An elegant new building, with all the late ideas in architecture, has just been taken possession of by the Bay City (Mich.) Children's Home association.

Employers of Nebraska have been warned anew that the statutes require every child under fourteen years to attend school twenty weeks each year.

California promises to get into the line of progression in the matter of treatment of juvenile offenders and dependents, by the adoption of a juvenile court law.

The King Daughters of North Carolina in convention at Raleigh this month appointed a committee to investigate and devise a plan for securing a state reformatory.

The Illinois Humane Society is advocating a law making wife and child desertion a felony. Under such a statute a deserting father or mother could be brought back to Illinois for trial.

The social science department of the Colorado Springs WomIan's Club is working for the inauguration of manual training as a regular course in the schools of that city and throughout the

state.

W. Robert Hunter, for six years organizing secretary of the Chicago Bureau of Charities, has resigned to accept the position of head resident at the University settlement, New York city.

Articles of incorporation for the Grace M. Allen Industrial school for colored children have been filed in Iowa. The school will be at Burlington and the trustees and officers have been elected.

Mrs. Margaret Deland of Boston, the author, through each winter cares for beautiful beds of jonquils and hyacinths which every February she sells for high prices and devotes the income to charity.

The initiative in the matter has been taken by the civic section of the California Club, and members of the Merchants' Association and Associated Charities. The work of enlisting influence favorable to the bill has begun in Oakland, Stockton, Santa Barbara and other cities, and rural districts, by charitable organiza

tions, women's clubs and others. No opposition to the measure is expected.

A valuable collection of cameos was given the Chicago Bureau of Associated Charities this month. The donor refused to give his name. The stones ranged from $5 to $35 in value and were immediately placed on sale.

Fifteen $1,000 bonds of the Jennie Clarkson Home for Children of New York are missing. They were a part of the $350,000 endowment from the estate of W. R. Clarkson, of which the school has received only $30,000.

A chapter of orphans from the Oxford Orphan Asylum started on a concert tour this month. Their object is to bring the public into closer touch with the Masonic Children's Home and incidentally secure funds for its 250 inmates.

At two local conferences of Lincoln (Neb.) charity workers it was decided to secure an extension of the functions of the State Home for the Friendless by legislative enactment, and a committee was appointed to draft a bill for the establishment of a special court for juvenile offenders.

A lad who ran away from St. Ann's Orphanage at Salt Lake City a few days ago is now without a home. He declared that he left the institution because he was spanked. The authorities now refuse to receive him back, asserting that he has maligned them, and his mother cannot care for him, as she is too poor.

Dannie Rosendecker, a 12-year-old boy of Toledo, O., was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary for killing a companion, last month. The boy cried for his mother while being taken to jail. Criminologist experts say the boy is a degenerate and it is said that two of his relatives have served terms for murder.

The members of the Social Economics Club of Chicago has decided to agitate for equal suffrage as the only method by which the child labor problem can be settled. They will enter actively into the campaign for state university trustees, where women are allowed to vote and preliminary to this have organized a study course on the Illinois statutes relating to women.

Domestic science is to be taught the refractory girls who are sent to the Industrial School at Beloit, Kan. The State Board of Charities decided that a girl who knows how to wash dishes, sweep and keep a house in order is worth a dozen society buds who can not sew on a button that comes off their dresses, and installed a competent teacher in this department of the school.

Several Ohio charitable institutions are being severely criticized. The Girls' Industrial School at Delaware is being investigated on account of the death of an inmate and recently J. W. Nichols, the Dayton humane officer, took a child from the Children's Home of that city, charging that it was being neglected. made serious charges against the institution, which must be investigated.

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Judge Sloss of San Francisco is drafting a bill to present at the next session of the legislature at Sacramento. The bill, it is said, will be closely modeled after the Illinois law and will be presented to the Attorney General, prior to its introduction in the legislature, in order to guard against the possibility of any conflicts with the constitution of California, or the embodiment of any features unsuitable to California conditions.

Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, while lecturing on child labor before the Ladies' Literary Club of Salt Lake City, said: "While holding the office of inspector in Illinois I found that almost any kind of law could be passed regulating child labor in the factories, but none of them could be enforced. When an inspector insisted upon the observance of the regulations a resignation was invariably requested, and some one else appointed."

Four little girls, aged 6, 9, 15 and 16 years, two of them cripples, are named as the sole beneficiaries of the will of Daniel Conklin, for many years village postmaster at Buchanan-on-theHudson, N. Y. His will, just probated, gives them the district schoolhouse, which he owned, his grocery store and all his money. The old man left a brother, seven nieces, twelve nephews and proportionate number of grandchildren, but cut them all off in favor of the four little girls who used to play around his country store and postoffice.

Judge Newburger of New York discharged a friendless prisoner, contributed $10 towards a purse of $25 for him and delivered the following scathing criticism on missionary societies last week: "I do not see a missionary in court to-day, although I notified them. I want to say that these missionaries and aid society representatives are never around to help a man in actual want. Usually they are around in cases where the prisoners have retained expensive counsel."

