HOME AND EDUCATION

...To be trained wisely in body, mind and spirit...

...The age of school attendance is the proper time to establish sound hygienic views...

...It stultifies the whole democratic principles of civil service, and in pursuance of such reasoning national, state, and municipal politics have sacrificed worth, principle and public welfare...

...It is, to be sure, a cumbersome, inefficient method of furnishing secretarial and clerical assistance...

...The struggle against alcoholism is also a factor of immense importance...

...When Ave have conquered ourselves, we have conquered all.—C...

...but it would be truer to call them 'familienzertrummerer' (family destroyers...

...Only a few civilized countries have so far introduced hygienic instruction into popular education...

...The husband, too, should have a knowledge of diet, that he may hold the proper views on the question...

...The problem, too, be comes complicated to the householder of small means by reason of the costliness of timber and labor...

...Wick-liffe's qualifications through study, investigation, or service, which would allow her to compete meritoriously with Miss Lathrop for a position of such vital importance to the nation, and as women we will not by silence be particeps criminis in allowing partisan politics to remove from office a woman whose attainments for the position of head of the Children's Bureau are those possessed by Miss Lathrop...

...In the cities, small expenses for luxury and pleasure mount up very fast, while in the country there is usually no chance to spend the income foolishly...

...IT IS MORE from carelessness about truth thau from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.—Johnson...

...I should think that one would be enough...

...To have a fair chance in life...

...Its membership has been increased from five to nine, the majority of whom favor votes for women, Charles F. Thomas of Colorado being its Chairman...

...H. Spurgeon...

...Suburban Life...

...H. Lockwood...

...It is a question of great moment affecting the future of the nation...

...Three...

...The present head of the Children's Bureau, Miss Julia Lathrop, the appointee of President Taft, is a woman whose research and service in child study for the last twenty-five years have made her a recognized authority as child expert in every organization, national and international, dealing with conditions affecting the industrial, social, moral, and physical welfare of the child...

...In many cities of Europe the advantage taken of the financially weaker middle classes, and of working people, by real estate speculators and building and loan associations, by high rents, and by hindrance of city development, has become a public calamity...

...In thousands of families there would be adequate nutrition if the wife knew how to manage things...

...These are impressive facts,—facts that amply justify a vitalized Senate committee.—N...

...Childhood's Bill of Rights Every child has the inalienable right: To be born right...

...N. Bramham...

...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Women Uphold Civil Service Principle BEFORE President Wilson was inaugurated I heard some gossip among congressional women that the widow of a Democratic congressman (who recently met a tragic death in Washington...

...Frequently this home is not occupied by him alone, part of the space being rented to strangers...

...To have his individuality- respected...

...They are useless appendages...

...But I was mistaken, for it now seems there are a number of candidates who, pro-ceeding on the theory of the old spoils system, are assuming there will be a change for political reasons and are strenuously seeking this office...

...How can you find employment for three servants...

...IDLENESS AND PRIDE tax with a heavier hand than Kings and Parliaments...

...Their futility is suggested by some of the names...

...H. D. * * * The Nutrition of the People II EXTRACT from an address delivered before the International Health Congress in Washington, D. C, September, 1912, by Max Rubner, Professor of Physiology and Director of the Physiological Institute, Berlin, Germany...

...for, not to mention the housing conditions, it is there much easier to obtain cheap and healthful food, and the workmen could even raise some of their own food supplies...

...We always have one coming, one going and one there...

...This is true not only in the poorer classes, but is generally true...

...Often it happens that both husband and wife work in the factory, and thus only supper can be taken at home...

...From the roof was suspended a swing, and trunks were piled under the window and on one side of the room, and covered with burlap, to form broad benches upon which the children could arrange their toys and play the ever-delightsome game of "tea party...

...EVERY REAL THOUGHT on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.— Oliver Wendell Holmes...

...Aside from providing places on the roll for employees, these minority committees have no significance...

...The proposal to give women the right of suffrage through a constitutional amendment is becoming a question of constantly growing importance, "says Senator Thomas...

...The wife must know how to manage the income...

...Whatever the meaning of the President's announced policy of leaving administrative matters to the heads of departments, it cannot apply to the retention of Miss Lathrop...

...An increased income may lead to improvement of nutrition, but the considerations which arise here do not belong to hygiene...

...BELOVED, our sorrows grow at the roots of our self-will...

...The means of procuring nourishment are thus greatly limited...

...For this the foundation must be laid in schools...

...It is pre-supposed that no legislation will be forthcoming to which they bear any relevancy...

...If there could be any doubt as to what the Secretary of Labor will do—and I have every confidence that he would desire her to remain—the country will hold the President responsible...

...It would be a great improvement if the factories were not built in or near cities, but in the country...

...They exist in the congressional directory only...

...The Servant Problem "How many servants have you at your little home...

...In the countries and cities where rents are very high, the working man must live in quarters so congested that he cannot speak of a home or of family life, and in consequence the workingman pays long and frequent visits to the saloon, merely to escape his own uncomfortable dwelling...

...In Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Dakota, amendments are now before the voters...

...The center of the unfinished attic was inclosed on each side by walls of light brown burlap, and the same material was employed to cover the rough surface of side walls around the door and windows...

...It is unbelievable how foolishly small means are often spent...

