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...
...So, too, must the classes for grown people which are held on the grounds two evenings in each week...
...But of course, care must be taken not to eat more than the habitual amount at the other two meals...
...It serves as a reserve in sickness and can be made to do so in health...
...THIS program may seem hard, but I should be dishonest with you and myself if I assumed the permanent reduction of the flesh to be an easy undertaking...
...Just at this time when money was on hand for the equipment and maintenance of the playground, a public spirited citizen who loved children gave to Madison the necessary land...
...Robbing the Hand that Feeds" RAISING fruit ought to be the pleasantest business in the world...
...This leader, Mrs...
...But if the Department had no money it had something better...
...In other words a small farm ought to offer more joy than a large one and a better chance to get back to the soil and to see things grow...
...A cup of hot water, with a pinch of salt before breakfast, between meals and on going to bed at night, is helpful in keeping the excretions normal, a very important factor in reducing the flesh...
...If so, well and good...
...The adoption of an altogether different regime of nourishment may be unsafe...
...Exercise and supervision of the diet will contribute to their strength, keep them hard, and make them feel better...
...IT should be remembered by way of encouragement that the first few days of the struggle are the most difficult...
...Or you can leave out altogether the one meal, for which you find you care the least...
...Combine with the diet program, a program of exercise along the lines I have suggested in previous talks...
...It may reduce the weight...
...Many people reduce their flesh, and go right back again to where they were...
...Many persons complain that exercise increases the appetite...
...I can only suggest certain practical conclusions, the result of observation and experience...
...A drop of two pounds the first week is all that should be expected...
...Tea or coffee, (without cream or sugar) or skim milk, egg on thinly buttered toast or dry bread (egg should be poached) and orange if desired...
...When the members of the Department began their work, they hoped that the use of a vacant lot would be offered for their experiment, but they faced the possibility of being obliged to pay not only for the maintenance of the playground but also for rent...
...Now Ella Bond Johnston of Richmond, Indiana, asks the same question in a charmingly written story called "An Antiquated Ideal" which was published in the Outlook for June 12th...
...Then one must guard against recurrence...
...It is very important to make certain that the tendency is fully mastered...
...Having a program of diet and a program of exercise test its effectiveness by the weight...
...People working very hard, physically or mentally, cannot safely cut off a normal supply of wholesome food...
...But when a meal is omitted a glass of water will often satisfy the craving for food...
...L. F. Porter, thought that the City of Madison ought to be doing more for its children, and she believed that if the Educational Department could make a small experiment in the way of equipping and maintaining a playground, the city would appreciate the value of the work and would assume the responsibility for it...
...A driving horse must have his regular rations of oats if he maintains his pace...
...While I advise all stout people no matter how busy they may be, to take a certain amount of vigorous exercise, calling into play the whole body, and also to be in a degree watchful of the diet, lessening the amount, and doing without one meal if they can...
...Dinner...
...It may be a year before the new habit is well established...
...The work which has been done in Madison is being done in hundreds of cities and towns of the United States and thus, little by little, the children of the country are coming into their rightful heritage—the earth...
...The first money came when the Graduate Club of the University of Wisconsin repeated at the Opera House for the benefit of the playground fund, a play which it had already given successfully at the University...
...If hot water is distasteful, cold probably serves nearly as well...
...Any light soup, not rich, good sized piece of steak, roast beef or any lean meat, peas, asparagus, cabbage, tomatoes, spinach, (any vegetable grown above the ground), small quantity of bread...
...it ought to be much more enjoyable than superintending fruit raisers...
...Supper or Lunch...
...So successful has the work been and so much has it been appreciated that it has been made a part of the regular public school system...
...This committee purchased apparatus and hired a physical director and the Burr Jones Field, named after the giver of the land, was formally opened July 1, 1906...
...The system yields up its extra supply grudgingly...
...It is strange how much more alarmed we are over a little headache due to going without a meal than to a much more severe one, occasioned by too good a dinner...
...But unless the grower wants to be at the mercy of the commission merchant, he must go into the business on a large scale and "farm men" instead of raising fruit...
...But if turned out to pasture, even though they get thin, the change is good for them, and adds years perhaps to their efficient service...
...NOW, having observed the weight for a period of time so as to determine about where it tends, set for yourself a reasonable standard to be attained,—say ten pounds in three months...
...The City Council also helps in the work by making an annual appropriation of $500...
...All stout people can stand a lessening of quantity...
...HOW ONE CITY SECURED A PLAYGROUND FOR ITS CHILDREN IT was with faith and hope but no funds that the Educational Department of the Woman's Club of Madison, Wisconsin, began in the winter of 1906 to work for public playgrounds...
...But that is different from imposing a specific task when already overburdened...
...This we learn from Forrest Crissey, whose "Robbing the Hand that Feeds" appears in Everybody's for June...
