HOME AND EDUCATION

...Looking for an office, like the rest of these chaps...

...Larvae and pupae of the fly are shown in models molded on the same scale, as are the eggs, which appear as little cucumber-shaped pieces of paraffin about two inches long...

...Women were not then voters...

...This represents two adjoining rooms, in one of which several rats are seen feasting upon the refuse of a garbage barrel, while in the next, the wall of which is pierced by ratholes, are several more taking their ease in a room which is evidently a pantry...

...Perhaps the husband is willing and glad that the wife shall have entirely her own way in the house...

...We are reminded of the movement of the Irish societies a few years ago which resulted in banishing the obnoxious Irish caricature from the stage...

...The suffragists recognize that women as a class are conservative and they do not claim that a majority of women are desirous of the right to vote...

...The bacilli of typhoid, cholera, and bubonic plague are shown there...

...a fly-tight box has been substituted for the unsightly and unsanitary manure heap, the outhouses have been brought up to date, the rain barrels in which the anopheles 'wrigglers' used to breed have disappeared, and their last refuge, the swamp, has been drained...

...Of course the opportunity for ridiculing the young women responsible for the petition is too good a one for the facetious and callow newspaper men to overlook, and consequently we find our clever dailies treating the efforts of the young women to protect their profession from aspersion as something excruciatingly funny...

...Why this surprise" Women did not ask for the vote to show that they were better than men...

...likewise, if the wife has no idea of the relation of income to expenditure and insists on a certain house in a certain locality at the sacrifice of a wholesome, table and time for recreation, the husband is up against a stone wall in his desire to secure a balanced home...

...The exhibit as at present constituted, however, covers a good deal of ground that is not so well known to the public as it should be...

...If one-fifth of the population of Kansas City are adult women, the population being in 1910 a little over 82,000, one thing is surely proved by the election and that, is that the majority of the women in Kansas City, Kansas, want to vote, since a majority did vote and voting is not compulsory...

...The huge model of the mosquito, made several years ago for the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, really belongs in the Hall of Public...

...We go from farm to city, from town to country, from cast to west, north to south...

...Perhaps neither have standards adapted to their circumstances...

...and particularly the typhoid bacillus, with its long, writhing tentacles reaching out from a body that looks like a miniature Zeppelin airship, they give an impression of malignity that is not lessened by the knowledge that the real germs are only onefifty-thousandth the size of the models...

...According to the press dispatch, Mayor Zimmerman, who Was seeking re-election, learned just five minutes before the polls closed that two women had not voted...

...However much the wise and intelligent may struggle against it, we are all more or less the victims of convention...

...The mosquito, however, is not neglected in the exhibits which have place in the hall...

...Less popular in its appeal, though effective on closer study, is the collection of diagrams showing the transmission of typhoid epidemics from one community to another through the medium of a common polluted water supply, and those showing the lessening of the number of typhoid cases through the installation of pure water supplies...

...One of the most striking groups is that of 'the ill-kept farm,' which has as a companion piece 'the well-kept farm.' In the first model are shown a farmhouse and farm buildings of the old-fashioned type: there is a well with an 'old oaken bucket,' the stable has a large manure heap, the outhouses are of a primitive character, and adjoining the farmyard is a malarial mosquito-breeding marsh...

...More often than not, they have had widely different experiences and have widely different ideals of what constitutes a home...

...The same artist has painted an enlargement (1,500 diameters) of the hairy foot of the fly, showing the typhoid bacilli, of which the insect is the common carrier, on the clawlike tip of the member...

...the rich gratifying their desire for variety and change, creating false standards that are thoughtlessly accepted and cheaply imitated...

...No, siree," said Rippleigh...

...The mother handed over the baby...

...For decades this doughty champion of suffrage has been assuring her audiences that the candidate would mind the baby and now Carbondalc offers an authentic proof...

...from plenty to want...

...I'm just standing here waiting, so that when the office comes out on the search I'll be where it can find me...

...They asked for the vote so that the vote of the public spirited men might be doubled by the vote of the public spirited women...

...Those who have reflected at all upon the responsibility and opportunity of our educational system to improve the national life, must rejoice that an authority like Dr...

...Love may stand the Strain and men and women keep together until a habit of life has been established to which they accede unconsciously...

...asked Hieken-looper, as he perceived Kippleigh standing outside the White, House...

...In Readiness "What are you doing here...

...A Hall of Public Health "THE BIG building of the American Museum of Natural History is not to be exclusively devoted to the housing of the fossil remains of the Diplodocus Carnegiensis and other scientific treasures, having as little relation to the affairs of every day life," says the New York Times...

...If only the men had voted the other candidate would have won...

...Notes on Election Results By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ THE ELECTION in Michigan which failed to enfranchise the women put into their hands the means of perpetually trying for it...

...But how much more satisfactory to them and beneficial to the if their adjustment in the beginning, instead of being governed by their personal wishes and prejudices, was based on a common knowledge of certain principles and ideals that should control in home making...

...This happened in Los Angeles and small as the vote was it was larger and more representative of public opinion than though men alone had voted...

...The Cleveland Plaindealcr takes the women of Los Angeles to task for not turning out to vote on charter amendments any better than the men...

...It is constructed on a scale of sixty-four thousand times the size of the living insect, and the proportions have been preserved with the minutest care, Mr...

...Now, Nature's profoundest truth is placed within the easy comprehension of all children...

...Michigan adopted the Initiative and Referendum and rejected Woman Suffrage on April 7th and on the 8th the women began their new campaign under the Initiative...

