n tiny, crowded rooms and the only place they had to
gather in celebration of weddings and birthdays, and meet each other
was the saloon halls. These halls could be rented for a very small sum
with the understanding that the company would spend much money at the
saloon bar. Because of this custom many a party that started out quiet
and orderly ended with great disorder. So you can see that every one
would be glad to have Hull House where they could go and enjoy
themselves comfortably with their friends.

A day at Hull House is most interesting. In the morning come many
little children to the Kindergarten. They are followed by older
children who come to afternoon classes, while in the evening every
room is filled with grown persons who meet in some form of study, club
or social life.

But if you should go there now you would find instead of one building,
with which Miss Addams began, thirteen buildings and forty persons
living there to help to teach anyone who may come to Hull House.

There are classes in foreign languages, and one may study in the night
classes almost any subject that is taught in a high school. Besides
these classes there are concerts and plays. Hull House has a theater
of its own, and the boys and girls of the neighborhood act out their
favorite dramas there. One story that has been told frequently shows
the kind of plays the boys and girls make. Almost every one thinks
this play was given in the Hull House Theater but Miss Addams writes:

I have told the story you have reference to several times. It is
about a settlement boys' club, not at Hull House, who were asked
to write a play on the origin of the American flag. They were told
the climax must come in the third act, etc., but were given no
outline.

The play was as follows: The first act was at "the darkest hour of
the American Revolution." A sentry walking up and down in front of
the camp, says to a soldier: "Aint it fierce? We aint got no flag
for this here Revolution." And the soldier replies: "Yes, aint it
fierce?" That is the end of the first act. Second act: The same
soldier appears before George Washington and says: "Aint it
fierce? We aint got no flag for this here Revolution." And George
Washington replies: "Yes, aint it fierce?" and that is the end of
the second act. Third Act: George Washington went to call on Betsy
Ross, who lived on Arch Street in Philadelphia, and said:
"Mistress Ross, aint it f