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 tiring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Social...
...What if the apparent motion (in society) is toward cells to sleep in, and clubs to play bridge in, and amusements for evenings, and a strenuous business life run on piratical principles into which the women are drawn as decoy ducks...
...Your first thought will be that there is nothing very novel mentioned there...
...Richards death came, contains two articles by her...
...Because this seems to be the trend is there any reason to think it cannot be changed the moment a goodly portion of the thinking people stand face to face with the problem...
...here you are worrying because the home is losing its hold and people are living in flats or boarding and women are spending their time playing bridge...
...Does such an event stop us today...
...No, that was the middle ages...
...What else does this persistent forcing of scientific training to the front mean...
...That is all very simple," is your first thought and your next thought is, "But not one house in ten thousand has these things...
...and too often sleep while such men are forming secret conspiracies against national health and morality with the aid of legal talent hired to kill...
...Richards' Last Contribution to the Home Economics Journal...
...the other is the most satisfactory, the fullest and at the same time the most condensed statement of her social philosophy that she ever made...
...Windows going to the ceilng and opening at the top with ease...
...FORTUNATELY for the readers of the Home Economics Journal, the April number which had already gone to press when the news of Mrs...
...Household engineering is the great need for material welfare, and social engineering for moral and ethical wellbeing...
...If the state is to have good citizens, productive human beings, it must provide for the teaching of the essentials to those who are to become the parents of the next generation...
...No state can thrive while its citizens waste their resources of health, bodily energy, time, and brain power, any more than a nation may prosper that wastes its natural resources...
...Is not a distinctive feature of our age one of overcoming the natural trend of things...
...Richards to endure was the sight of people sitting down helpless before things they might remedy or at least make a beginning toward learning how to remedy...
...We say, hold fast, and we cement the sides and confine or turn the river...
...If you think the home and the family are such helpful institutions, why not up and save them and give them the best material setting that scienee and engineering can provide...
...No dark cupboards...
...No, we bring water from hundreds of miles...
...Education, as she says, is the solution—the kind of education that will make men and also women resourceful, capable of getting what they know to be desirable...
...Play is life...
...And in this matter of education, the State is all-powerful...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Social Significance of the Home Economics Movement Mrs...
...There may be some question as to whether it can interfere with the adult and make him lead the kind of life that is obviously best for him but there is no question about its right to hold on to the children until it has prepared them to master their environments...
...The child who is deprived of a full share of play is deprived of so much life.—Playground...
...It is all very characteristic for we know that the thing which it was hardest for Mrs...
...A pneumatic cleaner installed in the house...
...Large sinks with two compartments for dish washing and racks for drying without wiping...
...It is not impossible to furnish a decent habitation for every productive laborer in all our great cities...
...The Home Economics movement is an endeavor to hold the home and the welfare of children from slipping away over the cliff, by knowledge which will bring courage to combat the destructive tendencies...
...In this connecton, turn to the shorter article and read over the list of specifications she makes for the model twentieth century house...
...I believe it is possible to solve the problem, but only if the aid of scientifically trained women is brought to work in harmony with the engineer who has accomplished so much...
...The teaching of domestic economy in the elementary school, and Home Economics in the higher, is intended to give the people a sense of control over their environment and to avert a panic as to the future...
...Richards...
...many really humane people are overawed by the authority, the pompous and powerful assertions of "successful" men of affairs...
...If a river is by natural law wearing away its bank in a place we wish to keep, do we sit down and moan and say it is sad, but we cannot help it...
...One is a short, interesting tabulation of what we should look for in the twentieth century house and what we should aim at in caring for it...
...The ancient cities whose ruins are now being explored in Asia seem to have been abandoned because of failure of the water supply as the earth became dessicated...
...The Attainable but the Unattained," might be the title of this little article of Mrs...
...It seems to say, though of course not in so many words, this very sensible thing: You American people...
...No gas burners without hoods or flues providing strong upward drafts...
...Windows on two sides of every bedroom...
...Screens in the upper half of the windows as well as in the lower...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 18
