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 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. Who Are They? 13 II. Why Do They Come? 21 III. Our Jewish Neighbor 35 IV. Our Russian Neighbor 43 V. Our Italian Neighbor 51 VI. Our Chinese Neighbor 59 VII. Makers of Good Neighbors 69 VIII. Good Neighbors and Bad 77 IX. Neighbors to the World 87 I WHO ARE THEY? “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._ I WHO ARE THEY? 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. The people we are to study are the Immigrants who have come, and are coming, into America. _Neighbor._ Every one knows the meaning of the word neighbor. A neighbor is one who lives near another, across the street, or next door, or maybe in our own village or town. If you live in a large city it is not so easy to feel that the people who live near you are your neighbors. It was much easier years ago, when all that are now cities were only towns and villages, and many cities now well known were simply prairie with waving grass and flowers, roamed over by bands of Indians and trampled by the hoofs of countless bison.