HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home Is the rea.1 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 Daily Ways...
...No special instruction has so far been given in manners...
...She inspired me with new standards of youth and age, new ideals of health, symmetry and balance...
...The United Kingdom has 274 towns and districts with public baths.—Collier's...
...40° has been fixed on as the point below which the temperature is not to be allowed to fall...
...There seemed to be no colds, and certainly there were no blue noses or stiff fingers...
...The upper parts of the lungs in normal, unemotional breathing are the parts least used...
...But in "Daily Ways to Health" she has put in permanent, usable form, the essence of her knowledge, genius, and experience...
...We can, if we will, protect ourselves from very many of Die worst ills that beset ignorant and indolent persons...
...The hot drink is prepared and served by the girls of the seventh grade who are given time for this purpose from their regular school work...
...1 say: "My dear sir, this car is close, but it is also cool...
...In these bulletins I would say in all the different kinds of language at my command that cold air is not the opposite of foul air...
...Vegetable soup is served occasionally, but the children do not Hke it so well and always ask for a return to the cocoa...
...They may also retain their hats if they like...
...The children are expected to conduct themselves properly, and the silent influence of good example is being relied upon to accomplish this result, apparently with good success...
...The thermometer in the rcom on the day of my visit stood at 55...
...Stewed Rabbit (The Counters of Dudley's Receipt revised by an American Housewife...
...The work of the school is carried on in the usual way, with two exceptions...
...When he had sufficiently recovered, he said explosively, "Well, what is the matter...
...I was sorry afterward that I had done it, because of the effect on the brakeman...
...Or perhaps I shall have a loop at the end of the line on which the car can run a race with its own air...
...next, fill the middle parts of the lungs—as they fill the chest will expand noticeably...
...Although the experiment was bugun scarcely a month ago, there is already a marked gain in their mental alertness and the ease witli which they do their tasks...
...Some of the children are foreigners, and there were among them faces which one felt would have looked dull in the heavy atmosphere of the ordinary over-heated and badly ventilated school room...
...Cover closely and stew slowly for two or three hours...
...Which...
...Bishop says, "Anyone whose life is shadowed by a belief that a narrow chest, weak lungs, tuberculosis, bronchitis, or any of their kin 'runs in his family' can demonstrate that he is exempt from these family tendencies...
...It is as near the living teacher as a book can be, as nearly a perfect expression of Mrs...
...It was largely due to the efforts of Miss Ruth Riser, the secretary of the last-named, that the Board of Education was induced to sanction the project...
...Every time that the lungs are so packed, especially that the apexes are brought into vigorous activity, their power to repel unfriendly disease-germs is increased...
...All the ideas are worked out so simply as to be within the understanding of a child, but they all have a scientific basis...
...A little more air will be packed into the apexes of the lungs with each sniffing response to these mental suggestions...
...last, the tip-top parts, or the apexes, must be coaxed into extreme activity...
...As I sipped my cocoa with the children on the day of my visit to the school, I had quite the feeling of being at a social gathering of well-bred people...
...Hold to this thought, dwell upon it, revert to it again and again that it may become a thought-habit—and then live up to it...
...It is the best book to be found anywhere to help everyone put In practice at home, in school, at business, in society, the principles of the new health awakening...
...Airs I Have Known NO...
...The imagination can help to this end...
...This is the influence Mrs...
...The most noticeable thing about the school is the eager interes and overflowing spirits of the children...
...The sidelight of philosophy, the stimulating suggestion, the irresistible hunch, that makes us feel we must be up and doing, give point and spirit, and power of the living teacher to the written exercise and lesson...
...She suggests this simple "PACKING-BREATH EXERCISE" "Stand erect, the body being poised a little forward from the hips...
...I never enter a closed car without wondering why the heater is not in front...
...London has 45 public places where there are baths, swimming pools, and wash-houses...
...Add the water and boil 5 minutes...
...Groups of women, clubs, reading and sewing circles, should make the study of its philosophy and the practice of its exercise a part of their program...
...NO...
...Bishop at work, as can be...
...In this respect it has the advantage, when it comes to the matter of ventilation, of the houye which must stand still and wait until its air is taken away from it...
...The only change required in order to put the plan into operation was to transfer the class from the room it had occupied in the northwest corner of the building exposed to the coldest winds, to a more sheltered and sunny one in the southeast corner...
...It is being carried on through the cooperation of the Board of Education, the Board of Health, and the local Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis...
...IT HAS taken us a long time to learn that tuberculosis is not inherited and is as curable in Wisconsin or Massachusetts as in Colorado or California...
...Experience has shown that it is not the complicated and difficult system of gymnastics that makes for bodily health, strength, grace and beauty, but the right use of the known and the natural...
...bacon, 1 carrot, parboiled, 11/2 of water, 4 level tablespoonfuls hour...
...One of these is the serving of a lunch to the children every morning immediately after their short recess...
...slice the onion and carrot...
...It is a book, as the author says, to make ourselves at home with, to keep around anywhere that is handy, on the desk, on the table, so that every little while we will pick it up and read it and put it into practice and "Remember to keep well," to "establish the habit of health," to "use our scraps of time," to "keep the body at par" and to "be our own best physician...
...Forcibly exhale by quickly blowing the breath out through the parted lips...
...I: TRAIN AIR IONCE asked a brakeman on a train if we might have a little more heat and a little more air in the car...
...Here the windows are thrown wide open and the heat turned off, so that the temperature of the room is but little higher than that out-doors...
...Season and serve...
...Why then is the street car notoriously unaired...
...Inhale deeply through the nostrils trying to fill the lower parts of the lungs first by distending the ribs in the diaphragm region...
