HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION the home is the peal Beat OF government, and the wise men of all nations bring their cute to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Suffrage at a...
...Remember that he is not peddling vegetables and the like just for pleasure or philanthropy...
...The flat-buildings, however, have back yards too, so the sun is not cut off from this particular bit of ground...
...wis., on its annual outing If Illinois caught her progressive politics from Wisconsin, she has on the other hand exposed Wisconsin to the "Votes for Women" fever, and symptoms are rapidly developing...
...Don't buy in a careless manner such as by "the cupful," "the print," "the package," "the pail," "the handful," "the glass," "the jar," "the bag," "the basket," 'the bucket," "the tub," etc...
...Mushrooms are more sought and prized in Europe than in this country, perhaps because of the greater pressure for existence...
...The public is reading of these great and gifted women of Illinois who have been canvassing their state in automobiles and they prove a drawing attraction wherever they are advertised to speak.—A Reader of La Follette's...
...The story of the garden may be written in two columns, one for the credits and the other for the debits...
...These terms mean nothing...
...Th,e political equality club of richland center...
...Naturally the best results are obtained by cooking varieties separately...
...Safe Drinking Cups THE ORDER of the Wisconsin State Board of Health, prohibiting the use of common drinking cups in public places, went into effect on September 1 A few other state and city boards have issued similar orders and many will doubtless soon follow their good example...
...All times are seasonable for doing this...
...Swiss chard has a further advantage over spinach for it shrivels much less when being cooked...
...Old English cookbooks also contain recipes of them...
...When I asked my friends if they had any suggestions to offer for those who might wish to do likewise, they replied that, first of all, a city garden must always be thought of as having three dimensions, for it must be run up toward the sky to make up for its limited ground space...
...A beautiful view may transform a very plain and commonplace room into an attractive one...
...However accurate the weighing or measuring instrument may be, it can easily be used falsely...
...In the evening a reception was held by the local club in honor of Mrs...
...Instead of seeking to know the poisonous and unwholesome ones at the start, it is more practicable for the beginner to know a few good varieties and then observe the general rule of caution, "eat none of which you are not perfectly sure...
...I make a delicious dinner with a few scraps of meat that a cook would give to the dog...
...Mushrooms should not be kept too long...
...Even from this limited number one can ordinarily supply his needs...
...In gathering, care should be taken to prevent dirt getting into the "gills...
...This is a beautiful form in the main—in fact the most beautiful among the fungi—usually white and the top generally resembling a beautiful frosted cake...
...But frying and stewing also are popular methods of cooking...
...Mushrooms have been prized from ancient times...
...But in the meantime we must all look after ourselves in this matter, and those of us who are of mature years, must look after the young...
...To the great body of the laity, however, mycology is a closed book...
...In this country the use of mushrooms is confined principally to the city people...
...The general discussion on the Fair grounds during the remainder of the day, and the requests for badges which had been provided by the Woman's Club of Richland Center, convinced many people that the subject was a live issue...
...We have had several inquiries about individual paper cups and we have discovered that the Capital City Paper Company, Mad son, Wisconsin, is prepared to send on order, eight paper cups for twenty-five cents, post paid...
...Promptly at eleven o'clock, Thursday, September 29, five cars draped with yellow and hung with mottoes and flags, circled around the race track and drew up before the grandstand where Mrs...
...In the other column should be written health for two, pleasure for two, beauty for many flat-dwellers, an abundance of fresh vegetables of great variety for three people for three months, lettuce from the middle of May till the coming of frost, mint and chives for flavoring, parsley for decoration, tomatoes for canning and beans and several kinds of pickles for winter use...
...Thus in the now somewhat quaintly sounding work "English Housewifery," published in 1769, is found this one among several recipes for the cooking of mushrooms : "Take the largest and freshest flaps you can get, skin them and take out the gills, boil them in a little salt and water, then wipe them dry with a cloth...
...Roman epicures were partial to them...
...a given amount goes much further...
...The cups can easily be carried in the pocket or packed in the lunch box...
...Don't buy from any one whose scales, weights and measures have not been sealed by the sealer of weights and measures...
...few over a day or two...
...When we compare the debits and credits, particularly if we do it in the light of what we know about the difference between the taste of fresh vegetables and store vegetables, it becomes evident that while the rural districts are adopting the slogan, "Back to the farm," the urban districts might profitably take as their motto, "Back to the back yard...
...Each cup is enclosed in an envelope, three by four and a quarter inches in size, cup and envelope together weighing only one-fourth of an ounce...
...While there are hundreds of mushrooms, to the ordinary busy person it is enough to know a few good common varieties and their common names, leaving the terminology and the niceties of mycology to later study or the care of enthusiasts...
...Top views are much more likely to be beautiful than bottom views and the difference at this time of the year when the leaves are turning is even greater than at other seasons...
...As a matter of fact poisonous and unwholesome mushrooms are comparatively scarce and cases of sickness reported often are due to the use of decayed, worm-eaten or unclean specimens...
