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. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Lack of Good...
...Get them out of the wilderness of brick and stone and waken the stifled or never-developed interest in growing things and animals...
...Annette B. Paul...
...no other way has yet been discovered, nor will be.—Wis...
...Bring them into contact with nature—with the soil and grass and flowers and trees and birds...
...It is better for grown people than for children to experiment with, however, because a whole year must elapse between the planting and the harvest—too long for impatient youth...
...The first shows some of the bleached shoots Earth-bleached shoots are said to be better however...
...Welcoming Plant Immigrants How the Bureau of Foreign Plant Industry at Washington is Adding Variety to our Food Materials THERE ARE few American vegetables which, if they could look up their ancestry, would find themselves to be of pure American origin...
...Or is it made up of friendly intercourse based on the qualities of human nature, rather than on external embellishments?—Kansas City Star...
...It was in emphasizing the thought that the membership of these organizations was limited to certain groups rather than the fact that it was limited to those who are best qualified to work with certain groups...
...If you are, we will help you to get speakers...
...It Would Never Do AHOUSEKEEPER, wishing to change her baker, recently decided to investigate the conditions under which various kinds of bread were made and sold...
...He suc-succeeded in saying, "It is abso-bloody-lutely true...
...In its manner of growth the udo is not unlike asparagus but it is said to have a flavor which is peculiarly its own...
...The program included addresses on, "The Single Tax and Woman's Economic Condition," by Mrs...
...If there is truth in Professor Muensterberg's criticism of American schools because of a deficiency of the masculine element in the teaching force, there is more poignant truth in the criticism of some foreign observers, notably English, that there is a deficiency of the paternal influence in American homes...
...Give them air and light...
...However willing the mothers may be to assume the responsibility, they cannot supply the lack of the masculine element in the administration of the home...
...and "Club Work," by Mrs...
...Another man resolved to cast the word "bloody" from his vocabulary...
...Finally in desperation he said, "Don't you understand...
...The second shows some of the bleached shoots bed to garden...
...Still his hearer looked mystified...
...city and asked him why he did not have it put into bags at the bakery...
...Most of us might ask with no hope of an answer but the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture is asking to good purpose and is hearing in answer that there are still large numbers of foreign plants which we might domesticate to our pleasure and profit...
...The man was the child's father and the supposed head of that family...
...Some of the foreign vegetables are well suited for school gardens—the giant radish of Japan, for example, and the ornamental egg plant of China...
...American homes are suffering to-day because of a lack of good fathers...
...It may be used raw for a salad, may be boiled and served with cream sauce or may be parboiled in water and then cooked in meat stock and served on toast...
...Considering how remote and how widely separated are the sources of the vegetables which have already come to us to enrich our bills-of-fare and to adorn our tables, it is natural that we should ask if the tide of immigration is still going on or if the far places of the earth have yielded all their treasures...
...Woman and the Law," by Dr...
...I don't like him, and I wish he would stay away...
...The Bureau has for distribution, besides the seeds of the vegetables mentioned, cucumbers from India, squashes from Chili, Japan and Russia, husked tomatoes from South America, watermelons from Roumania, muskmelons from Turkestan and many other foreign plants with which it would seem to be worth the American gardener's while to experiment...
...His reply was, "Why, Madam, that would never do at all...
...Mrs...
...Many fathers have abdicated their privilege and abandoned their duty as fathers...
...WHAT IS "SOCIETY...
...A political candidate, in canvassing for votes, said he believed in the "One man, One vote" system of representation...
...That "Bloody" Word AN ENGLISH WOMAN who was in this country recently told the following stories of her countrymen's dependence upon the word "bloody...
...Why should our schools, especially primary and grammar schools, always be situated as they are now in the midst of the population which they are meant to serve...
...The work of exploration in other lands and of introducing the plants into America is in charge of Mr...
...Industrial Training Com...
...Mary B. Hussey...
...How much such a scheme would mean for the physical, intellectual and moral improvement of life in Boston, New York, Chicago and other great cities if it were liberally and persistently carried out...
...Mother," said a child in a suburban home of New York, "who is that man that comes here to stay over Sundays...
...Up through this earth the shoots come in the spring when they may be cut like asparagus...
