The Columbia register., February 23, 1906, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 9

COLUMBIA
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IIOULTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, FF.P.RLWRY 2?,, Vr,.
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HULL HOUSE.
MISS JANE ADDAMS TUB VAT RON
SAINT OF A MUST REMARK"
ABIE INSTITUTION,
UallCeJne Ha 511 that It I the
Most Complete Social Settlement
In the World-rounder a Wonderful
Woman.
The nam of Jan Addams 1 known
to-day from on end of this vast coun
try to another, and Included la that
pace ar Uiouaandi of mon, women and
children who regard her aimoit In the
light of a patron aalnt
Mlaa Addama la the founder and
prtaont chief moving spirit of Hull
1 Louie, Chicago, the greatest aoclal act
tlement e?er known In tbla country.
Hull House la not ronlly one houae
but a aerloa of buildings which have
grown up around on big dwelling
which years ago was given over to
Mlaa Addama for the rccommodatlon
of the clty'a working people, The act
tlement Includes a inumwra, theatre, a
restaurant and various other buildings
which are for the solo use of people to
whom life's Joys ar overbalanced by
carea and sorrows.
Hall Calne, the famous author, baa
aid that Hull House Is the most com-
see tbe big side of life rather than the
one to which tholr eyes might other
wise often turn.
8b Is always to be found by the
lowliest ready to lUkn to an appeal
for help, ready to glvo each and every
on bur strength and support and as
ready to see and help a stranger as
the oldest habitue of the settlement
Jane Addauis occupies a peculiar po
iltlon In the public eye. tihe boa no
religious creed or, If she has, she does
uot thrust It on her people. All sorts
of doctrines ar preached la Hull
House but Miss Addams permits this
through the fact that her generosity
of spirit la big enough to allow every
one his own opinion, bbe Is regarded
with tbe highest esteem by officials of
the city and Is frequently asked to ad
dress largo meetings. When she does
this she la listened to with strict at
tention. Miss Addams is a brilliant example
of a woman who, having all In life
has not permitted herself to be satis
fied with her lot whllo others have suf
fered. She baa devoted time, money
and all tbe energy in her big self to
the uplifting of tbo lowly, to tbe spirit
ual welfare of tbo poor when that
could bo done through kindness alone
and to tbo bodily comfort and enjoy
ment of these people by giving them
every means within her power to for
ATTAINS TO FAME.
an obscvus as r yo&kla wyes
RISES TO POWERFUL AND
COMMANDING IVSITION.
THE "PATRON SAINT" OP HULL HOUSE.
plete social settlement in tbe world
and If this bo so It is a fitting nionu
ment to tbe generous heart, sterling
character and unbounded sympathy of
lis founder. Miss Jano Addams.
Miss Addama is now forty-live years
old. She was born in .odarvlllo, 111.
After graduating at a well known col
lege sho followed the example of her
other young women friends and lived
a life of cose and pleasure. She Bpent
her time mostly in reading and travel
and gradually the thought came to ker
that she was absolutely without a pur
pose In life. She saw the poor around
her, got to know thejr cares and wor
ries and cast about for a moons by
which she could do them some good.
Bhe decided to bocomo a physician and
took a year's course la a Philadelphia
college. At the end of ihat time she
was compelled to rest and so went
abroad to study social conditions. The
result of her observations was her re
turn to America and the Immediate es
tablishment of a social settlement In
Chicago. '
Hull House Is situated right in the
heart of Chicago's poor, In Halstead
street It came to Miss Addams
through Miss Helen Culver, a niece of
Its builder and the man for whom the
settlement Is now named. It had been
built by Its owner years ago for his
own home and In the bcliof that tbe
city would grow that way. It did grow
that way and became one of the most
congested sections of Chicago but was
peopled by all nations and of a class
of humanity unused to the fin usages
of life, unused to social restrictions
and wholly without the pale of refined
society. When Miss Culver learned
that Miss Addams Intended founding
a social settlement she gave her Hull
House. From the spacious mansion
which was once to have been a rich
man's home the settlement has extend'
ed Into a block of buildings and here
is the genuinely happy home of Chi
cago's poor.
