HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the rea.1 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 U. S. Cook...
...When taking a trip on a sleeping car carry a piece of cheese cloth and a few thumb tacks...
...Langworthy, expert in charge of nutrition investigations, Office of Experiment Stations, has long been interested in working out practical food problems and this is but one of many government publications which give us, just for the asking, the results of scientific experiment ready for use in our every-day living...
...I am sure our readers will be glad, as I am, of her opportunity for distinguished service and will want to congratulate her upon the reputation and position she has gained in the field of home economics...
...The best and most experienced dealer in town, however, offered to do one job as cheaply as the other and so the order was given to him...
...A loop of string should be left in the center to hang it up by...
...Such a hanger will support a heavy wrap...
...DIRECTOR TRUE, in his letter transmitting Bulletin 391 says: "The bulletin was prepared by Miss Caroline L. Hunt and C. F. Langworthy, experts in charge of nutrition investigations...
...In very warm weather the walls may be lowered to the level of the cot, thus giving the sleeper the full benefit of any breeze...
...The menus could be as follows: Breakfast: Oranges, cereal with half and half, toast, coffee with cream...
...It must be provided for.—Rheta Childe Dorr, in Hampton's...
...Its chief excellence, though, lies in the fact that it may be practically a roofless bed-room...
...Cost of living is the uppermost topic of popular interest and the press of the country have seized the opportunity to make this bulletin the subject of sensational news items, grave editorial comment and humorous paragraphs...
...An example of such duplication is serving macaroni and cheese in the same meal with meat in which case either food supplies sufficient proteid...
...Uncle Sam's Cook Book has received advertising that if it were privately owned would make its authors and publishers independent fortunes...
...It is a summary of information as to the cheaper cuts of meat and recipes for cooking them so they will be palatable and nourishing...
...An Outdoor Bedroom for a City Flat By MRS...
...We got a local dealer in tents and awnings to put up canvas for us according to our plans...
...values makes it possible to economize by avoiding the duplication of foods that are in reality very much alike in composition...
...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- They are intended for the use of individuals and of clubs, IHAVE been making a few studies of late of the food value of skim milk and have bei.n calculating the loss involved when we buy cream instead of getting milk and skimming it...
...When we moved in, we tried to persuade the owner to put a roof over it, and afterward were very thankful that she refused, for we have something better...
...These rings and snaps are arranged in several rows so that the walls may be lowered to the level of the cot or may enclose the sides to the top...
...Monrovia, California, * * * An Outdoor Dinitg Room THE description of an outdoor bedroom by Mrs...
...we found that a strip of oil cloth tacked along the joining made it perfectly safe...
...This would reduce the cost of food m::teria!s a'jot't 25 cents a day...
...This means that people may pass freely from dining room or kitchen to the porch and meals may be served outside without the slightest danger of admitting flies...
...By this means the air in the lower berth, which Mrs...
...It attracted wide attention and received much favorable comment...
...TJAbove all, the right of the domestic worker to social opportunity must be admitted...
...I could not understand it until I found out that there is such a thing as being saved psychologically and being saved physiologically...
...I changed the calculation therefore to make it apply to a family of four, a man, a woman, a boy of fifteen and a girl of twelve, allowing, as is usual, 8/10, 9/10, and 6/10 as much respectively for the woman, the boy and the girl as for the man...
...Play and Life THE institution with which I am connected is called a religious institution...
...First I made a dietary for one person, but that did not seem very illuminating, for few people buy foods in such small amounts...
...It is very important to have it watertight where it joins the wall...
...If the cloth is fastened over the screen it will admit air but no cinders...
...Other subjects taken at random are: "Canning Vegetables in the Home" by J. F. Breazeale, "Preparation of Vegetables for the Table" by Maria Parloa, "The Principles of Bread Making" by Helen W. Atwater, "Eggs as Food," "Fish as Food," and "Poultry as Food" by C. F. Langworthy and "Modern Conveniences for the Farm Home" by Elmina T. Wilson...
...We will all agree that we are fortunate in having a woman of such wide outlook and large usefulness on our staff...
...I have occasionally found Christians who were pessimistic, easily disturbed...
...This last would alone contain 2V2 ounces of proteids or as much as there is in a pound of sirloin steak...
...One good result of the wide spread interest in this bulletin is that it has called attention to the previous publications of the Office of Experiment Stations on subjects of household interest, like the one on "Care of Food in the Home," by Mrs...
...The bill-of-fare could be as follows: Breakfast: Oranges, eggs on toast, coffee with cream...
...Rice brings to mind a scheme recently adopted by a friend for getting an outdoor dining room...
...The 3 quarts of milk which would cost 27 cents would take the place of t :e cream in the original bill-of-fare (10 cents), 2 eggs (4 cents), and 1 pound of meat (20 cents) and could be used for one dessert...
...A year ago she prepared a bulletin for the United States Bureau of Education entitled "Daily Meals of School Children...
...that many men are carrying on their morals what they ought to carry on their muscles, and that many men are wicked mainly because they are weak...
...Suggestions to Travelers ACOAT HANGER for temporary use on a sleeper or in a hotel can be made out of a newspaper and a piece of string...
...Now suppose that instead of the cream the family had taken 3 quarts of milk, enough to supply Vz pint of thick cream, 1 pint of half cream and half milk, and 2% quarts of skim milk for cooking...
