ys who play truant are certainly very naughty, they are not
necessarily wicked boys who need to be sent to a Reformatory. The
truant school has therefore been founded to prevent this. This school
is in fact a big boarding-school. The truants who are brought in are
housed and fed and taught. They are treated with the greatest kindness,
but are constantly under the eye of the teacher, and forced to study.

Any boy who misconducts himself in the Truant School is sent to a
Reformatory; but the other lads are kept at their work for a certain
period, and then allowed to go back to their homes, if they agree that
they will attend school regularly in future.

Boys who behave nicely are given leave of absence to go home and see
their parents from Saturday to Monday.

The boys are treated exactly as if they were at boarding-school, the
only difference being that they are never allowed to go outside the
walls of the school.

They have every comfort, with playrooms, and gymnasiums, and yards for
exercising; but out into the street they cannot go.

On the upper floors are neat white dormitories and bathrooms, and
washrooms.

Their only hardship is that they must study. They cannot escape their
daily lessons, nor the certainty of being sent to a Reformatory if they
give trouble.

The truants will have to stay in school till late in July, several weeks
longer than the regular schools. This is to teach them that it pays boys
better to be good and go to school at proper times.

GENIE H. ROSENFELD.

LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.

DEAR EDITOR:

My teacher takes THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, and reads it to us every
week. We like it very much, and it is always welcomed in our school
room. As you have answered some questions, would you please tell
me, in the next number, which State of the United States has the
most miles of railroad, which the least, and how many miles of
railroad has each? Wishing success to your little paper, I remain,

Respectfully yours,
E.R.
BALTIMORE, MD., May 1897.

DEAR FRIEND:

In answer to the questions in your letter, we would refer you to Poor's
"Manual of Railroads."

EDITOR.

DEAR EDITOR:

I see in THE GREAT ROUND WORLD the notice of a handless brush.
Where can it be bought