The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-10
WOES OF KANSAS.
Miss Jane Adams Of Hull
House Famey
Tells London People Of Her
American Work.
CONDITION OF KANSAS
And It's Peoples Hardships
Worried Her Much.
Noted Dinner at Mrs. Humphrey
Wards Home.
CONDITION OF KANSAS

Chicago Nov. 1O.-Niss Jane Adams
recently made many delightful referen-
ces to her meeting with Mrs Humph-
rey Ward in London. Aside from much
needed recreation, Miss Adams main
purpose in visiting Europe was to study
settlement work on it's native soil ana
to meet some of the great teachers OF
modern sociology.
She first met Mrs. Ward at the Pass
more Edwards settlement, opened only
last February. This settlement is, as
far as may be, a realization or the
brotherhood which Robert Elsmere
founded. and in its building, general
eouipnent and the spirit OF It's CO
workers seeks to embOdy the idea OF
that hero, as we'll as those of the late
heroine, Marcella. From its Hrst IN
ceDtion Mrs. Ward herself has been one
of its moving spirits and IS now us
honorary secretary. The munlIlceIlI
Gift of $50 600 from PassmOre EDWARDS.
for whom the settlement IS named, aII
smaller donations from the Duke or
Bedford and other friends enapleu MIS-.
Ward with her cO-adjutOrs, to achleVe
this new university settlement IN WeSc
central and northwest London, Wh4cn
is to serve similar ends to those OF
Toynbee hall and the Peoples palace
in the east end
tIement in the old world should be ca
ger to hear directly from the Oldest set
Element
press. Miss Adams into talking to them
of Hull house. On the same evening OF
her address Mrs. Ward gave the people
a talk on Italy, where she had been FOR
several months collecting material AOr
her last novel
AS a speaker Miss Adams says that
Mrs. Ward seems to suffer somewhat
from shyness and reserve. Her man.
ner is more or less hesitating and re-
strained and her delivery lacks that
splendid fuency of diction that carries
one along so tremendously IN her BOOKS
She did not talk to the people OF the
beauty of Italy to which she is so SEN
sitive, of its nature or art, OF which she
has such grasp, but OF the everyday
life of it's everyday people.
The meeting of these two ardent Ia
| ter-day sOciOlOgists was Immediately
followed by an invitation to Miss Ad-
dams to dine with Mrs. Ward In the US
ual formal English manner, two or
/ three weeks from date. 1t was for
| tunately. however, not at too distant
/ a time for Miss Adams to accept.
Upon her introduction into this mag
| nifcent home, rich in works of art, in
| books, in rare collections and in the
very atmosphere which generations of
culture bring and being met by her
( hostess in a vivid yellow satin evening
/ gown, Miss Adams had a mOmentary
| fear that she might be in for an ultra
| fashionable dinner. Nor did this feel
! ing perceptible diminish upon being ia
| ken out to a superbly laid table.
Hardly was she seated, however, be-
lore ali stress OF IOEElallLY utterly van
| ished, and a rafting fire of brilliant
conversation began, which lifted one
| upon a plane entirely above and beyond
the sordid or fashionable. Besides Miss
Adams the guests of the evening were
! James Bryce and Augustus BerriH of
''Obiter Dicta" fame. Mr.. Bryce took
Miss Adams into dinner, and was forth
with easy, natural, brilliant, informal
and delightful. Mr.. Ward, a man of
| extraordinary learning and culture,
could be nothing less than a charming
I Enc h "a II
Wardly the natural exponent of her con
VentiOnal English training, is, according
to Miss Adams, the real prototype OF
| the impulsive and emotional Marcella
her enthusiasms and syrnpathies as
easily kindled. At one moment she is
the self-repressed woman of the world
and the next breaks into the conversa-
| ton with the unrestrained impulse OF
a child.
Miss Adams was, for instance. TALKING
/ most earnestly of the condition of KAN
| sas, whose peculiar hardships and Ifrni-
/ tations she has very much upon her
heart While acquainting her English
listeners with some of its specially hard
| conditions, Mrs Ward, greatly moved
| interrupted her with the exclamation:
| 'Oh, Miss Adams, must people in Kan
! sas be wretched too? London seems all
/ that we can beari'
or the other guest, Augustus BerrilI
| Miss Adams says that his conversation
| was so distinguished, so brilliant so
snlmmer1ng with wit and poetic flashes
that she felt inclined to stop him at
every sentence and implore him to pre-
serve 1t in permanent form: that it
| seemed a sheer waste of splendid mate
rial to talk such phrases Instead of
Ik4eePlng them to adorn one Of his de-
Altogether Miss Adams counts her
| evening at Mrs. Humphrey ward 8
home as one of the most fTteres+iT1pr - eI,7
memorable occasions of her FI1Ir6r 60,
trip, which was replete with sieni9[e7,t
| experiences. ali