HOME AND EDUCATION

...There is a mill and a store and once there was a blacksmith shop where her father made his start in life...

...The etherial character of pulled bread is due to the fact that the loaves are torn into pieces instead of being cut as for zwieback...

...But some one asks: What is pulled bread and what is it for...

...She is known among scholars for her studies in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English...

...Potter has the degrees of B. A. and M. A. from Elmira College, the oldest Woman's College in the world...

...Potter is the mother of three beautiful children, to whom she is striving to leave "votes for women" as a legacy, for she believes with Miss Addams that the suffrage movement is even now belated and should have come to a successful close a generation ago and she is determined that it shall not be left to absorb the energies of those who are now children and whose work will be needed in other progressive movements...

...They will examine into the records of candidates for city offices and pass upon their fitness or unfitness...

...pure water, perfect sewage, milk from their own dairy, vegetables from their own garden...

...She gave so many specific examples of the relationship of municipal housekeeping to private housekeeping that the most immaculate housekeeper who listened to her could never feel again that in caring for her own house she was discharging her full duty to her family, so long as there were bad neighborhood conditions, and so long as the streets, schools and jails were insanitary...

...Last, but by no means least important, Mrs...

...WOMEN OF THE HOUR Frances Squire Potter WHEN the message came from the Suffrage Convention in Seattle that Frances Squire Potter had left her position as Professor of English in the University of Minnesota to become corresponding secretary of the National American Equal Suffrage Association those who knew only of her scholarly attainments and literary tastes wondered at the change, but those who knew Mrs...

...In one city it was learned that the provision of the law that a certain kind of receptacle should be provided for garbage collection was prohibitory to the poor and so the garbage was left uncollected in a part of the town where public safety most required careful disposal of waste, and this district became a breeding place of disease...

...This note was sounded in the reports and informal speeches as well as in the three formal addresses...

...He bought farm land and prospered...

...She is the author of a novel called "The Ballingtons" which has by York, who was the first American to receive recognition from the French Academy of Medicine...

...Miss Connor is district vice-president and to her thought and management is due much of the credit for the fine program, the large attendance, and the great success of the meeting...

...We keep her and are glad to keep her as long as she gives good service...

...To New York City Mrs...

...After teaching at Elmira College and the East High School of Minneapolis, she was made instructor in Ango-Saxon in the University of Minnesota and rapidly rose to the position of assistant professor and later to that of professor of English...

...it is the real country...

...She would not have women lose the spirit of living in their anxiety to be always doing...

...I FIRST met Miss Connor at a State Womans' Club Convention where she made a most interesting report for the Token Creek Womans' Club of which she was the president...

...The general subject for discussion was "Woman's Influence in Civic Life...

...the members of the public household should be educated to be equally careful of their streets...

...That certainly was the broad view but my thought kept recurring to Mary Connor who presided with so much grace and ease over the convention...

...Potter has a large experience to bring to the suffrage cause is shown by the record of her life and work...

...In making what may be called imitation pulled bread, the first thing to do is to find the right kind of bakers' bread for some sorts, upon being dried, become tough and hard instead of crisp and brittle as they should and there is an infinite diversity in flavors...

...But there is a good substitute for the genuine article which is much more easily prepared and more economical...

...this week another woman is uppermost in my mind...

...District Convention in Madison "WOMAN'S Influence in Civic Life" was, as I have said in writing of Mary Connor, the key-note of the Second district of Wisconsin Woman's Club Convention, which was held in Madison on July 23...

...One of my pleasantest recollections is of a summer afternoon on the porch of the Executive Residence when this Club came with Miss Connor to visit me—a group of twenty-five or thirty attractive, intelligent women, who entered into conversation on a wide range of subjects of human interest...

...Together they expect not only to work for the general association but also to establish what may be called a Political Settlement, the plan for which Mrs...

...This enlarged opportunity to make scholarship serve the world has come to Mrs...

...Potter with the expansion of the suffrage movement, which brought to it wealthy friends and made it possible for it to move its headquarters to New York City...

...At the same time, there are a large number of other problems very much nearer home...

...She told the story of just how they had gone about it in her town, where they had succeeded and where they had failed...

...Now her parents have gone to their rest and the other members of the family have made homes elsewhere but she remains,—not living a lonely existence, as you might imagine, but making her house a true social center...

...This is made from baker's bread...

...They had everything that intelligence could suggest or wealth provide...

...Potter outlined in her address on "Education and Democracy," before the convention in Seattle...

...Everywhere that improvement in methods is suggested the matter of expense is raised by municipal authorities, but Mrs...

...When we engage a cook we do not ask her views on the tariff nor how many votes she can control nor discharge her if there is a change in parties at election time...

...But the family of a poor workingman whose back yard adjoined his had none of these things and the death-carrying typhoid fly, which is no respecter of persons, went from the poor man's back yard to the rich man's kitchen and contaminated the food he had taken so much pains to keep pure...

...If gas is used, the cooking may be continued all night with heat from the "lighter" only, or in an oven set on top of the gas stove over the "simmerer...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L HUNT Mary Connor LAST week Jane Addams occupied my talk...

