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Show They Iton't Live In Tenement Rouses. A young woman who, as the missionary mission-ary of an east side chapel, spends her life administering to the physical and spiritual wants of tho poor people in her parish, has a hopeful view of the future of tho German immigrants, among whom nearly all her work is done. She says: As soon as the children learn to speak English they pick up American ideas, and lxffore long a certain amount of pride manifests its df. A curious indication indica-tion of this is that none of the English speaking young people will admit that they live in tenement houses. If you ask them thevill always tell yon that their home is in a flat house, while a few have readied a pitch of refinement where the dingy old buildings becomo apartment bouses. If you went into some of the homes, through the dark halls and up four or five flights of rickety stairs, yon might ask yourself what a tenement house really real-ly is. The young persons there, however, how-ever, will tell you that the Hebrews in Essex and Ludlow streets live in tenement tene-ment houses. This pride may be false, bnt it is akin to ambition, and will make good American men mid women of the grandchildren of the immigrants. New York Tribune. |