HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE In Washington AN INVITATION to dine with home folks in Washington is valued above all other social occasions. So it was with rare pleasure...
...Nourse at the age of eighty learned to paint on china and until her death at the age of ninety-one, she painted and sold china that she might give money to this church...
...The fine old gray house stands on high ground near the outskirts of the city opposite Friendship, the well-known country home of John E. McLean...
...Albans, where a great Episcopal cathedral is now in process of construction, the corner stone of which was laid in September, 1907, the Bishop of London attending the ceremonies...
...THE HIGHLANDS MANOR house was built in 1826 on a large estate, of which twenty-two acres now remain, by Charles Joseph Nourse, an officer in the United States Army, who resigned and accepted the position as chief clerk in the War Department...
...The purpose of the family life was not to secure soldier-like obedience...
...But a broad outlook and full understanding of large questions complement the domestic side of her character...
...The kindly old men with their garrulous talcs Who delighted to doze by the hearth, The honest old fellous with wrinkles and pipes, White-bearded, the salt of the earth...
...The house was occupied by the family until 1908...
...Carleton is nine, Thomas about seven, Sylvia five...
...Pour members of the Nourse family lived to be over ninety years of age and three to over eighty...
...Meyer is of New England stock...
...Prom the first they had given their children freedom and let them learn to use it...
...Meyer is of German parentage...
...Mrs...
...If this is so it forms a direct contradiction to the constant cry of the anti-suffragists to the effect that women do not want to vote...
...Recreation Congress THE Annual Meeting of the Recreation Congress will be held at Richmond, Virginia, May 6 to 10, 1913...
...the solution of our tremendous national transportation question...
...There are some large, quaint pieces of mahogany furniture that belong to the house, and Mrs...
...The great wistaria vine on the back porch is probably among the oldest in America...
...When La Payette was in the United States in 1824, ho expressed a wish to be entertained by Mrs...
...She thought it a great mistake for parents to demand respect, as though they were themselves faultless...
...Meyer to tell me the secret of her training...
...Meyer is a splendid type of the practical scholar...
...Meyer,—all of us alumni of the Wisconsin State University and residents of Madison...
...The Grandfathers WE'RE all of us loudly bewailing the fact That the grandmothers, gentle and gray, With their silver-bowed spectacles, aprons and caps, Have utterly vanished away...
...We have taught our children chiefly by conversations...
...The aggregate results accomplished in this field are striking...
...Nourse and named Sunday as his only free day...
...She said she had always felt strongly that a child's life should be development rather than discipline...
...In their places are well-preserved matrons in styles Distressingly giddy and new, With tresses that show not a glimmer of snow— But where are the grandfathers, too...
...Meyer's voluntary public statement of his position on equal suffrage was of great value in the Wisconsin campaign...
...They were perfectly natural, and without self-consciousness,—apparently upon a true basis of equality...
...A native of Wisconsin, Dr...
...As professor, he gave years of research to the transportation and public utilities problem in this and foreign countries...
...Meyer very kindly consented to give our readers the snap shots which she herself took of Highlands Manor (which she had done so much to restore and make homelike), together with a sketch of some of its historical personal associations...
...The old house has large wall spaces, and Mrs...
...where are the grandfathers, too...
...But he would not leave his chair in our great University, except to go on the Wisconsin Railway Commission when it was first created, where he felt he was called to a larger public service...
...When the children called for the favorite record, "Morning in Noah's Ark," their father laughed heartily and seemed to enjoy with them the incongruous music, as I noticed they had enjoyed with him the Sextette from Lucia...
...So it was with rare pleasure we spent an evening recently with Interstate Commerce Commissioner and Mrs...
...An expert who understood all the tricks of the trade was called in to make a cake of this singularly untoothsome collection of refuse...
...No German hausfrau could be more devoted to her home and children and to the sweet German customs and traditions...
...Some of the delegates in past years have come from the Philippines, Hawaii, Ireland, England, and even from China...
...His renown brought him offers of more remunerative positions...
...The worst materials obtainable were bought, the eggs especially being so far gone that it seemed beyond the power of human ingenuity to mask or disguise either the smell or taste of them...
...We think it essential for their best development that they should be much in the company of their parents, who can answer their questions correctly and teach them naturally, as opportunities arise...
...or educational, as in freedom to acquire an education...
...there was no sense of the children being on their good behavior, either...
...The original kitchen in the basement of the house has a brick floor and a huge fireplace with a swinging crane...
...For instance, imagine the effect upon your child's delicate little stomach of a bakery jelly roll in which the cake is made with alum baking powder and the jelly is a mixture of glucose, colored with coal tar dyes and flavored with synthetic ether...
...Slow The Learned Professor—You know, Mrs...
...But, however the palate may be tricked, the human system as a whole, suffers pretty serious consequences from the poisonous stuff that is forced upon it...
...They live at Highlands Manor, more generally known as the Nourse place, on Wisconsin Avenue...
