. Christian herald and signs of our times . hundredmiles away from themetropolis. To theright a spacious gardenovershadowed by anenormous chestnut treeand hedged in by four TH(sides of an im-posing struc-ture that would compare favora-bly with some of the palaces Ihad already visited in the Nether-lands : on the left another elabor-ate gateway, leading, as 1 after-wards learned, to the boys de-partment. It was nearly noon andthe garden was alive with rosy-cheeked girls of different ageswearing the picturesque orphan-age costume. Contentment andindeed happiness were depictedon every face. The y
. Christian herald and signs of our times . hundredmiles away from themetropolis. To theright a spacious gardenovershadowed by anenormous chestnut treeand hedged in by four TH(sides of an im-posing struc-ture that would compare favora-bly with some of the palaces Ihad already visited in the Nether-lands : on the left another elabor-ate gateway, leading, as 1 after-wards learned, to the boys de-partment. It was nearly noon andthe garden was alive with rosy-cheeked girls of different ageswearing the picturesque orphan-age costume. Contentment andindeed happiness were depictedon every face. The younger oneswere engaged with a skippingrope or playing with the largewhite cat of the house, the eldergirls occupied the circular seatbeneath the great tree, knitting,sewing and exchanging confi-dences. The Burger Wees-Huis of Am-sterdam was founded in 1520 bya rich and charitable woman ofthe name of Haesje Claesdochter. Shebegan by devoting one of her build-ings to the care and shelter of seven oreight young orphans, children of deceased. SCHOOL-ROOM AT THE WEES-HUIS registered upon its books. The admissionfee in this case is less than sixty cents inAmerican money. Children of non-regis-tered citizens, otherwise eligible, are re-quired to pay a sum equivalent to S10. TheRegents reserve the right of transferringCatholic orphans to other are also empowered to send to theirrural establishments children whose con-duct is calculated to exert an evil influenceover the rest. The child enters the or-phanage with the distinct understandingthat it shall remain until the age of twenty,nevertheless no inmate incapacitated byill health or weakness of intellect has everbeen turned adrift on the world. For suchthe asvlum remains a home for the balanceof their lives and there is even one case onrecord of an orphan giri dying beneathits roof at the age of one hundred ! From the foregoing it is easy to under-stand why the Burger Weesen. as thesechildren are called, are not c
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