THE LIFE WORTH LIVING. l6/ 



Here were thousands and thousands of people 

 who never knew what rest or recreation really 

 meant, whose children had never seen a green 

 field, or had had a real play in good air, whose 

 lives were apparently hopeless. Ask some of 

 the most intelligent of these slaves of the needle 

 why they cannot move out into the suburbs 

 where they could get nice little cottages for 

 less money than they pay in their horrible 

 quarters in the tenement districts, and the 

 answer is always that they cannot spare the 

 time needed to go back and forth with the 

 bundles of clothing upon which the family 

 labors. In New York such errands require but 

 a few moments; in the country they would take 

 up time and money for car fares. 



The society resolved to do away with that 

 trouble by paying for the expressage of cloth- 

 ing to and from the city for people who might 

 like to move away, and a quiet spot was found 

 out on Long Island where a dozen little houses 

 were made ready for the first colony of these 

 people. When it came to actually leaving New 

 York there was some trouble in inducing a 

 dozen families to go, but by collecting people 

 with many children and making the rents of 



