HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HELEN TAFT was recently the guest of honor of the Congressional Club. As she stood receiving,—a rather tall young woman, with strong frame and free waist, a good head, light brown hair, simply...
...It employs ten thousand girls, and has a pay-roll of about twenty thousand dollars a day...
...they all exclaimed;—all but one...
...The full report will be in nineteen volumes...
...The records of air analyses will be kept up for two months without any change of conditions in the factories...
...The instinct for health can be cultivated until it is as good a guide as in the lower animals...
...IT IS NATURAL every one should be contrasting Helen Taft with Alice Roosevelt...
...They certainly are different...
...The full text of the message is not at hand as this is being written but from the extracts in the daily papers it would seem as if he had in mind legislation very much like that for which the bills now before Congress provide, i. laws limiting the length of time the goods may be held in cold storage and providing for the labelling of all goods so held...
...There will be discussions by experts on topics of health, food preparation, sanitation, labor saving devices, home making and furnishing, diets and other subjects of a practical nature...
...It is for this reason also that the colored supplements have such enormous popularity...
...It is for this reason that the comic supplements help to sell the papers...
...while, if listened to, the health instinct will guide him through the distracting midway of health fads without fretting because he does not find in each show all that is advertised by the barker, or just what is suited to his own particular needs...
...And yet is there any reason why it might not be brought within the pale...
...The one prime condition for this test is that we be physically and mentally busy as best we may in some useful and unselfish direction...
...Richards insisted on stepping aside...
...You would not call her cold, but she is neutral and receptive rather than spontaneous and enthusiastic...
...The test of low proteid and high proteid, of few calories and many calories, of an animal or vegetable diet, and of whether we need to walk ten miles a day or to lie on a couch, is the effect these things have in lifting us to our fullest capacity for physical and mental work...
...Henry Jones in "The Working Faith of the Social Reformer...
...If one thinks of the middle of the road, of whether he is up to par in his daily work, the telegraph poles of dyspepsia and neurasthenia will take care of themselves...
...A semi-conscious instinct, of course it is, but with our growing knowledge of health matters from day to day we can add to it, and so make it fit into our civilized manner of living...
...It would be interesting to know what Miss Taft thinks about it—whether she believes it "worth while...
...Born and brought up on a farm, she was not unacquainted with the pressing practical problems in home economics which are facing the majority of women...
...At the same time, samples of air are being collected from the factories in ordinary electric light globes and are being sent to Boston for analysis...
...James Frederick Rogers of the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, the writer of the article, is "instinct brought up to date" and unless we fall victims to accidents or unavoidable diseases it will teach us how much exercise we ought to take and what and how we ought to eat...
...She holds the Bryn Mawr view of suffrage for women and has been heard to declare there is no valid argument against it...
...Governor Wilson, in his inaugural address called attention to the large number of cold storage warehouses in the state and to the fact that they were holding fish, poultry and eggs some times for many years, thus not only controlling prices but injuring the health of the people...
...Some artists of great gift have spent their talents upon comic art and not without the reward of honor...
...Now knowing these proclivities on the part of human nature why should not art be cunning enough to profit by them...
...That is the reason why she was chosen president of the Home Economics Association when Mrs...
...IF "GETTING off the beaten track of precedents" as Governor Wilson said he was doing in recommending stringent regulation of cold storage warehouses and inspection of cold storage foods, means looking after the welfare of the whole people, we hope "it will become the fashion...
...Report on Women's and Children's Labor THE FIRST VOLUME of the long-looked-for report on the conditions of the labor of women and children in the United States has recently been issued by the Bureau of Labor...
...When she entered Bryn Mawr two years ago she received a scholarship prize for the best entrance examination...
...Women of the Hour Isabel Bevier Who led the Way in the Organization of College Courses in Household Science and who was recently elected President of the American Home Economics Association...
...To which of course I assented as being eminently sane itself...
...Ventilation and Efficiency AN INTERESTING STUDY in efficiency is being made by the National Electric Lamp Association through its newly established Department of Health and Economics, of which Dr...
...Possibly it is thought beyond redemption, but this should not be...
...Ifln every other sense except that of varying capacities awaiting realization by actual contact with circumstance, each child is a new beginning...
...But the life of a pioneer is not an easy one whether it be that of the organizer of a new college department or that of an opener of new lands or an invader of virgin forests, and it is usually best survived by those of sound health, good nerves and a sense of humor...
...She will not furnish fresh material for the newspapers every day, but she will win the respect and high regard of the public...
...The Association believes that it can in this way effect a saving of at least ten per cent...
...As she stood receiving,—a rather tall young woman, with strong frame and free waist, a good head, light brown hair, simply arranged, clear, healthy complexion, a soft draped, pink, gown.—-no jewels, an entirely unaffected manner,—she suggested the sensible girl, fresh from college, rather than the debutant just launched into society at the White House...
...Trained in science and for many years a teacher of chemistry in Pennsylvania College for Women and in Lake Erie College, she knew how to present these practical problems in such a way that they would offer the mental discipline demanded of college courses...
...Since the beginning of the world people have liked to laugh, and a sorry world it would have been if they had not...
...Thinking eternally about health without making health a response to our outward striving, will as surely interfere with, or derange this guide, as the thinking about a telegraph pole will lead the learner on a bicycle to bang into it...
