Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-10

, enlisted, and an unused room IN Inc
| Will building, the most centrally To-
Gated of the city schools, was placed
at the disposal Of Miss Yegen and her
associates. The first sessions in the
viii school were held Tuesday eve,
ming of this week, and the greater &C
cessabiiity of this location has result
, ed in greatly enhancing the attend
ance.
Twenty-six has not been set as the
limit of enrolment. 1t is believed
that this number can be doubled
There is being considered the 0rgani.
cation. of a seventh-grade class, espe.
cially for domestics and other older
young people who had some educa'
tional advantages in their youth, but
who were compelled for some reason
to leave school at an early age. The
average age OF the student body at
present is eighteen. Few run much
! Younger. and number are consider.
ably over twenty.
Is It Worth While?
At the invitation OF the volunteer
schoolma ans, a Commercial club exc.
cutive attended one OF the early SEES
sions in Mrs. w. @. Wards home.
He found d large table surrounded By
sturdy, intelligent young men, busily
pouring over books, or stumbling
| through Rotations in broken, but rap.
| idly improving English. In another
room were several young women, we'll
dressed, with good faces and good
| manners, whose studies were being
directed by another teacher. There
were in all five instructors, and indi.
yidual instruction was being given
| every student 1t was an exceptional.
" bad night, and only a dozen were in
| attendance. The previous night
there had been twenty or more.
The young men and women showed
no embarrassment or self-cOnSciOus.
ness. They were intent upon their
work, and they gave no time TO even
casual inspection Of visitors. Occa-
sionally, when a student mastered an
especially difficult twist Of English
letters there was little exclamation
OF triumph, but a more orderly school
room would be difficult TO imagine.
And there was not face in the lot
which did not have character. and
lots OF il, behind it. There were some
faces there which especially impress
ed one with their strength; which
when read through, left one with the
conviction that if that one young man
were placed upon the path to construc.
tive American citizenship, the night
school would have accomplished a
wonderful thing for Bismarck Yes
it was decidedly worth while.
American-Born Foreigners.
One or two there were who may be
classed as American-bOrn aliens. AL
though all of their life has been spent
in the land of their nativity. they have
never mastered the tongue of Their
country. Some remembered few
months of schooling in the long ago
and they retained smattering OF
English. but all of their young lives
had been spent in some foreign col
ony, where the common tongue was
the language which their parents had
brought with them from the old coun
try.
| Bismarck is city of comparatively
few aliens. yet there were represented
| In this small group Germans. Rus
slams, Italians and Greeks.
Blacksmith Musician
| A Young German with the soul and
eyes of musician and the biceps
and shoulders Of blacksmith, was
puzzled over the words custom" and
customer"
"Oh yes. see," he finally exclaimed