Telegram-herald., 1889-04-22
w0NESS ToTSBER HALL
CcLsge Girls WhO Wu Fo9nd
Colony II 1Ls Sums.


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of tlIs a..-albla4- Vas the raising of
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Isse settlement 4aasHstLs slun..
Rlsi1-tau street 10 xou ktassltf
IL Fuu- threc bloea. above Grand street
ana parallel 10 that af-.t trade artery o.
tAs t.ssf eide IL sfafts auonz tue lumber
8aras " tac East River ii narrans and
uRrFow- aut tus lluxy ursek t-aar.rnt
blocks liil their xrimed $40 gloomy walls
Three stories. four stories, i've stories high.
They are rot cheeFlultliugs % see Fr04t-
inx lt aua It's eavirgus there are froLt ten
mruts and rear tenemeuts. dark. uuaes-
ttssie courts. broken usysments. rickety
steps aud rows upon rows Of windows o.
from which heads are iolling IN tie broil-
in. dAys OF nidsu.nuer. twenty hours cut
of the twenty four. There are queer little
basement groceries where coal j. sold by
the half scuttle ss.a butter is bought by
the quarter pound. There are children.
swasins ~ children. bred as fast as the
rabbits i'm Australia.
Would you ike 10 live there1
Us not an extreme, merely an average
tenement house district. There are wo-
men whose backs were bent at years old
carrying baby brothers. who earned their
bread winding bobbins and picking ont
hastings AZ Years old, who married Al 10
year old, " no were heavy eyed, urlnk led
and tired az 80 years old. Would YOU
well born, well cherished, with tastes de
iuandiug Tie finest and the daintie.t. in
the vouug flush OF womanhood with all
is possibilities before you. would YOU like
10 make Yourself a neighbor OF these other
women,
Would YOU breath the air that they
breathe. bound your horizon by the sights
OF squAlor which they look out on, house
yourself In one OF their houses. surround
Yourself with their social atmosphere,
make their interests your interests. their
Thisis what some half dozen or more Of
the younger college women are proposing.
I confess that il seem. 10 me a very risky
experiment. but saws the leader Of
these college maidens. in the country YOU
can have neighbors. in the fine streets Of
the cities YOU have not any. but among
the teuements Won find them again"
Tovnbee Vall the anniversaries settle
m.nf IN East London i the model after
which thfs COLONY of caile0e women j. o
he patterned. Last summer | spent two
afternoons getting some superficial ac-
quaintaince with the work and life of the
oxford men among the English slums. II
seemed TO me the only example thus far on
record Of the meeting Of different social
classes in constant daily intercourse on
terms likely TO be helpful 10 both and
compromising the self-respect Of neither.
The Oxford men make themselves the
slum-dwellers' neighbors. they 90 about
their own business. they make acquaint-
ances as II may happen. on terms of per-
feet social equality. They organize classes
for nobody. they make no professions OF
philauthropic designs on anvhody's peace.
They make their house a pleasant place
/ for neighbors to drop in on them and in
simple and natural fashion-the neighbor-
themselves couldn't tell how it is accom-
plished-everybody becomes interested in
pleasant schemes OF a cooperative sort for
/ the neighborhood' amusement, progress
in comfort, growth in intelligence and
general well being.
This Is precisely what the American col
F lege settlement wishes TO accomplish
only, rs social evolution IN every direction
- Tod in frV IA
/ hands that are feminine, this livingston
/ street colony will be peopled by girls.
There was pretty group at the lunch
hour in a fashionable private school the
other day. Slight figures with fluffy hail
smiled over glasses of milk. hovered about
cups of bouilon. fiuttered this way anC
that. bright with ribbons, gay with roses
and violets in their buttonholes, chatter
ing after the universal fashion Of school
girls. The centre OF the group was :
young woman OF whom, II dared,
would say she bad wonderfully winning
questioning eyes, but the coileg'
young woman as ruie-ahd
think she's right about lt-wii lorglV
you some crimes rather than complimen
or laudauon OF her gown. Ana TN
young woman was Miss Jednnette 1uTue,
Fine, who graduated from omith ColIeg'
in the class Of -, who has combined 20
the last year or two days OF teaching VIII
evenings OF study OF socioloEic question
by practical work in the neighborhoo'
/ guilds among the Forsyth street tene
ments, and who Will be the leader OF IN
RvInRton street colony
Associated with her will be graduates o
Na-ssr. Cornell and Syracuse Universities