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 Caring for the...
...WITH the camping season approaching, men as well as women are interested in cookery and are anxious to learn how to become accomplished in the art...
...124 79 ! 28 * * * A New Suffrage Association By ELIZABETH D. O'NEILL MILWAUKEE is planting a good many seeds this spring, the growth and harvest of which are being watched with interest the country over...
...We await the time when the rib will become 'A New Woman,' ready to help man in a higher and more glorious state than any he has ever seen...
...Ih.s hope implies that youth in appioaching it, in thinking and acting for the many whose lot it is the immediate task of the future to improve, adopt as their own the words of Walt Whitman, "I do not ask whether my wounded brother suffers...
...This sounds hopeful until they discover that successful guess-work in cooking depends upon long experience and the ability to detect small differences in temperature and in the consistency of mixtures...
...Miss Laura Clay...
...Olaf Guldlin, chairman the Household Economics Committee of the Federation of Women's Clubs, a position which offers a great opportunity for popular educational work, will agree, I am sure, that her strength and her success have been due to her efforts to "plough abreast" with investigators and students...
...A knowledge of food values, too, makes it possible for even the inexperienced cook to substitute one starchy food for another— farina or bread crumbs for flour in thickening soups, cold boiled rice for bread crumbs in making cheese fondue or crackers for macaroni in the preparation of a quickly-made cheese dish...
...The second possible substitute is the ability to look within food materials with the eye of understanding and to know what their composition is and whether they are starchy, fatty or albuminous...
...Revolt of the Modern Woman, and Woman in Industry...
...And so the people who are trying to add to knowledge and those who are trying to spread it abroad and to apply it must work side by side or, as Mr...
...Fels is very suggestive, and what he says in regard to Miss McMillan's coming to this country may be of interest to Women's clubs in making up their programs for next year.—b...
...We have worked for years for the conservation of the child through park playground", through the home, in the school, by medical and nursing inspection...
...For this experience there are two possible substitutes more easily obtained by persons who are busy most of the time at other occupations...
...These are as under:-— "Education—Schools of Yesterday and Schools of To-morrow...
...Women of the Hour Mrs...
...Said at the Biennial "CONSERVATION is no new word with the General Federation...
...Some children who were considered very dull by the teachers were found, after treatment, to be very bright indeed...
...Such a mixture sweetened and slightly cooked may be served with fruit instead of cream...
...Imagine yourselves, ladies, spending two-thirds of your family income on stone walls and moats, burglar alarms and bulldogs, and having only one-third left for the housing, feeding, clothing and education of your family...
...I am most anxious that Miss McMillan shall make the proper connections over there, as I am sure America needs the help and contribution of such great minds as hers...
...Miss McMillan established the first school clinic in England, and through her influence these clinics - re being started all over the country...
...In the infinite variety of milk soups, the amount of flour used for thickening a cupful of soup varies from a level tablespoonful in tomato soup, in which all the starch for thickening comes from the flour, to % tablespoonful in potato soup in which there are two sources of starch...
...T[From youth we have a right to expect something from the future...
...The fact thai pastry flour differs from bread flour chiefly in containing less gluten and more starch suggests that a substitute for pastry flour may be made by mixing bread flour with a little corn starch...
...The Modern Ideal—Its Methods and Research...
...Yours very truly, Joseph Fels...
...Some of the men, and I am proud to say most of the women of our country, are now beginning to realize that elections must not depend upon the party, but the man...
...Discharging Ears 17 11 4 Adenoids 14 8 5 Nose Discharge 2 2 Eyes (including Refractions 31 23 4 Skin......................| 27 23 2 Anaemia 17 6 5 Tuberculosis 7 2 f 4 General 9 4 4 Total...
...Of 150 children, nearly 80 were cured in the course of the first six months...
...It is convenient in making other kinds to know whether or not there is starch in the material used for flavoring...
...Hobson would say, must "plough abreast," Those who know of the work of Mrs...
...I have asked her to give me a list of subjects upon which she has been addressing audiences...
...The dub women of the country should know Mrs...
...Ex-President Decker...
...Helen V. Boawell...
...Number | still under | Treatment...
...B., and other notable housewives...
...I will myself be this wounded brother...
...The first work she did on coming into office was to get into touch with the workers in Home Economics everywhere, there in government service, in schools, in colleges, in clubs, and in libraries, and to find what was being done to extend knowledge and to educate the people...
...Hence- club women can help working women in creating a public opinion which will demand that wage-working women be treated with justice and consideration...
...our fair land on every hand we are spending our chief thought on possible enemies over seas, and are paying over two-thirds of our Federal revenue on past war and preparation for future war...
...it seems to imply that if you are elected to be a good cook, you will be one and if you are not, you may as well give up...
...We have only 32 cents left of every dollar to spend on all national necessities and constructive work...
...Rural Education...
...But there is a great deal already known by a few people which has never been told to the great mass of the people...
...As a beginning, she planned a trip through the west last winter for Miss Barrows of Teachers' College, one of the wisest of teachers and one of the most skillful of demonstrators of the art of cookery...
...Joseph Fels...
...It serves, too, to dissolve the connective tissue of the meat...
...Spring always was a good planting time...
...When butter is scarce, yolks may be added to milk gravies to supply the necessary fat...
...and, while the> cover a wide field, I consider her thoroughly au fait with anything upon which she lectures or writes...
