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She had a dinner for Daisy Harriman. I remember Paul Kellogg was there, Mrs. Kelley and others. Daisy Harriman never forgets it to this day. Miss Wald, with great skill of course, turned the conversation to life in the city of New York, the working people, where they lived, how they lived, the general living conditions of the area around Henry Street, why you had to have settlements. She would draw out of each one of us in a tactful way something about what we had been seeing. “Now, Frances, what did you see? I know you've been making that investigation into cellar bakeries with Raymond Fosdick. I haven't heard you say what you found. “ Then it was my turn to deliver what I had recently seen of the living and working conditions of the people of the great city. One person after another would comment. Tenement house inspectors were there, as were people who knew about factories and factory life and arrangements. That was the kind of thing that went on.

Then Mrs. Kelley took Mrs. Harriman on. One by one various people took her on and showed her the workshops, the tenements, the working conditions. They introduced her to people like Rose Schneiderman, and to other working women. And so she got a huge liberal education in just a few weeks. When they began to hold hearings she was by no means an ignorant woman. She is a very quick woman, and always has been.