The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-10-27
TEACHERS ADVENTURES,
EXPERIENCES OF ONE IN FOR
EIGN QUARTER OF NEW FORK.

tonous life. Adventures are apt to
diversity the course of their existence,
especially if their field Of labor lies in
the foreign quarters.
For instance, a man entered one or
the recreation piers near an Italian
quarter one afternoon not long ago.
He held very small boy by either
hand. A Kindergarten game was In
progress, conducted by the city kinder
gartner
On seeing the little boys the teacher
invited them to join the game. They
were too young. however, to compre-
bend either its language or, meaning.
They could not understand what they
were to do and were so slow in their
movements that they herd the whole
game back
The teacher therefore took them back
to the father, with the remark that
they were too young to play the game.
The man was an italian and sprang
Immediately to the conclusion that he
was being Disseminated against be-
cause Of his nationality. He leaped to
his feet shook his fist furiously in the
teachers face and shouted:
Il keepa da store; ! pay da tax;
you taxa my mum. You no TAXA my
children,
Visions of battle, murder and sudden
death fioated before the teachers eyes.
But with GOODNESS born of experience
in the schools of New York she said.
suayely, that the assistant teacher
could play with the two boys alone for
a while, until they learned the game,
when they could join the others.
In happy contrast was a sicilian
mother, a new arrival, as was pro-
claimed by the long gold earrings
dangling to her shoulders and the
bright silk Handkerchief wound around
her head. She brought her little Gino
and. Momina one afternoon to the pier.
They were invited to enter the great
ring Of children and son were playing
''The Muffin Man as gayly as all the
rest. The mother sat on the bench and
watched the game, her features express
siye of the keenest delight.
! When the Muffin Man was finished
they put little Gino in the middle Of
the ring and all the children took hold
of hands and circled round him, sing
ing:
|Oh tell us, little Gino, what YOU like
to play. oh look at little Gino. so hap.
py and gay,
Gino, who had been there before
chose "The Blacksmith" Then Cine
was the blacksmith, and chose one boy
flor the horse, and another for this
! driver. A harness was put on the hors
and the driver drove him round an6
round the ring, amid great excitement
until finally he stopped at the black.
Isnith,s shop, and the blacksmith shoe
him well while the children sang abou
/ Now, when she saw her Gino, thu,
promoted to the llinelight, the Stellar
mothers face fairly beamed When ii
was all over she went up to the teach,
Eer with shining eyes.
\ She could not speak one word 81
English, but she dropped on one knee
Eseized the teachers band, and kisset
lit. And the teacher, who never turned
II a hair when the man shook his fist ii
Hell DluSeHu& SEdTlGl= anu 4lOOkeuz d.
liz she had been caught. stealing.
| Then there was little Salvatore
with the soulful black eyes, who sans
lso sweetly in the musical games ant
who brought his kind teacher a 1O-cen
bottle of perfumery as a witness Of hi.
love. Two or three days later, having
3lspent the intervening time in at
enhance on the feast of Our Lady o
Mount Carmel, he came to kindergart
Ien in a factious mood.
Salvatore had stayed late to see til,
Fireworks the night before AS hi
family entertained friends from Con
lnecticut, New Jersey and Far Rocka
lWay, who had come in to attend tn
q feast; and as Salvatore had consumes
undue quantities of "gelati italiani,
lchesnuts and crimson frosted cakes
/ the. world looked dark to him.
The teacher bore with him, realizing
the demoralized condition Of things il
general on the morning after the feast
But the pier officer was not SO com
Iplaisart: and when Salvatore demand
led picture book being already seate,
upon one belonging the the school, tn
lofficer cuffed his ears.
Salvatore sat and brooded over tfi.
4 his black little brows meeting porten
tolsly over his straight little nose. /
was impossible to take it out Of tn
Ijanitor, but he thought perhaps h
! might do something with the teacher
she being a woman, and therefore, 1
Salvator's philosophy, to be depised.
Therefore, at the end Of the game
Salvatore demanded of teacehr tina
she should retrun his bottle of cologne
she having told the Jaintor on him.
why, Salvatore" said the teacher
! II didn't tell Mr.--about you. I'r
sorry he slapped you, and I hav
spoken to him about it. Your per
fumery is at home, but I'll bring it t
tlyou Tomorrow if you want it,
But Salvatore, still musing darkly o
his wrongs, chose to belive that tn
teachers refused to give dem present
\ back" Accordingly he went fort
and organized gang of boys wit
Stones. When the teacher started fo
home the stones began to fly, and, a
New York teachers not infrequentl
have done, she fled to her street ca
amid a shower of missiles and epitheti
Then there was little Johnny VIII
came to the kindergarten one afternoo
drunk--quite drunk. His elder brothe
HAD taken him tO a gallery IyTo1.a