One of the adjuncts of the settlement
Is the Jane Club, an organization of
self supporting young women who are
making an effort to live up to the ideal
offered them In the personality of their
benefactor. The club is directly un
der the supervision of Miss Addams
and every employe of the house, and
In fact every one of the settlement, la
responsible personally to her.
Miss Addams believes in tbe people,
trusts them and looks to them for the
nroner disposition of their duties and
tbelr lives and In this way she has
come nearer their hearts, nearer their
confidences and nearer making them
get, when it Is possible, that they are
poor, uneducated and socially lacking
according to the standards of the
world.
Napoleon,
"Kapokon going about like a ragtag Uoa
eecklng wnom n might aerour. '
Sir Connn Povlo considers Napo
leon as perhaps tho most wonderful
man who ever lived. He writes that
what strikes him most ,rclbly Is the
hick of llnnllty In bin character.
When one decides that be Is a com
Ditto vllluln, bo reads of some noble
trait a I then loses bis admiration
In somo act of Incredible meanness.
Dut here was a you.j man, of
thirty years, with no social advan
tages, very llttlo odv-aiuon, his
family poverty striken, entering
room in company with Kings, each
and every one Jealous of any atten
uons snown by him to any one of
thorn.
lie most have had some private
charm, for his intimate friends loved
and worshipped him, and withal be
was tho most amazing and talented
liar that ever lived, and one who told
tbe truth only to himself.
An originator of great schemes that
seemed fantastic and Impossible, his
ir-'eeiy or aeiaii Drought success
wher another man would bar failed,
With Kingly Coarage,
In Sweden a remarkable story Is
told of King Oscar's courage and re
solution
The narrative recounts that a soldier,
a man of Immense stature, while lying
under sentence of death secured
long knife, and defied anyone to enter
hia cell. '
On hearing of the circumstances the
King drove at once to the prison, and
flisroparding the warning of the offlcl
als, entered the man's cell alone and
unnr""d, locked the door behind him,
and then reasoned 1th the convict
It would have been a remarkable in
terview. even If the Klne bad taken
pardon to the convict. But far from
this, he actually explained to the con
demned man why he had decided to
reject any appeal for mercy: yet he so
worked on the man's feelings that
when, with a farewell handshake, the
King left him, he was totally subdued,
and ready to meet his fat tho next
morning Ilk a soldier.
Beginning WithCasProblogaXbarles
UrJugbcs Develops .Into Dominat
ing r actor la Crest Insurance la
vcsUgaUooe In the history of the stag It has
happened mor than once that an act
or, not thought to be a star, but with
sound qualities and training has ac
cepted a part rejected by others, and
by careful study and Interpretation
mad It tbe most Interesting portion ot
the play, and achieved distinction as
tho reward of bis labors. And now,
I 'ore th country to-day, there Is an
Instance going to show that fortune
for such fidelity la not confined to the
stage.
Ay r or so ago the New York leg
islature ordered an Inquiry Into th
methods ot tho gas companies ol
Greater New York, and the committee
appointed for the work had some trou
ble in its search for a legal adviser as i
examiner of witnesses. Tbe task, for
some reason, did not appeal to the
prominent members of the bar who
we. approached, and the choice fin
ally fell on a man comparatively un
known. He bad to be Introduced to
the public outside of legal circles. But
he developed at once Into a man ol
striking force, and performed hia dut
ies so well he earned th applause of
th whole State.
