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 A True...
...In the schools there was no general plan of ventilation or of adaptation of seats to the size of the children...
...This suggested the condition of the slaughter houses as they had found them the previous day...
...A large pan of delectable cream puffs sat on the floor in the neighborhood of a rat trap, with a cat wandering about...
...But if it is "comfortable" according to his standards of the thermometer, he is content...
...Crane's plan after she finishes the inspection of a city, to hold a public meeting and to tell the people of a community the results of her investigation...
...The New York fire horror had instigated the investigation...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A True Evangelist--And an Opportunity WHEN A SHORT TIME AGO the House of Representatives appointed committees to visit the public buildings of Washington and report as to the safety of fire escapes and sanitary conditions, how I wished Mrs...
...Louis D. Brandeis, Crystal Eastman, Paul U. Kellogg, Mrs...
...In 1859 he contributed to the Atlantic Monthly an essay called "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet," which led the founder of Smith College to devote her fortune to women's education...
...These same long, low buildings made into rooming places were shocking, in that they offered some rooms absolutely without light or ventilation, excepting as the door opened into a long narrow hall...
...When anyone complains about the air in the Senate and House galleries, and wonders how the Senators and Members stand it, the invariable answer is, that the Capitol has a splendid ventilating system...
...Crane has a wonderful gift that way...
...It may be crowded beyond its capacity to ventilate...
...It is said that extracts from this book were largely instrumental in securing the ballot for the women of Australia...
...was replied to by an unconscious glance at the apron the sausage maker wore...
...Who knows whether the "System" works or not,—I mean the ventilating system...
...George Hardy...
...Off from this sausage room was an old toilet which they declared was "hardly ever used...
...Among the speakers will be Dr...
...The women in the crowd applauded us a good deal, but the men let us have the benefit of street corner wit...
...Windows intended for ventilation of toilet rooms in the basement were found to be nailed down...
...Christopher Graham, who is a member of the Minnesota State Board of Health...
...Unwin left Boston for Philadelphia where they will attend the Conference on City Planning...
...Kent's address concerned the interests of suburban rather than rural life...
...As we passed from one to the other, my surprise and shock was mingled with admiration for the wonderful woman we were following...
...Mrs...
...Edward Markham...
...He would like to see short plays performed in grange halls, schools and other meeting places, the themes to be taken from country life—ploughing, husking, sugaring, and other such occupations...
...she said they were about the average...
...the apron itself told the story...
...The speeches of the first evening were on a topic which is creating widespread interest, "Rural Recreation," and were made by men who have earned the right to speak on the subject...
...The Task of a Play Leader in a Small Community," Henry S. Curtis, Olivet, Michigan...
...Boys and Girls at Night," by Mrs...
...What does an ordinary plain man know about health conditions, anyway...
...She is stirring and convincing, but sympathetic,—a true evangelist...
...On the 12 Mr...
...The last mentioned, he says should maintain their original purpose of building up agricultural interests instead of being, as at present, chiefly variety shows...
...He urged that musical and dramatic talents be searched out and developed...
...The program included also the following addresses: "Playground Equipment," by E. B. DeGroot of Chieago...
...Charming Mrs...
...She told the people the truth...
...Raymond Unwin, who planned the garden cities of Letchworth and Hampton, and who wrote "Town Planning in England," arrived in Boston with his wife on May 9. He spoke at the city club, and Harvard University, and visited Prendergast Camp for which he had, some two years ago, made plans...
...Efficiency in Play Convention of the Playground Association THE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, which has enlarged its name to indicate its enlarging activities and becomes the Playground and Recreation Association of America, held its fifth annual meeting in Washington, D. C, on May 10 to 13, taking for its general subject for discussion—-"Efficiency in Play...
...She makes the community feel its common responsibility, and each his individual share...
...Now we women, we know about ventilation, cleanliness, and sanitation, don't we...
...Charles Henry Israels, New York City...
...Professor L. H. Bailey of Cornell University, and the Hon...
...He thinks picnics should be encouraged, also field days, harvest homes, old home weeks, church festivals and fairs...
...She told them what was right and what was wrong, and gave them specific facts...
...On another afternoon, the delegates themselves unbent and played ball and other games on the Rose-dale Playground...
...Bailey urged that since improvements in agriculture ar« increasing the farmer's leisure, there is need of occupations for leisure moments...
...Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New Ysrk Evening Pest...
