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LETTERS. 249
parental care in a separate Institution, where they could be
made, as it were, new beings. Major Venus accordingly
appealed to the public, through the “ Dagligt Allehanda”
newspaper, for the establishment of such an Institution.
The Bishop Wallin, and Mr. Wannquist, the Chief of the
Police in Stockholm, examined and approved of the plan;
but it was not until several years afterwards, or until the
birth of Prince Carl in 1826, that these two gentlemen
came forward and placed themselves at the head of the en-
terprise, and this so successfully, that the “ Reformatory ”
soon was established, and opened for a great many unfor-
tunate children, whose number in the capital had increased
year after year. In the beginning, both neglected and de-
praved children (or children publicly known as vicious, and
punished as such) were placed together in one and the
same Institution. But soon it became apparent that their
separation would be necessary. The depraved children,
comparatively few in number, stood branded amongst
those who were only neglected, and had always to hear or to
feel from their thoughtless little comrades the reproach,
“This you have done.” Besides, the Cain’s mark was only
too distinctly stamped upon their forehead. ‘They were
also, after having undergone their punishment, and when
they were handed over by the police to the Institution,
found to be so depraved, that they not only corrupted the
innocent ones, but also became highly dangerous to the
“ Reformatory,” in which a stop was put to their idleness
and vices, which roused their revengeful spirit, and their
desire — cost what it would —to free themselves from the
discipline of the Institution, in order to continue their
former dissolute life. It was therefore found necessary to
establish a separate “Reformatory” for these boys, which
in its exterior became a kind of prison, but which in its
interior was organized so as to afford ’them all the advanta-
ges of a home, and of a moral and religious education. Of
ten boys who have gone out of this “ Reformatory,” nine
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