HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real Mat 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 Obligation*...
...This was the price she paid for helping to open to women a profession in which they are now doing a work of greatest value...
...They detect an unfortunate tendency to consider land and food products as the vehicles by which great fortunes may be brought to individuals instead of as the necessary physical basis of homes, to be protected as such...
...The Women's Trade Union League played in Important part In bringing this about...
...Then there are our back yards...
...They see hundreds of thousands of young women working in factories under conditions that are rendering them physically, mentally, and morally unfitted to make homes and to be the mothers of the next generation...
...In all this don't forget the sweater...
...Just at present they have in mind the fact that hundreds of homes in the state in which Northwestern University is located have been left fatherless by means of a mining disaster which, there is every reason to believe, could have been prevented...
...ELIZABETH BLACKWELL died in England on June first...
...Noting these conditions in society, they find themselves quite unable to understand why these matters seem of so little importance to those in public life, why they are apparently so lightly regarded and so readily laid aside by legislatures to make room for other matters which are of much less vital importance, of much less human interest...
...They are not used nearly so much as they might be...
...The interests of women center about the home...
...We have said many times and we shall probably say many more times that all the back yards in a block might be thrown together to make a playground or a park...
...I look out of 1117 window and see little children playing on the cement walk and in the street and I think what a line place could be made for them by uniting *he back yards and putting up swings and play houses and other things dear to the heart of childhood...
...The women graduates of Northwestern University looking about them into social and industrial life with eyes that were opened by the training which they received at the University, see many conditions which are affecting disastrously the interests of the home, conditions that can be changed only by public and united action...
...And they turn to the University and ask it to use its influence, its direct influence on the community, and the indirect influence which it exerts by the ideals that it puts before its students, to bring these matters to that position of importance which they should hold in the minds of lawmakers...
...They see boys and young men, the future heads of households, exploited to make profits for individuals when all the conditions of their lives should be determined by the needs of their growing bodies and of their developing minds...
...Some call it "The Peace of God...
...I wanted to say "Go home and put the baby's carriage out on a porch...
...Here is where the mechanical waitress comes in and the casserole, the covered baking dish which retains the heat a very long time and which even the winds of the open have difficulty in cooling off...
...One of these schools only, that connected with Hobart College, consented to admit her...
...In its presence we ask ourselves the old question about the life which lies beyond the grave, and in the face we read that there is no answer...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Obligation* of Universities to their Women Graduates by caroline l. hunt (The following was given at a dinner of the Northwestern University Club at Washington, D. C. It had special reference to the acceptance by the University of a large gift of money for a gymnasium by James A. Patten, who came into prominence a year or so ago beneficiary of a rite in the price of wheat) A UNIVERSITY is under peculiar obligations to its women graduates...
...There is many a day when it is not bad overhead but too sloppy underfoot to make it safe or pleasant for children to play out...
...These are the days for the porch playroom...
...These facts, the fact that the university has trained them, and the fact that they are themselves unrepresented, puts the university under an obligation to conserve their interests even more faithfully, more conscientiously, than it conserves the interests of men...
...They see vast numbers of men expected to make and to maintain homes who do not receive in exchange for their labors enough to maintain homes in comfort or even in decency...
...Not long ago a great physician, Dr...
...On Living Out-of-Doors THERE is a charm about life in the woods that never can be found in the town...
...There is not a purpose for which they are used that we could not acomplish in some other way if we put our collective brains to work at it...
...They are not asking how rapidly its endowment is increasing, how many new buildings are being erected, nor how great the percentage of increase is among the faculty or the students...
...Knopf, wrote a book on tuberculosis which we reviewed in this department...
...Opposite is a semi-circular seat in granite with a background of green, and over all is a gicat pine \vho--c needles and cones outline themselves against the sky...
...The women graduates of Northwestern are judging the University by no material standard of advancement...
...in what it conceals rather than in what it reveals...
...It is light, warm, and does not interfere with the use of the arms...
...They are asking rather what influence it is sending out and particularly what it is doing for the homes of the country...
...Then we must plan how to get things out easily and to keep them hot...
...I saw a friend the other day standing in the shelter of a doorway with a most anxious and weary expression on her face...
...A wading pool even might be added...
...With these facts before it, it will not be difficult for the university to understand why some of its women graduates could not rejoice over the fact that it accepted a large sum of money which had been made by speculation in one of the chief foods of the people...
...When I saw one in use recently and found that it cost only $3.50, I thought that it would be a seasonable present for a bride...
