HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
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 Votes for...
...In Idaho they are forbidden to register...
...since women began to vote...
...All sprang to their feet, waving hats and handkerchiefs, clapping, shouting, cheering...
...As one incident after another was described, I found myself amazed that no one seemed to realize the awful recklessness and disregard for life involved in every story...
...One can only say that she seemed like the mother of a great family, before whom her children rise up and call her blessed...
...and all they seem able to express is the inadequacy of any expression to give the least measure of her goodness and kindness...
...Where in the United States do women vote...
...But if we are to grow increasingly humane in our attitude toward those who are a little queerer than the rest of us, we must protect ourselves from harm at the hands of those who unexpectedly go over the line and from those who are in worse condition than they are thought to be...
...The Common Cause says: "Only those who have lately been in Oldham can fully realize the popularity of the appointment...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Votes for Women Catechism THE whys and the wherefores of the cause of woman's citizenship are presented strikingly by the Seattle Votes for Women as follows: What is equal suffrage...
...In 1904, 7,000,000 qualified voters in the United States failed to vote for president...
...What women vote in the suffrage states...
...Modern medicine has shown that there is no fixed line dividing the mentally sound from the mentally unsound...
...In view of the often-recurring tragedies, is it wise for us to permit unlicensed persons to have fire-arms in their possession...
...In New Zealand divorce has decreased 77 per cent...
...The garbage pail will be like unto it when we have mastered the art of public housekeeping...
...Novel and pleasant as it is to read of women mayors in England, America was the pioneer in this matter...
...why should we permit him to be shot...
...But in addition to danger from the reckless, which results from having fire-arms lying around promiscuously, there is the danger from those who may at any moment step over the undetermined line which separates sanity from insanity...
...Yes, for president, vice president and congressmen...
...The ceremony of her installation is a scene that will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it...
...Again, when her speech ended, the whole audience rose to their feet to cheer and applaud...
...Anyone may be excused if it be shown that his interests or the interests of the public will be injured by his attendance...
...Do not the "objectionable" women vote...
...But the time came when the woman was confined in an asylum...
...I remember that my mother used to tell me of a woman who had a harmless mania, recurring every year in the late summer...
...It seemed as if they would never have done...
...In Utah jury duty is optional, but any defendant may ask that women be summoned on the jury...
...The one we show is a poor afflicted city-bred porch which never had much ehance to grow, but considering its opportunities, it is quite a credit to itself...
...Lees of Oldham...
...Public opinion in this matter needs revision...
...A scrap pail is a good-sized, covered, enameled receptacle which can be kept as clean as a soup ta-reen, and which is emptied and scalded twice a day in summer...
...Suffice it to say that the Town Hall echoed with delighted laughter, and the mayor seemed to be enjoying herself as much as anyone...
...At these times she would wander off into the fields and sleep on the haystacks...
...Are women compelled to vote in the suffrage states...
...But with our close-gathered populations and with our telephones the number of people that would be killed by the burglars even if all were unarmed, is infinitesimal compared with the number of those who now lose their lives through the careless use of pistols...
...Because their record has been stainless, very little has been heard about the women mayors of Kansas...
...What women do not vote...
...In Colorado women are only 42 per cent...
...I was recently in the company of people who were telling for each other's entertainment stories of accidental shootings and of hair-breadth escapes from such shootings...
...A few of the society women and the women of the "underworld...
...of the vote...
...Does woman suffrage increase divorce...
...It increases it...
...Fire Arms and Public Safety IN THE SUCCESSION of thoughts and emotions aroused by the killing of David Graham Phillips, after the first shock and the realization of what his death meant to the world, after the outgoing of sympathy to two families terribly bereaved, came the wonder as to how long our present carelessness in the matter of fire-arms is to continue...
...of the vote in the "slum" ward...
...The robe and chains were donned, and Mrs...
...If women vote, are they compelled to serve on jury...
...Lees rose to speak...
...Nothing short of a full report of her speech, with notes on local history and affairs, could do justice to its aptness and humor...
