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 Suffrage...
...But now scientists are recognizing the value of the high lights as well as of the background, and in thoroughly trained students of domestic science we seem likely in the future to have those who can plan as well as cook meals...
...There is nothing like an informal picnic where people wear their old clothes, sit on the ground and everything tastes as though mother made it...
...G. Sweets: Sugar, candy, sweet chocolate, honey, syrup, sweet jellies, jam, marmalade, hard sauce, frosting, macaroons, sweet cookies...
...It has helped me to crystallize and bring to concrete conclusions many vague ideas I have had concerning the many questions that perplex the housewife...
...Baked beans call for a light, watery, refreshing dessert...
...The article by Professor Hodge on the extermination of the fly and the one 'Making Biology Serve Mankind' are both exceptionally good and of special value to the home reader...
...C. Foods in which Fat is conspicuous: Butter, oil, mayonnaise and boiled dressings, fat meats, cream, yolk of eggs, cream soups and sauces, real ice-cream, hard sauce, suet puddings, chocolate...
...The dessert in this case need not be very watery nor very highly flavored...
...George Drake Ruddy, the president...
...Suppose we should serve for dinner: Clear soup, (D...
...In the boys and girls of the streets, in the delinquent, the fallen, the outcast, the unsuccessful and the misfit, there is the same hunger for happiness that is our own...
...NOW SUPPOSE we wish to plan a breakfast...
...Crusty bread or biscuit are much better than rich muffins and a crisp vegetable is better than a soft one...
...Then there is a touch of humor in the doughnut distribution, and it is well that the suffrage campaign should be good natured and suggest that women who are interested in good government may also be interested in making good doughnuts...
...The steamed pudding might follow a well-planned fish meal for most fish are watery rather than fat...
...The tuberculosis Associations which publish the magazine are so anxious to get the names of those who are actually trying to get well that they send the magazine to any well person who sends them the address of six of the sick people who are interested in getting well...
...roast lamb (A...
...Even Johnny Bull ought to be able to catch a "hint" like that...
...Of all times not after a salad made with mayonnaise or boiled dressing...
...who will not serve white sauce and cream soup in one meal and will serve brittle cookies and not rich cake with ice-cream...
...So, too, with the meal...
...This Fourth of July day suffrage literature will be dropped from a baloon at Luna Park...
...a large slice of fresh mild cheese (A and C.), a few thin slices of pickles or a very little chopped pickle...
...It should have surprises in the way of small amounts of highly flavored substances and sweets...
...The background may be a forest in browns and greens and the high light may be the sun finding a way to one spot through the trees...
...When, for example, would you serve rich ice-cream and cake...
...and England, 5,300,000, this great number being employed in manufactures and trades...
...When should a steamed pudding with hard sauce be served...
...THE NUMBER OF WOMEN employed in Germany, according to the last statistical data is 9,400,000...
...This little book contains in a small space a great many helpful hints and is just the thing to give to people who need to be educated in the first principles of sanitation...
...D. Foods in which Water is conspicuous: Meat soups, watery fruits such as oranges and grape fruit, fruit juices, tea, coffee, water ices, gelatine jellies...
...the bits of color give charm to the somber expanse...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Suffrage Picnic There are two fine suggestions in Mrs...
...IT IS NOT merely the obtaining of the vote which will help humanity to higher standards...
...But suppose bananas are used instead of oranges...
...It consists of bread (B...
...A well-planned meal has something in common with a well-designed painting...
...These should be touched up like the painting and relieved by small quantities of food having pronounced flavor: acid fruits, vinegar, capers, sweets...
...boiled potatoes (B...
...This is a large sandwich which is eaten with knife and forks...
...SIXTY THOUSAND WOMEN in a suffrage parade in London—the greatest parade ever seen in the world's history...
...France, 6,800,000...
...B. Foods in which Starch is conspicuous: Breads, crackers, cereals, macaroni, plain cake, fritters, doughnuts...
...at the end would furnish representatives of all the groups...
...C. L. Los Angeles, Cal., July 4, 1911...
...Tea or bouillon would supply the former or a watery fruit or melon might be used for dessert...
...I am going to begin a more scientific study of my home, its advantages, its inconveniences, and methods of improvement, with the object in view of doing more and better work in less time, and with smaller loss of both physical and mental energy...
...The Planning of a Meal I RECENTLY ATE, or tried to eat, a meal consisting of mutton chops, a rich salad with mayonnaise dressing, and a dessert with whipped cream on it...
