The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-03

Element worker. but we can broaden their mental
aful things Of life that are free for the enjoyment
Of all whose senses are alive 70 their beauty. One
work when II ys ssast od had home
and the bare rudimcnts Of an education. spoke
q the pleasure she took now In via, 70 We Ar Ar
place had been a dead letter 10 her, but nov y
mscn. something and was rssourIo 10, h %.
asked The club girls 70 write letters as Y their
ideas Of what the picture study course had been.
We were estonished a. the tenor Of some q nose
letters few would be q credit 70 girls OF n,Rner
education circles, and nearly all gave evidence
that We had not wasted our efforts. -, ,
only one or two women residents. the wives or
sisters OF the directors TO keep the home together
and supply that note Of hospitality and comfort Nor,
. the case with tho Union settlement on, Eas!
lo4th street. with the East Side House at the foot Of
IN tho @Sdis Esss s SIDE region &c and the Amy
Other settlements have a complete stan Of 9, women
residents and no men, such as the West Side set.
dement, In Forty .nfth street under the caro- Of
the Young womcn's Christian Association, tho
posed Of college women and % charge q young
woman head worker, and The Friendly AID u
ess hnmS S Snaet me he eRsre Of
an energetic young woman physician Both
Of the nurses settlements have households com
ment far down In Clinton street has all young
women workers and residents, although tho
woman who founded and mainly supports II Ii
a. good proportion q the, settlements have
plenty OF means TO do with and are not hampered
Others have TO be exceedingly careful IN the dis.
pcnsing Of funds and have households most
TO take boafdcrs moi mmodiateiy Interested In the
work In order 10 make ends meet A number oil tho
most efficient young women head workers now IN
into methods and served their first apprentice
ship at sharing neighbors burdens, al the Col
lego and University settlements, those, too with
tho Henry Street Nurses Settlement having been
The firs, nurseries for sociological work in New
Some young women who have secured steady
places In Now York settlement work. did not tako
tho course metbodicaly either In q college OF
because they needed to do something and had an
all round practical sonss oil tho duties thst would
Of them Thsg are The srd q yoSSng
school classes in their homo towns variously
about tho country. or who would have accepted
Eartcn Some Of them have drilled into settlement
life through contact with resident workers whom
h sooa G w6S %
ing for New York and a larger view OF life than
hasn't a profession, neither does she wish 10 work
psopo nearest her are not willing Hill hal she Should
, come 10 tho city without some definite purpose
In view and shme home surroundings and as
| mendabie people She Is able TO pay moderate
board and mol only able but willing 10 interest
Oilers She SaEes arr"ngsments b By eSrrespond
encc with the managers Of . settlement house.
takos a single room there meets the promoters
and earnest workers who explain tho needs and
take her with them on various trips and mission 8
| take charge on alternate evenings with another
worker OF some girls club She reads TO them
or plays on The piano for them erhnps dsyiscs
Ia set TO work helping TO &c, statistics as 10 t-o
various matters In given area, or asked 10 help
G RSE One ono 's sss Snd snGs % isp'
busy Her Interest grows with what II feeds
palS SG 10 So sHemen SndeTaiinr Iii lille ' mis-
sions Of her own and getting sort Of personal
clientele among the little girls or the boys their
As null. there orc not only circulating libraries
in charge Of volunteer workers at the settlements,
and and 'd pSnS for ndenr the the s sSdf TV snd
! thrr elders 20 snyr money and 10 invest theil
savings rightly. These enterprises arc all manned
and sicered by volunteer workers, and besides
and ' pSy s sG' classes esN
lain thai the eicc, Of /, on the typical East sid,
youth is 70 stimulate abnormal self analysis,
| even bumpuousncss, and act him 10 studying
his own family with microscopicnl inien,noss
They say that the boys OF tho debating societies
Bo this as /, may. the slender chain Of settlement
homes that now extend up and down the city
depressing clutter about them. There is more
room as 10 width Of street in the districts up-
town, and the fat houses ar. not quite 40 high
az down town, but there seems the same com
mngling oi children, hardships and unsiGht
ness 10 every square inch Of territory as prevail;
the settlement in the uptown bohemian or Italian
quarter has AZ many odds 70 reconcile M the
settlement in the downtown Jewish quarter
1hefN are ATti m q In h.