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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-05

udu udTu WOrh 10 Wake nlIu Wu0H we
got home.
l shook him and said: "Dick, for
heavens sake, brace up. 1 don't want
the clerk and elevator boy to know
you are drunk"
why, what's the matter, Margie?
l am not drunk-an the other men at
the wedding we're drunk as lords, but
1 kept perfectly sober. 1 could not
get drunk at my own sisters we'd
ding, could II"
"An right, Dick" answered wear
lily, as helped him out of his over
coat and then with a quickly whis-
pered good night, l started for dear
Aunt Mary's room.
''Here-here, where are you go
ing?" shouted Dick. Come back
here. l want to talk to you"
could not trust myself to answer
but rushed in and locked the door
just as Dick threw himself against it.
"Say, woman, don't you know l
am your lawful husband?" he asked,
both muddled and angry. 81 could
get divorce from you for this"
Go to bed, Dick, and tomorrow
morning you may remember that
there are greater causes for divorce
in the WaVerly family just now than
this
.'Old girl, old girl-do you mean
that foolish letter? You must not
worry about that. Never did care
for Eleanor Fairlow. You are my
only, old girl. Come on back in our
room and I'll tell you all about it."
81 decline to talk over my heart
break with a drunken man." l an
swered as madly tore off my pref
ty evening dress.
Dick pounded on the door a little
while longer and then, muttering,
went into the other room.
And, little book, am going to tell
you what 1 would never confess to
a living being. 1 envied Dicks abil-
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furnished to the city superintendent
by the bureau of naturalization there
are recorded the name, address, nation
ality and occupation of the Immigrant
There blanks in which the teach
ers are to record. for later use by the
the date of the immigrants entrance at
school: his total attendance for the
wear to what extent he is illiterate upon
entrance: what his previous educa ton
if any. has been. and whether or not
he speaks reads or writes the English
language When it is remembered that
in addition to such facts as these the
card contains information as 20 whether
the alien is married or single. and. if
married. the name and nationality of his
wife it will be seen to what extent this
government is personally interested in
the stranger within its gates.
BY certain provision Of our natu-
radiation laws the bureau Of naturali-
cation receives each month the names
OF 10000 or more adult Immigrants
with the address. nationality and occu-
nation of each. This provision of the
law requires that the clerks Of the
courts throughout the country exercis-
ing Jurisdiction in naturalization mat
tiers shall forward to headquarters at
Washington such information concern
ing each resident alien who declares his
intention to become citizen, and of
each petitioner for naturalization. with
in thirty days after the declaration of
the petition has been filed.
Imrnedia upon receipt of these
names and addresses at the naturaliz =
ton bureau each alien receives from
the United States government per
sonal letter urging him to avail him
self of those opportunities which will
make him more efficient citizen. job
getter and money maker.
Here is the sort of letter which the
commissioner of naturalization. Mr..
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to prevail upon these to attend the
classroom on the next class night
When this has been done in all of
the classes the remaining names are
assigned to the students by nationality
and location of residence, and the stu
dents instructed to visit those names
they are given and induce them 10
come to the school at the earliest pos
sible moment. This is done in the case
of all immigrants whose names and
addresses the bureau of naturaliza zion
ey need the course offered by the
records in the cases where the course
is not needed by the immigrant
The cards are SO printed thai the I'M
migrants school record for the entire
year may be recorded upon them. AT
the end of the present school year thew
will be returned by city s,Iperin-
tendents to the bureau of naturaliza-
ton. in order that the bureau NAV ac-
credit to each city the educational adj
vancement made with the foreign popu-
lation. Later the entire national edu-
cation movement for immigrants will
be presented In report by states and
cities to Congress.
In inaugura ting definite program
of AmericaniZation for aliens the fed
eral authorities have not forgotten the
immigrant woman, who often fails to
keep pace with the rest of her family
in learning a new language. new Gus
toms and new institutions. BY the
laws of several of our states wife
becomes a voter with the naturaiiza-
ton of her husband. In no instance is
an Immigrant family ever thoroughly
assimilated so long as the wife and
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it would be profitable to build trellis
for them. An arbor Shades a little yard
too much. but trellis seems to me Just
the right thing, it makes a green
background for the garden and gives
an effect of greater space.
such a layout for the little house
gives it a touch of personality and H.
Illustrates how much may he grown on
little plots of ground. The love of
little garden like this would, I am
sure. never allow its owner to yearn
for apartment. And yet. even in
apartment houses, window box garden
ing has reached such a state of de-
velopment that sarden-loving apart
ment jewellers need not be deprived OF
their faVorite flowers.
''On the care of a city garden I
would advise that an irrigation system
for watering be used. This is the SUI
perior way. as it gives the plants the
greatest benefit from the smallest
amount of water. In between nv
shrubs and flowers I have dug little
bitches, and l simply lay the hose on
the ground and allow the water to run
into them slowly.
