HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real Beat 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 Should...
...Unlike many Chicago audiences, there is not a hustle and rush to the exits before the last number has been finished, neither is there a struggle to get out after the music is over...
...Kelley spoke at a special meeting which was largely attended...
...There were different points of view as to just how women's influence should be exerted, but one sentiment was common to all,—WOMEN OUGHT TO BE INTERESTED AND WOMEN SHOULD HELP...
...I thank you for your 10 cent concerts.'" Mrs...
...For Those who go Down into the Mines The following is from a prayer offered by Dr...
...The price of admission was made ten cents, which, with a full house, would just pay the actual expenses of the concerts...
...These indomitable souls who are handicapped in the race for life's goods sometimes play a magnificent trick upon the jade, life itself, by ceasing to know whether or no!' they possess any of her tawdry goods and chattels.—Jam Addams...
...We are just a happy family...
...This evidently lends a friendly feeling to the whole affair for the account says further: "One of the most noticeable features is the utter lack of haste in departing...
...Household Service as a Labor Problem," by I. M. Rubinow of the United States Department of Commerce and Labor...
...The Moderate Priced House," by R. M. Mann, Head of the Department of Architecture in the University of Illinois...
...Sherwood and begged her to arrange for him to hear the concert...
...Kelley...
...Among the papers read were: "The Leavening Agent in Salt rising Bread," by Miss Winona Woodward of the University of Missouri...
...S. P. Breckenridge of the University of Chicago...
...They relate to goods helJ in cold storage...
...Mrs...
...Perhaps another important feature of the management, may aid in making the audience considerate, well bred and disposed to linger...
...and "The Development of Individual Responsibility through a Study of Social Problems," by Dr...
...A meeting was called and the department voted to support any venture the originators of the idea might desire...
...THEN Miss Elsie Hill, daughter of Congressman Hill of Connecticut, proposed that Mrs...
...It was not emphasized in the report but it should be written in capital letters: "AFTER THE FIRST CONCERT, WHICH LASTS ONE HOUR, THE DOORS ARE THROWN OPEN AND THE ELECTRIC FANS SERVE THEIR PURPOSE OF VENTILATING THE ROOMS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFORE THE SECOND CONCERT...
...that the lust and the cruelty and the neglect and the greed may give place to the spirit that holds all life too sacred to be thrown away merely for our comfort or our ease...
...Housing Reform," by Lawrence Veiller, secretary of the National Housing Association...
...She was made honorary president and Professor Isabel Bevier of the University of Illinois was elected to the presidency...
...Roberts of Massachusetts and others that the Club should not exist solely for social aims...
...She did so, and when it was over he told the committee that for ten years he had been going to a German garden every Sunday because he must have music...
...Porter P. Heywood had charge of the philanthropy department, it was suggested that the members take up some specific line of work...
...A Course of Study in Textiles," by Miss Nellie Crooks of Milwaukee-Downer College...
...She cited a New York decision which declared that the shed of a canning factory is not a part of the factory, making it possible to evade the child labor law by building these sheds, where children are allowed to work "while it is light," and where they work from daybreak until far into the night,—the light being supplied by electricity...
...Bearing on the lack of joint guardianship laws, she told of the woman who killed all her children and committed suicide, because left dependent, they were to be taken away from her against her will...
...A successful experiment by the philanthropy department of the women's club of Chicago will interest all who are thinking on the question of good and popular entertainment at reasonable f rices...
...M. D. S. Rose of Teachers' College, New York...
...The Club is beginning to feel its social power...
...fWhile the punishment of crime is necessary, the crowning achievement will not be the punishment of crime, nor eTen th« reformation of the criminal, but the prevention of erime.— Charles R. Henderson...
...We pray that in the presence of these things our community may be knit together in brotherhood founded on the ties of blood and common sacrifice...
...The musicians are delighted, and it is a pleasure to be here and see the rapt attention paid by the audience...
...But the District of Columbia has no such law, and it is obvious that the laws for the capital of the United States, which is directly governed by Congress, should be models for other cities and for the states...
...Hereafter the Journal will be $2 a year and the dues $1...
...John B. Sherwood offered a plan that met the approval of the club, which was to give a series of musicals at a price within the reach of all, on the order of the high class concerts in Vienna and Berlin and in other cities of Europe...
...Her life has been devoted to the practical solution of the problems arising in connection with women and children in' industry...
...His disappointment was so keen that Miss Holabird called Mrs...
...At the former the papers of wider and more popular interest were given...
...Mrs...
...Kelley said it was inconsistent for the government to employ mature men who must qualify under the civil service to deliver ordinary letters, and even advertisements, while they put into the hands of this young boy, whose character was necessarily uninformed, the temptation of delivering letters containing money...
...At the first business meeting this season it was strongly urged that the Club should assert itself and restore to the official circle the social supremacy which the rich society class of Washington is trying to usurp...
...We think of those in this city and in our land today who have suffered that we might not suffer, and our hearts go out in loving sympathy to all those who mourn those they have lost...
...We do not seek to get beyond the things of sense and sight, we do not seek to forget this world with its problems and its pains...
...But even socially, it has been conservative, and has not thus far, as some of us hoped it might, served as a clearing house for exchange of formal visits...
...Ten or more musicals have now been given and since the beginning it has been necessary to turn away many who beseige the entrance, dime in hand, after the hall is Piled...
...Instruction in Child-Care in the College," by Dr...