...The clerks and messengers to these supposed committees constitute the office staff of Senators and Members of the House...

...In most cases hygienic teaching is furnished only in portions of text books on other subjects...

...Nobody needs such instruction more than the wife of the workingman, especially those girls who, early in life undertake factory work, and early become wives and mothers, without the least knowledge or experience in domestic management or in the care of children...

...Instruction in domestic management must inevitably become a required study for young girls...

...Millions of people could be well nourished if they could cease spending enormous sums for alcohol, for the expenditure of ten to twenty per cent...

...of the income for alcohol is unhappily, not rare...

...Of great value would be the establishment of cheap restaurants which would furnish the working man really nutritious food for the noonday lunch which he must eat away from home...

...There is, for example, the Committee on the "Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments," and the once famous "Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics...

...The agricultural worker in the service of the great land owners is not so favorably situated as the independent farmer, but he is better off than the workingman of his class in the cities...

...To be loved...

...Such an education—it must again and again be said—is only possible when the elementary schools become a vehicle of hygienic knowledge...

...It is but another expression of 'to the victor belongs the spoils' at any cost or at any sacrifice...

...The object of its existence was to furnish office attaches to its chairman...

...These ruthless speculators, who transform dwelling houses gradually into one room dwellings are commonly called 'wohnungszer-trummerer' (house destroyers...

...The Era Club of New Orleans well expresses the sentiment of the country in resolutions protesting against the appointment of any one in Miss Lathrop's place...

...Thousands of families are not able to procure dwelling space with a kitchen, and must eat outside the house, thus incurring greater expense...

...In many cases want of knowledge on the part of the wife is the cause of poor nutrition...

...If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the latter.—Benjamin Franklin...

...As Louisianians we are not aware of Mrs...

...The principle involved endorses the worst evil of partisan politics...

...Surely such a thing will not be considered seriously, 1 thought...

...When once imbued with false opinions it is very difficult to free the mind of children from wrong views, and on this account it is most important to begin with this instruction in the elementary schools...

...And in Maine, Wisconsin, Missouri, Pennsylvania, the question of equal suffrage is before the legislatures...

...The United States Senate and Woman Suffrage IN ORDER to provide office assistance for Senators and Members of Congress, which can be provided only through committee appointments, there exists a number of inactive or what are characterized "minority" congressional committees...

...It is now a "majority" committee...

...In considering the underlying causes of insufficient nutrition of the people, we do not reach the idea that hunger is always knocking at the working man's door...

...For this is not an administrative matter...

...They are never called together for the consideration of legislation...

...Using the Attic FEW people realize the possibilities of an attic save as a place in which to store trunks and trash...

...I simply mention the cheapening of food stuffs by tariff reduction, elimination of the middleman, the workings of trusts, and importation by consumers' associations...

...We, therefore, as women, refuse to stand idly by, and allow without protest this new department of the national government in the interest of the child, to be exploited in the interest of partisan politics...

...One family solved the problem, so far as a playroom was concerned, by stretching burlap from one upright to another in the center of half an attic, divided from the other half by a hallway...

...Hints to Home-makers EGOLESS WAFFLES A friend furnishes this recipe, which she has tested: 1 pint flour 1 pint buttermilk, or 3/4 piut clabber 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon melted lard Beat ail together till perfectly smooth...

...We see evil social conditions which lead to insufficient food conditions rather than an utter inability to procure sufficient food and often the cause does not belong to food physiology...

...it must be hard and long as success depends on it...

...In a way the appointment of a member of the cabinet could not be of more vital interest to the American people...

...For hundreds of thousands of families, therefore, domestic hygiene necessitates a solution of the food problem...

...It would have served its purpose equally well under any other name...

...She must know the food materials, and their nutritive value, and how to produce good and nourishing food...

...In the recent reorganization of the Senate, however, this committee becomes an actuality...

...They are responsible for a great deal of hygienic misery in great cities, though no attempt is made to stop their piratical business...

...It makes an enormous difference whether people have to spend one-tenth or one-fourth of their income for rent...

...I have taken the Chairmanship of this Committee because I believe I can do some effective work for the extension of suffrage to the women of the country...

...To be protected from evil persons and influences...

...was a candidate for the position now held by Julia Lathrop, Chief of the Children's Bureau...

...Unfinished beams and flooring spaces of sloping roof and high windows, discourage the possessor of an attic from trying to do anything with it...

...Cleveland Plain Dealer...

...IT IS TIME to tell the truth.—Coleridge...

...Just before you are ready to put batter on the irons add 1 level teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon hot water.—E...

...Its purpose was not the consideration of any possible legislation looking toward the enfranchisement of women...

...Housekeeping schools must be the means of solving problems of nutrition...

...In this list of fictitious committees for years has been placed the Committee on Woman Suffrage...

...As was aptly suggested by a distinguished Senator, a Committee on the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel, or on Prehistoric Man, or on the Relics of a Paleozoic Age, would have as much meaning...

...You surprise me...

...In the cities the food question is also complicated with the housing question, especially rents, for housing and food arc the most important items in domestic economy...

...In Iowa, New Jersey, and New York, where constitutional amendments are required, favorable action has been taken by one legislature...

...In Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona, women are already enfranchised...