...Her reply was, "No, it is not new but it is sane and being sane is better than being new...
...In these factories a card index has been made of the employees, and a record is being kept showing how much each produces, the amount of his breakage, etc...
...A saving of ten per cent, would, of course, be no inconsiderable amount...
...Just one young woman, the nicest I know in Washington society, interposed thoughtfully, "I wouldn't...
...It is said Miss Taft would have preferred to remain at college until she had finished, but on account of her mother's health, she gave up her own plans to share the social responsibilities of the' White House...
...I imagine she does not express her inner thought freely to many...
...Why did she give up her college course...
...Miss Taft impresses me as one who might care more for serious things...
...she does not go out to people as much as she might to make the Lest impression...
...All that is required of us, and all that we should require of ourselves, is that we develop our innate possibilities until we are conscious that we are at our best, our own best and not another's...
...The public is interested chiefly from the standpoint of the welfare of the workers but it realizes that the proof that it is good business to look after the health of employees will be a tremendous argument for sanitary conditions in factories...
...Winthrop Talbot is the head...
...The plan includes the establishment of reading rooms and lunch rooms for the employees of the twenty-five factories owned by the Association and a study of the effect of the comfort so secured in the working power of the employees...
...As one reads of the teas, luncheons, balls, dinners, given in her honor, it would seem that the social cares must have been doubled instead of divided, and Mrs...
...It is not "in us," and it is just as well we are not all alike...
...With all of these Miss Bevier'is well supplied and she has lived to enjoy the fruits of her successful ventures with fresh educational fields...
...I asked a group of women, who were discussing her "coming out...
...It relates to the conditions in the cotton mills...
...Why should not art possess itself of the Sunday supplement and make it eminently worth while...
...Fun is not inherently vulgar—far from it...
...This year—the seventh since the establishment of the course—special emphasis will be placed on The Home as an Investment...
...Though a pioneer and an explorer, Miss Bevier is not a patriarch...
...It could be done.—Art and Progress...
...who, married or unmarried, might not be satisfied with a life of gaiety alone...
...I said to my friend as we finished reading...
...Taft meets every obligation of her position as heretofore...
...MISS ISABEL BEVIER, whom the American Home Economics Association honored by choosing as the first president after Mrs...
...There is no logical reason why comic stories should not be artistically set forth...
...Who Will Follow...
...While strength is a good thing, no amount of exercise will make us all Sandows, and though chewing is important to the process of digestion, no amount of time spent in masticating food will develop in each of us the phenomenal inborn endurance of a Fletcher...
...She entered society with a worldly air for one so young, but she was frank and free, took the public into her confidence, won popularity, and enjoyed her reign as Princess Alice for all there was in it...
...The Woman's Course THE WOMEN'S COURSE IN HOME ECONOMICS will be held at the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, February 7-11, 1911...
...Quite the contrary...
...The whole stress therefore falls on the environment * * * and the essential element in the environment is not the precept but the practice of those into whose hands the child falls...
...She made friends among the studious girls, and those who know her well say she has an unusual mind...
...Richards, was the pioneer in organizing college courses in Household Science...
...Who wouldn't, to have the grand, good time she is having at the White House...
...In doing this she steered a difficult course between the popular demand, supported, it must be admitted, by a great popular need, for strictly practical instruction which, however could quite as well be given in lower schools, and academic tradition which too often makes past history seem a more legitimate field for study and research than pressing present-day problems...
...and the way to virtue, so far as internal conditions are concerned, is as open to the child of the wicked at it is to the child of the virtuous...
...Furthermore, there is in almost every human being from the savage up an inborn thirst for color...
...Miss Taft lacks those qualities that awaken curiosity and seize the imagination...
...Being now in the prime of life she may be expected to lead the way to many other new fields of usefulness in educational matters...
...The Colored Supplement THE colored supplement to the majority of the Sunday newspapers can certainly lay small claim to consideration as a manifestation of art...
...Miss Roosevelt married a rich congressman and a good fellow and is apparently entirely satisfied with the society world in which, and for which, she seems to live...
...This particular experiment is being made in only three of the twenty-five factories...
...The Association is undertaking this as a purely business proposition...
...At the end of that time, the most modern devices for ventilating the factories and for carrying fumes away from the workers will be introduced, and the output and the breakage of each operative will be compared with those under present conditions...
...For steering this difficult course, Miss Bevier's training had given her excellent preparation...
...The sense of one's condition for work," according to Dr...
...But it includes also something more unique—a study of the relation of ventilation to efficiency...
...With their help she has done more than any other American woman to remove the charge from American Colleges that they offer nothing which is of assistance to women in solving the peculiar problems which they meet in life, and to refute the assertion that the subject of Household Science is not sufficiently dignified for consideration in institutions of advanced education...
...In organizing the department of Household Science in the University of Illinois Miss Bevier has had the hearty cooperation of the faculty,—of chemists, engineers and architects...
...Miss Roosevelt never was a student nor cared for school...
...The Health Instinct," in the Popular Science Monthly for January...
...It isn't worth while...
...Hence it follows that the best, nay, the only good education of the child, comes, as Pathagoras says, "by making him the citizen of a people with good institutions...
...Instinct Brought Up-to-Date THERE is really nothing new in it...
...One hears much of the suppression of the colored supplement but very little of its redemption...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 5
