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 Home...
...If each man who could not afford to own a threshing machine raised only as much grain as he could thresh by hand, how fast could he get ahead...
...English Sparrow as a Pest THE FLY and the mosquito are going, but unfortunately they must go at great expense to ourselves and without giving us any return...
...If food must be sent to the cellar to be kept cool, a dumb waiter should be provided...
...The house should be planned so that as few steps as possible need be taken in the accomplishment of all daily tasks and this needs careful thought and study...
...This should stand near the kitchen stove and on it should be placed everything required for the meal...
...Also a brick oven could be built and some one employed to bake bread for all the families interested...
...the loss of productive human power cannot so easily be estimated...
...A sterile swab is sent out from the laboratory in a glass tube...
...These four girls all carried off Phi Beta Kappa keys, the reward for distinction in scholarship, while not one-third of the boys took this honor...
...50 Refrigerator .................................50 Cement walks...
...He dons his Sunday best in the morning and has most of the day to visit friends, talk about the weather—to recuperate his strength...
...A Sign of the Times DR...
...Is it not better to practice the ounce of prevention method...
...As The Independent says, the boys will now "have a chance to seem to have brains as well as arms and legs...
...You will notice that in the list given a mangle is mentioned...
...They are not to be opened until the moment of the experiment...
...A woman works incessantly while the man does but she has no period of rest, for busy fingers must use even the evening hours in mending, darning or keeping the clothing in good condition...
...During the night, also, when the tired body should reinvigorate itself for the morning's toil by sound unbroken slumber, the woman is more often than not disturbed by a restless, ill or nursing child...
...The cost is not prohibitive and, even in districts where railroads have not yet penetrated, cement could be hauled at an additional cost of a few cents per hundred pounds...
...It seems to us to have many practical difficulties but it is certainly more promising than the old text-book method...
...This is the day of labor saving devices in the home as well as on the farm...
...These are but a few of the experiments which are to be tried...
...The most seasonable suggestion at this time is one for driving the sparrows from their roosting places...
...Then, when the time comes to build, she will know what she wants...
...This seems to be strange doctrine to preach to farmers' wives who live in isolated districts many miles from the railroads...
...Institutions and Housekeepers THE ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION of the American Home Economics Association held its third annual meeting at Lake Placid, June 22 to 26, at the Lake Placid Club where the American Home Economics Association was born thirteen years ago...
...10 Dinner wagon...
...He sends out slides for the microscope showing the germs of various diseases, which have of course been killed before they leave the laboratory, and also Petri dishes which, in the form in which they are sent out, may be described as gardens ready for the planting of germs...
...Defeat Which is a Victory THE LARGE VOTE of 150 for the suffrage amendment in the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention may be considered a triumph for the cause in spite of the 204 votes against it which temporarily obscured the victory...
...Every farm home should be supplied with as many as possible of the following labor-saving devices : Water system...
...J. P. Simonds, is co-operating with the teachers of the State in making an interesting experiment in teaching hygiene...
...GO FORWARD, face new times, the better day.—Browning...
...15 Coal oil stove ................................12 Washing machine...
...If a $60 mowing machine will enable him to cut as much grass in one hour as his father cut in one day with a scythe, the argument is complete...
...And Dr...
...A full list is given in the Monthly Bulletin of the Indiana Bulletin of the State Board of Health for April, 1912...
...Those who were already in the institution at the time this decision was reached about two years ago were allowed to stay until they finished the course and the last four have just graduated...
...for she is the one to work in it and she ought to understand it better than anyone, especially a man...
...and many women add to this list the feeding of pigs and chickens and making the kitchen garden...
...Some suggestion of what the world of art had lost in the death of Francis Davis Millet is given in the July number of Art and Progress, which is devoted to his work and is beautifully illustrated with reproductions of his paintings...
...But is money the end of existence...
...Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, speaking before the graduating class of Simmons College of Boston, based his entire address on the supposition that women are soon to vote and must be so educated as to be able to take their places in the world of affairs...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Home Labor-Saving Devices MRS...
