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 Humor in the...
...The errors of the schoolroom, in respect alike to intellectual work and to conduct, may often be best corrected if the teacher will take a humorous rather than a tragical view of them...
...It is for pure food, simple but artistic house furnishings, and is in touch with the progress of women...
...Fortunately for the housekeeper, all the improvements in fixtures of late have been in the direction of simplicity...
...The housekeeper's daily responsibility, therefore, may be said to lie with that part of the plumbing that is on the house side of the traps—with the fixtures themselves, with the short pipes that lead from them to the traps and with the overflow pipes...
...The two parts of the ordinary wash bowl or tub that have as yet not been simplified so far as they ought to be are the plug and the overflow...
...The society of which she is president was founded by her in 1903 and has grown so rapidly that during the present year it has raised $250,000 for the cause...
...It expresses real interest in the subject, and the writer's dh-ctiens for a home-made fly killer leave no exevse for not having a number about the house if they cannot be bought...
...In the wash bowl it can be easily flushed with hot water, but in the tub the amount of hot water is seldom sufficient to reach so far...
...This is contained in the network of pipes that extends from wash-bowls, tubs ana other plumbing fixtures to the sewer...
...Teachers ought to cultivate the habit of taking a cheerful view of many experiences which otherwise would be irritating...
...If the plumbing has been properly installed, this air is in constant contact with outside air for the soil pipe into which the waste pipes run always extends up above the roof of the horse and is open on the upper end...
...The California Board of Health has a car fitted up for a traveling exhibit...
...We very much appreciate the following communication...
...S. G. Howe...
...Detroit, Mich...
...Humor releases nervous tension, brings into action the better feelings, and causes one to take a more joyous view of things...
...Pankhurst is to make a five weeks' lecturing tour in America for the purpose of raising funds to be used in promoting suffrage work in her own country, but the benefits of her trip will probably fall more on this country than on England...
...A Home-made Fly Killer AT THIS time of year flies creep into the house and a few are likely to live persistently through the winter...
...Mrs...
...But though it is not thought to be the direct source of infectious diseases it does prepare the way for them by affecting the general health unfavorably...
...Gasolene is just as good for cleaning purposes, but is more dangerous to handle...
...A big exhibition like this would be out of the question in a small town but its spirit of teachableness and progressiveness is worthy of emulation everywhere...
...In addition the provisions of the city ordinances, so far as they relate to health, are graphically set forth...
...This covers every interest of the city—health, recreation, street-cleaning, etc...
...So Good Housekeeping appeals to me as one of the best of its kind...
...In another and probably the best kind of fixture, a simple metal cylinder takes the place of the plug and also of the overflow...
...A hot solution of washing soda can then be put into the pipe by means of a small funnel and left long enough to cleanse it thoroughly...
...The materials most likely to accumulate in the crevices of tubs and wash bowls are soap and scum...
...In either fixture the overflow pipe may be filled providing a rag is temporarily substituted for the plug...
...If pressed down tightly this closes the bottom of the overflow...
...These always contain substances that have been washed from the skin and for this reason, decomposition and bad odors are inevitable unless great care is exercised...
...In her early life Mrs...
...Sewer air is separated from the air of the house by means of traps that are located under all the fixtures and which are always full of water if the plumbing is in good order...
...The belief that it contains the germs of specific diseases, typhoid fever and diptheria, for example, has been abandoned, for careful experiments have shown that sewer air is even freer from bacteria than ordinary air...
...The son, Henry, is studying agriculture...
...If the expense must be cut down, it should be done by lessening the number of fixtures or by planning the house so that the fixtures all come close together...
...They are designed for the use of individuals and of clubs...
...Sewer air, which is a general term for the air in waste-pipes and drains as well as that in the sewers themselves, is even more effectually cut off from the sunlight and even more likely to be contaminated by unhealthful gases than soil air is...
...Philip Snowden's did to remove the popular prejudice against militant English suffragists and to correct the impressions made upon the American public by sensational newspaper reports...
...Pankhurst is said to have done...
...It is an important part of the work of extermination...
...There is nothing to prevent pieces of soap or other solids from floating over into it, but they cannot get beyond the bowl itself and can be easily extracted...
...This lessens the amount of work and material needed...
...And if made as shown in drawing will last a long time...
...Richards in a recent lecture suggested that store-windows might often be used for the purpose...
...Use the cloth so the selvage edge comes at top...
...Perforations near the top make it serve at the same time as an overflow...
...the wider support of the special handle, however, gives a more lasting element...
...A spirit of true comraderie—it can not be assumed—should prevail in every phase of life with children...
...For cleaning tubs, bowls and sinks nothing is better than kerosene, for this takes off both grease and scum and with them goes the dirt which they always contain...
...I do not know of any other means of extermination that is more efficient, or that has less objectionable associations...
...BESIDES the air in the ground, there is another lot of air which must be prevented from mingling with the air of our houses...
...The killer consists of a piece of wire cloth about 8 by 16 inches in size, and a handle of any desired length...
...Compare, for example, the modern one-piece enamelled wash bowl with the old wooden-topped kind and think how the possible places for the accumulation of dirt have been reduced in number...
...There should be a good plumbing inspector in every community...
...All this depends on the workmanship, and the last place to economize is in the selection of a plumber...
...She has in the course of her work been arrested four times and has served three terms in prison...
...With proper ventilation should go absolutely tight joints...
...Pankhurst deprecates the use of force and became a militant suffragist only after seeing the futility of ordinary forms of agitation in England...
