HOME AND EDUCATION

...The Little Reading Club MRS...

...The price of the book is fifty cents...

...we need action...

...Humanizing Industry" ALEAFLET called "Some of the Happy Features of the Women's Trade Union League" has just been issued by the Chicago branch of this organization...

...That is a large statement, and a surprising one...

...The International Council meets once in five years, and in the course of twenty years after full deliberation, have agreed with practical unanimity to support four movements: peace and arbitration...

...Dorr states that nearly every civilized country in the world has a Council of Women to which all the different associations, with their widely diversified purposes, report...

...Only, instead of beginning to read Browning or some ancient history, let us start with the world today...

...woman's suffrage...

...Mental Inertia and the Church Bell THE famous first law of motion from which we learn that "When a body is set in motion by a given force it will move with uniform velocity in a straight line unless acted upon by some other force," was probably suggested to Newton by the movements of the human mind, which shows a remarkable tendency to go forward without swerving from side to side when it once gets started on a line of thought...

...But I doubt if permanent co-operation could be secured for these specific purposes among women unaccustomed to assume responsibility outside the home...

...The thought thus started went on and on—on past the time of the invention of cheap clocks and dollar watches, on past the time of the advent of the telephone girl, always ready to answer cheerfully the question, "What time is it, Central...

...Starting with $125 thirteen years ago, working against opposition, indifference, ridicule, but finally converting the city itself, so that this year, Pittsburg voted $50,000.00, and the Board of Education $10,000 for vacation schools...

...There is no body of people in the country better able to do it and there is no better work for an organization to do...

...The wonderful success of the joint effort of the Women's Clubs of Pittsburg and Allegheny is demonstrated with figures...

...We need them in the dietary and we ought to have them...

...The national federation, state federation and individual clubs have committees on Child Labor, Pure Food, Public Health, Education and Household Economics...

...And now I want to suggest further that each member of the little reading circle make it a point to read some one of the standard magazines, and in their meetings, review some important article of common interest...

...WE TAKE a look at the Women's Club of Dallas, Texas...

...OH, little flower whose power for good Has triumphed over wind and flood...

...Better rural schools, better country roads, better entertainment, laundries and bakeries in connection with creameries are some of the most obvious objects of country women's co-operative effort...

...Dorr regards the organized world effort of women for social advancement as a part of the great democratic movement that is sweeping over the earth...

...THIRD...

...We do not need any more knowledge...

...all the people in the community must be careful...

...There is need of organization in farming communities...

...It tells about the hockey team that has been formed, about Saturday afternoon outings, folk dances, and the League's library, chorus and social club room...

...Suffrage, considered internationally, is not so much a question of woman's suffrage as of universal suffrage...

...there are apparently a few drops in the veins of all of us...

...They in turn report to the International Council, which represents 8,000,000 of the world's most thoughtful, intelligent, and altruistic women...

...Forward the thought still goes with uniform velocity in a straight line...

...Several readers have asked how to obtain "Abraham Lincoln, The Greatest American" which was noticed on this page in the issue of July 10...

...A Call to Action HERE is a combination of conditions and facts for the thoughtful consideration of all women who work through organizations...

...Peterkin blood seems to be widely distributed...

...Have two upright standards made over which one or more poles can be laid...

...Such a rack often makes it possible to use a large upstairs hall for a dressing room, instead of opening the bedrooms for the purpose...

...No one need fear to join it...

...Her address is McKinley Place, Monroe, Wisconsin...

...In this book, the "other force" which can occasionally give a new direction to a line of thought is called "The Lady from Philadelphia...

...The women of Birmingham, Alabama, formed clubs in the different city blocks, and the Mayor has given over to them supervision of the street cleaning and the disposal of waste and garbage...

...organizing for a crusade against the death-carrying mosquito—dividing the city into districts, securing co-operation of teachers and school children, bringing oil and oil-cans, and setting forth to oil the pools of standing water in every quarter of the town, making sanitation a part of the school program, renewing the agitation and enlisting the children every year in the work of mosquito destruction...

...When the Peterkins received a Christmas tree too tall for the parlor they decided to raise a portion of the ceiling to make room for it...

...the time is now approaching for the meetings of the state and district federations of women's clubs...

...on past the time when the sound of the bells instead of being muffled sweetly by distance and by wooded hills was re-echoed in discordant tones from brick walls and stone pavements, and fell harshly on nerve-racked city ears...

...We see a typical Middle Western neglected town, with its ugly, marcon-colored railway station on a street of bare ash-strewn ground, with its high school in the middle of a treeless, grassless, windswept block, with its "future" park serving as a convenient rubbish dump, transformed by the Women's Club of Lake City, Minnesota, into a municipality with an attractive railroad station, changed by the hand of the...

...From this decision their minds were going straight on to a consideration of the best method of overcoming the difficulties thus created in the room above, when the Lady from Philadelphia turned the current of their thoughts by suggesting that they cut a piece off the bottom of the tree...

...Sometimes these foods are within stores or are covered with mosquito netting, but these precautions are in vain, for the flies are too many to be kept out in these ways...

...more remarkable is the origin of the movement in the little women's club, the study circles and literary clubs, which have been familiar objects for the last twenty-five years...

...Anna Garlin Spencer's warning as to the danger of over-absorption of women's organizations in purely practical subjects...

...Booker Washington wants pictures for the school buildings and dormitories of Tuskegee Institute and, because the instruction in the Institute is so practical, he is able to say that all pictures received can be framed in the shop connected with the school...

...The President of the International Council is an English Peeress, but one of the Vice-Presidents is the wife of a German music teacher, and one of the secretaries is a self-supporting woman...

...She says individual women's clubs may be exclusive, but in the United States, the General Federation is made up democratically of women of wealth, of social power, professional women, working girls and women of average life...

