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Page “Where Us Fellows Has to Play” A Jewish Immigrant Boy 17 A Little Maid of Italy 17 The Home of a Russian Peasant 48 A Russian Moujik and His Family 48 From the “Church of All Nations,” New York City 66 An Italian Kindergarten (Penn.) 74 How the Chinese Babies Ride 82 Rescued Slave Girls (New York City) 82

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“Dago,” and “Sheeney,” and “Chink,”

“Greaser,” and “Nigger,” and “Jap.”

The Devil invented these terms, I think,

To hurl at each hopeful chap

Who comes so far over the foam

To this land of his heart’s desire

To rear his brood, to build his home,

And to kindle his hearthstone fire.

While the eyes with joy are blurred,

Lo! we make the strong man sink,

And stab the soul, with the hateful word,

“Dago,” and “Sheeney,” and “Chink.”

—Bishop McIntyre.

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Since we are going to study about “Some Immigrant Neighbors,” it is well to know just what we mean by the words “Immigrant” and “Neighbor.”

Immigrant. The word Immigrant is confusing because it looks and sounds so much like the word “Emigrant,” but they are quite different. An Immigrant is one who comes into a country, generally with the intention of settling there. An Emigrant is one that goes out of a country, with the intention of settling in some other land.