HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home Is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gilts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT An Old Tow...
...Now the walk from Great Falls to Cabin John's Bridge along the tow path of the old canal is one of the most beautiful I have ever taken But it is never crowded...
...She had a few minutes to speak for herself and what do you think she did with the time...
...The river descends seventy-seven feet in the short space of twelve hundred yards...
...The police are allowed by the Russian government to kill them for no good reason whatever...
...G'-at masses of rock pink overhang the banks of the canal, and long stretches of violets blue and white carpet the path on either side...
...She mi^ht have spent the rest of her life in ease, but instead she took a long trip to America and other countries to try to get help for the peasants, though she knew this would make the government angrier than ever...
...He kindly suggests as we reach the other shore that if we wait at the next lock we may catch a ride back to Washington on the chance of a down-coming canal boat...
...The colored mule driver lifts his hat in passing and his radiant smile seems a part of the sunshine...
...All this she did, running the risk of being killed at any moment, in order that she might save the lives of her fellow countrymen and make them happier...
...Thus were inaugurated about the same hour, and scarcely more than forty miles apart two works, destined by their situation to decide for the world whether the transportation of the future was to be by canal or by railroad...
...They say history repeats itself...
...There are besides great numbers of very poor people who work all the time and who suffer because their houses are cold and because they cannot get enough to eat and to wear...
...Blue and white Japanese towelling which comes about 12 inches wide and costs 20 cents a yard makes very pretty doylies which launder well...
...Indeed, I do not remember ever having met or overtaken anyone on this unique promenade...
...It has often occurred to me what a fine week's outing a tramp along this old canal from Washington to Cumberland would make...
...No* one has estimated the lives and hopes it wrecked and the suffering it cost...
...Perhaps under the inspiring influence of Wcst;n...
...We thought to surprise him by telling him we had walked some eighteen miles that day, whereupon to our great amusement he solemnly and deliberately put this question: "Well, you didn't find the walking crowded, did you...
...The Chesapeake & Ohio might have had its period of usefulness and triumph like the Erie if Baltimore had not feared that the canal would divert trade from that city, and cause it to lose its commercial • supremacy...
...The project, begun under the direction of Washington in 1785, was not completed to Cumberland, a distance of one hundred and eighty-six miles until 1851...
...It can be put over the moulding board when biscuits or pastry is to-be rolled out and over the meat board when meat is to be pounded or cut up, thus keeping the boards quite clean...
...Eleven millions of dollars had been swallowed up,—a great sum in those days...
...This mop may be easily washed...
...Hitherto the western country having had no excitements to industry, labour very little...
...great masses of rock and huge boulders tower everywhere in the midst of the channel,—impeding the rushing waters, which swirl and churn and foam and rise in high spray with ceaseless fascination...
...You see it is not necessary to go to an African jungle in order to be brave...
...While this was being done she sent loving messages to her friends...
...And as we strike* the tow path of the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal we feel the day and the world is ours...
...Now and then the tinkle of a bell announces the coming of a clumsy old boat...
...There are other kinds much nobler and the people who choose to be courageous for the sake of saving life rather than destroying it are not necessari ly "mollycoddles...
...A youth who bales out his boat with a shingle, ferries us across to the Maryland side for twenty-five cents...
...The last time my daughter and I made the trip a shower came out of a clear sky, as it were...
...And the United States government had contributed a considerable amount...
...Twenty years ago, as an indirect result of disastrous floods the control of the canal passed into the hands of the court...
...As you climb the banks and take the car a few miles the other side of Georgetown, you really wonder if you have not been in Dreamland for a day...
...This is the season of water cress, a neglected article cf diet considering how pleasant it is to the taste and how good it is for the health...
...But in spite of this, the canal might perhaps with wise management have have been made to pay with local traffic such as it now carries— coal, stone, lumber, hay, grain and other agricultural products...
...THE railroad was at first merely a horse car line, but competition with the canal was stimulating, and Baltimore was the first American city to apply the results of George St^T^ nson's experiment in England with steam...
