Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-09-24
for them to do?


No one, whatever his work, is IN
affected by this crises. There are no
duenos, loading hundreds of pounds of
meat, yucca and corn upon their mules,
in the market on Saturday. Thus
those who sell in the market find no
buyers. No one is building or repair
ing, and all carpenters are lying idle.
But these cannot lie idle, and live. The
wages of everyone are so small, and all
prices are so high, that it is with
difficulty life is sustained when there
is work. The day in which a man does
not work, he fasts. Can you see how
really serious the situation is?
Personally, we have not been we'll of
late. In June, Mr.. Williams was again
attacked by the fevers, ana both
Newell and l suffered from them. Mr..
Williams and | grew better and went
on with our work, but Newell has con-
tinued i'll, with several days in bed
each week practically ever since.
Our work has been most strenuous.
When we opened the new college the
first of February, we anticipated an
enrolment of perhaps forty. We have
actually enrolled over 100. We have
but one teacher to assist US, a Colon
bian from Bogota. We have been
greatly handicapped by being without
equipment, with very few books, and
with no adequate place for holding the
classes. AS we were unable after two
months search, to secure any house,
we were obliged to open the sessions in
our kitchen-patio. The kitchen, with
its necessary noise of grinding between
stones, pounding, and breaking grains,
salts, etc, in the preparation of a meal
with all materials in crude form, on one
side, the noisy imported chickens on
the other (why is it that everything
American makes such noise?) the
babies in the midst, and over one-hun-
dred of us packed into the sweltering
corridors of the sunbaked patio-you
may imagine, but can hardly aspire to
realize, under what difficulties we
work.
In desperation Mr. Williams fixed
up an old COW stable, himself laid
board floor mo one in this town knew
how to do IT'D and part of mud wall,
and made blackboard. Here we put
the older young men, and thus have
worried through the long months. Our
school year will close the last of No
vember, when we have two months
vacation, during the hottest weather of
the year We teach six days of the
week, from seven a. m. until $3.50 p.
m. with only four hours off, in all the
whole day. 1t becomes rather tiresome,
taken together with the multiple duties
of the 'off" hours-such as buying
food, experimenting meals, mending,
receiving the endless string of visitors
and beggars, keeping accounts, etc.
etc. There are no hours nor even
minutes for recreation. Naturally, we
are all 'dull boys" and find ourselves
unable to think when we sit down with
paper and pen.
But there is one thing that do Try
to accomplish each week, to read the
Weekly News, and know what Bara-
boo people (who have been lent that
enchantment distance lends) did a
month or six weeks ago. | am glad
to see so many other people have been
finding out that Baraboo is one of the
prettiest villages on the globe and |
am always proud of having been born
in Wisconsin when so continually read
Of the prominent part our state
takes through her Legislature and uni
versity. in the advancing civilization
of the states. May she ever keep the
place which she has won in the van
guards!
(Mrs. C. S. Maude Newell Williams.