Probes Insurance
When tbe legislative Inquiry into the
New York insurance Irregularities was
ordered tbe committee decided upon
legal counsel, and again difficulty was
encou-tered in securing It The man
who bad so satisfactorily served tbe
gas committee was traveling in Eu
rope, and at tbe moment could not be
reached with an offer. The offer went
begging for a few days, until at last
a llrooklyn lawyer accepted. Upon his
suggestion, however, the man abroad,
who was really desired, was cabled on
the subject and engaged to assist In
tbe work. After tbe work began this
awlstant virtually became tbe lead
ing counsel, and conducted tbe Inves
tigation, which was of national Inter
est In a way to merit and receive
national applause. He has become one
of the most conspicuous figures of to
day.
Man of the Hour
And so Mr. Charles E. Hughes Is the
subject of no little speculation. The
obscure New York lawyer of the other
day Is a powerful man of this day.
He is mentioned for both political and
business honors. He might have been
the Republican candidate for mayor in
the recent municipal campaign, and
had he been might likely have swept
tbe city. He Is now mentioned for
his party's leadership In next years
gubernatorial campaign. Heia like
wise suggested for the presidency or
the Mutual Life Insurance Company.
And should he decline preferment In
both of these lines, and decide to stick
to bis profession, he la assured or a
vast Increase over the practice than be
enjoyed before.
All of which goes to show mat u
pays to do whatever yon set out to do
with all your heart and mind.
be will be nearly two yean younger
than Lincoln was at his Mil inaugural
lie will undoubtedly write a deal of
history. That be will again hold oflke
is not quite so certain, but it is ex
ceedingly probable. Ibe United States
Senate would offer an attractive field,
and that alow and dignified body would
doubtless ace some tunc.
SUE HAD TBS MORE SERVE.
A Human Interest Incident of the
MctropoMs,
Mrs. Charks Nommenson, wife of a
jeweler, of 0H7 Fulton street Brooklyn,
was sewing in the acconi iloor sitting
room of their home the other afternoon,
when in walked a burglar with a pistol
in his hand.
I got in the wrong house bv mis.
take," said he, as he dotted his hat with
a bow. "I wanted to tee Mrs. Wilson.
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"Get out!" ordered Mrs. Nommen
son, producing a revolver of her own
and covering the man with the rapidity
of thought "A man who gets in the
wrong house by mistake doesn't draw
revolver on a woman. You are 3
thief r
'I rang the bell and it was not an
swered. The door was open, to I
came in
'You are a thief 1" cried the woman.
rising and keeping her revolver on him.
"I will give you three minutes to get
out If yoa are not gone then. I will
shoot and kill you. One two "
I ne burglar dodeed out of the door.
Mrs. Nommenson was at his heels, her
eyes not leaving him for a second, that
he might not get the drop oa her. The
man saw he had lost in the game of
nerve, and he backed down the steps.
At the tront door he fumbled at the
atch. He could not onen the door. It
seemed to present an opportunity to get
the best of the woman.
'You will have to let me out" said
the burglar.
"Not much, said Mrs. Nommenson,
'you want to get me at close quarters."
Then as she kept him covered with
her revolver, she told him how to un
latch the complicated lock. She kept
him covered until the street door closed
on him. Then she returned to her sew
ing.
Tbe American Spoke First,
The American In the corner of the
English flrst-closs carriage Insisted on
UchtlnK his cigar. The Indignant Brit
isher in the other corner protested,
but protested In Tain. At the next sta
tion he balled the guard, wun nosuie
Intent; but the cool American was too
oulck for him. "Guard." he drawled,
I think you'll nnd that wis party nere
is traveling with a third-class ticket
on him." Investigation proved him
to be right and the Indignant Briusner
was triumphantly ejected. A spec
tator of tbe little scene asaea tne
American how be knew about that
ticket "Well." explained the imper
turbable stranger, "the corner was
sticking out of his pocket and I saw
It waa the same color as mine.'
SENATE'S ATTITUDE RESENTED.
House Committee's Action on Light-
nous ana Mmiur Bills.
The House committee on Interstate
and foreign commerce has decided to
hurl defiance at the Senate In connec
tion with all lighthouse measures and
similar bills which must be passed on
by tbe committee. It has been the
practice of the House to frame these
measures in such a way that a sum not
SCHOOL GARDEN WORK.