...In the same way a laundry could be equipped and used by different families on different days...
...Built-in furniture is preferable to store furniture because of the ease with which it may be kept clean...
...If women could only be permitted to handle a little of the income of the farm and wake up to their opportunities they could make life much happier for themselves and their loved ones...
...What good is a large bank account to any man if he has the consciousness of a worn-out, ill-tempered wife and a cheerless home to greet him when his day's work is done...
...No woman would plan to have one or more steps between kitchen and dining room, for every time she steps up she actually lifts the weight of her own body...
...If any porch at all is to be provided let it be a sleeping or living porch, but not one for show merely...
...30 Mangle...
...I suppose there is hardly one home in a thousand in this great country provided with a mangle...
...The presence of Mr...
...25 Vacuum cleaner...
...She has very few real holidays throughout her life...
...They Went Out the Front Door THE GIRLS have been obliged to leave Wellesley University in Middletown...
...It is no more expensive...
...Here it may be well to say that every woman should be the original architect of her own home...
...If the house is to be more than two stories high, a clothes chute for soiled clothes should be planned for and built in...
...Contrary to all expectations, it has proved itself to be of some food value, and one of the paragraphs of Mr...
...No woman whose energy is taxed to the breaking point by the ceaseless daily and often nightly grind of toil can be cheerful and companionable any length of time...
...10 Bread mixers...
...Their great number, he says, makes up for their small size and he asserts that they compare very favorably in taste with the best kinds of small game...
...A story of the commercial laundry with its irregular hours of work and its dangerous machinery was told by Helen Woodford Pratt, of the Consumers League of New York City...
...It could be done much cheaper and with what a saving to labor...
...And so I make the statement advisedly that a woman's work is never done...
...Half the cleaning of every home could be saved if cement walks were used...
...Then a small boy with a very dirty finger is instructed to touch spot D in one of the dishes, while another boy who has scrubbed his hands as well as a boy is able to, is told to touch point C in the second dish...
...The bulletin contains full directions for trapping the sparrows at nesting time and also at other times by means of bait...
...JOHN A. WIDTSOE, wife of the president of the Utah Agricultural College, who has one of the best equipped and most convenient kitchens in the country, gave an address before the Dry Farming Congress in Denver, last October, in which she said in part: "Man's work on the farm is intense while it lasts, and it may cover long hours, but when it is done, it is done, and the man rests while the earth rests...
...It is just as feasible for half a dozen women to own a large vacuum cleaner and take turns in the use of it...
...There are few of us who have not been wakened early in the morning by means of sparrows that have gathered in nearby vines...
...200 Heating system...
...Considering the cost of the mangle, from $6 to $25, no home in which weekly ironing is done should be considered equipped without one...
...Cement walks are listed among the labor saving devices...
...Lessons on Hygiene for Schools THE SUPERINTENDENT of the Bacteriological Laboratory of Indiana, Mr...
...Frank B. Gilbreth who has made many valuable experiments in efficiency applied to the work of brick laying gave zest and interest to the discussion of scientific management as applied to the home...
...But if possible get the cement walks and cellars...
...Her daily tasks include cooking, serving, scrubbing, cleaning, sewing, laundering, waiting on the sick...
...The dishes are then quickly covered and put in a warm place in the hope that one will develop a large colony of germs by the following day and the other will remain unchanged, thus pointing the' desired moral...
...and William C. Rogers, New York State Deputy Commissioner of Labor...
...It often pays coffin bills and undertaker's fees, and many a man has found that one hospital bill or doctor's fee would have bought many a vacuum cleaner...
...That makes one of two things necessary—either the average woman must hare ways and means of performing her work with as little expenditure of energy as possible, or else she is going to wear out as a tired machine and the man will have to get a new wife as he gets a new mowing machine...
...Francis Davis Millet THE MILLIONS of dollars that changed hands when the Titanic sank into the sea were easily counted...
...The farmer who understands that there are things in life worth infinitely more than dollars and cents, will use every spark of intelligence, and some cash as well, in making the most perfect possible home...
