In this compact volume she examines the causes for the discontent of youth in the city, chiding educators for their "persistent blindness to youth's most obvious needs." (10) missions in the neighborhood, that she had had
Only in the
lest it lose its sense of the youth of the earth. It alone has the power of organizing a child's activities
"I know the judge thinks I am a bad girl," sobbed a poor little prisoner, put under bonds for
Another girl washes dishes every evening in a cheap boarding house in order to secure the
the child's imagination, as well as to his careful equipment with a technique. commercialized, still confusing joy with lust, and gaiety with
lamented that this lack of courage and initiative failed not only to fit the child for an intelligent
keep tally on the boxes constantly hoisted from the warehouse into cars. Perhaps never before have the pleasures of the young and mature
They are already serving the city in so far
I could cite many instances of high-spirited young people who suffer a veritable martyrdom in
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No help having been extended to him in the moment of his first irritable revolt against
lurid places provide it. mother having been a singer and the grandmother, with whom the young girl lived, a clever
influence upon young people. young people themselves to cling to conventions which are totally
At this critical juncture a place was found for him as lineman
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dealt with lived on farms and villages where, although youthful pleasures might be frowned
As it is possible to establish a connection between the lack of public recreation and the viciousexcitements and trivial amusements which become their substitutes, so it may be illuminating totrace the connection between the monotony and dullness of factory work and the pettyimmoralities which are often the … The little sister reddened painfully under this cruel
The love of pleasure
The second line of revolt manifests itself in an attempt to make up for the monotony of the work
large department store. will perhaps permit me to quote the classical expression of this view as
Chapter 1 in The Spirit of
only her own sins but the sins of those who had failed to rescue her from a life of grinding
had conscientiously brought home all his wages, one night suddenly announcing to his family
When the boy is on the street, however, and is "standing around on the corner" with the gang to
this ill-directed art instinct might have given them had it been incorporated into industry. He
to find an adequate means of expression for their most precious message:
mortal creature generation is a sort of eternity and immortality. and vulgarity," and to speed it on through our city streets amid
developing the courage and initiative to conserve for industry the young worker himself so that
producer. (13) -ably. stuff," she stole from her father $300 which he had hidden away under the floor of his kitchen,
The fact that a boy at fourteen wants to
centers about this effort at creative expression. Hundreds of people have already taken that step so far as all decoration and ornament
Occasionally the right sort of man and girl meet each other in these
of Puritanism face a combination which tends almost irresistibly to overwhelm the spirit of