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 The Benefits of...
...she demands the control of her own earnings and her own property, and finally she demands the vote...
...They are asleep...
...And so we, find laws raising the age of consent, equal-pay-for-equal-work laws, laws admitting women to the legal profession, laws providing that women may secure divorce on the same terms as men, laws to place women physicians in responsible positions in almshouses and insane hospitals, etc...
...Nine-tenths of the mayors of suffrage states...
...The old wedding wish, that the happy couple be gifted with twenty sons and twenty daughters, would scarcely be mad now...
...And woman suffrage has benefited women, even if we were to admit that it had not changed legislation at all...
...She lays up a bank account before she marries...
...Has it benefited legislation...
...There are reports on "Studies of Exact Methods of Food Preparation," by Elizabeth Sprague of the University of Chicago...
...t produce a numerous progeny in order to fill the gaps made by war, pestilence and famine...
...The "Score Card for Eating Houses" prepared by one of the classes in the University of Illinois, the list of institutions giving instruction in Home Economics and the bibliography of the Home Economics literature all have timely interest, the last being of special value to club women...
...Women had in those days no business interests to protect...
...And this law not even the President can veto, not even Congress can repeal...
...This being no longer necessary, is no longer done, and as Olive Schreiner says, "The woman who to-day merely produces twelve children, and suckles them, and then turns them loose on her society and family, is regarded, and rightly so, as a curse and a down-draft...
...Three-fourths of woman's work has gone out of the home, and the other fourth is still shrinking...
...In the Solomon Islands they still hunt heads, AND WHY should you in Wisconsin work with might and main for suffrage...
...But the people could not, would not believe it...
...to meet it today, to cope with it today, is victory...
...It makes them feel good to be accorded the full rights of citizens...
...Whom does it benefit...
...three gainful occupations were all that vere open to women...
...And he who walks by the light of but one eye makes many a misstep...
...she makes dresses in a shop instead of at home...
...The second liberating factor for woman is what I call conquest of material things...
...I ask you men of Wisconsin to vote to make the women of Wisconsin free of the last fetters, those of political serfdom...
...It would be a splendid thing for the men of Wisconsin to give their women full citizenship...
...We may lose a skirmish now and then, but to.those who see with historic perspective, the outcome is a foregone conclusion, for "truth may lose its battles, but it wins its wars...
...Home Economics Journal for December THE TITLES of articles and the names of the contributors to the December number of the Journal of Home Economics are sufficient guarantee of its value and interest...
...The obstacle to progress may be overcome tomorrow, or ten years from tomorrow...
...HOW DOES woman suffrage benefit...
...Merely because in several well-ordered cor munities there is an increasing population with a declini birth rate...
...It may benefit legislation...
...It has, but not in the ways that many had expected...
...Who says that it is a success...
...Much as I want suffrage for the sake of my daughter, I want it more for the sake of my sons...
...He has gained a free mother, a mother whom he need never look on as a member of a subject class...
...That is all...
...But we do know that they studying and discussing various questions, we know that places and opportunities are open to them through their te...
...1903 Wyoming passed similar resolutions...
...Much work is often needed to precipitate the inevitable...
...Responsibility strengthens...
...But the day-break they will never see...
...This last paper includes a plea for the passage of the Smoot Bill in which all students of Home Economics are interested...
...This being so, it follows that fewer children need born, to keep up the population...
...But the children of subject women are allowed to live in quarters swept again and again by pestilence...
...She studies law and medicine and theology and pedagogy, and she goes to college...
...I also fina that the women are not active politicians nor effice-seekers...
...But ;t has come with effort...
...We need go back no further than 1776 to realize how the franchise has been extended...
...This issue contains also the reply of the editor, Mrs...
...I will tell you why...
...The dawn of woman suffrage has become as obvious as the sunrise...
...Any wise man who studies the course of woman for the past half century must see that political liberty for woman is inevitable...
...Such men as Lorimer, and Lee O'Neil Browne, and White, and Holstlaw are sovereign in Illinois...
...Home Economics from the Standpoint of the Grade Teacher," by Mrs...
...TO TELL where a comet is going, astronomers must map its course, and reckon with the forces that affect it...
...and where no effort has been made barbarism still lingers...
...A. C. True, Director of Office of Experiment Stations...
...This is the first fact to rel some of women's time, which may now be given to educa philanthropy, government, or to bridge whist and Brai Martin dinners...
...She makes stockings in the factory, instead of at home...
...Since then we have enfranchised the negro and the Indian...
...and "The Applications of Science to the Housekeeper's Daily Problems," by Ellen A. Huntington of the Agricultural College of Utah...
...IT IS a splendid thing for men to do the fair thing by women...
...It isn't that we claim for women that they are better than men...
...It is still on increase...
...And having much time liberated to her, (she need not marry at sixteen, as her grandmother did) she does other things...
...In those days girls were not even allowed to go to the common schools...
...The articles include the following papers which have recently been given at meetings of the Home Economics Association and of its various sections: "College Courses in Home Economics," by Dr...
...But their hour will come, when they too will arise, and do what they can in the noonday glare...
...If tuberculosis affects the cattle, or if cholera affects the hogs, the state furnishes a veterinarian to inspect the herd...
...Because equal suffrage is a success...
...A. P. Norton, of the University of Chicago...
