Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . H WW H mQ w Hen H co<o p-l WU CHAPTER XII TOLSTOYISM The administration of charity in Chicago duringthe winter following the Worlds Fair had been ofnecessity most difficult for, although large sumshad been given to the temporary relief organizationwhich endeavored to care for the thousands ofdestitute strangers stranded in the city, we allworked under a sense of desperate need and a par-alyzing consciousness that our best efforts were mostinadequate to the situation. During the many relief visits I paid that w^interin tenement houses
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . H WW H mQ w Hen H co<o p-l WU CHAPTER XII TOLSTOYISM The administration of charity in Chicago duringthe winter following the Worlds Fair had been ofnecessity most difficult for, although large sumshad been given to the temporary relief organizationwhich endeavored to care for the thousands ofdestitute strangers stranded in the city, we allworked under a sense of desperate need and a par-alyzing consciousness that our best efforts were mostinadequate to the situation. During the many relief visits I paid that w^interin tenement houses and miserable lodgings, I wasconstantly shadowed by a certain sense of shamethat I should be comfortable in the midst of suchdistress. This resulted at times in a curious re-action against all the educational and philanthropicactivities in which I had been engaged. In the faceof the desperate hunger and need, these could notbut seem futile and superficial. The hard winterin Chicago had turned the thoughts of many of usto these stern matters.
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