...The main difficulties to be overcome are the inertia of ignorance and long-established custom and the opposition of unenlightened selfishness.—"The Child and Social Reform," by Philip Stafford Moxom in the North American Review...
...And if we may judge from the quality of the formal addresses, of the informal discussions and of the after-dinner speeches at the convention, it furnishes good speakers and clear thinkers...
...The first time he made a speech after his resolve, he tried to say that something was absolutely true...
...Beginning with one of the most popular bakeries in town, she found that the loaves of bread were packed in large cases for delivery without being previously wrapped in paper...
...Would you not hate to think that it was possibly the piece of paper that you threw into the street or put into an uncovered trash box which, blown into the face of a horse, caused a runaway accident like that which recently took the life of a faithful government employee, the coachman for the Secretary of War...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Lack of Good Fathers IT IS SAID sometimes that the mother makes the home and that the primary need is of good mothers...
...1fThe only way of developing the individual is through education...
...Ella M. Murray...
...Children need the father as certainly if not as continuously as they need the mother...
...How Single Tax Will make Markets," by Dr...
...Now I see where my trouble lay...
...Our second illustration shows the plants when, the danger of frost being over, they are ready to be moved from seedbed to garden...
...As his hearer apparently did not comprehend, he explained at length that he believed that every man should have a vote whether he had any property or not and that a man should have but one vote, no matter how much property he had...
...Does real social life consist merely in the lavish expenditure of money on entertaining...
...Kate E. Freeman...
...Women certainly do make good public speakers, we said to each other as we left the banquet at which the president, Miss Charlotte 0. Schetter of Philadelphia, had presided with grace and tact, and had shown an exceptional ability to tell a good story well, the same time making it drive home a serious thought...
...This is true, but it is not the whole truth...
...Produce a generation in which the inbred attachment to the crowd shall be changed from a mere gregarious instinct into an intelligent human interest in fellow man and purified into a true altruism...
...One bloody man, one bloody vote...
...John S. Crosby of New York City was elected president for the coming year...
...His scheme is: Put all the kindergarten, primary and even grammar schools outside of the city—away from it—out in the country...
...At the houses of customers, they were taken from the cases and put into bags by hands which not over-clean to start with, had been used in driving and in other miscellaneous offices...
...Woman's Single Tax Convention IUSED TO WONDER why there should be women's single tax leagues just as I used to wonder why there should be suffrage leagues consisting exclusively of college educated people...
...She spoke with the man who had the contract for delivering the bread in her part of the...
...The bags would get so dirty that the ladies would refuse to take them...
...When the plants die down after the hard frosts come, the roots should be covered with about 18 inches of earth...
...I can see now that the College Equal Suffrage League is a labor saving device for carrying the gospel of suffrage to the college students and since I attended the convention of the Woman's National Single Tax League which was held in Washington on February 6th and 7th, I realize that this society is better qualified than a league of men and women would be to take advantage of the women's organizations of the country and of the platform they offer, for the purpose of spreading a knowledge of the principles of the taxation of land values...
...Carry the children out every morning and back every evening six days in the week...
...Another, the Japanese udo, is particularly interesting because it differs widely from any of our vegetables and because the experiments of the Bureau have extended to the cooking as well as to the raising of it...
...David Pairchild...
...It has slips and seeds which it is sending out to those who wish them, asking only that they be given a fair trial and that the results be reported...
...Teach them the meaning of nature by such contact with it...
...McNutt suggests a scheme which, now that means for transportation are so greatly increased, grows feasible...
...Why didn't you say that in the first place...
...The reply was, "Of course...
...They leave the entire responsibility for the care of the home and the training of children to the mothers...
...Said a head master of a leading high school to me: "I would have a circle of kindergartens around the city away from its traffic and noise...
...1910...
...It says to women's clubs, "Are you willing to listen to what a certain group of thoughtful people thinks is the solution of the problems of poverty...
...Most of them have come from the four corners of the earth, from Europe, from Asia and from the islands of the Pacific, and few could say as a man who had Indian blood in his veins once said to a woman who boasted that her ancestors came over in the Mayflower, "My ancestors were on the reception committee...
...And this I understand is what the league is for...
Vol. 3 • March 1911 • No. 11
