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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. MAY 3, 1940 Honor Memory of a Country Girl Who Founded America's First Settlement House in the Slums of a Great City Hull-House as it looked in the year of its founding, 1889. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) O NCE upon a time a little girl from the country watched some children playing in the dirty, narrow streets that criss-crossed the “shanty town” of one of Illinois’ thriving industrial centers, whereupon she said to her father beside her in the carriage, “When I grow up I’m going to have a big house with a big yard and I’m going to ask all those children to come over and play.” “That’s a fine plan, Jenny,” her father agreed. “I hope you will carry it out some day.” And she did, for that little girl was six-year-old Jane Addams who, 23 years later, founded Chicago’s Hull- House, America’s first and for 50 years world-famous settlement. Although Hull-House is, after the stockyards, a Chicago visi tor’s first stopping place, Jane Addams is remembered for more than Hull-House. Her efforts in behalf of laboring men and wom en throughout the state and the nation, and for world peace com bine with her Hull-House work to earn her top ranking in the field of social science and, as a sci entist, she is to be honored with a commemorative postage stamp. The Jane Addams stamp, one of the “Famous Americans” se ries, is having its first day of sale on April 26 at the Hull-House post office, Chicago’s first sub postal station and where Miss Ad dams served as postmistress for 38 years. Golden Jubilee Celebration. This first day sale of the Jane Addams stamp opens a month long celebration of the settle ment’s golden jubilee. In that celebration, Hull-House neighbors from along Chicago’s crowded Halsted street will join with the city’s civic leaders and with many of the nation’s best-known men and women. At its climax, on May 23, members of the 18 na tionality groups the settlement now serves will hold a neighbor hood fiesta, to be followed by a national broadcast, with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York city, Gerard Swope, former pres ident of the General Electric company and new chairman of the New York Housing authority, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chi cago, as speakers. Thus, America will pay tribute to the country-bred girl who de voted her life and the small for tune left her by her prosperous miller-father to the alleviation of hardship and suffering and to teaching the principles of democ racy among the immigrant poor of the nation’s second largest city. Jane Addams was born on Sep tember 6, 1860, in the little vil lage of Cedarville, six miles northwest of Freeport, 111. In Sep tember, 1877, just after her seven teenth birthday she entered Rock ford seminary. In her freshman Latin class, Jane Addams met Ellen Gates Starr. Emotional Ellen, always close to laughter or to tears, and calm Jane were to be life-long friends. It was to Ellen that Jane first told her plans to find a bouse among Chicago’s poor and settle down to be a good neigh bor there, and it was Ellen who cried, “Why, Jeannie, how splen did! I’ll live with you. We’ll do it together.” But that was many years lat er. During her college days, Jane, a brilliant and popular stu dent, was planning to study med icine and to become a doctor and work among the poor. After her graduation she enrolled at the Woman’s Medical college in Phil adelphia. Just as she was finish ing her summer vacation and planning her trip East, her fa ther died. It was a cruel blow to Jane, but she determined to carry out her plan, so the family moved to Philadelphia. The nerv ous shock of her father’s death brought on an old illness and she spent the spring in a hos pital. Doctors recommended an ocean voyage, so Jane and Mrs. Addams sailed for Europe, where they stayed for two years. But Jane did not visit only art galleries and ruins on her tour of Europe. In London, she went into the East End slums and watched the hungry and home less battle for rotting vegetables and fish in the Saturday night auction which disposed of food too spoiled to be saved for the Monday market. Growing deep within her was a burning desire to be of service to humanity, although she knew by now that she could not endure the rigors of a medical course. Hav ing returned to the United States, Jane set out again two years lat-. er for another visit to Europe. This time, she met her friend Ellen Gates Starr and they tcured together. On her way home, Jane Ad dams visited Toynbee Hall, estab lished in London as a memorial to Arnold Toynbee, the Oxford tutor who had died at 31, worn out by his work for social re forms. Here came the little mil liners, the furniture polishers and clerks, and the silk weavers of East London. Young university men lived at the hall and taught them French or carpentry, mu sic or shorthand, boxing or litera ture. There were a library, an athletic field and a hall for par ties. The Old Hull Mansion. Jane Addams wanted the same thing for herself in the midst of the poor in an American city, and, in the spring of 1889, she went to Chicago