HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home 1b 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 Working for an...
...They were even then deserted and in ruins...
...Hewitt, director of the American Archaeological institute, says "they are unquestionably the greatest prehistoric monuments in the United States...
...IN THE CREATION of a national park to preserve these mine, Mrs...
...There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible or Hymn Book but which you can cure by good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.— Henry Ward Bcecher...
...Do not take off your screens too early...
...They were first mentioned by Coronado in 1540...
...With their balance of physical and mental labor, with their knowledge that they are useful while they are preparing to be more useful, they are a class to be looked upon n«t with compassion but with envy...
...Some of the principles of Amenia's field day committee are: 1. You have got to make the country as attractive socially as the city, if you want to keep the young folks on the farms...
...And do not let stray flips find refuge for the winter in warm corners of your house...
...The credit for this very fortunate condition of affairs is due to Ella Flagg Young, Superintendent of Schools...
...Peabody succeeded in slipping in an amendment extending its scope five miles in every direction...
...Houses made of stone, some three to six stories high, and containing from 25 to 100 rooms, ruins showing plainly where three different dwellings had occupied the same site, being built at widely different times...
...PETTIJOHN'S NUT BREAD 1 quart of Pettijohn's Break- 1 pint of luke-warm milk fast Food 1/2 cup of English walnuts 1 tablespoon of sugar broken into small pieces 1 cake of compressed yeast 3 cups of white flour...
...Good work is being done in the maintenance of the park and making it accessible...
...As a wise woman recently said to me: "For every one who is unproductive after he has reached years of manhood, scores must enter too eaily upon occupations that are productive but not educative...
...The superintendent has recommended that Balcony and Peabody houses be taken care of this year...
...It should never be the portion of an adult, except of those who do not develop mentally beyond the condition of childhood, and if "civic and educational conditions were more nearly ideal" there would be fewer of such grown people...
...Her knowledge thus acquired was an invaluable factor in advancing the bill...
...Prof...
...Make into two loaves and let them rise until they have doubled in size Bake for 45 minutes...
...Fight flies and if there is typhoid fever in your neighborhood, cook all food that could by any chance have been contaminated...
...How long shall we make business and trade the measure of life...
...The ruins extend in a crescent around the valley on the east and south, stretching 150 miles into Utah and Arizona...
...Kelley want to come back to Chicago...
...1 teaspoon of salt Dissolve the yeast in a little water and add to the milk...
...the danger is real...
...let us not think of them with pity unless the pressure of poverty is too hard...
...Lucy E Peabody a vote of thanks...
...The other ruins were found about twenty-five years ago by two cowboys who were threading their way through the dense wood in the canon looking for some lost cattle...
...A New Era in Chicago Schools FOR THE FIRST TIME since it became a great city, Chicago has school accommodations for all of its children of school age...
...play them yourself...
...The City Man in the Country AT AMENIA, in the State of New York, near the Connecticut border, they had a Field Day on August 20...
...This last Congress appropriated $22,000 for its maintenance, the largest appropriation made for any of the national parks...
...it is a good stepping stone...
...By "they" I mean the temporary city residents of this country district and also those who live there the year around...
...they happen to be on my mind just now...
...Here were elephants with howdahs...
...Jaunty acrobats and saucy clowns whose various attitudes ranged from the athletic to the ludicrous, walked or rode beside the procession...
...In the end she was victorious and in recognition of her work the American Anthropological Association passed its first public vote of thanks as follows: "Be it resolved that the American Anthropological Association recognizes in the securing of this national measure for the preservation of the great monuments of ancient culture in southern Colorado an exceptionally noteworthy service to science, and in testimony of such service hereby tenders to Mrs...
...But to get back from the children who work and are not educated to those who are educated without working and from them to those fortunate few who work while they are being educated...
...These she has had seated and is using for regular school rooms...
...The child in the factory, doing routine tasks which contribute nothing to his development, and the young man taking a college and professional course without doing any useful labor, offer the most painful contrast in the world, unless it be the laundry-worker in the hot, steamy basement of a fashionable hotel and the idle guest above, clad from head to toe in dazzling white garments...
...Continuation schools have the same purpose in view...
...Spruce Tree House originally contained about 120 rooms and the walls of about 70 can still be traced...
...If she were factory inspector now, she would not have the experience of taking children out of the factories only to have them refused admission to the schools...
...Wait until the last fly has disappeared...
...But a half dozen times she took the train from Denver to Washington to combat the influences that opposed it...
...2. There's a good deal of work in the country, but most of our boys and girls have forgotten how to play...
...These people are too likely to think that they have done all that ought to be expected of them if they bring "business" and "trade" into the country districts...
...There were races, games, music, a Punch and Judy show and—a clown who did "stunts...
...She made the discovery that while there were many children without seats, there were also many seats without chil-dien and by a little redistricting she brought the seatless children and the childrenless seats together...
...they are the forerunners of a better civilization.—c...
...Other towns have had Field Days, but this was somewhat unique, for the whole countryside was invited—boys, girls, fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and there was no admission fee and no charge of any kind...
...camels, dromedary and bactrian...
...3. Baseball is a splendid game, but it isn't the only one...
...It is fair, I think, to ask whether it is right for any person to consume twenty-five years of time in getting ready to live...
...The creathe genius displayed, the accuracy and genera] excellence in the execution of the models were so remarkable that they were deemed by many to be the work of more mature hands...
