HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is 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 Reducing the...
...On these wires dark curtains can be hung...
...Beds have been a feature of in-door furnishing so long that our conventional souls seem to revolt against seeing them out-of-doors...
...So much for foods for the sick and for babies...
...The facts secured will be helpful later...
...It is best to begin when the nights are warm just as it is best to begin taking cold baths in the summer...
...There is some gelatine in it, but there is little besides that comes under the head of food...
...Exercise expands the chest, lengthens the waist, and gives an expression of aliveness to the body...
...9. Fold the arms across the top of the head and walk with a high step on the toes several times about the room...
...No more on Life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few...
...CUSTIS' only daughter married Robert E. Lee, who as we all know went from Arlington to Richmond to join the Confederate Army...
...They had mostly empty sleeves and halting step...
...2. In same position, lift legs alternating:—repeat...
...Wires should be strung from chain to chain...
...Up to that time the sleeper may know the joy of looking up at the stars when he wakes...
...Many years ago to reach Arlington one must drive across the Long Bridge and over a beautiful shaded road...
...After broiling, the meat should be cut into small bits and pressed in a lemon squeezer or a meat press...
...Phil and I went through the old house, and stood for a long time on the great porch, overlooking the Potomac and the city of Washington, as we had stood not long before at Mt...
...Repeat ten, fifteen or twenty times...
...A cheap mattress for out-of-door use may be bought for $2.00...
...Put the glass into a dish of water and heat the water slowly...
...Its chief ingredients are substances which are known as extractives...
...But the end is not yet for, upon the application of more heat, the coagulated mass separates completely from the water and rises to the top...
...They act as mild stimulants but they serve neither as fuel nor as muscle builders...
...We heard the sound of music, and drove to the gate to see the old soldiers enter...
...The juice will soon coagulate into a solid mass resembling the white of a soft-boiled egg...
...It is the white pillars and portico of the Custis-Lee Mansion...
...It rained Decoration Day...
...After it is found, the question of furnishing arises...
...Take the exercises about as fast or slow as seems natural, and experiment with them until you have a program that includes a variety of exercises, taken a definite number of times,—multiples of five are easy to remember...
...Repeat the experiment with a thermometer in the water and you will see that the coagulation begins at a temperature of about 134 F. and that the scum rises at a temperature of about 160 F. If the albumen is to be kept in solution, therefore, the juice must not be heated beyond 134, even when it is served...
...Take 100 steps actual or standing run...
...They are found in greatest abundance where muscular development and activity are greatest...
...Of course the early morning light is not favorable for sleeping out...
...Diluted Beef Juice DILUTED beef juice can be prepared in a simpler way by soaking chopped beef in water...
...It is a fascinating story of a dog told by John Muir in a little sixty-page book just published by the Houghton Mifflin Company...
...It seems strange that this has never been used as an argument for the day-light saving movement...
...However, we must not ask immediate results...
...We expected to see many...
...Even when the days are shortest there are plenty of hours of dark to give a good night's sleep in the open air but they do not come at the right time...
...A hand broiler is best for the purpose because it can be easily turned and the loss of juice can be prevented...
...Asubstitute is to be found in an ordinary spring mattress hung by iron chains from the roof of the porch...
...5. Lying on the side, raise the free leg:—repeat...
...George Washington Parke Custis built the Arlington house...
...A unique shaft erected to their memory surprised me something as the War itself did, coming when we all believed that the United States would never have another war...
...The program should not be so hard as to discourage, nor so easy as to be of no use...
...Vernon furniture and silverware, and these precious possessions were taken to Arlington...
...Vernon...
...on all sides if needed or on the sides toward the light only...
...8. Standing lightly poised on the balls of the feet, extend the arms horizontally from the shoulders, palms upward, and with the weight on the right foot, bend the body to the left;—do not bend arms—transfer the weight to the left foot and bend the body to the right:—repeat...
