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...And unless cleanliness is rewarded by increased patronage it cannot compete with those bakeshops whose lack of standards makes cheaper production possible...

...air supply kept free from surface dust contamination Floors, walls, and, ceilings of impervious materials with smooth surfaces, and kept clean...

...Step by step, perhaps with some exaggeration, the result of contamination works out into the next generation...

...She saw not only what the snow-clad mountain ranges above the Columbia see...

...Among the Master Bakers' rules are: Building well lighted in every part with natural light and thoroughly ventilated...

...There arc long stage drives over rough roads in sledges covered in with canvas curtains which shut off every glimpse of outlook from a traveler's curious eyes...

...And thinking is the first step to rightful speech...

...Think of it this spring while "the world is just made-now...

...ample to remove waste and prevent dampness, and kept in good order...

...between the gentle, unresisting dropping of the rain and Relaxing the heavy eyelids, arms and back, and legs...

...In one of the daintiest looking bakeries in a residential neighborhood, a League investigator saw a very dirty man handle one after another of the loaves of bread on the counter...

...A Correction IN THE article on Janet E. Richards which appears in our issue of April 5, the statement was made that Salmon P. Chase was a nephew of Miss Richards' father...

...My criticism is that such means should have been necessary...

...Get the Springtime idea builded into your body...

...Thus defeat, should it again overtake the cause in Michigan, will be robbed of all significance as an expression of the will of the people...

...This article was written before election day.—Editor's Note...

...Try to see the relation between the fragrance of the woodsy violet and Breathing...

...Marie at the extreme northeast of the state, and another from the mining country at the extreme northwest, met a quick response from 1 he Detroit Headquarters...

...The March number is an especially valuable contribution on the subject of bakeries...

...TODAY the yellow crocuses came out...

...It is virgin territory, so far as suffrage propaganda is concerned...

...After brief visits to St...

...Sometimes there are no places for washing the hands and the conditions of the toilets indescribable...

...It is the observation of the Investigating Committee that wherever interest has been manifested by consumers the better class of bakers respond...

...He shows how the government is more concerned with protecting property than health and he indicates above all things the necessity of free discussion in the family so that the children will learn from the parents themselves the dangers of promiscuity...

...But other aspects of the Far West impressed her even more...

...Will the literature you are to send explain them...

...Julian Heath, president of the League, is supervising editor...

...but it shows him one of the most thoughtful of the French dramatists...

...How impressed most of us are with the wonder of the annual springtime...

...Very touching is the response of the women to the suffrage message...

...Spitting and the use of tobacco in the bakery prohibited...

...Her Far West experience dates from 1902, when in preparation for her Industrial History, of the United States she crossed the Continent to see the salmon-fishing of Puget Sound and the Columbia River, the wheat fields, cattle herds and lumber crops of Oregon, the vineyards and orchards of California, the sugar plantations of Hawaii, the canneries and gold-fields of Alaska...

...One woman who complained to a baker that she found a fly in a loaf of bread was good-naturedly told that if it occurred again he would give her another loaf...

...But he had to give up the idea, because buyers were more attracted by the open window display of other bakeshops...

...Of course, we accept it intellectually as an interesting bit of physiology, but it is an intimate fact...

...A health certificate, showing freedom of all employees from skin diseases, tuberculosis, venereal and other contagious diseases...

...The whole silence which cloaks the intimate facts of our sex life must give way to an honest freedom of expression before we can hope for a higher morality founded upon knowledge...

...Or transportation may be by a big farm sledge which hauled the produce to market in the morning, and returns at night with a suffrage party to hold a meeting at the Grange...

...she saw what they remember—the canoe of the Indian, the pirogue of the voyageur, the frail crafts of Lewis and Clark making their way down the swift current to the Pacific, Aster's-trappers paddling their winter catch of skins to the palisaded trading fort, Astoria, at the mouth of the river...

...Sanitary toilets shut off entirely from bakeshop and storage room...

...You can help or hinder the efficiency of the renewing process...

...G. Wells...

...and we are gradually breaking through the crust of convention which bids us be silent about the social diseases...

...It is the cellar side...

...For several weeks she has been in the thick of the campaign in that state...

...Aside from that, Brieux makes throughout a strong plea for certain reforms...

