Identifier: beautyforashes01baco (find matches)
Title: Beauty for ashes
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Albion Fellows, 1865-1933
Subjects: Working class Tenement houses Poor
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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made it just as bare and sordid and miserable as I
found it, in plain speech, for there was no need for
eloquence. They could see, those clear-eyed women,
that not education, not culture, not music or art, not
even home economics, could ever penetrate to those
darkened places, where cleanliness was difficult, and
sanitation was impossible, where decency was often
barred, and life was too frequently bestial. They
grasped at once the lesson in race solidarity, the
danger to their own children in the schools, the neu-
tralising of the best endeavours of their clubs, in
civic work, by the demoralising influence of those
classes to whom their culture could never filter
down. They had gone to great lengths and ample
breadths of endeavour; now they were ready to go
to the depths, in a massive effort for human-
ity. I had noticed that the home and the child were
the two great themes about which most of their
thought centred. The contrast of their homes and
their children with the unsanctified homes of the
slums and the children of the poor was more than
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