s in Hebrew.
The Constitution of the United States is treated in the same manner, but
it is too hard, or too wearisome, for the children. They "hate" it, says
the teacher, while the Declaration of Independence takes their fancy at
sight. They understand it in their own practical way, and the spirit of
the immortal document suffers no loss from the annotations of Ludlow
Street, if its dignity is sometimes slightly rumpled.

"When," said the teacher to one of the pupils, a little working-girl from
an Essex Street sweater's shop, "the Americans could no longer put up with
the abuse of the English who governed the colonies, what occurred then?"

"A strike!" responded the girl, promptly. She had found it here on coming
and evidently thought it a national institution upon which the whole
scheme of our government was founded.

[Illustration: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN
CONGRESS ASSEMBLED.

ENGLISH. HEBREW.

When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another,
and to assume, among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature and of
nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to the
separation.

We hold these truths to be
self-evident--that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That, to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed; that,
whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, it
is the right of the]

[Illustration: JEWISH-GERMAN. Notes. HEBREW.]

It was curious to find the low voices of the children, particularly the
girls, an impediment to instruction in this school. They could sometimes
hardly be heard for the noise in the street, when the heat made it
necessary to have the windows open. But shrillness is not characteristic
even of the Pig-market when it is noisiest and most crowded. Some of the
children had sweet singing voices. One especially, a boy with straight red
hair and a freckl