AS IMPORTANT AND ATTRACTIVE
IE A TV RE OF TUB NEWER
EDUCATIONAL METHODS,
five Years' Course at School of
Horticulture at Hartford. Conn.
leaches Gardening and fruit
Crowing In All Its Branches.
There Is much growing sentiment
In favor of school garden work In all
parts of tbe country. If agriculture
Is the backbone of tbe country, so ag
ricultural education is tbe stem and
fibre of successful farming. School
garden work, as It applies to children
who nave never lived on a farm. Is a
start toward scientific agricultural
education, and it Is a branch of educa
tion of great Importance in these times
w-n so many boys snd Tls are
drifting toward the cities and away
from the old farms. The tendency of
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HE RAISED THEM HIMSELF,
the drift is cityward; but there are
thousands of people who would like
to live on farms, and would, perhaps,
if they knew something about tbe
growing of plants, and there Is no time
like early youth to Instil in tbe mind a
We of nature and of growing things.
So that considerable success has at
tended the school garden Idea and the
nature urudy idea as it Is being ap
plied in a number of the older Institu
tions and in some new special schools.
A striking example of this Is tbe
School of Horticulture at Hartford,
Conn.
In the year 1893 the Reveiend
Francis Goodwin, a philanthropic cit
izen, gave about 100 acres of land and
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Scenes at
Hartford School
of Horticulture.
MAT BECOME A SENATOR,
Speculation as to Future of Presi
dent Roosevelt After Term
Expires.
When Mr. Roosevelt retires from the
office of President of the United States
he will he but fiftv-one years of age,
and just entering upon his intellectual
prime. Will he be content to go into
retirement from politics? If so, he will
have to forego his present love of doing
things. Much, however, depends on
chance. If he shall be as popular when
he retires as he is at present, or half as
popular, he will remain the head of his
party, and should he desire political
preferment he will get it
After his retirement from the Presi
dency, George Washington was given
command of the army in our actual but
not declared war with France. John
Quincy Adorns made more fame the
nine terms he was in Congress the last
eighteen years of his life than in all
his previous political career. General
Jackson retired from the Presidency in
1837, hut he was the head of his party
until his death, in 184s. He dictated his
successor, and his will was law to both
Van Btiren and Polk. Van Btiren was
a politician until he died. He elected
Polk in 1844 and defeated Cass In 1848.
General Grant was a candidate for
President in 1880, and had his man
agers acted with a little more sagacity.
he would have been nominated, and per
haps elected. Grover Cleveland was
elected President In 189a after his re
tirement in 1880.
Mr. Roosevelt Is the youngest of the
Presidents, and when ha retires in 1909
life
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specified but not to exceed a certain
amount is to be used for the particular
improvement The Senate Invariably
has changed such bills so they appro
priate a fixed amount This system is
regarded by the members of the House
Interstate and foreign commerce com
mittee as being conducive to reckless
expenditure and the members of the
committee will refuse to accept such a
bill hereafter and purpose forcing the
Senate to indorse measures which will
encourage the completion of work at
the lowest possible cost and the sav
ing of balances which may remain.
This action of the House committee
is in line with the general opposition
which the House is offering to what is
declared to be the encroachment of the
Senate upon its rights.
..aaa. iihhjllliiith J
had a board of trustees incorporated
c1,1116. ame of 8 Handicraft
Schools of Hartford.
His idea was to establish a school
phasTualtralnlne 111 lt8 S
.in I9?? D nmenway, a gradu
ate of the Massachusetts Aultural
College, was secured as Director of the
ocuooi 01 Horticulture. The buildings
were soon erected, and tha gohoni mm.
tabllahed as the first public Handicraft
Bchool of Hartford. Besides giving
apprentice work, and a course in hor
ticulture and botany to the boys from
the Watkrnaon Farm School, the fol
lowing season a coarse in school gar
dening was established. This course
was opened to the boys and girts from
the city schools.
