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11 COSMOPOLITAN MISSION IS THE. MELTING-POT WHERE THE MEN AND WOMEN OF FOREIGN BIRTH.ARE FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THEIR ENSLAVING IGNORANCE WHIms Missionaries Are tha A. D. C's. to KinganV and ths Business of Those Crafty Interpreters and Shrewd Lawyers Who Preyed on tho Benighted Immigrants Is Becoming Less Profitable Day by Day Results of Work i Are, Apparent in Records Kept by the Police.

Great Educational f.ovement Is Spreadinz to Many Part3 cf the City and Bitter Enmities Brought From Native Lanc Are Forgotten in the Zealous Efforts to Learn the Ways cf the American Peopls Ga. loons, Coffee Houses and PocU room Give Way to Reading i Rooms, i INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY. AUGUST 19, 191 1. If- if; hp- it lit ill I 1 1 FEW mnrnlnrs ago there stood A I before Judge Collins. In police I court.

little woman with a Md, anxious face. Around hfr head mm tied a handkerchief, mat Americans call a bandanna. Her skirts were short, but In decided contrast to the fashionable hobble skirt. Through an Interpreter she told the court that Dan Pandula. like herself, a native of the Balkan countries of Europe, had swindled her out of Jili She and Dan had entered Into a partnership to run a eigners" boarding house.

They had agreed to "bank- their money at Sattlnger's saloon, a barrel house frequented by people of their tongue. It was Just another story cf ignorance of American methods and ilary and Dan are still wondering whether they cheated each other or merely misunderstood. Judge Collins has men of his court trying to figure out their financial status. Sattinger." the barrel house keeper, says he merely acted as keeper of the exchequer for the partnership. "Just another story of our foreign brother's ignorance of American business methods," said Judge Collins, commenting cn the misunderstanding between Dan ar.d Mary.

"She has had Dan arrested, but the doesn't know exactly why. She thinks ihe has been swindled, and maybe she but the chances are when the sky clears they will find they simply didn't know how to transact buMness according to the American system. Here Is Just another Instance of the need of education amors these people The majority of en are honest, but they get into tangles over money matters. I an g'a 1 that our people are beginning to vtik's an Interest in their affairs, and look-1. toward their education and moral JuJiCa Collin's reference to the fact, I' casing him, that "our people are to take an interest in their rs and looking toward their education ar.

1 moral betterment," leads to an Interesting story that of local missions- rks who are, as one citizen has put it," carrying the A C's to Klngan's hill." Where Many Foreigners Live. Kisgan's hill the elevation immedl-aiely east of the Kingan packing houses, end Maryland street, from Blackford street west to the packing houses. Is Its center. Klngan's hill is the home of several hundred men and women of tlrtti, most of whom work In the big acklrs plant. The majority of the reel-cents of the hill are from the countries of eastern Europe and In-tl-ila Roumanians, Macedonians, Greeks, Servians, Hungarians.

Bulgarians and others. But the hill does not begin to contain all of the foreign born residents, for they spread as far cast as Market street and there are many living west of White river. Nor does Klnsrun's employ all of for hun-rtroii are employed on railroad work. In ttruttuial iron plants, on city construction work and around the factories. H.

is possessed of a colony of people and there are many' tiers in the southeastern part of the city who are employe! on railroad work, rrihtwood has a small percentage. But th-j real center of thi foreign element is In the territory surrounding engine house No. 6, In West Washington street, and kn wn as the Kingan's hill district. The expression, "carrying the A. Cs to Klngan's hill" is an apt phrase -UBed In connection with the work being done to educate the foreigners.

The influx of people from the Balkan countries began, it nay be said. With Mhe first track ''ovation work in Indianapolis In I. They were needed here on the heavy construction work. and were Irought iu by labor agencies asked to supply laborers. Some were employed at that time in the Kicgan plant and.

as AS TO CHANGING ONE'S AM having one of worst; homesick days, and I may aa well till you about it, and have It over with. Home draws me with fuch inMsient force that I get an afternoon party three or f5nr Mann away from my own vine and Tr tre. To be. two thousand miles away ar1 ftcl ths heavy pulling of this cord whit Is fastened just below my left ribs. Is lufftr sgftr.y of the worst sort.

