THE LONG ROAD OF WOMAN’S MEMORY [Illustration] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO THE LONG ROAD OF WOMAN’S MEMORY BY JANE ADDAMS AUTHOR OF “TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE” “THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH AND THE CITY STREETS,” ETC. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1916 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1916. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY H. WILMARTH WHOSE MEMORY STORED WITH THE BEST IN LITERATURE AND WHOSE FINE PUBLIC SPIRIT ARE DAILY PLACED AT THE SERVICE OF HER FRIENDS AND OF HER CITY, WITH A GALLANT AND GENTLE COURTESY CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ix I. WOMEN’S MEMORIES--TRANSMUTING THE PAST, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE STORY OF THE DEVIL BABY 1 II. WOMEN’S MEMORIES--REACTING ON LIFE, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE STORY OF THE DEVIL BABY 25 III. WOMEN’S MEMORIES--DISTURBING CONVENTIONS 53 IV. WOMEN’S MEMORIES--INTEGRATING INDUSTRY 84 V. WOMEN’S MEMORIES--CHALLENGING WAR 115 VI. A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN INTERPRETATIVE MEMORY 141 INTRODUCTION For many years at Hull-House I have at intervals detected in certain old people, when they spoke of their past experiences, a tendency to an idealization, almost to a romanticism suggestive of the ardent dreams and groundless ambitions we have all observed in the young when they recklessly lay their plans for the future.