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When Phil was gone Ruth sighed and said, belligerently: "Poor Phil, he has to work so hard, and all the people at his office, even the firm, are just as common as they can be; common as the children at my beastly old settlement-house." "What do you mean by 'common'?" bristled Carl. "Not of our class." "What do you mean by 'our class'?" And the battle was set. Ruth refused to withdraw "common."
That evening, as Leonard, Juanna, and the priest sat at meat within the walls of the Settlement-house, with the plunder of the slave camp piled about them, talking anxiously of the fate of Mr. Rodd and wondering if anything could be done to discover his whereabouts, they heard a stir among the natives without. At this moment Otter rushed in, crying: "Mavoom has come!"
Such a course, simplified or elaborated to suit the circumstances of the girls who participate, might well be given in all girls' schools and colleges, in continuation schools, in settlement-house clubs and classes, in rural clubs and neighborhood centers. For, reduced to its simplest terms, marriage in the tenement rests upon the same principles as marriage in the mansion.
The dragon continued talking to Ruth, while Carl listened, in the interstices of his chatter to Olive: "I hope you haven't been giving all your time and beauty-sleep doing too much of that settlement work, Ruthie and Heaven only knows what germs you will get there of course I should be the first to praise any work for the poor, ungrateful and shiftless though they are what with my committees and the Truegate Temperance Home for Young Working Girls it's all very well to be sympathetic with them, but when it comes to a settlement-house, and Heaven knows I have given them all the counsel and suggestions I could, though some of the professional settlement workers are as pert as they can be, and I really do believe some of them think they are trying to end poverty entirely, just as though the Lord would have sent poverty into the world if He didn't have a very good reason for it you will remember the Bible says, 'The poor you always have with you, and as Florence Barclay says in her novels, which may seem a little sentimental, but they are of such a good moral effect, you can't supersede the Scriptures even in the most charming social circles.
She cried, "Oh, see those poor sheep millions and millions of them." She darted on. Stewart was not interesting. He hadn't a shapely white neck, and he had never lived among celebrated reformers. She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor.
Perhaps you didn't realize it, but my father was striking at me when he referred to your sermon, and spiritual control and in other things he said when you were talking about the settlement-house. He reserves for himself the right to do as he pleases, but insists that those who surround him shall adopt the subserviency which he thinks proper for the rest of the world.
After her days with Carl in the valley of the shadow, Olive was to her a stranger giggling about strange people. Phil was rather better. He occasionally came in for tea, poked about, stared at the color prints, and said cryptic things about feminism and playing squash. Her settlement-house classes were closed for the summer.
Perhaps you didn't realize it, but my father was striking at me when he referred to your sermon, and spiritual control and in other things he said when you were talking about the settlement-house. He reserves for himself the right to do as he pleases, but insists that those who surround him shall adopt the subserviency which he thinks proper for the rest of the world.
"What do you mean 'worth while'? If you get to be Gruensberg's secretary and maybe you would, if you kept up your shorthand and didn't go sneaking off to concerts and talkfests every evening I guess you'll find thirty-five or forty bones a week worth while!" "I know, but oh, I want to contribute I wish I were working in a settlement-house.
The result is that the child lives in deadly terror of all policemen, and will run like a rabbit at the sight of one." "Oh, poor little thing!" cried Mrs. Davis, and Davis growled something that was lost in the tangle of his beard. Tommy heard his father knock the ashes out of his pipe. "The settlement-house people," he went on, "are taking steps to get control of the child.
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