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 Overwork THE...
...On that day, oh how often, have I placed wreaths of that little flower on the graves of my father and my mother...
...Cabinet Day THE editor shortened one of these sketches, and made it a bit absurd...
...Use rounds of toast about four inches in diameter, made out of close-grained bread, toasted quickly so as to be left soft in the middle...
...She greeted everyone cordially, and as the guests moved on through the rooms they found her friends assisting informally, with a gracious word for everyone, and even the servant who opened the door had been told to make certain that no one departed without being asked to the dining room...
...The introduction to the first story is taken from a personal letter to me, but I cannot forbear publishing it.—B...
...She is intelligent, and though quiet, has a magnetism and a presence that is always felt...
...Mothers and teachers must find them helpful...
...ALMOST all people express the tension of the mind in some physical habit...
...The above is a rich sauce as thick as mayonnaise dressing...
...It was upon a lady of great wealth, and so-called "position...
...Bonaparte, Mrs...
...Cover with very thin crisp pieces of bacon, fried or broiled...
...The Vice-president is often present mingling with the guests...
...Now when God named this little flower, so intensely did it gaze at Him that it never heard the name which was given to it...
...Or it may be the chief course...
...It means to me more than a mere flower...
...If a woman clenches her teeth, she should relax the jaw frequently...
...Women are worn out less by what they do than by needless nervous strain in all they do...
...He is cheerful and always ready with a happy remark...
...See our issue for February 13...
...The Fairbanks are most liberal entertainers...
...This amount will serve six people...
...And God looked at it long, and with so much kindness, with so much tenderness, and said, "Forget-me-not," and passed on...
...Cortelyou has lived many years in Washington, and has occupied a number of official positions...
...A club sandwich, you know, is really a full meal, so far as variety is concerned...
...Season with one tablespoonful of lemon juice, one-half teaspoon of salt and a little cayenne...
...C. L. "It is the beautiful little legend about the Forget-me-not, a flower which grows in great abundance along the brooks...
...Perhaps no one noticed it, but it may be worth while to explain that these impressions are a composite of my experience four years ago as the wife of a new senator, and of twenty years before as the wife of a new congressman...
...Her boys are unspoiled grandsons of a President, sturdy and frank...
...Wednesday, cabinet day, has changed most in that time...
...Daniel Manning...
...After the fourth of March there will be mostly a new list of names about which public curiosity and official interest will center, Mrs...
...There is cold sliced chicken for its proteins, bacon and mayonnaise dressing for its fats, toast for its starch, and lettuce and a slice of tomato for its cellulose...
...One often secures a blessed sense of relief by directing the will to the muscles instead of trying to control the nervous state...
...Our grandmothers were healthier than we and without nervous prostration because they were constantly busy, and there was wholesome balance in nervous expenditure and muscular effort that allowed no time for useless waste...
...Add slowly one-third cupful of hot water beating all the time...
...Again we are reminded of the transitory phase of Washington official life...
...Fairbanks' Wednesday receptions are the largest now held in Washington...
...Eggs a la Benedict HERE is a dish for the spring luncheon party...
...Their names in order of rank are now: Mrs...
...THE cabinet ladies are the most conspicuous group socially of the Washington official circle...
...von Meyer, Mrs...
...The water may be increased to one cupful and the butter reduced one-half...
...They give large receptions, large dinners, and many of them, always well arranged, the guests thoughtfully considered...
...Over the bacon on each round lay a poached egg or an egg which has been cooked in the shell in hot water for ten minutes...
...Garfield, Miss Wilson, Mrs...
...The first lesson convinced me of her genius as a teacher of children, and as a story teller...
...Carlisle, the popular wife of the Speaker, made the first call upon the Senators' wives...
...Her attention being directed to it she no longer tries to help the horse by pushing the carriage with her feet, but rides reposefully and permits the horse to do all the work...
...She has time for charities, society and her children...
...There are plenty of callers now, but not the throngs there were then...
...If the knees are drawn, stretch the legs...
...If either suffered, it was the muscles...
...Bacon, Mrs...
...We can't make butter and eggs cheap but we can save time, a commodity which the cook books throw to the winds...
...And He bade them assemble upon a broad meadow, and there He named them the names by which they are known at the present day...
...It was an interesting study to watch her discriminate among her guests...
...Small amounts of very finely chopped olives, pickles, parsley, onions, chives or capers may be added...
...Hollandaise Sauce OVER hot water, preferably in the top part of a double boiler, heat one-half cup of butter just enough to melt it...
...It is liberal without display, well appointed, but comfortable...
...And that is the name by which the flower is known today...
...Straus is an "out door" woman and her radiant face bespeaks health and vitality...
...they have the privilege of entertaining the President at dinner...
...We take most hopeless views of our bad nervous habits...
...As a substitute try the seven-minute eggs cooked in hot water...
...The seven minute egg is rather too soft for this purpose...
...How the Forget-Me-Not Was Named A Story to be Told to Children A FEW years ago, when I was inquiring for a teacher of conversational German for my children, I learned of Miss Emma Roemer, who had recently come from Germany, and was earning her way through the University...
...If the throat feels tense open the mouth wide and yawn...
...Cook over hot water till thick...
...If the Fates had not ordered otherwise, we should have found a still more prominent position for the contrasting picture given in this issue...
...It was my recollection that Mrs...
...If the luncheon is served in courses it should come between the soup and the meat...
...they stand in line next to the wife of the Vice-president at the official White House receptions...
...After working twenty years with boys, I have come to the conclusion that there are no bad boys...