...C. Fat...
...But if that hunger must be satisfied in the one, or two, or three room house of the tenement, in the street, the nickelodeon, the cheap theater, the saloon, or the public dance hall, or not at all, who can wonder at individual ruin or social disaster?—The Playground...
...Those who use cream in their coffee can eat less butter than those who do not...
...In the course of my life, I must have eaten as many meals that were poor because of unskillful combinations of food materials as because of poor cooking...
...It should contain fat, but not be fatty...
...It might however, follow a luncheon consisting of bouillon or grape fruit, cold meat and a crisp salad with French dressing...
...Since the fat is not cooked into the foods, as it is in scrambled eggs, for example, the amount can be regulated by the individual...
...In this case bacon which, if properly cooked, is not fatty, might be added...
...The Plague of Mosquitoes and Flies THE HEALTH EDUCATION LEAGUE, 113 Devonshire Street, Boston, has just issued a new edition of its sixteen-page leaflet, The Plague of Mosquitoes and Flies...
...Some were too fatty...
...E. Cellulose...
...Our plan is unique, but we are respected and smiled upon—not hooted...
...What should accompany a dish of scalloped meat or fish, which is rich and soft...
...some too watery...
...After reading the several good articles in your department, I cannot refrain from writing you my appreciations of them...
...IN PLANNING a meal there are at least seven points to be considered: A. Protieds or tissue forming foods...
...But supposing we had no soup and served on the potatoes white sauce made with butter...
...For convenience we may make the following classification of foods, remembering that a single food or made-dish may fall into two or even three classes: A. Foods in which Tissue-forming substances are conspicuous: Lean meats, fish, poultry, eggs, cheese, dried beans...
...enough but not too much starch...
...G. Sweets...
...It is evident from the above that it would be impossible to follow this scheme exactly but it is offered as a possible means of preventing bad combinations...
...and some lacking in flavor...
...Western Woman Voter...
...Then the dessert should be somewhat watery and not fat...
...it is the awakening of the feminine intelligence, the rousing up of womanhood, to a consciousness of its real purpose, its real possibilities in life.—Votes For Women...
...A water ice with sweet cookies or a fruit salad with cake would combine well...
...The designing of the background of the meal, i. e., the determination of how much meat or foods of the meat-class shall be taken, has, in the past, been left to the scientist...
...and (G...
...Such a breakfast would not be too dry for those who do not drink coffee nor too moist for those who do...
...some too concentrated...
...The law is applied not merely to railroad trains but also to the following "public places:" public parks, streets or highways, hotels, "public schools, public halls, theaters, moving picture shows, public libraries, municipal, penal and philanthropic institutions, boats and all other vehicles for carrying passengers...
...Especially did I enjoy the article on Efficiency in Housework...
...E. F.), eggs on toast (A...
...This consists usually of neutrally flavored foods: breads, meats, cereals...
...It should contain cellulose which is found in all fruits and vegetables and which being feathery and elastic, keeps the heavier foods from settling down on each other...
...A frosted cake or bon bons would supply the sweet...
...Seated in her automobile, her blue eyes dancing with pleasure and interest, Madame Caroline M. Severance, the 'mother of women's clubs,' and despite her ninety-one years, keenly in touch with every movement for women's advancement, witnessed yesterday's meeting, which was informal in character...
...Ruddy's letter and clipping...
...Great heaps of home-made crullers will be ready, each wearing a gay little yellow tag, bearing the legend, 'Votes for Women,' fastened through it by a yellow ribbon, and each visitor is to be given a cake...
...This offer is a part of the educational campaign against consumption, because the magazine is sent out to help to explain to people what to do and how to do it in order to get well...
...E. Foods in which Cellulose is conspicuous: All fruits and vegetables...
...Society has not so much forgotten as it has failed, in these strenuous days of materialism, to realize how much modern city and social conditions are making void many a fundamental tenet of our national creed...
...The background sets off the bright bits of color and keeps them from clashing one with another...
...The names can be sent to the Editor at 2 Rector Street, New York City...
...For lunch we might have a Cuban sandwich...
...some too starchy...
...There are lacking (D...
...B.), butter (C), and a little marmalade (G...
...D. Water...
...Every meal should contain enough protein but not too much...
...The prizes for doughnuts were books—"Taxation Without Representation" and the "Washington Woman's Suffrage Cook Book...
