The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
Helen Campbell
Author. Lecturer and 1Sociolosist

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 The child stories were interrupted. Henceforth Helen Campbell was to be a sociological writer and worker. After dwelling among the poverty stricken, the ignorant and the helplesB--helpless because ignorant-she wrote a mono graph on the Problem of the Poor" quickly followed this. It, too, dealt with the problem of the poor The ed- itor of a leading New York newspaper read the book. He sent for Mrs. Camp bell and asked her to write series of letters for his Journal on the condition of the poor and how to alleviate it.. The result was the appearance of a re- markabIe set of papers called "Prison- CTS of Poverty" A yet wider field opened for the author and she went to Europe and wrote another set, Prison CTS of Poverty Abroad" During that trip she investigated especially the sit- uation among the hapiess women wage earners of the world. There was in 1889.
 After her return from abroad she continued writing novels and essays. In 1898 she read a paper at the Chicago worlds labor congress. Thereupon Professor Richard T. Ely wrote her to come to the University of Wisconsin as special lecturer. This she did, having the post of assistant professor in the department of economies. She was al- so continually studying. mastering de- tails and statistics. Naturally, being a woman, household economies claimed her attention. She wrote, studied and experimented. "One must marry one's economic theory to experience before 1t can be of any yalue." she remarks Mrs. Campbell has been called the mother of scientific household econom- les, which she has studied in both Eu- rope and America.
 Mrs. Campbell's book Household Economies Twas published in 1896. It is full of fact, science and practical in- struction, the result of observation and experiences on both sides of the Allan tic. One of the foreign notes Is this: There are towns in Holland where even the stables are scrubbed daily. and a wandering fly or particle of dust is attacked with passionate zeal Yet in- doors every principle of personal hy- giene is violated at every turn"
 In the preparation of the volume Household Economies" Mrs. Campbell received valuable aid from her friend. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The two wrought together for a time in Chicago in conjuction with Jane Addams of Hull House. The three friends, all in close sympathy, form a trio of. women social reformers the like of which can not be found in any other land.
 Mrs Campbell was a professor for some years in the agricultural college of Kansas University. in the depart ment of economies. She has written many books, novels and others, all having more or less the ethical and economic trend. A little more than a year ago in a fire at Greenacre, Me, were destroyed documents, statistical and otherwise, invaluable to this brave writer and logical thinker. Among the papers were two books ready for publication. The loss was irreparable, yet courageous Helen Campbell began al over again. At present she is writ ing another novel
 She ia as well acquainted with what Is called social settlement work as any one living. She considers that the en- terprise of this kind nearest perfection is the Boston Civic House, where youn g foreigners are taught to become intel lisent American citizens. From among the immigrant children of poverty be- friended in that house have gone out Italian, Russian Jew and other boys to fill honorable places. Some of them are now Harvard college students. Note what this clear headed student of so- cIology says of women's ciubs--and mems, too, for that matter:
 T want to live to see the day when the organizations of women shall be completed and outgrown. We need orr ganizations of men and women. and think the time Is not far distant when we shall be ready for them. Then we shall not have congresses of men and con naresseB of women. but assemblies of men and women working together for the good of all"
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