HOME AND EDUCATION

...I heard no mention of politics...

...And I well remember Mrs...

...One is the handbook of the Women's Trade Union League which sells for ten cents, and can be obtained at Room 503, 275 La Salle Street, Chicago...

...The cabinet ladies were included and a few other prominent women, among them MrB...

...Longwortb wore would give no idea of the perfect whole...

...TT always seemed to me unfortunate that women's dress should occupy so important a part of the reports of social affairs...

...Bauer, director of the U. S. Magnetic Survey...

...Sherman at luncheon...

...pictures and statuary bespeak tirte and travel, and the books on the open shelves are chosen to be read...

...For this part of the subject we must turn to a woman...

...As each course is disposed of, the soiled dishes find their places on the "waitress...

...Bauer's demonstration of the value of fresh air with those attending Superintendent Young's, for it is infinitely easier to measure the rate at which trained mathematicians make stereotyped computations than to measure the velocity with which wriggling masses of humanity absorb geography and arithmetic...

...You cannot imagine all the senators getting together socially without some discussion either serious or bantering of their agreements and differences,—of the President's messages, and Pinchot's dismissal...

...The other pamphlet is published by the Chicago Federation of Labor, and is called ; "Protection of the Health and Motherhood of the Working Wo- men of Illinois...

...Hale must know politics from infancy...

...It gives reliable up-to-date information about the conditions in thirty-two trades in which women are employed...

...BY RUNNING LINOLEUM A FEW INCHES UP THE WALL, DUST-COLLECTING CREVICES MAY BE ABOLISHED Where there are not too many irregularities of outline in the floor itself, it is well to allow the linoleum to run up a few inches on to the wall...

...I have been interested of late to notice that the magazine articles upon the care of floors which have appeared in great numbers, contained very little which Clark did not say and I am inclined to think that so far as this department of domestic economy is concerned, we might adopt the motto, "Hark back to Clark...

...Hale, wife of Senator Hale of Maine, invited all of the Senators' wives, or daughters or social representatives, to meet Mrs...

...Anderson, Mrs...

...She has a strong, intellectual face, with firm mouth and a pleasant eye...

...Floor Coverings (A Reading Course in Domestic Science.—Lesson XIII...

...In order to make this practicable, a strip of wood (see our illustration), which may be described as an inverted quarter-round, should be nailed down where the floor and the wall meet...

...The secret of making it water- and grease-proof is the semi-annual application of a coat of shellac...

...It gives in concise form the history of the j struggle for the Ten-Hour Law in Illinois...

...She is a young woman, about my age...

...The linoleum should rest on this and be fastened to the wall above by means of a small wooden strip...

...To tell what Mrs...

...And now another friend comes from a different direction, from his library in fact, and brings with him not only a valuable household hint but also a Century Dictionary case transformed into a mechanical waitress...

...Sutherland spoke well of woman's suffrage, and it delighted my heart to hear a group of women discussing the subject of the generally bad ventilation of audience rooms, recognizing women's obligations to insist upon fresh air in these public places as well as in their homes...

...News of the Women Workers THE value of pamphlet literature to students of social conditions can not be overestimated...

...This gives it a surface much like wood, and besides preventing it from absorbing liquids keeps it from being dented...

...Taft's sister, Alice Roosevelt Long-worth, Miss Cannon, daughter of the Speaker, and Mrs...

...And Mrs...

...A Mechanical Waitress WE ARE grateful to our friends, the men, when from out their larger lives and broader experiences they come to us bringing Hints to Home-Makers...

...There is nothing of Hisplay in the spacious house...

...It is a fine thing to be able to do, and a fine thing to do if one is able...

...Dolliver, and Mrs...

...Sherman, the wife of the Vice-President...

...Some of those who have been here longest are least known...

...Most of them upon being questioned further, specified the imported linoleum, which sells for about $1.40 a yard, and is consequently quite expensive...

...Scott...

...Professor Bevier, in her book on the "The House" recently published by the American Home Economics Association, gives the cost of eleven different kinds of floor coverings, including soft- and hard-wood floors and floors covered with ingrain and Brussels carpets and linoleum...

...Last week Mrs...

