ABSTRACT
The internal management is our next concern. If the inmates are, what they are intended to be, women of a better class, with the manners and habits of that class, if they are only admitted after strict investigation as to character, and with a doctor's certificate with respect to health, we fail to see what possible need there can be for the presence of a lady superintendent or even of an efficient housekeeper. These officials live in el:!tablishments in which money is a secondary consideration, and in which leisure is desired, so that the mistresses of the families may betake themselves to pursuits other than household ones; but in exact contrast to this condition of things is the case before us, for with us the purse is very light indeed, and time hangs very heavily.
