Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half

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“LITTLE LOUISA’S FINGERS WERE NIMBLER THAN HER MOTHER’S. SHE WAS ONLY EIGHT, BUT SHE SOON LEARNED TO TIE A PLUME.”
AUTHOR OF “HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES,” “THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN,” “CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS,” “HERO TALES OF THE FAR NORTH,” ETC.
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1914, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914. Reprinted December, 1914.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so that it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For good reasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here. I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could. For it is as pictures from the life in which they and we, you and I, are partners, that I wish them to make their appeal to the neighbor who lives but around the corner and does not know it.
JACOB A. RIIS.