...A discussion followed in which it was urged by Mrs...
...They talked about it when tea was served...
...The Senate bill is before the Committee on Manufactures of which Senator Heyburn of Idaho is chairman, tne House bill before the Committee on Agriculture of which Congressman Scott of Kansas is chairman...
...I never have seen a more intelligent assemblage...
...This touching and significant incident is related in the Tribune's write-up of these concerts, from which I am quoting...
...The women who listened with close attention throughout the discussion of the defective laws and hard conditions under which women and children labor, were left to draw their own conclusions as to the way in which they might help lift the load...
...rather we seek clearer vision, deeper understanding of all that is happening around us, that in the events ami experiences of every day, in the crisis of our times, we may see the judgment throne set and the books of truth opened, and our hearts may realize that it is in the things that are visible, in the lives we are living, that the call comes to serve thee...
...They provide that goods of a perishable character, eggs, poultry, fish, shall be considered adulterated if they have been in storage for more than a year and also that if such goods have been in cold storage for any length of time, however short, they are to be classed with adulterated foods unless they are plainly labelled to show how long they were so held...
...She spoke with great feeling and made her argument impressive by specific illustrations from out of her experience...
...Richards who has been president of the organization since its beginning insisted upon withdrawing because of pressure of work...
...Not so...
...Low Priced Entertainment WHAT is the use of railing at the fascination of the cheap theatre if no other attraction is offered in the community at low cost...
...The Eripsin of the Cabbage," by Miss A. T. Blood of Simmons College...
...The committee receive and serve as hostesses...
...We beseech thee, 0 our Father, that all this loss may not be in vain, but may beget in our community a tenderer conscience that shall one day lead us to inquire whether the lives we are living are worthy of the sacrifice that others make for us...
...Household Equipment," by Helen Louise Johnson of Good Housekeeping Magazine...
...A full report of the meetings and many of the papers will be published in the Journal of Home Economics...
...The meetings were of two kinds, general and sectional...
...Among them are visionaries and enthusiasts, unsuccessful artists, writers and reformers...
...Bills in which Housekeepers are Interested THERE are bills now before the United States Senate and House of Representatives, in which all housekeepers should be interested...
...As demonstrating careless laws in regard to fire escapes, she related how twenty-six girls unnecessarily lost their lives in a factory fire recently in New Jersey...
...Edna Day of Kansas State University...
...Kelley pointed out that Oregon and Illinois have laws limiting the hours of women's labor in factories...
...that it should have a broader outlook and more serious purpose...
...Louis during the holiday week...
...Recently an elderly man came just as the doors were closed...
...fl cannot close this chapter (that on "Probltms of Poverty" in Twenty Years of Hull House) without a reference to that gallant company of men and women among whom my acquaintance is so large, who are fairly indifferent to starvation because of their preoccupation with higher ends...
...The attendance was larger than at any previous meeting and the interest apparently greater...
...You would expect it to lead all other clubs of the nation in interest in public affairs and in influence for civic and social betterment...
...Florence Kelley should be secured to address the Club...
...W. E. Orchard at City Temple in London on the day after the great coal mine disaster in Lancashire...
...It was decided at the convention to separate the fee for the Journal from that for membership in the Association...
...There is that evident reluctance to leave the delightful atmosphere which prevails in the Art institute at all times...
...Walfried Singer, well known musician, was secured as director, and he arranged for six other artists of the Thomas Orchestra type...
...Meeting of the Home Economics Association THE AMERICAN HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION cast its lot this year with the Economic, Sociological and Labor Legislation associations and met in St...
...at the latter the reports of special research work in foods and textiles were presented...
...This is not a philanthropic movement, but an experiment to obtain good music at small expense in addition to the desire of the committee to establish musical centers in various sections of the city...
...I neither drink nor smoke,' said he, 'but I was obliged to do both if I got my music, and I cannot afford to pay big prices...
...The Nutritive Value of Seaweeds," by Mrs...
...Everyone, including the president and directors of the institute, the guards and janitor, the committee, and the regulars are jubilant over the success with which we have met...
...Kelley asked the members of the Congressional Club to look into the federal reformatory at Washington...
...No woman is better prepared to awaken women of leisure to a sense of responsibility toward those less fortunate, than Mrs...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Women Should Help YOU WOULD THINK, wouldn't you, that the Congressional Club, whose membership is made up chiefly of the wives of Senators and Representatives, would bring together from over the country, all that is best of club activities...
...Heywood, speaking of the venture, is reported as saying in an interview: "We are so happy over the success of our undertaking," said Mrs Heywood in speaking of the venture a few days ago...
...WE PRAY this day for those who labour ever under the threat and danger of death * * * * ; for those who toil in the peril of their iife that we may be warmed and comforted...
...They would find there a boy of twelve, who had just been sent from Beaumont, Texas, to serve a term of five years for five dollars— a year for each dollar—that he had taken from a letter while serving as special delivery messenger for the government...
...In a report of this experiment, the Chicago Tribune says that a year ago when Mrs...
...Although originally intended for the benefit of employed men and women who could not afford to hear the best music because of high prices, no sne is turned away as long as the seats last...
...A committee was appointed who, with the cooperation of President Hutchinson of the Art Insitute and the Board of directors, secured Fullerton hall for every Sunday afternoon during the winter...
...The Club has been strong in social attractions, and successful in bringing its members into intimate friendly relations...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 3
