HOME AND EDUCATION

...1/3 cupful cream...

...I was at wits' end to know where they came from...

...Editor Home Department of La Follette's Weekly, Dear Mrs...

...I was very much surprised at the result...

...But it is very important to have the "fly killer" handy, or it will be neglected...

...We believe we have the best juvenile court law, the best child-labor law, the best compulsory education law, the best law for the prevention of cruelty to children, and the best administration of these laws of any State in the Union— Judge Ben Lindsey...

...But could equality of opportunity ever do so complete a job of leveling as fashion does...

...Examining the collection of cards I found them arranged under: Beef, Mutton, Veal, Chicken, Fish, Cheese, Yolks of Eggs, Whites of Eggs, Sour Cream, Sour Milk, Rice, Macaroni, Coffee, Bread and Butter, Pineapple, and many other headings...

...The right beginning, as you suggest, is making our habitation as nearly fly-proof as possible...

...If we take our lunch into one of these canyons on the mesa three of four miles from dwellings there are hordes about us...

...For this reason I have started my card catalogue...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT An Effective Fly Killer Claremont, Cal, November 20, 1910...

...I, for one, have decided to build as nearly a fly proof house as is possble and let the rest go— can you suggest anything better...

...Maybe in ten years the people here will wake up...

...A visit to the library will show those who are unacquainted with card catalogues how to arrange the cards and the guide cards for the headings...

...And the concealment of the eyebrows took away much of the expressiveness of the eyes...

...What Colorado does for the Children WE HAVE in Colorado the most advanced laws of any State in the Union for the care and protection of the home and the children, the very foundation of the Republic...

...I wish you could help us but at present I fear those of the East and Middle West can't realize our problem...

...eggs...

...A short time before the newspapers had reported a similar seizure of wormy nuts, assigned to a prominent confectioner...

...If a person never uses tomatoes, for example, she will never have any left-over tomatoes to utilize...

...They should not be put away in cold weather, but should be kept handy to destroy those flies that remain...

...Of course the attempt to punish the offense of using rotten eggs or wormy nuts and letting the offender go free is the result of examples set in that region "higher up" to which we have learned to look for most of the demoralizing influences upon business...

...Fashion, the Great Leveller DURING the early part of the winter I found myself wondering where all the hatchet-faced women had come from...

...You know the newspapers are much more likely to have unusual recipes than they are to give the old standard ones, and these unusual ones are just what is needed for thi3 purpose...

...Some may have a few left-overs and some may have memories so good that they do not need to be reminded...

...Stearns: SOME times I am discouraged because our readers seem so far away, in spite of my heartfelt wish to get into intimate relation with them...

...There are no less than a thousand flies on a sheet of fly paper at my elbow as I write and although in the last month I've used a box of fly paper, every sheet as thoroughly as that, my success seems nil...

...We tacked a wire netting over the top of the chimney, and have never had trouble with their unwelcome visitations since...

...Today we are moving to another house unoccupied for years—the nearest occupied house at least a mile and a half away, and as we worked in the empty house the flies were thick about us...

...Of course we tried all the methods suggested, spraying all garbage with kerosene, etc...

...I realize that your uniform climate must make the fight against flies more difficult than with us, where the winter gives some respite...

...I once had great trouble, as the cool weather came on, with flies gathering in the morning in the dining room...

...Of course we do seem well but no words are needed to describe the intolerable nuisance...

...They help to make the start for next year...

...So long as we impose fines for the frauds and illegalities of "big business" and visit no social condemnation upon those responsible for their commission, we shall probably be obliged to smile upon bakers and confectioners indiscriminately, even upon those who use rotten eggs and wormy nuts...

...Cataloguing Left-Overs An Aid to Economical Menu Making ACERTAIN HOUSEKEEPER whom I met recently is making a card catalogue of recipes, classified according to the particular "left-over" which they utilize...

...Sliced pineapple or fresh pineapple may be chopped and used instead of the grated pineapple in the pie...

