HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real ieat 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 New Years in...
...They comprise almost every known subject and represent probably every method of reproduction...
...Chang, his wife and young daughters, all in native costume, so beautiful in coloring and comfortable in fit...
...He speaks excellent English...
...Sherman, the wife of the Vice President stood next to him...
...Chang is rather tall, slender, and graceful...
...During the year, the library has exhibitions of pictures of various kinds...
...No one could have greater ease or pleasanter ways than the President...
...The time of Congress before the first of January is mostly wasted and the New Years reception at the White House seems like the opening of the political as well as of the social season...
...In talks before Parents' Associations, I have called attention to the proper decoration of school walls and the collection of pictures and personally save every picture that comes to my hands, either for the free library, some schools or for some children who will appreciate them...
...Many of the class rooms are properly decorated with framed pictures, obtained by gifts and the profits of fairs...
...The cheap printing processes of today have placed illustrations within the reach of almost every child in the land and the training now being had will, in the future, mean more artistic and better decorated homes and result in a higher appreciation of art in every form...
...And now, less than twenty-five years later, not only the wife but the young daughters of the Chinese minister are at the White House reception, enjoying their freedom, just like American women and girls...
...These pictures can be borrowed for school use and probably for other uses...
...As the majority of these lectures are illustrated, lanterns are necessary...
...Duplicates are arranged by the name of the engraver of the plate and others under general heads, as city halls, court houses, banks, factories and the like...
...The collection now numbers at least 75,000, all properly classified...
...The Bar-ringer High School has some fine pictures upon its class-room and auditorium walls, one valued at $3,000...
...In the city camps, water was provided and in a few of those operated under the newer and more humane contracts there were shower baths...
...We passed down the aisle with the Marine Band playing on either side, through the Red Room single file to the Blue Room door, where President Taft cordially greeted each guest...
...Many are rare and of value...
...We met General Bell, who is at the head of the Army, a frank, unassuming man, with pleasing address...
...It was plain that the new administration was to be sympathetically supported by a woman of intellect and experience, who understood the value and relation of social contact to political life...
...Immediately after inauguration she began to extend the hospitality of the White House to the entire official circle in well chosen groups, in a series of entertainments...
...She now pluckily assumes her place to the limit of her strength and her forethought and management are felt in all the arrangements at the White House...
...For many years I have collected pictures and now have some 10,000 classified by the names of the artists who painted the originals...
...Many are owned by the library but as a general rule, the oil paintings are loaned by the citizens of Newark...
...Making Good Use of Pictures Mrs...
...One of the first persons we met on entering the East Room, was Victor Murdock, a brave Insurgent, still insurging...
...Senator New-lands of Nevada, a scholarly, philosophical, independent thinker...
...Taft had left before we arrived...
...Dear Madam : ITAKE the liberty of writing to you upon a subject touched upon in a recent issue of La Follette's Weekly Magazine, of which I am a subscriber...
...Pictures relating to Newark are much used, as the library holds an annual exhibition of Newark history material of all kinds...
...Frear, Wisconsin's Secretary of State (who with Mrs...
...I am heartily in accord with the general tendency to make use of illustrations in the education of today and feel that we are rapidly realizing the need of more artistic homes, school-rooms and books...
...Champ Clark,' the Democratic leader of the House, whose fine, clear-cut face impresses you with his ability and sincerity...
...One of the...
...John Cotton Dana, has taken much interest in this branch of work...
...Later will come "Lincoln" and then "Washington...
...This tends to show it is not safe to infer that because a man does not take baths, he does not want them—at least not until he has been brought up against the proper facilities for bathing...
...The White House door opened for Congressional people at 11:30 by the tick of the clock...
...Another showed various processes of making engravings...
...At the outset, one contractor objected to the building of baths on the ground that they were a waste of money...
...ORIGINALLY, these New Years receptions were attended by men only...
...The framers of the Constitution must have been mostly prudent farmers like George Washington, who purposed to begin legislation early in the winter and get home in time for Spring's work...
