HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
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 Wisconsin...
...Only when these things are done will the school do the work it should do...
...Everyone seemed alive to the need of playgrounds...
...But what is done with this great expanse of window space in the summer...
...It is not the presence of the curtains I object to...
...If we do not carry it all home with us, if just the thought that we must not stand still in our work, that we must grow, stays with us, much has been gained...
...The experiment reported was continued forty-eight weeks...
...He said stories of heroes foster in a child right ideals...
...Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost," was the strong theme chosen by Mr...
...Go to the building lot you have selected and spend a day or days there...
...If the day is bright her broom will be dry—she would whisk away so merrily at some floor that there would be clouds of dust and they would work far more havoc than her clouds across the sky...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Wisconsin State Teachers' Convention By EMMA MARIE ROEMER Waukesha High School FULLY 5,000 teachers met at Milwaukee to attend the 57th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association...
...I often think we teachers never fully understand our responsibility in shaping the lives of boys and girls...
...It must be saved if possible...
...these horses were used for general farm and team work on the station farm...
...Neither...
...The Convention had something for everyone, and now it behooves us, the teachers of Wisconsin, to apply the help we received for our work...
...and all this, said he, needs no fortune, no hard labor, and yet what an influence it has upon children...
...If punishment must be given let it be given only by him who is free of the vice which he punishes...
...Hutton of Waukesha spoke of "Punishments...
...But do not sail too far away on your broom in the sky, for we shall want to look at you and know you are keeping the clouds cleaned up there in the bright sunlight and breathing in the fresh air, and we shall try here in our dust cap and apron to sweep with the soft broom, dust with the dampened cloth and try in spite of the walls of the houses to let in the sunlight and fresh air to our homes here below...
...They must be set apart in our large cities where the children and the parents also will find recreation and amusement away from the places which are the source and cause of disease and crime...
...If it is proven that corn is just as good as oats for horses, why should it not receive higher rank as a food for folks...
...or is it covered by dust-collecting curtains...
...Its windows which are many and large are in the winter full of plants...
...The talk on the "Educator's Responsibility for our Vital Statistics," given by Dr...
...The parents must be made to see that education will mean material advantage to their children...
...Where the conditions demand that a child must leave school, evening schools should be established...
...Wherever the parents do not understand the value of an education, there it becomes the duty of the teacher to educate the parents...
...The Broomstick By FRANCES STERN Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...This does not mean occasional trips to the country only...
...A paper that was of great interest to the teachers, was on the "Proposed State Pension Law," given by Miss Herfurth of Madison...
...I say this with full appreciation of the fact that curtains are often necessary and sometimes beautiful...
...If people worked together more instead of each person working for himself and his own interests, the people on one square might make a park out of the space in the middle of the block which would offer so many good views that curtain dealers would begin to fear for the future of their business...
...Discover every good view there is and get it into the house at any cost...
...Did the little woman on ber broomstick realize that the wise men of this day would appsal to her and her followers to keep the home clean to save humanity from a great plague...
...The decoration of a house should begin before the plan is made...
...Is there a glimpse of sky here...
...Perhaps the view of your back yard is the only picture your neighbor has to hang on his walls...
...Corn as Food "THERE is a widespread belief among horse own-ers that no grain is equal to oats as an efficient feed for horses and that no matter how high the price of oats, no other grain can be used as a substitute for them...
...Saturday morning was devoted to a fierce debate on fees...
...Teach the child good principles, give him the right which is the dearest right of every child, namely, to have some one to make him obey...
...President Kelley, in his opening address, emphasized two thoughts: that a closer bond should exist between parent and teacher...
...What a wonderful work teachers in the country are doing and how little it is recognized— and what a wonderful influence they can have upon the life in the country...
...He advised that children not well endowed by nature be taught separately and given special help, so that they may not be discouraged and leave school...
...Perhaps a soft curtain loosely hung by rings from a pole will make it possible to control the light and save part of the view...
...Carroll G. Pearse, Superintendent of Milwaukee schools...
...it is the cutting off of the greater beauties...