...Matausch having made his drawings and casts for the head, bodyr, and various members of the insect from dissection...

...Holding the balance of power they elected their mayor...

...They, however, maintain that women ought to want to vote and that they do vote in about the same proportion as men where they have the chance...

...The motive behind the petition is a laudable one and it is to be hoped that the film-makers will give heed to the request...

...How immensely valuable if they both were imbued with the "household mind," and so prepared to agree on a plan of living that makes for health, for repose, for freedom, and for the largest possible individual development...

...The companion group shows a windmill, indicating that the shallow well has been replaced by a driven well, insuring an unpolluted water supply...

...As far as partial suffrage for women shows them voting exactly as men do, it clears the air of much nonsense to the effect that women are anything but "just folks" very much like men...

...or, they may compromise, she following her bent in some things, he his in others, —the result often incongruous...

...If out of our complex and ever-shifting mode of life there is to evolve well-founded standards of efficiency, economy, taste, and service which shall apply to the various types of homes and to adjustment to various conditions, boys and girls must be taught before all else what constitutes the essential features, under all circumstances of this most precious of all institutions,—the home...

...If we remember aright, these same newspapers treated the Irishmen's protest with dignity and respect and even went so far as to banish the banal Irish libel from their own columns...

...He found one of them rocking her baby and he said, "Here, I'll hold the baby while you go and vote...

...Among older nations tradition and custom give stability to the mode of living, and each class is in a degree independent of others and a guide to itself...

...or she may be willing and anxious to entirely subordinate herself to his likes and dislikes...

...The resolution had previously passed the House...

...The anti-suffragists say that women don't want to vote and that they won't vote...

...Why the different treatment accorded to the office girls?—Montreal Saturday Mirror...

...Anna Shaw has always predicted that it would be...

...And so home economics should now be made a part of our earliest school instruction...

...The Office Girls' Protest THREE THOUSAND young women engaged in office work in this city (Montreal) are said to be joining in a petition to the manufacturers of moving picture films asking them to desist from the practice of depicting the office girl as a wanton flirt and a willing victim to the wiles of her sportive employer...

...Andrews has reached so fundamental and important a conclusion regarding the teaching of home making in the public schools...

...The question will go to the voters of the state in 1915 and be passed upon by a second legislature...

...but if the husband has no understanding or sympathy with this idea, and objects to the same old thing for breakfast, the wife's effort at simplification is frustrated...

...tied on her bonnet...

...These rats, of course, are supposed to be infested with the fleas which transmit the plague...

...As it is now, the adjustment is likely to have a personal or temperamental rather than a rational intelligent, basis...

...I believe that the office should seek the man...

...Consider the homely, but ever present problem of what shall we have to cat...

...Suffragists Achieve Another Victory ON April 22d the woman suffrage amendment to the slate constitution passed the Pennsylvania Senate by a vote of 26 to 22...

...Since there are more men than women in Kansas and since the municipal vote is always lighter than the presidential vote, the woman vote in Kansas City was certainly not far below the proportion in which men vote at city elections...

...It is a most universally interesting and inspiring held...

...When a man and woman marry they must reach some agreement as to what their home, their environment shall be...

...Framed in a glass case set against a strong light are spun-glass colored enlargements of the germs of some of the commonest and most deadly diseases...

...The classic question as to who would tend the baby while the mother went to vote was answered in Carbondalc, Colorado, the other day in just the way that the Rev...

...The museum has officially opened a Hall of Public Health...

...There was a time when biology was only taught as a compilation of dry facts to college students...

...and rushed in double quick time to the polls and the mayor was elected by a majority of one...

...A real fly's egg is just about visible to the naked eye...

...Harper's Bazar...

...A simple, uniform breakfast, with occasional variations may be made hygienic, and economical in money cost and in expenditure of nervous energy...

...It is significant that in this sanitation exhibit, a housefly as big as a fair sized cat will occupy the place of honor...

...In primitive life the standards of the home are fixed by necessity and experience...

...This model," the report says, "has cost nine months of study on the part of Ignasz Matausch, a Hungarian model worker in the service of the Museum...

...Here is a case in point: According to the official returns, 9,000 women voted at the recent municipal election in Kansas City, Kansas...

...The authorities have launched the movement as a part of the city's plan of "Spring cleaning...

...For high schools and elementary schools it is a subject which properly organized in the future may well be offered to boys and girls alike and thus aid in endowing each unit of the population with the household mind," said Benjamin R. Andrews of Teachers College, Columbia University, in an address at the last annual meeting of the American Home Economics Association...

...But think of the confusion, the chaos of ideas as to the essentials of home making in our complicated and ever changing American life...

...And if the man of the household declares that no meal seems complete to him without potatoes, when his wife has omitted them from the menu because she has rice, she will naturally be discouraged in any attempt to practically apply her small knowledge of food values...

...Health, but the delicacy of its construction (it is Jargely composed of spun glass) is such that it is thought unadvisable to move it...

...There can be no higher educational purpose than organizing this great subject of home making so that it can be taught to boys and girls alike, that men and women shall be commonly endowed with the household mind...

...At the last presidential election the total vote in the state of Kansas was about one-fifth of the population...

...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE The Household Mind "THE SUBJECT of household economics of-fers a group of topics of as much concern to man as to women, and deserves the best attention of both...

...The connection between the rat and the bubonic plague, for example, is shown in the reproduction of a section of a dwelling in San Francisco...

...from poverty to wealth...