Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

culoss inquiry among rear tenement dwellers; and
the dreadful center that found, like the infamous
Lung Block on Cherry-St., New York city; and
the fight against typhoid by personal inspection of
some four thousand tenements.
Neighborliness? An Italian woman came in one
day. and, seeing vase of roses, wondered how they
could be SO fresh, so far from Italy: Really are
there roses in American One night Russian wives
not knowing what to do say, at last proudly
showed their hand embroidered petticoats; told
that it their work Miss Adams saw a new
way to neighbOrlineSS, through old country handi-
craft; put in spinning wheels, hand looms and
jacquard loom-the machine that has brains, if ever
a machine had brains. Peasants were soon making
beautiful cloth; and to-day the spinning and weav
ing room is pleasant place to spend half an hour,
taking you back to the days of the simple life.
Culture, says Miss Addams is understanding
OF the long established occupations and thoughts of
men, She used also the appeal of folklore in old
country songs; taught immigrant women how to
cook, and how to sew on button, and how to run
seam and how to mend chd's dress without
botching it; and she showed the wives her parish
how to make bed and how to sweep Then she
added music; for as she SAYS, Music makes men
forget their differences
The Basic Principle
A Nd all this brings us back to the four words Who
4 is my neighbor? lane Adams answered this
question sixteen years ago by going to live among
the poor, and she is still there to-day. The reverent
friend of the forgotten class, the American the
making the Lithuanian of the stockyards, Polish
sweatshop girls, Italians who shovel ballast the
railroads. Greek pushcart peddlers,-her parish IS
composed of congeries of natonaties, at her very
door, mighty horde, gathered by the four winds
Disproving also the reproach that the rich live selfish
lives, for years many Chicago women of leisure
have helped with time, money, and personal
rifces. Yes, neighborly friendship with the
crowded tenements has become genuine social fact
Jane Adams can adapt herself to any audience,
from Chicago newsbovs to parliament of religions
is accessible to Greek fruit pedder she is
to a civic federation director. The worlds leaders
of thought know her She spoke at Paris dele
gate, and made deep impression After that,
grave European men of letters and science Wed in
opening doors for her handing her chairs. and bowed
right and left. At college commencements. she is
the platform beside gray bearded presidents,
wife of the drunkard. She society as unit
fop, priest, thief, COcOtte, honest working girl In
that part of Chicago known the - Bad Lands, -
never hand would be raised against her; and
tance ready to be her rude protector snite with
one terrible blow the man who dares modest her.
| her at Hull House passing through the
crowded rooms. around her many willing workers.
a word here smile there. She dressed in plain
black modestly as Telephone bells were
ringing, outer doors were swinging, twenty times
hour. 1t always seemed that size passed through
the picture, rather than that she part of the
picture.
What is it that keeps Hull House going? l began
wondering Yes; the old college song has it right,
" It's love that makes the world 60 round
Let us look at her closely in her busy rooms, the
salon of the social democracy, true salon in
refinement and spirit. l in hour come to
meet and counsel with Jane Adams. nun. a
washwoman, hunchback boy, Italian woman
with gaudy skirts widows, orphans, and men down
their luck. PRACTICAL! Yes practical idealisrn.
These are the words Roosevelt uses so much. In
Jane Addamss they mean that she has studied,
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