...Very wisely, too, they all urge stories of daring deeds and heroic lives which stimulate the imagination and create high ideals...
...The people of the United States push forward in everything but only too often lose sight of the finer traits and feelings, and of character forming...
...If so, such a curtain is better...
...They are so supported on strings that they grow straight up, leaving an air space between them and the house...
...It was followed by a witty address by Mr...
...one was fed on oats and the other on corn...
...How can the light be best regulated without shutting out the view...
...Outside, and about a foot from the house, vines are planted...
...Note:—Outlines of the lessons in Domestic Science and a list of reference books can be obtained without cost by addressing The Home and Education Department, La Follette's Weekly, Madison, Wis...
...With us the problem of house decoration should be studied with every window uncovered from top to bottom...
...No, little old lady, if you would use that kind of a broom on a rug, for remember we are living in the 20th century where we should have no carpets (oh, yes, I know we do and we have dust and diseases, too) you must dampen your broom or dampen the rug with wet papers or wet sawdust, or better use a twentieth century carpet sweeper, and over the surfaces that are hard you must use a soft broom, and then if some friend or maiden wants to dust afterwards, the dust cloth must be damp to catch all the particles of dust that can be drowned and sent down into the pipe when they are washed out, not shaken out...
...Richards for she does and says so many good things that she is likely to be referred to very often...
...With this in view, three teams of grade Percheron geldings were taken...
...Ah, yes, you are a creature of air and sunlight...
...He said he would rather discuss how to prevent crime, which makes punishment necessary...
...But what has this to do with "Learning of Nature...
...Some of my readers may think the above from Farmer's Bulletin 374, of the United States Department of Agriculture, does not just belong to my page, but it interested me very much, both from the agricultural and the housekeeper's standpoint...
...But the scientists must sweep in a scientific way, and if the old lady with the broom is going to come down from the skies, she must use that broom according to the rule of the wise men...
...I know because I have read to my children Ben Lindsey's story of "The Beast and the Jungle,"—now appearing in Everybody's...
...But wherever there is a piece of cloth where there might be a beautiful glimpse of the out-of-doors, I feel like tearing it off...
...Ignorance is the cause of the downfall of all the states," he said...
...The horses in each team were about the same age...
...The school buildings must be well designed, well heated and well lighted, so that the bodily health of children will not suffer...
...Then have a shade...
...I HOPE that the readers of The Home and Education Department of La Follette's are not tired of hearing about Mrs...
...They are designed for the use of individuals and of clubs...
...Make the schoolhouse a meeting place for everything of value to the citizens was the plea, and I say, the school building in the city should likewise be open to all and everything that is of public interest...
...He learned to create beauty by living close to Nature and we must learn to appreciate beauty in the same way...
...it means reform in our daily lives and in our ideals of decoration...
...Pearse spoke of the continuation schools abroad, where all kinds of branches are taught...
...But some of us never have a chance to build...
...On other sides of the house and in places where there is not such an expanse of glass the windows are left free to admit the beauties of more distant views—beauties of sky and clouds and trees...
...And while you are doing it, do not forget the scriptural injunction to do to others as you would that they should do to you...
...I love the sky and the trees so much myself that when I enter a house I find myself noting the places where views of natural beauty have been shut out and I usually find a great many...
...References: La Follette's Weekly, Home and Education Department, January 23, March 13, May 29...
...Richards' house there is a large south room that was made years ago out of two rooms...
...The Playground Movement" next came up for discussion...
...Does the window admit too much sun at times...
...If it can be best admitted through a long window, make your plan accordingly...
...nor was it noticed that there was any difference in spirit or endurance between the mates of each team...
...I can see you shake your pointed, peaked hat and say, "Why I rise through a whirlwind of dust sometimes...
...In this connection Mr...
...After a discussion lasting almost two hours, nothing was accomplished, the fees stand as before,—men $1.00, women 50 cents...
...The people must be intelligent...
...only that those who do not know her will wonder why she is spoken of and quoted so often...
...I am not afraid that those who know her will tire...
