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 CHICAGO VACATION SCHOOLS 293

amount paid each teacher for six weeks' service was S50.60. No amount of praise can do justice to the untiring efforts of these teachers, who for so slight a money consideration devoted their summer vacation to education and the betterment of the children under their charge.

A PAINTING CLASS

In determining the nationality of the children who attend the vacation schools we characterized those whose parents were born in the United States as Americans. We experienced some diffi- culty in classifying some, especially those at the Jones School. For instance, we ran across this combination : A boy's parents were born in Germany ; after coming to this country, the father died and the mother married a negro. The boy had a negro brother in the kindergarten. To further complicate matters, the boy's elder sister married a Chinaman. So the white German boy had a colored brother and a Chinese brother-in-law. Fortu- nately for us the family was small.

In the Jones School we found 46 per cent. Russian Jews, 20 per cent. Italians, 12 per cent. German Jews, 7 per cent. Irish,