...Such subjects as Institutional Laundries, Scientific Management in Household and Institution, School Lunches, and Methods of Accounting were discussed...
...Dearborn says that if scared out several nights in succession they will usually not return, and he recommends either a garden hose or small Roman candles for the purpose of driving them out...
...They should almost be listed among the necessities...
...But if a $60 vacuum cleaner would enable his wife to do as much cleaning in one hour as her mother did in one day he would doubtless spend a few months thinking about the expenditure of the $60...
...This is not necessarily because the man is hardhearted, unfeeling, or stingy...
...Think of the countless steps saved by the use of such a simple little appliance as this...
...House labor should not only include getting dirt out of the house but preventing it from getting in...
...Those of us who associate English sparrows with the dirt of the street will probably not be much attracted by the thought of them for food but according to the bulletin, sparrows eat about one-half their weight every day, and a very short season of captivity with clean food should have the effect of renewing their tissues almost completely...
...Can money pay for the lack of these things...
...25 Dish washer...
...662 "In homes where it is necessary to have a separate cooking and dining room it should be considered necessary to have a so-called 'dinner wagon.' This dinner wagon can be made by anyone who knows how to handle tools at all and is in reality a three-story table on wheels...
...Scarcely any man would deny their place on the farm, because he sees in their use a saving to him in dollars and cents, and that always makes a strong appeal...
...It can be wheeled into the dining room at the last moment, the things put on the table and the wagon then set aside again until required to move everything from the dining table back to the kitchen...
...This is to be rubbed on the edge of a common drinking cup and then drawn over the surface of the gelatin in a Petri dish...
...A word ought to be said to farmers' wives, particularly those who live in villages, about the advisability of co-operative ownership of expensive saving devices...
...Dearborn's bulletin relates to English sparrows as food...
...CHARLES F. THWING, President of the Western Reserve University, said at Commencement time to the graduates: "It will be your duty to teach children, girls and boys alike, the proper use of the ballot...
...and yet, in the older countries of Europe, the poorest possible house-worker would feel she was imposed upon if she had to iron by hand her so-called 'fiat work.' Three-fourths of the ordinary washing can be passed through a mangle and can be done in one-tenth of the time...
...But he does not recuperate very much unless there is a fine hot Sunday dinner waiting for him after church...
...She should understand that a cement cellar is as necessary as the roof and much more desirable than a front porch...
...The Educational Section and also the new Housekeeping Section are to meet in connection with the National Education Association in Chicago...
...The administrative section was the second section of the American Home Economics Association to be formed...
...Sometimes money does pay...
...5 Alchohol iron ................................5 Total...
...As a matter of fact, when the cement walk is considered a necessity, the cement will be found as easily as are building materials...
...They are flat, covered glass dishes each containing a thin layer of gelatin mixed with food upon which germs flourish...
...but because if he thought of it at all he would feel that man is the bread winner, that through his labors the money and the wherewithal of life come into the home and any expenditure is therefore justified...
...Is there a money equivalent of the cheerful smile and life companionship of the woman that was once the best on earth...
...He suggests humane methods for killing the birds and describes how they may be dressed and cooked...
...According to Ned Dearborn, expert biologist in the employ of the United States Department of Agriculture, and author of Farmers' Bulletin 493, the English sparrow seems likely to go also, but to render us some service as it departs...
...200 Sewing machine...
...The man usually has his Sunday free, when his mind rests as well as his body...
...A wise woman should stipulate that cement walks be built as soon as possible after the building of the house...
...E. E. Pratt of the New York Food Investigation Committee, spoke on the relation of the cost of living to facilities for marketing, and William Morse Cole, of Harvard University, on Institution Accounts and Records...
...25 Fireless cooker...
...Every girl should begin early to sketch her ideal home and change it as her understanding enlarges...
...Meanwhile Sunday is often the hardest day for the woman, and most holidays add heavier burdens instead of lighter ones...
Vol. 4 • July 1912 • No. 28
