HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the crame. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L HUNT Letters and...
...So you see your "suggestion in the form of a request" fits into my psychology exactly...
...Four hundred women joined in the demonstration before the legislators, the principal speakers being Mrs...
...He was told at the customs house "that looked very suspicious," his veracity was questioned and his valuation raised...
...In thinking of the best use I might make of my page—and it is often on my conscience that I should have a better defined policy—it has occurred to me that I might, out of my experience say something about politics of interest to women, but I have not been confident as to how to begin...
...This is not saying women do smuggle any more than men...
...She and her husband who are students of history and social conditions and lovers of art and music, go to foreign countries simply equipped, and travel in quiet fashion...
...I think they sometimes bring us nearer to each other than conversation even...
...Why not...
...She mentions as a personal experience that things delayed by mistake, were ruined by careless handling and they had no redress...
...My barn is one hundred and fifty feet from the house...
...I sow pulverized copperas copiously around the house, barn and premises...
...Did you wear gym suits or special dress for it...
...The last item on its record is this: "Sewing relief still continues in this case...
...B. C. Gudden, of Oshkosh and Mrs...
...They carry large amounts of luggage for which it should be remembered one pays stiff rates in Europe...
...Patterns of cases of this sort, into which napkins may be snugly buttoned, can be found in Good Housekeeping for March...
...This is the fourth state that has taken this action within the last few months, the other states being California, Kansas and Oregon...
...She tells of a friend who purchased in Paris a white waist for her mother for which she paid two dollars and a half...
...But," she adds, "as they have nothing to show for it on their arrival home, they have no bother and nothing to pay...
...Robert M.) Belle Case La Follette...
...I want to get older ladies interested...
...Into this pile is thrown all the slops and waste from the house...
...George W. Peckham, of Milwaukee, Mrs...
...Generally speaking the work of the League was directed to the subjects of bodily proportion, correct poise, right habits in the every day use of the body,—sitting, standing, walking, working, economy of nervous energy and nerve control, freedom and grace in movement, and mastery of self-consciousness...
...Their purchases consist of modest mementoes for friends who remain at home and curios to add to their own collection, which is always available to the public in their home town...
...This purifies the atmosphere, kills the eggs of the flies and prevents disease...
...Woman has earned by sewing for bureau from June 21st to September 20th twenty-two dollars and forty eents...
...The intervening space should be long enough to make a total length of 7 inches and its sides should be scalloped and button holed...
...The Nevada legislature has passed an amendment granting full suffrage to women...
...She concludes her ar-raignment with the remark, "It looks discouraging to lovers of freedom and justice, does it not...
...Read this article by Mr...
...This writer not only finds the laws themselves unfair, she finds their application neither consistent nor impartial...
...In my living room I always keep a partridge cactus which destroys every fly, wasp or bee that enters the house...
...In spite of this moderate and careful expenditure, "We must," she says "go to the trouble of accounting for everything that we buy, show our bills to prove our honesty and then perhaps have it doubted and our private belongings pawed over by strange men...
...Again the italics are ours...
...Helen L. Gren-fall, former superintendent of public education in Colorado...
...Linen Napkin Rings and Cases THE latest thing in the way of a napkin ring is one that can be washed and ironed...
...Olympia Brown Willis, of Racine...
...Man apparently very faithful at his work in United Charities Building...
...Thanking you for your helpful letter, I am, Truly yours, (Mrs...
...A WOMAN WISHES TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS FROM Ekalaka, Montana, a reader writes: Dear Mrs...
...It should be made out of two thicknesses of linen and may be ad rned to any extent demanded by the feminine mind...
...To those who ask why the man's wages are not raised, Mr...
...I suppose there are numberless other women in the same situation...
...La Follette: I have charge of a large class of young women in a Y. W. C. A. and I wonder if your experience would be helpful to me...
...E. M. Fuller and Mrs...
...The italics are ours...
...Income too small for proper support of family...
...In further evidence of the hardships of the operation of tariff laws my correspondent tells of a friend who was so conscientious and exact, that in order to make no mistakes he kept accurate account of every thing he purchased with prices paid...
...We give a pattern for the two ends, one of which has a button and the other a button hole...
...Joseph Jastrow, of Madison...
...They take expensive suites in hotels, flit about in automobiles, buy flowers, confections and so spend hundreds of dollars to our one...
...Near the barn is always a pile of manure, which ranges in size from a few shovelsful to twenty wagon-loads...
...The first sentences of our review were: "A man with a family of average size living in New York City cannot save out of an income of $700 without sacrificing something necessary to health and to working efficiency...
...In Harper's Monthly for March, 1911, Robert Bruyere in an article on "Some Recent Experiments in Human Conservation" tells a story which furnishes a striking commentary on the wide gap so often found between theory and practice...
...c. l. A WOMAN'S VIEW OF THE TARIFF SOME INTERESTING views on the subject of tariff iniquities from a woman's standpoint are given in a letter received recently from an intelligent Wisconsin woman now traveling in Europe...
...Bruyere gives the answer, "When his case was submitted it the trustees, they brought it to the attention of their agent, feeling, it seems, that the facts in the case were not altogether creditable...
...It is claimed by the suffrage workers that their canvass of members shows a majority of both houses in favor of votes for women...
...We have at home railroads, hotel keepers, farmers, grocers, chauffeurs, pleasure steamers—do they not need protection...
