The Republican journal., 1916-10-26

One member, on observing me at work,
exclaimed, "Oh, doesn't she look old
fashioned; and | began to seek for the
application; ard if il be in a determine
ton to make the most of every oppor-
tunity, and an honorable struggle against
the New England nightmare, Debt. in
herited from my ancestors, then l &C.
cept the gentle reproach of my friend.
Another member said, 81 don't see how
you can knit and talk at the same timen"
l referred her to the Century dictionary
which defines knitting as IAN occupa-
ton for the hands which leaves the mind
unemployed and permits conversation.
Even the men expressed an opinion.
Three pairs of mittens for dollar!"
said one, and | knew what else passed
through his mind, though he was con-
siderate enough not to say it.
But was not seeking compensation in
financial way from the church, and
when these irrelevant questions and I'M
tenable remarks were over, l knew the
field of knitting was mine.
At the cruel expense of infantie para
lysis our stay in the home city was pro-
longed beyond our expectation, not how.
ever beyond our qualification. But all
things come to an end, and the time
usually devoted to the schools found US
travelling westward, in company with an
old acquaintance with whom it was a
pleasure to lunch and exchange travel
ling courtesies, and finally, through the
| fundamentally of waiting friend, to
| give her the assistance needed before
beginning long, lone journey to Sac
Paulo, one of the most Furnishing cities
of southern Brazil, containing several
| professional schools. Originally it was
an Indian village, in which the Jesuit
founded a mission in 1854 The State of
| Sac Paulo, of which it is the capital, is
! the principal coffee producing State, and
one of the richest and most populous in
the empire.
The same dense fog that piled the
steamer Bay State fast on the rocks of
Cape Elizabeth, enveloped US from
wharf to wharf, and the fog whistle
shrieked continuously. Barring the ac-
| knowledged ability and seamanship OF
! the Eastern Steamship Corporations
captains, l do not know why we did not
land on Cape Elizabeth instead of the
| Bay State. When the sun shines l am
an optimist, can even be CHEEKY in bad
weather; but on soggy, foggy night, it's
different. Then l doubt. When the sun
| shines l am pretty well, l thank you;
| when the fog envelopes me in sticky,
damp blanket, l feel all my old COM
| plants, l know my liver has turned over,
and l am pessimist The hours wore
on however, but occasionally l had to
| groan inwardly at the remembrance of
fifteen or twenty things l had planned
TO do Immediately on reaching home Sat-
urday, but in the main ocular patience
prevailed.
Anxious though l may be as l leave
F, the steamer, l can never fail to notice
the swarm of ragged, unkempt children
! on Atlantic avenue, surrounding the en-
trance to India wharf, Fancy, if you
can, you who were brought up in the coup-
| try, what it means to be member of
| poor family in the city slums during the
period of intense heat. Never to have
any air that has not been cooked by it's
| contact with hot pavements and heated
| walls; never to see bird, except the
i poor creature in confinement; never to
pick the berries fresh from the vines;
never to see the bee and the butterfly in
! their native environment; never to play
| the game Of childhood out in the open,
or wage warfare with the new mown
hay-this is not, rightly speaking, to be
child at all.
In contradistinction. there lies spread
before my south window, the school gar.
! dens of the Waltham Home Garden As
sociation, which it has been my pleasure
| to see cultivated, under the expert d.
rection of Miss Louise Fay of Waltham,
Mass, graduate of Amherst. A large
; tract of land in the rear of the High
school property, was provided for the
work through the courtesy of the owner.
Children of the fifth grade prepared the
ground, did the spading, spreading about
five cords of dressing. and marking off
ITO garden plots, each 7x18 feet. To
each boy or girl one of these plots
was assigned, and in some cases the
| young workers cared for two plots. The
children assemble Monday and Thursday