries, but is a philanthropic gift from men of means, or is raised by subscription. The native philanthropist hia not yet been found who would endow one of these schools for the poor girls of Chinkiang.
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