ce of contrast

To-day, speaking and writing fluently
the language of her adopted country, Second and third
proficient in other studies, she paragraphs show
proudly cherishes the first "certificate striking results in
of literacy" issued by a factory--a one concrete case.
factory which has paid her for going to
school during working hours!

It was Rebecca Meyer who received 2. Commencement
this first certificate, at the graduation Note that Rebecca
exercises held on the top floor of the is the central figure
big women's wear factory of D.E.
Sicher & Co. It was Rebecca Meyer
who delivered the address of welcome
to the members of the board of education,
the members of the firm, her fellow
employees, and all the others gathered
at these exercises--the first of Dash used to set off
their kind ever held in any commercial unique element
establishment, anywhere!

"Isn't it wonderful!" she said. 3. Rebecca's statement
"When I came from Austria, I hoped Slightly unidiomatic
to find work. That was all. How I English is suggestive
should learn to speak the English language,
I did not know. It might take
me years, I thought. That I should go
to school every day, while I worked--who
could dream of such a thing? It
could not be in any other country except
America."

Dudley E. Sicher, head of the firm, II. STORY OF THE SCHOOL
in whose workrooms a regularly organized 1. Origin of school
class of the New York public Note method of
schools has held its sessions all winter, introducing head of firm
stood smiling in the background. Mr.
Sicher is president of the Cotton Goods
Manufacturers' Association. It was
he who conceived the idea, about a
year ago, of increasing the efficiency
of his women employees by giving them
an education free of cost, during working
hours.

"One of the first and most noticeable 2. Results of school
results of the factory school has Statement of head
been a marked decrease in the friction of firm
and the waste of time caused by the
inability of employees to comprehend
directions. A girl who understands
English, and has been enabled thereby
to school herself in factory methods
and conditions, doesn't hesitate and
blunder; she understands, and d