...Scum, you say, and protest that you have seen it many times before, but when that scum was in solution and was in its most finely divided and digestible form, you did not suspect its presence nor understand its habits...
...The Union forces took possession of Arlington first as a camp, then as a hospital, and at the close of the war as a cemetery...
...A large crowd of people were present in spite of the bad weather, but of soldiers there was but a handful...
...Meat Juice THE juice, which lies around the muscle fibers and is also found inside of them, is chiefly composed of water but the water holds in solution very important substances...
...Although I suggested keeping a record of the weight and measurement, no one should be in any way encouraged or discouraged by increases or decreases at first...
...One great advantage of this swinging cot is that curtains can easily be attached...
...The presence of this precious material—for it is precious, because it can be digested when few other foods can be and because by hardening on the outside of steaks and roasts it seals in the juices— may be shown by a simple experiment with meat juice...
...This may be of practical value because meat juice is one of the first foods to be given to babies in addition to milk and is a staple in the diet of invalids...
...The exercises to be effective, must be work, but they should not tax the endurance...
...The apparatus for raising a Gloucester hammock to the ceiling in case of rain or for the purpose of getting it out of the way in the day time may be bought separately from the hammock itself...
...A test tube is best for the purpose because it can be easily handled but a tumbler will do...
...Arlington The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo...
...This should be broiled a little on both sides...
...3. Place the feet against the baseboard, or a convenient piece of furniture, and lift the body to sitting position:—repeat...
...These thousands of dead must always suggest the haunting question "need there be war," and the disturbing fear that there may be war, and a prayer that there never will be...
...It was noticeable that the spirit of the day was not lost...
...Do not allow any excuse or exception to interfere...
...But how different the impression,—not because it is a cemetery, but because of its war associations...
...Custis entertained in a princely manner and received distinguished guests from over the world because of this relationship...
...It is said that La Fayette greatly enjoyed this hospitality, and thought the view from the Arlington porch one of the most beautiful he had ever seen...
...Now one may take either of two street car lines, and the signs of real estate dealers distract the attention all along the way...
...One of these is a protein of the variety known as albumen...
...FOR the prevention and reduction of accumulation of flesh about the waist and hips, special exercises should be taken each morning before breakfast, and each night before going to bed—five, ten, or fifteen minutes, according to the time and strength and need...
...We should not even try to test the plan by results until we have been at work for quite a period of time, if we are seeking permanent improvement...
...4. Lying on the side, swing the free foot to the front, touching the floor with toe, and back, touching the floor—hip is pivot —repeat...
...We let the scum rise and remove it unless our consciences protest against the throwing away of good food...
...They cost $12.00 without springs and $14.00 with...
...we do it only because we want the extra flavoring matter that comes from the cheaper cuts...
...Vernon until the death of his grandmother in 1802...
...There are few houses in which a crack or a crevice cannot be found for an out-door bedroom...
...FROM various points in Washington, looking across the Potomac to the Virginia side, we see an outline of what might be a Greek temple...
...It costs $1.50 or $2.00...
...6. Turn on the other side, and repeat with other foot...
...Extractives EXTRACTIVES represent in the animal economy worn-out or broken-down muscular tissues...
...We should undertake the reduction of the weight and preservation of normal proportion rationally...
...TjTo learn "When a Roof is not a Roof" but a day nursery or a recreation ground for factory employees, or a playground or a living room, see The Delineator for July...
...Armour does, rather, and then he sells them to us at forty cents a pot...
...Over eighteen thousand soldiers, mostly from the hospitals and battle fields about Washington, are buried at Arlington...
...The chains may be bought for 4 cents a foot...
...Give us, therefore, the good old fashioned soup that our mothers used to make—unskimmed and with a little fat floating about on top for ornament...
...Arlington is especially consecrated to their dead...
...Other people may think we do it because we are poor and cannot afford to stew up tenderloin and Porterhouse, but we scorn the suggestion...
...These two historic homes seem to occupy the choicest hills along the banks of the Potomac...
