HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real scat 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 Solon s at...
...of the ten year olds, only 40 per cent...
...They are born in filth, live in filth and carry filth along with them...
...They leave some of these germs wherever they alight...
...From that age on to manhood however the spirit of revenge gradually dies out...
...tians...
...They must be gathered up and destroyed...
...If it can't go in a little breeze like this, it would be no good in Kansas," remarked Senator Bristow...
...Then a soap powder may be used...
...Kill every fly that enters the sick-room...
...Wright Brothers than to see the ship fly," spoke up a frank young woman...
...Keep a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid in them...
...Clean cuspidors every day...
...Appreciating that comment cannot add to a story so strong, she effaces herself, and wherever they can be used, she makes Lincoln's own words tell the lessons of his life...
...Of seven year old children, 70 per cent, say that of course Charlie Morris ought to dump Tom Griffin into the ashes...
...Some of those French or German ships will be here before this gets started," jollied back some one...
...Keep garbage receptacles tightly covered and clean them every day...
...Come, everybody,—come on my ticket," called out the Senator from South Carolina...
...As distinguished statemen crossed the field the cameras got busy taking snap shots...
...Infant industry, ought to have a protective tariff," remarked a newspaper man...
...Allow no decaying matter of any sort to accumulate on or near your premises...
...Our little yellow ticket admitted us to a part of the ground reserved for officials, but it had no special advantage and was roped off from the ship by several rods...
...Speaking of Flies" A PHYSICIAN who was in attendance one June at a medical convention was asked why the meeting had not been called in cooler weather...
...Use liquid poisons, sticky fly papers and traps...
...It was natural that they should be cautious and await more favorable conditions...
...The rumor was passed about that they were waiting for the wind to calm down...
...They will hit back but they can be made to hit back fairly...
...The picture needs no comment...
...He had grey eyes, a long-featured sunburned face, and did look like the pictures of the Wright Brothers but he wore a blue shirt and suspenders and was apparently so disinterested he surely could not be one of them...
...Professor Barnes showed all this on a chart and also other facts which indicate that in children between five and twelve years of age, the savage is really uppermost...
...They can be made to play fair too, and Professor Barnes says that we are building wiser than we know in getting playgrounds and recreation centers where they can play rough, hard, strenuous games...
...Orville Wright had not flown since that fateful day last September at Ft...
...Flies are known to be the carriers of death-dealing disease germs...
...Do it early before fly time and keep screens up until snow falls...
...Pour kerosene into the drains...
...For a while we watched closely fearing we should miss a single move in the great event...
...An all-around look at the ship gives a different idea than the usual pictures, or a side view...
...What to do to get Rid of the Flies SCREEN your windows and doors...
...Wait until Aldrich gets ever the line, then La Follette will insist upon the same privilege," interposed some one...
...I want to be sure to address the presiding officer...
...It was a new machine...
...Dry soap is as useful as green soap excepting when it is desirable to get a lather quickly...
...There's Elkins...
...The book is so attractive in every way, and so low in price, it should fill the aim of the writer, and reach a large number of people...
...That keeps us busy in winter and spring...
...At that age the tide turns, among the boys at least, and at thirteen only half of them are for sparing Tom...
...Where is the Chairman...
...This started the rest...
...The inference from this remark is that we could almost put doctors out of business —the business of curing diseases at least—if we could get rid of bad air and flies...
...Myer, when he was seriously injured and Lieutenant Selfridge was killed...
...Screen the baby's bed and keep flies away from the baby's bottle, the baby's food and the baby's "comforter" Keep flies away from the sick, especially those ill with typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis...
...Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies SPRINKLE chloride of lime or kerosene over contents of privy vaults or garbage boxes...
...Flies are the filthiest of all vermin...
...Good prunes may be bought by the boxful for the same price that poor prunes cost by the pound...
...In the answers there is a strange uniformity...
...And out of that small beginning there will come in time if the child is normal, broader sympathies and wider altruism...
...AFTER a while a favored group were invited to cross the line and inspect the ship...
...I'd rather see the...
...Steve's pants are too short," said another of his colleagues, calling attention to the wide legs of his linen trousers flapping rather high about his ankles, as the big man cut across the field in his steam engine way...
...The heat was fearful, but we hurried lest we should be late...
...These goes Bacon to find out if it is constitutional,—said Tillman "Come on, La Follette and Bristow, wherever Bacon goes, I dare...
...In the latter part of the summer come the flies...
...The health department of Chicago is trying to do both of these good things...
...It should be removed at least once a week...
