HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The heme Is the real Beat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifte to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Shart Course...
...If short courses are arranged so that two years', or one year's work stands as a definite achievement, high schools and colleges will reach the people much more widely and directly than they now do...
...The Better Way THE July Everybody's has an article by Ernest Poole entitled "A City's Dream of a City...
...The Chicago plan of arranging these short courses so the time counts equally for the long course will increase the number of graduates of the four years' course, for many will undertake the short course who would not otherwise enter the high school at all and will be stimulated, by their interest and ambition, Jo go on...
...Louis, have tried a shortened high school course, and it has proved successful and has filled a real need...
...These will include shop mathematics, mechanical drawing, and English...
...Always when I encounter this nuisance, I wonder if there is not a better way...
...This course will include accounting, penmanship, and business arithmetic, together with business English and other subjects...
...There are thousands of mothers who are working on the problem I propose...
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...She showed that in an intelligent community charities, corrections and poor relief lead directly to prevention, wise legislation and social justice...
...Though much in sympathy with the work of this school, I did not base my dietary on its standard for the reason that I knew it had not been generally accepted...
...Before the Conference divided itself into the committees through which it does the greater part of its work, Miss Addams reviewed the labors of all the committees including those on state supervision of charitable institutions, law breaking, standards of living and labor, housing, health and recreation, drunkenness, and the training of social workers...
...Bill of Fare Breakfast.—Fried potatoes, coffee, milk, bread and butter...
...Pork Tt 26 cts...
...They were omitted for two reasens...
...This is exactly the kind of letter I like to receive...
...To those who know Miss Addams either personally or through her work, a special significance attaches to this latest address, a significance quite apart from that which conies from its value as a presentation of the history of philanthropy...
...Wages and the Price of Food AFTER the publication of the article on "A Knowledge of Food Values" in our issue of May 21 I received the following letter: "In your issue of May 21, under the heading 'A Knowledge of Food Values' you demonstrate that a family of four can be fed at the cost of $1.60 per day...
...that her tolerance of the weaknesses of others never leads her to lower her own ideals...
...Since receiving the above letter I have made ulu a dietary, including some of the cheapest foods, and have estimated its cost at the lowest Washington prices...
...Tea iff 40 cts...
...tb . . . Coffee (a) 25 cts...
...Few of the figures were given in the article...
...Poole's "dream" demonstrates that there is...
...The dirt of the street is sucked up into and emptied out of covered boxes so that the inhabitants of the city do not have to bicathe and eat it as we do in Washington when the clumsy street-cleaning wagons, with their trailing brushes, pass by, stirring up the dust and contaminating the air with foul smells...
...textiles, English, practical arithmetic, science, and other subjects which are necessary...
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...Rice fa 10 cts...
...beefj (0 12V, cts...
...Cabbage <tv 2 cts...
...And on reading the address on "Charity and Social Justice" we feel the same poise...
...Bake for 45 minutes in a moderate oven...
...Supper.—Pork and beans, tea...
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...Ib . . . Molasses (a) 10 cts...
...Louis, and piibl'ched in The Survey for June 11...
...The first was that such figures seemed to have no place in a popular discussion...
...lb . Beans @ » cts...
...Yes, even a small plot of ground can be made to appear as if there were depths and lengths and heights for your exploring...
...pecli Chuck ribs...
...If there had been any question of the relation of cost of food to income I should have been even more loath to use the lower, or, as it is sometimes called, the Chittenden, standard, for I believe that it is extremely desirable to establish a minimum wage, and that this must not be based upon low dietary standards unless such standards have been absolutely proved...
...I have felt, t"o, that H<uacc Fletcher's tinn- would have been better spent in advocating the establishment >>i a minimum wage than in teaching the inhabitants of the Ea.i Side "1 New York City to chew, and thus to live on next u> nothing...
...The second was that to go into details at present with reference to dietaries is to raise the very much-mooted question of dietary standards...
...The very wise plan has been adopted of arranging these courses so that pupils who, at the end of the first two years, find that they can continue for the long four years' course, will have an opportunity to do so without loss of time...
...Therefore they have decided to try it in Chicago.'' THE course is intended to be thorough and complete, as is evidenced by the following bulletin issued as an announcement: "The principal is requested to announce to each member of the graduating class that a new arrangement of courses for the first two years in high school will be ready at the opening of school in September...
...Those who have watched her from year to year have marveled that this balance is never destroyed...
...qr Butter (fv SO cts...
...For example, a thorough two years' course will be given in stenography and typewriting, with such work in business arithmetic, English, etc., as is necessary...
...It is this perfect balance of ideals with tolerance that gives this address its special significance...
...It is for the American people to say whether the food given above is too elaborate, whether the cost is a reasonable per cent, of the wages, and whether that which is left, $3.75 a week, is enough to pay for rent, fuel, light, clothes and school books...
...bread and butter, apple sauce...
...applicable to the general high school and can be worked out wherever there is one...
...Many modern school reforms are expensive and difficult to bring about—but the short course plan can be adapted to any high school...
...THERE is a certain discouragement to young people to undertake a high school or college course which they have little hope of completing...
...Two years of work in industrial drawing and two years of work in each one of these technical subjects—advanced carpentry, pattern making, and machine shop work—also will be arranged...
...We find ourselves at one time wondering that her own clear understanding that the end of all philanthropic work must be the prevention of poverty and crime never leads her to impatience with those who are moving toward enlightened methods through the slow process of the amelioration of preventable suffering and the gathering and tabulating of statistics...
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...In doing this Miss Addams showed that while the object of the work of each committee must be to remove the causes of poverty, degeneracy and crime through an enlightened public opinion finding expression in protective legislation, the facts and statistics upon which the plea for such legislation must be founded have been and are being secured chiefly throug^SSS^S^W^SKtKBKB^d enterprises...
