Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — English of tho Creoles. [ARTICLE]

English of tho Creoles.

The intelligent struggles of the Cuban teachers with English have furnished us with a good many „ pretty stories. One day not long ago the teachers were Invited to some sort of gn evening function at the Longfellow house on Brattle street It happened that shortly before the hour for the assembly some ladles who were in front of that house were politely approached by a group of male Cuban teachers, who, with their hats in their hands, stood bowing. “If you please, dear madams,” said their spokesman, “we are Invited at this house tonight. We wish to attend. We were been on an excursion to the distance, and have not the time to go to our house. So that we wear, as you see, our day dress. Perhaps you can tell us if It would be permitted to us to go to the reception in our day dress? If it would not, then certainly shall we take the tlnffe to go to our home and put on our night dress!” The ladles assured them that they would do much better to go as they were than to put on their night dress, and they bowed gravely and gratefully and withdrew.—Boston Post;