HOME AND EDUCATION

...The Central Labor Union of Boston has, according to Collier's Weekly, petitioned the Mayor for the establishment of municipal wash-houses where the women of the tenements may do their work under easier and more sanitary conditions...

...It was a common sight and a significant one, to see a line of mill-hands, at the noon hour, perusing these leaflets as they munched their dinners...

...Women of the Hour Margaret Grace Bondfield Maud Marian Adelaide Ward By ELIZABETH GLENDOWER EVANS MAROARRT GRACE BONDFIELD Labor Leaner and Orator A Daughter of the KiiKltsh Common People MARGARET GRACE BONDFIELD of London, England, is a trade union organizer...

...She is an agreeable and a forcible speaker...

...and our analysis of the second showed 3.55 per cent, alcohol by volume...

...Still less had I expected the perfect seriousness and courtesy with which this suffrage street propaganda was received in town after town...

...A radical scion of a dyed-in-the-wool conservative stock, when a mere girl she refused to be supported by a faithful elder brother, rebelling against what she describes as a "parasitic life...

...You stay by me and I will stay by you," he had been assured when competing concerns had offered what seemed a princely sum tor inventions the trusting mechanic turned over to the only employer he had ever served...

...Illegal...

...Taken at random from eight thousand analyses., the following suggest how helpful to the purchasers and how effective in revolutionizing trade their system is likely to be...

...Under this severe apprenticeship, she learned the trade of chef, and afterward gave private "cookery" lessons, and on occasions prepared dinner parties in the houses of the rich and great...

...I find this remark concerning a certain "Stock Remedy" sold in the country: "These products are each marked to be sold at $1.00 per bottle...

...and scarce had she set foot on American shores when she was besought to take part in a Suffrage speaking campaign in progress in a series of Massachusetts' industrial towns...

...Short Weight...

...There she studied what the English call "cookery," working for a time in a temperature of 120 degrees for 80 hours a week and occasionally for 20 hours at a stretch...

...Passed...

...But two open-air campaigns while supposed to be on a vacation, were not just the way to rest from the hard strain of the General Election which took place not so long since in England, succeeded as that was by a London County Council election in which Miss Bondfield herself was a candidate for office...

...rather an extravagant price, $1.00, for one-half ounce of tincture of aconite, or for gas drip, (a waste product in the manufacture of gas), or for waste crude petroleum, even though a little ammonia be added to the same...

...If ever a small boy attempted to be funny, he was quickly suppressed by the men in the crowd...

...MAUD MARIAN ADKLAIDE WARD Trained Thinker and Able Speaker A Radical Mi-ion of Conservative English Stock MAUD MARIAN ADELAIDE WARD, of London, England, is travelling in this country with Margaret Bondfield, her loyal comrade and devoted friend...

...Miss Ward comes of cultured antecedents,—clergymen and scholars, root and branch...

...Questionable...

...On the close of the suffrage campaign in Massachusetts, Miss Bondfield was urged to go to Washington to help forward by her splendid powers what it is hoped may be a suffrage victory this autumn in that far western state...

...E. F. Ladd is commissioner, whose bulletins are compiled and edited by Emily E. May...

...She convinces by logic and by the illumination of an historical background, rather than by emotional appeal...

...She herself is atypical product of our times...

...We know we ought to protect our households and, if need be, invoke the pure food and sanitary inspection laws...

...And people in this country who are experimenting in the same direction, might do well to apply for these well-selected menus to the Secretary of the Fabian Society, 3 Clements Inn, London...

...What one is not prepared for, however, is that the girls, in particular, became what the teachers called "naughty"—poor innocents...

...ONE of the bulletins says this of a non-alcoholic beverage labeled as White Ribbon, Non-Alcoholic, Non-Intoxicating, "It would be assumed that this product contained no alcohol...

...and when the mill-whistle summoned them back to work, each would fold away the leaflets in his pocket,—to be taken out again, perhaps for discussion during the noon hours of succeeding weeks and months...

...She became prominent in the innermost councils of the Labor Party and ranks with the most brilliant speakers in a land where the standard of political oratory is very high...

...Some two or three years ago, when the question of feeding half-starved London school children was being agitated, the Fabian Society undertook to try the experiment on a selected group in Lambeth, carefully arranging a diet to be both cheap and nutritious, and meanwhile weighing the children week by week and observing results upon character and scholarship...

...E. K. Pond Packing Co., Chicago, Ill...

...Canned Vienna Sausage, Derby Brand...

...And here, while she was not yet out of her teens, the Trade Union movement found her,—and she found in it her life's work...

...Probably the most expensive ingredient in these products is tincture of aconite, and yet not one of these products would cost more than two to five cents for the amount in the bottle...

...Corn, sweet...

...At the age of thirteen she was doing the best she could to eke out the scanty family budget...

...Ice Cream...

...It is the place for blue and white tiles and palms and ferns and all things beautiful...

...In the late autumn, Miss Bondfield will fill a few speaking engagements in the East,—and then set sail for her own land, let us hope refreshed and in-pired, to take part in the great political struggle which is expected to occur in England, with the coming of the New Year...

...A number of them came to my desk recently and very much interested me...

