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Title: Real Americans
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard, 1860-1936
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927 Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 United States -- Biography
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in the slums not far from the church. Heformed societies in which the members helpedeach other in different ways. And then heworked, oh, so hard, for the poor of the city.He persuaded the people of his church, whowere already interested in helping the poorand unfortunate before he came among them,to work harder than ever in that cause as oneunited body. In those days, bear in mind, almost no workhad been done for the needy save by indi-viduals. Hull House, with Jane Addams atits head, had never been thought of. JacobRiis had not come to New York to bring sun-shine to wretched boys and girls. The Salva-tion Army had not been banded together.And so Edward Everett Hale was a pioneerin the noble work of making the lives of poorpeople in our cities happier and more com-fortable. He deeply enjoyed planning how his societywas to give the needed help, and in sharing thework of the members. Many a time he him-self trudged through the streets carrying aload of food to some hungry family, and on
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Copyright Underwood & Underwood, N. VDOCTOR HALE AT WORK IN HIS LIBRARY EDWARD EVERETT HALE 267 winter days bundles of warm clothing forshivering children and their parents. Withthe gifts went tender words of sympathy whichfed and warmed the lonely hearts of those hevisited as the food and clothing he broughtwarmed and nourished their bodies. These people thought of him as a brotherwho loved them, not as the noted Bostonminister. And indeed, as he went about onhis errands of love, he often did not look likea minister. Because of this something reallyfunny once happened. It seems that his society had arranged witha certain grocer that Doctor Hale should goto his store at any time and get what he neededto carry to the poor, and that it was then to becharged to its account. Now, one day whenthe grocer was away, a boy was left in thestore to attend to customers. Pretty soon a man who was a stranger tohim, but was no other than Doctor Hale,came in and asked for a peck of potatoes.This

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