I feel iiorry for the children when I am Lomolik. There Is or.ly one really Ideal attitude for combined mother, and tnother-lti-law, and that is of cheerful and hustling capability. truth Is. the may exercise this most In her own house. If there is ever a time when the setting of our cn hurr.e becomes us It is after we come to the stage.

Py this V.rric we are tired of dressing and pa 5- Wc arc all flone with Beek-i-i? adir.lratiim, we are a little restless i.r.,ier from others, a little rvosis over sitting with folded hands Bid teir-J the visiting lady. At home whre thrre are a thousand duties press-i: trprn i s. we can put on our kitchen airors an 1 fl" around and be really much t-nre vivacious ant lr.teretlr. There are here in my dauchter's house when 1 a st the kitchen stove." and ns little pies. too.

for my r.d frL't-d- and forget that tri at and once In a while I it 1 the WrJrK vr the ironing, ml 'i aiive and Agatn the thi- rht of far from home, a ri-r in a strarce Und, takes hold r-e, ar.d 1 rfar'v of homesick-r it I that I p'ty the children; 1, pei-fiTi drearily E.r' 1 l.i as bad as t-'-r)n with his Jaw uj with t' tha'hc, sitting for-1 rrl ti.e kite! vn tire. It takes all rt ace on has not to say "Why -n -artti don't you have it I f- query might 1 1 person. "Why on i o- to case Is "be-I t. ty three months," and I v. i generally ril ti ot these people naturally are clannish, the newly arrived emigrants found companionship with their comrades of Klngan's hill.

The number Increased and soon' the foreigners were finding work In the Iron mills of Haughville. "Within two years the foreign, or non-English speaking, population of Indianapolis had Increased not less than three thousand, and some said It had grown to even greater figures. New Population's Problem. The newly acquired population at once became a social, religious and educational problem. The police found difficulty In adjusting their grievances because of crafty interpreters.

Shrewd lawyers also got their hand in the pie. and for two or three years the' grafters waxed fat on the earnings of the Ignorant foreigners. Con-, ditlons became so bad that the American Bible Society sent colporteurs, men who knew their language among; them, and from the moment the crafty Interpreters and their allies, the crooked lawyers, saw their game growing less profitable. Then something Interesting happened. The Presbyterians of the city decided to reach out and help the foreigners.

About forty or fifty years ago the founders of the Kingan packing plant. Presbyterians themselves, decided to build ft little church of that faith In West Maryland street, the purpose being to give the Presbyterians employed at the plant a house of worship of their own. church was known as Klngan's church for years, but was officially designated as 'the Twelfth Presbyterian church. It brought good results Immediately, but it has been only In the last few years that the black little edifice In Maryland street has been doing the most wonderful work In Its career. It has become the center of labor for those who are "carrying the A C's to Klngan's hill." The old church is now known as the Cosmopolitan mission.

its almost every nlghl In the week, there gather groups of foreign tongued men and women seeking to know "American language," as they put it. The project looking toward carrying "the A Cs to Klngan's hill" began in earnest in 1908. and now Cosmopolitan mission Is as well' and firmly established in the city's life sny school or church In It. The tor eigners call It their own and cling to it There are now mort than five thousand foreigners In the city, and It Is known that Indiana's quota of the Immigrants who passed the gates at Ellis Island. New York, last year was 10,536.

It Was No Small" Task. When a committee of Presbyterian ministers and laymen was formed In 1908 to do three things to defend, to educate and to deliver the gospel to the foreigners of Indianapolis it undertook no small The project developed an amazing magnitude. The Presbyterian workers obtained the services of Joseph Ilorky, a. colporteur full of earnest seaL me Aietnoaisis 100a up in xne iiauiau colony In South East street a work slm- liar to that being done on Klngan's hl by the Presbyterians. Fletcher Place M.

