The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-11

Young American woman, Miss Brown.
The queues are well kept. The dark
navv-bue garments of the wearerS OF the
queues are of fine cloth, betOkening the
wealth and aristocracy Of Chinatown-tbat
is the merchants and the merchants sons
and folks of quality in the land. Long fin
gerusis and clean attesting the absence OF
hard manual toll.
No coolies these.
I'll Miss Browns grammar class Of the
Occidental Mission on Stockton street, Chi
nese studying English. Two Of them are
not 10 Most Of the others are more than
80 TIE little fellows have eyes like BEADS
and are cute auj bright.
None Of them are dull You never saw i
ten more eager 20 learn.
Let me see your paper, Chow" SAYS the
teacher. wv hat Is this Ireadingl w asdlng.
ton and Chicago were very great generals.
Why. Chow, that viii never do. Don't you
know what Chicago iS?'
d" Il inn wCmanW says Chow with rising
infection that is timid and uncertain. "Oh,
ye, Ye, him city like Chinatown"
But the latter know ledge only came with
many very broad hints and helps from the
teacher.
Now. altogether, read your lesson"
0mneS-W lille and Tom Willie and have
gone Willie and to visit Tom have gone TO
their Willie and Tom have grandmother
visit their Willie and Tom grandmudder
While Tom have gone gone 10 Willie to
visit 20 Visit and Tom their have gone and
Tom have 20 visit their their gTandmudder
grandmother grandmother.
II va, a brilliant attempt Miss Brown
smiled kindly. That is very coed, she
said, and perhaps il w8s-tO ears Rccus-
toned 10 worse. At all events 1t was the
Chinese idea q a chorus and /! sounded not
unlike their orchestral chOruses n their
heather theateTs.
But you haven; got the last word quite
right" said The teacher. SAY mother"
'MuddeT, muddeItb, murdeth. muthered,
mutteT, mutdrrd. Wutteth. nUTtheT- moterh,
mother" came the ten oriental versions.
well, that's pretty good. lis better,
and Miss Brown signed g little.
WHO knows what grandmother Is ,"
"A mudiers mudder.' answered little
Qnong as quick as lightning.
Quite right. Now. is il special name? ?"
The class was divided on this question.
is II written with a capital? No; then
II can't be special word, can ii? All spe-
Cial words are"
Written with capital letters" said
Quong.
"Wbat. all capitalist"
NO; only fust letter capital"
rs }he sentence q statement or Ques-
ton? Who can make a question OF it?"
And 50 on to The end Cf not very long
nor very dull chapter.
They are very willing TO learn" said
Miss Brown TO The CALL man. when her
pupils had been smiss-d They are very
much Ike children, hut they ara never petu-
LIANT ami cross. They study very hard.
That class that You just heard has only
been here one month. 4 month later they
viii begin on verbs and nouns"
Out IN tie big room were half q hundred
wpll-dressed Chinese struggling with the
mysteries If the English spelling book and
first reader.
Any one is welcome to come in and teach
the oriental mind how 70 sprOut into En-
gli>h thought and language.
HE CALL man took a seat beside a rich
Dupont-street merchant aud led him through
the maZHs CT ne cat aDd tie dog viii
" he horse eatS hav."
Him sclatch, what You mlean Q" asked
Lung, GUIDING no 70 The CALL mans
elbow IN soc.able fashion. "Oh, ye, ye
ale samee hurtee, bleed; We, ye"
he seemed very thankful for this brief
lesson. Otherwise be would have had o
help over the rough road, for the teachers
are lew ana the pupils are many.
There "eTT hat dozen women and men
teachers 10 The room, bUt though they went
from one 70 the other as rapidly as might be.
there were many neglected. 1t could not
be otherwise.
Ate o'clock short religious service was
held, and all the Celcs,ials Joined in tie
Singing q the English hymns.
1t seemed very queer to 4 stranger. n
deed % Is one Of the more edifying sights Of
Chinatown that the tourist should see more
than he does.
The school Is as free as the air. The
teachers are paid by tie Occidental Board
OF the Presbyterian Church, ami The most
that the pupils are required to pay is an oc-
easlnnal book OF some additional piece Of
furniture for their own use.
And many converts are made In this way
MOS OF tne graduates, IN flct, become at
tached TO the church sooner or later.
CEow says his mother don't want him
to become Christian" Miss Brown ex
planned to HE CALL man, "for she's afraid
he'll nave TO shave of his queue. But he'll
learn better soon, AMI perhaps after awhile
won be 50 Particular ABOUT his queue"