II have not mentioned roses in my
outline. for the reason that | do not
think roses are as successful as other
things for city gardens. Personally I
believe that roses should he planted
exclusively to themselves. inclosed with
box hedge and gate; SO that on
need not see them unless they are in
the full beauty of their bloom.
And now what can VIC do to aUak-
en- love of gardens in young Amer
icdI she asked. school gardens are
already accomplishing much in this
line. Municipal gardens are arousinC
interest. But | am afraid that mere
bea uty seldom interests young Ameri-
ca to the extent that he would convert
his back yard into a bower for the
love of il. I suppose if gardening can
be made profitable for him and he can
1N1 all tn. he h
bors. then We might see evidences of
great interest"
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mother adheres to her native standards
and traditions.

mother adheres to her native standards
and traditions.
In order to reach the foreign wom-
an the naturalization authorities have
recently changed the form of declara-
ton of intent to become a citizen SO
that this now includes the name of the
decla rants wife. In this way some
o25 900 women will during the present
year be brought within the province of
the naturalization and public school
authorities. Naturalization education
cards are made out for these women,
and are mailed to city superintendent
with those made out for men. Each
woman also receives a personal letter
from the commissi Toner of natural liza
ton, just as her husband does, request
ing her TO enter night class at the
nearest public school.
She is urged TO learn the English
language, to acquaInt herself with
American customs and to insist upon
American standards of living for her
self and her family Foreign women
have responded in gratifying numbers
TO the governments appeal In the
night schools of most of the large
science have been introduced for their
benefit The immigrant woman often
appears at the schoolhouse with her
babies. and while these sleep she learns
to cook and sew according to the Amer
lean way.
That the interest shown by Uncle
Sam in the welfare of the iInmigra n t
has struck a responsive chord in the
hearts of alien residents is shown by
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Converted City Lot Into

so perfect a type. and. it may be said that
her initial love of gardens came from hei
native country.
She believes that gardening is very
suitable profession for women and has
proved. through her own activities in this
line. that the work attached to it is moi
too strenuous for the feminine muscle.
KS she led the way back to the front
garden she paused a the studio door
and invited the interviewer TO step
inside and see her husbands workshop.
Here. in the sanctum sanctorum of My.
Bartlett. whom many accredit as the
foremost sculptor of America, is huge
replica of the pediment group for the
House wing of the Capitol. and scores
of models for the many other pieces of
sculpture upon which he is working.
Mr. Bartlett's hest known works are
statues of Columbus and Michelangelo
in the Library of Congress at Wash
ington, statue of Lafayette. in the
square of the Louvre in Paris. and
statues of Gen. Mcclellan in Philadel-
phi& and Gen. Warren in Boston.
When the interviewer had explored
all 81 the points of interest in the
studio. Mrs. Bartlett resumed the gar
deH story.
This is an inexhaustihle subject. you
tempting rc live littia more than few
hints, but should truly like 10 tell
American women what they are miss
ing by not having their own gardens
and working in them.
Let MS take the average city house.
which has Il small garden plot, both
front and back. and sec What we can
do with it, In the front let us plant
a hedge and carry the lawn, unbroken.
back TO the house or porch. Here let
us bank our shrubs. -le0 inst the pill
lars of the porch rlent climbing roses
or clematis-the variety known as viz
gins bower is very good. Keep these
vines trimmed and train them TO run
in such a manner as to form window
openings to let the light on the porch.
II have found evergreenS very diff
cult to grow in the city. The dust
from the street seems to choke their
breathing pores and unless they are
carefully washed frequently they are
not successfully adapted to town plant
ing, | do. however. recommend holly
hooks. for they will give good results
anywhere in the city.
In the back yard, leave an open
grass plot in the center, for here the
housewife will want place to dry
linen Around the edge plant a little
kitchen garden of herbs Include pars-
ley. tarragon chives, tomatoes and let
tuce There might also be room for
stra berries in the border.
IF one desires grapes l think that
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Ingenious Spiders.

THERE exists in Australia species
of spider that makes its habitation
along the seashore, in the crevices OF
the rocks. between high and low water
marks. But when the tide is in their
homes are covered with water. Instead
of deserving them. however, the spiders
solve the difficulty by means of closely
woven sheets of silk, which they
stretch over the entrances. behind
which they manage to retain sufficient
air to keep them alive during the time
they remain submerged.
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willing to enter them Mr. Crist, to
whose zeal the educational work for
Immigrants owes its Inauguration. also
nut into operation the card system by
which the immigrant is connected with
the schools provided for him.