E. church became the headquarters toothache, I never have' met In my brief Journeyings to and fro upon this planet a set of men more obliging1 than the trainmen on these western road. They seem to me peculiarly genial. In our part of the world and on east of us there Is a sort of perpetual grouch peculiar to a train official. -He treats the -passenger with fine disdain.

It is as if he were puffed up with dignity like "vain man clothed In a little brier Really, seme people do feel that way. There was an old man In our town who lived and died In a sort of Abe Martin simplicity of spirit He never got "next" to progress or learned the first thing about social distinction. It never occurred to him that his wife wasn't invited to smart parties or that the men of the village did not consider hlra when they called their caucuses and appointed their committees. He enjoyed that large participation in affairs 'which consists In regarding everything and everybody In the community as belonging to him. regardless of their personal attitude.

This is really a fine old-fashioned quality, and I wish we all had more of it. But there was one little bit of vanity In the old man he was proud of his who had gone away and left the village of his birth behind him. One morning I met the old man hobbling along the street. and stopped as usual to pass the time of day. I noted a new Importance In his manner.

Soon it broke out in the announcement: "Shelby's cominV home on a visit next week." Shelby was hU son. though I nearly disgraced myself by forgetting or the moment whom he might be speaking of. The old man seemed to sense vaguely some lack of enthusiasm In my manner. "He's a kinductor." he said, eyeing me to see bow I would stand this announcement. I was duly impressed, and said humbly that I hopd he would come to see us.

"Ah, he'll come, don't you worry. Shelby ain't to ferglt his old friends Just because ho wears the brass buttons:" I have at times felt the scorn of those who haven't time to bother with me be-rauee of their brass buttons, but the uniformed people of the northwest are almost without exception kind, as are the Mi r- u- -tr -A -r TTT WQrk among ltuSKBM. But the test battle WM t0 fougnt at cosmopolitan mission, for there men were to be brought together who had been national enemies in the wars of eastern Cosmopolitan mission became a melting pot Into which all of the foreigners of Klngan's hill wero turned. for the purpose of bringing them out of it as Americans. That the melting pot Is doing its wonderful work Is evident by the police records.

There are far fewer arrests In the foreign quarter now than ever before. The men, women and children are learning to respect American law, and they wish to be good citliens. They sim- nlv MA nnt know bow tn conform in v. tnat they are ffolng to night hooU, to Saobatn and the chUdren to kin dergartene they are becoming a class to be respected. The new housing conditions are proving valuable in bettering their shop people, salesmen 'and saleswomen universally courteous and Interested, which is more, much more, than I can say for the majority of them In Indiana, at leastT; But you'll be wondering what this has to do with the toothache- Nothing, ex cept that the cold wind from off the great glacier blew upon me 'when X.was very warm and started a serious trouble wuh a wisdom tooth.

There are many "whys' In this vale of tears, and a wisdom tooth Is one of them. They say you cut your wisdom teeth after you arrive at years of discretion, but I say you are not really "wise" till you get rid of them, and then you are likely too old to nee the wisdom you have. Anyway the wisdom tooth was hurting abominably, and I mentioned it to the conductor, with whon I had become pretty1 well acquainted over the old Kentucky couple in our Pullman, who were centers of attraction for us all. "Would you tike to have It pulled?" This Is a fearful manner of calling a bluff. Of course I supposed there wasn't a dentist nearer than Seattle, which was still mile away.

"Ill pull it for you If you'd like." he continued in the most persuasive manner. "I always keep a pair of forceps by me." I would have been far less than game if I had refused. Now this may not have been an unusual experience. All soits of things happen on trains and it may be the custom of "klnductors" to carry their surgical instruments In their "clo'es" as Th stranger carries his cards In his clo'es When railway trains are runnlnr- I only set this down as a proof of the urbanity and general gallantry of western railway conductors toward ladles in distress, but It may mean something more. It may be indicative of coming perfection to be added to the Pullman car.

There are now. In addition to kitchens, diners, bathrooms, beds and drawing rooms, writing desks, stationery and ink. not to mention libraries. The trains of the future may carry chiropodists, manicurists, hhirOreseers and dentists, for all we know. One thing at least I will Im 1 ii TTT at in i 1 11.

