CHILDREN'S HOMES.

Industrial Home for Girls.

762 SOUTH TENTH STREET.

Chartered in 1859.

The object of this Institution is to afford a home for such poor girls, orphans or half orphans, over the age of ten years, as may be brought by parents, or received under the approval of the Judge of a Court of Record for the city and county of Philadelphia, or any President Judge of the Courts of this Commonwealth; to dètain, maintain, educate, and control such girls until proper persons can be found who may be willing to receive them as apprentices to some useful art, trade, calling, or employment, when, with the assent of any Alderman or Judge of a Court of Record of the city or county, they may be indentured until the age of eighteen years.

The Committee to receive applications for the admission of girls into the Home, or from persons wanting. girls, meet at the Home every Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.

The Western Home for Poor Children.

FORMERLY THE WESTERN PROVIDENT SOCIETY AND CHILDREN'S HOME.

S. E. CORNER FORTY-FIRST and Baring STREETS.

Incorporated April 8, 1857.

The Managers and Trustees of this Institution are authorized by its charter to take under their guardianship poor white children under the age of twelve years, who may be intrusted to their care by their fathers, mothers, or guardians; also such as may be committed to their management by any of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, the Court of Common Pleas or Court of Quarter Sessions, or by the Mayor of said city.

It also assists poor parents, supporting themselves by boarding and lodging their children temporarily.

Southern Home for Destitute Children, formerly known as Union School and Children's Home.

TWELFTH AND FITZWATER STREETS.

The object of this Institution, the corporate name of which is "Southern Home for Destitute Children," is to "afford a home, food, clothing, and schooling for destitute orphan children, and for such poor children as may be neglected or deserted by their parents." Such are received under twelve years of age, and are retained in the “Home” until suitable permanent homes are provided for them, when they are indentured until they arrive at the age of eighteen years. It is not sectarian, and is supported almost entirely by voluntary contributions. The Committee on Admission and Discharge meets at the "Home" every Friday morning at eleven o'clock.

The Northern Home for Friendless Children.

CORNER TWENTY-THIRD AND BROWN STREETS.

For the support and tuition of deserted, friendless, and destitute children under twelve years of age; with power to provide them with suitable homes until their majority; thus diminishing idleness, pauperism, and crime, promoting industry, and rearing useful citizens instead of pernicious consumers.

Connected with and forming part of the Northern Home is The Associated Institute for Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans, occupying the first building dedicated to this work in the United States.

This Institution is designed to provide for the young children of parents who are prevented from keeping their families together and supplying their wants, but desire to contribute partially towards the support of their children. The payment of a small weekly board for each child, although quite insufficient for its maintenance, preserves a feeling of independence in the parents or guardian, while

the Home makes up the remaining expense, providing good food, clothing, medical attendance, schooling, and the watchful care of a faithful matron and capable assistants.

FORTY-FOURTH STREET AND HAVERFORD ROAD.

The object of this Institution is set forth in its name. It can accommodate about 100 inmates; about 85 are now under its care. Children are admitted from 18 months to 8 years of age; they are indentured chiefly in the country until 18 or 19 years of age.

Girls are free at 18; boys at 19 years of age.

Secretary, ELIZABETH C. LOWRY.

Attending Physician: Dr. William Dixon.

The Orphan Society of Philadelphia.

THE ASYLUM IS ON SIXTY-FOURth Street, neAR HAVERFORD

Avenue.

Orphan boys of married parents received from one year old to six; girls from one to eight years of age.

The

boys are indentured at twelve, and the girls when fourteen years old. Places are wanted for healthy, welltrained boys.