The spirit of youth and the city streets / by Jane Addams.

  • Jane Addams
Date:
1909
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The spirit of youth and the city streets / by Jane Addams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' do nothing. We are so timid and inconsistent that although we declare the home to be the foundation of society, we do nothing to direct the force upon which the continuity of the home depends. And yet to one who has lived for years in a crowded quarter where men, women and children constantly jostle each other and press upon every inch of space in shop, tenement and street, nothing is more impressive than the strength, the continuity, the varied and powerful manifestations, of family affection. It goes without saying that every tenement house contains women who for years spend their hurried days in preparing food and clothing and pass their sleepless nights in tending and nursing their exigent children, with never one thought for their own comfort or pleasure or development save as these may be connected with the future of their families. We all know as a matter of course that every shop is crowded with work- ingmen who year after year spend all of their wages upon the nurture and education of their children, reserving for themselves but the shab-
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