The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-20

board Of education does not desire
trat the teachers shall talk Spanish
70 these children, as they Of course
must learn English. They speak
remarkably well in the school room.
but when turned loose on the play
! veil as patriotism possesses them.
| and there is q jabbering that III most
confusing to the one who doesn't
/ know Spanish. There is great
missionary WORK to be done among
/ those children, and American teach
crs see that duty, and seize it's OPP
rortunity. The Mexieans are natu-
rally musical, and it was most in
/ teresting to me 70 soc Mrs. Wilson
| leading her music classes. After
/ they had sung in their text books
/ asked her for the privilege to hear
1 them sing In Spanish, and she
\ granted this request, letting them
4 make their own selection, and It was
/ none other than their national song:
Mexicana How they made It
ring, and filled me with pity. as |
heard them raise their voices and
rend the air with their national
song, and remembered how their
notion was war torn, and in q state
OF dissolution. In this school were
many children OF cultured families.
who are refugees from their native
country, detained in FL Paso until
conditions become more settled.
In some Of the ward schools an
attempt is made to teach them sani-
tation, and shower baths are proyid-
eel, and the boys are given a week
l. bath on Friday. Here is typi-
cal note received by Mexican
patron protesting that her boy
should be exposed TO cold, and
caused an American mother to say
in my presence, that old Mexiean
woman had sense" The note fol-
flows
| Miss Teacher: Trimitibo don't
| some to school Fridays, because
you BATH this boy, and'this boy he
is sick and have water and soap
for BATHED this hoy and / don't
want you to get this boy for BATH
| Fridays don't come to school never.
| Yours most sincerely.
1t was interesting to note from
What distant points teachers are
selected. In our boarding house
There were two from Crockett and
Sour Lake down on the coast. some
from San Angelo and western towns
Imany from central Texas and one
from Boston. This probably is true
lof all city schools. The pla2as give
Ell paso always tropical appear
janice, and there are fourteen beauty
ispots IN plazas and parks scatter
led about the city. Its park system
lis valued at S1,500,000 Motoring
lis delightful pastime there. owing
Ito It's beautiful roads. Within the
lcity limits there are sixty miles Of
asphalt streets, eighty-two miles of
concrete sidewalks, while roads down
the valleys are splendid. In the
matter of good roads Judge Adrian
Poole has been most active, and
members OF the hamher of Commerce
commended Judge Poole for his ae-
jtivity in the good roads cause. We
members of Chamber Of Commerce
They have a handsome building
There. exhibiting tie soil products OF
that country, and have map OF the
Rio Grande valley and the Elephant
Butte dam which was opened last
fall.
Ell Paso has boundless business
opportunities AS the largest Ameri-
can city on the Mexican border ana
the city most closely in touch with
the Mexican situation, FL Paso is
destined to play prominent part in
the rehabilitation of the unhappy re-
public to the southwark when peace
is restored to that country, Hun
dreds of millions Of dollars worth OF
goods of American manufacture will
be required in Mexico when the re,
building OF that country is begun
and El Paso is the gateway through
which those goods viii require to
pas from the factories in the United
States to the farms, cattle ranches,
mines. mills. shelters and lumber
camps which have been more or less
devastated during the revolutions
which have prevailed since 1911.
There are number of pretty play
houses in the city of FL Paso. The
lwoman's building is one of it's at
Itraetiye public buildings and Is n
monument to the Industry of I'll paso
Ieluh women, The soldiers now sta