HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real teat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts ta the crodle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT "The Wisconsin...
...The corn has grown very fast since the tassels came out...
...Part Three— Government;—Legislative, Executive, Judiciary, Nation and State...
...Pour this sauce over the chicken and oysters, cover and heat in a moderate oven one-half hour...
...She dedicates it to the enfranchisement of the women of Wisconsin...
...Add the dry flour, and stir quickly till well mixed...
...Miss Hunt and I have said so much on this subject of better standards and greater thoughtfulness in Christmas shopping that I fear our readers will think we have not a true appreciation of the beautiful sentiment back of it or of the great joy it may bring...
...But it is only against the excesses and evils that destroy the spirit of happiness, peace and good will, that is the essence of the blessing of this precious time, that we protest...
...So papa spoke to Mr...
...Let it boil, and stir well as it thickens...
...tip the saucepan slightly to keep the sauce from sticking...
...I planted my corn on this year's plowed sod, plowed 9 inches deep...
...She does not claim the book to be scholarly, but offers it in the spirit of service and in the belief that whether suffrage comes or not, it will interest intelligent women...
...we weave a thread of it every day and at last we cannot break it—Horace Mann...
...c. l.) I HAVE READ with much interest and admiration, and if not with profit it is my fault, Miss Tarbell's "The Business of Being a Woman" which has appeared within the year in the American Magazine...
...San Francisco, California...
...Then he cultivated it with a common potato cultivator...
...1/2 saltspoonful pepper...
...Put the butter in a granite saucepan, and stir until it melts and bubbles...
...The Wisconsin Voter's Primer...
...A Political Primer for the New Voter, by Bessie Beatty...
...JUSTICE is the fundamental virtue of Social Life— Davidson...
...Cook the oysters in their own liquor until edges curl...
...The clear and simple style in which the book is written, the admirable arrangement by chapters and by topics make it intelligible to every one capable of exercising the franchise...
...Nightly we declaim against it while body and spirit are buffeted about...
...We declaim some three hundred or more times a year...
...One of the most obvious and objectionable phases of irregular employment is that incident to Holiday shopping...
...To about five cups of chicken use one pint of oysters...
...Delwhich about it...
...Manured well before it was plowed...
...I tried to plant it with a corn planter but it wouldn't work and so I had to plant it with a hoe...
...let it boil up and thicken, and stir vigorously till perfectly smooth...
...A Political Primer for the New Voter" ANOTHER LITTLE BOOK of broader scope but like intent, entitled A Political Primer for the New Voter,* is by Bessie Beatty, a young California writer...
...Miss Tarbell has done a real service in speaking plainly of foibles and shortcomings, nor does this exposition prevent her or others from being helpful, in person or by means of an organization, to others who are less fortunately situated than she is...
...It was an A. B. C. statement of elementary facts in state and national government...
...M. Fay Coughlin, the author, explains that when the women of California were enfranchised they immediately began to ask for civic education, in order that they might be not only conscientious but also an intelligent electorate...
...Address, M. Fay Coughlin, Political Equality League, 516 Colby-Abbott Building...
...8. I planted it on a rainy day...
...1/2 teaspoonful salt...
...This is infinitely essential, when, as in our case, people either govern themselves or at least are supposed to govern themselves...
...The largest and highest of the corn is now (August) about 9 feet high...
...Miss Beatty vivifies these familiar subjects and brings them home by her fresh comment and original observation...
...Howe's conclusion as to the essential inconsistency of Miss Tarbell's position, I am glad to publish the following sincere and thoughtful communication which presents the other side.—b...
...The best that we can secure is standing room in the spacious aisle between...
...My Prize Corn By J. MILLS SMITH (Ten Years Old) ONE NIGHT we saw a piece in the paper that the Superintendent of the Experiment Farm was going to give a prize to the corn raised the best by boys from ten to sixteen years old...
...the Handbook furnished this information in compact and convenient form...
...Be careful not to brown it...
...Milwaukee...
...After a little while the corn began to show tassels and it wasn't long before there were a lot of tassels...
...So much of the tawdry and useless is bought at random that it is impossible to estimate the waste and extravagance of Christmas shopping...
...Christmas Shopping IN THE classic theme, which appeared in last" week's La Follette's by Louis D. Brandeis, entitled "Business—The New Profession," he says, "Irregularity of employment is the worst and most extended of industrial evils...
...let it boil, and when smooth add the salt and the pepper, using more if high seasoning be desired.—The Boston Cook Book...
...Heat the milk over hot water...
...He says, in part: "Miss Beatty, whose work for human rights, and whose realizing sense of democracy are known and appreciated far beyond the boundaries of the Golden State, has performed a distinguished public service by the publication of this book...
...We got one quart of corn...
...Whitaker & Ray-Wig gin Co...
...The contents of the little volume are: Part One—Citizenship;—"Our Relation to Law," "Citizenship and Registration," "Naturalization," "Elections," "Other Duties of Citizenship," "History of Our Political Parties...
