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 Hot Weather...
...This may best be understood if we look back over the history of fire-places and their very unworthy successors^—mantel-pieces with fire-place attachments...
...Most of the grease can be wiped from dishes with soft paper...
...Encourage them and follow their example...
...Children appreciate being released from the restraint of the table in summer time...
...But since we have begun to consider "food-values," we know that if a woman spends all day, she can not with all her thought and labor, prepare a supper so wholesome, nourishing and well adapted to the needs of all her family in hot weather, as a Bowl of Bread and Milk...
...We may imagine that some one saw this horizontal surface and found it a convenient place to deposit something he had in his hand—a pipe perhaps, and so the space over the fireplace became a sort of open cupboard...
...looking out the back windows I see women washing and ironing and caring for children...
...Make a paste of soap-powder and water in the bottom of the tub...
...Over the gate is 1719...
...The next step is to simplify the third meal,—supper or lunch...
...Less to eat" would seem to me one of the most rational hot weather hints for women generally to consider...
...We have outgrown this objection to the simpler breakfast...
...In the hands of careful craftsmen, who have sought first to make them serve well the purpose for which they were being created, they have, in an almost mysterious way, fallen into forms and outlines that have pleased the eye...
...The floor of Dr...
...It takes time...
...Just inside is a gray stone cross monument with this inscription: to the Glory of God And the Memory of JOHN BRADFORD Our Great Benefactor Who gave to the Church this Glebe of 100 Acres A. D. 1719...
...it was only when the housewife insisted that the articles deposited there should be decorative and should be systematically arranged that the beauty of the fire-place began to decline...
...And so bonfires in civilized places, like Evanston, for example, have fallen into disfavor...
...But gradually in the hands of careful designers they took upon themselves lines of beauty...
...It is as if beauty were the reward for seriousness of purpose, and of good workmanship...
...Napkins are likely to become soiled the first day and if they are linen they must either be replaced which adds materially to family wash or must remain in unattractive form...
...I read recently in a Washington paper that the Senate restaurant could not be made to pay during the hot spell, because senators would not take anything except bread and milk lunches,—even the famous Senate pie was neglected...
...We find a shredded wheat biscuit or a dish of oatmeal just as satisfying from every standpoint...
...The reaction came some time ago, and we have of late been building real fire-places even within doors...
...It is a beautiful, simple restful room...
...the Scotch on oat meal, the Irish on potatoes, the Norwegian on bread, IT is not long since we all thought we must have meat and potatoes for breakfast...
...Not less than is necessary to properly nourish the individual and the family, but less kinds, less work...
...Of course no one can enjoy roasting potatoes on a public highway, to say nothing of dreaming dreams and seeing visions...
...Re-modeled in 1868...
...The Rorer cream-whip makes cream-whipping easy...
...They are especially helpful when flour is to be sifted several times, as it is in cake making, for it is easier to put the flour into the sifter from a paper than from a dish...
...Most men like it...
...On this day I did not try to analyze the sculptor's purpose...
...Gaudens' memorial statue, which brings artists and lovers of art from over the world to this cemetery, and brings those who are not artists and know little of art again and again to sit in its presence...
...and I think of the men in the fields working in the hot sun and women preparing dinner for them in the heat of the day...
...An ordinary paint brush is convenient...
...They consisted merely of openings in the wall which provided places for the escape of smoke and of hoods which collected the fumes and facilitated their exit...
...If we could only be satisfied to go a little slower and have a little less, what a large ultimate gain in joy of living...
...I'd rather see the grass grow yellow under the childrens' feet than grow green over their graves...
...Walter's fire-place which is of his own design is a real place for a fire, as it should be primarily...
...One Sunday ONE beautiful Sunday, after Nellie and I had been to her church, we took a walk out Fourteenth Street and Park Road, through the Soldiers' Home, following the paths made by the lonely veterans as they trudge along for recreation up the hills, over the fields and through the woods that are a part of their fine grounds...
...Witness the Gothic fireplaces of the middle ages...
...we may not suffer as much making jelly in the kitchen as sitting on the front porch talking about the heat...
...Across the street on the hottest days I see men carrying and laying brick...
...Some of the weatherbeaten gravestones near by are more than a century old, and we reflected those whose names they bore were contemporaries of Washington...
...The constitutional difference in folks North and South is the result of climate...
...Then came decadence in the arts which we call lesser to distinguish them from painting and sculpture but which are really great because they are concerned with the every day things that people need in their homes...
...They serve too as sanctuaries, where those who love Fire and Nature may worship both at the same time...
...I often go through this cemetery on my walks, but I was surprised to hear the singing of a choir, for I had never before observed Rock Creek Church, which we that day discovered, partly hidden by the trees, nearly covered with ivy, yet easily seen...
...It is a good beginning...
...It is only a little way from the church to the St...
...Now it seems as if in returning to Nature and in getting out of doors we were returning also to genuineness in art...
...Such porches, which are known in the South and at sea-shore resorts, make it possible for people to enjoy the open air early in the spring and late in the fall...
...I just looked—and was satisfied...
...It was late and we were strangers, but we finally screwed our courage up to open it, and slip quietly into one of the quaint old pews in the back of the church...
...Hot Weather Hints" must be humorous reading to these busy people...
...But, women say, even if it suits the family, there is always company to be considered...
