HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home la the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Fourth of...
...Irons' unusual feeling, insight, and power of interpretation...
...Emptying both containers, they have discovered that the new ones slip easily into the old ones, the greatest difference in measurements being in the thickness of the package...
...How we welcome that short session...
...L. A. Fischer, Chief of the Division of Weights and Measures, have brought to light old packages of certain well-known breakfast foods which they have compared in size with the packages of the same foods which are being put on the market today...
...But the constitution provided that "Congress shall assemble at least once in every year and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December unless they shall by law appoint a different date...
...Gradually the net contents have been reduced while the price has remained the same...
...So it happens that in the absence of an "extra session" a Congressman takes his oath of office and assumes its real responsibilities more than a year after his election and ten months after his term actually begins...
...cup of grape juice, 3 tablespoons of orange juice, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, % cup of suerar...
...Women of the Hour Mrs...
...For the country, the question is one of political and industrial significance, of debatable wisdom perhaps...
...By measurement of the contents of bottles, cans and other containers, the inspectors have demonstrated also the impossibility In many cases of making so much as a good guess at their comparative capacities, even when there is no special fraudulent device such as the false bottom...
...For children, the answer to such questions is more freighted with hope and disappointment than is the fate of the nation...
...CORRECTED ADDRESS OF HOME ECONOMICS JOURNAL THE ADDRESS of the Journal of Home Economics is Roland Park Station, Baltimore, Maryland, and not Roland Park Station, Maryland, as given in our issue of March 4. * * * ¶An optimist has been defined as one who takes all the lemons that are handed to him and makes them into lemonade...
...if she understands how diseases are transmitted, she does not want to use such foods...
...And this is what she is obliged to do at present unless she is so fortunate as to live in North Dakota, where there is a law providing that the net weight be marked on every package...
...After her marriage, Mrs...
...Here, too, conditions are favorable, for all parties had woman's suffrage planks in their platforms and Governor Johnson recommended it in his message...
...Very few, however, not directly concerned, realize that the terms of Senators and Representatives also begin on March 4. The new Congressman is pleasantly reminded of the fact when he gets notice from the sergeant-at-arms that he can have his first month's salary, but his constituency has no such guide, and it requires rare powers of exposition to explain, without driving one distracted, just when and why a Congressman's term of office does begin and end on the Fourth of March...
...It happened that March 4, 1789, was the day fixed for the commencement of operations of our government...
...be obliged to weigh goods herself in order that she may know how much she is paying for a given weight...
...Iron's reading...
...Soak the gelatine in the cold water twenty minutes, dissolve in hot water and add the other ingredients...
...And the very thought of an "extra session" makes the heart sink, and our hopes and our plans go glimmering...
...Shall we have to stay here all summer and not get home to the farm at all this year...
...We have been counting the days when the severe strain of legislative work would end...
...Kansas and California to Vote on Woman's Suffrage THE KANSAS Senate voted on the 8th to submit to popular vote the question of amending the constitution so as to permit women to vote...
...Mrs...
...If she has an intelligent interest in the world's work and wishes to do her share, she is too busy to use foods in bulk...
...It is fair that the housekeeper should be asked to pay for the extra convenience and cleanliness...
...Her field widened and grew...
...Walter Stokes Irons MRS...
...Thus the new Congressman who was elected last November, (1910), if the President did not call an extra session, would not really begin to serve his constituents until December, 1911...
...Conditions there seem very favorable...
...The alternative is for her to unite with other housekeepers and to demand a federal law providing that the weight of the contents be plainly marked on every container...
...After graduation she taught at first general topics in high schools, and later specialized in literature...
...Would it then be wise for housekeepers to act on the advice so often given them and try to economize by buying foods in bulk...
...How long will it last...
...On the same counter sometimes they have found prints from one dairy ten per cent, short and those from another full weight...
...Not many have Mrs...
...the breathing spell, the vacation, the peace and relaxation it will bring...
...He then enters upon what is called the "long session...
...Inspectors sent out by the United States Bureau of Standards, acting under the direction of Dr...
...THE INTERPRETATION of literature is a great field which advocates of formal and informal education must more and more recognize as one of the highest importance...
...Will there be an extra session Dad...
...It was while she had charge of the department of literature in the high school of Springfield, Massachusetts, that the teacher critic of English expression was introduced, whose work was done in connection with other departments,—insisting on a discriminating use of English language in all work...
...And, I was impressed too with the easy, tactful way in which she took us into her confidence and led us into the profoundest depths of thought without our hardly suspecting it...
...The inspectors have found also that in some cities butter prints supposed to weigh a pound are on an average five per cent, short in weight...
...The state suffrage association is well organized...