...Dark clouds toward the horizon with fitful breaths of air, and occasional flashes of lightning indicated the possibility of a storm...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Solon s at Play ASURPRISE call over the telephone,—the Senate had adjourned,—would we go and see the Wright Brothers fly...
...Remember: No Dirt—No Flies If there is a nuisance in the neighborhood notify the Department of Health, City of Chicago...
...But just now when people are living in the fresh air and there are no flies we are free to go to conventions...
...You feel it is written as Lincoln himself would have liked it written, without exaggeration, and true as he himself was...
...This summer, it has issued a large poster, headed "Speaking of Flies" which shows more clearly than any words could show the way in which disease and filth are carried by means of these insects...
...Don't allow flies in your house...
...Last winter it told the housekeepers of the city in its weekly bulletins that no house is clean that is poorly ventilated...
...inquired Senator Tillman...
...Out of associations with those who lived with him and loved him, has grown a direct and intimate sympathy with the spirit of Lincoln, and Miss Jennings writes from this viewpoint...
...to the children of England and the children of America...
...he's going to see if there is any Ganger of competition with his railroad," remarked a fellow senator...
...The guards triea to keep the crowds from coming too fast...
...Don't allow dirt to accumulate in corners, behind doors, back of radiators, under stoves, etc...
...They cannot be made into saints but they can be made into decent savages, at least most of them can be...
...Sprinkle chloride of lime over manure piles and other refuse...
...Immediately disinfect and dispose of all the discharges...
...Flies are the most dangerous insects known to man...
...I am a timid man," answered La Follette...
...HINTS TO HOME-MAKERS Buy soap both for toilet- and laundry-use in large quantities...
...The borders which are adopted from a Florida State Board of Health poster, we reproduce on this page...
...A Good Supplementary Reader NO one can read Miss Janet Jennings little book, "Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American," without feeling better acquainted with Lincoln...
...Tillman, why don't you ask for the regular order," called out pleasant-faced Senator Overman sitting comfortably on a railroad tie in front of us...
...There were young guards riding up and down and newspaper and moving picture men with their cameras in front of us...
...Senator Tillman shook his little yellow ticket in the face of one of them and scared the young fellow so that he saluted and brought his horse right up on his haunches to let him by...
...To quickly clear rooms of flies, burn pyrethrum powder or blow powdered black flag into the air of the room with a powder blower...
...of the eight year olds, only about 55 per cent...
...They feared the treacherous upper air currents they had before encountered...
...There was an expectant crowd of several thousand at Fort Myer...
...b) One dram of bi-chromate of potash dissolved in two ounces of water sweetened with plenty of sugar...
...That looks to me like one of them," said quiet Mrs...
...But he was, as we afterwards learned...
...Tillman directing our attention to a lean young man standing in front of us, just inside the rope, talking to one of the guards...
...No boy can be taught to play fair in a tenement house, because there is no place to play there at all...
...The "bird" has head and tail as well as wings...
...Don't eat...
...They carry from one person to another all kinds of diseases which affect the intestines (dysentery, typhoid fever) and then we are busy again...
...Stack "log cabin" fashion and allow to dry thoroughly...
...Place either of these fly poisons in shallow dishes throughout the house: (a) Two teaspoonfuls of formaldehyde to a pint of water...
...They can not be made to turn the other cheek to the whole world in general but they can to old ladies, very young children and sick people...
...To teach children to observe the rules of the game of life as they see it may be as important as to try to make them see the game as older people do...
...One careful housekeeper buys by the box, stuffs the large prunes which are found on top with marshmallows and puts them away in sealed jars to be served at luncheons and dinners...
...It is this way you see: In cold weather people shut themselves up in close, poorly ventilated houses and get pneumonia, influenza, bronchitis, and all sorts of diseases which affect the lungs and throat...
...From the reading matter which fills the space between the borders we take a few sentences...
...This causes the flies to fall to the floor in stunned condition...
...The opportunity of a Washington journalist for conversations and interviews with personal friends has not been used for a second-hand tribute...
...We were disappointed, but glad to see the senators out of school...
...Written in a simple qirect style, citing so much of Lincoln's best thought and philosophy, from his letters and speeches, making as it docs a complete interesting story of the essence of Lincoln's life, well adapts it to use as a supplementary reader in the public schools...
...Screen the patient's bed...
...If it was only a hot air balloon, now, there are enough Senators here to boost it," whispered a private secretary to a pretty girl near by...
...The reply was "This is our slack season...
...They did not fly...
...where flies have access to the food...
...And they came...
...Keep manure screened if possible...
Vol. 1 • July 1909 • No. 27