...Graham asked me to be one of a party to accompany Mrs...
...I thought I did...
...He hopes to see in every farming community an assembly hall in a grove with picnic tables, speaking stands, an athletic field and playground...
...Higginson's views on suffrage even in the early days were similar to those of the sanest advocates of the cause today is indicated by the following quotation from an essay written years ago: "I think that the advocates of woman suffrage often err fey claiming too much,—as that all women will vote for peace, for total abstinence, against slavery, and the rest...
...Graham, the skilled diagnostician whispered, "They have seen us coming, asd are cleaping up like sixty...
...One of them writes, "I was one of the eighty-four men that were booed and hissed down the Avenue, but I count it a very thrilling and inspiring experience, and would not have missed it for anything...
...Graham, the wife of Dr...
...The demand in country districts, he says, is for opportunities for co-operation in play as well as in work...
...These two interesting events seem to indicate that a new era is dawning in convention life which will be welcomed by those who have sat through interminable meetings because of the variety which it will bring...
...This is an ideally comfortable and healthy town...
...Thomas Wentworth Higginson Early Advocate of Equal Suffrage THE FACT THAT, there was one section only of the great Suffrage Parade in New York City on May 6, the men's section, which was hooted and jeered, indicates that the center of gravity of martyrdom for the cause has shifted...
...Raymond Robins, and Professor Kelley Miller of Howard University will speak on various phases of the subject •f "Occupational Standards...
...Passing through, we found the middle room insufferably hot, filled with odors of frying doughnuts, with no suitable provision for light or ventilation, or shelving...
...Bliss Carmen...
...no skilled housekeeper could be more at home in her own house than Mrs...
...He told the story of a group •f farmers in the corn belt who expressed complete satisfaction with their lot because they expected to make enough by the time they were fifty to retire and move to the city...
...and Mrs...
...Bartlett Crane might head their investigating procession...
...Then Mrs...
...The only thing which I feel safe in predicting is that woman suffrage will be used, as it should be, for the protection of woman...
...The purpose of this camp is to provide a healthful place for those who are recovering from tuberculosis and who must be near the city on account of their work...
...She would go to the stake rather than shirk her obligation, but she has great love for humanity, and is never unkind...
...Often on my walks from the hotel to the hospital, as I breathed the bracing air from over the far reaching prairies, and passed the comfortable homes of prosperous, retired farmers, many of which offered accomodations for the convalescent, I had reflected...
...Going through these stores,—and they are typical of most towns of the size of Rochester,—we saw the inevitable defect of their arrangement...
...On the afternoon of the 12th there was a practical demonstration of folk dancing in the ball room of the New Willard Hotel led by Mrs...
...That Col...
...James J. Storrow, chairman of the Committee on Folk Dancing, Boston...
...It is a great pioneer work...
...Surely the air and sun and peaceful environment of Rochester and the sisters' hospital must contribute to the marvelous stccess of these far famed Mayos...
...Crane if the conditions she found in Rochester were unusual...
...Conference of Charities and Correction TWO THOUSAND DELEGATES and more are expected in Boston, June 7-14, to attend the 38th annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction...
...It seems better to rest the argument on general principles, and not to seek to prophesy too closely...
...Fortunately the men seem to have enjoyed it...
...He was editorial contributor for many years to the Woman's Journal, his witty and brilliant editorials having been brought together and published in a book entitled "Common Sense About Women...
...There is the treasury, with its counting and chopping of old money, an interesting place to visit, but a bad place to work...
...by Lee F. Hanmer, department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation...
...He was at one time President of the American Woman Suffrage Association, and at the time of his death was an officer in the New England and Massachusetts associations...
...I knew something of Mrs...
...not a bit...
...Crane in these various fields...
...AFEW DAYS AFTER the parade on May 9, there died at Cambridge, at the age of 87, a man who had been a supporter of the suffrage cause before many of the men in this procession were born—THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON —all honor to his bravery and his far-sightedness...
...Mayo invited our party to luncheon, warning us that there would be no meat...
...No trained scientist could pursue an investigation with greater thoroughness...
...escapes were what they were looking for and that was all they saw...
...It is said that men and women of character and ability work for the government on meager salaries in rooms unsanitary and overcrowded, unfit for use according to all modern standards of comfort and decency...
...In each rural district there should be in the future some one who shall specialize in play, and who shall have the same relation to the community that the teacher does at present...
