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in yet another a family of gaucho stock looking 

 more Indian than white. All worked and Kved 

 on a footing of equality, and all showed the 

 effect of the wide-spread educational effort of 

 the Argentine Government; an effort as marked 

 as in our own country, although in the Argen- 

 tine it is made by the nation instead of by the 

 several states. We visited the little public 

 school. The two women teachers were, one of 

 Argentine descent, the other the daughter of 

 an English father and an Argentine mother — 

 the girl herself spoke Enghsh only with diffi- 

 culty. They told us that the Germans had a 

 school of their own, but that the Swiss and the 

 other immigrants sent their children to the gov- 

 ernment school with the children of the native 

 Argentines. Afterward I visited the German 

 school, where I was welcomed by a dozen of 

 the German immigrants — men of the same 

 stamp as those whom I had so often seen, and 

 whom I so much admired and liked, in our own 

 Western country. I was rather amused to see 

 in this school, together with a picture of the 

 Kaiser, a very large picture of Martin Luther, 

 although about a third of the Germans were 

 Catholics; their feehngs as Germans seemed 

 in this instance to have overcome any religious 

 differences, and Martin Luther was simply ac- 



