Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Capitolo 32

you work in a near factory;  but it had been being too much tired for night to challenge
his/her affirmation that him "he/she would sleep rather out in summer", or to
you investigate what he did during the day. In the meantime the three boys
lived in a world of them really, it served above as the reading of adventurous
histories and their vivid imaginations, firmly that it pilfers more and more
as they spent the days, and indeed the imperilling the safety of the traffic
passing on the road on the top of the viaduct. Despite vigorous
the exercises on their account, one of the boys was expeditious to the Reform
School, comforting himself/herself/itself with the conclusive comment, "Well we had a good time
in every way, and they will perhaps allow them us to dig a cavern to the School;  it is in
the country, where we cannot hurt anything."

Besides books of adventure, or also reading of some kind, the
scenes and ideals of the theater greatly the form the manners and morals of
the young people. "To go to the theater" it is indeed the more commune and
satisfactory form of recreation. Many boys that conscientiously damage everybody
their salaries every week they are returned to their mothers ten cents to pay
for a place in the gallery of a theater the afternoon of Sunday. It is them
a satisfactory look of the life--the moment when them "publican ahead from
them" and it is mixed and it interested completely. Them rather simply
you adopt as them really, and it imitates as best they is able, everybody that they sees
there. In moments of the genuine pain and excitement the words and the
gestures that they assumes they are those copied by the stage and the showy one
expression often opposes horribly with the excellent and genuine emotion
of what the inadequate one is and I communicates vulgar.

As in the matter of suit, more refined and simpler manners and way of
expressions are seen not by them, and they owes perforce they copy that that them
knows.

If we agree with a recent definition of Art as that that the causes the
spectator to lose his/her sense of isolation there is without doubt that the
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