than the other races studied and consequently having less opportunity to acquire the language. Of the races of recent arrival in the United States the Syrians exhibit the highest percentage of persons with a residence of ten years or over able to speak English, the Hebrews being next in order, closely followed by the North Italians. The table which immediately follows and the accompanying chart show, by sex, age at time of coming to the United States, and race, the per cent of 246,673 employees of non-English-speaking races who were able to speak English:

TABLE 72.—Per cent of foreign-born employees who speak English, by sex, age at time of coming to the United States, and race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

[This table includes only non-English-speaking races with 200 or more persons reporting. The total, however, is for all non-English-speaking races.]

TABLE 72.—Per cent of foreign-born employees who speak English, by sex, age at time of coming to the United States and race-Continued.

The preceding tabulations were planned to show the relative adaptiveness and progress of immigrants of a younger as compared with those of an older age, according to the time of their arrival in this country. The significant fact disclosed by the grand total for both sexes is that a much greater proportion of the immigrants who were under 14 years of age when they came to the United States are able to speak English at the present time as compared with those who were 14 years of age or over when they immigrated to this country. The most notable progress in acquiring the ability to speak English of the younger immigrants, as contrasted with the older, is shown in the case of the Armenian, Bohemian and Moravian, Bulgarian, Finnish, French, Greek, South Italian, Magyar, Montenegrin, Polish, Portuguese, Roumanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Servian, Slovenian, and Servian races. This condition of affairs is not only due to the greater adaptability of the younger immigrants, but also to their greater opportunities in the way of attending the public school and in mingling with native Americans. The females, as compared with the males, not only exhibit smaller proportions able to speak English, but also a less degree of advancement among those less than 14 years old when they arrived in this country.

The relative progress of the younger or older immigrants in the households studied, according to their age at the time of arrival in the United States, in acquiring the ability to speak English is shown, according to race of individual, in the table which immediately follows.

TABLE 73.-Per cent of foreign-born persons 6 years of age or over who speak English, by age at time of coming to the United States and race of individual.

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[This table includes only non-English-speaking races with 40 or more persons reporting. The total, however, is for all non-English-speaking races.]

Of the total number of foreign-born individuals who were less than 14 years of age at the time of their arrival in this country 86.6 per cent, as shown by the table above, can now speak English, while of those who were 14 years of age or older when they came to the United States only 44.9 per cent are now able to speak the English language. The same greater adaptability and progress among the younger, as contrasted with the older immigrants, is indicated in the case of each race, the most marked difference in favor of the younger immigrants being noticeable in the case of the Brava, Bulgarian, Greek, Magyar, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak, and Slovenian races.