Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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GREAT FALLS HIGH SCHOOL

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12 RULNIDUP swift remorse. and her winning smile. Also in the public school-room re- spect for other nations than his own is forced upon him when he learns that Christopher Columbus was a Dago, George XYashington an offi- cer in the English army, and Christ. our Lord, a Jew. At first the foreign parent is apt to look upon the public school as but another of the many enemies which he finds all around him in this strange and inexplicable land whose laws he learns as Parnell advised a follower to learn the rules of the house of commons-by breaking them. Es- pecially is this the case if the for- eigner is a Russian Jew. Hating and fearing the name of Christian he nat- urally looks with suspicion and aver- sion upon an institution fostered by that loathed and dreaded race. This distrust he at first tries to hand down to his child, but little Isadore is placed perhaps under the care of some sweet-faced American girl who takes the warmest interest in all her little aliens. It is again the repetition of the historic love and its cause be- tween Mary and her lamb. Helen M. Todd. Inspector of Factories. said. when speaking of the relationship be- tween teachers and pupils, that when she spoke to one little girl, Marie Mamschalsco. about her school life, the child replied, Once I had a so- beautiful teacher mit a from-silk waist and mit feaders in her hat, and when she went to talk it was like when brudden he plays on de concertina. Und I feel for dat teacher -and here her passion stained her pale cheeks red- like-like I was dat teacher's mudder. I will to get my teacher's rubbers. l will to get my teacher's hat. I will to stand by de street-car till she come. I will to have my seat in dat school changed. For why? For so I can touch dat teacher's dress when she writes on de black- board. But she would not stay on dat school, she say to me, 'Ah, Maria, I must to go. This teaching schoolf she say, 'it kill my heart.' But I make a good-bye party for her by my house. und she give her hand to my fader. und my mudder, und everybody in my house und she say good-bye. und she smile, but when she kiss me good-bye, I can to feel how my teacher's face it is all wet by tears for that she leaves me. Is that the soil in which the evil seeds of class and race hatred can take root? Commencement brings strangely contrasted parents together in a common pride. The pupils have be- come much like each other but the parents may be so widely dissimilar as to make the similarity of their children an amazing fact for contem- plation. Mothers with shawls on their heads and work-distorted hands may sit beside mothers in Parisian costumes and the silk-clad mother is usually clever enough to appreci- ate and to admire the spirit which strengthened her weary neighbor through all the years of self-denial. of labor. of poverty, and often hun- ger. which were necessary to pay for the leisure and education of son or daughter. The feeling of uselessness. of inferiority, which this spirit entails. may humiliate the idle woman, but it is bound to do her good. It will ut- terly do away with many of her pre- judices against the foreigners It will make the Let them eat cake attitude impossible. as she realzes in her heart that the foreign lowly mothers are like herself, Just Folks. M.-XBIYL TAYLOR. 'l3.