HOME AND EDUCATION
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 The Brain and...
...an effort to change conditions that war against home-life is a duty he owes to all the world, himself and his family included...
...The evolution of the tool has been paralleled by the development of the brain...
...If women demand such plays for their children, and insist upon them, time will produce the desired effect...
...MANUAL training does not cure all of these abnormal tendencies, but it gives larger physical freedom, satisfies a natural desire to be doing something with the hands, while it trains the intellect and disciplines the will, and builds character...
...The saving of small sums is a duty that one owes to himself or to his family...
...Doubtless many of our readers have heard her...
...In England, it is said, more is done in drama for the benefit of the children than is now done in this country, and yet American children are inveterate theater-goers...
...But just for this reason they are sometimes inconveniently slow and should be supplemented by soap powders which can be easily dissolved...
...And the children of the rich, find in these fundamentally human studies and occupations, the same delight as others, and with this familiarity comes an appreciation of the life interests of the world that can hardly be gained in any other way...
...Childrens' Theaters It makes me very happy to receive a contribution like the one from Mrs...
...Boston, Mass., March 29, 1910...
...For this contribution to their welfare the people of his district have dubbed him "Short Weight Jim...
...I know one good housekeeper who always buys prunes by the box and gets the best for the price one ordinarily pays for poor ones by the pound...
...MR...
...Felmley's words exactly: "Bench work, sewing, cooking, drawing, appeal to the student of the motor type as few of the older studies can...
...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 of La Follette'S Weekly, Madison, Wisconsin...
...and the effete Buffalo Bill...
...in the third class, farmers, active and retired...
...they would surely find them good patrons...
...Nature says to the child, "Run about," "Seek the open air and sunshine," "Use the large muscles of your body in running, jumping, throwing," and "Use your eyes on distant objects...
...In another and a much older state a bill providing for showing net weight was defeated by a man now occupying a prominent place in the federal government...
...She has been telling her story of the Civil War on the Lyceum platform a number of seasons...
...We were made very happy to receive the following telegram on her opening night...
...The reason is that dry soaps are more likely than green soaps to shed their lather where it is really wanted...
...She had a cow which seems to me a desirable possession if shredded wheat is to be consumed in 50-package lots...
...If the individual, as is generally believed, recapitulates the life of the race, it follows that the use of the tool in education is vital to the unfolding of the intellect...
...Every high school principal can recall instances of a radical change in attitude toward school life and school work wrought in many students by the instruction of manual training...
...He observes that: "The changed attitude of the daughters of luxury toward the household arts wrought by courses in home economics is a matter of universal comment...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Brain and the Hand MR...
...It offers encouragement of new standards and hope of new Ideals...
...To quote Mr...
...She takes the largest ones, stuffs them with marshmallows and seals them in fruit jars for use as bon-bons at luncheons or dinners...
...To what are they being educated by the influence of the American theater...
...On opening it I found it to be a 50-package case of shredded wheat...
...He says, man is pre-eminently a tool-using animal...
...Joan of Arc, the Childrens' Crusade, poor dear David Cop-perfield, these perhaps have been presented, but it is also true that the children of large cities are the only ones who ever see them, and yet if they should be presented anywhere it is very certain the house would be packed with children...
...They introduce an intellectual and idealistic element into the daily duties of the home that saves them from drudgery...
...Daughters of Revolution, clergymen, educators, vied with each other to do her honor...
...Occupation that calls into activity brain and hand banishes listlessness, idleness, and the spirit of mischief and of insubordination that infests many schools...
...They are intended for the use of individuals and of clubs...
...IN VIEW of the present high and increasing cost of living, and the undoubted frauds that are being perpetrated by means of short weights and measures, and the misrepresentations with reference to the composition of foods and fabrics, this seems hardly the time to speak of the small savings that may be effected by careful buying...
...Cereals in bulk are cheaper than those in packages, but how much we shall not know until we get laws providing for the marking cf the net weight on every package...
...I recently saw in the kitchen of a friend a neat box which I thought was a fireless cooker...
...In this matter most of the states might well learn a lesson of North Dakota which has a law providing that the net weight as well as the character of the contents shall be given on the package...
...Viewed in this light it is economical to buy oranges by the box and not by the dozen because it requires less handling...
...no other school occupations approach these studies in interest and power...
...THERE are so many subjects that could be delightfully dram-atized: historical tales, and stories from our own and other literature...
...Home made baking powder and flavoring extracts are much more economical than the ready made kinds...
...La Follette, 186i Wyoming Ave., Washington, D. C. Enthusiasm over Mrs...
...Furniture was scarce there, but boxes were abundant because most of the food bought was in the form of canned goods that came in large packing cases Miss Brigham conceived the idea of converting the boxes intc much needed tables, book-racks and cupboards...
...This may not afford a basis for scientific conclusion but it practically demonstrates the educational value of manual training and should move us to make it an indispensible part of our school system...
...She is the mother of a large family of growing children and speaks from that close, intimate view-point which is of the very greatest value.—B...
...As they say of equal suffrage, when all the women really want it, they will get it!—Eugenia B. K. Rowley...
...ONE household commodity which it is always economical from every standpoint to buy in large quantities is soap of all kinds—the yellow and white laundry soaps and toilet soaps...
...Some housekeepers are now preserving eggs for family use...
...So if on opening a box of oranges we find that one or two have begun to decay we remove them from the rest and spread the others as much as possible lest those that have been exposed endanger the others...
...In taking care of them the housekeeper should apply all her knowledge of bacteria and of infectious diseases for the decay of fruit may be considered a bacterial disease...
...Among the semi-criminal, there is no better way to teach the rights of property than by having the boys make and own articles of use and value...
