Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-23

classes;
Sunday evening lectures ..........
.................... Miss Hamilton
Sunday afternoon concerts ........
............. Miss Eleanor Smith
Evening Glasses :. Miss Elsie Smith
| Gymnasium ........... Miss Gyles
Social clubs ........ Miss Gernon
Labor Museum ........ Mrs. Adams
| Shop Work .............. Miss Wait
Probation Officer Juvenile Court of
Cook County ........... Mr.. Riddle
Coffee House .......... Mrs. Valerie
Cooperation with Charitable In
situations ........t... Miss Lathrop
Music School monday and Thurs
day. Miss Smith and Miss Hannig
kindergarten and Childrens Clubs
.......... Mrs. Britton
Woman's Club .......... Mrs. Pelham
Jane Club ............. Miss Fallon
Playground .......... Officer Murray
Boys Club ........ Mr.. Deknatel
From humble beginning of one
building, the Hull House settlement
has grown into a group of many build
ings, donated in many instances by
persons of wealth who have the in
terests of the institution at heart.
The first building erected was an
art hall, as Miss Adams remarks:
Doubtless one of the functions Of
Art has been that OF solace and COM
fort In the midst of dreary realities,
an escape from them into the king
dom of imagination"
Showing her views on the matter.
and she was ably assisted in this
idealistic line OF thought by some of
the best business men of Chicago, al
though they were puzzled somewhat
then as to the results Miss Adams
would obtain.
The coffee house was instituted at
an early period in the clubs history,
primarially to show the foreign women
how to take cheap inferior food pro-
duets and by long, slow cooking make
them into palatable dishes. They al
so had to deal with the class of wom-
en- working in the sweatshops, making
trousers for S, 7, and 3 cents per doz-
en-, and who had to work long. weary
hours at this TO support their families.
These women would give few pennies
to their children for food. which they
would spend for candy and decaying
food and thus kept the death rate
high in that vicinity owing to INSULT
cient nourishment.
The foreign women did not readily
take to the soups, pure food etc, which
the kitchen gave them for tribe
one woman expressing the views of
many when she said:
"The food may be better and more
nutritious, but 1 like to eat what I'd
ruther"
This coffee house is now a well
conducted cafe, where many business
men. students. teachers, doctors and
nurses go for meals, as we'll as the
working people. Cheap. of course but
palatable. well prepared and attrac-
tive. and the dining room is quiet.
A day nursery, where the mother
who has TO go out to labor all day
can leave her babies, has always been |
q well patronized feature.
Public bath houses were started al |
Hull House, but later turned over to
the city which today supports them.
Miss Adams was greatly grieved at
he beginning of her work because
here was no law regulating child la
Dor. Two boys were seriously Grip
lied and third one killed because a
factory refused to put
guard on a piece of machinery which
would have cost but a few dollars.
There was no law to protect those
Helpless innocents and Miss Adams
arried her war into the legislature de-
handing laws which she obtained.
The Hull House residents also wag- !
d a war against night labor for young
finding many of them lured
o destruction while going home in the
arly morning hours, worn out with
atigue, and who were induced to go