...The wistaria was introduced into America from Japan by a relative of the Nourse family named Wistar (also spelled Wister) and named for himself...
...The children are much interested in the weaving and in the vegetable dyeing of yarns with materials gathered outdoors...
...It is said that one reason for the unanimous vote in favor of woman suffrage was the desire on the part of the Alaskan Legislators to attract more women to the territory as the settlers need wives...
...This is not at all uncommon and the roll tastes particularly good...
...I begged Mrs...
...The large purpose of the Recreation work is to secure a more wholesome use of leisure time for young and old in America...
...THE GENERAL PURPOSE of intercourse is to get as close as one can to the realities of the people one meets and to give oneself to them just so far as possible.—H...
...Analysis shows that it originated in the dye pot...
...We buy a yellow sponge cake in which the beautiful color appears to come from the eggs...
...There are plenty of bald-headed sports with cigars, 'Auto cars, and fur coats, it is true, But while we lament for the grandmothers gone, Oh...
...Bloogs, it seems a shame to take your boy away from school at such an early age...
...It is done with home spun yarns on cotton warp, the warp threads being covered, as in all hand-woven tapestry...
...G. Wells...
...At the end of each of these rooms there is a large old-fashioned fire place, so that standing in the single doorway that connects them you have the impression of duplicate rooms...
...Two years ago, for the same reason, he accepted an appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission where his great ability and equipment are contributing to...
...The box bushes in the yard grew from sprigs in a bouquet given by Thomas Jefferson to one of the ladies of the family...
...and Mrs...
...or ethical, as in freedom to decide on one's line of action in the light of his conscience...
...The beautiful front door opens into a rectangular hall, the dining room on the right, library on the left, and directly in front are two single doors opening into two long spacious parlors...
...Every effort is being made to bring together the recreation leaders from all parts of America...
...I myself didn't finish my school education until I was nineteen...
...Nearly all bakers' pies and cake contain ben-zoate of soda and artificial coloring.—Housewives League Magazine...
...When the cake was done and tasted gingerly by the experimenters they found to their utter amazement that in appearance, texture and taste, it was as irreproachable as any cake they had ever eaten...
...She declined, believing that it was not right to give a party on Sunday...
...or economic, as in freedom in economic contracts...
...Many people consider that St...
...Bloogs—Well, some children is quicker at pickin' up things than others.—Punch...
...DEMOCRACY may be religious, as in freedom of worship...
...All of these rights are and ought to be subject to reasonable regulation, but they unitedly are best guaranteed to the individual when he has a ballot in his hand and thereby can aid in determining the amount and the kind of regulation to which he is subjected.—James Quayle Dealey...
...Albans is a monument to the Nourse family...
...Not once did I hear the father or mother say, "don't...
...Other members of the Nourse family aided in building up St...
...or familial, as in freedom to contract marriage by mutual consent...
...In Boston the expenditure last year for play centers, swimming pools, park recreation and all other forms of recreation, amounted to more than $1,000,000...
...Meyer have rare comradeship with their children...
...A Scotch "upper servant," a trusted member of the household, also lived to be over ninety...
...Meyer has learned the art of making the Norwegian tapestry, which fits into their adornment beautifully...
...In summer the Meyers go to their place on the Brule in northern Wisconsin...
...His lectures and writings made him the highest authority on the subject...
...Forty-three cities joined the recreation movement, this past year...
...At the same time he is experimenting with the suggestions of the University agricultural department for the best development of the wild northern land stripped of its timber...
...The Tenth Star By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ ALASKA, more than twice as large as any state in the Union with resources so great as to ensure its future makes the tenth star on the woman suffrage flag...
...Mrs...
...Albans church...
...Meyer has furnished throughout in keeping, except that now and then there is a mingling of the modern with the old,—as, for instance, a Victrola next to an antique piano...
...Hints to Home-makers BREAKFAST POOD (Original) A reader contributes the following: 5 cups water 1 cup white corn meal 1 cup health bran 1/2 teaspoonful salt Thoroughly cooked, makes a palatable and healthful and economical food...
...Here the professor digs the stumps, mows the grass, milks the cows, like the practical pioneer farmer...
...A ready-made frosting, used by many bakers, is composed of glucose, glycerine, coal tar and synthetic ether...
...They had dinner with us and spent the early evening in the parlor...
...How We Are Fooled IN ORDER to prove the validity of the claim that taste is no guide to the presence of ingredients that are unfit for human consumption, investigators of the Housewives League made an experiment...
...The men and women who attend the Recreation Congresses are practical workers accustomed to securing practical results which affect the life of their communities...
...Minna Irving in New York Times...
...Most bakers' frosting is made half of sugar and half of starch...
...His father was the first Register of the Treasury appointed by General Washington, and when the capitol was moved from Philadelphia he brought the property of the Treasury to Washington in three four-horse wagons...
...They are both good suffragists...
...Miss Phoebe Nourse at her death left forty gold dollars to be used as a nucleus in founding St...
...Last year alone more than $4,-000,000 were expended in regular play center work...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 16
