Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1902

THE opening of school privileges to the people of Porto Rico is eagerly welcomed by them, according to the report brought back by one who has recently visited that island. As showing the appreciation and thirst for knowledge manifested by some of these poor people, he mentions the case of a girl of seventeen years who walks twenty miles to

and from school daily, sleeping on a bare floor, and begging most of her food. No truant officers are needed there, he says. In a night school which he visited, he found the pupils bringing candles to the schoolroom, and sitting on the floor in groups of three, with one candle to each group.