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Show THE HEW SCHOOL Superintendent Bartoa Delivers a Dissertation Disser-tation on Inccrigibility and Its Various Seine lies. THE SALT LAKE CONTINGENT. Some Giddy Girls Who Make Life a Hollow Hol-low Mockery for Their Keepers A Plain Story. Superintendent Joseph Barton of the territorial reform school, was exchanging exchang-ing romances with Captain Greenman this afternoon when the chronicler sauntered into the chamber of fate and subsided in an arm chair. It is not often that the multifarious responsibilities responsibili-ties of his position permits tho superintendent superin-tendent to indulge in a trip to the metropolis, and having had the application appli-cation of the Widow Carlson for admis sion to tho institution referred to him, the captain took occasion to consult the visitor. "I don't know what the magnitude other digressions from the straight and narrow path may be," said the superintendent, "but if the daily, papers pap-ers have told the story correctly, hardly think that there is such a thing as Complete Kedemptlon. 1 have seen this very forcibly demon-! demon-! strated in the case of more than one I client who has been sent from i ion. There is one girl who is a verit- able virago on a juvenile scale, who is ' about as susceptible to the means of ro-I ro-I demption as a confederate bank note, i Sho seems to have been born with I an awful fate, and while there is hope I as long as there's life, it is simply a I matter of liberation when her nature j will burst its fetters and assert itself. I have resorted to All Varletie of Ordlnrjr lleproor, but it falls liko so much water on a duck's back. Then, too, tho admission of these exceptionally virulent types must necessarily bo the objects of such an institution. I sometimes believe them to have been horn with a species of insanity overhanging them. They are the "helpless slave to every impulse. im-pulse. When decorous they are so to an extreme that is almost picturesque. The same applies to the other extreme. ex-treme. It's all right for the disciplinarian discipli-narian to talk about the subjugation of the unruly idea through heroic measures meas-ures but my observation has been that severe treatment serves only to aggravate aggra-vate the evil. Incarrigibility is A Hmrd Iliifm intrf.nl. n iriven remedy will effect the same result in two cases. F;speci ally is this true , of the gentler sex whose moral intirmtties generally assert themselves with more force than those of tho stronger. Why you take a well developed case that is now being handled han-dled at the reform school and I venture that she is a source of more annoyance than a dozen boys. She appears to be as far beyond self control as she is beyond be-yond that "of her custodians. 1 don't want to nieution any names but this has reference especially to one of the inmates who was sent up from Salt Lake. She is not bigger than your thumb, but heavens, what a rebellious nature she has. 'Whip me if you waut to,' she says, 'but I can't help being ! bad.' Now that's very nearly A Forlorn llopr. And yet I have seen examples wherein where-in tho subject was redeemed when all hope seemed to have vanished. "And what's Salt Lake's contingent at the school?" was asked. "Of the five girls now in the institution, institu-tion, four are from Zion." "And their names?" "Well, there's Mary Crout, Lottie Phillips. Susie Green and Hanna Hutchinson, Hutch-inson, ail of whom are in good health, but some of whom are hard candidates. I However, everything that experience I suggests is being applied and perseverance persever-ance may accomplish somelhiug." There are now forty three inmatps in the school, ranging'froin 0 to 1H years ! of age. Of this number but five are girls. The probabilities are that th.! Widow Carlson, who recently had Frank Baker arrested upon the episode in the bath house, will be compelled to remain under the parental roof and receive re-ceive her chances for reform from that source. Superintendent Barton left for his , home this afternoon. |