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

plan is not to be grasped, in word. 1t is like
fable; it must be read to the end; and it covers
simple form, the complex story of human society.
1t is a very real fable. too
Miss Addams's father banker, and she could
easily have closed her eyes to the miseries of the
poor; but to her, there is something overwhelming
and unforgetabe in class distinctions: one side
barbarous extravagances by the idle rich, on the
other, children crying for bread.
AS is well known, there have been thousand
and one attempts to bridge the social chasm; but
So she moved down in the slums-and worked.
Yes, others have done that too and will do it
again. but in Miss Addamss case the idea was not
to seek palliatives Her plan wider far more
subtle. One would have to think about it a long
time before he grasped the special application.
She calls it cultivation of social feeling or the
cumulation of sympathy. The word sympathy is
often confused with pity; but sympathy indicates
much finer feeling Sympathy means feeling with
another 1t has broader benevoence than pity.
We may pity whom we despise; but we cannot
syrpathize with him. So, her plan is not sent1
mental Far from it! BY ever striving to forget her
own personal interests she identified her life
and more with the great cause of humanity,-and
within her grew the consciousness OF enlarged and
charging usefulness
second class immigrant ship, from Genoa. Morris
Rosenfeld's Yiddish songs of the sweatshoP were
lived down there on Halsted-st: 1t was Chicagos
pit a place that Tolstoi would have revered,-yes,
friend of the downtrodden muzhik,-he would have
seen that it big with Fate and to this White
chapel of Chicago Jane Adams brought her fine
Early Opposition
WHEN her four rooms were ready up stairs, over
w the auction shop boys threw stones, broke win
dows, and despoiled the grounds. Priests and rabbs
looked on askance. Jane Adams, on her side,
bewildered. Low dance halls 1ured factory girls;
there was law against child labor; every day
were killed in factories at unprotected machines;
there were no visiting nurses, much needed down
there; and there Chicago Central Relief
Associa tion,-in Short her parish down. pow
erty stricken in purse, bankrupt in hope, forgotten
seemingly by man and God.
How practical she was She determined to turn
garbage inspector to clean up her neighborhood;
and when the Mayor appointed her. friends shrugged
their shoulders and really couldn't understand. By
and by, in that vile section of the Nineteenth Ward,
the death rate dropped from third on the list to
seventh, and some of the doubters began to wonder
Bit and to say that after all there might be some
thing in it-only of it would soon fzze out.
Jane Adams trying to put in practice,
for human natures daily need, very simple
TRUTH so simple that naturally misunder
stood; for men generally look for hard things and
not plain ones. She not trying to make
free port Of entry, through called culture,
or needlework or lectures this that,-a free
port through which the pauper labor of Europe
might pass without a penny in their pockets
idea in their heads, spark of true MAJ illness. That
would be the widest emotionalism; and she