...There is a certain social democracy in entertaining all of an official group of women at the same time that calls out their good fellowship...

...This is the secret of the satisfaction which we derive from the use of blue and white wherever an appearance of great cleanliness is desirable...

...For her encouragement, we would call attention to a similar experiment recently made by Dr...

...I have seen little of her in the past four years but I venture the guess that in the midst of the social whirl into which she enters with joyful spirit, that she still holds to her standards of what is most worth while in life, and that her heart is still in her home and with her children...

...Hale's luncheon there almost appeared to be justification for it...

...Bauer's experiment should encourage Mrs...

...She is still a young woman...

...He is now able to report a distinct and measurable increase in the number of computations made by his men in a given length of time...

...Burrows, Mrs...

...But it takes an artist to describe an effect, as well as to create it...

...Crane, Mrs...

...Linoleum should always be laid down and trodden upon for some time before being fastened to the floor...

...Sherman have entertained and been entertained almost continuously...

...Hale's Luncheon to Mrs...

...Since we are making this hint public property, there is danger of course that it will come to the notice of The Century Company and for this reason we hasten to say that before committing what may seem to them an act of desecration, our friend made for the dictionary a most honorable and convenient place upon the permanent shelves of his library...

...The prices vary from AV& cents per square foot for a soft pine floor finished with a stain only, to 19 cents per square foot for a quarter-sawed oak floor stained, filled, and treated with three coats of varnish...

...She has lost the frank, unconventional comradery of her girlhood, but has not yet risen above the conventional ideals of social position into-the realm of broader human sympathy that we may expect to come later in her development...

...Newlands thought we should all join in the meat boycott because of the advancing prices...

...Note:—Outlines of the lessons in Domestic Science and a list of reference books can be obtained without cost by addressing The Horns and Education Department of La Follette's Weekly, Madison, Wisconsin...

...It comes also in many colors, the most satisfactory for use in kitchens and bathrooms being the blue and white...

...ffMrs...

...In building the "Carnegie," the magnificent new steamship now in the service of the Survey, Dr...

...Miss Nellie Podell, who for some years has been a teacher in the public schools of the city has become the salaried head of the settlement...

...If properly treated, however, it lasts a great many years...

...As one looked at the assemblage of women at Mrs...

...but it seldom reflects the inner thought., Sometimes the bitter differences among men on the floor of the House or Senate is reflected in the coolness of women's greetings to each other at social gatherings,—but not often...

...This is owing to the fact that where blue and white are used together the white assumes a bright yellowish cast and always appears cleaner than when combined with other hues...

...Having done this, he put upon the case a set of noiseless and frictionless casters and rolling it forth, demonstrated to his wife how, with its aid alone, she could serve a four-course dinner without once rising from the table...

...her hair is white, but her face is young...

...Among the subjects with which this book deals is that of the laying and the care of floors...

...Fresh Air and Brain Power IT IS said that Superintendent Young of the Chicago public schools, wise woman that she is, is making an experiment with two sets of children by means of which she hopes to prove that learning comes easier in good than in bad air...

...THE conversation touched many subjects...

...However, the good luncheon was not neglected because of the pric*e of quail or fear of microbes...

...Wickersham deplored that most people were becoming afraid to eat at all because of fear of germs...

...The spirit of Mrs...

...Perkins, President of the Congressional Club...

...That is the way I feel about Mrs...

...It is a quick method, of course, and makes a floor that is easy to care for, but in the long run waxing is very much more satisfactory and at all times more beautiful...

...SINCE the opening of Congress, the Vice-president and Mrs...

...It is rather too bad that she stopped her classification just where she did, with the varnished oak floors—for varnishing seems to most of us an unfortunate way to treat a good hard-wood floor...

...Aldrich, whom I met for the first time, explained to me that although her husband had been in the Senate so many years, she knew very few of those present...

...That is because he is a man...

...Hale is a daughter of Zach Chandler, the quaint original Senator from Michigan, a great national figure forty years ago...

...Her interest centered in her young family, and no social obligation interfered with her motherly devotion and careful attention to every domestic duty...

...She is a low-voiced, gentle woman, but there is a glance in her grr*v eyes that reminds you of her husband's characteristic expression...

