HOME AND EDUCATION

...She is making play grounds for children, healthier conditions in schools, fairer conditions for the work of men, women, and children in farm, store, factory, shop and mine...

...What even the unintelligent critics of women mean is that if women undertake to make homes, they ought to do it in the very best possible manner, just as they would any other important work they undertook...

...She was very much in doubt about taking a stand for suffrage, although her husband actively favored it...

...How absurd it is for society to tell woman that home-making is her most important work and than arbitrarily to withhold from her the needed tools...

...The very riot of our material riches is the peril of our souls...

...His intelligence and knowledge is in no way impaired...

...I asked her this question: "If the passage of the amendment next fall depended on your support of it, what would you do...

...Of course, no sane person believes that the saying "Woman's place is the home" is to be taken literally...

...It can never be a mere matter of wood and plaster...

...If ever woman was needed it is to-day...

...To meet the new and larger responsibilities it is necessary that the woman of the present world affairs shall continue in her learning to do team work...

...Woman is as sure to have the suffrage as the tide is to rise," said Dr...

...In every place I spoke it was just the same...

...But the power to speak without hesitation the names of the people we should know is valuable, and should be cultivated as it can be, by a little conscious discipline...

...ONE PROMINENT society woman in Portland, whose influence was very much desired by the suffragists, was at a tea given for me...

...Remembering Names I N WASHINGTON official circles where meeting people is a constant social obligation, discussion of how we remember —or how we forget—names, is almost as common a subject of conversation as the weather...

...Many of the psychic functions of motherhood she is discharging in the school...

...This fact whether woman wants it or no, the suffrage will force inevitably upon her...

...She is told that cleanliness is essential to good home-making and she is allowed to spend her money for unnecessary amounts of soap and wear out her back in scrubbing, but she may not vote to have the streets kept clean nor the smoke nuisance stopped...

...IT SEEMS VERY CERTAIN that the world is to grow richer and better in the future, however it has been in the past, not by the magnificent achievements of the highly gifted few, but by the patient faithfulness of the one-talented.— Phillips Brooks...

...In medical terms he is suffering a form of aphasia...

...Gulick, "not because she is as wise, as strong, as skillful as man is, nor because she, like him, is a human being, nor for any other reason of likeness or duplication at all, but because she is different, because she can do what he cannot, because the world needs her peculiar and special abilities...

...And yet material things—food, furniture, adornments— are inseparable from our idea of home, for love if it is any kind of love, always wants to serve...

...The only difference is that now we have a house to put it in...

...He has all these name words to learn over again...

...There are thousands of floating votes here in Oregon among the men— unmarried men—who come and go and have no responsibility and no real interest in the state...

...La Follette in his campaign of North Dakota, Nebraska, Oregon, and California, gave me the opportunity to get in touch with the suffrage sentiment of those states...

...of its people sick...

...Can't you see the advantage we have over hog cholera or pip...

...who made the fatherless and motherless children...

...Such a name can only be firmly fixed in his mind by securing good attention and insisting on frequent repetition...

...He knows his relatives and friends as always, but when we began our lessons he could not say "Mama" or "Papa" or name his brothers and sisters...

...the beds are occupied by those we infected...

...When she has a home of her own she goes forth to market...

...We insist that she must speak, but because she is different and not because she is like...

...I could not but think how well fitted they were for leadership among women when they were given the responsibility of taking part in government...

...If "Woman's place is the home" means "If you make a home, see that it is made well," women accept it as perfectly reasonable advice...

...Our friends' faces are photographed on a different part of the brain from the nook where we store away their names, and the memory of the face may remain clear and distinct while the name is forgotten...

...The deepest need of woman is the need of being needed...

...Roll on, thou stiff and dark old towel-roll...

...We should not allow ourselves to slip into the easy habit of apologizing because we cannot remember names any more than we should allow to go unchallenged the careless practice of children who instead of making the effort to recall a name, say "Mister-r-r- What-you-may-call-him...

...Observing him I was-struck with the similarity of his mental processes to ours, when we remember faces but cannot recall names...

...His reason was that when the vote of Oregon was compared with that of California and Washington he feared easterners would not think about the difference being due to women's votes and would conclude that these adjoining states were outstripping Oregon, and that would hurt the state...

...It was with grave doubts that I first addressed a great out door audience at Pendleton from the court house steps, but the respectful, interested attention and good will of that large mixed crowd was the best argument that could be made for the co-operation of men and women in public affairs...

...Humor in the Warfare Against Disease BLESSINGS on the funny man...

...Go through the whole list of the material things which affection and intelligence on the part of a home-maker prompt her to get for her home and the same limitation will be found to exist...

...FROM their past experience the Oregon women have learned the necessity of reaching the voters with arguments...

...And the greater the love and the keener the intelligence, the better the home...

...The young woman takes the advice...

...Although Mr...

...Not a city in the country has less—many more—than 10 per cent...

...A separate name associated with a separate individuality for every man, woman, and child we know, must unquestionably make the remembering of names a distinct tax on the brain...

...Universal Motherhood" DR...

...I notice the little boy I am teaching loses a word rather easily after he has learned it, particularly if he is not especially interested...

...You see," he said, "I got to thinking about it, and it occurred to me that if that is so, it will double the vote of the stable population...

...BECAUSE there is a suffrage amendment pending in Oregon to be voted on in November, the feeling is much more intense there than in North Dakota and Nebraska...

...A large number of representative women were gathered at a luncheon...

...Quite recently I have been teaching a child who, because of an accident, has lost a part of his vocabulary, particularly the nouns...

...Look at your cemeteries filled with the patrons of the line of products we carry...

...To serve the community in ways in which she is the creator and specialist is the end, and toward this service the women of the civilized world are pressing, most of them unconsciously— a few of them consciously, but all of them inevitably...

