HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home la the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gtfta to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Where Women...
...Photographs in particular do not need them...
...Only if they are real works of art like Holbein's portrait of Erasmus or Watts' portrait of William Morris...
...But as to municipal improvements, we learned just what they meant, unequivocally, to stand for...
...This is suitable for all but large, heavy pictures...
...But since the color of the frame cannot be that of the picture itself as it can be in the case of photographs, it must be determined by very careful and painstaking experiment...
...Some are reproductions of the old masters...
...Of course when they addressed us, it was quite natural that some very earnest members should indulge in pertinent open questions...
...We were treated as if we already had the ballot...
...thresh out the problem in this League...
...We did not intend to ask whether they believed in Woman Suffrage or not...
...By either method the picture is prevented from tipping forward and is made to seem like a part of the wall...
...We are 'Lissners' in a double sense of the word," said one of them lately, as the crowd surged forth from a mass meeting over which he had presided...
...Women earnestly working in civic affairs realize more and more fully what the ballot might mean to them...
...For the ordinary photograph what is needed is a simple flat wooden frame of the same general color as the picture...
...Whether there shall be a mat or not must be determined in the same way...
...As a unit for Good Government the Political Equality League made itself felt...
...Stanton Coit...
...Many colored prints and water colors are most suitably framed in simple wooden frames...
...flThe Central Trades and Labor Council of New Orleans, representing 40,000 members, has unanimously endorsed Miss Jean Gordon, State factory inspector, in her stand to prevent any amendment to the child labor law...
...Next comes the question of mats...
...In general it is better to frame without mats...
...Her advice was heeded...
...Some of the women tax-payers, even though still without the ballot, were glad of an opportunity to help pay the recent Good Government campaign expenses...
...On beginning my third term of office, as President, I urged members to enter into the arena of practical politics...
...The University Art Shop of Evanston, Illinois, is selling beautiful colored reproductions of the paintings of Jules Guerin...
...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...
...The walls should not be littered with them...
...Three nights before election it held a Grand Rally with splendid speakers-men who were moral leaders...
...The frame should, of course, always subordinate itself to the picture...
...For hanging pictures, two methods commend themselves...
...His title is: "Would woman suffrage enable us to do better civic work...
...The second is usually called the "two cord" method but should be called the "two hook" method for there is really only a single cord...
...There were the Arundel prints to be sure, but they have always been beyond the reach of most of us in price and since their publication has ceased they are growing still more costly...
...Asked how we women could do this without the ballot, she replied, "Practice deep thinking...
...To the temptation to put things we prize or think interesting on the walls where they will be ever before us we are sometimes justified in yielding...
...As a rule the simplest frames are in the best taste, the only exceptions being in the case of valuable oil paintings which seem to call for sumptuous gilt frames...
...But we ought to choose judiciously the walls that are to be used, and to ask ourselves whether in using a given space for purposes of display instead of making it beautiful to look upon, we are not forcing on other people things in which they have no interest...
...The Era Club has over 700 women enlisted in opposition to such an amendment._The Woman's Journal...
...and one eloquent woman—Margaret C. LaGrange—to utter the last convincing arguments for Good Government...
...SUFFRAGISTS are multiplying on the Pacific Coast...
...One member said, "The first step is to try, in our own ways to have the right men elected to office...
...rT WAS done...
...They are very effective, especially in places where there is a long vista...
...But there is, of course, a positive as well as a negative side of the subject...
...But we do claim to be honest, straight-forward and sufficiently clever women to command the respect of men by our constructive rather than destructive methods...
...How and why this has come about, we have tried to show in this series of articles...
...Up to a few years ago those of us who have a little money to spend were limited in our choice of pictures of this character to photographs...
...Charles A. Beard, of Columbia University, when aiked for his opinion on Woman Suffrage, replied "I think that woman suffrage will come as a result of the increasing economic independence of woman, which will in turn sharpen her intellect, force upon her an interest in the social and economic conditions which are determining her own destiny in so great a measure, and, finally, give her that self-respect and self sufficiency which prevent her from being content with the alternate adoration and contempt of the opposite sex...
...Further temptation to overdo the matter of pictures arises from the fact that the fine, broad, upright surfaces of walls offer such good places to display things...
...There may be a lack in some states and cities, but if in the course of the next year or so, he should happen to visit Los Angeles he would be again dumbfounded, for he will see that women have grandly succeeded in their efforts to assist men in making Los Angeles the cleanest, most temperate, healthiest, most beautiful and in many respects politically, as now climatically, the most altogether Heavenly City in the world * * • TfThe Unitarians, in their Pacific Coast Confertncs st Seattle, declared in favor of woman suffrage...
...Not only among men, but among large groups of active women, are listeners to the clarion demand for Good Government...
...My slogan was: "Defeat the bad men by working energetically for the good...
...Here in Los Angeles lately I've heard scores of men answer "Yes" to the question...
...Thousands of minds were concentrated upon the glory of it during the somewhat recent thrilling address of Senator Robert M. La Follette in Los Angeles...
...This is attached to two hooks and is passed through the two screw eyes in the frame...
...THE picture matter is being overdone...
...And while we are 'Lissners,' we also stand for good 'Works' and the administration of Alexander the Great," said another...
...Selecting and Framing Pictures (A Reading Course in Domestic Science.—Lesson XII...
...Then there are many pictures which are interesting as most books are interesting, for their historical or educational but not for their artistic value...
...The answers showed different degrees of embarrassment, uncertainty, amusement and enlightenment on the part of men...