-r L4 lJi rv. I 3 rt vr has condition of life, and. a new, pride been born among them. Work of Mies Brown One of the strongest forces in the work Cosmopolitan mission is a little, light haired woman whose earnestness and kindness have made her a welcome visitor the borne of evqry foreigner on the hill. She Is MH'B Delia Brown, a home missionary for the Presbyterian church.

She knows more of the life and desires of the foreign element in Indianapolis than any other woman, because she has been in close personal touch with the people for several years. Miss Brown's stories of her labors among the Immigrants are full of both the humor and the pathos of life. ono and with Mr. Horky to assist herr gets Kood results among Mlss Brown ooes not mlnce words In speaking of the abuses that have been CE press, upon you. If you get a toothache on the train and actually have the courage of your convictions in wishing to be rid of the offending member, mention It to the conductor: but if you haven't got the courage, don't, for you will feel so flat when he "calls your bluff." If there was anybody around who' professed his ability to' cure' homesickness ,1 would him leave, even If operation co nf ted in cutting away that sensitive spot neat the heart that aches like physical pain from nostalgia.

I sent' for an osteopath some time ago to treat my bad and ahe declared I needed psychic treatment and that she would give It to me. I sent for her in haste yesterday to. cure, my nostalgia She's been at the psychic -treatment all night (at least I suppose she has she promised to) and still I'm homesick. My doctors say I am a person who does not easily change her center. took thU to heart.

There's an old west room at home with shabby matting on the floor; no draperies to the windows and a lot of rickety old furniture. There's the bed my mother went to housekeeping with and the ugliest dressing case, which bought when I went to housekeeping. I thought it was so grand because it had a marble top. Several times I rjave thought of selling the dressing case to the secondhand store, but each time my heart has failed me, principally, perhaps, because the second-hand woman offered me so little for it and maybe, too, because we went to housekeeping with it. There's a rusty wood stove that has a song in it on winter afternoons, and there are two pictures on the wall, that hung in our "parlor" when I was a little glrL I have 'about come to the conclusion that this room is my center, and I'll never sell the bureau now, no matter what the second hand woman offers me for it, because I have decided what to do with that big jnarble top which causes the house- Cleaner to groan every time he moves the bureau out, end the man of the house to use strong language every time he knocks the camphor bottle or a glass of water off one of the ugly little "brackets" at each side of the.

mirror and smashes them to atoms. I'm going to use it for my heaped on her foreign friends. She sees their needs, too. and has ideas as to glv- Ing them their Just dues. "Theorlslng, delving Into magazine facts and stories, prophecies and sentl- ments will never, never do the work that places at home.

Why let. them be tempt-Is needed among the aliens of Klngan'a ed here?" BY hill and other foreign communities." says the earnest Miss Brown. "We who are working among (hem can see. much that needs to be done in the homes to Improve sanitary conditions, produce happiness and alleviate suffering. And the saloons, the coffee houses, the poolrooms and the street corners are not going; to help them Just as they are not going to help any one who wishes to lead a respectable life, You don't know how readily the majorl- ty of these people turned away from these places when they were provided with reading rooms and a night school at Cosmopolitan mission.

We do not tombstone. I have always had a reputation for economy though I begin to doubt that I deserved It and this will be my last example of frugality. They may carve on this marble slab at my head: "She's changed her center." And you may drop a tear as you pass by, for you may know that even though by some superfine quality of mercy I have gone to heaven, I didn't want to, and am probably homesick. This homesick spell may be due to the fact that we have been visiting Indiana people for a week or two in the cities round Puget sound, and calling to mind eld faces and old scenes from the early days of our lives together in an Indiana country town. Besides there were girls at the houses where we visited, gay, glad, Jolly girls' like those I used to have around me when my girls were at home.

