E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Josephine Paolucci, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38205-h.htm or 38205-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38205/pg38205-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38205/38205-h.zip) [Illustration: NO LONGER PROFITABLE.] THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITY by LILLIAN W. BETTS Illustrated [Illustration] 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