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 Government...
...It is said to do for pork chops and the tough ends of porterhouse steak what it does for round steak and while we have not tried it on these meats, we see no reason why it should not do so...
...the school-teacher has conquered the cowboy, and he soon will have bowed his way out of the over-worked pages of fiction...
...AWELL-KNOWN New York woman, lecturing in the South, was escorted to her train by a gallant young Virginian who was greatly distressed when she was unable to secure a lower berth...
...But it is with Iowa Stew as it is with every dish known to the culinary art...
...Instead then of thin pieces of meat torn apart we have an unmutilated slice, very tender and very juicy...
...it may be good and it may not be...
...It is called the Sanitary Steak Shredder and is made by the Lawson-Laughlin Specialty Company at Dows, Iowa...
...Yet, as a Parliamentary candidate, I am never asked a question in regard to them...
...In spite of its name, the one thing that this utensil does not do to the steak is to shred it...
...We look at each other and say: "Housekeepers certainly ought to know about this new kitchen weapon...
...To-day we are writing about the breathing or eating of germs...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Government Food Charts DURING the early days of instruction in Domestic Science, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a set of large charts showing the composition of common foods...
...C. F. Langworthy, who is in charge of the Nutrition Investigations of the Department, has issued a set of fifteen colored charts which are of great value...
...The •supply has, however, long been exhausted and the newer schools of Domestic Science have felt the need of something to take their place...
...It is all very well to wake up on the occasion of a colliery explosion or a railway collision...
...But why do people get consumption...
...The charts measure 21 by 28 inches...
...He is not doing as he would be done by.—From Bulletin of Chicago Department of Health...
...Sympathy in patches is better than no sympathy at all, but it goes a very little way...
...or, if she is not bad, kill her and use her for beef (for cooked meat is pretty safe), or use her for breeding purposes, or use her for producing milk which is to be properly pasteurized—and not to be otherwise sold...
...It begins to look as if fresh air schools might solve the problem of the length of time necessary for getting an education...
...And it is not so bad a name...
...2. They live in foul, dirty air...
...Here are trades which between them kill about 2.000 a year, and maim about 175,000 a year...
...The convention of the North Dakota Federation which was held in Bismurck in October was an exception to the general rule for it left behind it a statue of an Indian woman and her child which had been unveiled during the meeting and which, if we may judge by the photographs, must be a great addition to the city...
...The train will soon reach Richmond...
...Recently Dr...
...People who have consumption are the most important spreaders...
...It makes it deliciously tender but leaves it in its original form except that the meat seems for some reason to puff up in the cooking...
...She has inherited the spirit of her pioneer ancestors, a character-building race that had the saving grace of humor...
...To Guard Against Consumption LAST WEEK we advised those with colds that were hanging on to get a diagnosis now, while their consumption is curable, rather than next summer, when it will be eternally too late...
...After she had reluctantly replied in the negative he looked much grieved and seemed lost in thought for a time...
...The money had been raised by the women of the clubs, $555.78 having been given by school children in penny contributions...
...No one wants to be called dirty or to have it said that he tolerates dirt...
...But Iowa Stew at its best must have been prepared with an Iowa pounder...
...With their rapidly growing membership, it would seem as if women's clubs might often make gifts to the public and in this case the choice of the gift is peculiarly appropriate as it serves to perpetuate the memory of a picturesque people rapidly passing away or being absorbed...
...Like most other meat dishes, Iowa Stew is much improved if it meets the ghost of an onion somewhere on its journey from butcher shop to table...
...The set may be bought of the Superintendent of Documents for a dollar...
...These were suitable for school room decoration and proved to be very helpful in teaching...
...I am asked questions about the Congo, and about opium, and about vivisection, and about vaccination, and about Votes for Women (which may or may not include colliers' widows), but no one appears to have any interest in the agencies which create their comfort at the price of a terrible amount of human suffering...
...Cows which have consumption are also important spreaders...
...3. They work or live in bad houses...
...Meats, Fresh and Cured...
...The cowboy conquered the Indian...
...One of them will be sure to insist on exchanging his lower berth for your upper...
...How would it do to have large signs like this in the cars: "The air in this car will be completely changed at 14th Street and at 28th Street by the opening of both doors...
