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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
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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. Add food col
oring and then pour over the hearts,
covering them thoroughly with the
icing.
Now that the engagement has
been announced, there’ll be par
ties galore for the bride-to-be. If
you’re planning to entertain for a
June bride, be sure to read Elea
nor Howe’s column next week.
You’ll find, there, tested recipes
and menus especially suitable for
parties for a bride.
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The Questions
1. How tall is a horse 15 hands
high?
2. In Greek mythology who was
the goddess of the rainbow?
3. Who first suggested daylight
saving?
4. What per cent of the personal
names in the Bible are those of
women?
5. What is the singular form of
the word dice?
6. What First Lady was known
as Her Majesty?
7. How many ships per day can
the Panama canal handle?
8. What famous building is
caUed “The Cradle of American
Liberty”?
9. When were hymns first writ
ten?
10. What national holidays did
congress create?
The Answers
1. Sixty inches.
2. Iris.
3. Benjamin Franklin in France
in 1784 in a magazine contribution.
4. Only 5 per cent are those of
women.
5. Die.
6. Mrs. Dolly Madison was al
luded to as Her Majesty.
7. Approximately 48 ships of the
usual size per day.
8. Faneuil hall at Boston.
9. The earliest records we have
of hymns are of those written in
ancient Egypt to the sun god Ra.
10. The only national holiday ever
created by an act of congress was
the “Centennial Anniversary of
the Inauguration of the First Pres
ident of the United States,” which
took place on April 30, 1889.
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