The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-02
TO GET MISSION FUNDS.
TRAVELLING SCHOOL EXHIBITS THAT
COME FROM the SOUTH.
Parties of Pupils Brought to show What
Schools Are Doing Among Negroes and
Mountain Whites Negro Songs and


The travelling school exhibit Is the latest de-
vice OF mission workers and others engaged in
similar enterprises. The vacation season Is
the time when 1t Is sho;;n and when catches OF
the best-trained pupils are taken about to DOM
onstrate what the school or college is doing.
"Only one out OF a hundred Of the people
whose money goes to the support OF these
schools ever visits the schools personally or
has a chance to see their operations ana re-
suits" said the President OF n southern mis-
sion school. $50 have brought on some o! the
more interesting students. not only to show the
advancement they have made personally, but
to point the need of education for tho others
| An evening or afternoon exhibit by these
| students does more to FIX the college and Its
needs in the minds OF the people | want to
reach than all the circulars and printed al
dresses, the statistics. and hard and fast facts
we can gather and send out. out OF
sight out of mind. you know. and when we
br ng these negroes or maintain whites under
the direct Observable ion OF the people apt 10 help
us. the sight oosens pursestrings better than
any other mode OF appeal. II the patrons could
! look in at the commencement exercises as
| they actually occur In their native rnviron-
mcnt. and with all the need for ctvi!IHing IN
6uencc showing out strUng, II would he It good
think. but few are either able or willing to 20
800 or 1000 miles for such sociological les
son. and for the past two seasons we have done
what is next best Thought the pupils to them"
This especial exhibit Of mission school work
has all itinerary planned out that will keep
| professor and pupils steadily the go until
September Chicago and Denver are the vest
| ern limits Portland. Ne. the northern Uoun-
Diary OF territory to be covered, and all the in
tervenin.. towns and small places in which
there happens to dwell any patron. either past
or prospective. Interested in the schools we'll
being will be visited. II lodging and entertain
ment for the party offered by private citi-
zens. well and good: II not they are taken
care OF Mt some hotel boarding house.
the end justlying the cost. Sometimes a
hall il provided for them rent free; OCCASION
ally a private parlor or drawing room Ia tho
scene OF the exhibition. In the larger places
the church pnrIors or the Sunday school as
sem lv room can readily be obtained Tor the
purpose. Although the entertainment Is not
often given on Sunday and is secular and IL
possible more amusing than instructive in
character. the phanthropc side OF 1t appeals
to the churchs hospitality.
These exhibitions are interesting. both on
account of the ingcnuousness Of The students,
who bend their energies to the putting the
lest foot foremost, and the anecdotes and
mission school incidents related toy the pro-
lessor while the students are resting. There
are seldom more than six or seven students in
the party. and those who can speak piece
we'll ac' lIttlo aiogue. sing songs or duets.
or play on III guitar. or on two or three o: the
smaller s,ringeh instruments in company, are
usually certain to receive applause. The price
| Of admIttnncc Is nominal. ofttimeS nothing, but
the fruits accrue later, when the professor gets
substantial check from some person or
persons in the audience who were moved to
interest bv the exhibition. II should like this
to 20 toward a scholarship for the needy girl
you told us about that evening the students
were in Blankton." will he the message with
one inclosure. A donation for the new dor
mtory you want to build writes another
quckened spirit. Put this toward the salary
OF the music teacher you wish TO engage" an
other corresI ondent writes, and good wishes
and good money for the school flow in.
Il could listen to that girl by tho hour. she
talks 40 queer said one OF two women at a
transplanted commencement exercise Of the
sort lately Did you ever hear ANYTHING IA
quaint rs the story she told about Mandv
i hnR and the ea'0'' tea and those mountain
} Il liked the dialogue whore the student with
the o,her mad" oye to her laughed myself
honrse over that, returned her companion.
, ton draneres anu pillow covers that the tai
glrl toId aahont We I must look at them and
I coors aud very Durable for den or for the
, chiIdrens room. We might get thus school
Illustrated poems. like Rock Of Ages.
The Maniac The hay"n." ana other ong,
Sss y nrs pop p nj these eXhiion.k IN
tHrsprinkIed with the --latest songs about Ma
3 Mia and the late campaign IN Cuba. and the
! singing of patriotic airs and OId-tlmc melodies.
/ | Whether th"s" bach woods boys aud girls sing
and speak about the one thing or the other.
whether about the latest sensation. the rag
time MUSIC. the humorous dialogue or patriotic
cnu.iou. they are themselves AZ THROUGH. and
different IN speech aud manner from any world
accustomed students commonly heard in tho
, Northern and Middle states .terhaps tbs
mountain girl student in attendanc" at the
mission school in North Carolina reads Il
, nHs"iy adopting the manner Of speech that her
, school course has educated out of h"r. Her
manner and the dialect are both exaggerated.
but sh" is "A unique ligure and there ~ sum-
! Client suggestion Of the peaks aud mountain
tarns she was reared among and Of the quaint
creeds Of her people to invest her with interest
apart from the Immediate periormance;, As
the E%d School and w's a"
collar and shirt front. his especially formal
ntt"rance and heSt. school exhihitlon manner.
cannot disguise his native accent and lngonu-
Gus ntorcst in the strange scene about him
. That - the first truennd. true Iagky song
!, verdict OF middle aged auditor who hal
brought his wife ana children TO the entertain:
Brooklyn church Gninttfit Of ilyG negro ,
own ,waylQg and hoMh cLnrpng and with true
aud cIa,,ped vigorously. They did that
chorus w"II, -a,irhent dle-aged man, Whom
Benuforts bridge during the war used to
. hear tn" country negroes sing Ike that. ard
! students have tie genuine infection. and their
mnloNlic~ ar" IN that hnif-s'accato halt
that stamp. them different To other songs
, Their, now they ar" g"i"G TO- SlnE ahont chilly
M Megr6 ,or arc "yer H H"on romance or aan
, tmCut. birds, flowers AMI ~" 'lN". hui about