New York
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1903
Copyright, 1902,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.
First Edition published September, 1902.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. At the Bottom, [1]
II. The Development of Social Centers, [37]
III. The Homes Under One Roof, [75]
IV. Slow-Dawning Consciousness, [102]
V. Working-Girls' Clubs, [135]
VI. A Social Experiment, [162]
VII. Within the Walls of Home, [196]
VIII. Financial Relations in Families, [225]
IX. Home Standards, [263]
X. Where Lies the Responsibility? [290]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
No Longer Profitable—[Frontispiece]
The Site of the Old Runway [12]
Your Choice [24]
Saturday Morning on the East Side [38]
The Past, Present, and Middle Period [44]
A Social Centre that Becomes Political [56]
A Doorway on the East Side [60]
Early Morning among the Push-Carts [64]
Meeting the Needs of the Neighbourhood [70]
A Remnant of the Past [76]
A Type of the Present [88]
A Corner in a Workingman's Home [94]
A Spiritual Bulwark [128]
Where the People Share [134]
A Corner in an Old Section [152]
Opposite a Corner in an Old Section [154]
The Woman's Home Improvement Club at the Settlement [168]
The Kindergarten of the College Settlement [178]
Making a Selection [184]
At the Settlement—A Stormy Day [188]
Yard Day at the Settlement [196]
The Children's Hour at the College Settlement [200]
Mutual Interests [206]
The Forest of the Tenements [212]
The Children's Playground [218]
Library Day at the College Settlement [224]
A Street on the East Side [236]
A Cooking Class of Mothers and Children [244]
A Meeting of Neighbours [250]
The Reading-Room at the Settlement [254]
After School at the College Settlement [258]
The Morning Airing of an East Side Heiress [264]
A Bit of Old Greenwich [274]
A Little Father [280]
A Corner in Old Greenwich [286]
Taking their Turn in the Yard at the Settlement [294]