...NUT BREAD MIX together 2 cupfuls of graham flour, 1 cupful of white flour, 1 level teaspoonful of salt, 1 tablespoonful of brown sugar, 1/22 cupful of broken walnut meats, 1/22 cupful of raisins and dates cut into small pieces...
...lb . . Sugar @ 5 V2 cts...
...that the high standards to which she holds herself never lead her to judge those who go astray...
...As our readers probably know, a school of food specialists has recently arisen that advocates a very much lower ration than that which has in the past been accepted as necessary for physical well-being...
...A street cleaning machine now in use in Berlin especially interested me...
...Other cities, among them St...
...From Charity to Social Justice FOR those who have a heart-interest in removing the results of poverty and a head-interest in removing its causes and who are sometimes at a loss to know whether to follow the heart or the head there is a message of encouragement and inspiration in Miss Addams' Presidential Addref:, read at the National Conference on Charities and Corrections in St...
...The amounts and the prices of the foods used are as follows: M:m>riii|x Amount Cost Potatoes t( ^ 1 0 p- r Fat for fryiny...
...that makes it seem like a bit of Miss Addams' own personality...
...Students who wish to take a special two years' course in bookkeeping will find such a course arranged for...
...Add 2 tablespoonfuls of molasses, 1 tablespoonful of soda dissolved in 1 tablespomful of hot water, and about 1 and 1/2 cupfuls of sour milk...
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...Apples (<y 40 cts...
...It) ¦'¦ cup | lb ! $0,045 .045 .02S .040 .065 .050 . 125 .050 .080 . U2 5 .010 . 150 .010 . 03 2 .015 These foods give a total of 11.7 ounces of proteids and 9,680 calories, thus approximate very closely to the standard, as given above...
...This significance comes from the fact that there is found in the address that wonderfully delicate balance between high ideals on the one hand and sympathy and tolerance on the other, which characterizes Miss Addarss* life...
...Two years of work in household arts also will be offered, including household science...
...It is not necessary to make the courses technical or specialized...
...The principle and the advantages are equally Whose recommendation for two year High Schools has been adopted in Chicago...
...at another time that her interest in the practical problems of relief work never for a moment obscures her vision of the goal...
...From "Potulaca Comer" by Winifred Blake in the June Atlantic...
...Less than 1 per cent, of Chicago's school children graduate from the high school...
...quite apart from its far-seeing recommendations...
...If wages were $1.50 a day, or $9 a week, the food materials alone would amount to 5S per cent, of the wages...
...this in spite of the fact that I am sure we should all be in better, health if we chewed our food more thoroughly...
...This made a total of about 111/2 ounces of proteids, and 9,900 calories...
...Dinner.—Chuck ribs of beef, potatoes, cabbage, bread and butter, rice pudding...
...It...
...THE SMALL GARDEN ''ONE of the greatest effects in a garden is that of vista, and it can be had in a surprisingly small space, by the use of shrubbery and trees,—a winding in and out, a leading of the eye along from mystery to mystery of enchanting foliage,— the brilliant borders of blossoms just a hint here, just showing there, and defying you to make them out angular or straight or definite...
...Flour <Q> 3 V2 cts...
...The Chicago Tribune quotes Mrs...
...The number of children who enter the high schools has decreased all over the country at an alarming rate...
...Diplomas or credits for Short Courses are strong and worthy inducements to boys and girls to remain in school as long as they can afford to stay...
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...I took rather the standard ordinarily given in government publications for those doing light muscular work and aimed to provide for the man of the family 31/2 ounces of proteids or tissue-forming foods, and 3,000 calories of energy, and for the woman, the boy an I the girl, eight-tenths, nine-tenths and six-tenths respectively of this amount...
...But the dreams are all realities—things actually accomplished here and there over the world—and the writer very cleverly brings them together in one concrete whole...
...The menu was based upon very careful calculations...
...A certain stigma attaches to the failure to "go on" or "get through...
...Food of the above quality would cost $5.25 a week...
...Its wholesomeness would depend of course upon the way in which the foods were prepared...
...Before answering it in detail I wish to say that my purpose In planning the menu referred to was not to give the cheapest bill-of-fare possible, but merely to show a certain form of economy,—that involved in buying whole milk and skimming it rather than in buying cream...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Shart Course for High Schools ELLA FLAGG YOUNG, Chicago's able superintendent of Public Schools, after a thorough investigation of the subject, recently made a recommendation for the establishment of two-year high school courses, which has been adopted by the school board and will be carried into effect the next school year beginning September first...
...Salt, spices, etc...
...lb . Milk <tv 8 cts...
...The foods used could probably not be obtained for any smaller amount in that city except by spending a large amount of time in the markets waiting for bargain sales...
...that ideals never outweigh tolerance, nor tolerance, ideals...
...Would the writer of that article give us a bill-of-fare for a like family of four that is supported by the average laboring man who earns only $1.50 per day for six days a week, so as to bring the cost of the food for himself and family within his income and still ha.ve something left for clothing, fuel, rent, light and school Books for the two children...
...Young as saying: "Many children do not enter the high schools because they know they will not be able to finish the four years' course...
...Can you help them to the solution of it...
...I offer it not -as an ideal bill-of-fare for the poor, but as one which provides the amount of nourishment usually considered necessary and which utilizes low-priced materials...
...The plan is to have two years' work so arranged that a pupil who expects to be in school only two years can get a thorough training in some one principal subject of study, together with the allied subjects which are necessary...
Vol. 2 • July 1910 • No. 26
