. Curious schools. harsh, national management, aboutforty-nine out of a hundred reclaimed boys becamecriminals again. Only four out of a hundred of theMettray boys relapse into crime. Nearly 5,000 boys have been at the Homes onetime and another, and though there are no walls, norlocked gates, only one boy of this number ever ranaway! The people round about, in place of fearingthese lads, greatly respect them. Instead of commit-ting incendiary acts, the Mettray Fire Company hassaved more than one farmers house from 1856 the great city of Tours was in danger of inun-dation from th
. Curious schools. harsh, national management, aboutforty-nine out of a hundred reclaimed boys becamecriminals again. Only four out of a hundred of theMettray boys relapse into crime. Nearly 5,000 boys have been at the Homes onetime and another, and though there are no walls, norlocked gates, only one boy of this number ever ranaway! The people round about, in place of fearingthese lads, greatly respect them. Instead of commit-ting incendiary acts, the Mettray Fire Company hassaved more than one farmers house from 1856 the great city of Tours was in danger of inun-dation from the rising of the river Loire. But the Bad Boys of France marched down, several hun-dred strong, with pickaxes and shovels, and workedlike good fellows to cast up embankments and savethe city; and they got a gold medal from the city gov-ernment when it was all over. The National Government pays ,£10 per annum foreach boy sent to the Mettray Homes; but this is notsufficient, even with the lads work; so about seven264. The Bad Boys of France. pounds each year, for each boy, must come from pri-vate benevolence. But this want has always been nobly met. Thewisest of the French statesmen have been foremostwith their help; and M. Drouyn de Lhuys has re-cently endowed a school of Agricultural Chemistry «atthe Homes, open not only to the boys, but to theneighboring farmers, and to outside students. Surely, the Homes are a credit to France; andthe Fathers are a credit to humanity; and the Bad Boys themselves are a credit to human
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