Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — A Careful Parent. [ARTICLE]

A Careful Parent.

At a settlement located on the East Side in New York -a mothers’ meeting is held Wednesday afternoons. There mothers, of various nationalities, of greater or less familiarity with the English tongue, and in different degrees of assimilation to the ideals of their new country, are served with tea and cake*, helped with their sewing atdjfurnished with hints as to the proper up-bringing of their children—hints sometimes carried out on exraordinary lines. A worker from, the settlement, paying calls in a populous tenement, on reaching the two rooms occupied by a recently arrived Italian family found her ears assailed by childish howls of anguish. “Les-a, signorina, me—l wheep An-gelo—hard-a!” explained the mother of the family, who for a month or so hac iMen a regular attend at the Wednesday afternoons. “I go on the meeting at-a your house—l not let-a my keeds say bad-a word, I breenga up ro> keeds all-a right. Angelo seeng-a lou song-a—bad-a word in beem, vera bad-a word! I wheep Angelo vera mooch.” And then the worker from the settlement found a serious task of explanation on her hands; for, probing the matter, she discovered that the “low song-a” containing the “bad-& word,** which had brought poor Angelo to grief, was none other than “Nearer. My God, to Thee!”