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...third-floor apartment door in Greenwich House hangs a sign: "Come In Without Knocking." Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, who has been preaching what she calls "Neighborhood" for 44 years, also practices it. Last week some 500 friends & neighbors came in without knocking, to honor 78-year-old "Mrs. Sim...
...Sim remembers the Thanksgiving morning in 1902 when a moving van drew up to 26 Jones Street, which had been an anarchist hideout on "the Street of 40 Thieves." She and her Russian-born husband had picked this vermin-filled, draughty place for a settlement house. Greenwich Villagers peering suspiciously from windows figured "we were just another family moving in," Mrs. Sim says. They were glad to be accepted that way; "we did not want to be regarded as strangers bent on uplift...
...infant death rate of 125 to the thousand (compared with a New York City average of 58.7), and it was at the mercy of two notorious adolescent gangs known as the Hudson Dusters and the Gophers. Vice, disease, overcrowded tenements, saloons, no playgrounds-these were the problems of Mrs. Sim's neighbors...
Greenwich House concentrated on improving living conditions first, because, as Mrs. Sim said: "What was the use of bringing art to people who had little soap & water?" Infant care and dental clinics, free milk for babies, diet kitchens, public baths and sports (Gene Tunney did his first boxing in the settlement basement) were added one by one. Over the years, after the soap & water, came the art: a music school, a children's theater, woodcarving, pottery. In 1917 the settlement moved to bigger quarters on Barrow Street. Mrs. Sim agitated for slum clearance, wider streets, parks...
...modern pediatricians are suggesting a dreadfully old-fashioned practice: putting newborn babies in the same room with their mothers. Mrs. Frances P. Sim-sarian, mother of two, and Pediatrician Preston Alexander McLendon of Washington have made some happy discoveries about the procedure. Last month they enthusiastically told Journal of Pediatrics readers...