HOME AND EDUCATION

Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.

HOME AND EDUCATION The home te the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their glfta to the cradle. Conduced by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Back to...

...It got well...
...The Young Mother and the Fat Hog Not a Fable...
...From which premises he argues that for both social and educational ends "the boys from Marlborough Street need to saw wood as much as those on Salem Street, and the girls on Commonwealth Avenue need to know how to make buttonholes as well as those at North Bennett Street...
...The organization of the high school on the plan of remunerative occupation to be pursued in connection with the course of study, would secure the balanced education advocated by Dr...
...unsettled when home, because they may soon have to go back to Washington...
...A Haven of Reat HOMES for the aged are the latest development of the garden city movement in England...
...The little mother also had red spots on her cheeks and a slight dry cough...
...Conduced by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Back to Washington IT PLEASED me when at home this summer to have friends say that the sketches of Washington last session had seemed like visits with me, for that is just the spirit in which they were written...
...and of the 4,500,000 self supporting ones, it is estimated that 50,000 attend...
...Where can I go to get well...
...Of this number it is believed that fully 6,000,000, if all were to complete the grammer school studies, would be capable of mastering a high school course...
...Taft to protect itself, and the ignorant man, who does not know the difference between whiskey made of grain according to the most approved methods, and whiskey made from neutral spirits which in turn may be made from any substance from which alcohol can be extracted, must take all the consequences of his ignorance, if the more injurious forms of whiskey are sold him...
...When we may get away is pure guess work or political speculation...
...We should have been free to go home on the fourth of last March, but the "extra session" kept us here nearly all summer...
...long weeks because they are the period of readjustment through which all congressional families must pass each year on their return to Washington...
...reluctant, yet willing perhaps...
...Her appetite had failed her for weeks before the tired feeling came...
...Roosevelt held that a compound of whiskey and of neutral spirits or diluted alcohol which is not whiskey could not be called whiskey but must be designated as a compound...
...our friends ask on our departure, and "Are you not glad to get back...
...Thum argues very convincingly that the public should furnish employment to self-supporting students, quite as much a matter of course as it furnishes the school itself...
...In no other way did he believe the public could be protected...
...This is not the "short session/' as is natural to suppose at first thought...
...The desire to be doing things, to become independent, self supporting, is an instinctive part of adolescent development...
...The Whiskey Case and the Pure Food Law PRESIDENT TAFT'S decision of the whiskey case, in which, he reverses the ruling and order of his predecessor, Mr...
...It was, "Mamma," "Mamma," all day long...
...They rent for lets than a dollar a week, and combine two of the essentials of living for those who are growing old, a reasonable privacy and the opportunity for companionship...
...Not glad, not sorry...
...From these estimates, if correct, we see that only 1 in 90 self supporting young people of high school age are attending high school...
...Winship says: "The industrial problem is not solved when we have taught the idlers at the bottom how to work,—not till the danger of idleness at the top, as well as at the bottom is eliminated...
...What answer can define the mixed feeling of regret at leaving home, anticipation of new experience incident to each session of Congress, combined with dread that it may last too long...
...The reply was: "The great Christian State of Indiana had not yet risen to the mighty economy of saving the lives of little mothers from consumption...
...One day, when dragging herself around, forcing her weary body to work, she felt a sharp but slight pain in her chest, her head grew dizzy, and suddenly her mouth filled with blood...
...Her three little girls, once a joy in her life, now became a burden to her...
...William Thum of Pasadena, California...
...Taft holds that it can be called whiskey but that the label must also declare that it is a compound of straight whiskey and neutral spirits...
...The woods and the fields are better places for promenades than kitchens...
...The housekeeper is not only allowed to put paper into the garbage pails...
...The public is left by Mr...
...Remunerative Employment for High School Students THERE happened to come to my attention at about the same time a remarkable address by Dr...
...THUM, as the basis of his argument for furnishing employment to students gives these statistics: "It is estimated that there are 7,000,000 young people of high school age in the United States...
...Roosevelt held that the act required the Government to decide not only what is pure whiskey, but in the very nature of things, what is impure whiskey...
...From these figures Mr...
...Only three weeks since we left the farm early one December morning when the mist in the air was so thick—or was it partly in our eyes?—that we could not see the outlines of the familiar trees...
...Simply Straight Goods ONE time a little mother, who was only twenty-five years old, began to feel tired all the time...
...The correlation of these two democratic principles, offers a basis of high school reform that once understood, would, I believe, be eagerly welcomed by the teachers, the parents, and the young students of the nation...
...The apartments in the building consist of a large living-room with an alcove for a bed, a small kitchen and a share in the common bathroom, laundry, drying room and oven...
...He squealed loudly and the farmer came out of his house to see what was the matter...
...He's got the hog cholery," said the hired man...
...That is a cranky idea," for a member on the floor of the sixty-fifth Assembly said so...
...The Roosevelt order was to protect the public against such liquids as were declared by the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture to be injurious to public health, and which the same authority decided were not entitled to be called whiskey, inasmuch as they were products of neutral spirits colored and flavored with various ingredients, and not distillates from grain properly aged and rectified...
...Have trays of many different sizes and convenient wall racks for them...
...Thum...
...When the hemorrhage occurred she and all her neighbors knew she had consumption and the doctor should have known it and told her months before...
...Besides," said he, "It isn't business, the state can't afford it...
...Roosevelt, will indicate to most people a fundamental difference in the views of the two men respecting the true functions of government...