...We have still about 6,000,000 illiterates and pay our average school teacher lesb than an average street sweeper...
...Guldlin...
...They hear, too that some people cook well by "guess...
...A., Mrs...
...Guldlin's hope to establish an Extension Department in connection with the Federation which will be a center from which lecturers and teachers can be sent to the clubs of the country...
...c. l. 39 Wilson St., London, E. C. Dear Madam: MY NAME may not be unfamiliar to you...
...Some Studies on the Woman Question...
...I am the senior partner of Fels & Cc...
...The Humanism of the North...
...This makes it possible to modify recipes in case of necessity, and necessity often arises even in the best regulated families, to say nothing of camps...
...Number Cured...
...Much of this information she brought together and published in the April number of Club Notes...
...They are intended for the use of individuals and of clubs...
...Eva M. Valesh, American Federation of Labor...
...Adolescence—The City Child and Youth...
...I refer to Miss Margaret McMillan, of 127 George Lane, Lewis-ham, London...
...I cannot but wish that our women would turn more from the tragedies of prose and poetry to the human tragedies which are enacted hourly under our eyes and which could be turned into pleasant domestic dramas if we would but care more for the welfare of the people we can see and know than for the creations of any mind, however brilliant...
...The Ideal State...
...Its Debatable Land...
...Philadelphia (Fels-Naptha soap), and divide my time between the two countries...
...much about the cost of living and what the forces are which tend to make it high or low...
...For several years I have enjoyed the acquaintance of a very remarkable woman, who has- made this class of work her cwn, and given it much attention, visiting many Continental countries for the purpose of thoroughly mastering her subject...
...The address by Miss McMillan which accompanies Mr...
...These results are tabulated as follows: Illness...
...She can help them and they can help her...
...They hear of people being "born" cooks, but this is discouraging because it suggests a sort of fatalism like the old doctrine of election...
...A knowledge of the difference in composition between egg whites and egg yolks shows why the former are used interchangeably with baking powder, or yeast powder as they say in the South, and why the latter may often be made to take the place of butter or cream...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Caring for the Health of Pupils The following letter from Mr...
...Yet with ignorance, recklessness, waste, preventable disease, accident and crime attacking...
...Mrs...
...Ellen Key...
...I have had no discussion whatever with Miss McMillan as to her fees, etc...
...Those results serve to show how very easy the problem is, if it is faced in a business-like, practical way...
...A piece of beef may be kept for several days in perfectly good condition in vinegar and water and it will be getting tender all the time...
...It is Mrs...
...R. M. La Follette, Madison, Wis...
...The "sour beef" of Germans was probably the result of stern experience in primitive times before the advantages of cold storage were known...
...Vinegar is a preservative...
...There is much to be discovered before we can live really well—much about food materials and houses and what makes them healthful or unhealthful...
...Since living on this side, I have become much interested in the agitation for more humane conditions in the schools, and especially what has come to be known as school clinics dealing with the general health of the pupils...
...It is a strange commentary upon our boasted American civilization that in this country three times as many persons per 1,000 employed are killed and injured in the course of their employment as in any other country in the world...
...John Mitchell* * • "Anything which impairs the health or morals of working women during the years she spends in the factory makes her less valuable to the nation as a mother...
...In the making of salad dressings, skim milk and egg yolks form a good substitute for cream...
...The first and the indispensable one is a good cook-book, one that contains a single exact recipe for each one of the standard dishes rather than half-a-dozen versions of it by Mrs...
...Number Treated...
...but, as her first lecture engagement so far fixed for that side is on September 23rd next, before the Demographi-cal International Society at Washington, there will be time to correspond on the subject...
...Aside from the desire to obtain the two 'm's usual to infant organizations (members and money), the chief aim of the association for the present will be to interest the legislators with reference to accomplishing something for the cause...
...President Moore...
...Her latest achievement, and one which ought to be of interest to the women of Wisconsin at least, is the starting of a Milwaukee branch of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association...
...Fellow reader, what seeds are you sowing this spring...
...Miss McMillan has for many years also interested herself in the woman question, and, under this head, has lectures on— "Woman and Politics...
...A Knowledge of Food Values an Aid to Cooking A Reading Course in Domestic Science.—Lesson XX...
...Lucia Ames Mead...
...Olaf N. Guldlin THAT "the field of progress is best ploughed by driving many teams abreast" is nowhere truer than among those who are ti ying to learn and to teach others how everyday life may be made more healthful and more beautiful...
...Man should just quietly go to sleep as Adam did of old, and by a simple process of law woman will vote, and the presto, change will be accomplished...
...The Vote—what it can and cannot do...
...If we know what kinds of meat or fish contain much fat and what kinds do not, we know which may be broiled or roasted alone and which need to be dipped in melted fat or to be covered with slices of bacon or to be egged and crumbed...
...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...
...Fels' letter, entitled "New Life in Our Schools," contains this statement which shows his philanthropic support of the work in which she is engaged: "In London, at Devon's Road School, Bow, a little school clinic was opened in December, 1908...
...a great deal of useful knowledge, too, which has never been applied where it should have been—to the practical problems of daily life...
...We can no longer cling to the old ideal of party fealty," she declared...
...It is financed by Mr...
...Although very young, scarcely out of the ground so to speak, it is forcing ahead eagerly, enthusiastically, and, it hopes, effectively...
...All this work which belongs to child conservation has been ours for the last 20 years...
Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 22