...This would take away the piquant flavor...
...My dear Bell Case La Follette: I WRITE hastily, after reading your interesting report of the suffrage work in Wisconsin, as given in the last ever-enlightening Magazine, which came this Fourth of July morning...
...ILLINOIS HAS ADDED itself to the list of states prohibiting the public drinking cup...
...But there should be one in every township before then.—-B...
...Four of our leading workers (representing also a fine social element) will ascend, not too high, with flowers bearing our various tags "Votes for Women...
...The flavoring materials, on the other hand, are necessary oftentimes to make the more solid foods attractive and palatable, and authorities tell us now that good digestion waits on appetite...
...the high lights to the chef...
...Why not have suffrage picnics in Wisconsin...
...When I get home we will have one at Maple Bluff Farm...
...It sells for three cents, or $2.50 a hundred...
...My husband is also an appreciative reader of La Follettes...
...A well-planned meal has its background also...
...The value of the article to me lies in its practicality and suggestiveness...
...To Combat Tuberculosis THE JOURNAL OF THE OUTDOOR LIFE, which is the official organ of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, is offered free of charge for six months to anyone who is taking cure for consumption...
...It leads one to broader views and decisions where most of us have lived in ruts...
...FROM THE JUVENILE COURT, from prisons, from hospitals, from students of social evils, from every department of science devoted to the study of man comes the warning that in our day, as in no other day the world has yet seen, we need in our great cities to give heed to the nature and spirit of childhood and youth and to the right of the people to happiness...
...Each dish was perfectly prepared and yet the meal was spoiled, not by bad cooking, but by the piling of fat upon fat...
...Ruddy refers in her letter: "Doughnuts for suffrage are to be distributed at a basket picnic the League will hold at Echo Park...
...A man took second —the baker from Globe Dairy...
...some too highly flavored...
...It should, however, be sweet and there is no reason for avoiding fat...
...lettuce (E...
...peas (E...
...F. Foods characterized by flavor: Sour fruits and jellies, French dressing, catsup, pickles, mustard, capers, mint, curry-powder, horse radish, herbs, ginger, ham, bacon, smoked fish, highly flavored cheeses, peppermints...
...These articles have inspired me to begin my warfare on the flies already, and I hope to be free this coming summer from the annoyance they caused us last summer...
...They will be good doughnuts, too—the great, big, puffy sweet kind that 'mother used to make.' "The majority of suffragists are also good cooks and good housekeepers, despite the humorist, and to prove this they intend to hold a picnic at Echo Park, to which men are invited to come...
...Not after beans, for both are concentrated...
...OF THE PAINTING, it is idle to try to say whether its success is due more to background than to high lights or vice versa...
...Yours enthusiastically, Ella Giles Ruddy Here is the newspaper clipping to which Mrs...
...One is the suffrage picnic...
...On July 4 the new law became effective, and railroads and others affected removed from use all public cups...
...Oranges (D...
...If these doughnuts won't make a man promise to vote for the suffrage amendment he must indeed be a misanthrope,' declared Mrs...
...Public Drinking Cup Banished from New Jersey NEW JERSEY is the latest state to banish the common drinking cup...
...Enclosed find a clipping which will let you know that I am only one of a League for earnest work between now and October 10th, when the amendment for political equality is to be voted on in California...
...The latter usually consists of a background of neutral colors, relieved here and there by bits of bright color, known as high lights...
...Efficiency in the Home THESE ENCOURAGING WORDS from Montana may help others to "crystallize" their ideas and "reach concrete conclusions," about their every day living...
...It should have watery foods like soups and succulent fruits but these should be contrasted with hard or concentrated foods...
...F. Flavoring materials...
...who know what the balanced ration is, and who also know the value of variety in flavor and in the texture or consistency of foods...
...Austria, 5,600,000...
...mint (F...
...or the background may be an expanse of sea and the high light, the foam on the crest of the waves...
...The breads, meats and cereals are the substantial part and absolutely necessary not only for health but also for the purpose of keeping the foods of pronounced flavor from clashing...
...three foods which never ought to be served in one meal...
...Harmon Ryus as she compared her cruller recipe with that owned by Mrs...
...The "College Woman's Suffrage Club" took first prize...
...Foods in which these substances are less conspicuous but play an important part: Milk, oysters, custards, sponge cake, milk soups, sauces and puddings...
...Washington pie might be served...
...B. Starch...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 30
