New-York tribune., 1901-08-25
pie and will bear fruit In the increased care and
attention given their simple homes
ANXIETY FOR "LARNIN'."


ANXIETY FOR "LARNIN'."
To visitors were distributed papers magazines
and pictures. Often. however, when something
to read offered. came the pathetic re-
mark: II h'aint got larnin'; 1 never had no
chance, but I like pictures" Singuarly touching
mo chance" that their children should larn some-
thing Children who lived at distance would 3Si
al the Gassss Several girls came 70 the town 6i
the the EF
Sas; @ f6s shia$sa SsE$ssd 81, ,ssS
ca6 In tae small neSysd M 'hsS &
Sundays there We're music and singing and a l sun
but they were glad to purchase New Testaments
1T it was was singular fac! that the boys were
eager TO learn to cook and sew as the girls and did
rolled in the cooking classes. forty In the kinder
t G IN the the Sewing nd IL
help in any way. One night, when there, was a
the salrg nEht guard 70 5s %shs 6s
% to t? ae and wr
70 boy that they could not live without liquor Han
nh n aS es Gi to
was 9ns hen IN h9 SGu part the Of
Pd children fed to p The & FOR m a 9ns &
On the Fourth of July the members Of the camp
]Sssa anss 'ss too Snd the
sang patriotic songs 10 its accompaniment. The
lowed by an address on Christian Citizenship,"
delivered by the school teacher OF the district.
EAGERNEsS FOR READING MATTER.
An event in which the settlement workers took
a deep interest was the meeting OF the Teachers
Institute. They decorated the schoolroom where
1t was held with Japanese lanterns. kindergarten
chains cedar boughs and tin covered with
tissue paper and filled with the beautiful ferns
so abundant In the mountains They also washed
the windoWs-which must have been as useful an
object lesson as any other-hung pictures and dis
and girls who have had little education themselves
are ambitious and anxious TO uplift their people
have periodicals mailed to them; Their addresses
willing 10 mail magazines and papers regularly
pleasure and profit this brings are beyond any tell
Ing When told of the travelling libraries the peo-
pie for them. and the promise that
they should he sent was gratefully received; In a
letter from Miss Stone she said: After the adj
IN many m ysd US sp no get w sf6oo
the bridge at the Forks OF the Troublesome TO
bid them goodby, and as they started 10 walk
five. ten. twenty miles to their schools, with their
literature in bags and calico pillow cases over their
see 6e ev %o be a to- mall h
papers and magazines to the mountains
yiIoH, N0nnt5in cnnn,rv wrote that the children
had To tear them in two 10 make them go around.
hoos s and @ nnd
the table was tin can bound with white paper
and nllei with growing ferns. and above portraits
OF George and Martha Washington hung the Ameri-
flag. exactly an the teacher had seen II at the
institute
a teemster met the workers one day with:
'Beant We the women that passed through the
mountains last summer and gave out purity picture
books Receiving an affirmative answer, he said
Il live fifty mile back In sight OF Black Mountain.
but me and my gal was In wagon comm 10
jackson. and ye give her book. and she has II
yet; and wouldn't take it's weight in gold fur IT
to-day
1t. With deep regret" says Miss Stone,
that left this place. None OF could bear
10 look back the hill after the tents down.
The last nght invited everybody UP 10 q camp
hre. and about one hundred and fifty came. We
had prayers and singing and number OF most
apprcCiative speeches. The words OF praise for
US and work were fairly embarrassing. The
whole town assembled say goodby and school
not opened until we left.
"On our way home stopped at evsry school
on the route 20 put up pictures and flags We
came 70 one dreary school when It nearly
dark md after every one had gone hut the door
stood Hospitality open. We went in put up pictures
and aaEs and kindergarten chains and left some
reading matter on the desk. There must have been
some wondering and surprise the next morning"