...Having been refused admission to all of the medical colleges in Philadelphia and New York City, she made application to twelve schools in smaller places...
...Then you will know he is getting fresh air and no germs and you can lay aside that careworn expression...
...She was the first woman in America to take a medical degree and to practice medicine...
...I have never been able to understand why porches are not more used as outdoor playrooms for children...
...In the absence of all marks of earthly distinction, the place is dedicated to the experience through which all must pass and to the great leveler, Death...
...Blackwell was a woman to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude, all of us at least who believe that, with a world full of work to be done, it is a mistake to set up barriers to prevent people from doing that for which they are specially fitted...
...When you start to turn off heat or let the fire go out ask yourself if it would not be better to open a window instead...
...It is the most nearly adequate expression that Art has given us of the mystery which surrounds the dead and of our own unknown destiny...
...The brief upon which the decision was based was prepared by Louis Brandeis, at present counsel for Glavls in the Balllnger-Plnchot Investigation...
...But his outdoor dining rooms were a Sabbath day's journey from his kitchens...
...But that is no reason why we should make life in town as unlike life in the woods as possible, no reason why we should house ourselves for eleven months and try to get all our joy and satisfaction out of what is going to happen during the twelfth...
...She took the baby into someone's house the other day when he should have been outdoors and I want to tee if she does it again...
...They see the heads of families going forth to earn their livings by means cf occupations which are conceded to be socially valuable and necessary, and yet unprotected from the peculiar dangers and hazards to which they are subjected in the course of their labors...
...What we want is to make it easier to serve outside than inside...
...But that does not satisfy for it is in its inscrutableness that the power of the face lies...
...Those who make their way through the hedge of low trees which extends outward from the sides of the slab, find themselves in a circular enclosure, and in the presence of a bronze figure of heroic size which is seated upon a rough-hewn stone at the base of the slab...
...Just now they are watching with interest and anxiety the Illinois Ten-hour law* for Women in Factories which was wrested last spring by a small group of people from an unwilling legislature and which is in danger of being declared unconstitutional...
...Or she could have dressed the child for the out-of-doors and put him by an open window...
...In addition to these conditions which affect the well-being of the supporters and the makers of homes, they see other conditions which affect the material things that are essential to home-making...
...Perhaps sometime we shall have in our new houses indoor and outdoor playrooms connected by French windows so that they can be thrown together and children dressed for the out-of-doors can carry their toys from one to the other...
...If there is any honest method by which you can forget the price of enough coal to make it possible to throw open all the windows, don't live in a closed up house...
...They note the increase of unemployment, under-employment, irregularity in employment, and of casual labor, with a corresponding increase of the menace which these evils offer to home life...
...Since this was written the Ten-hour law has been sustained by the Illinois Supreme Court...
...She said to me, "What do you suppose I am doing...
...These obligations arise from the fact that having educated them, having opened their eyes to see what is going on about them, having trained them to form judgments and to hold opinions, it sends them out into a world in which they have no direct method of making their opinions felt, no ballot, no voice in the chrice of those who are to represent them and their interests in public life...
...It was made for those who wish to live out-of-doors...
...A Figure of Mystery AMONG the trees in Rock Creek Cemetery, and too often unseen by visitors, is Washington's greatest work of art, the Adams Memorial, by Saint-Gaudens...
...And don't forget that the chief value of heat at this time of year is that it makes it possible to throw open the windows...
...it will be easy for it to understand why they regret that it put itself under obligations to heap public honors in the presence of its students upon a man who, having a large choice of occupations in life, selected one which must be regarded as peculiarly harmful to the interests of home-life...
...I am spying on my nurse-girl...
...the american people could make even garbage wagons beautiful enough and odorless enough to stop in front of the houses and the garbage man clean enough to enter the side way from the front...
...Within, as without, there is no name—either of the one who passed away or of the one who stayed or of the artist who designed the figure or of that almost equally great artist who planned its setting of natural beauty...
...Alleys are out of date and they take up a lot of room we need' for the out-of-door life...
...During all of her course and during the early years of her practice she was ridiculed and ostracized...
...For breakfast there is the electric toaster easily connected in such a way as to be used on the porch...
...The only part of the memorial which is visible to those who pass along the paths of the cemetery is a great granite slab which bears no word, but only two overlapping wreaths...
...The First Woman Physician of America DR...
...In it he blazed a new trail by giving plans for fresh air houses—not places for people to go to to get well but places for them to stay in and keep well...
...Some call the figure "Grief," but there is no grief expressed...
Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 23
