The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-03-28
CAREER AN INTERESTING ONE
Woman Who Is Declared to Be Leader
of the Women of the Nation to Be
the Guest of Kenosha Women at
Meeting for Advancement of Suffrage

Jane Adams OF Hull mouse, 41H1cd-
go, unquestionably the foremost wom-
an in America who was described by
John Burns, the famous English labor
leader, as "the only saint America
has ever produced, will speak at the
Rhode Opera House Thursday even
ing, March %.
Notification was given yesterday to
the local committee in charge of the
for Jane Adams APP
pearance here that she would consent
to speak on that evening and that she
would choose for her subject a topic
closely related to that of votes for
women.
This is the first occasion on which
Jane Adams has appeared in Keno
sha and it will bring together the
most prominent people in this section
Of the state. Many Of the, leading
men and women Of Kenosha and Ra-
cine will be in attendance. Mrs. w.
H. Crosby, president Of the State Fed
Grafton of Woman S Clubs Of Racine
and other neighboring cities, and
party, will occupy one Of the boxes
while Mrs. N. A. Rowe, president of
the Kenosha Woman S Club and party,
will occupy the other.
A slender, earnest, dark-eyed WON
an of medium height, and now APP
preaching middle life, is Jane Adams.
In manner she is calm, self possessed
and serene, with well modulated
voice and ready wit. Miss Adams
was educated at Rockford College,
Rockford, Illinois, one Of the earliest
efforts for women S higher education
in the Mississippi valley, and school
strong in missionary spirit. Before
her school days were over she had
settled in her own mind that she
should study medicine, and Give
with the poor. The winter after
her graduation was spent in the Won
an s Medical College of Philadelphia,
but the development Of spinal diff
fculty with which she had been af-
dicted as a child, put out of question
prosecution of medical
TI,c4noa ~ fa1Jou-o1 ~ H.
tor s prescription of spending the next
two years in Europe.
After eight years of travel and
study the plan that afterWard develop
ed into settlement work took form in
her mind. She became convinced that
it would be a good thing to make it
possible for young women to go down
into the midst of need and put into
actual practice their high ideals. She
set forth her plan first to her old-time
friend and travelling companion, Miss
Ellen Starr, who at once manifested
in the scheme. This was
in April, 1888. A month later Miss
Adams travelled to London to visit
and secure suggestions from Toynbee
Hall, the first settlement in England.
which was then five years old
The two women returned to Ameri-
ca and the next year put their plans
into execution, financing the undertake
ing with their personal means, asking
from others only sympathy and CO.
operation. The house they obtained
was an old mansion built in 1856 bv
Charles j. Hull, one of Chicago's pi-
oneer citizens. Through the generosity
of its present owner, Miss Helen Gull
vert, they obtained free lease hold
of the land upon which the entire
equipment of thirteen buildings now
stands and which she has continued TO
put at their service. The house faces
Halstead street, which was known as
Chicago's pit, and in its neighborhood
thirty-six nationalities are represent
ed. In the midst of this social confu
sion the first settlement in America
opened its doors and stood the en-
bodiment of the things cultivated
men have called good in the world s
past and present
The settlement maintains fifteen
clubs and supports seven institutions
in the interest of employees. One Of
these, the Jane Club, is a cooperative
home for working girls. And there are
play grounds, gymnasium and vari-
Gus forms of amusement.
Seats can be reserved at KradweI's
drug store and will be held until eight
0 CLOCK of the night Of the lecture.
Sixty seats have been taken from the
board by members of the Political
Equality League and and can be OBJ
tanned from Mrs. R. G. Chase, secre
tary Of the league, English Court.
Mrs. NJ. J. Scholey is resting very
easily at the Kenosha HOSPITAL TODAY