The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-30

Nov she Cams % write ElsR Aueohi.
egrAuhy and ''The aplFit % Houth."

I
esrAphy ana the aplrss % HOuth."
CHICAGO. May e.-As tho visitor eat
in one % the beautifully simple, brown
hung. good pictured rooms u Hull Hou.'
and talked to Jane Adams the words
came to mind; AT q time when womer
are taking q greater part In Affairs thar
ever before Miss adams may well b
called ths TOrpsnOst American woman
II was not 90 much because % what
Miss Addams was saying at tho moment
for she was quietly talking Of h. liter
airy WORK: nor because Of the innumerAbls
surrounding svidsnces Of the eztsnt and
| Importance % the social institution which
she has shaped. nor because % constant
and varying Interruptions which mads
some testimony at least 90 the tests pui
upon her administrative capacity. social
cooperative and upon this day even po-
/ litical For within the half hour sho
was scheduled TO be- across tho city al
luncheon with an important commercial
club Ca have some part in . discussion
upon a mosnentons civic question. Fol-
lowing upon this engagement was yet
another Of civic import.
Duties and appointments 10 every
| variety lay thick ahead for the after
noon and evening. even a.. met and
accomplished. they marked the morning
past: but calm and serene she aat and
talked about her writing. paRins now
Ia give quick attention and quick answer
60 a telephone message. now TO give
smiling counsel upon some poillt Of house
management or social endeavor which
IL seemed needs muss be answered by
hsrsglf.
Miss Acielams's recent book. The
Spirit Of YOuth.- which has been praises
a. much for it, literary quality as for the
material which makes the sketches valu-
able rs a human document. the author
AYERS to be the product II literary inn
pulse as we'll ss Of experience.
4 have always liked to write she
said. even a. q girl in school. Later
when I spent a few months in Europe
! took great interest in The expressive
arts. I have had this feeling in every
thing have written; I have not written
a. a philanthropist merely. I believe no
one writes a book without some literary
impulse
L personally doubt whether ] should
have had the impulse however. unless
something else were pressing Il. ! like
% write and have never written 50 much
a. during the last year hut the writing
came a. a result of other elements work
ing.
My last book. for instance. had ~ its
basis several addresses. One was given
in New York az meeting in honor OF
Mrs Humphry Ward and At which the
D,lches- of Marlborough also talked. One
was given before the Association for
/ lnduSs rial Education. one before q re-
! ligious association in fact the Address
were given before gatherings 81 all kinda.
national and local. After using them
along it, own lines. and then took them
all out and practically rewrote them.
hat the ha~t- Wa The same, meant Tor
certain definite expre~~ioa
In the writing and publication Of the
-Autobiograph ical Notes.- Of which two
81 the -ix numiper- have Already appeared
-erially IN the American Magazine and
which record the authors mental expsrt-
encss and influences, a. well as those re-
lAting u Hull House it-eh and it, growth
and history. the same purpose and cOndi-
tions are responsible for the work. The
purpose was Co help social enCieavor and
organization through Te-haping and print
ing material which had long been accumu.
IatinR 4 wrote the Autobiography.
said Miss AddAm- last sumner through 4,
wa done while was visiting with friends
for six weeks
You S~e I ret 10 a certain point in
my writing where I have to go away
i and fir ish with deliberalion. There u
the vital point Writing IL not matter
OF mere mill routine: there must Ne an
amount Of give and take. and a certain
Response - gained bV Deing with p'-oplc
Nho feed interest 20 the mind
I The autobiography a. Il - appear.
| inR ia the Ar sricoR M0OdsfRs - all cui %
with reference to what bears directly
unOn Hull HoIB-e. The complete hook.
whit n will he brought out by the Mac
milan Company. will have twenty chap
terS covering q much wider range
In a conspicuous place IN Hull HOUSE
hangs a large portrait OF Tolrtoy. 4
chapter on TOl~tOy taken from her auto
biography - tO aopeaE ~ HeslsrF :
Mdgasir. IT, August. Miss Addsms visited
the Russian writer in 1914 nc his home
aud this chapter 10 largely tn" result Of
I that visit
/ Miss Adams does not think she would
he a greater writer II she wrote for her
vocation instead Of writing hecNuse Of
| her vocation.
4 en ioy NV writing and ] have q lit
I erarv impulse when ! write, A. ] said.
3 sha ssniis.d hut Won write well only
What YOU must say and A. u n ! write
what | have tn saw the best can when
= car. and like TO do II.
Then she hurried away 70 her civic
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