The New England magazine . bor law, and I find that most of theoffenders are American natives. The reportis for the school year of 1903-1904. Therewere forty-three Americans prosecuted,eleven Irish, nine French, eight Italians, andsix Russian Jews. Not all of these prosecu-tions were based upon the employment ofchildren who should have been in school,but the figures seem to show the falsity ofthe common saying that the foreigners areless willing than the natives to give theirchildren an education. Blending the Races into an AmericanType More light on the part that the foreignportion of Connect
The New England magazine . bor law, and I find that most of theoffenders are American natives. The reportis for the school year of 1903-1904. Therewere forty-three Americans prosecuted,eleven Irish, nine French, eight Italians, andsix Russian Jews. Not all of these prosecu-tions were based upon the employment ofchildren who should have been in school,but the figures seem to show the falsity ofthe common saying that the foreigners areless willing than the natives to give theirchildren an education. Blending the Races into an AmericanType More light on the part that the foreignportion of Connecticuts population is takingin the life of the State is given in the latestannual report of the State Board of figures are for the year 1905. In thatyear there were 23,271 births. Of these,8,328 were of American stock and 14,591were in families where one or both parentswere of foreign birth. There were 8,075marriages. In 4,023 both parties wereAmerican; in 2,771 both parties were foreign ; 278 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. The Connecticut Agricultural College, at Storrs in 689 the husband was foreign, the wifeAmerican; and in 589 the wife was foreign,the husband American. Excepting . Nor-walk, each of the chief ten cities reported alarger number of children born of foreignthan of native parents. The figures for theten cities follow: Both parents Both parents MotherCity foreign American foreign Hartford ... .911 676 New Britain . 649 272 New Haven 1,647 999 Mericlen . . .358 197 Waterbury ..912 473 New London .215 181 Norwich 285 180 Bridgeport . 1,247 608 Norwalk . . .134 2co Stamford .... 170 167 162 64190 56 112 29 47101 32 Fatherforeign 72180 72143 45 53J54 26 39 Three counties— Hartford, New Haven,and Fairfield — the counties containing thelarge manufacturing cities — show a verylarge preponderance of children born offoreign parents; while the five countieswhich may be described as chiefly ruralshow a slight majority of children born ofnative parents. In the State as
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