The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

4fifies, as thez believe that most of
8 he vice and crime of the world is due
20 environment. That to help the
ielcus and degraded one must live
2ace 10 face with the actual conditions
DE crowded CITY life and study on the
spot the -evils to be remeoied. They
55eEeve il does no GOOD to stand on a
pinnacle and reach down help to the
unfortunate They resent it The life
II the great Exemplar was passed
=among the lowly.
. Heretofore there seemed TO be an
saristocracy of intellect which left col
#ege-bred men and women to them
Selves, with perhaps the feeling that
#loae but college-bred people were
*Forrh associating with, as people with
large fortunes often feel that only
hose who are equally rich are their
$eroper associates. This feeling, ac-
$aoroing TO the speaker. is largely done
ERway with and in its place the thought
that as knowledge is given them it is
heir duty to impart it to less fortunate
4nes. Some of the most cultivated, re-
#lned and wealthy women of this coun-
Try have given I'D homes of ease and
uczury to live in these settlements
&lnong the iowly and degraded. These
settlements were. first instituted by an
fIngsishman. Arnold Toynbee, and
<hey are now scattered over Great
-
with in England is the absence of any
6lesire Tor better conditions. This is
hot found under American institutions
=.nd American born people. The effort
here is ever for higher and better con-
Sjitions. The Social Settlement par
axes OF the idea of club life-of COM
Enon brotherhood OF others there is
: he United American Educational club,
$rhe Maxwell street Settlement, the
SSi.ls Home Culture club, the
9Woman's Aid club, and greatest
abe ALL the Hull House Settlement.
although it has been but a few
years since these settlements were
4 Introduced in America there are
30 in existence today. In con-
snection with educational matters,
j they endeayor to defeat boodling and
corrupt municipal management, to Sc
Pure better school facilities, to plant |
free libraries. 20 secure green parks
tRnd play grounds, to open public |
baths, lighting streets in criminal /
}1eighborhood, thinking how best to en-
Force existing ordinances, getting clean |
Streets, and many other matters for |
he public good Mrs. Adams of Hull |
house says, work along every posi- |
.ole line which viii insure more public |
eontrol of the social machinery of the !
community. In doing this the wealthy |
.are benefited and the poor uplifted. |
THE doing for the poor which ends |
10 a committee-which is done through |
hgents at a distance is deadly. All /
help must De cooperation, the helper |
Rnd helped must be partners and over
hll. must be the grasped hand" The /
address, was listened to with marked |
httention and was followed along the
Eane lines by Rev. Mrs. Maynard. The
Lady gave a graphic description OF. Hull
house, of which at one time she was a
resident, OF the method of work and
bf its moving spirit, Miss Adams, whom
she believed followed closest in the
footsteps of the lowly Nazarene of any
bne she ever knew. These settlements
should be better known. They are
needed everywhere. jan II, Mrs.
Piper VIII give. a paper on Child
Study" The public are invited.