...This apartment has been one of the show places in New York this winter...
...They desired to engage her as a part of an experiment in educational features for their well-known line of theaters...
...As to the use to which the wooden case in which the packages come may be put see the review of "Box Furniture...
...Two extremes are especially benefited by manual training," he says...
...When so much is being done for the protection of our chil-drens' health, and for their intellectual cultivation, in school and home, yet when the hour for recreation comes we have no better dramatic influence to offer them than a moving picture show of train robberies...
...in the fourth class, the children of skilled mechanics,—carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, plumbers, printers, machinists, locomotive engineers...
...Pickett's voice has suffered from the strain of Chautauqua work and the Keith offer was an opportunity to speak from a platform that would be less taxing to her physical strength...
...The preparation of food and clothing for her family, has been woman's chief occupation through all the ages...
...The theater, with a magnificent opportunity for an educational force, offers practically nothing for the children...
...What children have not dwelt entranced in the life at "Plum-field" and would they love "Dan" and "Nat" and "Aunt Joe" any the less for seeing them on the stage...
...Those who have time to care for such fruits as oranges and grape-fruit save money by buying them by the box...
...The moving picture shows could also present themes equally instructive and entertaining...
...Some people go so far as to wrap each piece of fruit in tissue paper to prevent the spread of disease...
...FELMLEY, in a town of two thousand where he knew everybody, classified the children of the school according to the occupation of the parents...
...Something More About Entertainment ASHORT time ago Mrs...
...And so we are becoming increasingly subject to nervous diseases and making business for the increasing number of eye specialists...
...Sheet gelatine is much cheaper than granulated gelatine but as most of the small receipts call for the latter, the change should not be made unless one has a chance to experiment a little...
...Senator and Mrs...
...Ordinary school life is at war with all the deep-seated instincts provided by nature for the physical development of growing children...
...silly, if not worse, love scenes...
...in the second class the trading classes,—merchants, bankers, traveling men, grain buyers, ticket agents...
...It seems to me an important contribution to our discussion of the subject of entertainment...
...DAVID FELMLEY discusses the educational value of manual training very interestingly in the March number of Child-Welfare...
...This is educational vaudeville in earnest...
...Now Miss Brigham has published through The Century Company a full description of her work...
...once a year perhaps, comes Uncle Tom's Cabin or Little Lord Fauntle-roy...
...In buying meats and vegetables one gets them at a proportionately lower rate in large amount but whether this is economy or not depends on the size of the family and the facilities for preserving and storing...
...And yet we all know that some housekeepers do make money go further than others do, without incommoding or injuring their families in any way, and we may well seek to discover the secret of their economies so long as we do not allow ourselves to be deceived into thinking that the saving of a few cents is more important than a strenuous and united effort to overcome those conditions which are at present making it possible for a few men with peculiar talents to become enormously rich and are making it extremely difficult for other men with talents quite as essential to the general welfare to maintain their families in decency...
...Kinsley post in a body...
...Full directions for doing this may be obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture...
...She had had little experience at the time either in design or construction and so after experimenting for a time herself, she took lessons of some of the best cabinet makers and house decorators in Europe...
...The school says, "Sit still," "Come indoors," "Use the delicate muscles of the fingers in writing, drawing and sewing," and "Focus your eyes on the pages of a book ten inches away...
...La Salle Corbell Pickett, widow of General George Pickett, who led the famous Confederate charge at Gettysburg, came to confer with Mr...
...Box Furniture AFEW YEARS ago Miss Louise Brigham of New York City was spending a summer in Spitzbergen with friends who had charge of a coal mine where a hundred men were employed...
...The book which is called "Box Furniture" should be particularly helpful to those who are preparing to furnish summer cottages...
...Leslie B. Rowley...
...Grading these several groups, according to their scholarship, deportment and fidelity to school obligations, he says the fourth group stood the highest...
...Viewed in this light it is uneconomical to call the grocer three times a day when once would have sufficed, though as a matter of fact the loss in this case is the grocer's and not mine...
...In the first class he put the children of professional people,—ministers, lawyers, physicians, editors, teachers...
...Taken with large quantities of "half and half," shredded wheat is a very well-balanced and wholesome ration...
...Pickett's lecture on Gettysburg surpasses anything ever known here...
...B. F. Keith...
...Coming back to New York she fitted out an entire apartment with furniture made out of packing cases...
...Hence the high value of farm life and domestic arts with their varied activities and employments,—the work of the house and field, the care of poultry, horses, dairying, gardening, and horticulture...
...in the fifth class, children of unskilled laborers...
...La Follette advised her to try it, as he felt confident the historical picture she so dramatically presents would succeed, and would be a splendid object lesson of the drawing power of educational entertainment...
...She was saving between 1 and 2 cents a package by buying it this way...
...c. L. THE ABLE review of Miss Addams' new book "The Spirit of Youth," given in La Follette's of recent date, touches upon one note struck, of an intensely present social pest: the prevalence of the cheap theater and picture shows, which are degrading the minds and the artistic taste of our children...
...First time in history more than 2,000 Bostonians ever stood up when the band played "Dixie...
...But she hesitated to enter the new field...
...It would seem that some of our talented play-wrights might occasionally have the boys and girls in mind...
...La Follette about accepting a proposition that had been made her by the Keith Vaudeville management...
...If a person has small-pox we put him as far from other people as possible...
...They are more controllable...
...Buying in Large Quantities (A Reading Course in Domestic Science.—Lesson xviii...
...I like to get myself away occasionally from the thought of dollars and cents and to judge actions as economical or uneconomical not by the amount of money they leave in my pocket but by the amount of the world's resources which they use up...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 15
