HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home fs 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 Woman Suffrage...
...The state federation of women's clubs of California has endorsed woman suffrage...
...And when life ceases to be a struggle there will be no chance for triumph left...
...Contrast with its lot that of the lonely child of some woman of fashion, leading its beautifully non-bacterial life in a carefully secluded nursery under the control of a virtuous, punctual, invariable, conscientious rather than emotional nurse...
...George B. Emerson, who had in 1846 published a REPORT ON THE TREES AND SHRUBS OF MASSACHUSETTS...
...For the purpose of securing such plants, agents have been sent all over the world...
...First among all things in civic communities is virtue...
...Last year a governor, state officers and legislature were nominated and elected who have taken advance ground on foremost questions affecting public interest...
...for the glory and progress of life lie in its shifts and contrasts, in the hard things we have to bear as well as in the easy things which we enjoy...
...His theme was suffrage...
...James Arnold, a merchant of New Bedford, who died in 1868 leaving $100,000 to be devoted to the advancement of agriculture or horticulture...
...Rest in the struggle, through glorying in life...
...Merely to admit the people to a tree museum, however, is to open it to them in a very imperfect way...
...The Shad Bushes (Amelanchier) mentioned in the last Bulletin are now in full flower and are remarkably fine this year...
...It may be said, therefore, that ARNOLD ARBORETUM was really opened to the public only this spring when the publication of the Bulletin of Popular Information was begun...
...We go to our alderman and mayor, to our state legislators and governor, our congressmen and president, personally and with petitions...
...Tree Lore for the People Harvard's Arboretum and its Popular Bulletins THERE CAME to my notice a few days ago a four-page leaflet bearing the inscription "ARNOLD ARBORETUM, Harvard University, Bulletin of Popular Information No...
...The action of the legislature and governor reflect, I believe, the present attitude of the majority of voters in Wisconsin...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Woman Suffrage in Wisconsin THE BILL referring the question of Woman Suffrage to the people to be voted on at the general election in 1912 passed the Wisconsin legislature by a vote of forty-eight in favor, eighteen opposed, thirty-four absent and not voting...
...Our Congressmen are struggling with the tariff...
...How splendid that a prominent member of the Catholic Church whose influence is ever to conserve the home and to revere womanhood, should touch right at the heart of the inseparable relationship of civic and domestic life...
...but to send occasional typewritten notices to neighboring newspapers telling what was to be seen at the time on their grounds, would be very little trouble and would be a very important means of popular education...
...The first organized effort should, it seems to me, be directed to women,—to get them to consider the question, not narrowly, from a personal standpoint, but in all its bigness and importance to the world...
...It owes its origin to Mr...
...WHY IS IT that those who are most deeply convinced that "woman's place is the home" are most concerned when women stay at home and telephone for supplies instead of going to the market...
...But it cannot be said that there has been any widespread notable effort by women to secure suffrage for women in Wisconsin...
...Your attitude and mine, in so far as it affects the result in the state, affects humanity...
...Through Mr...
...A progressive legislature has given us a great opportunity...
...When I was walking through the tree museum with my eyes opened by means of the Bulletin, I kept thinking of the blind way in which I had walked through the grounds of many agricultural colleges...
...It is up to us the women of the state to conduct in a broad-minded, liberal spirit, a campaign that will win...
...In the forests of the northern island of Japan it grows to a larger size than any of the other deciduous-leaved trees of the Empire, often attaining a height of one hundred feet...
...They are becoming competent to handle problems that have long vexed men, and are furnishing a clarity of vision that is needed at the present time...
...Never...
...We can learn what we do not already know...
...THE SCIENCE of true living is accepting all of life with gratitude and complacence—the seeming ill of it as well as the certain weal of it, and to deal with both ill and weal as wisely and patiently as we may...
...The poor little soul wails as often for events as the slum baby does for nourishment.—H...
...It is carried into crowded and eventful streets at all hours...
...It participates in pothouse soirees and assists at the business of shopping...
...But what woman does not know the difference between this indulgent kindness and the eager response to the demands of voters...
...It struck me dumb to be told that a prominent club woman of Wisconsin was opposed to Woman suffrage...
...Is the Wisconsin federation going to be less progressive than the Iowa and California federations...
...THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM is, I learned upon inquiry, the tree museum of Harvard University...
...The question of woman suffrage was passed upon by them as being in the line of progress, and as a natural evolution of our higher civilization...
...without contest there can be no victory, and the wine of victory is the soul's essential drink and without it the soul would perish...
...What have our clubs been working for...
...Emerson's influence, the funds were turned over to Harvard College to be used to develop and maintain an ARBORETUM, provided the College would devote to this purpose a part of a large farm which it owned in West Roxbury, now a part of Boston...
...They can, if they will, be a power in this suffrage movement...
...In these days of efficiency what a waste of physical effort and nervous energy to try to accomplish by "indirect influence" what could be so much more easily achieved by the direct use of the ballot...
...If the majorty of women want suffrage, they now have the opportunity to secure it...