...There is not a city in the country, for instance, that has a system of disposing of garbage which is not a reflection upon the scientific attainments, the skill and the executive ability of the American people...

...It is as absurd to say that women should not be allowed to vote on municipal affairs because they do not understand international relations as to say that a boy should not be allowed to pass from the second to third reader because he cannot comprehend Herbert Spencer...

...for it is the best of all barricades against indigestion and kindred ails...

...Mrs...

...She made a distinct contribution to the subject and she has very kindly promised us her address for publication in next week's La Follette's...

...Crane contended that bad management was the cause of much needless expense and that was where she believed that woman's influence in municipal housekeeping would count...

...The logic of good private housekeeping applies to good public housekeeping...

...The answer is that like many other good things it was invented as a cure and has become a means of prevention...

...Although gifted in every way she did not marry nor did she go out into the world and make a career for herself...

...She replied, "the large number of fine-looking, home-making women who are here taking a deep interest in this discussion...

...We do not allow the members of our families to scatter banana and orange peels and waste paper over the floors...

...She is also the author of many short stories and of several plays that have been presented in Minneapolis...

...She went back to her home and was a comfort to her father and mother...

...She is the author of a novel called "The Ballingtons," which has by several sociologists been called the best novel yet written dealing with the economic position of American women...

...This has a tendency to enlarge rather than compress the pores and to make the product light and airy...

...In preparing the bread remove the crusts and tear it into strips the length of the loaf starting the tears by means of small cuts with a sharp knife...

...On Friday, July 23, in the Woman's Building of Madison there was held the fifth convention of the Second District of Wisconsin Federation of Womens' Clubs...

...She has not a worldwide reputation as Miss Addams has nor is her field a great city like Chicago...

...A School of Citizenship THE woman, who, having knowledge of conditions in foreign lands and an understanding of international relationships, recently expressed the opinion that women, as a class, were unprepared for the ballot because of their ignorance of these subjects, approached the matter from the wrong direction...

...There was something significant to me in the practical interest of this slender, artistic young woman, who has achieved success as a writer of fiction, in the practical problems of her home-town—not alone in parks and children's gardens but in pure milk supply, garbage disposal and manual training and domestic science in the public schools...

...She has also the degree of M. A. from the University of Minnesota...

...That Mrs...

...Potter as she had lived between the world of letters and the world of practical affairs, in touch with both and getting inspiration from each to carry to the other, realized that the move represented not an alteration of purpose but rather an enlargement of opportunity...

...His daughter went to the State University...

...During the session, I asked a friend on whose judgment I rely what was the most significant thing about the meeting to her...

...Zona Gale gave the first of these three addresses, speaking on "Civic Problems in the Small City and Village...

...Anna Garlin Spencer, who is a director of the Summer School of Ethics, in the course of an interesting, philosophic discussion of "The Relation of the Woman's Club to the Social Welfare," suggested a possible danger in the evolution of the old-fashioned self-culture club into an organization exclusively interested in practical subjects...

...She told the story of one wealthy lumberman in northern Michigan who lost two children from typhoid...

...Potter will go, taking with her Professor Mary Gray Peck, also of the University of Minnesota, to be office secretary...

...Pulled Bread PULLED bread is a sort of etherialized zwieback which is found in the markets of many cities and which may be made from freshly baked home-made bread taken from the oven before it is brown, if one wishes to use home-made bread for this purpose...

...In this settlement the residents, who are to be members of the College Equal Suffrage League, will, besides working for the enfranchisement of women, seek to perform the kind of service which has been rendered by the Municipal Voters' League of Chicago...

...I wonder how many realize that every farm neighborhood in the State of Wisconsin could have the privilege of these travelling libraries for the asking if a central place and someone to care for them were provided...

...There are, to be sure, many important international problems to be solved but there are others than women who are unprepared to tackle them...

...That Mrs...

...It is not a city at all, nor a town, nor even a village...

...I kept thinking of the influence on a woman's life of continuous helpfulness to others and of unconscious service...

...The dues in this organization are thirty cents a year and the plates at its banquet cost fifteen cents each...

...CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE, President of the Michigan Federation of Womens' Clubs, discussed "Municipal Housekeeping" so earnestly and so convincingly that she made us all feel that we must get down on our knees and scrub until things were thoroughly cleaned up before we could rest the least bit...

...One room of it is used for a traveling library and Miss Connor gives her services to the distribution of books in her neighborhood in that spirit which Miss Hunt so well described as prevailing in the Cleveland library—the spirit of "continuous helpful contact of personality with personality...

...Potter sees the suffrage movement in its widest relations and bearings is indicated by the fact that she has not only been connected with the general association and the College movement but was instrumental in forming at Minneapolis a Workers' Suffrage League whose members are self-supporting women, most of them being wage-earners...

...Municipal politics when it concerns itself, as it should, with the comfort and well-being of the people is a school of citizenship for all inexperienced voters, for young people and for foreigners as well as for women...

...It was originally a food for dyspeptics but has been accepted by the well who wish to keep well...

...Cook in very slow oven until it is crisp throughout and a golden brown in color...