to look for a place for her “house.” On Chi cago’s West Side, in a colorful patchwork of races — Italians, Russian and Polish Jews, Bohe mians and Irish, Scandinavians and Rumanians, Germans, Swiss, French and French Canadians— she found the old Hull mansion, at Polk and Halsted streets. A furniture factory was using the first floor for storage and the second floor was let to lodgers who thought the attic was haunt ed. Jane and Ellen rented the whole second floor and a part of the first, and set a corps of car penters, plasterers and paper- hangers to work to make it liv able. Jane spent all the savings from her income of the legacy, left her by her father and Ellen donated the remains of her teach er’s salary. The night of September 14, 1889, was the first they spent in the house. There were three of them, Jane and Ellen and moth erly Mary Keyser, who came to do the housekeeping and ended by caring for half the neighbor children. Going to market, Miss Keyser invited the wives of the butcher, the baker and the sa loonkeeper to tea, and they came, first out of curiosity and again out of liking. Then the girls from the furni ture factory were supper guests and decided they would like to have a class in literature. So people began to trickle in and tell around that the young ladies treated them well. They didn’t seem to want anything out of you but just to be sociable and to give you a good time, and perhaps to teach you something. Tired mothers heard about the house and left their babies when they went to work, black-eyed girls with gold hoops in their ears shyly asked to play the piano for dancing. Soon Jane Addams and Ellen Starr were deep in the stream of neighborhood life, dressing new babies and closing the eyes of the dead. Higher Civic and Social Life. When this neighborhood ven ture was incorporated, some time later, the charter gave the ob jects of incorporation as follows: “To provide a center for a high er civic and social life; to in stitute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and to investigate and improve the conditions of the industrial dis tricts of Chicago.” Those “objects” are put, wheth er by accident or design, in the chronological order in which they had appeared. It was to provide a center for social life that the young women rented the old man sion. When within two weeks a dozen young women of the neigh borhood were invited to a “read ing party” in the evening and when soon afterward a kinder garten was started in the draw ing room, the first “educational and philanthropic enterpris'es” were instituted. And before the end of the year, the residents had begun to “investigate and im prove the conditions” in their own neighborhood. So, Hull-House grew and Jane Addams’ interest and influence grew with it in ever-widening cir cles. As she sought to help the neighbors with their problems, she campaigned for improved and more sanitary living condi tions for the community, and be came involved in labor legisla tion and organization. Long be fore the World war, Jane Addams firmly believed in arbitration as the settlement of difficulties be tween nations and organized the women of the world in an effort to accomplish it. For her efforts for world peace, she shared the Nobel peace prize of 1931 with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. She was the first woman to be awarded an honorary de gree by many universities, among them the conservative Yale. In numerous polls, she was named America’s leading wom an citizen, the nation’s “un crowned queen” and other com plimentary titles. In Europe, Jane Addams was even more famous than in her home country, and, in 1935, the year of her death, the Turkish government honored her with a special postage stamp. Jane Addams died on May 21, 1935. Plans for the anniversary celebration are directed by Miss Charlotte Carr, now the settle ment’s resident director, who points out “It behooves us, in planning for Hull-House’s second half-century, to live up to Miss Addams’ reputation, not on it.” Physically, the Hull-House of today is a far cry from what it was that autumn day in 1889 when Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr and Mary Keyser took up their residence. Before the end of that first year, other like-mind ed women had joined them there. From all over the city, and soon from all over the world, men and women interested in social serv ice came to offer their help to Jane Addams. As in Toynbee Hall, these people opened classes to teach the lesser privileged. Hull-House now occupies two full city blocks, has 13 buildings and, in addition, maintains a 72- acre summer camp, out in the country north of Chicago. Dur ing last year, more than 350,000 persons attended Hull-House classes and participated in Hull- House activities. In 1939, more than 30,000 visitors came to Hull- House from all parts of the world. Indeed, in the past 50 years, almost 2,000,000 boys and girls and their fathers and mothers have accepted Miss Addams’ in vitation to “come over and play.”) Baby Heaven By ILA LEWIS (McClure Syndicate—WNU Service.) Household News “T HAVE just the place you are *■ looking fori” confided the real estate agent. “No radio playing after eleven p. m., no saxophones, no dogs or musical students allowed —why, you couldn’t ask for a quiet er place than Bayberry Haven!” “What was the name?” inquired my wife in a startled tone. “Oh—I see.” She added. “For just a mo ment I thought you said ‘Baby Heaven!’ ” “Ha! ha!” laughed the agent, in what I thought at the time was a remarkably hollow tone, “Ha! ha! ha!” And so we moved to Bayberry Haven. A little far out, but sun light in every room, an outside en trance to every apartment, and a real grass lawn in the middle. “Welcome to Baby Heaven!” cried the iceman gayly as my wife let him in at the front door the next morning. And Baby Heaven it was. As I ran for my train in the morn ing, I would leap over a toy auto mobile, broad jump over eight kid die cars in a row, pole vault over a scooter bike and roll merrily down the sidewalk with two roller skates under one foot. True, there was no radio playing after eleven at night. There were no dogs, there were no saxophones, there were no musical students. But there was no law against the infant above us, and the infant be low us, and the infant to the right of us, and the infant to the left of us, taking regular turns all night to disrupt the peace and quiet for which I had come to Bayberry Haven. Sometimes, when starting out in the morning, I would look about me at the beautiful sunshine and at the little porch of green lawn, and I would determine to ask some of the boys from the office out to dinner that night, so the poor city-bound oafs could see what a blade of grass looked like. But ah, the kiddies! The kiddies! By dinner time, what with their abandoned dollies, and their lost caps, and their paper airplanes— you know, you fold up little pieces of paper and sail them all over the place and hear the janitor swear— well, what with them scattered knee deep all over our little green lawn space, I don’t believe the boys from the office ever did get to see a blade of grass. And the chalk marks on the walk! How my friend, Hobbsnotch, of the Evening Graphonews, used to pore over them! He was writing his book then—you know, “Sally in Our Back Alley”—arvl of course he wanted to get it suppressed in Bos ton. He needed the money. He has claimed ever since, with tears of gratitude in his eyes, that his suc cess dates from the first time I asked him out to dinner and he read the words that the innocent little kiddies had chalked on my front steps. One Saturday afternoon I went to the grocery store on an errand for my wife. I thought at first I was back on the East Side. But I soon realized that they were not push carts—they were baby buggies. A sea of baby buggies. I counted eighteen of them in one block. You can depend on the number, because I am a certified public accountant. If you saw a young couple stroll ing down to the grocer’s without a baby buggy, you just knew that they had one at home, with a nice-reli able . colored - girl-by-the-hour-that- loves-children wheeling it up and down 'he sidewalk. Or if they didn’t have any baby buggy at all, you knew that Santa Claus had them down on his list, and they would find one in a stock ing on Christmas morning. I should have known it would be like that. I should have known that every couple with one or two or three or four or five children—or even those young couples whose mammas are still squabbling over which one shall make the bassinet— I should have known that they would all move out here: It’s so good for the children, you know. And so the stork hovers over Bay berry Haven constantly. It’s not his fault. It’s the sunshine, and the fresh air. And ^you know how it is, in an epidemic of that sort you begin to get panic-stricken. Fear of contagion; force of exam ple; power of suggestion; and all that sort of thing. You, too, may fall a victim! A stork, after all, is only human. Or inhuman, whichever way you look at it. He might, some day, get mixed up in his chimneys. And, frankly speaking, being a man who is fond of his peace and quiet, I had rather be elsewhere when it hap pened. So that is why, last week, we gave i.utice to the landlord that we were leaving Bayberry Haven on the first of the month. But only this morning my wife whispered to me that it might be just as well to stay . . . THE TRUTH COMES OUT AT TEA FOR THE CROWD (See Recipes Below) At the Tea Table Refining Petroleum Petroleum may now be refined economically, without the use of ex cessive heat, by using liquid pro pane as a precipitating agent for the heavier parts of the oil, it was disclosed at a recent American Chemical society meeting. This is the one year in four when the bachelor had better put on his running boots or else risk getting caught and de prived of the free dom he prizes so dearly. For it’s Leap year . . . girl proposes and man can’t very well dispose . . . at least that’s how the legend runs. There’s nothing quite so modern as an old-fashioned engagement tea with which to make the announcement that Judy loves John and John doesn’t mind at all. There’s nothing so modern, either, as inviting the young man in the case and his bachelor friends to the party. Now, in 1940, afternoon tea is not the “strictly feminine” affair it has been unjustly accused