How I reveled in the atmosphere of it; in the nonsense, the cluttered dressing tables and crowded wardrobes, the rings, the necklaces, hooks and eyes, the beaus and boxes ot candy, the Impromptu games of bridge at all sorts of hours, the singing of snatches of song and the sudden flurries of whirling to fragments of dance music. How I gloried in getting them ready for the grand ball at the armory, where the floor Is the finest in all the-world, and the balconies overlooked the Illuminations and fireworks of the harbor, for It was carnival week in Seattle And how foolish I was to feel such great Joy in the fact that my daughter, a sober little -matron of several years, was. Just for the time a girl again and going to. the ball. I have long outlived the wish to myself a girl and going to a ball.

There are so many things I'd rather do. Two years ago we decided at our town that we were getting to be old fossils, and that we must brush up a bit socially. We formed a social club of people both young and old, and to my amazement I found myself dancing a waits one night after thirty years of being "on the shelf." as far as dancing went. I thought that night that girlhood had run. back to meet me and that dancing was quite in my But it was a momentary Inspiration.

That was the end of it For one thing the youngsters TH III 1 r-7S T-T JOSEPH HOEKY want our American boys patronizing such places. Then why should we sit Idly by and not try to save our foreign friends from such a life. Hundreds of these for- eign boys are never allowed to visit such It Is aust such argument that has made Miss Brown win in her fljjht to upbuild the foreigners of Klngan's hllL She, with Mr. Horky and other interested nrrann, organized night schools that have had the effect of greatly Improving condl- tions among the city's aliens. Confronted -with' a lack of knowledge of the alien Miss Brown, with Other volun- teer teachers, began three years ago to teach In the night school.

Assisted by several foreigners. some of whom had been hero long enough to acquire a little English, they went to work on the A Cs slowly, earnestly, have scat- sat back and giggled at us old folk trying to dance, and refused to ask us out as partners, so we let the social club, go the next year, but withjiot very deep regret Grandparents do not desperately long for youth, but they do VJke to see their children capering about as they used to, full of the exuberance of youth. But we like to see them sensible, too. and Industrious and brave; we like to see them striving, as we strove, for homes of their own and for such reasonable prosperity as the hard times afford. The homesickness am suffering; today Is in part hesrtsickness over the cruel fate that takes my children so far away to make a living.

The tie between me and my children is so close, the cord Is stretched so far. Even when back at ray "center" In the old west room, that center Is constantly disturbed by the tension of the cord that reaches far across the plains and over the Rocky mountains. If the children should come home to live, there's no telling what, we might suffer. Nobody' ever knows what, of suffering, la in stored for him. We might all get so poor that we would have to eat corn bread till the hookworm got us, but I am sure I should never suffer from homesickness again.

because nothing would ever drag me sway for long; enough at a time to feel the pangs I am dying of today. I may. to be sure, yield to temptation occasionally and go over to the city, but this la doubtful. I had an awful lesson last spring on the follies of going- to the city. A friend of mine told me she was going to have some parties In May and was going to Invite ma I had been over to the dty several times and felt that my sleeves were not quite right and wished that I had! a hobble or worse still, got a hobble just after they were "out" This time I proposed to be prepared, so I sought the dressmaker early and turned her loose upon my clothes.

The results were fearful and wonderful a lot of things I can't sit down in and can neither get Into nor out of without Just after the excitement or the arrival of the clothes, the discovery that one dress was made with a spike-tailed train GO NTRY tered the English alphabet over the hill, for nationality, took aa interest In the The large number of foreigners who can wedding, and It was a really attractive speak a fair quality of English today Is affair. And. singularly, too, the two due, without question, to the humble be- young Servians were married In a Rou-ginning of Miss Brown and her co- manian church, the absence of a priest of workers on Klngan's bill. Judge Collins their. nationality making It necessary that has observed.

