Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-01
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poverty he does il.
He says everybody ought to do four
kinds Of labor, first their share Of the
hard work, the kind that bends the
back and makes it ache. 1t would be
no great hardship to do IL for few
hours, but the bod carrier who carries
his bricks every hour CT the day for
years gets tc be a mass Of aching
muscles and it takes mind of un-
usual power to keep itself from being
brutalized by it. When he wrote all
day he had to exercise to get the
blood back from his brain to his
muscles. Next, one should work with
his hands and wrists as an artist does
when he models; he would experience
pleasure in this and do more artistic
work. 1t is the monotony of work that
makes it injurious; factory work is
monotonous and it is in the reaction
against this that tho saloon flourishes.
1t is the heavy and coarse that appeals
to the appetite in proportion to the
monotony of ones occupation. Third,
the mind ought to be exercised in
teaching or writing, and fourth, there
should be social labor in churches or
clubs. In society people go to teas
and parties till they become as
monotonous as work and people change
the color of their candle shades or
table decorations for variety. Think
of being reduced to such shifts because
the mind is so dull.
Tolstoi makes boots, not very good
ones; they let in the water, but he was
81 when he began; he writes as much
as ever in bulk, but be writes for the
peasants. In the evening he has social
intercourse; he attempts to get at the
minds of the people who come to learn
of him. He believes he is living the
right life; he has had II years of peace,
happiness. People attack his theories
and say we attained our present
civilization through the division of
labor; he thinks we have not attained
civilization while nine tenths are sunk
| in labor that one tenth may enjoy life.
| The great pictures were painted when
all the people shared in their enjoy
ment; they came from the mountains
to see Giotto's latest work. the great
music was that played &c solace, not to
achieve the greatest skill for those who
listened only to criticise. Labor suffers
because cut away from art. The poor
suffer from the Withholding of visions
of the imagination.
Tolstoi follows his own conscience.
| but does not urge others to do as he
| does, nor force his family to do it.
| Whom | was at his house to supper it
was served by walters in conventional
| costume and was as elaborate as IS
usual. He sat at the table eating a
simple supper and did not call
attention to the fact that he and his
daughter had worked u hours that day.
| If his theories are taken in the alb
stract there are fallacies in them, his
reasoning is inconsistent, but take him
| as an appeal to conscience, how simply
and honestly he IS trying to square
himself to surrounding conditions and
he is impressive.
In response to questions Miss Addams
told something Of the Hull House
settlement in Chicago of which she
was the founder and which is situated
in ward made up of 10 nationalitles,
Bohemian, Polish, Russian Jews,
Armenians, with enough Irish to
manage oil the politics. Such a
neighborhood lacked cohesion; it was
badly paved and lighted and there was
not enough enlightened public spirit
to insist on having its rights. There
was no place large enough to hold any
gathering vi Ileople except Ine SdlODDS,
SO for a common centre Hull House
was founded. It has % residents who
all pay their own expenses and give
what time they may to its activities.
1t has six buildings and FROM $500 to
5000 take part in its various social
and educational work. 1t supplies a
kindergarten, gymnasium, evening
classes for young and old, day
nursery, where workingwomen may
leave their children, cooking school,
coffee house, girls club and mems
club. The mems social science club
numbers $50 and includes anarchists,
socialists. and single takers. They
make out the programme and discuss
all sorts Of things, but we choose the
speakers They say in the seven years
of the clubs history only two men
have lost their tempers in the dis
cussions and both were college pro.
fessors. The working men are more
used TO rough things.
The ward was in an unhealthy con-
dition, the garbage uncollected, so one
of our residents had herself appointed
garbage inspector. When she took her
degree in Sanscrit at college she prob
ably did not think OF collecting
garbage, but she has reduced the
death tate, increased the value Of real
estate, and changed the sentiment of
the entire ward in respect to cleanii-