HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home la 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 United...
...I contend that one of the first objects of mental and physical discipline, should be to keep the mind and body from getting into unchangeable habits, or of thinking that they are unchangeable...
...Milton Dana Morrill of Washington, has invented a clever device by means of which the outside air in attempting to enter around the edge of a closed window is forced to turn so many corners that it becomes quite weak and harmless by the time it has finally gotten within...
...The habitual use of the right hand, or, in left-handed people, of the left hand, is regarded as the most inherent of acquired characteristics...
...WHEN we consider the individual, there is no lack of illustration of the power to form new habit...
...about three-quarters of a million actual workers losing on an average of $700 per annum, an approximate loss from illness of five hundred millions, and adding a reasonable allowance for medicine, medical attendance, special food and care, a like sum of five hundred millions, these losses would make another thousand million dollars of preventable loss to the people of the United States...
...The place where wall and floor meet is covered, making a curved surface on which no dirt could find lodgement...
...Over the* living room there is a large bedroom, over the kitchen a small bedroom and a bathroom and over the vestibule and lower part of the stairs are the two clothes presses...
...This terrible loss might be prevented by reasonable safeguards under the cooperation of the federal and state authorities, each within strict constitutional limits...
...The owner calculates that in time he will be able ta build such a house for a cost per room of between $200 and $300...
...If they yield in the slightest degree to the wrong influences they have been warned against, they believe themselves lost, and they become the most reckless and most difficult victims to reclaim...
...There are porch boxes, however, in the concrete and trellises attached to the walls which will make decoration by means of plants and vines an easy matter...
...The effect of our education is to teach that habit once farmed, is irretrievable ground...
...It is probable that Mrs...
...This is a question of vast national importance...
...The plan of the house is very simple...
...It is only those who are interested in things in their experimental stages, and who realize the importance of learning how to build safe and sanitary houses at low cost, that will feel repaid for the trip...
...Measuring the money value of an American citizen at $1,700, this preventable loss by death is one thousand millions of dollars annually, equal to the gross income of the United States Government...
...We have a number of scattered bureaus doing valuable scientific work on these subjects, but they should be organized and made to rank in dignity and importance with State, War, Navy, and Agriculture...
...Some of them mean, avowedly, never to do so...
...It is equally true, though perhaps not so commonplace, that the sort of acquaintance we get of our towns when our friends come to see us depends on the interests and the tastes of the friends...
...The importance of forming correct habits of study, dress, social usage cannot be too highly valued...
...a hose is to be turned into the house...
...The idea that we cannot change a habit once formed is, I believe, a survival of the time when the whole tendency of life was to remain in grooves...
...In the name of the people and in the name of the American Medical Association, whose members are the faithful and self-sacrificing guardians of the health of our people, and in the name of the Committee of One Hundred, of the American Federation of Labor of the National Grange, and of the various health boards of the 46 States of the Union and of the great body of learned men desiring improved sanitation and the application of the improved agencies of preventing disease, disability, and death, I pray the Senate to establish a department of public health...
...Cut it into thin slices and butter them...
...When the work itself offers nothing of interest, and when no public provision is made for recreation, the situation becomes almost insupportable...
...they have decided that 'he travels the fastest who travels alone.' And once in a great while a woman may be found who also prefers the exploitation of her personality to an abnegating domestic life...
...March 19, I said I would not lay less stress on the inertia side of habit but I would lay a great deal more on the side of plasticity...
...These deaths are caused by polluted water, impure and adulterated food and drugs, epidemics, various preventable diseases —tuberculosis, typhoid and malarial fevers, and so forth—unclean cities, and bad sanitation...
...We have been centuries building houses out of wood, brick and stone, and we are still far from having attained perfection in these materials, so it would be obviously unreasonable to look for perfection in so new a material as reinforced concrete...
...The subjects of health and education are almost inseparably related through our public school system, and as I suggested on this page in our issue of August 14th, it would appear to be good policy to unite them...
...There is no wood in the house except the window frames and the doors and a narrow strip sunk into the concrete near the edge of the floor in the living room in order that there may be something to tack a carpet to...
...On March 29, Senator Owen of Oklahoma made an able plea for the establishment of a Department of Health...
...The house as it stands is plain...
...The house is to be heated by means of a small steam-plant attached to the kitchen-stove...
...With her we took a trip one fine spring afternoon afoot and by trolley to a little suburb to the northeast of the city, just over the district line in Maryland, where there is a house that was built complete by piling up solid pieces of concrete, of various shapes and sizes, one upon another, very much as children make houses out of blocks...
...Put them into a baking dish, cover them with a mixture of 3% cups of milk and % cup of molasses and cook in a very slow oven for 3 or 4 hours...
...The argument and the facts upon which it is based are of such general importance that it should be widely read...
...But modem living is one continuous illustration of the power to change old habits and to form new ones...
...But disproportionate emphasis on the fixity of habit is dangerous...
...The habitual drunkard, the habitual smoker, and other forms of slavery to habit should have their lesson...