Its effect and so have the a Roumanian priest perform the cere-police. It Is harder to fool a foreigner mony. But this la America, the melting now than it was three years ago. The pot. and the marriage ceremony was foreigners are learning to love their new happy.

and it Is pathetically amusing The Christmas and Easter festivals on to hear them singing, in their broken the hill are also of a merry tone. On last tongue, such songs as "The Star-Spangled New Tear's day the young men of the Banner." "America" and others. They night school open house at the mis-do not forget their songs of the slon and It was one of the most enjoy land of their nativity, either, aridmin- able social affairs ever held there. gle them with the songs of America. Take down, the receiver of your telephone almost any evening and ask for the Foreigners Help office, which Is In the Cosmopolitan mission and Is maintained by the mission, and, no doubt, you will hear the night class In either a patriotic or a religious song.

They like to sing and none Is backward about joining in when a song is called for. Caste Is corp.o pnmugmvn old enmltle. and. prejudices rtep tha Juneral "lc order to set aside when some suggests the Picture back to relatives In the i old world. The picture Is taken with the Has a Political Effect.

surrounded by friends and tho This educational" movement at Cosmo- rie8t' tnu Rowing that the dead one polltan misaion has had Its political ef- Properly bestowed in hU last re.Unc feet, too. When the Influx of foreigners ce' 1 Mr. Ilorky sees much of the sad side cf first began there was a wild rush of the v. their Uvea He goes to visit the sick ana political brewers, the saloon keepers, the frequently fcnds some In want who are ward heelers and political trlckstere to too prou4 to beg or to ask assistance get control of the votea And the votes trom tnelP countrymen. of the foreigners counted for.

much in Cosmopolitan mission and Its kindred some recent elecUons affecting county alda to the alien are truly doing a great and city offices. The politicians were among Ihem In every branch of life. eager to be 'their friends and to help jn Haughville Mr. HorHy and his asslst-them get their coveted "first papers" for ants u.e half of a double house as a admission to American cltlxenshlp, this achool and mission. There they have a being necessary they could vote, kindergarten, a night school, meetings ot Miss Brown tells several amusing stories mothers' clubs and other gatherings.

The of how the name of a certain well known McCulloch Club, an organisation doing local politician, now retired, was uttered ettlement work, has done great good by the foreigners whenever voting was among; the aliens of Ilaughvliie. The mentioned. If they were asked who was Christian Temperance Union the greatest American the chorus and the T. M. A.

also have helped la ably would be his name. Of course they the good cause. CONTRIBUTOR jumbled the name In rolling it over their tongues, but she and her fellow-workers knew whom was, meant. Miss) Brown has 'decided views on the subject of franchise for the foreigners. She believes they should be educated as possible to an understanding ot th franchise and she Is drilling it into them as hard as she can.

Mtes Brown is inclined to be so strongly d0a haTe 'opinions on the subject of the foreigner's privilege I voting before he can do so Intelligently. She Makes a Comparison. "Our. American boys must wait until they are twenty-one years old before they ran vote." she roes on to sav. "and I wonder when women will be thought to have enough intelligence to express their wishes st the polla We have to pay taxes but we can't say how we would like to pay them or what shall be done with the money after they are paid.

But a poor 1 Ignorant foreigner can come to America, and fall Into the clutches of a politician as soon as he lands and re- main his tool until he sets smart enough to vote Intelligently. I notice' that one of I never will need in my native town, where people (Including myself) would be sure to fall fiat over it. and even before the payment of the bills, a strange silence fell between me and my. friend I a in the city and by ana i xouna oui she'd had 'em without notifying me! "This Is my only effort to enact "The Glory of Clementina." As "this faded, I shall never have the heart te try It again. But there may be some, one who would like to have me, sleeves and alf, and I won't say I will not go If Insisted upon.

But an Interurban. train headed for my "center" leaves the city every hour, and I shall claim the privilege" of taking French leave if I get a sudden notion to see the baby, or set a hen, or make a hotbed, or can beans, or make peach butter, or do any. of the things much rather do than "visit." There is really not much of the stranger and the pilgrim about me. I am terribly rooted in this It's not that I am so much set on Its pleasures and Its follies, for I get along wonderfully well without them. Neither Is It because at home there are any great, beauties to look at Indeed I am sorry there are not more.

