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 Women of the...
...and this group of women in the legal profession regard themselves a family— a family of women lawyers...
...This vast amount of material drawn from every civilized country was collected and edited by Miss Goldmark under Mr...
...All the possibilities of life, the worker's whole plane of existence, rises and falls with his scale of time expenditure...
...I had thought to conceal the fact and, under the cover of condolence, to offer a few hints to those who must occasionally do their own washing in order to keep the price of maintaining cleanliness within the limits of their pocket-books...
...The big successes of the future,' says one of the Leggett advertisements, 'in the grocery business, will be under the banners of pure food.' The firm publishes a piece of fiction in which it makes a son say to his father: 'I'd rather be a good grocer than president of the Union Pacific'" Anti-Suffragists in Politics I DO NOT KNOW whether the anti-suffragists of Connecticut carried out their threat or not;—perhaps it was only a newspaper joke—but it was reported that they were going to introduce seven amendments to the suffrage bill of that state in order to prevent women from having too many advantages if suffrage were added unto them and nothing were taken away from them...
...Paper handkerchiefs do very well when one is out camping but I have not heard of their use in what we call polite society...
...Alfred W. McCann, some very remarkable essays on the reasons for seeking the best quality in food...
...Brandeis are sisters...
...In 1906 she wrote a paper on "Working Women and the Law," which appeared in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science...
...Wiley and other well-known men...
...Scattered and unsystematized as the work has been we already owe much to government research and investigation,—pure food, cold storage, feeding babies, children's lunches, mosquito and fly extermination,— surely this work should have the support of women...
...We had supposed that the problem was greater...
...I might as well confess it in the beginning...
...299, $1.25...
...If she had lived, jury service would probably not have seemed appalling to her...
...Her book, "Fatigue and Efficiency," growing out of these studies, will appear before long as one of the Russell Sage Foundation series...
...In the well-known Oregon and Illinois cases which Louis D. Brandeis argued at the request of the National Consumers' League, the briefs consisted in large part of the world's experience as to the effect of industrial occupations upon women...
...New York...
...Throughout the state and national departments of government, and all the organizations for social betterment of our great cities, there are women students, economists, and statisticians...
...Brandeis' direction...
...At times ten or more readers were engaged under her direction in this search...
...I have a one-piece pongee dress upon the laundering of which I have made a time-study like those which have been made of brick-laying and shoveling...
...It contains three chapters on Parasitism and one each on Woman and War, Sex Differences and Certain Objections...
...For ten cents she gets one hundred wooden pits and one hundred skins...
...It is written because one good example is worth more than a hundred complaints...
...The first and second amendments relate to the support of children, legitimate and illegitimate, and provide that the mother, if she insist on voting, shall share equally with the father in their support...
...If Connecticut can, by merely granting suffrage to women, place the burden of the support of an illegitimate child equally upon father and mother, we would advise it to pass the bill at once...
...In fact, if some one would invent handkerchiefs that had no call to be ironed, it would be possible to keep one's wardrobe laundered without the use of an iron...
...Miss Goldmark considers no reform, no betterment so important as the adjustment of work to human effort...
...Stuffing with tissue paper also helps...
...For the past half century scientists have been studying the intricate problems of fatigue and learning its laws in the seclusion of the laboratory, * * * muscles and nerve, frog jerk and pigeon flight in infinite detail, WITHOUT AS YET APPLYING THE LAWS AND FACTS SO ACQUIRED TO THE PHENOMENA OF FATIGUE IN THE LARGEST CLASSES OF OUR POPULATION, THE WAGE EARNERS...
...For instance, take this answer to the woman who says prunes at ten cents a pound are good enough for her, so why pay fifteen...
...It has published, from its own expert, Mr...
...The Premier Enquirer,' as the Leggett monthly publication is called, goes even into such matters as a National Department of Health—indeed, into all aspects of the great central question —and treats them all with searching intelligence and thorough information...
