The Social Monitor and Orphans' Advocate - 1844

THE SOCIAL MONITOR AND ORPHANS’ ADVOCATE. DEVOTED TO DOMESTIC EDUCATION, AND THE PURIFICATION, ELEVATION, AND IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIAL LIFE. Boston, February 115, 1844. Volume Three – Number Two. Pgs. 9-16 (complete). Articles include The Little Mourner by N. Heston; Education and Insanity; A Touching Incident in Real Life; Does She Love Me Still?; Boston Female Asylum; Address of the Rev. Mr. Barrus; Our Plan of Operations For The Benefit of Needy Children; Female Beauty an Ornament; Clothing For Children; Pauper Children in Massachusetts; Places For Children, Children Needing Homes, etc.

The paper was “devoted to domestic education, and the purification, elevation, and improvement of social life…..and the advancement of the cause of the orphan. And in promoting this cause, it is urged that he should be placed in the family, as the only situation fully adapted to his wants. It is maintained that the poor-house, and even the orphan asylum, however well conducted and arranged, cannot fully supply the peculiar nourishment required by the young shoot broken off from the family stock.” The Social Monitor also “seeks to promote domestic happiness, and the social virtues, and the proper education of children and whatever will lighten up and gladden the vale of life, every where; it inculcates the spirit of kindness and good will; of benevolence; of forbearance, in all the walks of general, social, and domestic life.” Vg cond.