...Out in the blessed rays of the sun these germs do not live to molest people, but shut up in the house they live and are glad to be stirred up and to fly about and attack the human being...
...By a shade...
...S. Y. Gillan, who asked for a square deal for the publishers...
...Somebody, sometime, let the beauty of nature sink deep into his soul and then he made those designs...
...Richards, though a chemist by profession and actively engaged in teaching, has done more for the Home Economics movement in her spare moments than other people have done with all their time to devote to it...
...It is not "Siegfried" nor "Sir Galahad" nor "Knights of the Round Table" but it is a story of a hero as great as any of these, fighting fiercer battles against greater odds and tried by more terrible ordeals yet keeping his soul free, his heart pure and never yielding...
...Meanwhile in another part of the building Professor Sharp of the University of Wisconsin discussed the question "What Can the School Do in the Matter of giving Training in Morals...
...They may have been brought up under different surroundings, different conditions, their only desire after they come to this country may be to make money and they take their boys and girls out of school to help make money...
...In Mrs...
...And then teachers were told something all of us should take to heart, that everyone should state the truth and nothing bat the truth: "little white lies" are the beginning of the more serious faults...
...Judge Sadler of Chicago spoke of the aid of teachers in stopping crime...
...If it can be admitted only through a high window, that is a reason for putting a window up high...
...Helen C. Putnam had much valuable thought...
...The noble work to which he has consecrated his life appeals to children and impresses them with ideals and convictions beyond the power of any ancient legend...
...Learning of Nature (A Reading Course in Domestic Science.—Lesson vii...
...What are the circumstances...
...We may safely infer that breakfast foods of corn are as nourishing as oat meal, and if "Johnny cake" and corn pone and corn muffins, which are so appetizing, are also of high sustaining power, the use of corn, when it is cheap, as a food for men as well as for horses should be encouraged...
...The plan was to feed as much ear corn by weight as oats...
...Likewise the child that is improperly fed or clothed should be especially looked after...
...All the horses received as much mixed clover and ear corn as they could eat...
...In order to test the accuracy of this belief, B. E. Carmichael, of the Ohio Station, began in the spring of 1907 an extensive series of experiments to test the relative value and efficiency of oats and corn as a grain ration for work horses...
...By means of lantern slides he showed what could be done to a plain or ugly building with trees, vines and flowers which are best suited for decoration...
...Is it left bare...
...Questions of ethics should be discussed in the schoolroom, but books on ethics should never be put in the hands of the child...
...we rent...
...Sometimes they are in the living room, sometimes in the hallways, and sometimes on the stairs...
...DID THE old lady who swept the skies with the broom realize that she was to be so important a personage in the 20th century...
...Then our good Mr...
...But strong lectures like the one given Friday evening help to make us realize our power and our duty...
...And now I want to suggest a story of this kind for children's reading...
...Friday morning was devoted mainly to the interests of the country schools and teachers...
...The variations in weight of the corn-fed horses were practically the same as those of the horses receiving oats...
...I never see good decorative forms on textiles, wall papers, rugs, book covers, or elsewhere without thinking how many of them were suggested to the artist by natural forms, by leaves, flowers or trees...
...A clear sweep it is, that the doctors, the nurses, the social workers are making—a sweeping out of the old cobwebs, the old diet—the sweeping away of germs till the world shall be a spotless place with no sign of germ or disease...
...Make sky, clouds, trees, decorate your house...
...If not we can not have a government by the people and for the people, and the schools must reach all the children and give them a proper training...
...And when one looks up from work within the house he sees neither shades nor muslin draperies but a beautiful curtain of green which cuts off the hot sun and lets in air and light...
...In the afternoon I listened to a very interesting talk on "Outdoor Art for the School and Home," by Mr...
...He was the maker, the designer, and he worked for the vast majority of us who are the buyers and users...
...A Hero Story for Children VERY wisely almost every issue of an educational journal or an educational magazine has something to say about good reading for children...
...and that the heart as well as the hand and the head should be trained...
...Orville T. Bright of Chicago...
Vol. 1 • September 1909 • No. 46
