The Abigail ..[Organ of the Abigail free school and kindergarten] . IX.( The children who attend this School will beprovided each day with a substantial lunch. I ^- A record will be kept of all the children, so as to have an accurate account of their attendance and progress. XL A Sewing School for girls under fourteen yearsof age who attend public school, holds sessionstwice a-week. Garments made by the childrenare taken to their Praise Meetings, conducted by the children,are held Tuesday and Thursday evenings, M. XIII. Sunday School, preparatory, is held the
The Abigail ..[Organ of the Abigail free school and kindergarten] . IX.( The children who attend this School will beprovided each day with a substantial lunch. I ^- A record will be kept of all the children, so as to have an accurate account of their attendance and progress. XL A Sewing School for girls under fourteen yearsof age who attend public school, holds sessionstwice a-week. Garments made by the childrenare taken to their Praise Meetings, conducted by the children,are held Tuesday and Thursday evenings, M. XIII. Sunday School, preparatory, is held the Summer : 2 P, M. during the Wintermonths. XIV. A Dispensary, conducted by Dr. J. E. Messen-ger, for the children attending the School; openevery Wednesday 4 P„ Every week day, except Saturday, from 3 to4 P. M., the School is thrown open to childrenwho formerly attended but now attend publicschools; this time is spent in singing patriotic andreligious hymns. XVI. The School is open A. M.: general dis-missal 4 P. M.: dismissal for keep-overs Oi^e Sel^ool ?^voFgo^7 Entered as Second Class matter at the Kew York, N. Y. Post Office, April 8tli, Vol. I, No. 6. 104 Sullivan St., New York City, July, U 50c PER Year TAKE THE CHILD, WHEN A CHILD. Mr. John H. Smyth, President of the NegroRel. Assn of Va., said at the Cliarities andCorrection Conference with justificable bitter-ness : It would be better to kill the unhappychildren of my race than to wreck their souls byherding them in prisons with common and hard-ened criminals. But the question of race neednot enter into the discussion at all. It is abom-inable, execrable, that children of any race or ofany color should be herded with common crimi-nals. It is infamous that institutions of theerring should be turned into nurseries of crime. And it isnt a race question. In the South thecolored people doubtless have suffered most by apenal system which herds the children with thehardened offenders, but it is because
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