The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-06-17
Another Blow at Woman's Logic.


the desire to better conditions in her home
town, Chicago, Miss Adams first brought
before the public, the possibilities of SETTLE
ment'' work. She was most familiar with the
conditions under which the children, the first
born OF the European immigrants lived and
learned SO much that was bad for them.
Miss Addams was fortunate in having the
cooperation, almost from the inception of
her work, of people Of wealth, who gladly
provided for her use the funds needed to
carry out her ideas. Miss Adams herself
devoted every minute of her time, and the
results were glorious IN many ways. Her
work was imltated she was besieged to make
tours of other towns and other States, to lay
before the willing ones the matter of opera
ton Of the so-much needed settlements, where
the congestion of foreigners was so great as
to almost obliterate every trace of morals.
The work prospered, at first under Miss
Addams' entire personal supervision, then
under the direction of the women and men
whom she had trained.
Her absences grew more and more fire.
quent; those of us who watched her, and who
read her speeches, as reported from the vari-
Gus cities in which she delivered addresses,
were panied to note the beginning of her
theories; from being the practical, working
head. she became sort OF director general,
and while it took some years for her to al
most lose her identity with the original works
and aims of Hull House, the time may be
almost settled as that which saw the bloom
ing of the suffrage idea.
Miss Adams became a suffragette. and her
work and mode OF operation underwent as
rapid change as though it were another
woman working In her place. We do not hear
so much of Hull House now, and as Miss
Addams was the only woman who could hold
that splendid work together, we must surmise
that Chicago has suffered, by the new aflia
tion Of Miss Addams.
We must believe the testimonials we had
at hand, of the splendid work Miss Adams
did; we were cited to young men and young
women, successful in many arts and crafts
some Of whom returned to Hull House as
teachers; others of whom now hold high po-
sltions In the commercial world; many of the
young women who married well, and were
ideal mothers And when we again take the
statistics of Miss Adams, realize what these
young people would have been without the
magnificent training given them at Hull
House, we wonder what more there was in
life, that Miss Adams would have asked
denied home and children of her own.
She had proven that the one thing needed
to make the children of the slums develop
into the men and women they have become,
was the home influence and the teaching and
training of the woman-mother; Miss Addams
stood in that relation to her self-chosen
charges. Her work was glorious. and the
results more gratifying than comes to the
average parent, because of the fact that she
had been able to interest many people of
wealth, who were anxious to help with the
money which is SO often lacking in the hum
BILE home.
In the work, it may be that Miss Addams
had grown weary-not from lack of interest,
but because of the tremendous demands it