HOME AND EDUCATION

...The dimensions of the little room inside are 6 1/2 feet by 3 1/2 feet and the ceiling 8 feet above the floor...

...In one end of the room is a low down syphon closet, and in the other end there is a good enameled lavatory with hot and cold water, and with mirror, towel, soap, comb and brush...

...In hot weather too, a dress of this kind permits free circulation of air around the body...

...He has fitted up in his store a very neat toilet room, which occupies but little space, but which is ample for the purpose...

...There the sicker children remain day and night until cured...

...Their absence not only causes suffering, but serious and long lasting diseases are thereby caused, diseases which may and do often shorten life...

...It has recently been put into use in Pasadena, California...

...Boston's Floating Hospital IN A TINY COT in the hospital-ship, a wee, wan baby lay, its thin, white face indicating that its feeble hold on life might at any moment be loosened...

...These could be used in boiling eggs and for other processes which, though short, are time-consuming if they must be watched...

...We were served, among other delicious things, meat cakes, which were so delicate that I decided they must be made of some variety of meat which had never been brought to my attention...

...This last, the estimation of the number of flies, is accomplished by measuring them in a gill cup, the average number which the cup holds having been carefully determined...

...Miss Wheeler told me that she often bakes the mixture and serves it cold in slices.—c...

...At Warelands Dairy Farm which is owned and, what is infinitely more important, operated by a women, Mrs...

...Charlotte Barrell Ware, and where all the work in the milk-room is done by women, a costume has been designed which combines the graceful peasant-sleeve and the beautiful round neck which seems its natural accompaniment, with other features which make it admirably fitted for labor under present-day conditions...

...To repeatedly raise a trumpet or a broom, for that matter, or a dumb-bell over the head is one of the most effective means of removing flesh from the hips...

...There might be alarm clocks capable of marking more minute divisions of time than those which we now have are capable of doing...

...and of the Health Department which estimates the number of flies brought in...

...The walls as well as the ceiling are covered with metal ceiling painted white and enameled...

...The expense of this undertaking is borne by private subscriptions...

...if for women, a letter 'W' is used and if there are accomodations for both sexes, the cross is left blank...

...The contest is to continue two weeks, at the end of which time it is hoped that the city will be free from flies...

...I found that the food value of the pound of meat and the milk and eggs was almost exactly the same as that of 19 ounces of meat alone and that the cost at current prices was a trifle less...

...On days when the sea is unsafe the ship remains at its dock, but even then it catches healing breezes from the water...

...of the Associated Charities which gives out the boxes from its stations in various parts of the city...

...Most of the babies are brought by their mothers or older sisters who care for them during the day but experience has shown that much of the good which is wrought by careful nursing in the day time is lost if the babies are allowed to return to their homes for the night...

...I was the guest at a luncheon given by Miss Althea Wheeler of the Domestic Science Department, and her associates...

...Where the accomodations are for men only, a white letter 'M' is placed in the center of the red cross...

...For this reason a permanent summer hospital has been established on board with a permanent staff of physicians and nurses...

...perhaps she was dead, perhaps sick or perhaps at home caring for other children...

...But the beauty of the peasant-sleeve depends to a great extent upon freedom...

...Following an argument that public comfort stations help trade, particularly at times of the year when people are touring the country in automobiles, and an offer by the Board of Health to provide signs for those who will fit up stations and keep them in good condition, the leaflet goes on to say: "A pioneer mover in this direction is Mr...

...At first there seemed only sadness and pathos in the scene to those who looked on from a distance not wishing to intrude upon the father in his anxiety...

...Every morning in the summer when the sea is safe the Floating Hospital leaves its dock in North Boston and carries hundreds of sick babies out into the harbor where the air is cool and pure...

...Beside the cot stood the young father, evidently a mechanic, who had taken the opportunity of the hospital ship's return to the dock to visit his child...

...Forty different business men agreed to display the emblem and they included the leading business men and all of the banks of the city...

...Take a piece of cloth of any sort except the very stiff, cut a round hole in it large enough to admit the head, slip it over the head and it will fall naturally into graceful folds...

...In such clothing it is possible to raise milk pails above the head for the purpose of emptying them into coolers or bottling tanks, or to raise the arms for any other purpose without the slightest pull at the waist...

...Fra Angelico put it on all his angels and artists generally love to employ it in costuming madonnas and other women in art...

...The attempt, however to make the lower part into a tightly fitting waist has never met with complete artistic success...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT A Fly Killing Contest THE EXAMPLE of the Evening Star of Washington, D. C, in starting a campaign for the extermination of flies might well be followed by newspapers in other parts of the country...

...that of the costumes worn in the other parts of the Dairy is khaki...