...Florence Kelley, Mrs...
...Even this hint was unnecessary...
...Ah me, these men...
...The inspection party had already visited the dairies, slaughter houses, and water supply...
...It must not be dominated by the town but developed and supported by the farmer folk themselves...
...He told of an experiment being carried on in a suburb of San Francisco for the purpose of providing recreation fer the crowds which come out from the city on Sundays, and of giving them something better to do than idling and loafing...
...It may be exaggerated but there is a general belief that this building is a breeding place for tuberculosis...
...IT IS A PART of Mrs...
...But," I said to myself, "what is she doing in Rochester...
...Crane, the investigator, became the preacher...
...We found one where the bread and cakes and pies were very neatly covered in glass counters...
...And then, instead of utilizing the light and air of the rear of the building for the work room, that space is used for storing purposes, and the middle spaee where the work is usually performed, is a dark, ill-ventilated, unwholesome room...
...William Kent, newly-elected Congressman from California...
...Such plays might well be substituted fer traveling shows, which take much out of country communities, and put nothing into them...
...Crane on thorough inspection would find that the palatial buildings which the Senate and House have provided for themselves are not always properly aired...
...If a room is below seventy degrees Fahrenheit, he makes a kick...
...Incidents like this indicate that only the economic side of farm lift is being developed, and that the social side is being neglected...
...There was a great gathering at the opera house in Rochester...
...it may be damp, sunless, gas fixtures old, leaking slow poison, toilets defective,—but he does not notice...
...There is the front room for display of wares,—the part the customer sees...
...Higginson was among the signers of the call for the first National Woman's Rights Convention held at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850...
...but it didn't...
...George Foster Peabody...
...And it might be that Mrs...
...As we approached one meat market good Dr...
...Groceries, meat markets, bakeries, lodging houses, candy factories, schools were on our program...
...Crane's work and was delighted with the opportunity offered...
...Crane complimented the newly mopped floor, but did not spare an observation as to the dirty hands with which the sausage meat was being stirred, nor did she fail to ask for the wash basin and towel...
...Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone were despised by their fellows and rejected by large portions of respectable society fifty years ago...
...From Philadelphia they will go to Washington for the meeting of the Federation of Arts...
...A surprised look was the only answer, and the next question "Where do you wash your hands...
...And so I wished she might visit the capital, this beautiful city of Washington that we all love...
...You would think it would make them mad...
...Professor John Dewey of Columbia University...
...and Richard Le Gallienne, were guyed in the streets of New York in 1911...
...I am determined that if I can help to that end, there shall be a thousand men in line next year...
...Recreation, he said, must be provided for old and for young and must be broadly educative...
...Self-respect and self-protection,— these are, as has been already said, the two great things for which woman needs the ballot...
...In another bakery where the general conditions were better, the baker ceolly sat on the mixing table while he talked with us...
...George W. Goler of Rochester, whose subject will be "Medical Inspection of School Children," Lawrence Veiler and Jacob Riis of New York, who will take part in a "Housing Symposium...
...ONE MORNING last October when I was at Rochester, Minnesota, I received an invitation over the telephone from Mrs...
...But how mistaken we sometimes are...
...If she should lead a congressional committee through some of the public buildings they would see something besides the absence of fire escapes...
...In this connection it is interesting to note that the Philadelphia delegates to the Conference of Charities and Correction to be held in Boston have formed a baseball team, and have challenged any other team which may be formed at the convention and which is brave enough to meet it on the diamond...
...Boy Scouts," by James E. West and Preston G. Orwig...
...What About Athletics on the Playground...
...Take a bakery, for instance...
...She was just and fair, but dead in earnest...
...Col...
...I could just see those inexperienced men going helplessly about, knowing no more about ventilation, sanitation, overcrowding, an"d other dangers to health and life, than about dressing an infant...
...We asked Mrs...
...So much for the men...
...The groceries had the usual outside display of fruit and vegetables exposed to the dust of the streets, and the inside collection of flies...
...Crane on an official tour of inspection of the city of Rochester...
...Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent...
...It is said that at the census building where women work there are stuffy rooms which never get the sun, reeking with bad odors...
...Charles W. Eliot, who will read a paper on "Education in-Sex Hygiene...
...Just as you would expect, a few tays later the papers reported that the investigating coramittee had found one or two buildings with defective elevator service and without sufficient fire escapes...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 21
