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