...We do most of the buying and planning...
...For I confess, with all my political experience, I dread it...
...Locally, for civic improvement, parks, playgrounds, clean milk supply, better garbage disposal, good schools...
...Rest from the struggle...
...Glancing over it I saw such statements as these: "One of the most interesting trees now in flower in the ARBORETUM is Cercidiphyllum japonicum...
...This action especially reflects the judgment of enlightened and progressive men...
...The effect would be signal and far-reaching...
...She is not one of these literary, self-culture club women either...
...Eucommia has not yet flowered in the ARBORETUM and the leaves are only just unfolding...
...JUNE FIRST, after Cardinal Gibbons had presented the diplomas to the group of girls about to graduate from Trinity, the Woman's College of the great Catholic University, of Washington, D. C., Michael F. Girten of Chicago delivered the commencement address...
...This is a hardy tree from central China to which a good deal of space has recently been given in the daily papers as the 'Hardy Rubber-tree,' and a possible source of rubber in countries with cold climates...
...The Iowa state federation of women's clubs, whose legislature did not pass a referendum, has endorsed woman suffrage...
...But now that there is this chance to secure suffrage, if we do no: work for it, are we not in much the same position as men who, having the right to vote, shirk the obligation...
...There has been in Wisconsin, as in most states a small group of brave women, who have for years kept up the suffrage organization and devoted themselves to the cause with much of the personal sacrifice and indomitable spirit of pioneer suffragists...
...Ought we not to be interested in the operation of tariff legislation, and have something to say about it...
...Frederick Law Olmsted, and to police the grounds...
...Such colleges would probably not wish to incur the expense of printed bulletins...
...Great honor and credit to them...
...The Washington Post quotes him as having said: "The growing prominence of education in women's lives has increased among them an interest and understanding of the civic affairs of the country...
...Wisconsin can be the first state east of the Mississippi to grant unlimited suffrage to women...
...G. Wells...
...THE VERY POOR infant passes its life in the family room, there is going and coming, and interesting activity of domestic work on the part of its mother, the preparation of meals, the intermittent presence of the father, the whole gamut of its mother's unsophisticated temper...
...Any one who takes notice of world events must recognize that whatever our attitude, woman suffrage must come, ultimately...
...That state has pending a referendum passed apparently in much the same spirit as ours...
...It may not lead a very hygienic life, but it does not lead a dull one...
...The clubs of our state have made a proud record in civic achievement...
...Woman Suffrage in Wisconsin is no longer a matter of opinion, but of action...
...Not only social and civic, but economic questions likewise are often identical with our home problems...
...A number of plants can be seen on the Meadow Road not far beyond the Administration Building...
...But do not women collectively, as well as individually, face a different situation than before...
...On the other side of the path are several individuals of another plant of the same family, Eucommia ulmoides...
...In return for this, the University agreed to open the ARBORETUM to the public from sunrise to sunset every day in the year, reserving, however, entire control of all collections and of the grounds with the exception of the drives and walks...
...G. Wells...
...state and nationally, for conservation, pure food, child labor legislation, limitation of women's hours of work, equal wages, lower cost of living,— these are all subjects of practical legislation...
...Are we going to do all we can to forward a world movement, or are we going to do all we can to hold it back...
...Through its assistance, the public now knows what to look for and when to look for it...
...I fear most the influence of the woman who says, "I have all I can do now, I do not care to vote...
...In December, 1882, a contract was made between the University and the city of Boston under which the City agreed to make a system of carriage drives and walks, to be planned by Mr...
...In March, 1872, one-hundred and twenty acres were set aside for the new museum in which the University undertook to grow specimens of every tree and shrub able to withstand the climate of eastern Massachusetts...
...Women's clubs of Wisconsin have, I know, been wary of taking up the subject of suffrage for fear of divided sentiment...
...2, May 10, 1911...
...One of the trustees of his estate was Mr...
...Yes!—Richard Wrightman...
...Our newspapers and magazines are full of information...
...and I believe that, accepting this axiom as correct, the country will soon turn to its women for guidance...
...She is an effective, tireless worker for every good civic cause, and has been strongly influential in directing the club activities into lines of public service...
...So are we struggling with the price of sugar, and shoes, and gloves, and cotton cloth, and woolens, and linens...
...Perhaps I overestimate this danger, because of my own dread of the added responsibility...
...This is a native of Japan and of western China...
...THE WORK of telling the world what it knows to be true will never want self-sacrificing workers.—H...
...There has not been nearly as much work done here as in neighboring states where no legislation has been obtained...
...There has, however, been a long political struggle in Wisconsin for principle...
...We do not have much respect for those men, do we...
...This Bulletin is sent to newspapers in Boston and the vicinity and to all individuals who ask to have their names put on the list...
...They are very polite and promise us "careful consideration...
...In the very early spring the nearly round cordate leaves are a deep bronze color and before they fall in the autumn they turn to clear bright yellow...
Vol. 3 • June 1911 • No. 24
