HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
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 Children's...
...Springing out of the International Dry Farming Congress, the Congress of Farm Women is an attempt to meet the needs of women as the parent organization meets those of men...
...Congress of Farm Women ONE ASPECT of the "back to the land movement" in the United States is the recent notable increase in country life conferences, both East and West, says The Survey...
...he does not seem very well...
...Just why it was so difficult to secure the passage of the bill, backed as it was by all the prominent welfare institutions of the country, it is hard to explain...
...Change is costly, inconvenient and wasteful but in it lies the germ of perfection...
...W. Saleeby in Surgery and Society...
...The hobble is dangerous to limb and, some say, to morals but when it goes it will leave behind it a memory of a skirt blissfully light in weight and having no fulness that cannot be accounted for at all times...
...But the chief reforming influence will always be the thought of blessings past and gone...
...Plans have been made for a demonstration at Lethbridge of all varieties of labor-saving home devices, heating, ventilation, and sanitary operating apparatus, improved cooking utensils, and automatic household dairying and farming machinery and implements...
...The old cry "unconstitutional" was of course raised against it, calling forth the rebuke on the floor of the Senate that "the Constitution was not made for hogs alone but for men...
...Just now, if reports are to be believed, we are facing a violent change of fashion...
...Fashions come and fashions go and occasionally one of them in passing leaves behind it a potent memory of comfort, o f convenience, o f beauty or of healthful-ness...
...The round neck, as it appears and disappears, makes us more dissatisfied with the high collar each time it returns to fashion...
...SOW AN ACT and reap a habit...
...It aims to understand more completely the significance of the farm to the life of the nation and the dignity of the position of the farm woman as co-worker in the most potential and far-reaching of the national industries...
...On one line the time between cars has been shortened by half...
...understanding of modern appliances and education in scientific management of work...
...Realizing the increasing complexity of the problems affecting child life arising out of the growth of great industrial centers, the overcrowding of cities with all its attendant ills, earnest-hearted men and women engaged in bettering the condition of the children of the nation have for a long time urged the establishment of some such central agency to gather, classify and distribute accurate information on all subjects relating to the welfare of children...
...We will patiently bear their weight and assume the responsibility for keeping their voluminous folds out of the dirt but they will never be so popular as during the periods of their ascendancy that preceded the hobble...
...Take a seat in a theatre, a car or other public place and you need not worry lest your hobble be in contact with living germs on a dirty floor...
...to increase conservation of energy through intercourse and observation of processes...
...Trail and his Hygeio-Therapeutic College discarded hoops, cut off their skirts and adopted trousers they helped by the very absurdity of their costumes and their self-crucifixion in wearing them to emphasize the filthiness of the fashionable skirt of the time, which in bad weather is said to have spattered mud up to the wearer's knee...
...THE GREATEST GIFT a hero leaves his race is to have been a hero.—George Eliot...
...and we may produce some of them...
...It never resorts to the slow torturing methods that germs employ...
...But if we are to deserve them, and duly benefit by them, and avoid the risk of stoning our prophets, we really must begin to question ourselves soberly as a nation and ask whether, in our present estimates of worth and honour, we are not repeating the ludicrous error of our predecessors, who filled Westminster Abbey with the effigies of warriors and politicians for us to jeer at, and treated their greatest as we treat ours.—C...
...And now a system of ventilation is to be installed in sixty-five new cars that are being built...
...With her corps of trained workers, Miss Lathrop is charged by the law creating the Bureau with the task of investigating and reporting upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, physical degeneracy, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the several states and territories, and such other facts as have a bearing upon the welfare of children...
...You know where it is and that it is safe...
...With the dawn of a new era the parent will say: "Charley has not been very well...
...by floor vents, pass over the heaters under the seats so there will be no chilly drafts on the passengers...
...ONLY YESTERDAY my neighbor said: "I must take Charley out of school...
...John T. Burns...
...I must send him to school more regularly for that is the place where they keep him well...
...Some of the pay-as-you-enter-cars are being rebuilt into pay-within type...
...The hobble is murderous, to be sure, but its methods are humane...
...sow a character and reap a destiny.—Thackeray...
...Fashions will change again and pleats will in their turn go...
...has, in the words of jane ad dams, the ideal qualifications of "executive ability, sympathy, deliberate and sane judgment, combined with years of experience...