...Many private fortunes were sunk...
...The Greater Bravery To the Younger Readers of La Follette', Weekly: WHEN ex-President Roosevelt comes back next month, after a year's absence in Africa, a year spent chiefly in taking the lives of animals that were needed neither for food nor for any other useful purpose, there will be great celebrations in his honor...
...They are treated very cruelly...
...I long ago made up my mind that a few of the freshest pieces chosen from a bunch were worth more, considering what they cost in time and money, than a whole bunch laboriously picked over...
...To prevent this she burned her face with an acid to make herself look as if she had worked in the fields an:l she wore coarse clothing so the police could not tell her from the peasants...
...We thank him but do not act on his suggestion...
...This extract from his argument reveals his insight, as to the influence that makes a nation...
...Virginia was in some...
...We are not out for a ride but for a walk...
...An authority says it evidences a remarkable triumph in engineering and that its locks, though built considerably over one hundred years ago might be used today except for the forest trees that have sprung up in its very walls...
...It is a pleasant ride of fifteen miles over fields and hills and through woods...
...Our idle questions bring out that the young boatman and his father make their living by fishing in summer and trapping in winter...
...But we trudged on enjoying the experience...
...As the guards would not permit her to do this, she did not spend the money and often went "as hungry as . tiger," although she had plenty of money in her pocket...
...It is very tough and will stand great heat...
...And its proximity to the Nation's capitol makes the delusion more perfect...
...On the Virginia side of the falls there is still traceable an old canal some three quarters of a mile in length, built by a. company of which George Washington was president...
...Then she told what she had been doing and made it very plain that she had been doing it because she thought it was right and was willing to take the consequences...
...It takes a certain kind of bravery, to be sure, to go into a jungle and run the risk of being killed by wild beasts but it is a kind of bravery that counts for very little...
...She was sentenced to Siberia again and in three minutes after the sentence was pronounced she was surrounded by guards and hurried away...
...In that country there are a few very rich people who do no work an'I who live in very magnificent houses and spend their lives in having a good time...
...The railroad was completed to Cumberland nearly ten years before the canal and soon after the canal reached Cumberland the railroad was at Wheeling on the Ohio...
...Once Miss Hunt and I at the close of a long day's tramp, stopped a country man at the cross roads to inquire the nearest way to our friend, Mrs...
...It should be filled with narrow strips of new cotton cloth, sufficient in number to form a compact mass thick enough on all sides to keep the metal of the mop from marring the furniture...
...Peter Cooper's queer little Tom Thumb engine was tried in 1830 and five or six years later the Baltimore & Ohio was equipped with this new motor power...
...The result is economy of space...
...In 1783 he had outlined an elaborate plan...
...Writing of this, Prof...
...Now, at the age of nearly seventy, she has gone again to the horrors of prison life in Siberia...
...It may be used to cover foods in the ice-box and may even take the place of plates for many purposes...
...So the great primary object for which the canal was started, which had appealed so strongly to the imagination and judgment of men—to open communication from the Mississippi to the Atlantic by canal along the Potomac and Ohio Rivers,— had been achieved in another and unforeseen way...
...You see, there is suck a thing as risking your life for a great purpose...
...And so I hope that while the flags are waving in celebration of Roosevelt's return from a year of killing-, the chiMren of* America will think of Catherine Breshkovsky, who also risked her life but risked it to help those who were weaker than herself.—c...
...You are always in sound, usually in sight of the river below...
...The warm sun had made us dry long before we reached civilization...
...Maryland was the heaviest loser...
...She was captured and on March 8 of this year, after two years in prison, she was given a sort of trial...
...Donald's...
...and so she left her beautiful home and went to Jive among them because she thought she coald show them how to make their lives less terrible...
...When she returned to Russia in 1907 she knew it was to almost certain death...
...THE old canal has an interesting though tragic history-Walking along its banks, observing its primitive .methods cf transportation, you are likely to imagine, if not acquainted with the facts, that it is a survival of a prosperous and useful past...