The school rarden wnrV at tha
School of Horticulture nrovid attne.
tive and popular from the first, and
after one or two year of free wort;
a tuition was charged for each person
who took a garden. This tuition Deed
not keep any one from having a gar
den, as 100 hours of work for the
School pays any boy's tuition.
The school garden work has been
systematized, unto, now there is a five
years course in school gardening for
boys and girls, ss wen as one to train
publle school fpaehers, snd one coarse
for adults which Is largely taken by
clergymen of the city.
One of the reasons which baa mail
this werk so popular Is because of the
fact that tbe school shows results.
Every boy here, every person, for that
matter, who has a garden gets a great
oal more In value from his garden
than tbe price of the tuition.
The first year the boys begin tbelr
garden work the 1st of May. They
come ont or a lesson one day a week.
They come Into the classroom, where
each boy receives a notebook, marks
bis own attendance, keeps a weather
report, and writes down from dicta
tion, or copies from tbe blackboard, a
detailed leswon for that day. With
the seeds they are given, they then
pass with the instructor to the tool
room, where each boy receives his
tools, and with these he goes to his
garden, where an instmctor Is always
prt-ent to explain the things which he
learns In the classroom. In golnsr to
his garden he passes by the observa
tion plots, which are studied.
Tbe second year the boys begin in
March, taking rip the mixing of the
soil, potting and repotting tfle tomato,
pepper, and egg plants that they have
in their gardens.
The third year they begin In Febru
ary and take up root-grafting, cutting, '
pruning, spraying, digging and setting
trees, spading and caring for grounds,
as well as the garden lessons.
The fourth year boys begin In Jan
uary and take up tbe making of hot
beds, management of hotbeds, prun
ing, spraying, soil analysis, plant
foods, testing seeds, planting the gar
den, besides the garden lessons, and
In the autumn they have budding,
frnlt culture, and asparagus culture.
1 ne nrtn year they take up system
atic study of the soil, beginning In
January. All gardens continue until
after tbe 1st of October.
That the gardens oav Is het nhnvm
from a record of the garden yields dur
ing the past summer. A first year bor
rot 9.66 worth, a third year bor
25.S4, a fourth year boy S23.03. and
one of tbe clergymen $17.21 worth of
produce In the gardens.
The first year the gardens are 10)
x 30 ft, the second year 10 x 40 ft.
tne tbtrd year 10 x 60 ft, the fourth
year 10 x 80 ft The clergymen have
gardens 10 x 40 ft Public school
teachers have gardens 10 x SO and 10
x w rt; the plan Is to give them a
practical training In the method of
training school children In the work.
Already several schools of Hartford
have established gardens In connec
tion with the schools, and the School
or liorn culture is furnishing instruc
tors of late; those that are giving in
struction were trained at the School
of Horticulture. But there is another
thing that the school does. It keeps
the children occupied during the sum
mer months, keeping tbe boys and
girls off the city streets; because they
come to love their gardens and come
out to work in them, and to work out
their tuition. This Is not all, as soon
as the planting Is done in the gar
dens the children take up the system
atic study of weeds, they become fa
miliar with them and learn methods
of destroying them. Also at the School
there are about 500 observation plots
containing many of our common
things, and the children learn to know
them In all staora of development
People are beginning to realize that
a boy from the Schoel of Horticulture
is better te work In their garden than
the average man they can get be
cause the boys will not pull up ex
pensive seedlings as the men so often
do. Frequent calls are made upon Mr.
Hemenway for a boy to take care ot
a garden or lawn, and many of the
boys are able to spend most of their
spare time during the summer in this
line of work.
Coloring Matter in Food,
Since we have been brought face to
face with the fact that most every
article constituting our daily diet con
tains some artificial coloring matter,
there has been a demand for some
method by which we can test such foods
in order to determine whether or not
they contain artificial coloring. The
Department of Agriculture has but re
cently Issued a bulletin containing a
classification of the colors used in food
products as well as methods for their
detectlon
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