Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 27

Children Who Are THE HERO OF THE STORY AND TWO (Copyright, 1903, by Thomas G. Visk.) HEESE it, Araby, Polack, Russky, Italy!” cried the gold-capped kevper of the women and chil- dren’s detention room in the Ellis Island immigrant receiv- ing station. He accompanied his words by an energetic wave of the hands, and a dozen laughing boys and girls fell reluc- tantly away from his coat tails and legs. Then the man turned to the visitor. “Lively brats, ain't they—these adopted kids of Uncle Sam?"’ he queried. “Yes,” agreed the other, “they're as full of mischief as the native born.” “Umph!" grunted the keeper, “they’'re a 2l sight worse, and all the hundreds who ass through the island every day in the year are just Jike 'em. They keep this bit of land filled with trouble.” He looked around the great room, lighted by a dozen windows, until, in a far corner, and high over the heads of the 200 occu- pants of long, low benches and gaudily clad groups, standing patiently alongside ban- dana-covered baggage, he beheld a boy swinging by his heels from one of the wire cots suspended from the wall. “Look at that youngster,” he said. “Hc's been here three months—he and his mother —waliting for hig sister to get out of the hospital across the island, where she’s been having all the ills that American boys and girls are heirs to. She started in with measles the day she landed and since then she’s had scarlet fever, mumps, chickenpox and what not one after the other. In the meantime that boy and his ma have been kept here, though they've been passed for landing, for it's a rule to detain healthy members of the family until the sick ones are ready to go ashore with them. Nearly all of the youngsters you see sprawling all around are here for the same reason. That's why I say Uncle €am is their foster father, because eventually they'll get safely eshore. “Well, that kid—he's from Naples, his daddy, in the detention room for men across the hall, says—has been making more trouble for me than a half dozen Yankee boys could think of all togathor. He started in the second day he was here to carve up that little black-eyed Araby girl over there, because she wouldn't let im kiss her, and I not only had to take away hie pocketknife, but I had to separate the two mothers, who were pounding each other over the heads with their fists for all they were worth. Next diy the bov tried to whip all the other boys at one and the same time, with the result that I was compelled to pull him out from under a pile of small bodies representing every country in Enrope and a few in Asia. I Weware of Wireles “George, dear, how could I send a kiss across the ocean by the wireless tele- graph?” “A kise, my love? That's something of a puzzle. No doubt it could be launched all right, but would it get there and get there intact? Of course if it flew too high the four winds of heaven would be apt to snatch it up and whirl it anywhere save in the right direction. And then again, if it dipped low it would catch a briny flavor from the ocean that would ruin it for all commercial purposes. I'm afraid, my dear, that science can't grapple with this prob- lem just yet. Of course it wouldn’'t do to give your kiss to Sig. Marcon! and ask him o forward it. The young lady who s about to entrust her happiness in his keep- ing might object to this. You must either wait, my love, or send your kisses by mail s Kiss prepaid, with a stamp inclosed for re- turn.” “Thank you, dear. I was sure you would know all about it.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. OF HIS SMALL CHUMS, JEWISH BROTHERS FROM RUSSIA. thought that would scttle him, because he received such a good licking, but it didn't. Fact is, he's a born fighter and he's like the proverbial flea—you can’'t get your finger on him until it's too late. Why, he's all around the place at nis own sweet will, and how he manages it, I don’t know. Just when I think he’s safely locked in this room I'll discover that he’s missing and, on gearching for him, find him over with his father entertaining the men with his Ttal- fan songs, or in the dining room stealing hunks of rye bread, or over at the hospital trying to get in to see his sister. He's the ringleader in all sorts of mischief, and, I tell you, he keeps me earning my money." The keeper grinned as he saw the boy, in an effort to scramble down from the bunk, miss his footing and sprawl ignominiously on the slate floor. Then, as the lad picked himself up and, despite the evident hard tumble, walked away with a ewagger, meant to show that he wasn't hurt, the man spoke admiringly: ‘“He’s a plucy lad and a bright one. Dur- ing the time he’'s been here he's managed to pick up a good deal of English and he can make out pretty well what I say to him. One day not long ago I told him about our president and he seemed much interested. The next day he came up to me and, half in Italian and half {n English, made me understand that he’s been think- ing very hard about what I'd sald about the president, and he believed he'd like to be president some day. When I told him that he couldn't because he'd been born in Italy, his face fell and he seem:d much disappointed. “In order to make him feel better—I've takea quite a fanty to him—I tried to ex- plain that, although he couldn’'t be presi- dent, he could be many other things, and I ended up by saying that the best thing he could be was a good citizen. He asked me to explain what that meant, and I did as best as I could. In the middle of the talk T was called away by something and forgot atout the boy until I found him tugging at my arm an hour or so later. “What do you want, Italy?” I said. ‘“ ‘Please, sir,’ he