INDEX

Abbott, Edith: The Delinquent Child and the Home, cited, [130]
Adenoids: found on examination of girls, [83]
Adolescence: and poverty, [32];
and self-assertion, [48]
Agnes: the friend of Annie Brink, [31]
Alcoholism: in families of girls, [129]. See also Drinking
Amelia: the case of, [52]
American Female Guardian Society School on West Side, [33]
Americanization among Italians: signs of, [110], [117]
Angelina and Nick, [96], [97], [113-115]
Anthony, Katharine: Mothers Who Must Earn, cited, [23]
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor: families of girls having records with, [121]
Attinger, Mrs.: on her Lizzie's marriage, [73], [74]
Ayres, Leonard P.: Laggards in Our Schools, cited, [37]
"Baby's" Housekeeping, [35], [36]
Bachman, Frank P.: Report on Promotions and Non-Promotions, etc., cited, [133]
Basket-weaving: as a club occupation, [4]
Bedford Reformatory: superintendent of, quoted, [15];
treatment of girls at, [18]
Belsito, Adelina: and her absence from school, [102], [103]
Birth Rate and Death Rate of West Side, [23]
Blondi, Zappira: and her mother, [105], [106]
Boys: and the girls' club, [4], [6], [7], [8], [9];
idleness among, more common than among girls, [51];
school attendance of, compared with that of girls, [132-134]
Brass Work: as a club occupation, [4]
Breckinridge, S. P.: The Delinquent Child and the Home, cited, [130]
Brink, Annie: story of, [30], [31]
Bureau of Social Research: study of school attendance by, [132]
Burial Expenses, [23], [129]
Business Enterprises: conducted by Italian families, [106], [107]
Carney, May: case of, [85], [86], [87]
Carney, Mrs.: on May's marriage, [86]
Cartwright, O. G.: Historical Survey of the West Side, cited, [76]
Charitable Aid: received by families of girls, [122], [123], [124]. See also Relief Records
Charitable Societies: Italians and the, [108]
Charity among Italians, [107], [108]
Charity Organization Society: families of girls having records with, [121]
Childhood: influence of tenement life on, [81], [82]
Children: school attendance of, [132-134]
Children's Aid Society School on West Side, [33]
Christ Presbyterian Church: supervisor from, in charge of playground at club, [3]
Church: aid to family given by, [121]
Cleary and Maggie: affair between, [79], [80]
Cleaver and Doran, [9], [10]
Clinic, Psychological: examination of girls in a, [85]
Clinic, Weekly: at club, [84]
Cliques among Girls, [60], [61]
Clothes, Pretty: the girls' longing for, [59], [60]
Clothing, Protective: the girls' lack of, [60]
Club House at 471 Tenth Avenue: aim and origin of, [1], [2];
equipment and activities of, [3], [4];
only outbreak against a leader at, [10], [11];
razed to give place to a factory, [14];
relations with fellow tenants at, [5], [6];
relations with neighborhood boys at, [6], [7], [8], [9];
total number of girls studied at, [14];
West Side girls, how far represented at, [15], [16]
Clubs and Settlements: use of, by West Side girls, [67]
Colletti Family: and their home, [98]
Colletti, Lucy: references to, [95], [96], [97], [98], [99], [109], [111], [114]
Colletti, Mary: references to, [95], [96], [98], [99]
Conjunctivitis: case of, discovered in physical examination of girls, [83]
Cooking: as a club occupation, [4]
Cook Stove: essential to equipment of girls' club, [4]
Costa, Angelina: and her interpretation of Lincoln's birthday, [112]
Craven, Mamie: case of, [60]
Cull, Christina: truancy of, [38], [39], [40]
Daley's Marriage to May Carney, [86], [87]
Dance Halls: and the occasional ball, [69];
campaign for control of, [16], [17];
etiquette of, [69], [70];
grades of, [70]
Dances, Public: conduct of, [71]
Dancing: enthusiasm of girls for, [4], [67]
Dark Rooms in Homes of Girls, [24], [127]
Davis, Dr. Katherine B.: quoted, [15]
Death Rates. See Mortality
Defects, Physical: found in club girls, [83]
Denley, Clara: and her faction, [12]
Department Stores: preference of some girls for, [43]. See also Stores
Derks, Emma: and her raffle, [32]
Devine, Edward T.: Misery and Its Causes, cited, [124]
Distel, Mr.: as a neighbor, [6]
Donovan, Sissy: first job of, [41], [42]