...Among the most popular of the older Senator's wives,—those who might be called good mixers,—are Mrs...

...Another advantage of the scheme is that when the hostess grows weary of serving, she has only to give the "waitress" a poke and she will silently roll down and take her place beside the host at the other end of the table...

...He called it "The Care of the House, a Volume of Suggestions to Housekeepers, Landlords, Tenants, Trustees and Others for the Economical Care of Dwelling-Houses...

...In citing this example, we would not for a moment seem to compare the difficulties attending Dr...

...0. H. P. Belmont has leased a three-story building at 84 E. 114th Street for a Woman's Suffrage Settlement...

...Women of real convictions wear a social mask...

...Many of the costumes were as artistic in color and line and in every detail as an old portrait...

...With pleasant feelings toward their hostess, the guests of honor, and each other, all departed hoping to come again another day...

...But the happy ending of Dr...

...that the care and education of her children had occupied her time, and she had gone little into society...

...Sherman ONCE upon a time when some one asked a dear friend of mine if the person of whom she spoke was old, she quickly replied, quite unconscious of her gray hair and fifty birthdays, "Oh no...

...Linoleum comes in all widths and it is possible therefore to have even the largest kitchens covered with one piece...

...her well proportioned and well poised body is a little stouter than twenty years ago, but she moves lightly, and carries her head and switches her skirts with a little of the old time sau-ciness and youthful charm...

...There ha:< been lrss of it in late years, and I thought public taste was outgrowing it, but there is an obvious return this season, in Washington papers at least, to the practice of describing women's costumes as the most interesting feature of social functions...

...The idea commends itself to us highly and we can think of many other pieces of furniture now languishing in attics, which might, with a little labor, be similarly transformed...

...Sherman and Mr...

...Surely the best that one can do for another who wishes first-hand and reliable information is to advise her to buy the book or to see that it is purchased by her public library...

...conversation is always kindly and pleasant, occasionally intellectual, sometimes brilliant...

...Carter, Mrs...

...La Follette served in the 50th and 51st Congresses together...

...Two valuable pamphlets upon the subject of women who work in factories have recently been issued in Chicago...

...She is handsomer,—more interesting perhaps than before she was married, more restrained and more studied in manner...

...Sherman as she was when she first came to Washington,—a bright, pretty, very girlish looking woman, but with her own decided views about things...

...They are intended for the use of individuals and of clubs, IRECENTLY asked a number of good housekeepers what covering they would select for kitchen floors if they were unrestricted in choice, and without exception they said "Linoleum...

...They were "Bob" and "Jim" to each other then...

...When it is finally streched to fit the floor, it should be fastened down by means of a wooden strip...

...Senator Hale has been in Congress thirty-nine years, so Mrs...

...Hale's luncheon was especially one of geniality and good fellowship...

...Six years ago T. M. Clark, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, wrote a book which has become a classic in the literature of Domestic Science...

...If it were not for the fact that we are as yet uninformed as to the standing of the ex-Century-Dictionary-Holder with the Waitresses' Union we should endorse the plan unreservedly...

...By this treatment, all crevices are eliminated and there are no places which the mop cannot reach...

...But while Clark treats the subject of woods and finishes interestingly and authoritatively, he passes over the question of expense with a light touch...

...Women in Washington are scarcely less interested in political subjects than men, but it is characteristic of their social life to avoid any discussion of public questions, where there is a difference of opinion...

...Young to continue with hers, which we all agree, I think, is one of the most important educational experiments of the day...

...Bauer took particular pains to secure absolutely perfect ventilation for the rooms in which the computations are made, and ventilation at sea means an abundance of fine, fresh, salt air...

...She is a grandmother now...

...And now when the family has guests, it sits down to soup with the comfortable feeling that the chicken is keeping hot in a casserole on a shelf at the hostess' elbow, that the lettuce is keeping cool on the shelf below and that the dessert and the coffee machine are within easy reach...

...One of them a few weeks ago, our readers will remember, brought a suggestion from the world of sport, and showed how a waxed floor can be polished by a person gliding over it with a skating motion...

...Book information is often too belated to be of value...