Category: History - American
One of the first, and, up to the present time, one of the most interesting experiments made in New York for the better housing of the poor, was made in the early eighties by a score or less of philanthropic capitalists. These gentlemen organized a stock company to hold and man...
The centralization of the interests of the tenement-house population is not understood by those who broaden their mental, if not their active, interest by reading and travel; wh...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The women of education who attempted to make the conditions of working-men's families better, found their own education advanced, their values of essentials greatly modified in...
1. CHAPTER I.One of the first, and, up to the present time, one of the most interesting experiments made in New York for the better housing of the poor, was made in the early eighties by a s...
4. CHAPTER IV.In a preceding chapter an attempt was made to show how hopeless the task of home-making was for women who had neither knowledge nor ideals to guide them. When it is remembered t...
8. CHAPTER VII.One day a group of unusually intelligent wives of working men were driving through Central Park in a Park carriage. All were mothers, some of grown children, yet it was the firs...
10. CHAPTER IX.The world knows two aspects of involuntary poverty: The one inseparable from degradation; the other picturesque, appealing to the emotions, and giving a field for the play of sy...
3. CHAPTER III.The importance of environment is at last admitted as a factor in character-building. That light and air are indispensable to cleanliness, and physical cleanliness to health, and...
5. CHAPTER V.Twenty-five or thirty years ago in New York the question of the wisdom, if not the necessity, of moving the downtown churches uptown began to agitate the pastors and church lead...
11. CHAPTER X.It took years for the evils of political machines to make life unbearable in New York. Not until the tremendous evils it imposed on child-life were given emphasis did the public...
6. CHAPTER VI.Mothers, after nights spent in overcrowded, unventilated bedrooms caring for nursing babies, began getting breakfast at five o'clock in the morning. Husband and children of ever...
7. ill. It became a badge of good motherhood to have the child in thekindergarten on time. Before this, through talks by doctors and nurses, the relation between health and cleanliness had been discovered. Cleanliness was imposed on their own chi...