...An Experiment in House Building IT IS a commonplace saying that we never see our own town until friends come to visit us whom we wish to "show round...
...We cannot but wonder why it has not long since been accomplished...
...But the chief point to be considered is that it is safe— safe from fire because it is incombustible, and safe from germs because, being almost without cracks, it is easy to make and to keep clean...
...But for war on preverable diseases now costing us infinite treasure in life, efficiency, and commercial power and prestige we spend nothing and do not even employ the agencies we have in an efficient manner...
...Every floor slopes off a little toward a small hole which is kept plugged except on housecleaning day when, (think of it, weary housekeeper...
...Blessed are the friends who when they come insist on knowing what there is of real interest and importance going on in the place where we live...
...In training the young I believe we cannot place too much emphasis on the difficulty, the very great difficulty of correcting bad habits, and the importance of early establishing growth along right lines...
...Those who take the trip to Brentwood expecting to see a beautiful and perfectly constructed house without a flaw will be disappointed...
...And when I say complete I do not mean that it wis ready for lath and plaster but that except for the hanging of the doors and windows it was ready for occupancy...
...It may be illuminating to trace the connection between the monotony and dullness of factory work and the petty immoralities which arc often the youth's protest against them...
...But, unlike most things dear to artists, they are strictly practical, for the architect and builder, Mr...
...Yet it is as-.tonishing how quickly a right-handed person will learn to use the left hand when permanently deprived of the use of the right...
...Jane Addarm, in "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets...
...Habit Again ALTHOUGH I try to make each of these brief occasional talks on habit cover a point worth remembering, they are really a continued story...
...There are 3,000,000 people in the United States on the sick list from preventable causes, of whom 1,000,000 are in the working period of life...
...Hints to Home Makers A good way to use strawberries when they first come and are expensive, and perhaps a little hard, is to make them into a sauce to be eaten on boiled rice...
...THE house is a tiny affair, but that does not signify, for it could be extended indefinitely either as to number and size of rooms or as to number of stories without increasing the number of kinds of blocks, which means without multiplying the number of moulds in which the parts are cast...
...The hand is the agent of the mind...
...Its habits are more essentially automatic than any other voluntary physical act...
...The windows are all of casement form, dear to the hearts of artists...
...Second Choice" THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE concludes an editorial entitled "Women and their Clubs" with this bit of philosophy: "It will be noticed as a general thing that the gentlemen who launch their invectives against the childless women have not yet taken upon themselves the responsibilities of parenthood...
...Make a hard sauce out of one part of butter and three of powdered sugar...
...but in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand when a woman chooses a career it represents her second choice...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A United States Department of Health THE UNITED STATES is far behind the nations of Europe in recognition of health and education as departments of government...
...And it is in the making of the moulds that the greatest initial cost lies...
...The grandfather does not retire from business, but as a captain of industry gives orders to his sons and grandsons, and too often absorbs their personality in his dominant plans...
...After they are once made the blocks can be cast for house after house at small expense...
...The body, the mind, the soul are precious, and should receive the best care and earliest thought in the right direction we can give them...
...In eight years we have increased our expenditnes over the average of preceding years by the huge sum of vie thousand millions for the army and navy, and are spending per cent, of the national income to cover the obligations of oast wars and the preparation for possible future war, or about seven hundred millions per annum...
...The entrance is at the side...
...But with this point of view should be inculcated the sense of self-mastery and of power and of responsibility at any time when it may be needful, to form new habits or correct old habits...
...A very good Mock Indian Pudding may be made out of whole wheat bread...
...They have chosen a career...
...There is a living room extending across the front and a kitchen across the back, the two being separated by the vestibule, the stairs, and the kitchen closet under the stairs...
...Use half a loaf of baker's bread...
...The picturesque grandmother no longer knits by the fireside, but is a leader among women...
...In the instruction of youth, parents, teachers, friends constantly dwell on the danger of bad habits and the necessity of forming good habits, until a sense of bondage and of fear that amounts to hopelessness, is associated with the word...
...In America no one any longer lives always in the same place, sleeps in the same bed, sits in the same chair...
...Children brought up under a too narrow moral code often prove weak when subjected to the temptations of life...
...President, the people of the United States suffer a loss of over 600,000 lives per annum...
...I have no doubt that Senator Owen will gladly furnish copies to anyone on request...
...Serve with cream or vanilla ice-cream...
...La Follette and I would never have seen the very interesting experiment in building that is being conducted in the vicinity of Washington if it had not been for the visit of a friend, Professor Isabel Bevier of the University of Illinois, who was interested in knowing everything that Washington was doing to make homes more comfortable and more healthful...
...Men learn to shave, women to sew, artists to draw, and everyone can learn to write with the left hand...
...Add two parts of crushed berries...
...The bathroom fixtures, the kitchen sink, the laundry tub and the stair-case are all cast in solid blocks of concrete...
...People move from the country into town,—from town into the country...
...Among other things, he said: "Mr...
...These are mere suggestions of the unconscious adaptation of our general plan of life to new habit in thought and action...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 16