...Machinery, tools, and other equipment so made, installed and used as to facilitate cleanliness and safety...

...but I prefer to believe it is a healthy seeking for the great fundamental truths of sexual health...

...The poet may sing "Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is a day made new," but the scientist says that in our bodies, every moment is a fresh beginning, for all the tissues in the body—the tissues which build bone, nerve-fibre, muscle, are being constantly repaired, made over, renewed...

...Virtually the state is already won for suffrage...

...A few months ago Frank Barkley Copley used it in The Impeachment of President Israels, which is the story of a president who refused to sanction war...

...Its energy, its initiative, the scope of its projects, its buoyant courage, all the big, bold youthfulness of it, command her whole-hearted allegiance...

...A plentiful supply of hot water, convenient and adequate washstands and supplies...

...Thus an hour after a suffrage missionary has alighted from the stage or train, the neighbors are summoned to foregather, and a little band enrolled to circulate literature, put up posters and pass the word along...

...Your body is just making-now, and if it isn't what you want it to be at twenty, see to it that it is at thirty...

...For instance, an attractive sight on a Philadelphia street is the oven room of a large bakery with plate glass windows through which the public can sec the white garbed bakers at work...

...It would be easy to sneer at those who read it, claiming for them merely a morbid interest...

...No propaganda is possible in the time available which can reach sufficiently far and wide...

...The time will come when we will treat many diseases of this sort, with which the play deals, as we treat other contagious diseases: we will then cease to look upon them with shame since they are often caught through innocence and many of their victims have violated no social law but have suffered from ravages none the less...

...But increasing scarcity of domestic help and the growing necessity of light housekeeping in crowded cities makes it inevitable that great numbers of people be supplied with bread and pastry over the counter...

...It is the ubiquitous telephone that allows meetings to be as it were conjured into existence...

...But it is territory ripe for the harvest...

...But the times have changed, if not the men...

...For the suffrage amendment, carried in that state last autumn by a narrow majority and stolen, as is everywhere affirmed, by corrupt maniprdation of the ballot, is to be again submitted on April 7th...

...In summer time a motor replaces the primitive stages and brings almost inaccessible places into easy contact with the centers, while telephone and free rural delivery put dwellers upon lonely farms in constant touch with the big world...

...But as the formality wears off, their sympathy finds expression...

...These all the output of the Mac-millan Publishing Company, are Social Adjtist-ment by Scott Nearing, The Approach to the Social Question by F. G. Peabody, Social Aspects of Christianity by Richard T. Ely...

...THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE theme would seem to be a very popular one with writers just now...

...Driving in from the scattered farms over dark roads and in the nipping cold, they assemble at once in the Grange or the village hall...

...Cats are considered a necessity in cellar bakeries because there are so many mice...

...The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is fast bound in ice and snow, though the season is close on the latter days of March...

...IT SEEMS TO ME entirely just to speak of beauty in matters of scent and taste—to talk not only of beautiful skies and beautiful sounds but of beautiful beer and beautiful cheese.—H...

...Plumbing, drainage, etc...

...Its inhabitants are largely farming folk, living close to nature and with the intimacy of association between men and women which breeds mutual respect and comradeship...

...The drainage is bad, the walls damp, which makes them natural breeding places for vermin...

...It is astonishing the way the men and the women turn out for the suffrage meetings...

...Louis, where she looked up the relics of the fur-traders and the French occupation, Miss Coman set out on her western journey...

...The theme of the play deals with the terrible tragedy which lies in the store of a marriage where the husband has been tainted with a venereal disease and has violated the doctor's injunction not to marry till he is cured...

...Hints to Home-makers FEATHER CAKE (Fool Proof) A friend furnishes this recipe, which she has tested: 3/4 cup sugar 2 level tablespoons butter 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder 1 cup flour 1 egg 1/2 cup sweet milk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla@@@@@@@@@ Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton IT WAS NATURAL that the performance of Brieux's celebrated play Les Avariees', under the English title Damaged Goods, should have attracted considerable attention...

...Ignorance can never be good armor against disease...

...To that end a committee of the League has made an investigation of a large number of bakeries, and in this March number presents all sides of the bakery question...

