HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home la the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conduced by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE I. HUNT Lent in...
...Richards commends except on aethestic grounds...
...and she had not tried to do many, one .hundred and fifty perhaps,—just a beginning,—what she could do easily the first year...
...In imagination I see all kinds of germs on it that ought not to get into sinks or wash basins...
...The democratic principle on which Washington official society is based is sound...
...When I got to Boston I said to Mrs...
...But is there not some easier way, that would offer just as good opportunity for acquaintance, with less expenditure of time, money and effort...
...Before you finish reading the sermon you feel you must at once enter into closer personal relation with your school, and that you know how to go about it...
...She is evidently a woman of vision, but she belongs to the modern school of workers and her enthusiasm is tempered, her theories tested, by plain hard experience...
...Richards' contribution to the conversation on dust and such Miss Stern's...
...no long lines of women in handsome costumes and swell hats, going in and out of fine residences...
...She answered, "They can and they do...
...But I know so many men without wife or child to defend, so many women who are defending themselves, that in the uncertain interim between today and the millenium, I would like to see an equal vote and equal wages...
...MARY VAN METER GRICE, the author, is President of the Philadelphia League of Home and School Associations...
...I was glad to hear of this instance of cooperation among housekeepers, for I believe that in this commercial age the helpful spirit of the old-fashioned home can be restored only by a revival of the spirit of mutual aid...
...A season of calling is like Christmas shopping, or spring sewing, —a relief- when it is done...
...But today the trusts have taken from the housewife the control of this law...
...Some women hate it, but I do not...
...and you can see how dreary it would be if we women did not get acquainted at all...
...no sipping of tea...
...I was very much interested in this last for I never know where to wash a duster...
...It is an appeal for closer intimacy of home and school and outlines a plan of securing it applicable to every community...
...The latter has not only steadily grown higher each year since 1896, with the exception of 1908, but there is also at the present time no tendency observable to lead one to believe that it will not go on increasing...
...They are intended for the use of individuals and of clubs...
...I told the story about Mrs...
...why not the electric pneumatic cleaner...
...But that subject must be reserved for some future time...
...Edmond Kelly for the former and Mrs...
...Home and School" THERE has been lying on my desk for a number of weeks a little book of general interest to which I want to call the attention of our readers...
...From the broom the thoughts traveled down to Cincinnati...
...To the Great Army of Working Dreamers In Home and in School Who Vision A Widening Circle of Social Forces The Center of Which Shall Be The Welfare of the Child...
...She suggests the following substitute: Make a lot of cheese cloth dusters...
...That is about the way we all feel...
...But how different Washington would be without it...
...After this I am going to have a little pail to hang up with the duster...
...Belmont, Miss Morgan and other New York women of great wealth and social position, have taken in public questions, has been widely advertised and commented upon...
...Such was Mrs...
...There thousands of women, representing hundreds of thousands of other women, will meet to discuss matters of common interest, I do wish they would send from that gathering a letter, or a telegram or a telephone message, or all three, to the Pullman Company asking that pneumatic cleaners be substituted for whisk brooms in sleeping cars...
...She said she gives each girl s small cheese cloth duster...
...That magic word "informal" may not change the cnaracter of the function, but adapts it to the lenten season, and eases both the nerve tension and the conscience...
...JOURNEYING from Buffalo to Boston wth dust and cinders falling all about me and with extra clouds of dust blown into my face at every station from the whisk broom of the Pullman car porter, I tried to think out what I should say in the lesson on "Dust...
...Richards, Miss Frances Stern sat near by...
...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...
...Because in every new generation the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by dis-cipline in the child break forth again, when the struggle for an istence—of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state-—begins...
...This is made of figured percale...
...Mackaye, Mrs...
...You will then have seven slightly oiled dusters ready for use...
...There is a group of women put in Brookline this minute testing different makes for that very purpose...
...Isabel Hyams founded the Louisa M. Alcott Club in Boston, £ place where little girls are taught by the most fascinating methods to do housework and to do it artistically...
