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Show Schools for Adults. We advise the police to look out for the suspicious sus-picious dead falls in town and their inmates. This is right, too, for they make the gathering places of the sinister bands that live by their wits. But is it true that we are doing the best we can with the means at our command? What provisions have we made to provide tired men who have no homes a resting place between dark and bod time? They cannot afford to attend a place of amusement; amuse-ment; -they do not want to be confined to their narrow quarters from dusk until time to go to bed in the summer they roam the streets, in winter they flock to such dives as will receive them. A good many of them are Greeks, Slav and Italians who know little ot our language. At Aspinwall, Penn., Miss Sarah Wood, under the auspices of the Italian Immigration society, two years ago established a night school for the Italians working In the Pittsburg Filtration Plant" at that place, and recently other schools of the same kind have been established in the near vicinity of the first. One-third of the workers at once responded. Most of those foreigners had received re-ceived a common school education before leaving their native land, hence the chiefest effort is to familiarize fa-miliarize these grown up pupils in the language of this country, the geography and history of our country, and so soon as they can comprehend enough of the language, to incite their patriotism and kindle within them a respect and affection for a land that offers so much to the stronger and the poor. Miss Wood begins her language lessons by making her pupils pronounce in English Eng-lish until they can bo understood what pertains mostly to their lives and occupation's, for instance: in-stance: "Get out of the way!" "I am a railroad worker." "Cot a pick!" "Get a bar." "Be quick." "I am sick," etc. The words become sentences as they advance. The result in two years has II bean to transform communities which two years I ago were a constant menace and disturbance to the whole near neighborhood. The companies j . for whom those man work have helped all they j have been able to and the testimony is universal i that the experiment is a triumph for good, j Now is it not possible that if Salt Lake had ; a half dozen of these schools, it would be possible in a year to got along with fewer policemen and with less apprehension of danger to the peace? An Italian gentleman has opened a night school iri New York Oity to train teachers in Italian to fit them to teach these schools. A summer school of the kind in Salt Lake could be accommodated ! in a big tent. A few seats, maps, blackboards ' and charts would do for equipment; the chief cost would be for lights and teachers. These schools are spreading in the east, why should not Salt Lake give them a trial? There is another kind of school which the ladies la-dies of Salt Lake should Inaugurate. We are not sure that there should not be another branch taught in our public schools. The city is filled with young girls who have no honorable moans ; of making a living except through work. And there are hundreds of them who do not know how to wait upon the door, or upon the table, or dust and put to rights a room, or make a bod, or how to gracefully or graciously ask or answer a question. ques-tion. A few weeks patient training In those ac-Hti ac-Hti compliihments would secure them places where Hral they could earn the wages to support them and 'Hn t,ako them in from the street. Wo are not doing Hh f all we could for our follow mortals. |