...If the back is held rigid until it aches, gently relax it by letting the weight of the head slowly pull the body over, vertebra by vertebra and come up by energizing in the opposite way,—the head coming up last...
...The bricks are not mysteriously held in fantastic positions but are laid one upon another as they almost invite themselves to be treated...
...The receipt for Hollandaise sauce is given below...
...I was in Washington quite a while before I learned that I must call on the daughter of the Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Oh, how bitterly it wept when it realized that it had not heard the name the good Lord had given it...
...The first cabinet call I made long ago will always stay with me...
...The wholesome natural use of the nerves was as inherent to the work as the inherent natural use of the muscles...
...Special attention is called to it because it is a labor- and dish-saving modification of the usual cook book receipt...
...Misdirected nervous force is the secret of much of the overwork and the frequent breakdowns of the nervous system...
...Straus, representing the Departments of State, Treasury, War, Justice, Postoffice, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor...
...Some women who receive many people, get into the habit of shaking hands with one guest, even gently pulling her along, while looking for the next...
...Through the center of this meadow flowed a clear brook on the bank of which grew a tiny little flower, the petals of which showed God's exquisite workmanship...
...Mrs...
...Garfield is a fine, noble type of woman, both in personal appearance and in character...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Overwork THE spirit of overwork is characteristic of American women...
...nerves were unknown...
...Miss Cannon, like her father, is a good mixer...
...If she drums with her fingers she should shake the hands vigorously to make them reposeful...
...The Forget-Me-Not WHEN God had made the earth and all the beautiful things therein, He gave the flowers names...
...Fortunately, the next call was on Mrs...
...Wright, Mrs...
...Over the egg pour Hollandaise sauce...
...She would shower attentions upon certain ones who came, oblivious of a long line waiting, most of whom received a very distant greeting as they passed, that made the magnificent house seem chilly and the outdoor sunshine most welcome...
...It may be described as a hot club sandwich...
...She has always been "the same...
...This exercise may be taken either sitting or standing...
...I realize there is much in personal magnetism, but I am sure her insight and her feeling for children have made the beautiful folk lore stories quite her own...
...It is a good kind of American hospitality...
...Remove from the hot water...
...She is a well-proportioned, fine looking woman, always becomingly and appropriately gowned...
...Newberry, Mrs...
...There is less of the open house feature...
...This consistency is desirable for Eggs a la Benedict, because we want the sauce to keep its place on top of the eggs...
...The fire-place here shown is accessible, is off the main line of travel, and is the worthy center of a symmetrical architectural scheme...
...I know a woman who was not able to ride even a short distance without serious fatigue, who now enjoys long drives of twenty or thirty miles...
...Serve with watercress...
...It is inclusive, not exclusive...
...Cortelyou, Mrs...
...But for many purposes, for serving on fish for example, a much thinner and less rich sauce may be used...
...A Good Design for a Fireplace FOR purposes of criticism we gave in our issue of January 23, a prominent position to a picture of an unbeautiful fire-place...
...But have not men also quarreled over matters of precedence...
...In Leipzig the day set aside for the memory of the dead is the 21st of June...
...She is, for the first time, writing some of them, just as she tells them, for the magazine...
...They run into the house after school just like other boys, and interrupt the receiving line to ask their mother for a quarter to buy street car tickets to go to the Navy Yard...
...These rigid social rules sometimes change...
...Their yolks are firm and they may be slipped out of the shell on to slices of toast with almost no waste...
...To find one who is not hurried, who meets her obligations easily, who has real leisure, is as rare and restful as finding a cool spot on an insufferably hot day...
...This view illustrates what was said upon the subject of the fire-place itself and also upon the subject of its proper location...
...Hollandaise sauce is good but not cheap...
...She has a very large circle of personal friends, and is liked by everyone...
...Indeed, thorough stretching of the whole body is a most excellent general habit for nervous people...
...Each guest, as she enters, receives that instant of attention which the true hostess knows how to give, without loss of time...
...There are stories of trouble among women before this rule was established...
...She is deservedly popular, and is of course, accustomed to Washington life from childhood...
...It is democratic in that it is extended to a large number of people...
...I have never known anyone who combined so perfectly the gift of instructing with charm...
...IT is the accepted custom for the cabinet ladies to make the first calls on the wives of the senators...
...Here too "the teaching of the material" has been heeded...
...The next morning when he passed through the meadow, he stopped to inquire, and the flower told its sad tale...
...Why should not weak nerves be trained and disciplined as well as weak muscles...
...Today the mention of nerves means perverted nerves...
...Add yolks of four eggs, beating with a wire whisk till smooth...
...Eggs a la Benedict have eggs for their proteins, bacon and Hollandaise sauce for their fats, toast for their starch and water-cress, the prettiest food that grows, for their cellulose...
...There are plenty of boys who are in danger of becoming bad men, but there are no bad boys.—Bert Hall, Chief Truant Officer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...She rides horseback, either side or cross saddle, a polo pony or a thoroughbred...
...Their comings and goings are noticed in the press...
...The sense of overwork is nervous, not muscular, for it is more common to those who have no physical labor to perform, than to those whose muscular strength is overtaxed...
...When the Lord had painted the flowers, this little one had looked at Him with so much faith, and so much love, that He colored it blue, like the Heavens above, and the center He made yellow like the Sun...
...Seasonable Dishes Made With Eggs Eggs on Toast A POACHED egg bears much the same relation to a boiled egg that a boiled potato does to a baked potato...
...It is good but not so good as it would have been if it had not lost some of its flavor to the water in which it is cooked...
Vol. 1 • February 1909 • No. 7
