The San Francisco call., 1897-08-15

the results. Boys are always very indus
trious during the weeks Immediately pre-
ceding the Fourth of July-ants are regu-
lar lazy bones in comparison with them
and the proudest-s spirited of them will do
any thing but beg or steal to obtain enough
nickels and dimes to fttingly observe the
anniversary of American independence.
Are those same enterprising youngsters
going to let the only monument in this
City to the man who gave them Fourth of
July to celebrate fall to pieces in back
ward for lack of money to move it to a
place where it can be viewed with pride
| by US all? No, indeed; l won't believe
any such thing.
believe the San Francisco boys are 60
ing to do their part, and do it nobly, just
as the girls are going to.
And, by the way, those of you who are
brave enough and earnest enough to earn
the contribution that you send, do please
let us know how you earned it. We should
just like to know how you thought your
way out of the difficulty of being short"
on cash, and perhaps your experiences
and suggestions might help out others
who are quite as earnest, but not quite as
quickwitted and practical in their ideas.
During the past week L visited q num-
ber of our schools and had little talk
with over 600 of the school-children about
| their favorite books. | went to schools
south of Market street and north of Mar
ket street, in the Latin quarter, at North
Beach, at the Presdio, in the Western
/ Addition and in other parts of the City,
and it did my heart good to hear children
! in every school declare that the Life oil
Washington" and the Life of Lincoln"
were among their favorite volumes. Surely
we can safely leave the destiny of our Ma
ton in the hands of little ones who have sc
| early learned to love and honor it's heroes.
| And right here 1 want to say just one
word about these same SanFrancisco school
children. Brighter. prettier, neater and
better-mannered children l never saw in
all my life anywhere. And as for pen
manship-well, some of these little mites,
knee high to a grasshopper," as my
nurse used to say, write IN way to put
to shame many OF US grown up folks who
earn our livings by writing all the time,
and they all write with the greatest neat
ness and legibiIity, and, moreover, under
stand what they are writing about
about our efforts in behalf OF the poor
neglected memoria OF Washington over on
Mission street, for l had not the time at
my disposal to do the subject justice. This
coming week, however, the teachers are
going to take the matter in hand and tell
the children all about 1T.
a letter has been written 10 the princi-
pals of the different schools-ahd there
are seventy five dav and ten evening
schools in this City-.asking them to re
quest their teachers to give little talk on
| Washington and the debt that every
American citizen owes to him before the
fferent classes from the lowest primary
grade to the highest in the high schools,
and tell the pupils beside what The CALL
has undertaken to do and why. And L
hope TO soon have something very speclai
to tell you about this.
l wonder how many have been out 10
see that beautiful site in the park. wish
every one who is interested in the Work
in hand would go out there and look at
] that lovely, natural niche, and come back