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 Every School a...
...At that place a large number of experiments in nutrition were made...
...The building should have a hall, furnished with chairs for lectures, stage for plays and moving pictures, good floor for dancing, and music, a pianola and a graphaphone...
...Their journeys and missions, the fur traders and trappers, the Indians, the early settlers, the opening up of communications with the older parts of the country, would all give opportunity for picturesque and instructive scenes...
...ACOMMUNITY cannot plan and carry out such an undertaking as this without great gain to itself...
...America has also a future, and one striking feature of the New England pageants has been the introduction of scenes prophetic of this future...
...Our school system offers the opportunity...
...and Hartford, Thetford and Bennington in Vermont have been among the pioneers in the movement...
...Atwater's death, the calorimeter was moved to Washington...
...The cost...
...The Pageant in America WHENEVER the word "pageant" is mentioned, there comes to my mind the picture of a great grassy stretch circled with trees, brilliantly lighted first by the setting sun, later by myriads of electric lights...
...This calorimeter our readers will remember, was originally set up in Middletown, Connecticut, under the direction of Prof...
...And who can measure the price of one youth gone wrong...
...And so Friendship Village school house becomes a social center...
...At Northampton in the final scene, where those who had been portraying the history of the city were all gathered together,—Puritans and Cavaliers, Indians and colonists, heroes of the Revolution and the later wars and of the arts of peace, there came bounding among them the "Makers of Tomorrow"—children of the public schools, some of them wearing the costumes of the countries from which their parents have recently come...
...The call of youth is for action, adventure, to go somewhere, to do something...
...everywhere on the streets one met them on their way to and fro, clad in the characteristic costumes of the earlier centuries, or in the quaint national dress with the high steeple crowned hat, which was worn by the girls of the great choir and was no less interesting to the eyes of over-sea visitors...
...But these pleasures deprave or uplift as the conditions are good or evil...
...And it is recognized that most of this evil is the result of misdirected natural impulses...
...It was artistic, dramatic, stirring...
...All Cardiff seemed at the time to be re-living the national history, filling its lungs with the national spirit...
...New Work of the Office of Experiment Stations THE JULY ISSUE of the Experiment Station Record, a publication which is invaluable to those who wish to follow the progress in science as applied to agriculture, contains an editorial upon the calorimeter in use in that office...
...At Thetford, the concluding "episodes," as the scenes of the pageant are called, represented the new agriculture, the new education, the new life...
...The low theater, public dance hall, gaming and gambling, destroy our youth...
...the sports of the people, the dances of the children...
...Five thousand of its citizens, from the Marchioness of Bute down to the school boys and school girls, were taking part in the representation...
...In California, Spain would furnish the background for the story of the Spanish explorations and missions, while Holland, Germany and Sweden would all contribute liberally to the pageants of the region which the old geographies used to call the Middle States, stretching from New England to the Potomac...
...C. F. Langworthy and R. D. Milner who are in charge of the work, have planned several series of experiments which will yield data of interest to the housekeeper as well as to the farmer and fruit grower...
...During this time the oxygen consumption, the carbon dioxide excretion and the heat elimination were determined in a manner not previously possible, throwing interesting light on the chemical processes of ripening...
...The Old Northwest would naturally start with scenes in France from which came the priests and voy-ageurs who explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley...
...The sudden physical growth, the great emotional awakening, does not find adequate expression in the humdrum every day routine of grown-ups...
...This was the great Welsh National Pageant at Cardiff in the summer of 1909, following pageants at Bath, York and many other English cities...
...Peterboro in New Hampshire...
...Do we not pay out for courts, reformatories and prisons more than would support these recreation courts...
...a vivid picture of a peasant revolt against the exactions of the Norman overlord, and the winning back of ancient rights...
...Students of the subject say three times as many human beings go wrong between the ages of fourteen and seventeen as at any other time...
...c. D. T...
...One of the women has an inspiration: "Give 'em the place that's their's" she says...
...Give 'em the school house, open evenin's an lit an het an' music an' things doin...
...Deerfield, Northampton and Lawrence in Massachusetts...
...picturesque incidents in the national history, many of them enacted by the descendants of the original participants...
...The supreme concern of the community, whether of the crowded city or the country crossroads, should be to supply youth with wholesome entertainment under wholesome environment...
...We are accustomed to hearing it said disparagingly that America has no history, but in fact America is doubly fortunate in this respect...
...It should have ground for baseball, football, tennis, and outdoor sports...
...We quote: "A number of bunches of bananas were placed in the respiration chamber and kept under observation until the ripening process was completed to the usual commercial stage, which requires three or four days...
...It was not necessary in order to see them to go to the beautiful park where the scenes of the pageant were enacted...
...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 Every School a Social Center ZONA GALE, in her recent story, "Mothers to Men," has one of the women who has been put upon a vigilance committee to keep the young folks off the street nights ask this poser: "They won't set home, an' when we've vigilanced 'em off the streets, where are we goin' to vigilance 'em to...
...Through all the ages certain kinds of recreation have seemed the normal safeguards of youth,—sports and games, music, dancing, and the drama...
...Other experiments will be made in the near future to determine the changes occurring during the ripening not only of fruits but also of vegetables...
...The editorial describes certain new and very great improvements that have been made in the apparatus and also tells of a new line of work for which it is being used, the study of problems connected with the ripening of fruit...
...Thus America has put into her pageants in visible form that inspiration for the future, which, even when not formally expressed, has always been the great gift of the pageant to the community...
...and moving across it from the distance at one side to occupy for a brief space the center of the grassy stage and then to disappear in the distance on the other, visualized bits of Welsh history,—the succession of peoples, the Celts, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Normans...
...So it is good to know that the towns of New England are following close in the footsteps of Mother England in her use of the pageant as a means of vivifying local history, developing community interest, and unifying community spirit...
...W. O. Atwater...
...It has back of it not merely the picturesque aboriginal inhabitants of the country, but also the history of the whole civilized world...
...Every school should be a recreation center...
...After Dr...
...New England may properly begin its pageants, as Northampton did, with scenes in the English towns from which its founders came or with which its history is closely connected...
Vol. 3 • September 1911 • No. 36