...Sent Postpaid for 50 Cents...
...E. G. * * * A Delicious Dish ONE Sunday evening we were invited to a good supper at which the principal and only hot dish was a delicious combination of creamed chicken and oysters...
...For instance, she says, "In a country governed by the people there is small excuse for injustice, or even inconvenience...
...While prepared with the intention of furnishing women needed political information, I observed that an old experienced politician, after looking the little document through, pronounced it a handy book for reference...
...Fourth of July we had a hard rain and it made my corn tip over, and so I had to straighten it up...
...Note: Last week this department was favored by a short, keen analysis of Ida Tarbell's book, "The Business of Being a Woman," contributed by Marie Jenney Howe...
...As is natural in a book written by a woman, there is special but not undue emphasis placed upon the political and legal status of women...
...You have to clear the deck for action before you can do constructive work to advantage, and nothing helps so much in a sincere effort for improvement as to understand the situation clearly, to see what one's shortcoming's are and what the ends to work for...
...The diagnosis has been made clearly and unsparingly and that way of reform pointed out which of all methods is the most thorough-going and at the same time the most hum-drum and unpleasant, the reform which begins at home with the individual...
...Yet how often we board a crowded street car at the end of a hard day's work and find that the narrow seats along the sides of the car are filled...
...the practical information they wanted was scattered through the Constitution, blue books, and election laws...
...In the aggregate, great armies of young girls are temporarily employed in this period of over stimulated trade...
...Steam or boil two chickens (may use part veal) cut in dice...
...Congressman William Kent has written so perfect an appreciation of its value in his introduction that any attempt to review it is quite needless...
...It was Wisconsin No...
...Pour on one-third of the milk...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT "The Wisconsin Voter's Primer" WHEN I PICKED UP casually a slim little volume, entitled A Voters' Hand Book for California,* in a San Francisco book store last spring, I was at once interested and bought a copy...
...The hostess wrote the recipe for me as follows...
...Ashland, Wisconsin...
...The ears are growing big and there are many ears coming and the stalks are very high...
...The experience they get is bad training for serious work and is apt to leave them unsettled and looking for jobs until the next season of shopping dissipation arrives...
...Part Two—Progressive Legislation;—"Progressive Measures," "Legal Status of Women," "Economic Theories...
...The volume is exactly what it claims to be—a Primer of Citizenship—clearly outlining the powers and limitations of State and National authority...
...It contains maps of the assembly, senatorial, and congressional districts, which are helpful for reference, especially in view of our recent reapportionment...
...yet concerted action once a year with the ballot, crystallizing our protest into law would place the straphangers in comfortable seats...
...1 pint milk (or half milk and half white stock...
...Then I went down town to his office and got the corn to plant...
...Then it kept on growing very fast...
...Her outline covers a much wider field than this and will easily include it when the time comes, as it seems to me sure to do in the course of development...
...The ears are growing fast and are beginning to lop over...
...One seldom agrees with every detail of another's point of view but it has seemed to me, on the whole, the most fundamental and practical discussion of the subject that I have seen...
...HABIT is a cable...
...I think she expresses herself somewhere as not caring particularly whether growth and improvement come with or without "Votes for Women...
...Be sure that all the lumps are rubbed out while it is in this thick state...
...This, if I mistake not is the method also, recommended to mankind by the founder of Christianity...
...Make a white sauce with two cups of milk, using the chicken fat as a basis instead of butter...
...Planted in hills 3x3 and three to five grains in a hill...
...I hoed it every time the weeds came up...
...But disloyal, no,—not unless the friend who tells you unpleasant truths is disloyal...
...It never occurred to me while reading these articles that Miss Tarbell was betraying women or holding them up to ridicule...
...The first time I hoed it I was so tired...
...2 tablespoonfuls butter...
...Then add the remainder of the milk...
...All who are interested in the great problems of the individual and of society, must first of all obtain a knowledge of the structure and functions of the government under which they live...
...2 heaping tablespoonfuls flour...
...What is Loyalty...
...Recently Miss Coughlin has prepared The Wisconsin Voter's Primer...
...The first corn came up in five days...
...The transitory nature of "novelties" and the great number of things prepared for Christmas trade, must also cause irregular employment in manufacture...
...When the corn came up it looked very nice and healthy...
...Papa's boy cultivated it with the spike tooth cultivator...
...Honest criticism is helpful...
...The silk is growing very fast and prospects of a good crop...
...While personally I agree with Mrs...
...White Sauce (for vegetables, chicken, eggs, etc...
...To be sure she makes the business of being a woman such a strenuous one, both in the home and out of it, so exacting of time and strength, of thought and sympathy, that there doesn't seem any room left for political activity until we get caught up somewhat with our present possibilities...
...Add to the chicken in a dish suitable for baking and serving...
...The least experience in politics teaches the value of having such a little document at hand...
...Add another third of the milk...
Vol. 4 • November 1912 • No. 48