...But many people will have little heart for the festivities because, while the flags are flying and the crowds are cheering, they will be thinking of the unnecessary pain he has inflicted and of the example of cruelty he has set...
...As I come in touch here and there with the life of George Washington, the more I am impressed with his far-reaching vision...
...G. W. Ward says: "On the fourth of July, 1828, the same day that the President of the United States broke ground at the Lstue Palis for the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, the venerable Charles Carroll,, of Carrollton, the only survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, broke ground at Baltimore for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...But let us open a good communication with settlements west of us—extend the inland navigation as far as it can be done with convenience—and show them by this means how easy it is to bring the produce of their lands to our markets, and see how astonishingly our exports will be increased...
...Seme of its enterprising citizens seized upon the bold plan of building a railroad that should rival the canal...
...So far as his occupation and interest go he might belong to the period of the Revolution instead of to the present generation...
...Who knows but that with the revival in building of inland waterways as a means of meeting our increasing transportation, this ancient route—but I will not attempt to prophesy as to great future events...
...I wonder more people do not take it...
...This made the Russian government very angry and they tried to find her and kill her...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT An Old Tow Path AN ELECTRIC ear line runs across the Potomac frcm Georgetown and then up the Virginia side to "Great Falls...
...Before the Revolutionary War was over he began working on the problem of opening up communication with it through Maryland and Virginia by way of inland waterways...
...About seventy years ago Catherine Breshkovsky was born in Russia...
...example, Miss Hunt and I, with one or two other friends, who enjoy that kind of recreation, may start out some day...
...When we do, I shall tell you about it...
...That means that she could have lived in a beautiful house and had every sort of pleasure if she had so wished...
...Do you think she begged them not to kill her, or send her back to prison...
...The "Falls" are surprisingly impressive...
...ASHORT walk above the falls brings us to the dam that makes the reservoir from which the city of Washington draws its questionable wates supply...
...Read the following story and see if you do not agree with me...
...In April, the white dog wood and the red bud make the high wooded banks of the Potomac appear like the joy of children out for a holiday...
...Katherine Breshkovsky was born to the nobility...
...l. h. Hints to Home-Makers A cheap duster for a polished floor may be made out of a mop handle...
...But when she grew up she lucked about her and saw how the poor peasants of the country were working and suffering...
...But Hulbert's "Historic Highways," is authority for the statement that for forty years after its completion it served chiefly as a political machine for the party in power in Maryland, and it is an open secret that Senator Gorman rode into the high dignity of a senatorial seat on its placid waters...
...Many are the uses for paraffin paper in the kitchen...
...It was constructed thus early to carry boats around the falls and was part of a general project to make the Potomac navigable...
...First, she pled with the judge to release her friend, Nicolas Tchaychovky, who had been arrested with her...
...You lift your face shy-ward and reach out your arms to gather your fill of the silent yet speaking beauty of which Nature is so profligate...
...And it has since been operated by trustees under mortgage of the Chesapeake & Ohio Co...
...It is quite a shock to learn that it is as much of a success today as ever in its existence...
...But don't use up a dollar's worth of time picking over five cents' worth of cress...
...When they let her come back from Siberia she was sixty years old...
...He seems early to have grasped the great commercial importance of the West...
...The walk of eight or ten miles leaves the impression of an altogether different world...
...The first lock tender, whose whitewashed house we passed, hospitably invited us to shelter...
...However, I have long cherished a secret hope that I do not mind disclosing now...
...There, because she belonged to the nobility, she was allowed money with which to buy comforts but she refused to spend it unless she could share what she bought with her fellow prisoners, who being peasants had no such allowances...
...the luxuriency of the soil, with very little culture, produces provisions in abundance—these sap-ply the wants of the increasing population...
...Finally, one day she was arrested and after she had been in prison for a long time she was sent to Siberia, one of the coldest and most desolate parts of Russia, to work in the mines as a prisoner...
Vol. 2 • May 1910 • No. 19
