"Some day," said Jane Addams when she was a girl, "I am going to live in a big house, I'll build it right in the midst of horrid little houses, I'll invite the girls and boys to come and play in my back yard. I'll serve their mothers tea. I'll invite the fathers to dinner. Maybe then for a little while, they'll forget about being poor."

The story of how Jane Addams made her dream come true in a proud one; for with her house, Hull House in the slums of Chicago, and with her life, she not only made the poor forget their poverty, she helped them drive the evils of poverty away.

During her life, Jane Addams inspired all who met her. Meeting her through Miriam Gilbert's well-told story gives the same great inspiration, a vision of help for all humanity.

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