...Everything is coming our way just at present for the shops are full of things that do not need to be ironed—woven underwear (that seems old to me but within the last week I have been advised, by two people, to adopt it instead of starched underwear, showing that there are minds to which the idea is only just penetrating) and night-dresses, kimonas, underwear and shirt-waists in cotton crepe, or seersucker, as it is sometimes called...
...I know that the creation of a National Department of Health has been bitterly opposed on the assumption that it is a movement in the interest of some particular school of medicine...
...On the whole, we feel that we can congratulate the "antis" upon their excursion into the realm of politics...
...This last is a good plan to adopt whenever an article is to be dried quickly to prevent shrinking or the running of colors.—c...
...Miss Goldmark graduated from Byrn Mawr College in the class of 1898, having specialized while there in Greek and English...
...It may be sufficient to say that Colonel Higginson pointed out fifty years ago that only one man editor in four is fit physically to carry a musket, but no one suggests taking the ballot from the other three...
...The operations of bluing, starching and sprinkling are all unnecessary...
...If anything were needed to impress upon us the waste of war, this would certainly do it...
...Associated together for a number of years they have matured and are ready to be of service through a family journal which they believe will be of mutual benefit to themselves and other women lawyers and will further the interests of all womankind broadly—not in an antagonistic or feministic spirit...
...l. h. Woman and Labor by Olive Schreiner...
...l. h. * * * Doing One's Own Washing I LOVE TO WASH CLOTHES...
...Woman and Labor" begins and ends with the statement that what thoughtful women of to-day want is "labor and the training that fits for labor...
...The laundryman charges me seventy-five cents for doing it up...
...One friend testified in such a case when she was in dying condition...
...I answered by telling her of the women among my personal acquaintances who have taken upon themselves the task of bringing to justice men who have committed the worst of crimes, and the crime which is far more common than most people suspect...
...Florence Kelly and other able and public spirited women, who have made the League one of the strongest and most active organizations devoted to the protection and welfare of women wage earners...
...They are unusually gifted women, both fine conversationalists, possessing great social charm...
...The third and fourth amendments take from the woman voter the privilege of claiming damages for breach of promise or of suing for alimony...
...It has printed articles by Dr...
...In 1903 she joined the staff of the National Consumers' League working with Mrs...
...The editors entitle their announcement "Hanging the Crane," because to women the hearth is always most dear...
...A number of topics are discussed in a live and generally interesting way...
...The Francis H. Leggett wholesale grocery firm is among those manufacturers and sellers of food products who believe in keeping ahead of the law, not behind it, and it expresses its views in a most interesting series of announcements...
...Business and Morals WE MUST ALL recognize the correctness of the philosophy of this suggestive editorial from Collier's "This editorial is not paid for, a fact which we announce in advance in order to save to our readers a few sarcastic post-cards and a number of two-cent stamps...
...Their place was the home, of course, but even when out of their appointed sphere, they seem to have had a few bright ideas.—c...
...Even such important matters as wages, housing and insurance, are subordinate...
...The story of the loss of the longer book is told simply, directly and uncomplainingly in the Introduction...
...For fifteen cents she gets forty-five wooden pits only and but forty-five skins, and if she goes to the trouble to make the investigation for herself, she will find that in purchasing the better prunes at fifteen cents she will have about as much actual fruit as she would get in two pounds of the ten-cent article.' "Of course, as the public becomes educated, the task of the highest grade merchant becomes easier...
...so here is to those who like myself love to feel the swish of soapy water up through their fingers...
...The whole purpose, so far as I can understand it—and I have given it some thought—is to correlate and carry forward under one head the work now being done in various government bureaus to conserve and promote health...
...Just as women have unselfishly devoted themselves to the making of the individual home, they are now, with the same joy and zeal, laboring for the welfare of the larger human family...
...If there is one spectacle more unlovely than any other, it is the spectacle of an able-bodied woman who has no children and who has not lost her position in the industrial world by her marriage, or expected marriage, suing a man for money...