...And one beauty of this vegetable phenomenon is that unlike other choice wild things, birds, flowers, game, it can be found within the limits of any city...
...Because among the fungi there are a few poisonous and unwholesome ones all are condemned and shunned by many...
...Don't fail to check your purchases occasionally This is only fair to yourself and to the honest and legitimate dealer...
...Prom American Magazine The Story of a City Garden THIS is not the time of year for planting gardens but it is the time for making good resolves...
...A large part of the saving comes from the economical use of meat...
...Now we are all looking for substitutes for the common cup...
...The Poor Man's Beefsteak" MUSHROOM hunting is a popular diversion with many in the fall and spring...
...During the Richland County Fair, Mrs...
...There is a double zest in their pursuit, as to the joy of the botanist at the discovery of new specimens there is always the added possibility of finding a new delicacy for the table...
...Ella S. Stewart delivered an address from an automobile...
...Always look for the sealer's mark...
...Hints to Home-Makers ¶[Have you ever tried the experiment of covering first the upper Half of a window and then the lower half and going to various parts of the room to get the view of things without in both cases...
...Scales on its umbrella-like top, the "death cup" at the root, and the ring around the middle of the stem are distinguishing marks by which to know the usual form...
...in Europe the peasantry also has learned to appreciate them and frequently large quantities are gathered in season and preserved or dried...
...Thinking that there may be some city readers of La Follette's who are almost persuaded to try intensive farming I give the following experience of two people, a man and his wife, living in the heart of Chicago...
...these complete the list...
...Don't buy from a huckster because he quotes you prices below the market prices, unless you know that he is giving full weight and measure...
...0. b. * * * "I now feed my family twice as well on about two-thirds the cost...
...They are proper to lie about stewed mushrooms or any mads dish...
...These can be very readily learned...
...And once to know and enjoy mushrooms is to thereafter find fresh interest and beauty in ramble through field and woodland...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Suffrage at a County Fair THERE is a microbe in the air which perhaps is escaping the notice of scientists, but not the notice of politicians...
...Four crops of corn, string beans to be used fresh and also for sweet pickles in these days when the price of peaches is soaring, lima beans, summer squash, peas and radishes...
...A half day's ramble in the mushroom season with one who knows the various forms will suffice...
...take two eggs and beat them very well, half a spoonful of wheat flour, and a little pepper and salt, then dip in your mushrooms and fry them in butter...
...Some Marketing Don'ts THIS is the advice the New York Superintendent of Weights and Measures gives to housekeepers for the protection of both the housekeeper and the honest dealer who suffers from dishonest competition...
...These two people have a garden plot of 25x50 feet in size which like most other geographical areas in cities is entirely surrounded by flat-buildings...
...In one should be written the wages of a hired man for half a day at plowing time, the price of a few seeds and plants, and an average of twenty minutes of time a day during the summer from each of the two people, the man and his wife...
...Stewart was introduced by the mayor to a splendid audience...
...They showed me, also, that in order to utilize the third dimension further they had planted Swiss chard instead of spinach...
...There is no reason why a person should not use the same cup several times, and consequently the expense is not great...
...A few stalks of this shooting up into the air with leaves that can be plucked off without interfering with the growth of the plant had supplied greens all summer...
...Don't buy package goods that have not marked on them the contents in plain terms of weight, measure or numerical count unless you try by your kitchen standards how much you are actually getting...
...It is difficult to banish and the poorest family often has its patch...
...Mushrooms can be found until late in the fall, often up to the first snowfall, the dainty velvet stems being among the last loiterers...
...Stewart, during which she gave a very inspiring talk to the members of the Political Equality Club, which is composed of high school girls...
...With a knowledge of them should also go that of the amanita, or often so-called "toadstool" family...
...They called my attention to the dozen and a half tomato plants trained up against a fence which has a south exposure and hardly encroaching against the length or the breadth of the ground...
...The mushroom has often been termed the "poor man's beefsteak...
...For school children, travellers, and business men they are a boon...
...The microbe is carried by suffragettes and will develop into "Votes for Women...
...While it can scarcely be called a sufficient substitute for meat, it does afford the user a considerable saving in season...
...In the gathering of mushrooms one need entertain few compunctions abount conservation.-—So-brief is the tenure of these fairies of the vegetable world that to leave them ordinarily amounts to a waste of them...
...It is very similar to another fever called "progressive politics," to which the Insurgents are exposing the nation, and there is reason to believe woman's suffrage will become auxiliary to progressive politics...
...There are, of course, many kinds of dishes of the delicacy, but one simple and popular way of using is with roast, in which the mushrooms are cooked with the meat...
...The time is probably not far distant when there will be bubble drinking fountains, or something better, in parks, railway stations, schools, and other places where people gather in large numbers...
...When one has learned to know the puffball, the honeytop, the shaggymane, the meadow, the inkycaps, the oyster and the prune mushroom, for instance, he has a good foundation for an appreciation of the delicacy and a good beginning for a study of this form of vegetable life...
...Nothing is easier than the giving of short weight and measure...
Vol. 2 • November 1910 • No. 44