Doran's Tale of a Gang, [9]
Drake, Carrie: case of, [88-90]
Drink: girl does not take to, [32];
mothers who take to, [27], [29]
Drinking: excessive, on the part of parents of girls, [29], [129], [130]
Drunkenness: habitual, distinguished from "excessive drinking," [129]
Earnings of Girls, [47]
East Side: West Side compared with, as to stability of population, [75]
East Side: West Side compared with, as to stability of population, [75]
Economic Condition: of the families of girls, [121-131]
Education, Compulsory: period of, [33]
Egan, Barbara, and Louisa Storm: quarrel between, [12]
Eighth Avenue: as a promenade, [66]
Eleventh Avenue: case of one family on, [24-26]
Employment Certificate. See Working Papers
Estimate and Apportionment Board's Committee of School Inquiry, [132], [133]
Examination, Physical: of club girls, [82], [83], [84]
Eyes of Girls: not cared for, [83]
Factories: and the West Side girl, [43], [44];
wages of the girl in, [47];
work of Italian girls in, [110], [111]
Families: large, on West Side, [22]
Families of Girls: classified on basis of prosperity or poverty, [130], [131];
economic conditions of, [121-131];
housing of, [126], [127], [128];
how constituted, [125];
which received charitable aid, study of, [122], [123], [124]
Family, Limitation of Size of: almost unknown on West Side, [23]
Family Protection: general breakdown of, on West Side, [75-94];
maintained in the case of the Italian girl, [108], [111], [112]
Fathers: occupations of, [126]
Festivals, Italian, [112]
Fleming, Sadie, and Maggie Tracy, [12], [13]
Fuller, Carrie: case of, [84], [85]
Funeral Expenses: in families of girls, [129]
Galaxy Moving Picture Show, [67]
Gang Spirit of Tenth Avenue, [13]
Gangs. See Boys; Gopher Gang; "Hell's Kitchen" Gang
Gas Plants: odors of, on West Side, [75]
Gate: as a bone of contention, [3], [4]
"Gentleman Friends" and "Lady Friends," [61]
Gibson, Annie: truancy of, [37], [38]
Girls, West Side: aim and methods of study, [1];
attitude of, toward assumption of family burdens, [49], [50], [51];
demand for "good times" by, [51];
difficulty of knowing, in their own homes, [2];
education, in neighborhood immorality, [75-81], [87-93];
familiarity with poverty and its effect, [21], [29], [32];
fondness for dancing and music, [4], [67], [68], [69];
homes and street corners as places of meeting with boy friends, [61-63];
how far represented in clubs, [15], [16];
idealism of, [68];
immoderate pace of living among, [83];
marriage, how regarded by, [73], [74];
occupations of, [43], [44], [45], [46];
physical inheritance and health of, [82], [83], [84], [85];
relations with their families compared with those of boys, [19];
relations with their mothers often strained, [53], [54], [55];
school attendance of, compared with that of boys, [132-134];
schooling of, [33-42];
social relations among, contrasted with those among boys, [60], [61];
surest way to help, [94];
wages earned by, amount and disposition of, [47], [48]. See also Italian Girl
Gopher Gang: gossip about, [6], [9], [10], [13], [76]
"Gopherettes": proposed as name of club, [10]
Hannick and Maggie, [62]
Health, Board of: family under care of, [121]
Health of Club Girls, [82], [83], [84], [85]
"Hell's Kitchen" Gang: and its influence, [76]
Hickman's Moving Picture Show, [67]
Holidays, American: among the Italians, [112]
Home: men friends of girls not welcomed in the, [61], [62];
need of strengthening of best elements in the, [94];
wage-earning and new relations at, [43-56]
Home Work: Italian girls not engaged in, [110]
Home-work Investigator: quoted, on Italian girls, [111]
Housing of Families of Girls, [24], [126], [127], [128]
Hyland, Winnie, and Carrie Drake, [88]
Idealism among Girls, [67]
Illegitimate Births: common on West Side, [79]
Immorality among Girls, [79], [80], [85-93]
Industrial Histories of Girls, [45], [46], [47]
Insurance, Life: in families of girls, [23], [128], [129]
Italian Girl: claims of school upon, [102], [103];
eagerness of, to go to work, [109];
family's protection of, [108];
kinds of work done by, [110], [111];
pleasures prohibited and permitted to, [111], [112];
