$ They would be trained ins ihaSbits of order and! ..nseatn-—s, Audi in the case of the girls, l for instance, when they reached am age that j i they oou_ go out __— the world for them _ selv—, the matron- would 1 be -aible to supply • them with cert)ificat_, and, in view of the s many iniefficiemt household .servants met , with nowadays, •these girls would always be. able to find good p_ces and gocd homes. 5 Mrs Wells __(_ she often -—ought with • regret of the girl turn—) out from a home ■ where sbis •ha-di been board—, out, with no i real __t_ to go to when. she was out of employment, and! Oft—i; going to, cheap boa__nig-l_us_, which eon—times were the iota-eduction to th© worst of lives. She knew of a girl of -dxt—U years of age, who had been boarded out, and who had taken to evil ways, and yet the- Chari table Aid Board, though it had expended , the public moreay oss her mail—enon cc, could not i_-t«rpci—. Ttoerefo-e, M—i Wells heartily agix—d. with the -proposal of the South Can t-bury Hospital and Chari—ble Aid Board ia __r x-tfeavour to get the law altered so [ that ai_-_ab_ Aid Boards should have the ■ same powers of guardianship over the chil • dren _cxai_x_ out by -them—-that is, until - they we— twenty-one years of age—as those possess—; by managers of indu—rial schools. ■ The girls brought up in these cabbage homes i could always look upon them as. their ■ real homes," onci return, to them when out of employmie-it or when ill. There was no necessity for an elaborate • building for these homes. No grand suites of rooms were required, and there was no need for them to be "young palaces." The house should have plenty of. sunlight, fresh air and water, and sufficient garden space far ' a playground for the children, and for the i growing of vegetables and fruit. They • would want a house with a dining-room, a 3 pleasant, cheerful living-room, a good kit chen, and say three bedrooms. The bed ■ room or bedr-ao>n_ for the children would ■ have cubicles. Mrs Wells deeeribed the lat i ter term as being an. 