...Her beautiful black hair was artistically ornamented with pearls...
...Shower Baths in Construction Camps NOT very long ago, we spoke of shower baths as the possible means by which gangs of working men in temporary quarters might find an opportunity to keep clean and to get refreshment in hot weather...
...What could be more convincing evidence of the progress of women and of the progress of the world...
...Many of the school houses have assembly halls and are equipped for both day and night stereoptican exhibitions...
...Though quiet and of fine executive ability, she probably did too much and was obliged to spend the summer in recuperation...
...One group was particularly the center of interest...
...Very truly yours, Herbert L. Thowless...
...It was the new Chinese minister, Mr...
...A year ago I tried to give my impression of this occasion...
...More than anything else it awakens the realization that Washington is a great National Capital...
...Then we chatted with quiet, keen-eyed Senator Bristow...
...For general classroom work, there are many thousands of pictures in use...
...The Board of Education maintains courses of free lectures during the fall and winter season in some 13 school houses, the free library and a church...
...exhibitions was largely of Japanese pictures...
...As the East Room flooded with sunlight fills with the representatives of foreign countries in beautiful court costumes, and with officers of the army and navy in full uniform, wearing their medals of honor, no brilliantly lighted ball room with women resplendent in silks and jewels can compare with it...
...Before two weeks had passed, he said he would have to increase the water supply as the baths were so popular that there was not enough water to go around...
...Descriptions must grow stale, but the event itself is always stirring...
...I well remember when we were here before, hearing the wife of a cabinet official, who was also new, laughingly refer to a blunder she had made in calling to pay her respects at the Chinese Embassy, before she learned that custom did not allow the Chinese women to appear in public...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT New Years in Washington WHY DID our forefathers fix the fourth of March for the beginning of a new Congress and the first Monday in the following December for its convening, causing distraction to the American people who attempt to solve the problem of just when a session of Congress does begin and end...
...Absence of railway facilities made going home for the holidays out of the question and there were no weather bureau records to warn them of the capricious storms brewed especially for inauguration dates...
...From The Survey of January 1, we learn that a party of women, including two members of the New York State Immigration Committee, recently visited the construction camps which are the "homes" of the thousands of men who are working on the great barge canal which is being built across the State of New York and on the new aqueduct for the city of New York...
...when Mr...
...Something of this tradition still remains, and there are always many more men present than women...
...so on through the East Room,—at each turn were men, distinguished and honored in the nation and the world...
...Every one regrets the break in her health...
...A considerable number of the public school houses are equipped with stereopticans and thus are enabled to make use of sets of lantern slides and hold entertainments and lectures where a lantern is a valuable adjunct...
...The Board has also purchased a large number of stereoscopes and sets of views for general class-room work...
...Every one recognizes the advantages of a change, but it appears as difficult to secure as an amendment for an Income Tax, or election of United States Senators by direct vote...
...Frear was our guest) spoke to the Justice of the value to the nation of a certain dissenting opinion he had written, this aged Judge was as pleased as a young attorney complimented on winning his first case...
...The Librarian, Mr...
...As an example of the classification, I mention that pictures relating to "Christmas" are in demand...
...The subject of pictures for school use interested me because of my own work along that line...
...Robert M. La Follette, Madison, Wisconsin...
...The young girls wore their's in loose braids down their backs, with pink bows...
...In the public schools, pictures have received much attention...
...Portraits are placed under the name represented...
...He finally consented to introduce them "thinking to prove them useless...
...She and all the cabinet ladies who stood in line were very gracious, shaking hands with those they recognized in passing...
...The general subject of pictures has received considerable attention in Newark...
...The Public Library commenced, some years ago, to collect pictures of all kinds and issued an appeal for contributions...
...His wife is much shorter than the average American woman, very-girlish in figure, sweet and matronly in manner...
...We asked for an introduction...
...There will be exhibitions of oil paintings, etchings, and engravings of various kinds...
...Justice Harlan's towering figure is always the center of a group...
...They found that in the state camps where 5,000 men were employed there were no facilities for bathing...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 2
