INDEX

Adams, Maude, [87]
Adolescence, problems of, and settlement work, [170-179], [189-199]
Anarchism, [274-279]
Archer, William, [272]
Bellevue Hospital, [28], [59]
Bialystok massacre, [230]
Breshkovsky, Katharine, [238-248]
Brewster, Mary, [8], [10], [16], [45], [48], [78], [113]
Budget of a working-girl, [194];
her “two jobs,” [211]
Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, [273-275]
Child Hygiene, Bureau of, [53], [57], [59]
Child labor:
Children who work, [135-151];
conditions in New York City, [135-137],
—in Pennsylvania and the South, [144], [145];
National Committee on, [144], [146];
New York Committee on, [137], [144], [148], [150];
newsboys, [146-149];
obstacles to measures for protection of children, [149];
scholarships to aid children, [138-142];
statistics for Greater New York, [158];
sweatshops and children, [153-156];
typical employment record, [143];
Washington Conference on, [146]
Clubs and classes in the settlement, [179-184]
Columbia University creates Department of Nursing and Health, [64]
Committee of Fifteen (New York), inquiry of, [174]
Comte, [274]
Continuation Schools, necessary for young workers, [160]
Convalescents, country house for, [88]
Crosby, Ernest, [234], [235], [280]
Davis, Katherine, [268]
Defectives:
Responsibility of society for, [122];
special classes instituted, [117-120]
De Leon, Daniel, [262]
Diseases of children and home treatment, [38-40]
Dock, L. L., [266]
Doukhobors, the, [233-235]
Drama:
As a social force, [270-273];
dramatic instinct of Jewish child, [184];
marionette theater, [272];
Neighborhood Playhouse, [185];
pageants and plays, [184-187], [226];
Yiddish plays, [270-272]
Ducey, Father, [280]
Dunsany, Lord, [188]
Education:
Bureau of vocational guidance proposed, [160];
continuation schools necessary, [160];
educational ideals and the settlement, [133];
effects of disorganized tenement life on, [110-113];
Federal Children’s Bureau, [57], [163], [165], [166], [167], [168];
foreign press as Americanizing influence, [307];
hardships endured for, [99-103];
institutional life and the child, [124-132];
necessity for early care and training, [133];
responsibility for defectives, [122];
scholarships, [138], [141], [150];
special training for defectives instituted, [117-120];
study-rooms at the settlement, [103]
(see also [Public Schools])
Educational Alliance, The, [308]
Empress of Austria, assassination of, [275]
Factory law (New York) amended, [210]
Farrell, Elizabeth, [117], [120]
Federal Children’s Bureau, [57], [163], [165], [166], [167], [168]
Forward Association, The, [264]
Gapon, Father, [230]
Gershuni, [238]
Gordin, Jacob, [270], [271]
Greeks of New York give “Ajax,” [226]
Henry Street:
Instruction in home nursing begun in old building on, [3];
its links with city’s past, [169];
physical changes of twenty years, [308]
Home and School Visitor, The, [110]
Hospitals:
Children’s diseases and, [38-40];
first school for midwives in Bellevue, [59];
large numbers of city sick unable to avail themselves of, [28]
Housekeeping centers, [108], [109]
Hughes, Charles Evans, [259], [293]
Ibsen, Henrik, [188], [272]
Illiteracy, [113], [114]
Immigrants:
Bureau of Industries and Immigration created, [293];
conditions of, in labor camps, [294-297];
contributions of, to national life, [305], [306];
dangers and early trials of, [286-293];
discrimination against, [300-302];
further restriction of immigration contrary to American institutions, [290], [304];
land and the, [298-300];
positive governmental action and constructive social measures needed, [291];
postal savings banks and, [298]
Industrial conditions:
Programmes of betterment, [25];
unemployment in 1893-1894, [17];
wretched conditions impress Henry Street workers from the beginning, [25];
youth and trades unions, [201-215]
(see also [Child Labor] and [Sweatshops])
Industrial Workers of the World, [278]
Infant mortality:
Federal Children’s Bureau report on, [57];
social disease, [54]
Institutional life, disadvantages of, for children, [124-132]
Italians:
Ancient customs preserved among, [69];
celebration of saints’ days, [252];
daily newspaper publishes Constitution, [308];
marionette theaters, [272];
preyed upon by quack doctors, [37];
tragic experience of Italian immigrant, [286-288]
“Jephthah’s Daughter,” [186]
Jews:
Cycle of Hebrew festivals at Henry Street, [184];
difficulties of, in complex new world, [252-254];
dramatic instinct of Jewish child, [184];
Talmud-Torah Schools and Chedorim, [253];
value put upon education by, [97-100];
wedding customs, [216-219];
Yiddish plays, [270-272];
Yiddish press, [307];
Zionism, [254]
Kant, [274]
Kelley, Florence, [144]
Kellor, Frances, [293], [294]
Kennan, George, [238], [239]
Kindness of poor to each other, [17-20], [70]
Kishineff massacre, [229]
Knights of Labor, [263], [281]
Kropotkin, Prince, [222], [234], [235], [238], [276]
Land, The, and the immigrant, [298-300]
Lathrop, Julia, [166]
Lawrence strike, The, [278], [279]
Le Moyne, Sarah Cowell, [188]
Life insurance and nursing service, [62]
Literacy test for immigrants, [304], [305]
Lowell, Josephine Shaw, [14]
McGlynn, Edward, [280]
McRae, Mrs., [13-17]
Maude, Aylmer, [233]
Mazzini, [208]
Medical etiquette:
And nursing service, [30-36];
its analogies with the “closed shop,” [34]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, petition for Sunday opening of, [80]
Midwives, [57-60]
Milk stations, [55], [56]
Morbidity, statistics of, [37], [38]
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, [144]
National Organization for Public Health Nursing, [64]
National Playground Association, [81]
Negroes:
“Lincoln House,” [162];
peculiar problems of, [162], [163];
restricted opportunities for, in industry, [162]
Neighborhood Playhouse, The, [185]
Nursing service:
Co-operation with Board of Health, [45];
co-ordination with educational institutions, [63];
Department of Nursing and Health at Columbia University, [64];
development of, throughout country, [44], [60];
division into districts, [42];
effect of new basis, [27], [28];
etiquette of, [27];
honored by Mt. Holyoke degree, [65];
life insurance company and, [62];
new era in development of, [60], [61];
nurses for public schools, [51-53];
post-graduate training in settlement, [63];
principles of, [26], [27], [29];
professional etiquette and, [30-36];
Public Health Nursing, division of, created in New York State, [46]
—department of, in Columbia University, [64]
—National Organization for, [64];
staff of settlement increased, [41], [42]
Outdoor Recreation League, [85], [86]
Pageants, festas, and street dances, [184], [214], [215], [226], [252]
Picnics and day parties, [77-79], [89]
Play, children and, [66-96]
Playgrounds:
In Henry Street Settlement’s back yard, [81-84];
movement throughout country in favor of, [96];
Outdoor Recreation League, [85], [86];
playgrounds “at no matter what cost,” [96];
public schools used for, [87];
Seward Park, [86]
Postal savings banks and the immigrant, [298]
Pouren, Jan, [236-238]
Protocol established in cloakmakers’ strike, [284], [285]
Prudhon, [276]
Public Health Nursing, division of, created in Columbia University, [64];
in New York State, [46];
National Organization for, [64]
Public schools:
Cooking instruction in, [107];
doctors appointed for, [49-51];
first class for ungraded pupils in, [117-120];
infectious diseases and, [46-53];
opened as recreation centers, [87];
Penny Lunches for, [109];
responsibility for defectives, [114-123];
settlement seeks to co-operate with and supplement, [105];
stronghold of democracy, [133];
trachoma in, [50];
trained nurses in, [51-53]
Quack doctors and the poor, [36], [37]
Red Cross (American):
An agency providing “moral equivalents for war,” [61];
Department of Town and Country Nursing, [61]
Riis, Jacob, [67]
Roosevelt, Theodore, [125], [164], [166], [236], [237]
Russian freedom:
Case of Jan Pouren, [236-238];
Friends of, in New York, [235];
Katharine Breshkovsky, [238-248];
Russian visitors at Henry Street, [231-233];
Russia’s struggle our struggle, [248];
spiritual force of, on East Side, [229];
woman suffrage and, [268]
Russian Revolution, [229], [230];
New York Committee, [231], [236]
Scholarships for children who work:
“Alva Scholarship,” [150];
chart showing statistics of, [141];
Henry Street system, [138];
New York Child Labor Committee Scholarship, [150]
Settlements:
Adherents of all creeds work together in, [254];
birth of idea, [2];
developments and opportunities for service, [309], [310];
College Settlement (New York), [10];
Union Settlement, [58];
University Settlement, [137]
Sex hygiene, instruction in, [198]
Shaw, George Bernard, [188]
“Shepherd, The,” [185]
Shirt-waist strike, The, [209], [210]
“Silver Box,” The, [185]
Social forces:
Drama, [270-273];
politics, [255-272];
radicalism, [276-279];
religion, [249-254];
socialism, [262-266];
social reform, [279-285];
woman suffrage, [266-269]
Social halls and meeting-places:
Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, [273-275];
Clinton Hall, [185], [225], [227], [260];
need for, [219];
Social Halls Association, [225], [226]
Socialist movement in America, [262-266]
Social Reform Club, [279]
Southern Educational Conference, [104]
Spahr, Charles B., [280]
Spinoza, [274]
“Spoken Newspaper, The,” [263]
Study-rooms and libraries in the settlement, [103], [104]
Sukloff, Marie, [238]
Summer scenes on the East Side, [69-71]
Sweatshops:
Conditions in, [152-155], [281];
conferences on, [282];
protocol of 1910, [284];
restriction of, [157-158]
Taft, William Howard, [166]
Tammany Hall, [256-258]
Terry, Ellen, [188]
Thoreau, Henry D., [277]
Tolerance, religious, instances of, [21-23]
Tolstoi, Leo, [233-235], [276]
Trades unions:
Difficulty of organizing women and girls, [203];
early organizations of girl workers, [203-206];
shirt-waist strike, [209];
Women’s Trade Union League, [206], [207];
Youth and, [201-215]
Triangle fire and investigation, [208], [209], [212]
Tschaikowsky, N., [238], [268]
Tuberculosis, system of care and instruction of patients, [53], [54]
Vacation houses and camps, [90-94]
Vocational Guidance and Industrial Supervision, proposed Bureau of, [160]
Waring, Colonel, [4]
Wedding customs, [216-219]
White House Conference on Children, [125]
“Whither,” by Morris Rosenfeld, [200]
Whitman, Walt, [276]
Widows’ pensions, the first in Henry Street, [124]
Wilson, Woodrow, [305]
Woman suffrage, [266-269]
Women’s Trade Union League, [206], [207]