This-card system is as simple as it
is effective. At the beginning of each
month the 10000 OF more names and
addresses of immigrants received at
the bureau of natura liza ton are tran
scribed upon naturalization education
ga rds are then sorted by cities and
mailed TO the various school superin-
tendents throughout the United States
Each city superintendent as soon as
he receives his monthly installment OF
cards d stri butes them among The su-
pervising principals of the various
school districts, according to the ad-
dresses on the cards. The supervising
principal in turn. guided also by the
addresses. sorts the cards among the
schools directly under his supervision.
Tha principal Of every school then
night classes for immigrants. who re-
tains the cards that bear the names
of the students in that class. The other
cards are then sent from class to class,
students have been removed. The
names on the cards that are left are
then called off to the students. and
where they are known such cards are
taken out and the students assigned
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You have lust declared your intention to he
II citizen nf the thi;ed States. and because
Of this the United States bureau Of uafuraiiza
ton is sending this letter 70 you as It desires
citizen. II also wants to help you get better
position. that pays Won money for yoir
work. In order TO help you hotter yourself II
has sen. your 20 IN" public school IN Four
reach you the Things which you should know 10
help YOU get better position
If you win Ia the public school nuiiain.
nearest where you live. the teacher VIII ttii you
what nights yoI can TO TO sch"oi' an" 'he W =.
school for you 20 20 to- You will not he put in
a class with BOYS and girls. brit with grown PEG
pIe I. will NOT You anything for the teach
ing which you will receive in the school ana II
will help you get better job. and also max
YOU able o pass the exanina Ion in court ~h'h
you come get your citizen : papers.
You should call al the Schoolious" as 'onn as
YOU receive this letter Thai YOU may start To
learn and lie able 10 got better jou as soon As
possible.
Attendance at school. however, is not
left to the haphaZsrd interest of the
immigrant in educational matters. At
the beginning Of he present school
wear the deputy commissioner of natu l.
ralization. Mr. Raymond +. Crist. per
sonally visited the city school super1n-
tendents in all the larger cities of the
country in order to secure their coop
Grafton in the American!zation cam
paign.
Where many cities had provided
night schools for scarcely one out of
ten of their adult foreigners. arrange
lnents were made for the opening of
more night classes as soon as there
should be found immigrants ready and
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is apt to take the life out of tender
perennials.
Bulbs should he planted in the fall
I would like to call gardeners attention
TO the variety of Darwin tulip which
lives in the ground all the year round
In addition. we have the SnoWdrop, mar
cissus and iris. These are all very good
for city use. OF course this list is very
brief, and ] recommend that a begin
ner send to all the large seed firms and
nurserymen and get their booklets
These contain many timely hints and
are fine textbooks from which to learn
the different varieties of flowers and
plants
In Mrs Bartlett's garden all of these
plants are found in delightful state OF
luxuriance. When seated on the central
lawn in the summer months at her avn
UNCOVERED table zone looks i'll all direc-
tions and sees beautiful bloom and foil
age. Masses of purpish pink asters en-
circle the roots of tall. delicate white
anemones: receding low steps, leading to
the studio. are covered with spraying
ivy; similar steps of blue brick, criss-
crossed with soft green moss. lead TO the
garden door of the house. where two sill
yer retinosro admirable of ever
greens-Stand in silent guard
Treading the Sunken stones which Mrs
Bartlett has artisticaliy formed INTO a
wallSway. one is led past the studio to
another garden in the rear OF the house
where vegetables and fruits are planted
Tomatoes potatoes. rhubarb and grapes
have here been grown in sufficient guam
titles to give steady supply TO Mrs
Bartletts table during the entire sum
mer The remarkable feature of both
flower and vegetable gardens is that
neither occupies ground space of more
than fifty square feet.
Mrs. Bartlett lived in France for num-
Der of years. Perhaps from the French
she absorbed her garden-loving spirit
However. her girlhood days were spent
e the beautiful Shirley plantation of Vir-
e4nfa, where her mother had an old-fash-
Toned garden of which Mount Vernon is
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6e Government Colossal CAMPAIGN
+: 10 AmeriCdnlZe Our AllenS ::

Remarkable Educa-
tional System for Inn
migrants Recently Put
Into Operation in $50
Cities by the Bureau of
Naturalization One
Person Out of Every
Six in the United States
Is a Foreigner-Getting
the Immigrant to School
and Keeping Him
There-Methods of In
struction Certificates
of Craduation-Covern-
nnent Makes Personal
Appeal to Each Immi-
grant Who Has Declared
His Intention of Becom-
ing a Citizen Night
Schools-The Card
. System-Dealing With
the Alien Woman-Let-
tiers From the Students.
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the Garden Should Be
ll Hometown She Made Her Remarkable CardenP
SoIPantn Shrubs and Flower Beds
Fnis-Women Urged to Take Up Gardening
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I'M He first great educational con-
vcnton ever held to prepare
for immigrants a course of in
struction in the principles of
American citizenship will assemble in
Washington next July. The convention
: has been called by the bureau of natu-
ralization Of the Department of Labor
and the division of immigrant educa-
tion of the federal bureau of education
has been invited 20 participate. The
Washington convention will follow
in2med ately upon the annual conven-
ton of the National Educational Asso-
citation to be held in New York city.