semi-Americanization of, [116], [117];
separate study made of, [1], [95]
Italians of West Side: Americanization of names among, [110];
characteristics of family life among, [106], [107], [108], [111], [112];
eagerness of parents for arrival of fourteenth birthday of daughter, [109];
festivals among, [112];
length of residence in United States, [109];
mutual helpfulness and charity among, [107], [108];
occupations of, [106], [107], [110];
sympathy the keynote of the community, [101];
wedding parties among, [113-116]
Jennie. See Polini, Jennie
Josie: and the dance halls, [72]
Kersey, Mrs., and "Baby," [35]
Kneeland, George J.: Commercialized Prostitution in New York City, quoted, [71]
Kohlberger's Candy Factory, [95]
"Lady Friend": significance of title, [61]
"Laggards" among Girls, [37]
Langan, Father: aid of, enlisted by Mrs. Mullarkey, [91];
and the "Gophers," [12], [13]
Larkey, Emma: schooling of, [36]
Lawlessness of West Side, [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [13], [75], [76]
Lincoln's Birthday: as interpreted by Angelina Costa, [112]
London Slums: compared with Middle West Side District, [82]
Louisa: the case of, [54], [55]
McClusky Family: as co-tenants of the club, [4], [5], [6]
McKeevers: Thanksgiving party at home of, [64-66]
Maggie: the case of, [62]
Martha and Sarah: trachoma cases, [83], [84]
Mattie and Cleary: affair between, [79], [80]
Marriage: as an adventure, [73];
following irregular relationship, how regarded, [79];
found to be a sobering event, [74];
of May Carney, [85-87]. See also Weddings
Marro, Angelina: her wedding party, [113-116]. See also Angelina and Nick
Mayhew, Fanny: and the "Gopherettes," [10]
Meehan, Jennie: marriage of, [80]
Meehan, Mrs.: on the size of her family, [22]
Mental Ability: of girls tested in a psychological clinic, [85]
Mercer, Addie: and her father, [80], [81]
Middle West Side. See West Side
Misery and its Causes: in families of girls, [124]
Money: importance of control of, to working girls, [59]
Moral Conditions on Middle West Side, [77-81]
Moresco, Filamina: an Italian rebel, [112]
Morelli, Rose: and her family, [99], [100], [101], [111]
Mortality among Children on Middle West Side, [23]
Mother: and daughter, strained relations between, [53];
as the mainstay of the family, [26]
Mothers of Girls: wage-earning, [125];
who take to drink, [27], [29]
Moving Picture Shows, [66], [67]
Mullarkey, Mrs.: and her search for Fannie, [90-92]
Mullens, Fanny: and her reason for leaving the Excelsior Laundry, [46]
Murphy, Mrs.: and her daughter Katie, [2]
Music: appeal of, to girl, [67]. See also Songs, Popular
Names: changes in, among Italians of West Side, [110]
New Machiavelli, The: quotation from, [66]
Nick and Angelina, [96], [97], [114]
"Nickel Dump," [72]. See also Moving Picture Shows
O'Brien, Julia: and the young woman from the ranks, [11]
O'Brien, "Tootsie": and her first job, [44]
O'Callahan, Mrs.: her tale of the Gophers, [13]
Occupations: of girls studied, [44], [45];
of fathers of girls, [126];
of mothers of girls, [125];
Of West Side Italians, [106], [107], [110]
Parental Surveillance over Italian Girls, [111]. See also Italian Girl
Parents: hostility of, toward men friends of girls, [62];
excessive drinking on the part of, [29], [129], [130]
Patsy: the case of, [92]
Pay Envelope: family customs regarding, [47], [48], [49]
Petie's Mother Dispossessed, [27], [28]
Philanthropic Agency: families of girls having records with some, [121]. See also Relief Records; Charitable Aid
Physical Inheritance: and condition of girls, [82], [83], [84], [85]
Piano: essential to equipment of girls' club, [4]
Play: the will to, [57-74]
Playground in Back Yard of Club House, [3]
Polini, Jennie: and her choice of a fellow, [96], [97], [99], [112]
Population of Middle West Side: more stable than that of East Side, [75]
Potter's Field: burial in, how regarded, [129]
Poverty: in families of girls, [20-32], [130], [131]
Precocious Development of Girls, [93]
Prosperity: families of girls classified by degree of, [130], [131]
Prostitution: case of, among girls known at club, [88]