...It may be set for the time the bread should come out of the oven or the dampers of the stove or furnace should be closed, or for the time when the double boiler is likely to run dry, and one may work serenely in any part of the house, dusting, making beds or sewing, if she knows that the alarm will call her when she is needed...

...The long, flowing drapery would inconvenience those who must depend upon their legs for locomotion, and the blouse formed by belting the draperies up around the waist would be inconveniently warm for those who are obliged to live and labor in the lower strata of air which, being near the earth, sometimes becomes overheated...

...Shaver, the inspector, was greatly encouraged by the way in which the merchants took hold of the proposition...

...On the opposite side, the outer wall, is a small window 5 feet from the floor which is hung so that it may be tipped forward so as to ensure light and ventilation...

...At first it seemed extravagant to me to use milk and eggs in this way, and so I made a calculation...

...Where the mother was, other visitors could only conjecture...

...However that might be, the father stood alone by his sick baby...

...Uses for an Alarm Clock AN ALARM CLOCK is useful for many other purposes than getting people up in the morning...

...An Artistic Work Dress THE PEASANT—or, as it has come to be known, the kimona—sleeve is the most artistic covering for the arm that has ever been designed...

...l. H. * * * ¶IN A FLY KILLING contest, held in Worchester, Massachusetts, during the past month, ten barrels of the little pests were exterminated...

...An electric light completes the outfit...

...The newspapers were very generous in giving space and attention to the matter, so that people very quickly became educated to the significance of the sign...

...In a fly-killing contest which began July 24 the Star has the co-operation of the Killian Manufacturing Company which supplies the boxes for the collection of the flies...

...J. H. Cogan of Augusta...

...The skirt is short and scant and is supported from the shoulders by a skeleton waist...

...And yet beauty is in no way sacrificed either to convenience or to comfort...

...After luncheon I asked Miss Wheeler how the balls were prepared and she said that they were simply chopped beef with an allowance of one egg and one-half cupful of milk to each pound of meat...

...A Good Move HE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH of Maine has just issued a leaflet entitled A Sign for Public Comfort Stations from which we quote the following: "The condition of things in many cities all over the country, due to the absence of public comfort stations, is none the less outrageous because it has been long existent...

...It is possible too, to fashion the outer portions into sleeves without destroying the beauty of the lines...

...In many cities there are provisions which partly remedy the evil, but many of these stations are in places which are not easily accessible to the hurrying crowds, and their location is unknown to the stranger within the city...

...It has come to be the custom, too, for individuals or organizations to pay all the expenses of the ship for one day or one night, in exchange for which they are allowed to name the day or the night in memory of friends who are gone...

...I recommend this way of cooking beef to those who find the ordinary Hamburg steak somewhat dry and tasteless...

...The floor is covered with lineoleum with a small rug in the center...

...Their figures too, would probably not show that absence of embonpoint which is the envy of twentieth-century women...

...The overgarment is a middy blouse extending about twelve inches below the waist and having short peasant sleeves and a round neck...

...If such a costume has proved good for dairying, why should it not prove equally so for housework...

...The door enters in the center of one of the sides of the room...

...A white Dutch cap completes the costume...

...Of the school gardens I hope to write in a later issue...

...The material of the costume worn in the milk room is white seersucker, the easiest of all materials to launder...

...Over many of the cots hang small bronze tablets showing that they are supported by fathers and mothers in memory of babies who have died...

...If the robes on Fra Angelico's angels had had tight bodices, they would have been far less lovely to behold and the angels themselves would probably not have been able to raise their trumpets above their heads with the free grace which has charmed generations of art-lovers...

...The public comb and brush are somewhat out of date and belong in the oblivion into which public drinking cups are sinking: and a rug is undesirable from the point of view of sanitation in a place which many people enter directly from the street, but otherwise the plan seems admirable...

...The scheme was that they were to have placed on their windows an emblem without wording, that would signify that toilet accomodations were available, and that they would make arrangements to take care of their own customers...

...The inspector of plumbing of that city made a canvas of the merchants and ar.d banks to see if it were possible to get them to co-operate with him in furnishing toilet accomodations for the public...

...It took an effort for them to convince themselves that the picture had its bright as well as its somber side and that sea breezes and intelligent nursing were co-operating to save the little life if it could be saved...

...This toilet room is taken off from one of the outside corners of his store by means of matched pine sheathing...

...A New Way to Cook Chopped Beef WHILE IN SALT LAKE CITY recently, I visited th« University of Utah and saw very much of interest particularly in connection with the Normal Department...

...Silently he stood by the bed holding the little hand...

...It must be admitted, however, that while the costumes on these angels are good to look upon and are admirably suited for those whose occupations call chiefly for the use of trumpets and who move from place to place by means of wings, they would have certain disadvantages for those who wish to do useful work under present conditions...

...The sign which is a red cross within a green circle as shown above was first suggested in New Jersey...