...Now she wrote to the State Board of Health and said: "I am told that consumption in its early stages can be cured by outdoor life, continued rest, and plenty of plain good food...
...Use them in setting and clearing the table, in putting away clean dishes, in carrying supplies to and from icebox or pantry and whenever one trip and a little forethought can be made to take the place of a dozen...
...I do not want to die...
...Paper in the Garbage Can OF THE various uses for paper in the household we have often spoken...
...Are you not glad to go...
...Barnett, wife of Canon Barnett of Toynbee Hall...
...As it is now, parents and teachers must both struggle to hold the young student to the high school regime, because they are restive to begin work...
...CONSIDERING the address of the editor of the New England Journal of Education in connection with the plea of the public spirited citizen of the Pacific slope, and reflecting on them in the light of personal observation and experience, do we not draw the significant conclusion that self-supporting employment for all high school students is just what is needed to make the high school serve its purpose for the truest education of the individual, and best fit him for life in a broad way...
...And I should be very happy to have those who are interested ask questions that I might answer so there may be two sides to the conversation...
...they inquire on our arrival here...
...The President's decision is an improvement on the decision of Solicitor General Bowers, which, if sustained, would virtually have destroyed the pure food law...
...The hemorrhage was not severe but it left her very weak...
...Moral: Be a hog and be worth saving.—From Physical Culture...
...ABIG fat hog one morning found he had a pain in his belly...
...She never had noticed these appeals until the tired feeling came...
...But as garbage is usually fed to pigs and paper is not on the bill-of-fare of that animal, the housekeeper is not allowed to line her pail with paper...
...Just think what a difference that would make in the condition of the cans...
...otherwise the high school serves only a privileged class...
...It is reasonable to assume that if their parents withdrew their support, as soon as children reach the high school age that only 1 in 90 of 1,500,000 supported students, or about 17,000 would attend high school...
...I want to live and raise my children to make them good citizens...
...And further: "It is clearly demonstrated that a boy at the bench half the time can get as much scholarship power in the other half as though he had spent all his school time at books, and had found his recreation at football or on the running track...
...She would like to keep the garbage pail clean with it...
...While the decision does not by its terms mention any other provision of the pure food act, it means that, through executive interpretation, under this decision the adulterator of maple syrup can sell his product provided his label advertising in bold-faced type his "Delicious Maple Syrup" has in small type the words "made from diluted glucose and sugar," and further provided it had in the past been known as maple syrup...
...So the farmer telegraphed Secretary Wilson of th U. S. Agricultural Department, (who said the other day he had 2,000 experts in animal and plant diseases) and the reply was—"Cert., I'll send you a man right away...
...It can be made to save work at every turn...
...Taft holds that all forms of liquid which have been known under the general term of whiskey can be branded as whiskey, and that the purpose of the pure food law is served and the duty of the government performed, if there is stated upon the labels a truthful description of the actual contents of the liquor and the mode of manufacture...
...And now that we are back again and the children are settled in school, and the help problem is settled temporarily, at least, I shall now and then, make this or that phase of the life here a theme for this page...
...But there is one use to which the housekeeper would like to put paper and to which she is not allowed to put it in most towns...
...A. E. Winship before the Twentieth Century Club of Boston, Massachusetts, and an appeal for the "employment of self-supporting students" by Mr...
...But save your life—never...
...And so while municipal officials extol incineration as a method of disposing of refuse, telling of the public buildings that may be heated and the streets that may be lighted by means of the power generated by the burning, housekeepers think how discouraging it would be to flies to try to eat through paper and how clean and sweet a garbage can could be kept if only paper packages were put in it...
...Taft holds that it is not the duty of the Government under the pure food act to determine what is whiskey...
...However, the state will care for your children in an orphan asylum after you are dead, and then in a few years a special officer will be paid to find a home for them...
...The doctor she had consulted for her cough and tired feeling prescribed bitters made of alcohol, water and gentian...
...So the little mother died of the preventable and curable disease, the home was broken up and the children were taken to the orphan asylum...
...In towns where garbage is burned, all this is reversed...
...The beautiful building shown on this page has just been completed at Hampstead Garden Suburb, near London, which owes much of its success to the enthusiasm and energy of Mrs...
...He had a government syringe and a bottle of government medicine in his hand bag, and he went for the hog...
...At present, the only place where you can go is a grave...
...Of the 1,500,000 who we assume depend on their parents for support, it is estimated that 950,000 attend .high school...
...Of this 6,000,000, possibly 1,500,000 are supported by their parents, and 4,500,000 are self-supporting...
...she is required to do so...
...So congressional people live in a kind of uncertainty, unsettled here because they do not know when they may go home...
...In Minneapolis she must drain the garbage thoroughly and then wrap it in paper...
...Sure enough the man came...
...He said he was a D. V. S. and he was too...
...Anybody, even a fool, can see it would be cranky for the state to save the life of a little mother, and it could not afford it either...
...Winship and the equal opportunity for extended education urged by Mr...
...Save steps...
...This gave her false strength for a while for it checked out her little reserve...
...So with all other articles of commerce affected by the Pure Food Law...
...We are also beginning to recognize the great waste of energy in the long period of years devoted to* purely intellectual training, unaccompanied by any contribution to the work of the world...
...It wasn't cranky for the government to do this, and it could afford the expense, for the hog could be turned into ham, sausage, lard, and bacon...

Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 1


 
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