The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-29
Celia Myrover|
Robinson


classes. She wanted not only to make
their lot better one for their own
sake; she wanted to make it better
one, for the sake of that American
ship which was to be conferred upon
them; she wanted them, since thew
were to become American citizens. to
De started with the right kind of |
American ideals.
In company with Mrs. Price, wife
OF DR.. James Russell Price. noted as |
a lecturer on eugenics, and the author |
of "A Call For Fathers visited Hull
House on a rainy Friday. AS we
drew near the Ghetto it brought to
mind pictures had seen-pictures of
women with baskets on their arms
and shawls over their heads. l knew
now why the illustrators always SUM-
piled their immigrant women with
shawls. It is because the woman and
the shawl are inseparable. Stoutish,
most of them, with the shawl over the
head, if old; about the shoulders, if
young-but always hatless. It was
as if the shawl might be a sort of
badge of womanhood. And every-
where there were children. 1t did
not need great wisdom to grasp the
service that Hull House could do
these children of the Ghetto.
Miss Adams was in Europe, and
Saturday was visiting day. Having
chosen Friday, DR.. Yarros, who was
at the head of Hull House, in the alb
sence of Miss Adams, was out on a
case, and the pleasant young secre-
tary who greeted US, said that she
would not be in for some time. We
were to make ourselves at home. Go
where we pleased, and she would give
us any information we needed.
The Service of Hull House is not a
paid service. The resident members
are all self-supporting. Each has some
definite work in life, each earns a
living. And each gives service free
~. All the time that may be spared
from earning living is given to hu-
manity-to making the world better
place to live.
Besides the resident members, there
are hundreds of volunteer workers
who do not reside at Hull House, but
who give their services in class work.
visiting and other branches of SER
| vice.
Hull House was at one time de-
ightful home. AS Chicago grew, and
conditions changed, this old home held
its own. Miss Adams has tried 30
keep the House as nearly as possible
to its original lines. It is very charm
ing in its old-fashioned tone, and one
imagines that the furnishings have
been gathered from many parts of the
world, and they suggest wide friend
ship.
If Hull Huose was nothing but a
honae-if here were gathered together
men and women of culture and refine
ment, whose service to humanity was
just to live their daily lives here in
this quaint home set so oddly in the
midst of want and squalor, the service
would be very great, because the at
mosphere of such home must be up
lifting and inspiring.
But when there goes out from this
centre actual daily service to suffer
ing humanity-when children come
and go through its doors, when fathers
ard mothers find here practical heir
Of many kinds, and that sympathy
and understanding that are the great.
est helps to living, the good that il
accomplished is inestimable.
There were no classes the day We
visited Hull House. 1t was the vaca
ton period, and the class rooms were
silent. Hundreds of small kinder.
garten chairs were piled high, speak.
ing of the children who had useC
them, and thep ictures on the walls
the charts, the work that little hands
had done, showed where one part Of
the service finds its outlet. There arc
class rooms for the children; night
classes and lectures for the older ones
and for the fathers and mothers
there are rooms fitted up for .sewinI
classes and for cooking classes, and
there is the weaving room.
In this room charming woman sat
at table working. l shall never for
get her broken speech, and her beau
tiful manner. On every hand there
were lovely, homemade things. Table
covers and towels and pillow slips and
all sorts of things for the home. They
were so beautiful that one felt sure
the weaving room must be a popular
workshop.
But it is not all study and work
at Hull House. There is the little
theatre, all fitted out with its stage
and its pipe organ, at which mar
sat playing way off in dreamland
as we walked softly about, looked al
the pictures of Tolstoi and of Lin.
coin, an dthe small stage where 81
much talent has been discovered. And
little further on is the dance hall
which was open for the girls whc
wanted to drop in at lunch-time anc
dance and romp. And downstairs
there is the restaurant, where on,
NAV cat siYnnIe meal or a soda al