...I am not sarcastic...
...Florence...
...I asked Miss Stern about the dusting equip, ment she provides for the girls...
...Have you...
...When the god of things as they should be really gets...
...D., in Good Housekeeping Magazine...
...Of course I knew it must be practical and must apply to conditions in the home but just at that moment my thoughts would go in one direction only, —toward that whisk broom...
...I said I thought that many women would be much better off if they would learn to know when to let sleeping dust, like sleeping dogs, lie...
...The purposeful attitude toward life that is taking possession of the world, owes quite as much of its origin and growth to women as to men...
...She had enjoyed it, but was glad it was all over...
...But for the great body of patient housewives the past ten years have been a bitter struggle to maintain their standard, and this for the reason .that in comparatively few cases has the husband been able to increase his salary so as to keep pace with the increase in the standard and cost of living...
...The Dustless Duster" which picks up and holds dust, Mrs...
...That is a question often in my mind in going about...
...More significant is the work of women like Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, Mrs...
...A season of formal calling seems foolish to sensible women busy with their domestic duties, doesn't it...
...Graham and Mrs...
...My own was much more frivolous and more heretical from the point of view of Domestic Science...
...Sh« supplies also a duster of entirely different appearance, and therefore easily distinguishable from the cheese cloth duster, for use in doing rough work on the lower parts of furniture, for example...
...Then best of all there is a small papier mache pail of very light weight in which the dusters may be washed...
...Every fact stated, every word of advice, every conclusion is so evidently the result of experience, that conviction steals upon you unawares, and you are stirred to action without knowing why...
...After all, we see deeply into the lives of only a few...
...Henry D. Lloyd, who wrote to a city friend to come out into the country and see the woods at violet time...
...my simple creed By the Wife of an Illinois Congressman "A wise sociologist has carefully explained to me that the ideal state of society finds a woman filling the place of wife and mother within the home, while her lord provides that home and faces the world on the outside...
...Tis something to have dreamed...
...Upon her managing ability largely depends the family's standard of living...
...Since this is so and since calling is presumably for acquaintance, why not have a common meeting place, that much talked of community unifier, —a social center...
...Why does everything remain essentially the same from generation to generation...
...I should like to hear of a woman's club that had bought one for the use of its members, but I never have...
...and in just greeting people, we sometimes get more of their personality from a smile, a glance, a handshake, than from hours spent in strained conversation...
...Conduced by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE I. HUNT Lent in Washington QUITE independently of church affiliations, Washington official society relaxes and yawns and feels comfortable when Ash Wednesday arrives...
...The electric fan has found a permanent place on such cars...
...The days from January 1 to February 9 were accordingly crowded, and the sense of relief is in proportion to the pressure...
...Roll up just-as you would sprinkled clothes and leave for several hours...
...Hand cleaners are now in the market for $25 and electric cleaners for $35...
...I like people and enjoy meeting them and I think we are apt to undervalue the unconscious influence of casual contact with our fellows...
...no talk about the weather...
...Why do highly civilized Christian people continue to plunder one another and call it exchange, to] murder one another en masse and call it nationalism, to oppreas one another and call it statesmanship...
...Perhaps then there would be no need of keeping lent just to get a much needed respite from society, or of discriminating between formal and informal social events in order to evade lenten rules...
...Suffrage "At Homes" in New York WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS from Wisconsin while visiting in...
...This is another book that I would earnestly recommend the small women's clubs to read and discuss...
...flThe passion to discover truth must be accompanied by the passion to use it for the welfare of mankind.—Herbert Spencer, * * * ^Fathers, who have directed their whole energy toward the attainment of wealth, have degenerate children...
...It is published by Christopher Sower Company, Philadelphia, and costs, as I remember it, sixty-five cents...
...These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day but only repressed.—Ellen Key...
...Every person within the circle regardless of social, financial or educational status, is equally entitled to all its privileges...
