n her knees before the image
of the Madonna in her own room, she poured out her grateful heart in
thanksgiving to that other Mother who had lived and suffered too.

APPENDIX.

SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS.

The citizens of America are one and all the descendants of immigrants,
and they must never lose their sympathy with the things that are best in
foreign lands. Italy has sent us hundreds of thousands of new citizens;
and these people and their children are among the most loyal Americans.
Between the United States and Italy there has been a long friendship,
without mistrust and without strife. This is because the national
ideals of the United States and of Italy are so much alike, and because
each country possesses a great, industrious, peace-loving population.
In America, the Italians "find an opportunity to go forward in those
paths which most warmly appeal to them, and which they can follow with
no breach of tradition, no break of affections, no sundering of ancient
and beloved ties." Italy, like us, has her great national heroes--
Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Cavour, to mention only a few--whose deeds may
well inspire our people. Italy's music, art, and literature are
priceless possessions which are adding richness to our American
civilisation.

"Americanisation" in its best sense is the need of the hour; but this
word means not alone the converting of the foreign-born into voters in
this country, but also the fusing of their highest ideals into our own.
Teachers can use _The Italian Twins_ as the earliest introduction to
Italian homes and ways, and can build up from the impression it makes
upon children, a full appreciation of the sterling qualities of the
Italian people.

_The Italian Twins_ can also be correlated with American government
through the use by teachers of Webster's _Americanisation and
Citizenship_; pupils can read Bryant's _I Am an American_. History can
be correlated through the reading, either to the pupils or by them, of
Tappan's _Story of the Roman People, Our European Ancestors_, and
_American Hero Stories_; also Moores's _Christopher Columbus_ and
Stevenson's _Poems of American History_. Italian art is well
illustrated by several volumes in the _Riverside Art Series_, and in
Hurll's _How to Show Pictures to Children_.

For a background of Italian history teachers are referred to Davis's
_History of Mediaeval and Modern Europe_ and to Sedgwick's _Short
History of Italy_. Certain aspects o