...A consumptive who spits in papers which are then burned, who holds his handkerchief before his mouth when he sneezes or coughs, who keeps his mouth clean, who keeps out of jams of people in cars and houses, who lives in plenty of fresh air—air blowing over and around him—who keeps to the sunlight, is a safe consumptive and should be encouraged in every way...
...It all depends on the care with which it is prepared...
...He may not like the idea of breathing foul air, but when it is called "dirty," it seems much worse to him...
...A careful consumptive does not spread the disease...
...Then those who are afraid of air could begin to turn up their coat collars as the car approached the streets named...
...She has all the better ones of those qualities which are commonly spoken of as breezy...
...His larat is a skipping rope for children, with a present more full of vitality and a future more full of promise than that of the average child in the more crowded East.—Collier's...
...Her talk is entertaining and witty...
...When we compare the figure and car-Given w % c^\°l Bis™arckt.bv riage of the average white of Women's Clubs man or woman with that of an Indian, we feel that artists could hardly do the American people a greater service than by perpetuating the litheness and beauty of the red man's figure as a model for coming generations—a perpetual lesson in physical culture...
...At last he said, "Well, you see it's this way...
...So many women traveling down this way have stuck hat pins in the young men's eyes that they are not so gallant as they used to be...
...The Western Woman THE resident of the Atlantic seaboard who does his traveling eastward toward Paris misses the opportunity of learning that the Far-Western woman dresses with as much taste and as winsomely as women anywhere...
...Consumptives spread more consumption than cows do...
...a careless consumptive will kill many people: spitting, sneezing, coughing are the most important ways of spreading the disease...
...Others show the composition of Milk and Milk Products...
...This is not much for the consumer to ask of the producer...
...Sakakawa CONVENTIONS come and conventions go, leaving behind them usually nothing more substantial than memories...
...Tubers and Succulent Vegetables and so on, the common foods all being represented...
...She discusses politics, a part of every Westerner's religion...
...The shredder costs 50 cents and is warranted to last a life time...
...Finally a comforting idea occurred to him and he said, "It will be all right...
...This is not much to ask a consumptive to do...
...It is very simple, consisting merely of round steak thoroughly pounded and with flour pounded into both sides of it, the pounding being followed by a careful browning and then by a long simmering in a closely covered dish...
...Of course the dirtiest air at present is street car air...
...Iowa Stew and Iowa Meat Shredder SINCE the publication of Uncle Sam's Cook Book, Iowa Stew has become a favorite dish in many households...
...Times have changed...
...Out of thirty pupils in the Elizabeth MacCormick Fresh Air School in Chicago, three skipped one grade in a year and one skipped two...
...The culture of the average Western home has not infrequently surprised the guest from Philadelphia or Boston—not in Denver, Portland, or Los Angeles, where one expects to find finish, but in Cheyenne, Fargo, and Helena...
...A lot pf young men get on there and the Richmond young men are particularly polite...
...She knows the vital themes of the day—and this without apparent neglect of children or family responsibilities...
...Here are several reasons: 1. They breathe or eat the germs...
...Consumption is spread by the consumption germ...
...And the man who has a consumptive cow should either kill her and destroy the carcass if she be bad...
...I feel very sure that they would become far less dangerous if the public at large were better informed...
...Is American Gallantry being Overstrained...
...And a consumer who takes any less is not a good citizen or a good father...
...We reproduce here two of the charts...
...The idea, which originated with Mrs...
...It is earnestly to be hoped that interest in collieries and in railway work will come to be exercised continuously, and that a public, better informed as to the average conditions of labor, will compel the legislature to stern preventive measures.—By L. G. Chiozza Money in the London Daily News...
...We say that every time we eat it thus prepared...
...Dirty Air Diseases THIS IS WHAT Health Commissioner Evans of Chicago calls pneumonia and grippe and colds...
...4. They are in right condition to catch the disease and to have it spread in their bodies...
...A producer who will not grant this is not a good merchant or a good citizen...
...Sympathy in Patches IT IS a very sad thing that the two industries upon which our wealth chiefly depends—coal mining and the railway industry—should still be so exceedingly dangerous to those engaged in them...
...Mattie M. Davis of Fargo, seems to have been a most happy one...
...The next time the young man saw the lecturer he said, "You got a lower berth of course...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 6