of be ing. On the contrary, Mr. America prefers the invigorating pick-up, just as long as he can take his tea ex actly as he likes! This may mean with clove-spiked lemon, or a touch of candied ginger, perhaps. Since the boys hate fuss and frills, ancl like a girl to come straight to the point with out keeping them guessing, they would think it pretty clever to “say it” with hearts bearing the initial of the happy pair at tached to the strings of the tea-balls, i Cookies are to the male what | candy is to the baby . . . the most \ desirable bon-bon in the world of sweetmeats. So ... if you know < any girl who has gotten herself en gaged and is about to tell the world so . . . suggest that she invite the boys along with the girls to hear the glad news and tell her to be gen erous with the cookies! Frosted Squares. 4 eggs 2 cups light brown sugar 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon V\ teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons cocoa 1 cqp nutmeats (broken) 1 cup raisins or dates (cut fine) 1 teaspoon vanilla Beat eggs until very light. Add sugar gradually, continuing to beat until the mixture is very light and fluffy. Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and cocoa. Add the first mixture, blending thor oughly. Then add nuts, raisins or dates, and vanilla. Spread in shal low, greased pans and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for about 25 minutes. Remove from pan while still warm. Frost with choco late peppermint confectioners’ sug ar icing. Cut in squares. Little Swedish Tea Cakes. 1 cup butter Vi cup sugar 1 egg 2 cups cake flour Vi teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Ice cream Cream butter and add sugar slow ly. Cream well. Add well beaten egg and blend. Sift flour once be fore measuring and then sift again with salt. Add and blend in flavor ing. Place a rounded teaspoonful of batter in very small greased muf fin tins kV/z inches in diameter). Press batter up sides and over bot tom so that there is a hollow in the center. Fill this hollow with an al mond filling (about 1 teaspoonful). Chinese Cakes. (Makes 3 dozen) 1 cup butter Vz cup granulated sugar 2\'z cups flour l ,2 cup blanched almonds (broken) 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup powdered sugar Cream butter and sugar. Add flour and almonds. Knead. Shape into small balls and place on greased cookie sheet. Bake in mod erate oven (375 degrees) 20 min utes, or until done, but not brown. Remove from cookie sheet with Eleanor Howe’s Cook Book “Easy Entertaining” gives you menus and tested recipes for al most every kind of party; there’s a menu (with recipes) for a re ception for the bride; there are out-door supper menus for beach parties, picnics, hikes; and there are countless menus and hints for planning children’s parties, holi day parties and bridge parties, too. Send 10 cents in coin to “Easy Entertaining” care Elea nor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and get your copy of this useful booklet, now. spatula. Add vanilla to powdered sugar and roll cakes in sugar mixr ture. Almond Filling. 2 eggs Vz cup sugar Vi teaspoon salt % lb. finely ground almonds Beat eggs until very light and add sugar, salt, and ground almonds which have been put through food chopper twice. Bake 30 minutes in a slow moderate oven (325 degrees). Cool and serve with ice cream. Toasted Almond Sticks. 2Vi cups flour 1 cup sugar Vz cup butter (melted) Vi cup milk 1 egg % pound blanched almonds (chopped) 3 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon almond flavoring Vi teaspoon salt Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into mixing bowl. Mix bedten egg, butter (melted), milk and flavoring. Add to dry ingredi ents making a stiff dough. Grease a 9 by 13 cookie sheet with butter. Press dough evenly into pan. Sprin kle almonds evenly over all and press well into dough. Bake in mod erate oven (350 degrees) for 20 min utes, or until firm to the touch. Let stand a few minutes, and while still warm cut with a sharp knife into 3-inch strips about one inch wide. Turn cut side up, leaving a space between each stick, and return to hot oven. Toast to a rich brown. Will keep almost indefinitely. Queen of Hearts Cake. % cup butter 1% cups granulated sugar 2% cups pastry flour 1 teaspoon baking powder Vz teaspoon soda Vi teaspoon salt 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 egg whites Cream the butter, add the sugar, and beat well. Sift the flour, baking powder, soda and salt and add al ternately with the sour milk and va nilla. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into cake. Bake in two layers or oblong bread pans in a moderate oven (365 degrees) 25 to 30 minutes. Cool and cut cake into small hearts with a cookie cutter. Ice with Queen of Hearts Icing. Queen of Hearts Icing. 2 cups granulated sugar Vz teaspoon cream tartar 1 cup hot water Confectioners sugar, sifted (about 1 lb.) Red vegetable coloring Cook sugar, cream of tartar and water in a saucepan until a thin syrup (226 degrees) is formed. Cool slightly. Then add enough confec tioners sugar to make an icing of pouring consistency. 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