Take Jane Addams -- not by any interpretation to be called a truculent woman. The old warrior now gone to glory -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones -- used to call her St. Jane.
But if the angel of Hull House is conscious of a halo she took it off yesterday and talked the iron language of 1812, when Old Ironsides was [taking] fire.
She said:
"The visit of Old Ironsides to Chicago, after the reconditioning of the frigate, will teach honest patriotism to our children by bringing home to them in a most vivid way momentous events in a spirited period of our history. It will be a very interesting cruise. Chicago's school children ought to be allowed to do their bit toward bringing the visit to pass.
"When I was a member of the school board we did not permit solicitation of funds among school children on any pretext, but I think that for a universal thing of this kind the children should be permitted to contribute."
That much, coming from Miss Addams, who is not careless with words, means much.
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