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 cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Making...
...From a purely money point of view we may ask what the biological forces of disease are costing us annually...
...THE new women voters in Washington have "meddled" again in politics and defeated a bill in their State Legislature that would have legalized prize fighting...
...No present day work that I have known has impressed me as having greater educational import...
...One boy asked the teacher to be allowed to take the black knot instead of the fungus assigned him...
...And who can say that carrots have not some medicinal properties...
...Miss Paroa in "The Preparation of Vegetables for the Table," *a Farmers' Bulletin that is very helpful for housewives, says that when carrots are cut into small pieces and are cooked in water which is afterwards thrown off, at least one-third of their nourishment is lost and that as much as a pound of sugar, the chief nutrient of carrots, may be lost in this way from a bushel of the vegetable...
...G. Stanley Hail, whose stimulating lecture prompted the inquiry, what is the best book with which to interest children in the study of nature...
...A single insect species, inconspicuous and uninteresting in itself, like the San Jose scale or the codling moth, has the power to destroy or cripple the fruit industry of the entire country...
...Many an Englishman in middle life can remember having been forced in his childhood to eat a raw carrot before breakfast every morning in the spring because Mrs...
...It was through being served a carrot salad the other day that I was led to consider the virtues of carrots, medicinal and otherwise...
...In the latter case the water should be allowed to evaporate after the carrots are soft...
...For its curative qualities I cannot vouch, but for its palatability and beauty I can...
...Cultivation of plants," he says, "indicated and developed elements of character fundamental to civilized life...
...Speaking of the value of nature study he says: "Our biological science has been too largely a dead museum affair, with little relation to the life of the community...
...that he should be an enthusiastic worker in the campaign to exterminate the typhoid fly...
...He then went to work, hunted through the woods, and collected the fungus on the native wild plums and cherries and made a survey of the city to form an intelligent estimate of the damage caused to cultivated fruits...
...With his vision and his conviction that public school education should be all for sure human good, it is logical that Professor Hodge should have been the one to suggest the co-operation of school children in the work of freeing communities from the malarial mosquito...
...These things from the black death to the white plague represent merely forces of living nature which operate under laws as definite and as discoverable as the law of gravitation...
...Beeton said they were in that wonderful compendium of useful information which she wrote sixty years ago or more and modestly called a cook book...
...Still above this high school course Professor Hodge's conception of a university is that it shall be an organ of society which, without fear, favor, price, or politics, must grapple the problems which the people need to have solved and never let go until they are solved...
...But back of this is the inspiration and promise of the author's purpose and philosophy...
...Boston Morning Star...
...The social, economic, and educational possibilities of his new departure are just beginning to receive recognition...
...One of his classmates happened to be a reporter on a local daily, and presented the subject to the public in a well written article of about two columns, and that fall there was such a cleaning up of black knot in Worcester, as I had not seen in fourteen years before...
...Thus it is proven that "woman's sphere is the home...
...Thus might this course in the high school be made the most precious year in the lives of our youth...
...The child entered into the experiment with great glee, and, interesting to note, developed her own method at the outset, which was to count the slugs as she caught them in a tumbler, and when she got one hundred, she wrote it down on a paper and emptied the tumbler before her hungry pet, waited until she saw that they were all eaten, and ran to the garden for another hundred...
...She is naturally anxious for them to rear a brood and often asks, 'Why don't they lay some eggs?' She is told, July 2d, that if she would feed the hen more insects she would probably begin to lay...
...He came to my library at the University with a handful of postal cards and going through the late volumes of the Experiment Station Record, copied all the titles of articles on the black knot, addressed and mailed the cards, and within a week had practically all the recent bulletins on the subject...
...THE WOMEN OF WASHINGTON VOTE...
...Its specific instruction, and definite knowledge give it great practical value...
...Use about 1/4 cup of carrot to a cup of liquid...
...This matter of original research in hand-to-hand contact with nature ought to be made the breath of life in an educational system...
...The biological factors of national health and vigor should furnish, possibly, the largest block of subject matter for the high school course...
...A good soup may be made by cooking grated young carrots in milk or in milk and water in a double boiler...
...This bulletin may be obtained free by writing to the Division of Publications, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. * * * Meddling in Politics Praise for Washington's Women Voters—Story of Woman Who Could Not Leave Biscuits to Aid Run-Over Child...
...Practical knowledge in this field stimulates interest in birds and other insectivorous animals, and we have a foundation from which to study their work in the economy of nature...
...At Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, before the State Teachers' Association, Professor Hodge gave these two interesting concrete illustrations of research work for children: "A little girl of only eight has a pair of bobwhites...
...To allow a child to grow up without planting a seed or rearing a plant is a crime against civilized society, and our armies of tramps and hordes of hoodlums are among the first fruits of an educational system that slights this important matter...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Making Biology Serve Mankind IT WAS a great satisfaction to boom the fly campaign with a contribution last week from the highest scientific authority, Prof...
...Thus these deeper relations to nature are not only ancient and fundamental but are also immanent and persistent...
...But when carrots are old and their fibre is woody, long cooking in water is the only thing for them, loss or no loss...