...I live on a farm one and three fourths miles from Cobden, Illinois, with seven families on adjoining forties...
...The Living Wage in Theory and in Practice IN OUR ISSUE of May 1, 1909, we reviewed "The Standard of Living Among Workingmen's Families in New York City" by Robert Coit Chapin, published by the Charities Publication Society...
...Who was entitled to the difference in the cost...
...The home department is fine, but could the management find it possible to devote a part of their space to explanations and answers regarding political terms, speeches and references particularly for their women readers...
...We did not use apparatus, and we did not require a uniform costume...
...By way of contrast she tells of rich Americans, everywhere to be observed traveling in Europe who spend in very different fashion and no account is made of it at the Custom House...
...Twelve years ago I heard your husband speak and every time I read a speech of his since I am glad that people are realizing his worth and appreciating the toil through the long years that have gone before...
...Bishop, whose method we followed, liked best of all to have grandmothers in her classes and her book, "The Road to Seventy Years Young," has for its fundamental principle that age is not a question of years, but-a matter of getting into ruts allowing the body and mind to settle and stiffen...
...They may open up a new field of usefulness for the magazine...
...Bruyere and see if it does not make you wish that our legislators could find time for the consideration of the subject of the minimum wage...
...This will be continued...
...Yours truly A Veteran of the Civil War...
...She is a very good sewer...
...But better still from a sanitary standpoint is a washable napkin case, made of linen in oblong shape with a scalloped and embroidered flap...
...It is to the effect that the porter of the United Charities Building, the home of the Russell Sage Foundation which provided the funds for Professor Chapin's study, and of most of the charitable organizations of New York City, a man with six children ranging from 13 months to thirteen years of age receives only $45 a month or $540 a year for his services, $160 less than the living wage as determined by Professor Chapin...
...Bishop's new book, "Daily Ways to Health," is the best text I know of for women of all ages who wish to keep the body young and thoroughly alive...
...Emma S. DeVoe of Washington, president of the National Council...
...A MAN WRITES CONCERNING FLIES Editor Home Department: IN the issue of January 28th you have an article complain-ing of flies and asking a remedy...
...This has all been fixed up, however, by charity...
...She suggests it might be well in order to equalize matters to require travellers to file a list of ALL expenses and then let the custom officer collect duty on all above a certain per diem,—the only objection being it might take it all to pay the expenses of calculating...
...This is the conclusion reached by Professor Robert Coit Chapin of Beloit College as the result of investigations made among the families of wage-earners in 1907...
...Will you not ask some of the questions which have arisen in your mind, such as prompted your suggestion...
...They buy clothing as it is needed to replace that which becomes worn in travel and are saved the burden and expense of carrying around numerous trunks...
...Two of them were not much disturbed, but the other had all her belongings dragged out in a very unpleasant way...
...This argument is said to have had great weight with the men of affairs on the board of trustees...
...La Follette has passed and wishes for continued success, touch me deeply...
...Wishing you and yours in all their enterprises the largest success, I am, Yours respectfully, ——————————— To this I replied: Dear Mrs...
...La Follette: I wish to make a suggestion in the form of a request...
...Adopting the plan so successfully carried out by the woman's suffrage organization of Illinois, the Wisconsin workers went before the Wisconsin legislature on the 14th and conducted a four-hour hearing at which the women speakers presented their arguments in favor of a universal ballot...
...One day she saw in a store at home an exact duplicate for fifteen dollars...
...A fair question might be why should not women smuggle as they have no hand in making the laws...
...Will you kindly tell me what system you used when you led the Emily Bishop League in Madison...
...Woman's Suffrage Gaining New States WOMAN'S suffrage is receiving favorable attention in the Wisconsin and Illinois legislatures and at this writing it appears that these two states may decide at least to give the present electors an opportunity to say whether or not the women shall vote...
...Thanking you for your help, I am, ——————————— To her I replied: Dear Miss ———————: It gives me great satisfaction to know a professional teacher of gymnastics, who recognizes that age is not a limitation to womens' ability to improve physically any more than it is mentally...
...GYMNASTICS FOR OLDER WOMEN ATEACHER of gymnastics in a young women's christian association in a town in Indiana says: Dear Mrs...
...The directions were to have the dress free, to be able to reach up, reach down, bend, twist, stretch, walk, run, and BREATHE...
...The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor carries the man on its rolls and gives his wife sewing to do...
...Men seem to have things pretty well tangled up, truly," is her reflection...
...Yeur genuine words of appreciation of the long struggle through which Mr...
...She cites an illustration of three young women friends who brought home about the same amount of things subject to tariff duties...
...The agent, it is reported, explained that forty-five dollars a month is the highest current rate for porters with or without family, and that to make the wage-scale of the United Charities Building anomalous would bring it into disrepute with business men...
...And for the sake of this closer personal touch, where it does not violate any confidence, I sometimes publish letters and answers, which were not written for publication.—b...
...I have hardly any flies outside and none inside the house...
...As yet I have found eo magazine containing such information and am puzzled over many terms used, and as no reference library is at hand must guess the meaning from the context...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L HUNT Letters and Answers OUR READERS may have observed that letters appeal to me...
...The demonstration was planned by Miss Mary Swain Wagner of Pough-keepsie, who has been representing the state organization before the legislature, and Senator D. G. James of Richland Center, author of the suffrage bill now in committee...
Vol. 3 • March 1911 • No. 12
