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Show dccomfiliAAmimLf A SUPERINTENDENT of schools visited a night-school for Negro adults. He was called upon to congratulate con-gratulate an old Negress. She had enrolled at the start of the course with a single, avowed intent to learn to write her name. She had succeeded, and the course was at an end, and she was leaving. The next year the superintendent visited the same school. The old womanhadenrolledagain. "Vhv?" he asked her. "Ah's goin' to learn to write mah name." she said. "But you learned that last year." "Ah knows dat. But now Ah gone got married." |