...Making Haste Slowly I T IS TOO MUCH to hope that woman's dress will ever be improved by such rapid processes as those which have, during the past few years, transformed children's clothing from hit-or-miss accumulations of dry goods into garments adapted to the needs of growing creatures...
...Fresh air will enter miss julia lathrop, head of the new children's bureau who...
...Alberta...
...The hobble may never return but it has done a beneficent work...
...It has demonstrated the advantages of a skirt that has no more weight than the human frame is prepared to support without protest and no more than the human brain can keep track of without overstrain...
...and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty.—{Lincoln...
...LET US HAVE FAITH that right makes right...
...For years the federal government has been spending enormous sums of money annually in gathering and disseminating information about the diseases of cattle, hogs and horses, but has done nothing to prevent the great waste of child life through preventable diseases, the tragic condition of the children "who need not have become blind," although—to put it on the lowest plane—from the standpoint of national life the child is our most valuable asset...
...there will be giants in days to come...
...Lethbridge...
...THE RACE OF HEROES is not extinct...
...Lift a hobble or near-hobble at one side in going down stairs and you lift it all around...
...One of the newest of these gatherings is the International Congress of Farm Women, which was organized at Colorado Springs last October and is now laying plans for an effective meeting at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada, October 21-25...
...It throws its victims under moving trains or autos and kills them quickly...
...It is not intended in the new work to relieve the states of the duty or the responsibility of dealing with these problems, but rather to gather from different parts of the Union and from the experience of different localities such information as will enable them to deal with them more successfully...
...Great pioneers in medicine and surgery, in statesmanship and literature, are safe in the womb of Time...
...Arthur D. Dean...
...The shirt waist has established a standard of cleanliness...
...Lest we forget," therefore, let us give the hobble its due and impress its good points on our memories: It is easy to carry and it has no ambitions in the direction of street cleaning...
...After months of waiting for the necessary appropriations the federal Children's Bureau, created by act of Congress last April, has at last begun its work...
...Slowly our ideal is forming...
...The system has been approved by the Chicago board of health...
...On another the number of cars greatly increased for the busy hour...
...The secretary-treasurer of the congress is Mrs...
...to further develop the home through conference with authoritative experts on dairy methods, poultry culture, kitchen gardening, improved methods of equipping the home, problems of nutrition, children's welfare, industrial education, including home economics, the increase and proper use of leisure, and the stimulation of social intercourse in rural communities...
...But on the other hand there is little reason to fear that it will ever get stranded, as men's attire has, in the slough of hopeless mediocrity...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Children's Bureau Begins Work WITH LITTLE in the public press to proclaim its importance, a new government bureau was opened in Washington the beginning of September...
...sow a habit and reap a character...
...When the women who came under the influence of Dr...
...It will take time before the results of the work of the new Bureau begin to show but that, after years of agitation, it has at last been established is an event of far-reaching significance...
...Out of many memories the ideal dress will be created...
...In the slow process of creating an ideal dress the recollection of these advantages will play a sure though probably an unrecognized part...
...The objects of the congress as set forth in the constitution are to improve the conditions—financial, physi-al, social and spiritual—of agricultural homes...
...Violent protests against the clumsy, the insanitary and the inartistic help also...
...Fresh Air in Street Cars MARKED IMPROVEMENTS in the Washington street car service have followed the creation of a District railway commission...
...Constant change of style will prevent this disaster...
...The one-piece dress of the present, buttoned in front, is preparing the way for a mighty rebellion against skirts and waists and buttoned backs, when they attempt to come again...
...This organization stands also for a more general state and national support and encouragement of institute and extension work among farm women...
...For the children of to-day will be the citizens of the morrow and work for the welfare of the children is work for the future advancement of the race...
...The director of the new bureau is Miss Julia Lathrop, long a co-worker with Miss Jane Addams at Hull House, for many years a member of the Illinois State Board of Charities, and Vice-president of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, a woman who, in the words of Miss Addams, has the ideal qualifications for the position of "executive ability, sympathy, deliberate and sane judgment combined with years of experience...
...he seems to be pale and sickly...
...The hobble is going out and pleats are coming in...
...Pleats are coming and most of us will wear them...
...You need not be in terror lest the other side is doing service as a floor brush...
Vol. 4 • October 1912 • No. 40