Psychological Clinic: examination of girls in, [85]
Pupils. See Children
Quarrels between Club Members, [12]
Reformatory: as a cure for truancy, [38], [39]
Reilly, Mamie: and her responsibilities, [50], [51]
Reilly, Mrs.: on births and deaths, [23]
Relief Records: of families of girls, [20], [121], [122], [123], [124]
Rentals Paid by Families of Girls, [24], [128]
Retardation among Girls Studied, [36], [37]
Reynolds, Stephen: quoted, [15]
Roche, Josephine: author of chapter on the Italian girl, [95]
Ruletti, Mrs.: and her foster-child, [103], [104]
Ryan, Mrs.: quoted, [77]
Sabbio, Mrs.: and the family saloon, [106]
Sadie and Petie's Mother Dispossessed, [27], [28]
St. Vincent de Paul Society: families of girls having records with, [121]
Saloon, Corner: and its influence, [81], [82]
Sarah and Maggie: trachoma cases, [83], [84]
School Attendance on the Middle West Side, [132-134]
School Enquiry, Committee on: of Board of Estimate and Apportionment, [132], [133]
Schooling, Compulsory: period of, [33]
Schools: absence from, among Italians, [102], [103];
choice of, open to West Side girl, [33];
evasions of law by early leaving of, [40], [41], [42];
retardation of girls in, [36], [37];
truancy of girls in, [38], [39], [40];
use of transfers in the, [34], [35], [36]
Settlements and Clubs: use of, by girls, [67]
Sewing: as a club occupation, [4]
Sexual Abuse: among girls, [84], [85]
Sheridan, Martie: and her machine, [45]
Sherin, Nellie: and her work, [46]
Sipp, May: desire for home visit expressed by, [3]
Slaughter Pens: odors from, on West Side, [75]
Social Relations: among girls contrasted with those among boys, [60], [61]
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: families of girls having records with, [121];
interference of, where mother drinks, [130]
Songs, Popular: fondness of girls for, [4]. See also Music
Spinal Curvature: cases of, discovered on examination of girls, [83]
Stark, Pauline: a "rover," [45]
Stertle, Mamie: on going home at night, [77]
Stevens, Kitty: on Jennie Meehan's marriage, [80]
Stores: wages of girls starting in, [47]. See also Department Stores
Storm, Louisa, and Barbara Egan: quarrel between, [12]
Street Corners: as places of rendezvous, [62], [63]
Strumpf, Anna, and Mamie Taggart: quarrel between, [12]
Taggart, Mamie, and Anna Strumpf: quarrel between, [12]
Teeth of Girls: neglect of, [83]
Tenth Avenue: gang spirit of, [13]
Thanksgiving Party at the McKeevers', [64-66]
Throats of Girls: not cared for, [83]
Toilet, Open: dangers of, [81]
Tonsils, Enlarged: found on examination of girls, [83]
Toohey, Sadie: on the restaurant keeper's past, [78]
Trachoma: cases of, among the girls, [83], [84]
Tracy, Maggie: faction headed by, called "tough," [12], [13]
Trade-union Organizer: quoted, on Italian girls, [111]
Transfer Privileges in the Schools: use of, [34]
Truancy among Girls, [37], [38], [39]
Truant Officer: and the transfer privilege, [35]
Truant School Needed for Girls, [40]
Tuberculosis: cases of, among girls, [84]
Tuzolli, Laura: as a mother's helper, [104], [105]
Undertakers' Bills, [129]
United States: length of residence of Italian families in, [109]
Vaudeville: popularity of, [67]
Venereal Disease: cases of, among girls, [84];
in Europe, [82]
Violence: tales of, [76]. See also Lawlessness
Vision, Defective: cases of, found on examination of girls, [83]
Wade, Lizzie: on factory work, [43]
Wage-Earning and New Relations at Home, [43-56]
Wages: small on Middle West Side, [22]
Wages of Girls: in Italian families, customs regarding, [109];
who attended club, [47].
See also Pay Envelopes
Waywardness: among West Side girls, problem of, [17]. See also Immorality
Weddings: among Italians, [113-116]
Wells, H. G.: The New Machiavelli, quoted, [66], [67]
West Side, Middle: compared with East Side as to stability of population, [75];
influences upon the girl, [16], [17], [75], [77];
population compared with that of London slums, [82]
Work: girls' ways of finding, [43];
lack of, as a cause of dependence in families of girls, [124].
See also Occupations
Working Papers: requirements for, [40], [41]