HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home la the real seat of government, and the Wiae Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Vacation in...
...To tell of the beauty and wildness of the country, of the joy of skimming over those splendid lakes in sunshine or rain, or of winding one's way through the silent forests waist-deep in ferns, of the interest and fun in learning to live the simple life would require volumes...
...application at the Mayor's office...
...The most serious problem we had to solve was that of a fair division of labor, especially in getting the meals...
...One day in the five one assisted at two meals and another day assisted at one meal with no dish washing on either day...
...It was part of "Silent" Smith's money which, falling into the generous hands of Mr...
...But we are cheered by the thought that again and again in the world's history have they been thrown into wild rout, while precious ground was gained in the fight for the kingdom of God on the earth...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Vacation in Camp and Canoe By ELLA K. WALKER THAT a camping trip can be taken in a Canadian wild with pleasure and profit by women as well as by men and without the aid and expense of hired guides, was proved a few summers ago by a party of young people in the Temagamie Forest Reserve, 300 miles north of Toronto...
...and having repacked our provisions into home-made and water-proofed canvas bags and disposed them with the other goods with due care in the canoes, we started on our four weeks' trip northward from Lake Temagamie into Lady Evelyn Lake, north and south-east to Bay Lake, by portage south-west to Lake Anina Nipissing and via Red Squirrel Lake and Ferguson's Bay back to Temagamie...
...white-lined graniteware liquid measures with an inch or two of white paraffin poured into the inside are very deceptive and by no means uncommon...
...The sheets, which are about 9 by 14 inches in size, sell for 10 cents a dozen...
...OUR only necessary guides were the Grand Trunk railway maps which, because their scale was easier to follow, proved more serviceable than the Geological Survey charts with which we had provided ourselves and which were the cause of our first and only mistake in route...
...Photographs taken at the several distributing centers on the day of distribution present interesting and animated scenes, Denver, for the nonce, being apparently converted into a city of walking trees.—Art and Progress, for June...
...Cranberry measures delivering 18 cubic inches instead of 67.2 have been very common...
...The silent child" is passing away, thanks to Miss Lathrop and other good and wise people like her...
...And so it went through the day...
...The prevalence of false dry measures can be easily seen from the fact that two inspectors of the State Department in New York counted over forty dry quart measures along Second Avenue in New York City in three blocks, all of which resulted in a shortage of over 50 per cent...
...The knowledge thus gained will influence the votes of the members of the League...
...This year the requests for trees exceeded the supply by several thousand...
...I was watching a lot of children making all the noise they wanted to recently in a beautiful new playground in the city of Evanston when it suddenly occurred to me that they owed their good fortune, indirectly at least, to a man whom the world called "Silent" Smith...
...Maybe not tomorrow, or next week, or next year, or for many years, will we make substantial headway against their dull and stolid phalanx...
...This bulletin should prove of value to managers of sewage purification plants, to city officials, and especially to citizens who wish to inform themselves on a matter which is of the utmost concern to the health and comfort of every city and town...
...In England, Russia, Turkey, Germany, Spain, China,—the whole world over—a spirit of restlessness, of dissatisfaction with ancient evils, is stirring the souls of men...
...For this reason investigators have taken up the question of sewage purification...
...By camping from 5 to 10 days in one spot, exploring the region thereabouts in delightful side trips, and moving on by easy stages of two days, we found the labor of making and breaking camp diminished and the comfort of camp life increased...
...Illinois suffragists under the leadership of Catherine Waugh McCullough left Chicago on July 11 for their second autombbile speaking trip...
...Write to the University Editor at Madison for a copy...
...Then the orders gave out and the remaining 1,700 trees were given to working people and others, who were unable to leave their duties to get the orders but who sent their wives and children to the stations in the hope that there would be some left over...
...Mrs...
...but by following out the simple schedule given below, we found that three days out of five, one's whole duty for the day consisted in preparing with the aid of three others one meal and with the aid of one other in washing the dishes after one other meal...
...By far the most desirable method is to buy all commodities by weight, as is customary along the Pacific coast...
...Difficulties in plenty we had during the first week, and by experience sometimes sad and usually funny we had to learn how to sleep on beds of fir, how to screen off ravenous mosquitoes, how to cook over a camp-fire without a kitchen cabinet or city larder, and how to do everything in rainy weather...
...A further division of labor such as the making and tending of fires and the carrying of water by the men and the preparing of food by the women still further simplified the task...
...Recently The University of Wisconsin issued a bulletin containing the results of an investigation of this subject by Professor George J. Davis and Sanitary Chemist James T. Bowles...
...As a dry quart is twenty per cent, larger than a liquid quart the loss due to such practice is evident...
...It takes no courage to be numbered among the soldiers of the "god of things as they are...
...In general outline, the trip was carefully planned in advance by three of the party, with the aid as to route, of the Grand Trunk Railway folders and maps, and, as to equipment and supplies, of Horace Kephart's Book of Camping and Woodcraft...
...The total expense of the trip including railway fare from Toronto and back, sleeping car fare, hotel bills, rent of canoe and tent and the cost of food materials and cooking outfit was $47.60 for each person...
...The whole earth is stirring with the larger Insurgency...
...Strange that a great, rich nation, should find it a problem to get room for its children to play in...
