HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real Beat of government, and th. Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Neighborhood...
...The part on May Street contains living rooms for the residents and a beautiful large parlor for small parties and committee meetings...
...Such work ought to have a larger reward than the other kind...
...They are not long words but words which help them to express themselves clearly...
...I do not wish him in my tea...
...To her the purpose of the settlement seemed to be to bring the neighborhood into touch with the larger life of the city, the state and the nation...
...There were the women, loved and respected by us all, many of them with faces of saints, who believe that with women's votes will come the solution of the whole terrible liquor problem...
...They planned a gathering in Chicago and invited to it all of the hostesses who had entertained them in the various towns, those who had made the local arrangements, officers of suffrage societies throughout the state and local suffragists...
...It had, she said, sent two representatives to Springfield at the time of the hearing upon the wo man's suffrage clause in the Chicago charter...
...how they can make the part of town in which they live more comfortable and more healthful...
...But whatever the matter in hand may be, whether a party, or a prosecution, or an excursion, it is of common interest to all the neighborhood...
...Thus as it echoes and re-echoes, the auto trip is still jurying the suffrage message...
...I thought, as Miss Nicholes told me about it, that most college girls would profit by a similar exercise...
...Now I know that it has been part of the neighborliness of the residents of Neighborhood House to give a broader vision to those with whom they come in contact in the ordinary course of their daily lives, lives that are spent in a part of the city from which most people of their privileges and resources would move away...
...When it became evident that there must be a new building, those who were most interested wanted to have it erected through the cooperation of the people of the neighborhood...
...The part on 67th Street, which at the back adjoins the other section, contains a large auditorium with dressing rooms and a stage...
...A discriminating use of adjectives is the chief object of this exercise...
...These trips had been reported by word and by picture in the metropolitan dailies and in the country weeklies...
...Anna Blount of Chicago, the ministry by the Reverend Kate Hughes, who brought down the house by telling how one of the infamous "jackpot" politicians had said to her last winter: "I shall never be able to get the consent of my conscience to let women dabble in the dirty pool of politics," There were Margaret Haley of the Teachers' Federation, Belle Squire whose refusal to pay taxes led to the organization of the "No Vote, No Tax League," Harriet Grimm who is to be in charge of the suffrage headquarters in Springfield next winter, Helen Todd, state factory ;nspector, Josephine Casey of the Women's Trade Union League, just returned from a trip to England, where she had "chalked" announcements of suffrage meetings on sidewalks, sold papers and for the sake of experience had shared all of the activities of the English suffragists...
...If it served no other purpose, it would be worth what it cost...
...From the beginning, Mrs...
...As I rode in an elevated train to a part of the city which, it seemed to me, could hardly be in need of what we ordinarily understand by the word settlement, I said to myself: "Neighborhood House...
...But when I talked with Miss Nicholes, one of the residents, I discovered that she did not emphasize this feature of the work...
...All covered with bacilli...
...Then came clubs and classes and parties and with these the need of more room...
...Law was represented also by Miss Albertine Hathaway and Miss Mary Miller of Chicago, medicine by Dr...
...The Fly "The fly he lights on all around...
...The women of the Illinois Equal Suffrage League had during the summer made automobile trips to two-thirds of the county seats of the state...
...She told me, for example, that the Woman's Club of Neighborhood House always gave $25 each year for the vacation schools of the city, laughing as she added that while the vacation schools would probably not pass out of existence if that money were not raised, the club worked just as hard as if it knew that they would...
...I hope it does have...
...You do not find a few people doing things and many others having things done for them...
...And I am not sure that this is not a part of the purpose of those who gather at Neighborhood House...
...After breakfast, which was served at 12 o'clock, there were three-minute speeches by those who had taken the trips and those who had entertained them...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Neighborhood House A Cooperative Social Center WE ARE always grateful to those who coin for us new words, demanded by new conditions in our modern life, and we ought to be even more grateful to those who teach us new and larger and better meanings for old words...
...It had been prepared by the Juvenile Protective League and showed every saloon and dance hall in the neighborhood, as well as every church, school, park, playground and library—the shoals and the oases and the high places of that particular bit of organized society...
...This committee was somewhat unique...
...But here are a few facts that came to me as I looked about and listened...
...Those ladies have come to save the Nation...
...Harriet Van Der Vaart thought to give to the girls of her Sunday School class a chance to be really useful...
...You find all working and playing together...
