New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-16

,.~,,e 80 The daughter loved the movies,
and had four new hats a year IL was
sthe same old tragedy of the imm' grant
who finds life. but loses his family III
the promised land" Between the for
reign born parents and their children Is
ibarrier neither mother love nor patcInal
fear can break down. 1t is the barrier be-
tween the Old and the New World.
TO SCHOOL DANCES.
Little Lille began TO go to the dance
halls. too. And then. one day, there came
q smiling young woman to the 'lnSS
tenement.
WAS this Lille Bs<ovsh, so grown UP,
with the pretty ousls on top OF her he"u
Well. we'll well! How she had grown
Teacher" whispered Lille. with SIX
teen-year old rapture for an oider
woman.
And that was how II came about that
that very night Lille went 10 the pubic
school with her arm around the pretty
teachers waist, and in the big gym
tnasium she learned a new dancing step.
Her partner was a boy. who danced Ike
IAN angel" but did not smell OF beer
rINue liked him. She went again.
Before the winter was over Lille was
3 q member Of six girls clubs in the Public
School Evening Recreation Centre In
one she debated on woman suffrage and
Socialism. In another she learned to
make shirtwaists. In another she learned
10 cook. In the rest-she danced. Mean
time her father had discovered that the
light was better in the school reading
room than in the corner saloon ana that
Aaron Levi was almost his match at
chess Even Mother Barovsk occasionally
ACCOMPANIED her husband and daughter
10 the American School for a meeting
of the Minnehaha Womons Social Circle
The school had brought the family to-
pe.her Lille went no more TO tho tough
dance halls.
PROMINENT WOMEN INTERESTED
The story Of the Barovskis is by no
means unusual. II is because it is so
common that the movement TO open all
public schools for the peoples recreation
has gained such enormous headvay.
Backed by prominent politicians, clergy
men. sociOlocists, clubwOmen and teach
frs il is one of the things that seem
bound 70 come 10 pass The most famous
us well as one of the most hard-working
leaders Of this cause is Miss Margaret
Woodrow Wilson. the Presidents eldest
daughter Miss Wilson is vice-chairman
of the National Social Centre Legislative
Committee. and recently sent an appeal TO
clubwomen all over the country to indorse
proposed laws in their state legislatures
covering this work.
Mrs Percy Y. Pennypacker. president
Of the General Federation Of Women's
Clubs, is an enthusiast on the subject. as
are also Mrs. LUcretia l. Blankenburg,
wife Of Mayor Blankenburg OF Philadel-
phia, and Miss Jane Adams. Mrs. Wal
ston Hill Brown, Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mrs
Anna Garn Spencer, and Miss Mary
Garrett Hay. OF the Woman Suffrage
party.
President Wilson himself says
SOCIAL CENTRE MOVEMENT.
There has sprung up a movement
called the Social Centre Movement.
centring in the schoolhouses. suppose
that every one Of you has realized that
where the immigrant gets his real intro
duction to the life Of this country Is
through his children, who 60 TO the pub
lie schools. and that the children feel that
they are introduced into American life
sooner than their parents DO And when
YOU agine a movement which makes the
schOolhouse the centre Of the community
Of life Of a neghbOrhoOd, when you i'm
agine the neighbors gathering there In the
evening and going To school TO one another
in the discussion Of public affairs and of
those matters which concern all equally
you are imagining the thing which is like
~ to be more potent than any other TO
restore the original character Of America
Because I have always held. with JEFF
ferson. that the breeding ground Of Amer
ica used 10 lie I'm the town meeting OF
which everybody was a member and
where all public officers. local officers
without distinction, had to come and rem
der account of themselves
SCHOOLS OPEN AT NIGHT.
"And / see i'm this turning back to the
original practice Of American life. by
meetings for the discussion Of every legi-
innate public interest I'm the school house.
something like a return 10 our original
practices
In New York City nfty-four school
buildings are open at night for this res
toration Of true Americanism. Not all
Of them offer all things. Some are for
boys only some for girls, but others take
On the whole family, and these are the
shining examples to which the believers
point with the greatest pride In them
the fathers have their political and philo-
sophical debates. The fathers and moth
ers their neighbOrhOod associations. The
girls and boys their social dancing
classes, and everybody has athletics
galore.