...not to mention the circus chariots and wagons in red and gold, each with its driver and attendBehind the plodding elephants strode the "lone and lorn" giraffe in spotted coat and lofty dignity...
...rooms containing heaps of shelled corn, cobs, melon, pumpkin, squash and gourd seeds, turkey feathers, cotton seeds, earthen vessels, mummies...
...Excuse this abrupt reference to laundry workers...
...Every healthy boy should be interested in at least half a dozen others...
...From the beginning she took great interest in it and was unflagging in her advocacy of it...
...dancing bears and prancing horses...
...All these seem simple measures which anyone might have thought of but the first woman superintendent has the honor of being the first superintendent to house all the children of the city...
...It must make Mrs...
...Tawny lions and crouching tigers peered from between the bars of their gayly painted cages, while, in orthodox circus fashion, a cavalcade of dashing horsemen brought up the rear...
...Before her marriage, Mrs...
...All of this is of course very gratifying to me...
...they survive and flourish under conditions that would put an end to the lives of summer-born flies...
...Peabody, is six stories high, constructed of blocks of stone regularly cut and is the best preserved of all the cliff palaces...
...Women of the Hour Lucy E. Peabody THE DESIGNATION of "mother of the Mesa Verde national park," a vote of thanks from the American Anthropological Association, and the naming of a ruin— the Peabody House—in her honor,—these are anions;' the distinctions that have come to a Denver woman, Mrs...
...Keep Your Screens On THIS is the season of typhoid fever, a disease which without doubt is carried from one person to another by flies...
...2 (Milwaukee) under the able direction of their teachers, Miss Lynch and Miss Larkin...
...After this year tourists will be able to visit the park with a fair degree of comfort...
...The celebration took place at "Trout Beck," the country home of Professor G. A. Spingarn, of Columbia University, It has a lesson in it for all city people who make homes in the country...
...In a few cases she has had temporary buildings erected...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Working for an Education AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, when colleges and schools are opening, we are reminded anew how normal, healthful, and socially valuable is the life of the young men or the young women who are getting an education and at the same time doing some of the necessary work of the world,—taking care of furnaces, waiting on table, sewing, caring for children...
...The next largest ruin, which has been named the Peabody House, in honor of Mrs...
...Stir in the breakfast food, salt and sugar...
...On the whole, the little exhibition attracted unusual attention, a deserving tribute to the careful instruction and zealous energy that produced it.—Hekmine Foelske...
...The bill had a critical time in passage and any other advocate without Mrs...
...The honors are in recognition of her untiring efforts in helping to brings about by Congress the creation of the Mesa Verde national park in southwestern Colorado, and through the creation of which the grandest and finest cliff dwelling ruins in America will be preserved...
...Peabody writes: "The park is in fine shape now...
...We too often look upon the work which they do from the point of view of the money it brings and forget that the most important consideration is that when they have finished their formal education they will be able to look back to records of work performed which was really needed and really helpful...
...There were large auditoriums, too, that were used only occasionally...
...It was just the entire community making merry together with no one thinking of profiting by the occasion...
...The Mesa Verde national park, which was created by the 59th Congress, lies in Montezuma county, southwestern Colorado, and contains the splendid ruins found under the sheltering roofs of the great and forbidding cliffs of the Rio Mancos and the San Juan...
...And the whole of this wonderful circus was made of clay by the third grade pupils of the Twenty-third District School No...
...L. H. * * * A Clay Circus AND IT WAS, for no one who saw the Lynch & Larkin circus parade at the State Fair could gainsay its claim to a blue ribbon...
...Of this amount $12,000 is to be spent on the road leading into the park, and the rest for excavations, repairs, salaries and incidental expenses...
...they want cooperation in the work of maintaining schools, libraries, churches and wholesorcie amusements...
...Run no risks...
...This ruin was discovered but three years ago...
...reservoirs and canals still easily traced and showing that this interesting race had the valleys under a high state of cultivation— these are among the interesting sights seen here showing that this region was the center of an ancient civilization...
...Without doubt it was a triumph of manual training...
...Lucy E. Peabody...
...When very light, add the flour and nuts Turn on to a floured board and knead well...
...Commissioner Draper of the New York Department of Education believes that the State, meaning by that word the central authority, whatever it may be, should keep control of the child until he is seventeen, saving him from labor which serves in no way as training for himself...
...Cliff Palace, the largest and best known ruin in the park, still contains the walls of about 100 rooms...
...Routine manual labor, enough to keep the body in health and the mind active, is a blessing during the years of preparation for life...
...The park was originally intended to contain but 42,000 acres, but at the last moment Mrs...
...Experiments recently made at Cambridge University prove that flies occasionally breed during the winter and that the flies that begin life in the cold weather are very long-lived...
...Mix well and put into a warm place to rise...
...W. S. Peabody, wife of a retired army officer of Denver, bore a leading hand and is entitled to the greatest credit...
...Stepping gingerly in their wake, came the zebra which in turn was followed by the wagons bearing the clumsy hippopotami and the rhinoceros...
...What the people who live in rural districts want of those who live among them temporarily cooperation in all their legitimate social enterprises...
...Peabody was for several years employed in the government ethnological bureau at Washington, which made her familiar with the subject in hand as well as the ways of legislation...
...Peabody's knowledge of legislation and committees would have given up the fight...
...Don't merely watch others play games...
...In a letter Mrs...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 39
