Jane Addams. The “newly awakened senses” of urban youth were attracted to “all that is gaudy and sensual, by flippant street music, the highly colored theater posters, the trashy love stories, the feathered hats, the cheap heroics of the revolvers displayed in the pawn-shop windows.” The untutored longing for beauty was dangerous because it was “without a corresponding stir of the higher imagination.”
What a bitch