...Since the opening of the Burr Jones Field, four other large tracts have been given to the city...
...One will be astonished after a few days to find out how much a matter of habit the amount and kind of food we eat is...
...All kinds of desirable and useful occupations into which mothers ought to be glad to see their sons go, are being spoiled by the methods which are employed in trade...
...For those who prefer to follow a given program than to work one out to meet their individual needs, I suggest the following as a safe and usually effective dietary: Breakfast...
...Poached egg, dried beef, or any lean meat, bread and butter sparingly, skim milk, tea or coffee...
...Of the rest of the story, most, but not all, is told by the pictures on this page...
...The stale appetite and wearied digestion of grown-ups often responds to this treatment, when all kinds of dyspepsia tablets fail...
...I do not advise those who are taxed to the limit with hard work, either of muscle or brain, to deliberately undertake the additional task of trying to reduce the weight...
...Flesh is Nature's storehouse...
...With this end in view they began to look around for ways of getting money...
...Liquids are fattening if taken at meal-time...
...I mean, the appetite...
...Having observed for a period of time about how much food you consume, make it the basis of a reduction in quantity, and modification of the kind of food you eat...
...Here again we can rely on habit to adjust the amount desired to the actual need of nourishment...
...Cut out potatoes or bread, or some one large factor, or subtract a third of each...
...The proceeds were $75...
...Any fresh fruit for dessert, (not much sugar...
...If this is so, it must of course, be restrained...
...This was sufficient simply for apparatus and the salary of the director...
...She believed, too, that the Department could make the experiment...
...we asked in our issue of January 16...
...Any extremely radical change likely to endanger the health, should be avoided...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Reducing the Weight—Diet WHILE a local accumulation of flesh about the waist and hips can usually be corrected by exercise alone, a general fleshing up of the whole body, especially if constitutional in origin, is more easily overcome, if a system of diet is adopted, in combination with exercise...
...Never drink water at meal time, but be sure and drink it between meals...
...the other is to satisfy the appetite with food from which the fat producing qualities are eliminated...
...Adopt a series of exercises on arising in the morning, and on going to bed at night...
...One is to eat sparingly of the usual variety...
...So with dinner and supper...
...Each day take a long rapid walk, or its equivalent in golf, tennis, or work in the garden...
...There are two methods of dieting...
...IN these brief articles I cannot go much into philosophy...
...For example, if in the habit of eating oat meal, toast, and doughnuts for breakfast, either cut out one of these items, being watchful not to make it up on another, or lessen the quantity of each...
...It is another example of what we said in "Woman's Duty in Buying" (see our issue of June 5...
...It is possible for a person of strong will to take enough exercise to reduce the flesh very rapidly, and overtax the heart...
...a leader with courage and enthusiasm...
...But having a vacation, or having leisure, no one need hesitate to set about securing a definite reduction, confident of improving the health as well as the appearance...
...One of the greatest advances we have made in the treatment of the lesser ailments of children, due to over-indulgence in eating, is instead of giving them dope, allowing them to fast, giving the stomach and alimentary canal a chance to rest and clear itself...
...He gave it not for the season only but for all the years to come and for the benefit of successive generations of children...
...By exercising some restraint on the appetite for a time, the system responds to the discipline, and one soon ceases to care for more than the rations allowed...
...Who will start the custom of using the centers of blocks for gardens and of facing living-rooms upon them...
...The Woman's Club added $100 and by personal appeal to individual citizens the Department brought the sum up to $400...
...The weight should be carefully watched, and held determinedly to a certain standard for a period of time...
...Events showed that she was right in both her beliefs...
...There appears to be a somewhat close relationship between the nourishment of the nerves and the fat-producing foods, which necessitates caution...
...The standard set should not be too difficult of attainment, and should have some relation to the weight...
...The Board of Education now hires a physical director for the schools on condition that he superintend also the work of the playground...
...These are at present unimproved and unsupervised but they belong to the children of the future and can never be taken from them...
...This was not a large sum but it constituted a nest-egg...
...an average loss of a pound a week is very satisfactory progress, and ten pounds in three months is a splendid result...
...But," so many ask, "must I keep it up forever...
...The weight will probably vary from day to day, but if there is no reduction at the end of a week, the amount of effort will have to be increased...
...The funds which had been raised by the Educational Department were given to a Playgrounds Committee, consisting of the Mayor, the Superintendent of Parks, and representatives of the Woman's Club, the Board of Education and of a philanthropic organization, known as The Attic Angels...
...A horse at work at the plow, even if fat, must be well fed to keep up his strength...
...One who weighs two hundred can probably take off fifteen or twenty pounds under the same conditions, as one weighing one hundred and sixty can remove ten or fifteen...
...They give an idea of the work which was done on the field, but the cross country tramps and the swimming lessons under the superintendence of the director of the playground must be left to the imagination...
Vol. 1 • June 1909 • No. 25
