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parks were wanted, if schools needed bettering, there were at the
College Settlement, the University Settlement, the Nurses' Settlement,
and at a score of other such places, young enthusiasts to collect
the facts and to urge them, with the prestige of their non-political
organization to back them. The Hull House out in Chicago set the
pace, and it was kept up bravely at this end of the line. For one,
I attached myself as a kind of volunteer "auxiliary" to the College
Settlement--that was what the girls there called me--and to any one
that would have me, and so in a few years' time slid easily into
the day when my ruder methods were quite out of date and ready to
be shelved.
How it came about that, almost before I knew it, my tongue was
enlisted in the fight as well as my pen I do not know myself. It
could not be because I had a "silver-tongue," for I read in the
local newspaper one day when I had been lecturing in the western
part of the state that "a voluble German with a voice like a
squeaky cellar-door" had been in town. It seems that I had fallen
into another newspaper row, all unsuspecting, and was in the
opposition editor's camp.
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