...Then there is the supposed need of fire-arms for the protection of person and property...
...Having the kitchen and dining room porches in one, saves innumerable steps when meals are served outside, and having no outside door is a great help in keeping out flies...
...If there is a place to dry towels on the porch and a scrap pail, (by which I do not mean a garbage pail), there will be a few occasions when the real back door must be opened...
...l. h. * * * A Porch for Kitchen or Dining Room IN MAKING OVER your house or in building your new house or your summer cottage, think of the advantages of having a screened porch like the one of which we show the plan, connecting kitchen, pantry and dining room and having no outside doors...
...We no longer permit a man to be hanged for stealing...
...nor are men...
...Her entrance was the signal for an outburst of extraordinary enthusiasm...
...There she pined away and died...
...As to the matter of property, if there is one lesson we should learn it is the lesson that life is more precious than material things and that to take a man's life because he is trying to take our property is to avenge one crime by another ten thousand times as great...
...Do the women of these states vote for president...
...Love isn't a strong enough word,' they say...
...Again the applause was deafening...
...In Washington the following men are exempt: Lawyers, ministers, and priests, physicians, teachers, locomotive engineers, members of the fire department, civil and judicial officers of the United States, and men over sixty years of age...
...Any trouble it would cost would be paid for a thousand times over in lives saved...
...The passionate devotion and reverence felt for her by the people of Oldham must be something quite unique...
...As I think of it now, I seem to get the odor of the new mown hay and to see the harvest moon and I think what balm the surroundings must have been to that tired spirit...
...Do not women stay away from the polls...
...What arguments can we give for doing so...
...And with our realization that the diagnosis of mental disease is difficult has come the desire to give people the benefit of the doubt and to allow them to remain as long as possible in familiar scenes and with those they love instead of putting them under restraint...
...A score of women had served as mayors in various small towns of Kansas long before English women were made eligible...
...A scrap pail may be fit to associate with respectable people on quite intimate terms...
...The tall, dignified figure entered, with the calm, beautiful, humorous face, crowned with white hair, upon which the black velvet bonnet was a graceful substitute for the ugly three-cornered hat which the mayor usually wears...
...City Mothers THE third British woman to be chosen a mayor is Mrs...
...There was a beauty in the spirit of the whole thing which must be felt to be understood...
...One argument is that drawn from the use of fire-arms in sport...
...Even those of Women at the Polls us who are not in the profession accept this fact and we sometimes say in jest, "The insane are not all in the asylums by any means...
...As to the porch, after having once experienced the greater comfort and ease with which many household tasks can be done in the open, you will wonder why you didn't have one long ago...
...In Wyoming and Idaho a larger percentage of women are married than in any other state of the union...
...But since the number of people affected is small and since even at present the places where fire-arms may be used for amusement are limited, the licensing for this purpose would be a simple matter...
...It decreases it...
...What we need is a law putting fire-arms in the class with potassium cyanide and a public opinion condemning the slightest carelessness in the care or in the use of them.—c...
...At the last election in Denver women cast 55 per cent...
...In Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Washington...
...At present it is too often a dirty thing out by the back fence which John Jones has not emptied since week before last...
...Does woman suffrage decrease marriage...
...of the population, but they cast 45 per cent...
...Are men compelled to serve on jury...
...The mothers and taxpayers...
...Society should make men feel the awfulness of punishing theft with murder...
...Words are inadequate...
...of the vote in the best residence district, and only 4 per cent...
...It is the right of both men and women to have a voice in the laws that govern them...
...Where women have voted the longest, divorce is only one-eighth as frequent as in similar states where they do not vote...
...A well-bred country porch should be hidden from the dining room, but with these exceptions the little city porch does very well...
...They performed their duties faithfully, and gave no cause for scandal...
...Had even one of them done otherwise, the fact would have been heralded from one end of the country to the other...
...They have evidently satisfied their constituents, at several of them have been re-elected term after term.—The Woman's Journal...
...I firmly believe that the world at large could be made a perfectly safe place for such as she...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 15