...The Housewives League lays special emphasis on the responsibility of the individual housekeeper, but at the same time recognizes the great economic changes which have made it necessary for co-operative effort in controlling and correcting conditions, and the League is working out standards for the use of housewives in dealing with bakers...

...Rooms kept free from vermin, and screened against flies...

...In large cities because the rent is cheaper the cellar is the usual location of the small bake-shop, of which there are nearly twenty-five hundred in New York City...

...On the other hand, in the show window of an excellent baker was placed a sign, "Inspection Invited...

...IN THE PROSPECTUS of a course on Social Ethics in the extension series of a western college, there are listed six "books of value" for the student...

...The rain ceased and right before my eyes they blossomed to the sun...

...Some have no windows at all...

...When we once learn to speak of things they lose their horror...

...The Spirit of the Age and The Northern Peninsula of Michigan By ELIZABETH GLENDOWER EVANS (When the call came from Michigan for speakers, one of the first leaders to respond was Mrs...

...Evans, who had participated in the campaign and pageant at Washington...

...Respond to the spring in different aspects...

...though it is a sad commentary upon our modesties and conventions that the facts of life must be sneaked upon our stage...

...I just long to vote," says some one else...

...Morality cannot be enforced by law...

...It is a biting and terrible conclusion which the author paints of mock modesty and timidity that prevents a dissemination of the facts which life itself must inevitably present sooner or later...

...The country was her document...

...There were nine women in the store and not one protested...

...THE SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN which was recently waged in Washington has shifted to Michigan...

...Still another instance of the indifference of the consumer cited by the investigating committee was where the baker had ordered glass covers for the top of his counter and also his window exhibits...

...if it isn't at fifty, see that it is at sixty...

...But every favorable vote to be had is needed to offset the hostile majorities sure to be polled in saloon-ridden centers...

...Even in rural communities it has always seemed to me that the establishment of co-operative bakeries and laundries in connection with creameries is a natural solution to the lightening of housework on the farm...

...And it is along this line that Brieux' play points...

...Paul, where she had interesting talks with lumber and railroad magnates, and to St...

...And victory at this election is chiefly to be desired for the impetus it will give to the cause in other states, Springtime in Our Bodies By GYWNETH KING ROE "Spring in the world...

...Employees of bakeries to be properly clothed in clean, sanitary garments...

...It would be idle to claim for this play the same power and quality which lies in his Blanchette or La Roube Rouge for example...

...Positively unreal it seemed—and poetic...

...Everything possible was done to stimulate interest in its performance by having it produced under the auspices of The Medical Review and making all of the spectators members of a club...

...And now Katrina Trask comes forward with her play In the Vanguard, which deals in an entirely differ-ent fashion with the same subject...

...For the action of the Assembly submitting the suffrage and the other amendments is very recent, and large numbers of voters, it is everywhere said, have no knowledge that any issue beyond their local elections is before them...

...but through subjective education we can reach for the ideal home relation where the wish for children of health may be born...

...These leagues, it is planned, will be permanent...

...The libraries," Professor Bates says, "that served Miss Coman best in her study were the Crerar Library of Chicago epecially good for the Mississippi Valley, and the Bancroft collection, that treasure of original journals, in the library of the University of California...

...Nor should the efficient housewife in her pride and satisfaction assume that the bakery problem can never concern her...

...The investigation demonstrated that they were very careless about spitting...

...Ponder over it, and see if it doesn't seem to you an obligatory fact...

...and in this sparsely settled country, houses are found equipped with white tiled bath rooms and steam heat...

...Brieux is primarily concerned with social problems, and while the reformer in him often hinders the artist, still he is a force for tremendous good...

...A recent medical examination of eight hundred bakery workers shows that pulmonary disorders are frequent and that mortality among this class of bakers is very high...

...Whatever may be the means of travel, at the end of every journey is a welcome at some hospitable hearth, and men and women such as must have dwelt in New England when the farmers faced the British red coats at Lexington and Bunker Hill...

...Set free from academic routine in 1908 by that blessed institution, the Sabbatical year, again Miss Coman gladly struck the trail for the Pacific coast...

...That is the earnest message of the whole discussion...

...But today it came over me quite suddenly that wonderful as is the renewal of this old world yearly, it is not more marvelous than the perpetual springtime in ourselves—not in our hearts, I mean, but in our bodies...

