Addams

Jane, an American phi- Janthropist, born in Cedarville, LIL, Sept. 6, 1860. She was graduated at Rock ford Coliege in 1881, and after post-graduate studies in Europe and the United States, became an active social reformer, She inaugurated in 1889 the establishment known as Hull: House, an adaptation of the “social settlement ” plan to Chicago conditions. She has acted as street | ing inspector in Chicago, and has lec Adelsberg tured on the improvement of the cone dition of the poor in great cities, Adder, etymologically, nadder, the n having been attracted to the article and lost. The adder has a broad, triangular head and a short tail. It raree ly exceeds two feet in length. In the United States the name is popularly applied to several snakes, but the true adder does not occur.