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 JANE ADDAMS By Hebman 0. Makey ONE day a little girl, not yet seven years of age, drove with her father through the poor district of a small city. Till then the city had always meant splendid shops and luxurious houses and this was her first introduction to real poverty. rid little houses so close together!** Her father explained as best he could to his daughter why such a condition existed. But the explanation did not satisfy her. great big house right among horrid little houses like these. * * This youthful promise Miss Addams has literally fulfilled ; and Hull House, perhaps the best expression of the spirit of ing to needs which even childhood's eyes can see. To understand Miss Addams 's life one must know her childhood and no record of her childhood is clear without an insight into the relation of the motherless child to her father. Mr. Addams had early begun life as a miller's apprentice. Rising at three in the morning to begin work, he had taken advantage of the dull morning hours to read through the entire village library. With the same intense earnestness he had worked his way through life. During the sixteen years follow- ing 1854 he was a member of the Illinois State Senate. In those uneasy times there were few men whose position could abso- lutely be relied upon. But Lincoln, still an obscure member of the legislature, writing concerning his stand on a measure then before the Senate, expressed his assurance that Mr. Addams ** would vote according to his conscience.** Upon the death of Mr. Addams in 1881 the editor of a Chicago daily wrote that he knew of but one man in the Illinois legislature to whom in the now incomprehensible days of reconstruction
 * ' Father, * * she exclaimed, * ' why do people live in such hor-
 * When I get big,** she replied, **I am going to live in a
 * ' Chicago's foremost citizen,** has since 1889 been minister-