...not the reading knowledge,—mind the difference,—but real, natural search, giving to children, as he says, an interest "not technical or superficial touching life only at the surface here and there at long intervals, but an interest that lies close to the heart, to the home, and all that makes life worth living...
...First they voted to recall Mayor Gill of Seattle...
...He answered, Hodge's "Nature Study and Life...
...When we consider its universal and fundamental character in relation to civilization and human advancement the omission of soil lore from a system of education for the young is suggestive of a lapse to barbarism...
...When we study nature alive and at work, we begin to realize the incalculable worth of knowledge, the human value of science...
...In this spirit Professor Hodge makes children's animals and pets, household, garden, and orchard insects, toads, frogs, common birds, growing shrubs, trees, and fruit, subjects of research...
...At night she shows us her record—one thousand one hundred and eighty-six rose slugs eaten in a day...
...Cooking Your Carrots ARE CARROTS good spring medicine...
...and that his interest in humanity should lead him into the field of social hygiene to which he has recently made most valuable contribution...
...This dish is much improved if the carrots are cooked in the way just described...
...Or they may be cooked in such a small amount of water that it can all be evaporated before the dish is served...
...Then they voted into office men of worth and unquestionable standing...
...The little child gains answers to both...
...Here are two definite questions in dynamic biology: How many rose slugs will a quail eat in a day...
...In the course of his explanation of what he means by "Civic Biology" he gives this illustration: "We have four hundred thousand dying annually of preventable disease, with about one million continually sick, suffering the unnecessary torments of typhoid fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and a score of other diseases...
...Very likely it will be charged that the teakettle boiled dry while they were up to this business...
...In making this salad young uncooked carrots had been grated and heaped lightly on lettuce leaves and the whole had been dressed with oil and vinegar...
...that he should be profoundly interested in the conservation of natural resources...
...And others, for example, the Hessian fly or chintz bug, hold in their power the wheat crops of large sections of the country...
...Combining as it did the yellow of the carrots and the green of the lettuce it seemed very springlike and seasonable...
...A satisfactory way is to cut them into thin slices and cook them in a double boiler with a little butter or in a stew pan with a small amount of water, or still better, stock, in addition to the butter...
...and she was asked to see if she could not find out how many rose slugs the bird would eat in a day...
...There is a splendid story in Professor Hodge's work...
...Willingness to work for daily bread, intelligent provision for the future, courage to fight for home, love of country, are a few among the virtues attained...
...Beeton said it was good for children...
...It is only with the young carrots which are now on the market that other methods are possible...
...It was the first referendum election ever held in Tacoma and the women were more active at the polls than were the men, and they are sure to be a force at the recall election on the mayor and four commissioners in April...
...Between six thousand and seven thousand women registered and a majority voted...
...The only rational attitude in such matters must be one of agnosticism...
...Recent conservative estimates placed this tax at from two to four billion a year...
...Thicken with flour mixed with butter, in the proportion of about 1/2 tablespoonful of each to every cup of the liquid...
...She told him frankly that she knew nothing about it, but would be glad if he would learn all he could and give them all the benefit...
...We have heard of a woman in Nova Scotia who couldn't leave her kitchen to go out and care for a suffering child who had been run over by an automobile, because her biscuit would burn...
...And now they have helped to pass the anti-treating ordinance in Ta-coma...
...It is needless to multiply illustrations...
...Fourth of July morning she is wild with delight on finding the first egg in the nest...
...He argues further: "Sociological studies suggest that city life wears itself out or goes to decay after three or four generations, unless rejuvenated by fresh blood from the country...
...A few years ago I asked Dr...
...I should like to see the nature-study course give to all boys and girls the knowledge and the power to surround their homes with the most useful and beautiful plants available, and actually to produce their living by rearing plants or animals or both if occasion ever required...
...Nature Study and Life" embodies Professor Hodge's idea of the sort of biological instruction which is needed in elementary schools...
...Such carrots may be cooked in their own juice, for they have more than seven parts of water for every one part of solid nutrients, and their fiber is soft...
...The second example was one taken from a Worcester high school...
...He mounted a typical series of specimens in a glass case, drew wall charts, and finally presented his results on the life history, distribution, and treatment of the black knot in a carefully prepared lecture which occupied an entire period of the class...
...C. F. Hodge of Clark University...
...We can neither prove nor disprove the old theories...
...He is a pioneer in the field of applied biology...
...The botany class was studying fungi...
...My point is that nature study or elementary science, for the public school ought to be all for sure human good...
...We must wait till science is further advanced...
...His "Civic Biology," now in press, naturally follows this with the high school course, and the third book in the series, "Dynamic Biology," in the course of work-out and try-on with his present college classes, will complete the series through the university...
...Having eaten this salad of raw carrots I began to wonder how carrots ought to be cooked in order to preserve all the nutrients that are in the raw vegetable...
...Season with salt and a very little mace, and strain...
...Another, like the gypsy moth, can possibly strip the continent, periodically at least, of its forests...
...If she has all the insects she wants, will she produce eggs...
...Carrots and peas are frequently served together with a seasoning of butter, salt and pepper...
...On the threshold of manhood and womanhood they would be given a knowledge, the best that science can offer, of the laws and forces that make for life and health, their own and that of the community of which they form a part...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 16
