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 A Page of...
...He had a strong case against the company for criminal negligence as there should have been a light there, and there was none, and neither was a bell rung nor whistle blown to warn the workmen of danger...
...Emily M. Bishop has created a new source of entertainment by her dramatic readings from the Congressional Record...
...It is a soul product, and one of the best things I have read in many a day...
...Questions discussed were: Resolved that the destruction of the forest is for the benefit of the farmer...
...And I want to enter a plea for the old-fashioned debating society as a part of that revival...
...Two articles which appeared in your department, in the June 12th and July 3rd numbers interested me very much:_'Public Schools as Social Centers,' and 'The Little Red School House, a Substitute.' It made me happy to learn that the spirit of the little red school house is alive in other parts of the-country and I believe it only needs agitation to revive it everywhere...
...He was taken to the hospital and as soon as he was able to see visitors he was called on by a prominent lawyer and asked to give him his case...
...He said: "Having been born and raised in Wisconsin, I feel more than ordinary interest in your Magazine and the principles it advocates...
...But you have made a woman's page interesting to intelligent folk and that is, unfortunately, more than most men who edit pages for women are able to do...
...What rural commoni-ties need is 'intimate intellectual intercourse' and this want is" not filled by basket parties, surprise parties, birthday parties, card parties, nor any of the amusements so common now-a-days...
...My boy was caught between the bumpers...
...The engineer, without giving any warning whatever, backed an engine in to couple on some cara: that were to be moved out...
...Excuse me for troubling you with my sorrow...
...We were at that time living in Wisconsin...
...High school classes might carry this idea further and impersonate debates on great questions in a way that would make every high school a popular center of civic interest and education...
...She says that 150 boys and girls, 16 and 17 years old, are enthusiastically interested in reading speeches and debates on live subjects...
...that the government should own and operate its railroads, and many others^ "It appears to me that although many of the games and amusements in use now are all right in their way, yet this meeting together and discussing things has a place all its own-in that it sets people thinking, while it satisfies that craving for intellectual intercourse which is inherent in every human being, although it may be lying dormant in some...
...He told my son what big damages he would recover for him...
...Back to the Farm' may be grandly discoursed upon by learned professors, and eloquently expatiated on by silver-tongued orators, and gravely discussed by wise economists, but none of them can touch the responsive chord nor make the deep impression that this country woman has done, speaking out of her experience of the simple life as she has lived it in Sauk County, Wisconsin...
...c. l. Wise Instruction of Youth AMONG the most encouraging letters we have received is a recent one which says: "I have long been intending to write you and Miss Hunt to tell you how pleased I have always been with your Home and Education pages in the Weekly—and we enjoy the Weekly as a whole...
...I feel I must give vent to my feelings by writing, or smother...
...Where civics is taught as a part of history it is swamped with precedent and detail...
...that women should have the ballot...
...Shortly after that my husband died and we learned from good authority that our lawyer f.iand was hired by the railroad company to keep cases out of court...
...This farmer's wife gives a real contribution to literature regarding the farmer's boy, in point of thought and English...
...One practical application of her idea is the reading of the Congressional Record by her classes...
...He was for nearly three years in the Northern Hospital and is now in a County Asylum...
...Why he was not killed outright seems marvelous...
...She says: "Do the high schools of Wisconsin teach economics and civics as separate studies...
...In tie last number of La Follette's it says in speaking of the railroads: 'No small part of the public condemnation which the conduct of the railroad managers has invoked has been due to their treatment of their employees.' That sentence opened anew the wounds of my heart, and floods of bitter memories of the past twelve years seem almost to crush me beneath their weight...
...I am thankful there is one paper that is not under the influence of 'the root of all evil' and I wish it success...
...The program consisted of debates, readings, recitations, and singing with once in a while parliamentary practice or a spell-down...
...That seemed only natural for he was a personal friend of our family and a near neighbor before he studied law...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Page of Letters Note: In the hope that they will express to our readers a spirit of responsiveness—something of the touch and go relationship that I hope is established between us, I give my page this week to some letters that have come to my desk.—b...
...I wish her article could be put in the hands of all tillers of the soil who have families...
...Oportunity must be given to learn that it is an art, a means to help the world—an expression of the individual and society...
...Is this not wise instruction of youth...
...We had at one time in our school district a literary society that met every two weeks...
...The Debating Society ANOTHER letter that gave me much satisfaction was from a thoughtful farmer in the state of Washington...
...I had a son, a bright, happy, winsome, young fellow—one that any mother might be proud of...
...that there should be an educational test for voting...
...At last when the time was about expired he told us there was no case at all against the company, and we believed him...
...A Great Wrong THIS LETTER from a woman living in Chicago has a strong human appeal...
...Our experience was that tlie debates drew the biggest crowds...
...The lawyer's excuse always was, there is plenty of time...
...Enclosed please find P. 0. order to renew our sub-~ scription to your fearless Weekly Magazine...
...He was not long in their employ, when one day he was passing (with a box of bolts he had been told to bring) between two cars that had been built...
...After fourteen weeks my boy came home and we were expecting to have his case entered any day...
...When not quite 22 years of age he hired with the railroad company to work in their car shops...
...Martha Wickern's essay on the life of children on the farm, which appeared on this page, in the issue of December eleventh...
...It is my conviction this must be done to give the youth a chance to improve the future...
...that a monarchial form of government is preferable to a republican...
...The Farmer's Best Crop" SOON after its publication, I received this appreciative letter from the head of a publishing house in Chicago, regarding Mrs...
...The shock, along with the crushing, was more than my and was able to bear and he went insane...
...The writer of the letter is a teacher of civics and economics in the high school of a large city of the far West...
...What fine preparation for understanding and participation in government...
...That, we understand, means he is incurable...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 13