...This play is obtainable in an English version published by Brentano (New York), and I understand it has had a very remarkable sale...

...For all the characters—father, husband and the other victims—"did not know...

...But libraries were, in a sense, the least of it...

...Even in small communities children often patronize bake shops...

...It was several thousand years before we found this out but the process has gone on since the time of man, and it continues in the life of each human being for- not just twenty, thirty or forty years, but as long as the human being lives...

...There arc still many households where women are able to do their own baking as they do their own laundry at home...

...We seem to have set our minds so firmly on the necessity of the steady decline of the body that there is no room left for the great fact of renewal...

...and when the vote is won, they will turn to other forms of civic activity...

...At first they may sit blank and unresponsive, till it seems as if the seed had fallen upon barren ground...

...While in the cities, which are strongholds of the enemy, every hostile vote can be delivered...

...But the hopeful side was that two or three capacity houses sat through the play with absorbing interest...

...Few of these bakeries are effectively screened, and flies from street sweepings and garbage cans visit the dough...

...This journey, as Professor Bates relates, took Miss Coman all over the West, not only over the well trod ways, but into the bypaths in which so frequently many interesting items bearing on the early history of this country were found hidden away...

...it ought to be a reassuring and inspiring fact...

...Was ever such responsiveness in the world before...

...Born and bred in Ohio, a graduate of Michigan University, Miss Coman, through all her long service to Wellesley College as professor of history and then of economics, has never lost her love and comprehension of the West...

...Ventilation is absent, as well as light...

...And all things are made new...

...Such men are natural believers in equal suffrage...

...But there is an awakening all over the country and this play will no doubt do much to force people to think...

...Literary Notes KATHARINE LEE BATES gives in the Boston Transcript an interesting account of the growth of Miss Coman's new book, Economic Beginnings of the Far West...

...I have always believed in equal suffrage," says one...

...The standards set by the National Association of Master Bakers at their last annual convention were so high that they were adopted by the Consumers' League of Massachusetts which has done remarkable work in improving the standards of bakers in that slate...

...The proprietor complained that in two months less than five women had asked to go into the baking rooms...

...Misery and Its Causes by Edward T. Devine, The New Basis of Civilization by S. N. Patten and Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams...

...The air is hot, stifling, and foul...

...This is more to me than joining a church," says another...

...As I have said, when we will all be able to overcome our inherited feeling of reticence we will then have a better heritage of protection to give the children with which to fight the world...

...Missionaries who invade this little traveled section must be prepared to take life as they find it...

...It is not great drama at any point but, save for some Gallic sentiment, it is gripping to a degree...

...You said it was "all made but the settling at forty" but you were mistaken...

...This is an error...

...And how about those other amendments, the initiative and the referendum...

...The distinguished statesman and jurist was own cousin to Miss Richards' mother...

...If the public docs not care whether it gets clean bread or not, the baker cannot afford to be clean, for cleanliness costs money...

...There is a very dark side...

...Where there is no contest for office, as is frequently the case, the country vote is bound to stay at home...

...The eugenic ideals which are beginning to exert such a dominating influence in the better types of marriage can only find an outlet where the two people concerned voluntarily offer up the facts of their physical health to each other and use wisdom to keep their passion beautiful...

...And suffragists who recently assembled from many sections of the country for the occasion of the Washington parade, have since transferred their activities to this debatable state of the Middle West...

...And last autumn, unsolicited, they rolled up a handsome suffrage majority...

...between the pushing upward of the tulips to the sun and Stretching setness or oldness out of the body by reaching toward the skies...

...I want to understand it all.'' Nevertheless, in spite of the hundreds and thousands of votes to be had in upper Michigan for the asking, there is grave danger that this spring they will not be delivered...

...It rained and the thin buds lifted themselves out of the ground...

...IN STRIKING CONTRAST is the modern up-to-date bakery...

...mad then, as our young people migrate to the ties, they are obliged to adapt themselves to ty conditions...

...Hence an appeal from an unsuspected sympathizer in Sault Ste...

...The Industrial History was no sooner off her hands than the urgency of this new book was upon her...

...There is little natural sunlight in any of them...

...IT IS up to the consumer to uphold these standards...