...Briefly, I mean that woma longer needs to spin the linen and the wool, to weave knit the stockings, to be the family dress maker, the family tailor, the baker, the butter-maker, the soap-maker, the laundress, the pickle-maker, the candle-maker, the drawer of water, and even the hewer of wood...
...In making this appeal we are obeying a higher law than even the law of the United States, the law of evolution, of progress, of democracy...
...and "Experimental Work with Winter and Spring Wheat Flours," by Francis Freeman and Ida Shilling of the University of Ohio...
...In 1896, in Colorado, the ex-governors, the chief justice, all the judges of the supreme court, district court, and Court of Appeals of Denver, the senators and representatives in Congress, the president of Colorado College, the mayor of Denver, and many citizens published a statement saying that woman suffrage has had many good, and no evil results...
...Give your children free mothers...
...I answer, the expansion of democracy, and the rise of women into thought life, and the industrial life of humanity...
...Utah and Idaho have also passed similar resolutions...
...I want them to grow up as near as may be toward my ideal of manhood...
...The light is there, but for them it is not...
...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 The Benefits of Woman Suffrage A MESSAGE TO WISCONSIN MEN AND WOMEN By DR...
...It is too soon to tell how much the women are benefited by political liberty...
...And now you have shown one more great sign of grace in the submission of the equal suffrage amendment...
...Miss Helen Atwater contributes a review of "Evolution of Private Expenditures during Seven Centuries" by Vicomte d' Avenel, a French economist, which has recently been published jn the Revue des Deux Mondes...
...It will not last...
...Take one fact alone: in Chicago the average len of human life has doubled since the big fire...
...In 1899 the Colorado legislature passed a resolution to the same effect...
...TWO FACTS kept wcmen out of the thought life of the nation : First she mu...
...Thus has democracy reached with ever lengthening arms to gather in the people...
...It may benefit men and children, though it benefit neither women nor legislation...
...And why...
...There are always those who do not see the sunrise...
...I think there need be no fear of that result in California.—Bishop Keane, of Cheyenne, Wyoming...
...One of my medical classmates, for instance, holds a ition in Denver which is better paid than any position held any woman physician in Illinois...
...The very submission is a victory...
...Then the Jew, the Catholic, the unbeliever and the man without estate were not included in the electorate...
...From Colorado, New Zealand, Idaho, Utah, Norway, Finland, Australia came tidings that the woman's day had dawned for them...
...McCulloch asked them all...
...And side by side with the evolution of democratic government has gone the evolution of woman—of the new status of woman...
...Julia Ward Howe ascertained that but a little while before she died...
...It may benefit women...
...Civilization is also inevitable...
...Forty-one years ago Wyoming received the first radiant beams that betokened the coming of the new day for women...
...If the women of 1776 had been enfranchised, they might not have been as well prepared as now...
...I have never known but one woman in Wyoming who made herself obnoxious in politics...
...But if woman's enfranchisement is inevitable, it does not follow that you are going to get it in Wisconsin without effort...
...And woman has followed her work out of the home...
...I want my sons to grow up in association with free men and free women...
...To battle gloriously for a principle is victory...
...And though the first use women make ballot is in defense of childhood, yet the suffrage baby bed more than laws can give him...
...tuberculosis ravages unchecked in our city slums, and death claims one child out of four before its first birthday...
...I do not think men can grow to be the best men when they are in constant association with a subject womanhood...
...Children are being vilely born, and vilely nourished, and vilely educated, and vilely housed...
...It is that men and women, like the two eyes of our body, see things from slightly different angles...
...Surely she is not to blame for following her work...
...d as I said, the benefit to men and children would justify ge, even aside from benefits to legislation and to women, willing that equal suffrage should stand or fall according effect on the child...
...They are the overworn, the exhausted, those who have dissipated in labor, or dissipated in play...
...WHAT SIGNS betoken the world-wide spread of woman suffrage...
...Women electors have secured mainly the passage of laws to protect children, and to alleviate injustices to women...
...Until the day is far spent they will not see it...
...Yet the light strengthened...
...And more is done by these sovereign lords for the cattle on the hills, than for these infants and their mothers...
...As to the Catholic women in my diocese, I do not find that the right of suffrage has drawn them either out of their homes or out of the church...
...The air fairly rings with victory...
...And while they squabble over deep water ways and the senatorial deadlock, our slums are breeding criminals...
...They rubbed their eyes and said, "It is a meteor, a firefly, a lightn'ng flash...
...The tide of progress advances like a mighty glacier, slowly, now forward, now receding a little, over mighty walls of opposition, around mountain crags of obstruction, relentlessly onward to its goal...
...Mary Hinman Abel, to the much-discussed article which appeared in the October Atlantic on "One View of Domestic Science" * * * h FROM MY LARGE EXPERIENCE as a bishop of the Catholic Church in Wyoming, where we have had woman suffrage for forty-two years, I am convinced that women vote as honestly, conscientiously and intelligently as do the men—to say the least...
...The Preservative Action of Spices," by C. Hoffman and Alice C. Evans of the University of Wisconsin...
...A majority of the ministers, judges and educators...
...ANNA BLOUNT THE EYES of the nation have been turning for years to you in Wisconsin for ideals of liberty, for ideals of progress...
Vol. 3 • December 1911 • No. 50
