Part 17 (2/2)

(_New York World_)

STOPPING THE COST OF LIVING LEAKS

BY MARIE COOLIDGE RASK

After ten weeks' instruction in doirl of thirteen has been thethe expenditure in a family of seven to the extent of five dollars a week

The girl is Anna Scheiring, A with her parents and brothers and sisters in a five-roohth Street, where her father, Joseph Scheiring is superintendent of the building

The sa are at the present ti worked out in two thousand other New York ho High School

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(_The Outlook_)

THE FIGHT FOR CLEAN MILK

BY CONSTANCE D LEUPP

Two million quarts of milk are shi+pped into New York every day One hundred thousand of those who drink it are babies The milk coh New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vere proportion of the two million quarts travels thirty-six hours before it lands on the front doorstep of the consumer The situation in New York is duplicated in a less acute degree in every city in the United States

NARRATIVE BEGINNINGS To begin a special feature article in the narrative forive it a story-like character that at once arouses interest It is impossible in many instances to know from the introduction whether what follows is to be a short story or a special article An element of suspense may even be injected into the narrative introduction to stimulate the reader's curiosity, and descriptive touches hten the vividness

If the whole article is in narrative form, as is the case in a personal experience or confession story, the introduction is only the first part of a continuous story, and as such gives the necessary infors that consist of concrete examples and specific instances are popular for expository articles Sometimes several instances are related in the introduction before the writer proceeds to generalize froe of this inductive eneral idea has been illustrated by an exarasp it with reater interest than when such exeeneralization

Other narrative introductions consist of an anecdote, an incident, or an important event connected with the subject of the article

Since conversation is an excellent ue is often used in the introduction to special articles, whether for relating an incident, giving a specific instance, or beginning a personal experience story

Narrative Beginnings

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(_The Outlook_)

BOOKER T WAshi+NGTON

BY EMMETT J SCOTT AND LYMAN BEECHER STOWE

It came about that in the year 1880, in Macon County, Alabama, a certain ex-Confederate colonel conceived the idea that if he could secure the Negro vote he could beat his rival and win the seat he coveted in the State Legislature Accordingly the colonel went to the leading Negro in the town of Tuskegee and asked hiroes then voted in Alabama without restriction This man, Lewis Adams by name, himself an ex-slave, promptly replied that what his race most wanted was education, and what they most needed was industrial education, and that if he (the colonel) would agree to work for the passage of a bill appropriating roes, he, Adaro vote and the election This bargain between an ex-slaveholder and an ex-slave was made and faithfully observed on both sides, with the result that the following year the Legislature of Alabama appropriated 2,000 a year for the establishroes in the town of Tuskegee On the reco, of Ha colored raduate of and teacher at the Institute, was called froless, teacherless, and studentless institution of learning