The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-27
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THE ITALIAN NOT LAZY.
"Our Children, Dey VIII Learn to BE
oueek, Like Desc Northland Peoples
LJauet Dale in Chicago News

! "Our Children, Dey VIII Learn to BE
/ Queek, Like Desc NorthIand Peoples"
Janet Dale in Chicago News.I
Turning, we follow the little girl and
/ her brother. AS we enter the rooms in
| the basement which is their home we see
q short man in whose ears CLEAN circles
of gold, sitting in a chair idly mending q
guitar. This is the father the miller,
/ whose @legs have grown seek with st it,
ness, waiting for the work he knows not
how TO get. The walls ere hung with
cheap, highly colored pictures of the ma
donna and various saints which are the
pride and delight of the poor Italians.
The mother is short and stout, too.
All / navaiT can get de work in de
| mills, speaks the father, hall smiling.
| half sigBing, as with an indescribable
Americanos dey go queek, queek. l can
not go so queek. better hat stay in my
own countree. But de boys, and he
rests hand on the little fellow who was
out with his sister and one still smaller;
de boys-oh! dey sail learn to go queek.
1ueek like AmericanOs. 1t Will den be
better fer dem Would I work." He
stretches out his hands and the careless
ness vanishes for an instant. Almost his
dumpy frame seems to grow taller.
Madame, l should be happee, but navair
can ] find it ALI / know not desc new
counuee ways, and so can do nothing
but seet-seet in dc house Americanos
dey say de lasy Italianos.' De ItalianoS
are not queek like desc people,
but dey are not lasy eff dey comes
here, fer dey comes to rake demselves
better. If lasy only dey wants to be dere
is chance enough in my own beautiful
countree where de sun shine and is warm.
4 No, no; dey comes not here where de sun
not shine and de skies keep dark and de
cold is so great to be lasy. But when dey
is come al is too queek fer dem-too
queek Everything too queek fer de
grown men and women, but the peanut
and de fruit stands, and de organ to go
round and carry. Dey say: All, de
eItalianos so lasy dey do nOddfng else but
desc tings But tink you is desc tings
easy for to do? All day, till late at night.
to stand at de corners wild de stand, and
early to go by de day down to de market
to buy cheap? Is it easy to walk all de
day wild organ on de back? All no, it
is not lasy-it is de Americanos too queek
for we. Our children, dey will learn to
be so queek as desc northland peoples so it
will be well wild dem. F"
1t is the one story of these despised for
eigners, these whom Americans are wont
to condemn as worthless, unwilling to
labor, only told in different words. ave
may not be bettered by coming to Amer
lea, but our children will, say these
people.
Meantime the child and her mother
have been whispering together in a corner.
The child comes forward holding her
mothers hand. Now that the shawl has
been removed from her head and the coal
CRIME from her face, we see that she is
very beautiful.
My mother say, she begins. with a
glance upward into her parents face, dat
she can wash vary goot. See dere, and
she points to some snow-white garments
hung on line at the rear
of the room "She would like,
oh! so much, and her voice takes on the
caressing tone of entreaty she had used
with the keeper when she begged him to
let her pass the gate, so much, madame,
if together she and l might nave work to
wash, to scrub, or make dishes clean.
The girl pauses and her brown eyes shine
while the mother mods her head affirma
lively
I'VE would go together every morning
and work hard, vary, if we might like
not to pick de coal-but we must eat and
be warm. All! so kind madame, she
concludes. artfully, find us de work dat
we may go out to do togedder.
3 1t is but humble boon the child asks
for herself and her mother-"to go out
together to wash, to scrub, or to make the
dishes clean, and to learn to be queek.