...no one receiving in pretty afternoon gowns...
...Being black it certainly is not beautiful...
...Lay three dry dusters down, then the kerosened duster on top of them, then three dry ones...
...We official folks in Washington are all supposed to be away from home...
...Lloyd then resorted to the telegraph as a means of communication and wired to her friend, "Come at once...
...She thought nothing could take the place of the personal visit...
...Some wives manage better than others, and in consequence, with the same salary, these are able to maintain a higher standard without pinching economy...
...Miss Stem is the woman who with Mis...
...The plan oi teaching took the first prize at the International Tuberculosis Exhibit a year ago...
...A new congressman's wife confided to me that she had made more formal calls in these five weeks than she would make at home in as many years...
...But I believe something will, not right away perhaps, but ultimately...
...Miss Stern's plan is to have the pail emptied into the water-closet and not into a sink...
...During my conversation with Mrs...
...Dust and Its Dangers (A Reading Course in Domestic Science.—Lesson XV...
...Many women have announced that they will be at home during lent, or during February, and the social columns will not lack material during the next forty days...
...Speak to your delegate about it...
...big ones are unnecessary and inconvenient...
...Dust will keep and violets will not...
...for this sort of nerve strain undermines the system as infallibly as alcohol or opium.—Maudsley...
...I was greatly impressed, believing it with all my heart...
...to work, we can make another change and have it all ideal.— "Emma C. Mann...
...It came early this year...
...Dusters should be washed every day she insists...
...The friend wrote back that she could not because she had to clean house...
...Richards, "Why should several women not combine and buy a cleaner...
...It is not much to ask...
...There will be teas, and luncheons, and dinners, "delightful affairs" but "informal...
...The Struggle of the Housewife THE housewife stands between the salary of the husband and the cost of living to the family, says Frank Julian Warne, Ph...
...Formerly she controlled prices within certain limits by her ability to bring into play the law of competition through buying elsewhere...
...Moisten one with kerosene and wring out all the oil possible...
...In sugar, flour, coffee, meat, ice, oil, and innumerable others, the price cannot now be lowered by the housewife purchasing elsewhere of competing producers in case the prices at the family grocers do not suit her, for the simple reason that she will invariably find the same price wherever she goes, as there are no longer competing producers in most commodities...
...With a more truly Christian interest in humanity, the formal barriers of social contact could be dispensed with and we might meet each other without prejudice or fear, and with the happy simplicity and freedom of children at school...
...In private homes the problem of how to get pneumatic cleaners is not so simple, for the fortune of the Pullman Company is not available for the purpose...
...The same thing can be done with water but of course the dusters dry quickly if prepared this way...
...The spirit of this short thesis on a popular theme is suggestively expressed in the title page: "A man's reach must exceed his grasp, else what's a heaven for...
...Quite recently when I suggested to a very active and personally interesting and charming member of that organization, that the Congressional Club might be made to take the place of so much afternoon calling, she opposed the idea vigorously, and probably reflected the existing sentiment of the majority of women in the congressional group...
...In some towns, women have invested in cleaners and are covering the expense by renting them out...
...But the new method of disposing of dirt is coming...
...Kelley for the latter acting as a joint committee on hospitality...
...Not a single article of consumption today enters the home of the salaried man the price of which to his family is not determined by the corporation...
...From 4 to 6 each Sunday afternoon in February andf March these "at homes" will be given by the Liberal Club and the Equality League of self-supporting women...
...An increasing desire to participate in and contribute to the world's progress must influence women's standards and tend to reform conventional social usages and place them on a rational basis...
...Raymond Robins...
...No whirling of carriages and automobiles...
...The interest that Mrs...
...New York are cordially invited to Sunday afternoon "at homes" at the Liberal Club, 19 Madison Square East, New York City...
...This may seem a strange route for them to have taken but in that city next May or June there is to be held the biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs...
Vol. 2 • February 1910 • No. 7