...For those who will risk the trouble, the joys will more than repay the labor, to say nothing of the recreated minds and bodies they will carry back to the serious work of life...
...7 and 8 washed the supper dishes and 9, 10, 1 and 2, a new combination, started off the new day...
...To the excellent quality of their supplies, as well as to the skill with which we learned after a few days to prepare and set them forth, was perhaps due the fact that we, five men and five women, consumed 50 per cent, more food in four weeks than the amount Kephart estimates as necessary for ten men during an equal period of time...
...The roll call idea seems to have spread to the suffragists...
...Our carefully prepared list of provisions was submitted to Michie and Co., dealers in Campers' Supplies in Toronto and revised by them according to their experience and the fancy of the assembled party before being filled...
...On the first day 1, 2, 3 and 4 got breakfast and 5 and 6 washed dishes...
...The Forestry Department has kept careful check of the result of this annual tree distribution and reports that, whereas in 1906 only sixty per cent, of the trees given out, lived, in 1909, eighty-two per cent, of the planting was successful...
...He is being allowed to find his tongue even if he has been so inconsiderate as to have lost his parents...
...The plan was as follows: Odd numbers were assigned to the men, even numbers to the women...
...He who breathes it and lives it, for gsod or for ill, has for his support the almighty powers of love and truth.—Ralph Flanders in The Public...
...Covered with white paper they may' be used for baking meringues...
...We call it the playground problem...
...What is worrying us today is not how to keep children silent but how, in these times of high land values, to give them room enough to be noisy in...
...Insurgency, the union of body and mind and spirit in the service of the world, is to be found elsewhere besides at Washington...
...But do not be deceived into imagining that because a person is using a small measure he is charging proportionately less, for that is far from being a fact...
...Sewage Purification ONE of the most important problems affecting the public health of a community is that of the disposal of sewage...
...Evanston's New Playground IT WAS Julia Lathrop, a woman who has done more than any other one person to modernize and humanize the charitable institutions of Illinois, whom I first heard refer to "the silent child," I saw him later my self and many others as silent as he marching into the dining room of an old-fashioned orphan asylum and sitting through a meal without speaking a word...
...The trees arrived a week ahead of the date of distribution and were set out on vacant Jots in three sections of the city...
...This thing is of God...
...7, 8, 9 and 10 got dinner and 1 and 2 washed dishes...
...McCullough's words, to create a "noble discontent" with certain members of the Illinois Legislature by revealing not only their sins of omission with reference to suffrage but also certain sins of commission...
...Grace Wilbur Trout was in immediate charge of the arrangements...
...TREE PLANTING IN DENVER OVER seventeen thousand young shade trees were given away by Denver, on April 9, to its citizens, by whom they were promptly planted...
...This League has a committee which attends every meeting of the School Board for the purpose of getting a clear understanding of the attitude of individual members of the Board on important issues...
...There is distinction in it...
...This distribution of free trees is an annual custom in Denver, originating five years ago during Mayor Speer's first term...
...They are much more convenient than the boards usually recommended for the purpose...
...and rivalry in presenting new and appetizing dishes, and pride in promptness and ease of serving meals gave zest to the performance...
...Our canoes we rented at the Lady Evelyn Hotel, at the north end of Lake Temagamie...
...The customer rarely has an opportunity in a filled measure to see the inside, and with any sort of dexterity a crooked dealer can do the trick...
...It looks as though another pitched battle were in sight...
...Of the result of some of his investigations in New York City, Mr, Reichmann says: "The above illustrations are of dry measures, and they must receive the grand prize for instruments of fraud because the bottom can be so easily raised, or decreased in size, and the sides relapped and false sides inserted...
...But that was not what I started to say...
...Hints to Home-Makers It is now possible to buy asbestos baking sheets for the protection of cake or other foods in an oven which bakes unevenly...
...SUSAN W. FITZGERALD has been elected Secretary of the School Voters' League in Boston...
...And the worshippers of that god are on the losing side...
...The present widespread practice of diluting waste matter with water and conveying it into streams, carries with it serious dangers...
...Short Measures Found in New York FACTS and figures of a msst astonishing nature and of great importance to housewives are given In the August American Magazine in an article by Fritz Reichmann, Superintendent of Weights and Measures for New York State...
...He who rights it is allied with the powers of darkness...
...Yet there are many very 'crooked' scales...
...Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Suffage Association, is rapidly recovering from her recent severe sickness...
...INSURGENCY IT is a great thing to be an insurgent...
...In addition to three tents for the party and the simplest cooking outfit, which, however, included an invaluable Dutch oven, each person was provided with woolen blankets, a rubber poncho and a knapsack containing only the essential clothing and toilet articles...
...W. S. Mason, gave to the children of Evanston a place big enough to "holler" in...
...SUFFRAGE NOTES MRS...
...Between the time of their arrival and their distribution, 15,000 orders were made out to individuals on...
...Three kinds of trees—maple, elm, and poplar—were provided and the applicants were permitted to make a choice...
...Five thousand dollars was spent by the city in the purchase of these trees, and next year, in all probability, the appropriation will be larger...
...One very prevalent form of weights and measures deception is to sell dry commodities by liquid measure instead of by dry measure...
...The purpose of the trips is, in Mrs...
Vol. 2 • August 1910 • No. 31
