Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . d day byday. The system of garbage collecting was in-adequate throughout the city but it became thegreatest menace in a ward such as ours, where thenormal amount of waste was much increased bythe decayed fruit and vegetables discarded by theItalian and Greek fruit peddlers, and by the re-siduum left over from the piles of filthy rags whichwere fished out of the city dumps and brought tothe homes of the rag pickers for further sortingand washing. The children of our neighborhood twenty yearsago played their games in and around these huge

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Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . d day byday. The system of garbage collecting was in-adequate throughout the city but it became thegreatest menace in a ward such as ours, where thenormal amount of waste was much increased bythe decayed fruit and vegetables discarded by theItalian and Greek fruit peddlers, and by the re-siduum left over from the piles of filthy rags whichwere fished out of the city dumps and brought tothe homes of the rag pickers for further sortingand washing. The children of our neighborhood twenty yearsago played their games in and around these hugegarbage boxes. They were the first objects thatthe toddling child learned to climb; their bulkafforded a barricade and their contents providedmissiles in all the battles of the older boys ; andfinally they became the seats upon which absorbedlovers heldenchanted converse. We are obliged 281 282 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE . to remember that all children eat everythingwhich they find and that odors have a curious { ? h .\;ii n: i /::f:»akn i?^^C rfPI-l. i^: liv;

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