HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home la the real Beat 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 The Spirit of...
...In the same spirit she approves of dancing...
...It is fundamentally a plea for the claims of youth, and the necessity of wholesome entertainment, recreation and self expression at the period in life when nature develops the instincts and desires of choosing a mate...
...In closing, Miss Addams says, "We may either smother the divine fire of youth or we may feed it...
...There is no use in living if you're to be corked up forever and only dribble out your mind on the sly like a leaky barrel...
...Some of the tragedies she cites as object lessons wring your heart as you know they have wrung hers...
...It is above the line of the furniture and under the picture line...
...Where it is impossible to provide the overflow tap, children should be required to use individual cups which should be numbered...
...Its membership includes John Graham Brooks, Hon...
...John R. Mohler and Henry J. Washburn, of the Pathological Division, have a paper dealing with the causation and character of animal tuberculosis and federal measures for its repression...
...It was a knowledge of conditions gained by actual observation and not from books that led her to throw herself heart and soul into the shirt waist makers' struggle and to make so large a contribution toward its success...
...While reading Miss Addams' book, my attention was called to the protest of a publication entitled "The Show World" to the production of demoralizing moving picture films...
...Across these supports had been nailed three long strips of wood, one for a shelf at the bottom and the other two slatwise across the front...
...In making it, upright supports had been nailed to the wall at distances of about 4 feet from each other...
...Well considered public games in parks and athletic fields afford a most wholesome and democratic form of recreation...
...She holds the position of Placement Secretary in the Manhattan Trade School for Girls...
...I believe in the rights of the woman just as much as I do in those of man, and, indeed a little more...
...She finds places for them and she follows them up to see how they succeed and how they are treated...
...These parks are provided with beautiful halls which are given over, rent free, to groups of young people who wish to dance and have parties under public supervision...
...We may either stand stupidly staring as it sinks into a murky fire of crime and flares into the intermittent blaze of folly or we may tend it into a lambent flame with power to make clean and bright our dingy city streets...
...There is something in the anxiety and earnestness of her appeal that makes you think of the cry of a mother for help when she sees her children being destroyed by influences beyond her control...
...George Eliot.—From the 1910 Calendar of the Collegiate Equal Suffrage League of New York State...
...Another point in its favor is that it exposes the smallest surface of the magazines to falling dust...
...The case is deep enough from back to front to hold three of the thickest of the magazines and a large file of thin pamphlets or reports...
...The young woman was Elsie La Grange Cole, a graduate of Vassar College in the class of 1901...
...In the schools this should not be permitted...
...To provide and insure opportunity for this safe mingling of the young in wholesome, happy recreation and entertainment is an obligation each adult generation owes the succeeding one...
...Chicago has seventeen parks with playing fields, gymnasiums and baths which at present enroll thousands of young people...
...The tremendous hold and influence of the cheap theater and moving picture show on the young of the city is strongly portrayed by Miss Addams...
...Miss Addams calls attention to this and says no other nation has so unparalleled an opportunity to do this through its schools because no other nation has so wide-spreading a school system...
...Father Johnson, in the interview referred to, is quoted as saying that if children go to theaters their parents should go with them...
...While Miss Addams discusses her subject with outward calmness, you sense a strong undercurrent of feeling pervading all she says...
...A. D. Melvin, the Chief of the Bureau, in considering the economic importance of this disease among the food-producing animals, estimates that the financial loss from this cause is at least $24,000,000 annually...
...She told me recently that during all these months there was only one moment when her courage failed and that was when she first tried to find her voice to call the papers in the railway station...
...The chief advantage of the plan is that it makes it possible to spread the magazines out and display their titles in a part of the room that is wanted for no other purpose...
...George H. Palmer, Charles Zueblin, John Golden, and Edwin J. Mead...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Spirit of Youth JANE ADDAMS' latest book, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets," is evidently an outgrowth of her life given to the betterment of conditions in Chicago and to the study of the social problems of our great cities,—but it has its message for thoughtful readers wherever they may reside...
...excluded from politics, she is to train voters and legislators...
...gne can do the best work in her home if she has healthy outside interests and occupations in addition...
...Later Miss Cole and Miss Dutcher edited a special issue of the New York Journal which netted $1,500...
...I wonder if other mothers are puzzled, as I sometimes am, to know how to meet this obligation...
...Before taking her own place as newspaper vender, Miss Cole had assisted in marshalling a large corps of young women and in stationing them all over the city, with the result that 47,000 copies of the special edition were sold, netting $3,500 for the strike fund...
...In order to understand this remarkable contribution of time and energy to another person's cause, one must know the facts in Miss Cole's life which led up to it...
...They are well lighted, serve good refreshments at cost and they clone at eleven o'clock...
...and by the end of an hour's time she had sold five dollars' worth of papers...
...WE must recognize that moving pictures have come to stay...
...Miss Addams regards the success of this experiment as an argument that the drinking, the late hours, the lac1' of decorum in places of amusement are directly traceable to the c mmercial enterprise which ministers to pleasure in order to drag it into excess, because excess is more profitable...
...She says to coinmericalist pleasure is as monstrous as to commercialize art, and that it is intolerable that the city does not take over this function of providing pleasure for its youth...
...Kelly, the noted surgeon, at the head...
...She was selling a special edition of The Call which she and her classmate, Elizabeth Dutcher, had edited...
...Their upper ends were about 57 inches from the floor...
...THE school is the place to begin the organization of the new social life...