...This scheme of classification may not appeal to all housekeepers...

...One morning, as I took the screen from the fire place, I observed that the flies swarmed out into the room...

...Sincerely yours, (Mrs...

...Dear Mrs...

...As we realize more clearly the specific disease-spreading power of the house fly, I think we must surely solve the problem of their extermination, tremendously difficult though it seems, Naturally, cooperative destruction of breeding in places is the first step in eradication...

...This letter is to thank you for trying to help and to explain a situation of which I fear you are ignorant...

...I bought a "fly killer" like the illustration for each room of the house, and hung it in a convenient place...

...I feel like an independent worker for although action is needed in Claremont itself, we live four miles from there and at least a mile "as the crow flies" from the nearest house in small canyon...

...The fashionable hat, drawn down, as it was, so as to cover the brow and the eye brows, the ears, the neck and the hair naturally made the nose seem a very large part of that which remained in sight...

...It happens that the destruction of individuality is just what is predicted by those who look forward with fear to the coming of democracy...

...Much of what they give has little value, but occasionally one finds a really helpful suggestion...

...THE Washington Post of January 19 contains an editorial which is worthy of serious consideration by the housekeepers of the country...

...and if one card is destroyed in the kitchen, it is a much less serious matter than if a page in a cook-book is injured...

...Still the yellow fever and malaria-carrying mosquitos have been conquered in the South and in the beginning the difficulty of their extermination must have seemed almost as insurmountable as that of flies now appears to us...

...It is easy to devise a holder for the cards when in use...

...A realization of their deadly power aroused public sentiment, scientific study of their habits and experiment taught effective methods of extermination...

...several people can work from it at the same time...

...This whole country—Southern California—is in the hands —or feet—of flies...

...What he should be made to feel for a time is the salutory effect of a store deserted by patrons...

...The cards can be bought for a small sum, the plain manila ones being the cheapest, and it is easy to find a pasteboard box which they will just fit...

...Or perhaps I find bread and butter sandwiches and chocolate left from a party the day before...

...Mix well together, and bake in one crust...

...But of the usefulness of a card catalogue of recipes in general, there can be no doubt...

...When this was done to thousands of women it made them all look alike, all pointed nosed and glassy eyed...

...The portion left over from the first using can be set aside in the refrigerator for two or three days, and then used in a pineapple pudding made with cornstarch, a pineapple Bavarian cream made with gelatine and whipped cream, a pineapple ice, or as the filling for a short-cake or Washington pie...

...After a housekeeper has become accustomed to a card catalogue, she finds herself using it for a large number of purposes: for addresses, for calls received and returned, and for household hints and reminders of all kinds...

...It was in Washington during the holidays...

...Use the whites of the 3 eggs for a meringue if desired...

...M. M.) H. M G. Stearns...

...La Follette: LAST SPRING I sent for your literature bearing on the anti-fly campaign and read it with much interest...

...On some of the cards I have simply a reference to a cook-book, or to a magazine which is too valuable to be cut up...

...Of course, as the housekeeper said, the headings will naturally be determined by the individual person...

...It can be used most effectually in offices and public buildings...

...The mere confiscating of his goods injures him very little, and so long as his name is kept from the public, he can afford to repeat his offense and pay the penalty on the rare occasion when he is found out...

...But the systematic use of the "fly killer" once or twice a day made the dining room free of every one...

...I found also that for further convenience in use the cards under each heading were classified as: Soups, Meat Dishes, Salads, Entrees, Desserts, Sandwiches...

...It is said that when all people have equal opportunities, they will be reduced to one uninteresting dead level...

...Other rooms in the house can be attended to more easily just by killing each fly as discovered...

...Heretofore it had been my experience that the most persistent use of fly paper did not get rid of all the flies in the dining room...

...The world seemed suddenly full of women and girls with sharp noses and little beady eyes...

...They kill the flies, but old fashioned fly paper, loathsome as it is, seems the only thing that shows enough results to keep us working...