...If the passenters do not like it...
...An Indoor School with Outdoor Air An Experiment that Can be Tried in any Community By LUCY C. DANIELS THOMPSON AN INTERESTING educational experiment is being made in one of the public schools of .the city of Washington, an open-air, or rather fresh-air school conducted in one of the rooms of an ordinary school building, without any special equipment, the pupils being not tuberculous children, as is the case in most open-air schools, but those forming one of the regular school grades...
...If I were the manager of a railway, I would issue bulletins to the trainmen...
...The blankets were all neatly folded and laid across the backs of the seats, none of the children evidently feeling the need of them...
...1 rabbit, 1/2 onion, 1/4...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Daily Ways to Health IT WAS an epoch in my life when I first knew Mrs...
...II: STREET-CAR AIR THE average street-car is not swift, but at its slowest it could run away from its own air...
...Some of the boys wore no coats over their cotton blouses, but several showed by the retention of their caps the usual masculine devotion to a head covering...
...If you were to open the ventilators now, you would chill us still more, but by heating up a little you will be able to ventilate also...
...He never understands, but at least my gentle approach to the subject spares his nerves...
...Bishop as a teacher eighteen years ago...
...If it were so placed, there might be concealed openings behind it through which the wind created by the motion of the car could enter...
...This means in the Washington climate that heat will be required only on the coldest days of winter...
...These six children were transferred to other rooms, but in two or three cases where the child concerned happened to be delicate and in special need of open-air treatment, further visits and explanations of the doctors, together with the excellent condition of the children who remained in the room, are expected to bring about the return of the child...
...Its suggestions and exercises are equally valuable to those who have had training and to those who have not...
...WE NEED this book not only to help ourselves win out in the great game of health, but mothers and teachers need it to help them out of the old mistaken ways into new and correct methods of directing growing children how to breathe, how to stand, how to walk, how to flatten the back and broaden the chest, not "throw the shoulders back...
...When I become a street car magnate, I shall issue an order to have every car opened wide and run ten times its own length at each end of the line...
...The desks are protected, while the lunch is being served, by a sheet of paper placed under the cup and later collected by one of the children, who is allowed as a special favor to carry around the waste basket for this purpose...
...Then imagine that you are inhaling the subtle odor of apple blossoms, and again that of rcses...
...In arranging for this experiment, its character and purpose were explained to the parents of the children by the physicians of the Board of Health, who are looking after the physical side of the experiment, and in all but six cases the consent of the parents was secured...
...If this could be done, we might in time have a generation of trainmen who, when told that the car was close, would not reply, "Why, those people back there have just been complaining that it is too cold...
...She found hearty sympathizers in Miss Emily Scrivener, principal of the Blake School, where the experiment is being made, and Miss Sue Gardner, teacher of the fouith grade in that school, who is herself a firm believer in the virtues of fresh air and had the courage to undertake the test of its efficacy with her own pupils...
...The children are warmly dressed, and are supplied with blankets to wrap around themselves when they feel the need of greater warmth...
...Now I go at the matter differently...
...Are you too hot or too cold...
...She is here telling me and you and others just what we should do to be well, answering all our questions and all our objections, making us see we can, making us feel we must, impelling us with a sense of our obligation to society, if not to ourselves...
...After the lungs seem full, mentally say,'oh smell of those violets...
...He looked at me for a time as if he were wondering where the nearest hospital for the insane was...
...Remove them and add the flour to the fat and brown slightly...
...Cut the rabbit in neat pieces...
...The way tc rid oneself of such benumbing apprehensions and the possibility of their fulfillment is to keep one's system well nourished by food and well-renovated by exercise, and to develop a broad chest and lungs of large capacity and fine resistant power...
...they can get off before the airing begins...
...What I learned of her has become an educational force, quite as much for spiritual and intellectual growth as for physical betterment...
...There are the usual public school differences in social condition and in mental capacity...
...It is here chat tuberculosis usually begins its devastating work...
...And now she is to give up her work at Chautauqua, New York, altogether, and devote herself to the platform...
...Every line of the book is practically applicable to life...
...Bishop has had on all the many thousands who have come in contact with her through her lectures, her books, and long years of teaching...
...Circulating around the stove, as water passes through an instantaneous water heater, it would emerge into the car pure and warm...
...take out the bacon, and fry the onion...
...Those of the children who are able to do so pay three cents a day for this lunch, the extra expenditure being met by funds supplied by the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which also furnishes the blankets...
...Careful physical examinations of the children were made at the start and measurements taken to form a basis of comparison as the experiment progresses...
...The other exception to the regular school program is the frequent introduction of physical exercises,—deep breathing and arm and leg movements,—which help maintain the bodily heat by keeping the circulation from becoming sluggish...
...The lunch consists usually of a cup of hot cocoa and a roll...
...In the fresh air of this room, however, even these faces had the brightness and sparkle of the child at play...
...Then, think how good the heater would feel at the motorman's back...
...The object of the experiment is to demonstrate the possibility of securing for the children, through the constant supply of fresh air, a greater degree of both bodily and mental vigor than is common under usual school conditions...
...None of the girls had on hats, and some of them wore neither coat nor sweater...
...Salt and pepper...
...Cool and add bacon, rabbit, onion and carrot...
...Why should there not be Conductors' Bulletins and Brakemen's Bulletins as well as Farmers' Bulletins...
...Remove the onion and brown the pieces of rabbit...
...Cut the bacon in small pieces and fry...
...All her long preparation, all her thorough knowledge of physiology, her deep insight into psychology, her intuitional grasp of the individual need, are with us, on every page, just as in her classroom...
Vol. 2 • December 1910 • No. 49