...GRAPE JUICE JELLY 1 tablespoonful of granulated gelatine, Vi cup of cold water, % cup of hot water...
...It is an annoyance that no platform is provided for speakers at these parlor entertainments which are somewhat social in their nature...
...The measure was voted into force by an election of the people without opposition...
...This winter many prominent women, including the wife of Governor Stubbs and the wife of W. A. Johnston, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, registered as lobbyists...
...But to return to the housekeeper...
...Irons spent her early life and was fitted in the public schools for college, in Vermont...
...She was chosen speaker for the East at the St...
...As I listened to her rich voice, clear enunciation, and perfect emphasis, which I felt sure would carry every word, though spoken in the same conversational tones, to the farthest end of the largest audience chamber, as well as this small drawing room, I thought of the new ideals and possibilities of women as public speakers...
...Does not progress lie rather in quite another direction...
...But it is too much to ask that we women and children should not rebel a little at first mention of the possibility of "extra session...
...This session usually continues until some time the following summer, when it adjourns to meet the following December for the "short session...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Fourth of March NATIONAL interest in the ceremony, and the very bad weather that usually accompanies Inauguration, fix dearly in the mind of the American public the Fourth of March as the date when the President of the United States takes his oath and begins his term of office...
...Strain and mould...
...She graduated from Wellesley, receiving the degree B. A. in 1884...
...Reichmann, State Sealer of New York, "being inherently honest," acquire dishonesty in the stress of competition...
...Wanted—A Net Weight Law for Containers GOODS SOLD IN PACKAGES—butter in pound prints each wrapped in paraffin paper, breakfast foods in pasteboard boxes, bacon freed from all waste and packed in glass jars—have from the housekeeper's point of view certain distinct advantages...
...Paul Biennial General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1906...
...But is it not a work that many women who truly love and understand literature, even though not so gifted, might do...
...On an average, we live about half the time in Washington...
...Sh* has been prominent in the work of the collegiate alumnae association, and has been president of the Rhode Island State Federation of Women's Clubs...
...The time spent at home, brief at most, is shortened still more by the unsettled period of preparation for going and coming...
...Her understanding and sympathy with the author's philosophy and language made her comments so essentially a part of her reading, that it was difficult for you to determine, except as you could catch an accidental glimpse of her whether she was discussing the text or reading from it...
...Ten per cent, profit from short weight, in addition to all other profits, is a big financial advantage for a man to have over an honest competitor...
...Men in official life must meet the responsibilities of public service like soldiers...
...It sometimes seems as if the men of substantial scholarship were content to leave to the charlatan the teaching of those things which deeply concern the welfare of mankind, and that the mass of men get their intellectual food from the outcasts of scholarship, who provide millions of books, pictures and shows not to instruct and guide, but for the sake of their own financial profit.—Jane Addams...
...Later she received the degree M. A. from that college, for advanced work in literature and history...
...The women of Zurich Canton, Switzerland, have been granted the privilege of equal suffrage with the men...
...to a certain extent justly so...
...When you see a piece of orange skin or of banana skin on the sidewalk with a long streak beside it showing that some one had slipped on it, which do you wonder more, what sort of a person put it there or what sort of a person left it there...
...Package goods are of course more costly...
...Women wear their best hats, which they are unable or unwilling to remove without inconvenience...
...They are traitors if influenced by personal considerations in deciding questions of public policy...
...The change in this dimension is not likely to be detected as the goods stand on the grocer's shelf...
...Thus the fight which was successfully made in Washington this year will be begun in Kansas...
...Irons is both a college woman and a club woman...
...The "short session" expires on the Fourth of March following by constitutional limitation...
...They are convenient and much more likely to be clean than those that are sold in bulk...
...Such practices are likely to increase the number of business men who, in the words of Dr...
...The children have been looking forward all winter to the spring time when they should get back to the home where all their own interests center...
...But it seems longer...
...WALTER STOKES IRONS nee Margaret Hill of Providence, Rhode Island, talked to the Congressional Club recently on Maurice Maeterlinck and his drama "The Blue Bird...
...But to us here in Washington it has a personal aspect...
...And they are answered on the Fourth of March...
...She is now recognized throughout New England as a singularly effective lecturer and interpreter of literature...
...This unfortunate situation on this occasion, however, gave the audience an opportunity to appreciate the perfect naturalness of Mrs...
...In California also a bill providing for a constitutional amendment has passed both houses...
...Irons began lecturing on literary and historical subjects, at first to small classes and groups informally in her own town and surrounding places...
...She subordinated herself to her theme and brought out life's great ethical lessons taught by Maeterlinck together with the rythm and beauty of the drama, just as the author does, without any apparent preachment or self consciousness...
...She should not, however...
Vol. 3 • March 1911 • No. 10