...These short addresses brought out, very wittily at times, the sensations of the women when they tried to make their first street speeches, the opinions of the hostesses with reference to the value of the meetings in their towns, suggestions as to what had been effective and what could be better done in the future, opinions of the residents of the towns visited, comments heard in the crowds, and last but not least, the observation of the gallant Elgin policeman who, when someone suggested to him that the auto was going too rapidly, turned away his face, saying: "Speeding...
...She hired a small dwelling house and with the help of the girls started a kindergarten...
...Though reared within the stable foul...
...His little legs they wiggle fast...
...To her "being neighborly" seemed to mean not showing other people how to help themselves but helping them to help others...
...It is a safe place for the young people of the neighborhood to dance and make merry...
...Many of the exercises are, I suppose, like those given in any class of this kind, but one is unusual...
...Van Der Vaart has had the assistance of Miss Anna Nicholes and her sister, Miss Grace Nicholes, women to whom Fortune has given the choice between lives of ease and lives of labor, and who have chosen the latter...
...they had made speeches in these places and in scores of others on the way...
...The stock was sold partly in the neighborhood and partly to outsiders, but it was provided that each stockholder should have one vote in the management of the house, and only one, no matter how many shares he took...
...Echoes of a Suffrage Auto Trip THE "WOMEN WHO DO THINGS" are learning to make the things which they do, count...
...I am a suffragette...
...As she said this, I remembered that I had met these two women at the time and had wondered a little that they had been enough in touch with what was going on in the world to take this long trip...
...I came to this conclusion when I attended the "Echo" Breakfast given on September 30 at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago...
...On the Monday following my visit, Miss Nicholes was going into court for the purpose of getting two young girls out of the custody of their mother, who had been proved to be the keeper of a house of bad repute...
...Nor will I drink it, will I?" —From Collier's...
...They are learning to advertise...
...Each week the members of the class select, with the assistance of their teacher, a few words previously unused by them and whose meaning they have only dimly understood...
...I haven't seen them break no law...
...I am sure, have thought that the immediate impression made by the trips was sufficient...
...I took a long trip recently for the purpose of seeing one of the settlements of Chicago and when the trip was over, I felt that the best which it had brought to me was a new conception of the word neigh-borliness...
...They called together their friends in the district with the result that a Neighborhood House Association was formed and a building committee appointed...
...They had, as a model, Stanton Coit's ideal for neighborhood guilds, which he had partly realized in New York City...
...When the construction began, therefore, there were experts to criticize every step of the progress...
...Clara Todson of Evanston and Dr...
...I would not, if I could, give a list of all the activities of the Neighborhood House...
...Neighborhood House had its beginning about thirteen years ago when Mrs...
...If the "grand" of their vocabularies could be supplemented by a few othei adjectives they would not be obliged to describe their favorite professor and their favorite ice-cream soda in the same terms...
...It included a carpenter, a bricklayer, a plumber and a representative of almost every building trade...
...But there is another side, of course, and those who have never had the temptation to lapse into idleness have never known the satisfaction of looking back to work that has been done without the pressure of necessity...
...She added that the Woman's Club was affiliated with the Cook County League of Clubs and with the State Federation, to whose annual convention it always sends two delegates and that it had a representative in the Woman's Trade Union League...
...But not so these women...
...They had interviewed most of their representatives in the legislature...
...Catherine Waugh McCulloch of Evanston, lawyer and justice of the peace, presided...
...On the wall of the auditorium, 1 saw a large map of the district, which interested me much...
...These they try to introduce correctly into their conversation during the following week...
...Women who were less enterprising, would...
...lists make dry reading even at the best...
...It is probably a place where people gather together to talk over the needs of their district, to plan how they can get cleaner streets and alleys, better street car service and more parks...
...The purpose is to give them a command of language that will increase their efficiency...
...If they do things that are important and which tend to promote causes which they consider important, they multiply the number of impressions made upon the public mind by their deeds, providing, of course, the things done are such as can be promoted by publicity...
...I suppose that those of us who have never been offered this choice can hardly appreciate what it means and how easy it would be just to settle down and live on one's income...
...He lights on you and me...
...He's swimming in my tea...
...Miss Nicholes has a class in English for girls who have just gone to work...
...Van Der Vaart is secretary of the Consumers' League and is interested in following up cases of violation of the state factory laws...
...The building, as it now stands, is in two parts...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 41
