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can educate them. We'll go and educate her. We'll make a point of it.”

That was what people like Mrs. Kelley and Lillian Wald set out to do. Mrs. Harriman says to this day, “You know, I never will forget how nice Mrs. Kelley was to me. People say she was a grumpy old thing, but she wasn't grumpy to me. She was nice to me, and so was Lillian Wald. Do you remember, Frances, that time that Lillian Wald had me over to dinner in Henry Street? You were there.”

“Yes, I remember.”

That was Lillian's opening gun in the campaign to educate Daisy Harriman. Lillian Wald was a very, very agreeable hostess, as well as a very agreeable woman. When she had you to dinner at the Henry Street Settlement, you not only saw Lillian Wald, but you saw the neighborhood, you saw the neighbors, you saw how a settlement operates, you saw the collection of objects of art and utility which were made, either in the shops or which the immigrant people that surrounded it had brought from Europe with them - beautiful brasses, for instance, that the Jewish people, who were then quite newcomers, had brought from the Ukraine, from Poland and so forth. They were lovely things that Henry Street had a fine collection of.