| Show JOINING HANDS r CY Y LETTER international exchange for school children Is a success the german central of biece ece for the international ter national cclia exchange ot of correspondence between tie tween school children liis has just issued a report on the worling working ot of the institution since ollice the opening of the movement in 1897 to the end of june 1906 there have taken pirt part in the he international ter national exchange ot of letters german schools ot or which were girls schools french cl girls american ca 9 english 35 austrian six do Uel aum ium three swiss and one australian school some young persons of all these nations haie by these means come into friendly Irie adly relations lations le ie with each other and by tho interchange of thought learned something ot of each others ways of life and thought and anc it if adds the committee the largo number of these haie leave necessarily limited their epistolary exercises to the mere iller 0 interchange of compliments and platitudes and then let the matter drop there lias has been an encouraging percentage who have persevered and cemented it a real friendship with their correspondents thus mutually interesting and aiding each other and doing it a great deal to combat international prejudices if such an end has been achieved by 1000 of the the result may be regarded is as ili highly bly satisfactory I 1 A set of rules for the general gl guidance of the correspondents h has as been drawn up by prof dr R hartmann of leipsic Leips lc president ot of the committee one oae of which is the stron strong 9 discouragement of any approbatory mention of drinking habits |
