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Title: The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

Author: Jane Addams

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THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH AND
THE CITY STREETS

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
OF CANADA, LIMITED
TORONTO

THE
SPIRIT OF YOUTH
AND THE CITY STREETS

_By_
JANE ADDAMS

HULL HOUSE, CHICAGO

_Author of Democracy and Social Ethics
Newer Ideals of Peace, etc._

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1930

COPYRIGHT, 1909,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1909

Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO MY DEAR FRIEND

Louise de Koben Bowen

WITH SINCERE ADMIRATION FOR HER UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEEDS OF CITY
CHILDREN AND WITH WARM APPRECIATION OF HER SERVICE AS PRESIDENT OF THE
JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

Youth in the City 3

CHAPTER II

The Wrecked Foundations of Domesticity 25

CHAPTER III

The Quest for Adventure 51

CHAPTER IV

The House of Dreams 75

CHAPTER V

The Spirit of Youth and Industry 107

CHAPTER VI

The Thirst for Righteousness 139

FOREWORD

Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in current
publications. It is here presented in book form in the hope that it
may prove of value to those groups of people who in many cities are
making a gallant effort to minimize the dangers which surround young
people and to provide them with opportunities for recreation.

CHAPTER I

YOUTH IN THE CITY

Nothing is more certain than that each generation longs for a
reassurance as to the value