...Buy a number of clothes hangers...

...This league is striving to preserve the historic places and the great trees of California, and to secure for public recreation some portion of the miles of ocean-beach wholly monopolized for railroad and other commercial purposes...

...Flies can be Exterminated SECOND...

...It does little good for one person to be careful...

...Centuries ago when houses were widely scattered and time-pieces were expensive luxuries, there occurred to us the thought that a bell would be a good means of gathering people together at a given time for worship...

...By this means at least ten coats can be hung upon one foot of pole...

...Perhaps, if we are patient, there will in time come out of Philadelphia a lady who will give to this thought a new direction by suggesting that church bells within the limits of cities and towns are no longer either necessary or desirable...

...Would that I might have thy power To triumph over wind and shower...

...This will stimulate an interest in reading the daily papers, and furnish subjects of conversation among men and women...

...We do not need to be reminded of the dirty places from which the flies come...

...The author, Miss Janet Jennings, has reserved all rights...

...DORR'S somewhat severe attitude toward the study of Browning and the purely cultural work of Women's Clubs reminds me of Mrs...

...The work of the Out Door League of San Francisco arouses our enthusiasm...

...It is quite enough to look a short way into the street, to see manure and to know that the flies go back and forth between it and the fruits and vegetables...

...this is the time of year when fresh fruits and vegetables are on the market in greatest abundance...

...IWALKED upon the hill one day To rocky ledges far away And there from out the warming ground A wind-blown fur-cloaked flower found...

...Every one of them might organize a campaign against flies...

...Flies on our Fresh Fruits and Vegetables FIRST...

...If women in the country begin as women in the city began—for their own personal improvement, they will prepare for the work ahead...

...I wonder if there would not be a larger ratio if the movement reached women living in the country as it does those living in cities and towns...

...The best treatise on this characteristic of the mind, which is sometimes known as mental inertia, is a book which was written many years ago, called "The Peterkins...

...The life in it is simple and wholesome and is spent in close contact with Nature...

...The time is past when we needed to be told of the dangers of allowing flies to pass from filthy places to the food we eat...

...More than a million and a half of women are thus affiliated in the United States...

...flies can be exterminated if garbage and manure are removed frequently and carefully and are cared for as they should be between the times of removal...

...We walk the streets and we see them exposed for sale, even in the good markets, covered with flies...

...Note.—These verses to the pasque flower, the first blossom to push its way up through the earth in the spring, were written by a member of the class in Rhetoric at the Hillside Home School of Wisconsin...

...THE better-informed reading club has been a power for good...

...It indicates that when the eight-hour day comes, the members of this League will find no difficulty in using their leisure profitably and joyfully...

...Dorr's brilliant review from which we have so largely quoted with this commentary: "8,000,000 women have already achieved a record of material accomplishment, have done so much of all they planned to do, that it is humanly certain that they will do all—and yet the world at large remains in ignorance of the great change which the historian of the future will, without doubt, consider one of the most important movements of twentieth century civilization...

...Cannot we get ready this fall for a vigorous campaign next sumumer...

...TO THE PASQUE FLOWER By Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr...

...We reproduce the verses partly because of their unusual literary merit and partly because they seem to breathe the spirit of sincerity and thoughtfulness, which pervades the school...

...landscape gardener, with a high school in a shaded square, with a park that has turf and flowers and trees, and, along with these improvements, we witness an awakened civic pride, that brings paved streets, cement sidewalks, public playgrounds, and residence streets that look like parkways...

...Dorr, not as illustrations of local achievement, but as evidence of the spirit and general trend of the Club Movement throughout the United States...

...The presentation of the thought of another is an excellent way to overcome diffidence, acquire self-possession, and freedom in expressing one's own thought, simply and directly—and this has been one of the greatest helps of club work for women...

...ITS sturdy stalk upheld a cup Whose azure-tinted face turned up Drank in the vigor of the light And gave it back in beauty bright...

...It would appear that one woman in ten in the United States belongs to a club...

...removing legal disabilities of women...

...I am inclined to believe—although I have no knowledge on which to base the conclusion—that with all their awakened enthusiasm for public work the woman's clubs of the country could not continue to grow or even to hold their own, if they did not also have a social and educational basis...

...Take our thought on the subject of church bells for example...

...HINTS TO HOME-MAKERS A rack for holding the wraps of guests at parties and receptions can be made at small expense...

...These and many other examples are cited by Mrs...

...This school is conducted, as strangers might say, by Miss Ellen and Miss Jane Lloyd-Jones, or "mothered," as members of the school family, past or present, would probably say, by "Aunt Nell" and "Aunt Jennie...

...The editor of Hampton's prefaces Mrs...

...THE organization of women does not end with the National Federation...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT "Eight Million Women" RHETA CHILDE DORR in Hampton's Magazine for Au-gust, under the title of "What Eight Million Women Want," first gives us a picture of the activities, not of 8,000,000, but of 800,000 good average women (that is, good citizens, good wives, good mothers) belonging to the General Federation of Women's Clubs in the United States, working for the betterment of the town, the school and the home...

...When the piano-mover left the piano with the key-board facing a window instead of the middle of the room, they decided to put the piano stool on the porch outside the window and were trying to decide how to keep the pianist warm in the wintertime, when the Lady from Philadelphia gave a new direction to their thoughts by suggesting that they turn the piano around...

...This saves express and makes it possible for some of us to help who would otherwise be unable...

...They have authority to dismiss incompetent workers...

...Why Don't Women's Clubs Do It...

...The call is for united action...

...It can be made also in such form that it can be packed away in small compass when not in use...

...I suggested last week that a discussion of the important events of the week should occupy a place on the program...

...social purity...