Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. 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 and charm of life, and is secretly afraid lest it lose its sense of the youth of the earth. This is doubtless one reason why it so passionately cherishes its poets and artists who have been able to explore for themselves and to reveal to others the perpetual springs of life's self-renewal.