...Foods, in particular, are a very important subject...

...One young matron, who spoke remarkably well, told me that although she was a college graduate, she had never before spoken in public...

...La Follette in all of his addresses spoke for equal suffrage as a fundamental principle in democracy, the women were anxious that I should also say something, and in that way it happened that I was urged to speak at many of his large meetings...

...A story is told of a woman who had been living with her husband and children in a few rooms in the heart of a great city...

...One occasion particularly impressed me in North Dakota...

...It occurred to me to experiment with myself on names that were apt to elude me...

...If you can, you can define home...

...LEAVING a banquet hall loaded with flowers to visit the bedside of a pioneer suffragist, I shall never forget the half-humorous, half-earnest way this noble woman, who had suffered for the cause, with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, said: "It was very different forty years ago...

...Walk through your orphan asylums...

...If the water is unsafe, the home-maker may boil it at expense of fuel and cool it at expense of ice, but she can have nothing to say about the quality of the water which the city supplies...

...We all agree, of course, even those of us who attempt no definition, that a home must have its beginning in love...

...If women vote, it will double the representation of the family, and will tend to increase the influence of the country people over that of city folks...

...Society will let her, in fact it bids her, wash the lettuce and berries thoroughly in many waters, but when she wants to vote against the Mayor who appointed the Health Officer who permits this filthy condition to exist, she is denied...

...The Home and the Ballot I F THE WORDS, "Woman's place is the home" can mean much or little or nothing, depending on how and by whom they are spoken, it may be because one of the five words —the last—has never been satisfactorily defined...

...La Follette's notes on the California campaign will appear in the next issue...

...Calling my attention to a rabbit he could say, "It runs hard," but could not say "rabbit...

...She unexpectedly fell heir to a comfortable cottage in the suburbs and when some one congratulated her on having a home at last, she said, "Oh, we always have a home...

...When they are needed at home, they ought to be there—quite a self-evident proposition...

...On their part, however, they have a right to expect that society, which gives them this advice, will at least not stand in the way of their getting the very best tools for their work...

...There were no flowers then...

...Home is important, of course, but there are lengths to which she may not go to protect it...

...LUTHER H. GULICK, director of the child hygiene department of the Russell Sage Foundation, in an address at the recent convention of the National Educational Association, declared that although woman suffrage is inevitable in the progress of political government the main mission of woman is social service...

...It is because she is different, because these differences are fundamental world needs, that it is necessary that she shall bring these differences to the service of the world...

...For no woman knows but that her influence may settle the question...

...The vote is no end in itself...

...The incident made a most pleasing and convincing object lesson of the growth of women through club work and broader education...

...I found that by concentrating my thought on them and repeating them carefully a number of times, and then recalling them for a day or two after, they were so firmly fixed I could not forget them if I would...

...Most persons claim to be strong on remembering faces, while they confess to weakness in remembering names...

...A N OREGAN FARMER avowed that the old anti-suffrage argument that women would vote just like the men had really converted him to the cause...

...Although entirely unexpected, every woman invited to do so, responded briefly and to the point, with ease and individuality...

...1HEARD of one prominent male citizen of Oregon who had formerly been opposed to suffrage, who was now working hard for the amendment...

...BUT WHAT actually happens...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Notes on the Suffrage Campaigns in the West ACCOMPANYING Mr...

...If she has an important work to do, why should she not have the tools...

...WE DID...

...Can you say what it was that that woman picked up out of her city tenement and bore away to the cottage in the country...

...Let those answer who think that the home-maker does not need the ballot...

...He is doing his duty nobly in the battle against unsanitary practices...

...The ideal is that of universal motherhood—all the women being responsible that every child is loved, cared for, and given a fair chance...

...Even those who think they so believe would be first to blame a woman for failing to take the baby out in his perambulator...

...After I had made my little talk I suggested to the hostess that she invite each of those present to say something...

...Society says to the young woman, "Since you will probably become a home-maker, you'd better study Domestic Science...

...Then and there she was surrounded and converted and made to see that her duty was just the same as though she knew that she held that balance of power...

...There she finds that flies, which not long since were sporting on manure piles and sputum, are now making merry on the lettuce and raspberries...

...No other firm can point to so many cases of typhoid or so much illness among babies as we can, as a result of our methods...

...Note: Mrs...

...Oregon has had other campaigns for suffrage, and I was impressed with the way all the workers have been drawn together and made to feel the necessity of co-operation, if they were to succeed at the coming election...

...We get them...

...All along the line there were fine groups of interested woman, and there were suffrage luncheons and receptions and other evidences of earnest work and purposeful intention...

...Visit your hospitals...

...Thou bearest mystic records like a scroll, And finger prints of all who passed thy way...

...If we are in the habit of meeting many people casually, it is unreasonable to expect to remember the names of each and every one...

...are the opening lines of a poetic broadside that Judge hurls against the common towel, while Life publishes a letter from "House-Fly and Co., General Dealers in Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria and other Infectious Diseases," in which the writers say in part: "Our firm finds it unnecessary to call the attention of our patrons to Results...

...She is beginning to see that she is responsible for much of the municipal housekeeping...

...A hundred hands are wiped on thee each day...

...And his opportunity is tremendous for there is a health bulletin in almost every state and city ready to copy what he writes...

...Without hesitation, she replied: "If the responsibility of really deciding it was on me, I should be for it, because I know it is right and just and bound to come, only I dread it, and would rather not vote myself...

...It takes intelligence into partnership with it and the two set out to get the external things of home life...

...It demonstrated their poise and preparation...

...My bouquets were cabbages and brickbats and—eggs...

...Where there is no love, there may be a hotel or a boarding house but not a home...