Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITY

by

LILLIAN W. BETTS

Illustrated

New York Dodd, Mead & Company 1903

Copyright, 1902, By Dodd, Mead and Company.

First Edition published September, 1902.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. AT THE BOTTOM, 1

II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CENTERS, 37

III. THE HOMES UNDER ONE ROOF, 75

IV. SLOW-DAWNING CONSCIOUSNESS, 102

V. WORKING-GIRLS' CLUBS, 135

VI. A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, 162

VII. WITHIN THE WALLS OF HOME, 196

VIII. FINANCIAL RELATIONS IN FAMILIES, 225

IX. HOME STANDARDS, 263

X. WHERE LIES THE RESPONSIBILITY? 290

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

No Longer Profitable--_Frontispiece_

The Site of the Old Runway 12

Your Choice 24

Saturday Morning on the East Side 38

The Past, Present, and Middle Period 44

A Social Centre that Becomes Political 56

A Doorway on the East Side 60

Early Morning among the Push-Carts 64

Meeting the Needs of the Neighbourhood 70

A Remnant of the Past 76

A Type of the Present 88

A Corner in a Workingman's Home 94

A Spiritual Bulwark 128

Where the People Share 134

A Corner in an Old Section 152

Opposite a Corner in an Old Section 154

The Woman's Home Improvement Club at the Settlement 168

The Kindergarten of the College Settlement 178

Making a Selection 184

At the Settlement--A Stormy Day 188

Yard Day at the Settlement 196

The Children's Hour at the College Settlement 200

Mutual Interests 206

The Forest of the Tenements 212

The Children's Playground 218

Library Day at the College Settlement 224

A Street on the East Side 236

A Cooking Class of Mothers and Children 244

A Meeting of Neighbours 250

The Reading-Room at the Settlement 254

After School at the College Settlement 258

The Morning Airing of an East Side Heiress 264

A Bit of Old Greenwich 274

A Little Father 280

A Corner in Old Greenwich 286

Taking their Turn in the Yard at the Settlement 294