O/D THE WORLD'S WORKERS. 



Some of the boys when they left the school 

 returned to their old habits of begging and stealing, 

 but there were others upon whom the lessons thus 

 given were not thrown away, and Miss Carpenter was 

 cheered again and again by discovering that the 

 efforts which she and her friends had made had been 

 rewarded by the rescue of these poor boys from a life 

 of degradation and shame. One secret of her success 

 was, that she always tried to keep her hold of the 

 boys after they had left the schools. When it was 

 possible she placed them in situations, and found 

 them honest work to do, and in several instances she 

 kept up a correspondence with those who had left the 

 country, sending them illustrated papers and maga- 

 zines as a token of her remembrance and continued 

 interest in them. 



In thus trying to keep a hold on the children 

 Miss Carpenter was sometimes successful, but oftener 

 she failed, so that at last she was convinced that to 

 save the children of the perishing and dangerous 

 classes ragged schools were not sufficient, because in 

 ragged schools the children were only partially under 

 the influence of the teachers, the greater part of their 

 time was spent in their old haunts in the companion- 

 ship of the degraded and vicious, whilst, worst of all, 

 they could come to school or stay away as they were 

 disposed. 



This Miss Carpenter felt very strongly was a 

 mistake. She maintained, that for the different 



