The newspaper., 1908-01-17
Noted Modern Woman.
MRS. NErTIE GRAHAM M'MILLAN.

MRS. NETTE GRAHAM NJ MILAN.
Jane Addams, the founder OF Hull House in Chicago
which marks the beginning of socaled settlement
work. in writing her own story of that work, year
or SO ago. says that to explain her determination to
take up such work she must fall back upon the the
ory that our genuine impulses may be traced to
childish experiences-to the time when character is
formess yet beginning to settle into the lines of
future development.
Even in childhood she must have been one full OF
sympathy and prone to strong feelings OF sorrow and
pain the needs of Others. She evidently
much with her father who certainly was wise and
good as a afather-and thoughtful serious minded
man well. She tells OF her impression when, a
child OF six, she drove with him through poor quar-
ter OF town and noticed the little houses all crowded
together When her her explained why it was, she
declared that when she grew up she would have a
large house but that she would have 1t built right in
the midst OF the little ones to which her father replied
that it would be a good plan. Another time when
she had gorgeous new cloak and stood before her
father asking him to admire it. He told her that 1t
very pretty in fact, far too fine none OF the
other little girls had one so nice and advised her to
her old one to Sunday School rather than make
some else feel badly. She wore the old cloak but
she says quite without the joy OF selfsacrifce'-
although her mind busy with questions-why
things were unequal In this world.
When she twelve years old she found her father
one day mourning the death OF Mazzini, the great
patriot OF Italy. She took him to task saying this
man was not American, why need his death mat
ter to us?" whereupon, her father strove to make
her and feel the real relationship which exist
between men whose hopes and desires the same,
though they differ in nationality language and
creed. She left her fathers side with new idea OF
life and its relations filed also with pride that she
'knew a man who held converse with great minds,
and who really sorrowed and rejoiced over happen
ings across the sea-
OF her estimate of her father who such
influence in her early life, she says; 81 never recall
those early conversations with my father aud score
of Others like them. hut that there comes into mind
a line from Mrs Browning In which daughter de-
scribes her relations with her father-"He wraps his
little daughter in hslarge mans double careless did
it fit no.
Thus she grev-it would seem to fit his doubet-
by being wrapped In it, least she attributes To
eary experiences the essentials In her character.
for living simple human life among thepour-
Three general principles she lays down necdful.
First. genuine preference living In industrial
quarter Of the city because IL Is interesting and makes
the human appeal. Second. determination to equal
lie the opportunities for education. and other things
upon which right living n-ss. Third. conviction
that things which make men alike nre purer aud finer
than the things That keep them apart.
Once after she grown. n ink. she went with
party visit East London at midngiitun saturday
night. the poor people buy decayed vegetables.
She says they would bid for thing and when II had
been sold them would devour IL and half rot
IL To her language Their
pale fnces dominated 10y that most unlovely
human expression the cunning and shrcwdnes- Of the
bargain hunter who stnrvcs II he cannot mnkeu sue
cessful trade and yet my final impression was. not of
ragged clothing pinchcd sailow faces. but Of myri
ad- Of hands. empty, pathetic, nervous aud work
worn. clutching forward aud upward for food which
was already unfit eat" And SHE adds, 81 have
never since been able to see n number Of hands held
upward. even in Callstbenics among chubby children
without a memory ofths incident revivlng, and N
cutchin the heart, which Is but reminiscent of the
despair and resentment which seiz'd me then" She
then travelling in Europe for her health and says