New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-14
SCHOOL OF NAT7ONALlTIES.
FIFTEEN REPRESENTED IN NO 13-LIT-
TIE GIRLS THAT EARN MONEY
FOR EDUCATION.


| Three thousand and twenty-five pupils and at
least fifteen different nationalities satheleu - 81
| one roof, That is the story at Schooi NO To-
| No o2a East pouston-st where Miss Helen a
Stein Is principal of the grammar depai -,
ITO call over the countries from wnich o .Ia,,A
spring." says Miss Stein. would De o ga -,
most of the States of modern Europe with one ~
two OF Africa and Asia thrown IN II 10 80
Europe in which this school is located put o -
it springs the New America.
IF YOU asked me what nationalites we nave
should be tempted to answer: What haven
But that would be exaggerated we
negroes Chinese, for instance. I>
appied for enrolment that I know or but VIC
have Rumanians Armenians turks H -
Russians, Germans Poles Hungarlahs' E7
two Egyptians a few Italians, Greeks, ii
and a few Irish. These besides the Americans
PerhaDs Won expected there would be no Amer
leans for somewhat sensational stories nav -
printed OF schools where not Pupil hau r9 49,
for its mother tongue Although the liiS"S
the foreigner has been very rapid in TINS part %
the city there are many old settlers lett mere WI"
are Plymouth Rock Americans. They nave al
ways lived here and cannot be induced 10 leave "
the influx of strange peoples. There are 'e" %
fifteen truly Americans in the school, -
we have few Italians and Irish. VI f'ui
ans and Servans there is large NUMBER,
settlements having immigrated to Ne"-i0i "
recent years There two Turks VINO were -.
in Constantinople. One of the clevereS' an Ictt
refined of nv pupils recent years was d
girl who is studying at the Norman O0i'e
She came over with a sister and brother-
The brother was a gifted linguist' put OH dO
count of deafness had to learn trace al'ei -.
ing here He is doing well at IT, Inc elueI Si
married Southerner and the younger Will III
few years return to the school from WHICH Sic ~
graduated. to be a teacher herself . -.
From the time she eight years olu TINS
young girl has supported herSei. MANY Vi III
girls in this school their own living some
| tho
keen them: more often the mother is "luo"- y
girl will work ali summer in factory making ties
sewing passementerie braidInS sua" Aoi mats -,
making vomen's underwear. What she earns Will
keep her for the rest of the year. heavy nIdoi
work. tba, cannot do Some take a few piano les
sons and then set UP as piano teachers nave a
pupil now who IS doing that, ana sie Gid
cents lesson Others-and this Is more SUI +o7
stiI-become coaches drilling at nome the lesS
forn,ard children who are ambitious to get ahead
Some of those little girls of from ten 10 -FOUR
teen keep house for their widowed 1atners an nc
while they are attending school. livery siisie "
of Homework is done by their chiidlsh hahus-
They clean the apartment do the "ashiis' non,
get the meals mend, make their own dresses ana
trim their own hats. One such miniature kouse"it
asked 10 be excused early on fridays She sdiu
she had the cooking do But you can 90
great deal of cooking after o'clock oojecteu
AN hut 7 have the chickens TO cook, and chickens
take such long time she pleaded You see. sle
was a little Jewess and no orthodox Jew Willingly
makes his FRIDAY nlSht supper oil oI'-04
N" child out OF the sos in this school but is
~ refuse TO consider themselves Armenians or
Poles Russians: Why. you're Httle GIeIiL [L
eeo com Nc ma am She answered. 1 am an
1actafly, Ves he's German but / m an Amer
lean I'm a New-Yorker.' They all admit the SUI
f. some cannot speak the language of their
parents at al sf 5sag of 20 social inferiority
only in times OF excitement does me race c m
a fen c ffidag may speak English Very Well
calm but if in the classroom say she ien gGts sH
crop out. and the more excited she gets the more
she will employ them instinstysy she is t tTans
into English. Often the nationality OF + child can
4 do not believe those teachers who have schools
can neighoo tS tb lower East side These
ppiis % of mine s are charming They bright
eager TO learn. afectiqnate and poetry LOVING.
specf and courtesy being by teper9Inent IT NOR more
demonsrative than the AmeTicanf one ned OK bv NM f1
difficulty they experience in putting tnetr nin ma on
mot only they l9yIng.they are poetry
by writing verse and sometime their pTodUitlqnI5
the school four five brought me poetry they h1d
Anoth5r Ter virtue that they possess IS their pa
triotis; They are al heresIY patriotic s AmeT
s,,ne STANDING and inmcdateiy followed by the
salute to the flag They enjoy these exercises SX
70 Itbn schaoI and their teachers is boundIess.
The [iG are always anxious to stay in school; sspe
cially the children OF Hebrew origin i IiI4eT
Not only do they Ta9t to sTs man b vanta
WORLDLY good %5y sd @Gs as an Equipment for e
Where German will take his children our I oi
and equally poor will have his children go through
the High school ana pSTnap S SG te"1 rb FAMILY
win live nothing do it, but the Hebrew father
greater sacrifices for his boys than for his girls