...The University of Liverpool has a Museum of Hygiene in which there is displayed a model of a properly drained and plumbed house...
...It would be difficult for any fair-minded person to think of the woman whose picture we give on this page as biting or scratching the faces of policemen as Mrs...
...It has all the features supposed to appeal especially to women, household recipes, fashion illustrations, short stories...
...Miss Hunt and I both like its standards...
...Emmeline Pankhurst, President of the Women's Social and Political Union of England, was the signal for increased activity among all those who are interested in securing the ballot for women...
...Much can be accomplished by public supervision...
...It is economy in the end to pick out a man who has an assured reputation...
...It is a false attitude, and no good comes of it...
...It has the largest headquarters of any political organization in England...
...whereas if he is utterly without humor, it may take him days to change the unhappy set of his nervous system...
...Kill every one...
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...The former is usually attached to a chain which offers hundreds of places for the collection of dirt and the latter is usually a blind passageway into which neither eye nor hand can penetrate...
...Miss Sylvia is an artist and designs banners for the suffrage processions and decorations for the meetings...
...Then, in the stress and strain of modern life, children need relief which really good humor always yields...
...These furnish the start for next year...
...She is at present under indictment and may on her return from this country go to prison for the fourth time...
...They are what I would personally recommend for the family table...
...This is so made that it will fit closely into the hole in the bottom of the tub or basin and close it tightly when this is desired...
...One of the best means of arousing interest in this and other matters affecting public welfare is exhibitions...
...Oftentimes the failure to keep these parts clean is the cause of odors for which the plumber is blamed...
...In one of the newer kinds of bowls the overflow is a generous-sized passageway enamelled throughout...
...Miss Christabel studied law and though not allowed to practice in England, has made good use of her legal training in the defense of members of the suffrage societies who have been arrested...
...By having the selvage edge of the cloth at top, and folding in the side edges one can strike on any substance without injury to either the implement or the surface struck...
...There is the same need of this happy philosophy in the home as in the school...
...Emmeline Pankhurst THE arrival in this country on October 21 of Mrs...
...The latter serves as a goal which Boston is to strive to reach by 1915 or sooner...
...The chain can be thrown away and should be unless it is to be scrubbed every day, but the overflow pipe must stay...
...The purpose is to show the very best that Boston is doing in a given line and side by side with it something still better if possible that is being done elsewhere...
...A few convenient killers in convenient places are excellent reminders that no flies should be allowed to escape through carelessness...
...WOMEN OF THE HOUR Mrs...
...A few minutes' use of this fly killer in the morning, will rid a house of the flies that have managed to get in when windows or doors were momentarily opened...
...If it is not convenient to make the special handle, saw off an old broom handle and use that...
...Pankhurst was a member of the Women's Committee for pushing the Married Women's Property Bill which was drawn by her husband, Dr...
...Miss Adela helps the cause by means of writing...
...Conflict is often rendered more intense by solemn, sedate, angry attitudes in the teacher...
...Even serious matters are sometimes better met if not approached too seriously One who is gifted with ready wit need never "scold...
...Nothing will restore equilibrium in over-tense nerves so quickly as humor.—Professor M. V. O'Shea, in the Wisconsin Journal of Education...
...This is due probably to the fact that it comes through a long damp passage and solid particles are taken out of it...
...At a later time she was for five years a member of the Board of Poor Law Guardians in Manchester...
...Fold in a narrow seam on each side indicated by dark lines and a double one at end that is inserted into saw slit in handle, then fasten cloth in place with a couple of tacks...
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...Happiness and Health" is a most helpful leature...
...In all this nothing has been said of the air that lies beyond the traps...
...Pankhurst, and has since become a law...
...Dear Mrs...
...The wire cloth can be secured in any hardware store, generally in waste pieces, that can be had at small cost, there is no air impact in the blow struck with this killer, and you will catch your fly almost every strike...
...It is to be expected that her presence will do as much as Mrs...
...Note:—Outlines of the lessons in Domestic Science, of which this is the sixth, and a list of reference books can be obtained without cost by addressing The Home and Education Department, La Follette's Weekly, Madison, Wis...
...Parents as well as teachers are apt to be over anxious, fearful of not making the right impression on children, and often assume a solemnity they do not really feel...
...But the best of this device is that it can be taken off and scrubbed—boiled if necessary...
...References: Household Hygiene, pp...
...La Follette: Having rend with interest the articles in your department on the Fly pest, I have presumed to send you a drawing and brief description of a fly killer that is cheaply and easily made by any one who can use a penknife and saw...
...Upon the death of her husband in 1899 she was appointed Registrar of Births and Deaths but left the position to engage in business for the purpose of earning money with which to educate her four children...
...Ray Stannard Baker, Ida M. Tarbell, and William Allen White, who are on the staff, are always on the right side of things, and the "Interpreter's House" furnishes a wise, keen, philosophical, editorial outlook...
...In its enlarged form, the American has a wide range of attractive reading...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Humor in the School Room A TEACHER with a sense of humor can solve many difficult problems in discipline where a teacher without it would fail altogether...
...In planning such an exhibition we would suggest that the general scheme of the 1915 Exhibition in Boston be kept in mind...
...Practical Hygiene, pp...
...Special Magazine Offer IT PLEASED me that our Business Manager chose the American and Good Housekeeping for his "special offer" tin connection with our Magazine...
...Points on Plumbing A Reading Course in Domestic Science.—Lesson VI...
...These children, a son and three daughters, have all received university educations and are as enthusiastically interested in the suffrage movement as their mother...
...See illustration...
Vol. 1 • November 1909 • No. 45