I went to lunch with the daughter of an old friend in Seattle tbe other day and found her home unique in character and It is like a summer cottage, but they live there all the year round. Tou cross the beautiful blue lake circled by fir-clad hills and land at the foot of the hill against the house of my friend Is perched. There's a magnificent front porch all gay with brilliant flower boxes and the house is all brown tones with lovely casement windows and woodbine clambering and peeping In. There's a huge wood fireplace and a grand piano and a drop-leaf table where they dine In one end of the living room. There are four bedrooms and a kitchen with every convenience known to kitchens, and that Is all save the huge trees, the lovely ferns, the wild splrea and the silence.

As i sat on the veranda looking through green' branches at the shlmmerlnr, sunlit waters of Lake Washington I sighed a little with Just a wish that my home was set in a place of more natural beauty, for I would admire a sheet of water to the first-things our foreign brother does, after he gets a tittle education. Is to begin to think for himself. No ward work's or saloon keeper has the final say then. Somehow, the foreigner begins to take pride In his vote as 'soon as he gels acquainted with Its value." The new spirit of education Is having an effect on the social side of Indianapolis- alien colony on the west side. Last Jure one of the bright young Servians of the night school sent to the old country for his sweetheart, She came here, a stran-ger in a strange land, but all of the men and women In the school, without regard Photograph the Dead.

The sad side of their lives has Its welding Influence, too." When one of their number dies the friends of the departed see that he has a decent burial and that all of the rites of his church are observed. One strange feature of their concern for the dead Is that they always The reading rooms of the Cosmopolitan mission are open every evening except Thursday and Sunday. It Is Interesting to see the folk from the old world gathering around the tables to read newspapers and periodicals from home or to plunge lnto nlM book written In their tongue, Even little children find pleasure in the books of that little library. In the read- lng room, too, the visitors write letters home or prepare their lessons for the night school. Night school attendance at times raa as high as three hundred dur- ng the last year and it seldom rails below thirty, evea on hot midsummer nights, From eight to twelve volunteer teachers are always on hand.

Evenings also are riven over to the mothers and children for entertainments and pastimes. The kindergarten, which Is largely attended, is In the charge of young- women from the TeachersVcollege and they do a great work among their little charges. Little boys and girls of three years sgo. when the work started, are now growing up to be valuable assistants In. the work of -carrying the A Cs to Klngan's hill." IIERSCHELI look st every Indeed.

I have Imagined that If I had a river or a lake to look at in moments of pressure pon the vital essence of life, I might be a better woman. Tou perceive I do not speak up for a There is only one mountain I'd have for the asking all the rest are mere wastes of rock and earth. There's only one mountain which has 'done me good and to which I might win lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help," and that is "the mountain which it God," as some one has called Mt Tacoma. The experience of looking-at that mountain is so great that It really Iarts a lifetime, so I don't wish fcr It, I have It But I do fuss a little with destiny because I haven't even a "branch" or a fish pond in sight, when other people have whole lake's and sounds and "bays and oceans to look at In contrasting this friend's home with my own, which Is, perhaps, a thing we never should do, I take comfort in the thought that, perhaps after all, I shouldn't like to come and go in. a boat; maybe the silence and the slrht of the water would grow monotonous as the years go by.

Perhaps tbe variety of the seasons, the atmospheric effects of shorn fMds-end the far horizon, the eight the plowman breaking ground In the field behind my house In the early spring, tl.a splendid panorama of autumn as' we have it in Indiana, the winding roadways and grassy lanes, even the potato patch across the street the blackbirds -hAru-r. ing in the maple trees, maybe Just inunaerscorm, wnn trees Dripping' an 1 robins chirping after It is over an-t t. April sunset flares out In prirnro oh, help! help! What's the talking about the home's where the heart Is, and Is in Indiana, where Rllpy writes poems and Steele ralnts his picture my. folks used to be "jo harry tn.l pore." We're pore enough yet, ia aa conscience, and. when I tack we sd: c'l Yf happy without a lake or a riv, thoush I'd like powerful wt'l or both.

There are no unur tut i -disposition. I'm free to mv th- many thttics In tins Us tnat I'd like to have IJ Lc: 3 v. i ma,.