...The waist grows prematurely wooden and old...
...If hung with rings, they can be easily moved and need not be drawn until it gets light...
...Carefully prepared home-made clear soup or consomme is better to the taste than solutions of commercial beef extract, but it has little more nourishment in it...
...The hooks with which to fasten them to the ceiling are 5 cents apiece and the staples with which to fasten them to the cot are the same price...
...Every face was serious...
...Old soldiers have for many years been given preference in appointments to positions in Washington...
...just a little more than you like, enough to make you feel triumphant when the task has been accomplished in good form...
...They have no food value, but they are the flavoring matter of the meat...
...Have you read Stickeen to the boy...
...But first we must know how to get the juice out of the meat...
...That means that they are most abundant in tough meat...
...It would be very much easier if one could have a trainer, but few enjoy that luxury...
...When his father died at Yorktown, George Washington adopted this grandson of his wife, who made his home at Mt...
...If beef broth freed from fat and scum is condensed by heat in vacuum pans we get the extractives in solid and nearly pure form—or Mr...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Reducing the Size of the Waist MOST women neglect to exercise the fundamental muscles...
...A very few drops of hydrochloric acid are sometimes added, for by this means some of the insoluble proteins of the fiber are converted into soluble proteins and brought out into the water...
...Some can take this exercise without any support for feet...
...One of these is the juice...
...Arlington is beautiful,—almost as beautiful as Mt...
...7. Standing lightly poised on the balls of the feet, and with the arms straight up from the shoulder, palms front, finger tips extended, bend forward and backward, the hip as the hinge...
...The Nature of Meat Juice BUT back to our experiment: Put a little of the juice into a glass...
...That is the reason why we use round steak instead of tenderloin for beef broth and buy shin instead of Porterhouse for soups...
...Where one is self taught a plan that will fit the individual need can only be reached by experiment, and results are the only test of the success of the plan...
...All the iron work should be treated with Jap-a-Lac to keep it from rusting...
...Enjoying the prestige of Washington's adopted son, Mr...
...An ingenious man could probably get up such a contrivance for less money...
...He inherited much of the Mt...
...Many of them afterwards returned...
...Vernon...
...Food Value of Clear Soup IN the ordinary process of soup making, we make no effort to keep the albumen in solution...
...From nine to five would be a more comfortable time to sleep than from eleven to seven...
...The purpose of the heating is to make the connective tissue swell, for when swollen it presses upon the meat fibers and forces the juice out of them...
...They are busy with their hands, active on their feet, but the muscles of the trunk lose their elasticity from lack of use...
...The tendency to grow stout complicates the problem, and very much greater effort is required to maintain bodily proportion...
...The entire expense exclusive of the mattress is less than $5.00...
...Sleeping in the Open THE time has come for acquiring the habit of sleeping out-of-doors...
...A new section of the cemetery has the graves of many who died in the Spanish War...
...Preparation of Beef Juice THE best meat to use is round of beef...
...Six days in the week, as regularly as you get up in the morning, and as surely as you go to bed at night, carry out your program...
...They never can be built up again into muscular tissue either in the body of the animal or in the body of the person who eats them...
...A spring strong enough to be so supported costs $2.00...
...Rest Sunday...
...Good Exercise for the Purpose 1. Lying flat upon the back, lift both legs at right angles with the body...
...The Value of Meat Juice BESIDES the fiber and the connective tissue which quarrel with each other and complicate the task of the cook, because one likes heat and the other likes cold (see our issue of June 5) there are, in meat, several other valuable materials...
...Those who do not need to contend with the flesh habit can preserve bodily youth and freedom with a small amount of daily exercise...
...After the scum and the fat have been removed the soup has little nutritive value...
...In a short time if the animal had lived, they would have been broken down still further and been carried from the body...
...Gloucester hammocks are comfortable and ornamental but rather expensive...
Vol. 1 • June 1909 • No. 23