...What is true in permanent adaptation has its lesson for temporary adjustment...
...But now it begins to look as if we were going to be shown how to get back a few of the joys of the genuine old-fashioned bonfire...
...If allowed to eat out of doors they will accept and enjoy a sandwich or bread and milk, better than a course dinner...
...It has a physical basis...
...Nor is this altogether due to the mental state...
...The work necessary to keep the chains clean is too great...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Hot Weather Hints "KEEP in the shade," "Don't overdo...
...It comes in many sizes but even in the largest a tablespoonful of cream may be whipped successfully...
...Walter's achievement which is almost as interesting as the health and pleasure aspects—a real art aspect...
...The small country congregation, the sacred music, the solemn Episcopal communion service, the clear, earnest tones of the minister, saying each time as though it was the first, "Christ died for thee," made it one of those moments when we forget the present, and live over again all life's deep experiences...
...WE lingered outside the door...
...A FIRE-PLACE IN THE OPEN A STEP in the direction of increasing the possibilities of the out-of-door life has been taken by Dr...
...The largely coned pine trees and the encircling high evergreen shrubbery let in the sun, but gives seclusion to the marble seat and plot of ground where you seem to sit alone with this draped figure trying to understand the thought you feel sure it will some day reveal to you...
...In the hands of these craftsmen, too, ornament has always subordinated itself to the lines of the construction, and has served to emphasize and dignify them...
...Keep two pieces of glazed paper for use in sifting flour...
...Put a wet towel about the head," are some of the hot weather hints that appear in the papers from day to day...
...It is a plain structure, without any steeple or ornament, having that soft dull red color of Old English brick...
...It is true however that nature demands a slower pace when the sun's rays beat directly down than when they come aslant...
...We used to think on the farm we must have something "hearty" for men who worked in the fields...
...the awakened emotion in passing seem too great to bear,—but they leave us calm...
...Paraffin paper makes it possible to keep one food from adhering to another and to keep sandwiches, cake and similar foods, moist...
...HINTS TO HOME-MAKERS Use paper in every possible way in which it can be made to save work...
...It is—Experience,—Life's Composite;—A soul prepared to stay,—ready for eternity...
...And with other useful objects the fire-place suffered...
...Walter's house is built of cement like the outside of the house thus providing for falling sparks and scattered cinders...
...The Lunch Box "The use of paper napkins and paraffin paper has revolutionized the possibilities of daintiness and attractiveness in school lunches...
...From The Daily Meals of School Children, by Caroline L. Hunt, published by the United States Bureau of Education, 1909...
...We find if we prepare something extra for guests', they do not care for it, because their standards are the same as ours...
...Plain white paper napkins may be bought for thirty-five cents a hundred and paraffin paper is sold at the rate of twenty-four large sheets for five cents...
...and all about are views of sky and trees and garden...
...Habitual exercise keeps the functions normal and the free perspiration relieves the system...
...from farther down comes the din of hammers and screech of saws...
...THOUGH history does not state it, the decline in the beauty of the fire-place was probably due indirectly to the existence of the ledge over the opening...
...Dreams, too, have suffered as wood and plaster have closed us in...
...If this is done before the dishes are put into water, the washing is made pleasant and easy...
...It led us to Rock Creek Cemetery,—a very confusing name, for it is not anywhere near Rock Creek...
...We have tried to satisfy ourselves with grate-fires within doors but there were the rugs to be considered, and so we have been obliged to omit pop-corn and potatoes...
...Up to a certain point we stand the heat better at work than if idle...
...It is not sorrow,—nor grief, nor resignation...
...Then the real purpose of the fire-place was forgotten...
...Use a brush and a spray in cleaning a bath-tub...
...It can be tightly covered so that there is no spattering and it is easy to wash...
...Lose stoppers from your bath-tub or basin occasionally rather than have them attached to chains...
...Let's all be teachable...
...It has been with fire-places as it has been with all other useful objects made by man...
...It is good to look at, too, but that is because it serves its purpose well and because its ornament emphasizes and does not destroy the strong beautiful lines of the construction...
...It is a matter of education...
...BUT there is an art aspect to Dr...
...From speech of Walter Vrooman in New York City, 1891...
...Will Walter of Evanston, Illinois, who is building a house on which there is a porch con-taining a fire-place...
...more places for the display of useless articles were demanded and in the hands of thoughtless craftsmen, mere imitators, and those who worked for profit only, the modern mantel-piece with its numberless shelves, mirrors and gewgaws and its many places for harboring dust was evolved...
...That was not so bad...
...Re-built in 1775...
...Experience proves that large, strong, enduring races of men are raised on ample diet...
...Apply to all parts of the tub, including fixtures, and remove with the Spray...
...We are most of us fire-worshippers and we enjoy bonfires, but as civilization has advanced and houses have been crowded close together, the fires in whose flames we used to see visions and in whose embers we used to roast potatoes and corn, have for safety's sake been driven from the back yards into the streets...
...Curious to know about it we went all around, and found on one side these brief facts of its history: Erected in 1719...
...Paper napkins if uncolored are safe to use and need not be unbeautiful...
...Long days of overtaxing work in extreme heat is not only an immediate risk, but tends to break the health and to age the body...
Vol. 1 • July 1909 • No. 28
