er many girls
of the highest classes show a greater natural refinement; and she was as
clever in every part of household work as she was nice. She finally
married a hotel-keeper in San Francisco, and is doing well.

Generally, the girls married mechanics and people above their rank of
life. Some became Protestants; those who married Catholics were never
bigoted. A number went to the West, and have done well there.

Mrs. Hurley reckons over at least two thousand different girls who have
been in this school and under its influence, since she has been there
during the past eighteen years. The condition of all these we know
probably pretty well. We count _but five_ who have become drunkards,
prostitutes, or criminals! Such a wonderful result can be shown by
hardly any preventive efforts in the world. Yet, there were certain
cases which we used to call

"OUR FAILURES."

There was the D. family--they lived on the lucrative spoils of their
infant, who sold toilet-covers to compassionate ladies. This little
Julia was an imp of deceit and mischief She had, fortunately for her, a
worn, sad face, and a capacity and imagination for lying unequaled at
her years. With inarticulate sobs, and the tears coursing down her thin
cheeks, she told of her dying mother and her labors to get her bread;
or, again, she was an orphan supporting herself and her deformed little
brother; or her disabled father depended on her feeble efforts for his
slender support. The addresses she gave of her house were always wrong;
and so, year by year, she gathered in a plenteous harvest from the pity
of the ladies.

At home, a little band of able-bodied, slatternly sisters were living
mainly on the money thus begged. They naturally became each day more
lazy and dissolute; and little Julia more bold and brazen-faced. We
tried to bribe the young beggar to go to school, we paid her rent, we
offered the sisters work, we remonstrated and threatened, we even set
the police on her track, but nothing could check or turn her; she eluded
the police as easily as she did the ladies. If she came to school, she
stayed but a day; all effort failed against the ingrained slovenliness
and vagrancy of the family; day by day they sank; one daughter was
seduced, and to their number was now added an illegitimate child. They
grew dirtier and more miserable; and here, years ago, we left them. No
doubt, Julia is still pursuing her profitable vocation fr