...In that position she becomes acquainted with every girl who goes out from the school to seek work...
...This rale should be strictly enforced by teachers.—From bulletin of the Utah State Board of Health...
...The old world custom of strict parental supervision of courtship and marriage of girls, breaks down in America, and any attempt on the part of the Anglo-Saxon to imitate this usage proves futile...
...Moncure Conway...
...Miss Janet Richards, to whose stimulating Monday morning talks in Washington I have referred on other occasions, gave a large part of her time recently to a discussion of the influence of the cheap vaudeville and the "funny papers," with their hideous caricatures and sickening attempts at wit...
...The city schools of New York have effected the organization of high school students into groups for folk dancing...
...But the voice which seemed for a moment gone soon returned and with it the courage...
...Their forms are indeed those which lie at the basis of all good breeding, forms which at once express and restrain, urge forward and set limits...
...She says they steal money to buy tickets, become truants at school because of its fascination and that many of the follies and crimes committed by the youth of Chicago are directly traceable to the impression made upon their imaginations by distorted and wicked phases of life depicted in these places...
...She advised every woman in her audience to write a letter to the publishers of the newspapers for which she subscribed, disapproving of this feature, and she urged women generally to make greater effort to have their influence felt in matters of so much importance to the family...
...On one of its pages I noticed that Rev...
...This particular rack occupied every available inch of the length of the room...
...BY all means let us preserve the safety of the home, urges Miss Addams, but let us also make safe the streets, the theaters, the dance halls and other places where young people congregate for their recreation and form those attachments that are the basis of the permanent relation which fosters or wrecks the stability of the home...
...In the course of her every-day work, therefore, she has learned better than anyone else perhaps in New York City the conditions under which young girls work, and she has come to realize the need of solidarity on their part, the need of standing together in the struggle for the living-wage, for reasonable hours of labor and for regular employment...
...The Common Drinking Cup ONE of the frequent sources of scarlet fever, diphtheria and other contagious diseases is the use of the common drinking cup...
...The wonderful realism, the unlimited scope of this form of entertainment make its possible influence for good or evil tremendously important, and place a responsibility on parents, teachers and the public that cannot be ignored...
...To forbid children going to these attractions altogether is fraught with the danger of disobedience and if we fail to discriminate between wh?.t is good and bad we are likely to lose the confidence of our children in our judgment...
...Sadly enough,—the evil influences of the cheap theater are not confined to the large cities...
...HThe Fourth Annual Congress of the Playground Association of America will be held in Rochester, New York, June 7 to 11...
...This is a wise suggestion...
...To the work of editing, of speaking in behalf of the strikers, and of "peaceful picketing" she had given up her entire Christmas vacation and later gave up all her leisure time until the strike was over...
...A similar league exists in New York, with George Foster Pea-body as president, and one in Baltimore, with Dr...
...Equal Suffrage Shut out from college she is to edacate a soul...
...Theodore Roosevelt...
...His paper is accompanied by a number of striking illustrations showing cows of fine appearance which are really affected with tuberculosis and giving off the germs of that disease in such a way as to be dangerous to consumers of their milk...
...She speaks with enthusiasm of the wonderful results of amateur theatricals at Hull House and other settlements where they have been tried...
...W HILE deploring the influence of the low theater, Miss Addams is deeply impressed with the value of the drama rightly employed to entertain, educate and uplift...
...They were 8 inches high, 2 inches thick, and wide enough to hold nails firmly...
...She says the old forms of this art which have been worked out in many lands and through long experiences, safeguard unwary and dangerous expression and yet afford a vehicle through which the gayety of youth may flow...
...IfTuberculosis in its various aspects is the subject of three articles in the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry—a book now ready for distribution...
...Women of the Hour ELSIE LA GRANGE COLE THOSE who passed through the Grand Central Station in New York City, on the morning of December 29th, saw a tall, slender, beautifully dressed and refined looking young woman selling newspapers...
...John D. Long, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Prof...
...E. C. Schroeder, superintendent of the Bureau's experiment station, points out the danger from the tuberculous cow to human health...
...For the Home Workshop ISAW a few days ago a magazine rack which was so convenient that it seemed to me that it ought to be in every library and office, and which was so simple that it could be made by anyone who has had the least training in the use of tools...
...Those who looked at her closely saw that on the broad scarf which she wore were printed the words "The Striking Waist Makers" and they connected her with that great struggle which recently passed over New York, a struggle which found the city with 500 girls loosely organized in Shirt Waist Makers' Unions and left it with 20,000 firmly banded together for mutual support and encouragement...
...Miss Addams says we exalt the stability of the home, but in those difficult years between childhood and maturity we either repress or do nothing to direct the force upon which the continuity of the home depends...
...A men's league for women's suffrage was recently formed in Massachusetts...
...She said they were working together to pervert our taste and destroy our standards of decency...
...Our national game of baseball brings cheering crowds together and if a man does not call the stranger who sits next to hira "brother" he slaps him on the back or even unconsciously embraces him in an overwhelming outburst of kindly feeling when the favorite player makes a home run...
...Father Johnson of Madison, Wisconsin, was quoted as saying that all children think about and talk about now-a-days is the theater and that they run away from school and steal money to go there...
...Freedom of choice among young people is the only path open and that must be made safe by their own self-control, based on habits of clean companionship, knowledge and understanding...
...The rack itself, too, is easy to dust if the slats are sufficiently far apart...
Vol. 2 • March 1910 • No. 12
