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Jane Addams Hull House The Jane Club Chicago Settlement Work
Jane Addams Hull House The Jane Club Chicago Settlement Work
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Kindle version of vintage magazine article originally published in 1900. Contains lots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the last 100 years.
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Miss Addams has literally built her interpretation of life into buildings, institutions, laws, and literature, and, more than all, into the individual and corporate life of her generation and city.
Conforming her convenience, living, and work at first to the stranded old mansion of the Hull family, which had become an immigrant tenement house, with the help of those who shared her spirit, foremost among whom the heir of the Hull estate came to be, she transformed not only the homestead, but nearly the whole block surrounding it into "Hull House," the largest, most beautiful, and practically effective settlement plant in the world.
Across the street the chambers and detention home of the Juvenile Court of Cook County arose in response to the initiative given by a group of women among whom she was one, who, with the legal aid of two or three men, wrought their higher ideals of the treatment of delinquent and dependent children into the world's first and most typical juvenile court. The Juvenile Protective League followed in the same way, initiated, managed, and sustained by those thus associated in the Chicago Woman's Club. And so with many of the public and private institutions and agencies which have arisen or newly developed within the last twenty years in Chicago and Illinois, Miss Addams has been so identified that while, on the one hand, their history could scarcely he accounted for without her, on the other hand, she would be the last to claim that their origin and progress were due to her connection with them. It is the glory of her work that, notwithstanding the impression it bears of her strong individuality, it has always been done with others, and credited by her far more to them than to herself.
More far reaching and effective has been the influence she has exerted upon legislation than that which she has contributed to the building up of institutions. The laws for factory inspection, protection of immigrants, abolition of child labor, regulation of women's work, the establishment of juvenile courts, management of county and State charitable institutions, the building and control of tenement houses, and many other kindred enactments bear the impress of a group of women of whom she more nearly than any of the others was perhaps the central figure; although the leadership in this legislation is to be credited equally, and in some instances predominantly, to Mrs. Lucy B. Flower, Mrs. A. P. Stevens, Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Mrs. Florence Kelly, Miss Mary McDowell, and Miss S. B. Breckenridge, who with many others worked together for the common cause without thought of leading one another.
These efforts to improve conditions by legislation and her service in administrative positions, which range all the way from inspecting the garbage collecting of her ward to membership in the Chicago Board of Education, have led Miss Addams to place increasing emphasis upon the extension of the suffrage to women, especially in municipal elections. Claiming that city government has come to be an extension of household economy and has long since ceased to be based upon the ability to bear arms, she contends that the housewife and the mother, the women workers and taxpayers have as much at stake to qualify them for the electorate as men can claim for "manhood suffrage."
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Miss Addams has literally built her interpretation of life into buildings, institutions, laws, and literature, and, more than all, into the individual and corporate life of her generation and city.
Conforming her convenience, living, and work at first to the stranded old mansion of the Hull family, which had become an immigrant tenement house, with the help of those who shared her spirit, foremost among whom the heir of the Hull estate came to be, she transformed not only the homestead, but nearly the whole block surrounding it into "Hull House," the largest, most beautiful, and practically effective settlement plant in the world.
Across the street the chambers and detention home of the Juvenile Court of Cook County arose in response to the initiative given by a group of women among whom she was one, who, with the legal aid of two or three men, wrought their higher ideals of the treatment of delinquent and dependent children into the world's first and most typical juvenile court. The Juvenile Protective League followed in the same way, initiated, managed, and sustained by those thus associated in the Chicago Woman's Club. And so with many of the public and private institutions and agencies which have arisen or newly developed within the last twenty years in Chicago and Illinois, Miss Addams has been so identified that while, on the one hand, their history could scarcely he accounted for without her, on the other hand, she would be the last to claim that their origin and progress were due to her connection with them. It is the glory of her work that, notwithstanding the impression it bears of her strong individuality, it has always been done with others, and credited by her far more to them than to herself.
More far reaching and effective has been the influence she has exerted upon legislation than that which she has contributed to the building up of institutions. The laws for factory inspection, protection of immigrants, abolition of child labor, regulation of women's work, the establishment of juvenile courts, management of county and State charitable institutions, the building and control of tenement houses, and many other kindred enactments bear the impress of a group of women of whom she more nearly than any of the others was perhaps the central figure; although the leadership in this legislation is to be credited equally, and in some instances predominantly, to Mrs. Lucy B. Flower, Mrs. A. P. Stevens, Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Mrs. Florence Kelly, Miss Mary McDowell, and Miss S. B. Breckenridge, who with many others worked together for the common cause without thought of leading one another.
These efforts to improve conditions by legislation and her service in administrative positions, which range all the way from inspecting the garbage collecting of her ward to membership in the Chicago Board of Education, have led Miss Addams to place increasing emphasis upon the extension of the suffrage to women, especially in municipal elections. Claiming that city government has come to be an extension of household economy and has long since ceased to be based upon the ability to bear arms, she contends that the housewife and the mother, the women workers and taxpayers have as much at stake to qualify them for the electorate as men can claim for "manhood suffrage."
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