Assembling at the capital will be
those school superintendent and teach
ers. members of the National Education
Assoc ation. who in $50 cities in the
tinted States are using the remarkable
edlca jional system for Immigrants re-
Gently put into operation by the bu-
reaU Of naturalization.
In order that millions Of its adopted
b en!idren may become as sons and
da hters of one blood the Emitted
Std-Ss government mas entered upon a
campaign of Americanization as unique
as II is colossal. To take vast
heterogeneous and hitherto una ssimi-
lated population. Undue it with Ameri-
can ideals. fire Il with American pa
triotism. and teach it how to live bv
American standards is the task in
which federal authorities and public
school teachers have joined hands
Nnen 1t is remembered that one per-
son out of every SIX in America is a
foreigner or that one out of every
three is either foreign born or the child
Of foreign parents, the need for an
adequate machinery for the American
!zatiou of our aliens becomes apparent
The first step in the governments
America nization campaign has been to
9 get the immigrant to school and keep
him there. And since no private in
dividual ever thought of preparing a
course Of study for the alien in the
principles of American citizenship the
federal government itself. in January
Of the present year, placed its own
specially prepared Outline Course in
= Citizenship in the public schools of
the country. This outline course is
distinctive in many respects
= II suggests original methods of teach
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city lot is usually very poor. Outlines
il is nothing more than hard clay,
which has been tramped over until il
is rocklke. This must be ploWe ed and
MANFRED.
When l started my own garden the
soil was so poor that il had to be
heavily MANFRED. In the autumn | re
quested the street sweepers to dump
al Of the fallen leaves and sweepines
on nay ground. These were plowed
under and allowed 10 rot during the
winter season. In the spring, when |
had the ground leveied. | found that
the clods were well broken up. and I
decided that street sweepings make A
very fine fertilizer. They also have
the advantage of being inexpensive,
and the cleaners are glad enough to
have a place TO dump them.
After the soil is prepared. we come
70 the second serious stage of garden
ma king What to plant is the question
thai confronjs us. 1t is one which is
particularly battling to the beginner.
gest first privst hedge. This can
be clipped Al any height and the effect
is decidedly pleasing. Then at inter
walls place lilac bushes. which seem to
thrive in the city arbUr vitae. he best
evergreen for city use. csltalpa trees
and other faTorites. These viii grow
rapidly in few wears and VIII always
remain a permanent foundation upon
which to start the work in spring time.
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For smaller shrubs I cannot en-
phasze too strongly the use of holly
hooks They are old-fasllioned. know.
but may be found nowadays in bcauti-
full double varieties of exquisite coiors.
Then. too. their foliage is fresh and
green all summer. Peonies are good,
and hardy phlox. rises, chrysanthe-
NUNS with lilies of the valley for
shady places. all make a good showing.
Then / can name al great length other
faIorites which should not be over
looked Petunias are good city flowers.
as are asters. foAgloVes, delphiniums.
japanese snenones, oriental Popples
aud bleeding Eearts.
These flowers planted SO t5at the SOFT
blue aud white flowers come III the
shady places and the brilliant varieties
where the sun strikes them con-
tinuaIly will give beautiful eff
feet OF course. these are not all at the
gardeners disposal. They are but a
few of the varieties I have tried with
success in my own garden.
The beauty of the spring bulb gar
den should not be forgotten. In fact,
believe that spring flower garden in
the city is always more successful than
the summer one. The hot summer sun.
when II falls on garden all afternoon,
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The bureau of naturalization has re-
Gently inaugurated its educational
work for adult immigrants. after two
the bureaus system. thousands of alien
men and women are every month
brought within reach of the public
schools. Once the immigrant is con-
nected with the school every detail of
his progress Is follow ed by federal as
well as school authorities. on cards
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ing foreigners the English language
and American history. 1t shows how
the principles of American government
should be taught, and how practical
may be given foreign
students of governmental organization
and purposes 1t suggests the use,
wherever possible. of the America n
new spa per in place Of the graded read
er. pointing out that the newspaper is
cheap is easily available to the i'm
migrant ANA is thoroughly American.
And TO every foreign man and woman
who completes course IN citizenship
the United States government VIII
inward a certificate of graduation.
one OF the primary objects Of the
convention of educators to be held III
Washington next July is discussion
and revision Of the Outline Course in
Citizenship" After some months eN-
perience in using the outline. the
teachers of the country are asked by
the naturalization bureau to come to-
gether for the purpose of offering sus-
gestions and amendments so that the
course of study may be made TO answer
as nearly as possible the needs OF the
alien who aspires to American citizen
ship.