...She lives in an apartment where there is a small back porch on to which there open a kitchen door and a kitchen window, a pantiy window and long French windows from the dining room...
...As a matter of fact it is always up except during a rain or snow storm...
...At present prices the food materials would cost not far from $1,60, the largest items being 40 cents for meat, 20 cents for butter, 15 cents for berries, 13 cents for a vegetable, 12 cents for eggs and 10 cents each for cream and oranges...
...The canvas walls are fastened to the floor of the balcony and to the 5 feet posts and walls of the house by rings and snaps...
...Therefore, recognizing the great place that play has in life, we who are interested in-saving boys and young men realize that we must save the whole boy, the whole man...
...A Knowledge of Food Values an Aid to Marketing A Rfading course in domestic science.— lesson XIX...
...This roof awning may be roiled up by pulling on ropes exactly like the ordinary awnings over store windows...
...It implies a physiological as well as a psychological salvation.— George J. Fisher, M. D., Secretary, International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, New York City in Th4 Playground for March...
...One observer calling attention to this fact has asked why the cook book should not be called "Aunt Caroline's" instead of "Uncle Sam's ." I know our readers will be interested to know of Miss Hunt's part in this important work of investigation and of the success of the publication...
...In many other ways i. suu.y of i...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT U. S. Cook Bjok 66 W^CONOMICAL USE OF MEAT IN THE HOME" is |i the dignified title of Farmers' Bulletin 391, issued I V March 21, 1910, by the U. S. Department of Agri-_M_A culture...
...Dinner: Beef steak, creamed potatoes, a vegetable, strawberry short cake...
...The rods form a steep angle, about 45 degrees with the side of the house, in order that the awning may readily shed rain...
...It adds a room to the house and, as some one recently said, it was a *;ood stroke of business on the part of the owner for it greatly increases the attractiveness of his property...
...The first dealers consulted having had little experience in screening porches and evidently wishing to make it an object to people to stick to old ways gave enormous estimates on screening in the whole and temptingly small estimates on screening the doors and windows...
...The entire cost, exclusive of screenings, was $15...
...An iron rod—it should have been a stout board—extends between the posts and is fastened to them...
...The whole balcony may thus be entirely enclosed in wet weather and then really forms a half tent...
...If milk had been taken as a beverage or otherwise in addition to the foods in the first bill-of-fare, each quart so used would have added more than an ounce of unnecessary proteid to the diet and 9 cents to the cost...
...Mary Hinman Abel, who recently contributed an article for this page, entitled "House Work and Fresh Air...
...Dinner: Beef steak, potatoes, a vegetable, strawberry short cake...
...Five other rods are fastened to this and to the wall of the house to form a support for the canvas roof...
...When the owner was making plans for screening the house, she sug- * gested that it would cost little, if any, more to screen the porch than to screen all the windows and doors leading on to it...
...It was about D feet long by 5 feet wide, with a railing 2 feet high, and posts 5 feet high at the outer corners...
...It seeks to save men and boys...
...Rice and potatoes make an unnecessarily starchy meal and so far as food values are concerned, both fresh vegetables and fresh fruits are not needed in one bill-of-fare...
...End pieces—also exactly on the order of store awnings— are provided to cover the triangular openings on the ends between the roof awning and canvas walls...
...All that is necessary to obtain a copy is to write to either your representative or senator or to the Department of Agriculture...
...When the walls are up one has all the privacy of a room and there are no direct drafts, and yet there is perfect ventilation...
...It brought together the results of many observations and experiments relative to the effect of wholesome food upon the physical and mental vigor of the child, and contained much practical information both regarding the selection of food for children in the home and the serving of meals in the school...
...I found that for this group of people a daily allowance of 2 pounds of meat, 6 eggs, yz pint of cream, % pound of butter, 2 pounds of flour and % pound of sugar with a reasonable quantity of fruits and vegetables would be sufficient...
...Heretofore none of these documents have awakened extraordinary interest, nor can it be claimed that the phenomenal demand for this late bulletin is the expression of appreciation of a government service by a grateful people...
...The recipes were collected from many sources and with few exceptions were studied experimentally by Miss Hunt...
...O. S. RICE OUR back balcony was of the sort common to almost all upper flats—at least in our city...
...While acting as special agent for the Government in preparation of these bulletins Miss Hunt has come in contact with the most advanced work in these various fields...
...By substituting it for some of the foods, instead of taking it in addition to them, it nr\y be nv !o the means of keeping up the required amount of nourishment and decreasing the cost...
...Luncheon: Tomato cream soup, eggs on toast, lettuce, old fashioned rice pudding or Indian pudding...
...These should be long enough to extend a foot or more down on to the wall, so that snow or rain can not blow in...
...Luncheon: Cold lamb, potato salad, tea, preserves and plain cake...
...Pankhurst says is the only air in the world worse than that in the women's gallery of the House of Commons, may be made quite endurable...
...Cotton crepe shirtwaists which requires no ironing are a boon to those who are traveling rapidly from place to place and have not time to wait for laundry work to be done...
...In this work I have met many Christian people and have found some of them hard to get on with...
...Seven hundred and fifty thousand copies have already been issued by the Department of Agricuture and another edition of five hundred thousand copies has just been provided for by congress...
...The paper should be so folded as to be the width of a hanger and then tightly rolled and wound with string...
Vol. 2 • May 1910 • No. 20