...It is needless to tell that the under-nourished bodies and minds of England's future citizens responded to improved feeding exactly as might have been foretold...

...Not only there, —the law requires further that the chemist shall publish in January and June of each year in the official papers of each county a list of all adulterated or illegal foods...

...Over and above all this, she is a thoroughly charming woman...

...Then will follow a visit to the Middle West,—to Milwaukee, a very lode star to one of the Socialist faith—and to the great University at Madison, an institution so characteristic of all that is most aspiring and most democratic in our Republic, and so radically in contrast with the best in the way of a university that England can show...

...Haven Guest undertook the medical end of the experiments and Miss Ward selected and with her own hands prepared the diet...

...And both women express themselves as so well pleased with the bright skies, the stirring life, and the sense of buoyancy, of hope, and of strenuous purpose which they have found in the United States, that they are planning to return here another summer...

...If these samples are true to name and represent the product put out by this concern, they are very far from being non-alcoholic and non-intoxicating...

...Our analysis of the first sample showed it to contain 3.65 per cent, alcohol by volume...

...Consider the effect of a pure food department publishing information and advice like this in its bulletins...

...The paper setting forth the results of this valuable experiment and giving a number of dietaries appropriate to school feeding in food values and in price—3 ha' pence, if I remember right, is the cost per child of these dinners,—makes instructive reading...

...Wisconsin Favorite, Chippewa Falls Canning Co., Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin...

...N. Y. State...

...Miss Bondfield came to this country some two months since, impelled to see for herself the Great Republic, which stands, alas, in the minds of too many of her English comrades, as a warning rather than as an example...

...Misbranded...

...Within the last two years, Miss Ward has given her time wholly to a People's Suffrage movement of which she has become president,—believing that the political education of women, and of working women in particular, is a pre-requisite to any genuine social reform...

...MISS BONDFIELD is diminutive of figure—(perhaps from her years of premature labor, for she comes of a large-limbed breed) and she is of the feminine type in every feature and line...

...but we are very vague as to how the laws operate and in doubt as to the confidence we should place in the "guaranteed under the pure food and drugs act...

...When scarce more than a child, her fortunes led her to London, to work as a shop-assistant, or as we in America should say, a shop girl...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA POLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Pure Food in North Dakota WHAT WOMAN who has any responsibility in buying for a family does not feel uneasy when allusion is made to the subject of pure food and sanitary conditions in connection with its sale...

...And we really do not know whether this brand of canned goods is right, or that factory is clean, or how long meat has been in cold storage...

...It is the policy of this North Dakota station to publish in each bulletin issued the analysis of foods, drugs and drinks that have been made and to answer questions as to the probable application to specific cases of North Dakota's admirable food, drug and sanitary inspection laws...

...You see her standing high above a masculine crowd, an express wagon or a rough box her pedestal, speaking in a voice which rings clear and true, like a clarion, her hearers standing attentive through a two-hour meeting, sometimes in a drizzling rain,—a sight I had never expected to behold in staid New England...

...She is in great demand upon the platform in England, and this summer she has stood shoulder to shoulder with Miss Bondfield in the street speaking campaign...

...Even if we are sure something is wrong, how are we to help correct it...

...She comes to this country with endorsements from Ramsay MacDonald, Kier Hardie, Bernard Shaw, and other leading public men...

...With this tragedy as a family background, the problem of unemployment and the crushing lot of the English poor was brought home to Margaret Bondfield in her tender years...

...Her reputation preceded her...

...From August 2, when Miss Bondfield made her first American suffrage address before a select group of New England blue-bloods at Nonquit, to the day of her last speech on September 9, upon the streets of Boston, Miss Bondfield has played a leading part in what has certainly been the most remarkable campaign of political education ever conducted in this country...

...The demand for suffrage literature was greater than could be supplied, and scarce a leaflet would be found to litter the streets, although 30,000 or more were distributed (on request) in each town where a week's campaign was held...

...The Votes for Women banner was invariably treated with respect, and whenever displayed at a factory gate or upon a street corner, was a signal for listeners to gather...

...Her father, a skilled operative, from his eighth to his sixty-eighth year, had worked for one concern,—to find himself, on the death of the mill owner, flung aside like a piece of scrap iron, to linger for twenty useless years, broken hearted and shattered in mind from the cruelty of the blow, dependent on wife and children for shelter and bread...

...Evaporated Apples...

...Net weight not shown...

...I can think of nothing that could be made more attractive than a municipal wash-house...

...Accordingly, she has passed some weeks of September with friends, "inviting her soul" in the sunny South...

...gelatin heavy...

...Miss Ward's habits of mind are distinctly those of a student and a thinker...

...They had never before had enough red blood in them to allow them to disobey a dull routine...

...At the urge of her own spirit, she turned her back upon an English country parsonage and went up to London, to earn her bread...

...She will accompany her friend during a tour this autumn in the Middle West...

...Women who have puzzled thus vainly will be heartily thankful to know the publicity plan adopted by the Food Department of the Government Experiment Station of North Dakota, of which Mr...

...Purity Ice Cream Co., Edgeley, N. D. Fat 12.5 per cent...

...Contact with the best minds in England whom she met in the comradeship of the labor cause has added training and culture to the natural gifts with which Margaret Bondfield was endowed...