...In states where there is no adequate law, the entire exhibit should be of value in creating an interest in legislation...

...Then I tried to instill each member of the household with the feeling that a fly is dangerous, unclean, and should be killed instanter...

...The cards have on them recipes of my own, others that have been given me by my friends, and many that have been cut from newspapers and housekeeping magazines...

...It may also be very acceptably used as an addition to a fruit salad made of oranges and bananas...

...When I asked her about the scheme, she said to me: "Before I plan my meals for the day, I always make a tour of the kitchen to see what is on hand...

...These laws in my opinon would not exist at this time if it were not for the powerful influence of women which at all times has been back of them and of those who have conscientiously and faithfully administered them...

...Where a fight is being made against exemptions in the law in favor of canners and fruit pickers, the photographs of children engaged in these occupations will be helpful...

...Sometimes I find boiled rice in the refrigerator or stewed tomatoes or yolks of eggs...

...The Big Black Wrong ACHILD LABOR EXHIBIT is being taken from one city to another by Miss Elizabeth Dinwiddie of the National Child Labor Committee...

...Robert M.) Belle Case La Follette...

...So your bright, friendly letter went to the right spot and was most cheering and helpful...

...Grated pineapple can be bought in half-pint cans, but the larger sized ones are more economical...

...Though unobtrusive and apparently harmless, they are not as innocent as they appear...

...It is a mistake to think a newspaper or any old thing will do as well to kill flies as the netting with a handle...

...It is much more easily enlarged than a book...

...Where there is a good child labor law and the time is ripe for a Street Trade Law affecting messenger boys and newsboys, interest will naturally center in the very large and illuminating display of pictures showing the dangers of these trades to children...

...Pineapple Pie 1 cupful grated pineapple...

...Until we have a more widely awakened public sentiment and united efforts of all health agencies, and perhaps better scientific knowledge of fly habits, each housekeeper's problem must be how, single handed, to keep her home free from their contamination...

...The blazing fire we enjoyed in the evenings warmed the chimney and attracted the flies to our hearth and home...

...From there it was taken to Charlottesville, Virginia, and to Raleigh, N. C. It consists very largely of photographs, though there are also placards bearing legends and several illuminated charts...

...It was inspired by a widely circulated report that on the day previous government officials had seized many thousands of decomposed eggs consigned to a prominent Washington baker, whose name was not made public...

...For years I have thought with you, there is nothing so effective as sticky fly paper in getting rid of those flies that will come inside, in spite of all precautions...

...But I want to tell you of my personal experience this year in keeping other rooms clear of them...

...My confidence in this method is confirmed by the experience of a very efficient housekeeper who has succeeded in keeping a large boarding house clear of flies this summer by this method...

...Cordially yours, (Mrs...

...The interest in the various parts of the exhibit will vary in different places...

...Wouldn't you think conditions ideal starting in such a place after a year of unoccupation...

...I know there are numberless ways to utilize these and yet my cook-books are not indexed so as to show them...

...The "killers" can be easily made as described in our issue of November 13, 1909, but the boughten ones cost only ten cents...

...As the Post suggests, if the eggs and nuts were bad enough to be destroyed by officials, the buyer was culpable enough to have his name given to the public...

...Shall We Punish the Crime or the Criminal...

...In this case, the left over portion may be used in any of the ways mentioned, or as a plain salad with French dressing...

...I still use it in the kitchen where they are necessarily more numerous than in other parts of the house...

...One other personal "discovery" may have value for you and other readers...

...Or if the boy of the family is taking lessons in manual training, he can make a wooden one...

...The chart, known as "The Cow, the Cod and the Cabbage," which we reproduce here, attracted much attention, as does the "Child Labor Tree...

...Finally I discovered that the trouble lay not with the faces but with the hats...

...Everywhere the most particular housewives tell me they are helpless even with their fly-proof houses...

...Yolks of 3 eggs (or 2 whole 1 cupful sugar...

...A few will escape to destroy the family peace at meal time...