answered—all these children are very polite, although you wouldn’t expect it—‘I'm going to be—'"" Shrieks and shouts from the center of the room hurriedly drew the keeper thither, where he was instantly surrounded by two tearful women and their dozen offspring, equally divided. For full five minutes he listened to their chattering, then he led one of the gaudily clad mothers and her children to another section of ‘he room and seated them on a bench. After he had helped bring up the family's bundles, he returned and took up the interrupted talk. Council Bluffs Library (Continued from Third Page.) rick Smyth, Mrs. M. L. Everett, C. R. Tyler, Dr. J. H. Cleaver, J. J. Stewart and Victor E Bender. Mr. Bender was appointed by Mayor Morgan to fill the unexpired term of Congressman Walter I. Smith, who resigned. The trustees were formerly elected by the city council, but the law subsequently provided for their appoint- ment by the mayor. Trustee W. 8. Baird was mainly instrumental in securing the handsome donation of $70,000 from Mr Carnegie for a library bullding. The present librarian is Mrs Dailey, a prominent club woman of the city and widow of the late Colonel D. B Dailey, one of the pioneers in the move- ment for the establishment of a free pub- lic library in Council Bluffs. The library is at present located in commodious rooms in the Merriam block and contains nearly 20,000 volumes in its ecirculating depart- ment. It has also an excellent reference library and several thousand books in the government department. M E THREE GIRLS FROM THE OLD WORLD—ON THE RIGHT AND ON THE LEFT AN ITALIAN. “That boy said, ‘I'm going to be a good citizen.’ And he was so much in earnest that I'm willing to wager that he'll make good his words. Why, he's actually begun punching the other boys because they won't take off their caps to and salute the little American flag that he got for a Christmas present.” The guide paused to reflect. “Maybe the missionaries didn’t mean it to have that effect, but the tree that they had here Christmas has stirred up a lot of trouble for me. That tree was in- directly responsible for the squabLle I've just settled. Near as I could make out, it began over an attempt of one of the daugh- ters of one familv to steal a doll from the daughter of the other woman. Every girl here got a doll from the tree, but many of them have since tried to become mothers cf larger families, with the re- gults that their days and their mothers’ days and my days especially have been full of trouble. “But that tree has showed me one thing how quickly and easily the children of all nations—even the roaming Arabians—take up with American ways. Until Christmas day the boys had never played with mar- bles—had never seen ‘em, so far as I can find out—but an hour after they had re- ceived their bags of marbles, along with other gifts of apples, oranges and candies, they were playing with them just like a na- tive born would. And the girls—well, the dear little things seemed to understand what the dolls were for the minute they saw them on the tree, and when they were handed around the first thing they did wans to clasp the china bables to their breasts and croon childish lullabies to them in fifty different tongues. They also etood the dolls on their heads and critically examiuned the clothes, just as my little daughter does. And whenever one of the girls has happened to break her doll, it has almost broken her heart, just as with my little girl., Why, that mite fr . Poland cried all day yesterday and wouldn't be com- forted until sleep overtook her because her doll, in falling, lost the bigger part of its face. Poor little girl, it was a great loss to her, because it was her first doll. Since then she and her older sister have been sharing the latter’s doll between them and lavishing all the love on it that any two 1ittle American girls possibly could. ‘“The only plaything that the boys seem to have in common with our youngsters when they land is the pocketknife, and this is exhibited in all states of imperfec- tion. The girls don’t bring over a toy of any sort—not even a miserable rag doll. Fact Is, I've gathered from my talks with their mothers that tkeir daughters never knew about dolls in the old country. Carpenter’s Letter (Continued from Sixth Page.) into it to buy a lead pencil. He offered me one made in New York, and when I asked him if he handled other American goods, took me through rooms filled with unit bookcases, desks and office furniture, and showed me cases of American inks, pencils and pens. As I looked at them he said: “I can sell American goods, but I don't care especially to do so, for your people 4o not watch my money for me customer who American pen ter to send me interests Only last wanted a brand I wrote a New York expor three by malil, and supposed that the charges would be about 20 cents. The exporter the pens by express, so that they cost me, In commis- sions and freights, $3.20, and the result was that I lost on the transaction. This is a little thing, but it is only one of many in which the carelessness of you Americans causes us to lose money." FRANK G. CARPENTER. nor try to save certain boxes sent month T had a | of “But there's one game that all the chil- dren seem to know—ring-around-a-rosy. No one has to teach them that, no matter where they hail from. Let a shipload of boys and girls come into this room and, before they've been here half an hour, they will be dancing around in circles and sing- ing in their native tongues the same song that your babies and mine sing when they and their playmates gather in the sifting room or the yard and play that good old game of ‘ring-around-a-rosy.'" 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