T. D. Hurley, who for many years has been actively engaged in juvenile charity work, last month resigned the office of chief probation officer of the Cook County Juvenile Court, which he has held since the court was organized. The resignation was on account of his appointment as a city police magistrate by Governor Yates. He will continue his work in juvenile charities, retaining the offices of president of the Illinois Conference of Charities and Corrections and of the Visitation and Aid Society and editor of the Juvenile Record.

As a result of trouble among the trustees of the Los Angeles Boys' and Girls' Society for Homeless Children, situated at South Pasadena, there may be another children's home in Pasadena. The Pasadena members assert that the Los Angeles members have usurped control of the board. Mrs. F. F. Rowland, a Pasadena former member, and wife of the Pasadena health officer, says that the hygienic regulations in the home are deplorable, only nine combs being used on the fifty heads of the inmates, instead of each child having an individual comb.

Two women traveling in the guise of philanthropists-Miss Lizzie Murphy of Duluth, Minn., and Miss Alvina L. Walters of Alma, Wis.-soliciting funds for the Baker Orphanage, an alleged child-saving institution at 4544 London road, Duluth, have experienced considerable trouble in Wisconsin and Minnesota. After being arrested as swindlers, the Duluth chief of police notified other chiefs through the state that the "Baker Orphanage is a fraud." It is said that the institution does actually care for at least three children, but that it collects funds for many more and refuses to permit its books to be examined.

The Rev. Dr. M. H. Harris of the Temple Israel congregation, New York City, in announcing that a charter had been taken out for a Jewish Juvenile Asylum, declared that the Jews had as

much need of reformatories as Catholics or Protestants, and said: "We have been fighting for twenty years against our own pride and prejudice. At last we have awakened to a full sense of our responsibility, and it is high time we did so. To-day, out of 900 inmates in the House of Refuge, there are 232 Jewish children, in the Juvenile Asylum 223 out of 800 and in the Five Points mission 33. These numbers appalling in their proportions, are steadily on the increase.'

The members of the Hull House Woman's Club, Chicago, have censored the field of juvenile fiction. They hold that the everyday life of the street urchin and ghetto youth is sufficiently strenuous without reading romantic stories of adventure. Dime novels, nickel libraries, Jules Verne's tales, Kipling's stories and similar stimulating fiction are condemned. Louisa M. Alcott's works, "Alice in Wonderland, "Gulliver's Travels" (expurgated), the average Sunday school book and newspapers, with stories of murders, fires, runaways, etc., cut out; are held to be proper mental food for either a "Little Lord Fauntleroy" or a gamin who shouts "double extrey" on the streets.

W. D. Parker, Wisconsin state inspector for schools for the deaf, says that there are between 200 and 300 minor deaf and dumb and blind children in that state who do not receive appropriate instruction. In order to get the names and residences of these unfortunates he has just sent a letter to county and city superintendents of schools soliciting their assistance. The eight state day schools for defective children have an attendance of 160, while the school for the deaf at Delavan has 220 and that for the blind at Janesville 120.

Fifteen southern Illinois counties have put Judge Tuthill's ideas of taking care of unfortunates into practical use, and as a result over 5,000 children within the last few years have been placed under the roofs of some of the best families of the state, any many of them have become useful young men and women. The Illinois Children's Home and Aid Association has charge of the work and is supported entirely by voluntary contributions. At all of the leading hotels in the territory of the association are glass globes for contributions. In each community of each county the association has a local board, whose business it is to receive calls for help. A great deal of help has been provided in the matter of furnishing the receiving home with provisions, and much of this comes from the fortunate children in prosperous homes. The children contribute single apples and potatoes, for instance, that when measured up run into many bushels.

The startling statement comes from New Jersey that nearly 6,000 children of school age in that state are not in school. The greater part of them are at work in factories in defiance of a stringent labor law. Governor Murphy says that in his own 25 years' experience as an employer he never once saw a factory inspector in his factory. The Governor asserts that some of the factories have small children employed, and it is established beyond question that these children of 6 and 7 years are driven to work seventeen and eighteen hours a day for two or three cents an hour. Whenever the officials of any society come to investigate they are entertained in the front office until the children can be hustled out to play. When the inspectors are gone the children are driven back to work, and their pay docked for the hour or two of lost time. It is gratifying to know that the Governor of New Jersey declared he is going to enter on the rigid enforcement of the law, and put a stop to child labor in the state.

Insolvency Judge Callaghan of Cleveland, O., has been visiting the Chicago Juvenile Court preparatory to establishing such a court in his city. The Cleveland Leader says in regard to his investigation: "The new Juvenile Court in this county will be under the jurisdiction of the Insolvency Court. Nearly all of the larger cities in this country already have juvenile courts. The Chicago court is the most notable one in the country and has had the longest experience in dealing with the youth who are so unfortunate as to be without other care. That court is presided over by Judge Tuthill, and he has had to deal with almost every phase of the juvenile question. Judge Callaghan will spend two or three days at Judge Tuthill's court in examining its methods. In addition to this, Judge Callaghan is now making other preparations for the opening of the court here next June. He has already received samples of the blanks and other forms used in the Chicago court and is preparing to have his stationery printed. The matter that is bothering Judge Callaghan most is the appointment of the probationary officers."