...Like a lot of gentle but wise and firm mothers of marriageable daughters, the ladylike persons with pretty hats and smiling faces under nodding plumes, politely, yet fearlessly, regarded one aspiring politician after another, asking, "What, my dear sir, are your intentions...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Where Women Helped Get Good Government In Los Angeles the Woman's Political Equality League took an Active Part in the Recent Campaign for Better Municipal Administration By ELLA GILES RUDDY IN RESPONSE to your question, dear Belle Case La Fol-lette, I write concerning present interesting experience in the Golden West...
...Coit declares himself dumbfounded with the great lack of democratic zeal...
...We are not, as individuals, like the type in England who( would throw an iron bar at a Prime Minister, or even a tack hammer in America, at one of the most corrupt of our Congressmen...
...Its shade should be the darkest that is found in the picture in large masses...
...The color of the mat when used should be determined partly by the color of the wall...
...The result is an attempt to cover up the barrenness and ugliness with pictures—even with mediocre and unlovely ones...
...So strenuous is the local work that general interests have been put aside until next fall, when women are hoping to exert a wide influence upon the legislature for submission of a suffrage amendment to the people...
...We have tried to show that the neglect of natural beauties and of the possible structural beauties of houses tends to leave walls barren and ugly...
...We are witnessing a process which, in the words of Julia Ward Howe, is indeed that of "sifting out the hearts of men...
...There are portraits of friends and relatives, for example, and photographs of our heroes and heroines...
...To this class belong the Medici prints which .reproduce old paintings in the colors which they have taken upon themselves with time...
...Due credit has been publicly given active members of the League by such successful candidates as Mayor Alexander and Councilman Judge John D. Works since their election...
...Then he would proceed to tell us what he meant to do if elected...
...Prof...
...Thousands of signatures to the petition to Congress have been sent from Southern California to swell the list of a million names speeding toward Washington...
...While more or less evident in each state of the Union, most eagerly and joyously are we women watching the results of siftings here in California...
...In general, what we want on our walls are pictures which have artistic merit, which are decorative and whose details are large enough to be effective in the particular place in which they are hung...
...At a meeting of the Woman's Political Equality League last spring, we had a program devoted to a discussion of "Our First Steps in Politics...
...The trumpet that shall never call retreat has surely been sounded lately in the City of Angels...
...The first consideration in buying a frame is the glass...
...The framing of pictures presents a large problem, chiefly because the market is so flooded with novelties in the way of picture mouldines that it is difficult to find frames that are in good taste and those which serve the purpose whch frames should serve, that of protecting and displaying pictures...
...These and a few other portraits everyone wants to see but the majority have charm for a very few people and should be hung where these people only will see them...
...some politicians of high character...
...They should be catalogued and filed away...
...These prints sell in this country for about $5...
...there can be no doubt of it...
...On his return to America, after an absence of ten years, Dr...
...They feel more and more inclined to sympathize with such suffragists and suffragettes as persistently demand to possess the legal, as well as moral, right to vote...
...Enthusiastic and intense cooperation, under the law of perfect harmony, followed...
...How true it is that we have entered upon a new political era...
...The wood should have a dull finish and its grain should not be conspicuous nor be of a size that is disproportionate to the figures in the picture...
...The League, over which I have the honor to preside, is auxiliary to the California Equal Suffrage Association, and to the National organization...
...They have keen ears, vigilant eyes, willing hands and swift feet to use in ail legitimate ways for civic betterment...
...It should be adapted in color and in design to the picture just as the clothes of a well-dressed person are adapted to the person's peculiar personality...
...These are architectural views including many of the chateaux of France and many interesting views in this country, particularly in Washington...
...There has been considerable agitation over the proposed amendment to admit children to take part in theatrical performances...
...The cognomens, Lissner, Works and Alexander form a familiar trio in municipal matters here...
...By using non-agressive and tactful methods the women of the Los Angeles Political Equality League felt that they had at least a little to do in the late defeat of numerous quite undesirable councilmen...
...One astute woman said, "We must learn how to defeat the undesirable candidate by unabusive but supremely tactful methods...
...They are intended for the use of individuals and of clubs...
...In whatever efforts the Los Angeles women make for purer milk, cleaner streets, better jail and housing conditions, they feel more and more seriously the need of direct rather than indirect political influence...
...This should be of good quality, for many a beautiful picture is distorted by imperfections in the glass which covers it...
...Of late, however, there have come upon the market certain good low-priced colored pictures...
...Is it fair to use the walls of the more public rooms in the house for them...
...We decided to have the best candidates for city offices speak to us...
...They have superb reformatory ideas and political wisdom quite in harmony with the brave actions of Meyer Lissner—these women who desire the ballot...
...All of this relates to what not to do with pictures and it really seems sometimes as if what not to do were more important than what to do...
...there should be no violent contrast between the two...
...Probably these would never have come into general use if walls had presented better backgrounds for pictures and if people had not chosen to hang up pictures which were too small to be displayed on walls and which seemed to need enlarging...
...Hw much better to be amiable and helpful rather than try to win by chidings and scoldings the representation which justly belongs to the tax-payer...
...The old habit of blaming men has been replaced by praise for their advancement in some wonderful movements that are sweeping the country, and by proclaiming our desire to help...
...One of the best things I have read lately—and the papers and magazines are so astonishingly full of "Votes for Women" articles that we all miss a lot—is a noteworthy Boston address by Dr...
...To this class belong such pictures as the steel engraving of Lincoln and his cabinet, so popular a few years ago and the small copies of great paintings which are valuable chiefly for reference when we wish to study the lives of the artists...
...These should be treated like books...
...The first is the "blind" method in which no cord is seen...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 3
