Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . s in Italy she had seen FIRST DAYS AT HULL-HOUSE iii them every summer In great profusion. Duringall that time, of course, the woman had lived withinten blocks of a florists window; she had not beenmore than a five-cent car ride awayfrom the publicparks ; but she hadnever dreamed offaring forth for her-self, and noonehadtaken her. Herconception ofAmerica had beenthe untidy streetin which she livedand had made herlong struggle toadapt herself toAmerican ways. But in spite of some untoward experiences, wewere constantly impressed with the
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . s in Italy she had seen FIRST DAYS AT HULL-HOUSE iii them every summer In great profusion. Duringall that time, of course, the woman had lived withinten blocks of a florists window; she had not beenmore than a five-cent car ride awayfrom the publicparks ; but she hadnever dreamed offaring forth for her-self, and noonehadtaken her. Herconception ofAmerica had beenthe untidy streetin which she livedand had made herlong struggle toadapt herself toAmerican ways. But in spite of some untoward experiences, wewere constantly impressed with the uniform kind-ness and courtesy we received. Perhaps these firstdays laid the simple human foundations which arecertainly essential for continuous living among thepoor : first, genuine preference for residence in anindustrial quarter to any other part of the city,because it is interesting and makes the humanappeal; and second, the conviction, in the wordsof Canon Barnett, that the things which make menalike are finer and better than the things that keep. 112 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE them apart, and that these basic likenesses, if theyare properly accentuated, easily transcend the lessessential differences of race, language, creed andtradition. Perhaps even in those first days we made abeginning toward that object which was afterwardsstated in our charter: To provide a center fora higher civic and social life; to institute andmaintain educational and philanthropic enterprises,and to investigate and improve the conditions inthe industrial districts of Chicago.
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