...She does not stop to think that in the ten-cent prune she is getting one hundred prunes to the pound, whereas in the fifteen-cent prune she is getting about fortyfive prunes to the pound...
...For underskirts to wear under gowns that are light-colored but not transparent, there is nothing better than white alpaca...
...It is the only portion which she has had strength to rewrite...
...so I save money at the rate of $12 for an eight-hour day by laundering it myself...
...The Women Lawyer's Journal THE FIRST NUMBER of the Women Lawyer's Journal was published in New York in May, 1911...
...Medicine in Politics, in my judgment, is written from a mistaken point of view...
...l. h. * * * Woman and Labor PERHAPS I cannot more clearly express my appreciation of Olive Schreiner's new book, "Woman and Labor," than by saying that I wish to review it and yet fear to do so lest by my own unskillful touch I turn readers away...
...Again, if Connecticut can rid itself of this spectacle by the simple act of giving the ballot to women, it should lose no time in the matter...
...Another convenient material but one whose first cost is rather great is pongee...
...The book is but a fragment saved from a long treatise which had been the work of a life-time and which was burned in manuscript form with Olive Schreiner's house during the Boer War...
...She has been striving to secure legislation limiting the hours of working women in order that they may be protected from industrial over-fatigue and exhaustion, and the race thus saved from the degeneration which comes from overworked mothers...
...It may not be generally known that Miss Goldmark and Mrs...
...Miss Goldmark has a radiant personality, speaks fluently, earnestly, and with a preparedness that carries conviction...
...But I have decided to be honest...
...If they are hung on clothes hangers and pulled into shape a little, they will, when dry, present almost smooth surfaces to the iron...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Women of the Hour Miss Josephine Goldmark IT IS ONE of the features of our times that so many young college women, instead of choosing the parasitic life are working with all their might on the difficult problems which modern industrialism has created...
...Literally thousands of records and studies were examined and authorities from this country as well as abroad were consulted...
...The dirt comes out of it very easily and it smooths itself while it dries...
...A friend said to me recently, "I suppose it would be rather disagreeable for a woman to serve on a jury...
...One secret of saving time in ironing pongee garments lies in hanging them up right...
...This must be ironed, to be sure, but it is ironed dry and with great ease...
...In the course of her address she said: "In the lives of working people no single factor counts as much for good or ill as the length and regularity of their working hours...
...Street Labor and Juvenile Delinquency" an important study based on her own investigation in New York City, was of much use in the first child labor campaign for the regulation and restriction of street trades...
...As to the military service amendment and the idea involved, that should be treated with the respect due to age...
...And I wonder if sitting around on the Mexican border is harder work than ironing ten hours a day in a steam laundry or any more damaging to the constitution...
...There is a delicacy about it, in spite of its logic and coherency, which seems to forbid analysis and dissection...
...The fifth and sixth amendments seek to exact jury duty and military service from women voters...
...It has appealed to the club women of the country to use their power (which in a matter of this kind is vast) toward strengthening the upward movement in food manufacture...
...By improving methods and by cutting out unnecessary movements, I have reduced the time required for washing and hanging out to ten minutes and that required for ironing to twenty minutes...
...This last chapter might well serve as a campaign hand-book for all of those who, realizing that women's older fields of labor are being closed to them, are demanding entrance for them into new fields.—c...
...Finally, the state is to pay the woman voter $500 for every child born to her and $1.50 a day during its infancy which is not such a very bad idea and simpler than the establishment of a family wage which seems to be the only alternative...
...that of assault upon little girls...
...Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911, pp...
...She became the publication secretary of the league and edited the Handbook of Child Labor Legislation, 1904 to 1908 inclusive...
...At the National Conference of Charities and Correction, more appropriately called by the Boston Transcript "The Social Workers' Convention," which held its opening meeting in Boston June eighth, Miss Josephine Goldmark was one of the principal speakers...
Vol. 3 • June 1911 • No. 25
