HOME AND EDUCATION

...This is merely one more recognition of the long felt need of our recently established Children's Bureau...

...Colonel Judson is an able, aggressive exponent of the public interest...

...Clubdom for woman in China to-day is the new venture launched not for the purpose of improving her mind but expressing her desperate resolution to save her body...

...The rising generation, whether in the country or in the city, has a right to be instructed in the first principles of sanitary science...

...Starting the children off to a school, built and operated by the city, he emerges upon a street which, with its sidewalks, curbs, parkings, lamp-posts, trees and paved surfaces is provided and cleaned by the city...

...American women with their many other opportunities have dallied along on the way seemingly indifferent to the advantages of political rights...

...The young girls who belong pledge themselves to use every argument to induce their parents not to force them to...

...Seldom has the world seen the connection between education and the demand for political freedom made so quickly as in China...

...It is the well cooked stiff cornmeal mush of our foremothers, really...

...Sprinkle over it a generous half-cup of grated American cheese...

...Neglected Babyhood IN THE COURSE of a sermon on "The Little Mother," Reverend P. C. Bruner of the Og-den Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, recently said: "Frequently the glamour is taken away from marriage by too many children in the home...

...THE COMMON ROLLER TOWEL is specifically prohibited in the schools of Indiana and Kansas...

...This tragic protest against a horrible custom has been made by a large number of young women...

...girls to read...

...Milk, its value as a food, the fact that it is highly appreciated by bacteria, and that it is therefore necessary to protect it against them—these are not too difficult for the child to understand.' "Dr...

...Catt does not consider the prospects of suffrage for women in the new Republic to be very bright...

...Cattle dealers always are seeking to improve the quality of the stock...

...But the important fact is that even the worm has turned and poor, crippled, exploited Mrs...

...John Chinaman given but a few years of education, has joined the great army of women from all parts of the world in demanding a right to help make the laws under which she must live...

...Far from being too difficult to teach in the elementary school, the subject of public health, can be made both understandable and interesting...

...The dubs formed to "Abolish the Undue Authority of Mothers-In-Law" would seem to introduce the element of farce into an otherwise tragic situation, but not so...

...Every woman who joined took her life in her hands...

...Such a simple operation as washing the hands, for instance, becomes attractive when studied with reference to bacteria...

...The suffrage movement is so well along in China that application is to be made for membership in the International woman suffrage alliance and if possible they will send a delegate to its meeting at Budapest next year...

...The women who joined the revolution formed "Dare To Die Clubs...

...Oh, that means"—he pondered awhile—"that means—you want to, but you can't...

...The mother-in-law in America may be a joke but in China she is a grim reality with the power which she of ten uses of making the life of her unfortunate daughter-in-law, who is usually a mere child, a burden and a torture...

...The regulations in Kansas provide that "each pupil must have, an individual towel, or sanitary paper towels shall be furnished...

...Suicide Clubs" are increasing in number...

...They announced that every law and custom concerning women was Unjust and that women would know much better than men what was good for them...

...The Why and Wherefore of the Woman's Club in China By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Secretary, Up-State Woman's Suffrage Press...

...Charles E. North, entitled "Sanitation in Rural Communities," which contains the following sound doctrine: "'Mere teaching of physiology is not what is needed...

...marry against their will men they have never seen and failing in this to kill themselves...

...There should be ten thousand times more care in bringing children into the world...

...If only one-half of these deaths and cases of sickness can be eliminated, it means that an immense field of useful work lies at the hand of the country school teacher who will instruct the children and the mothers and fathers how to prevent the transference of poisonous bacteria from those who carry them to those who do not.'" "A rural high school near Baltimore has already introduced a course of this kind—the first in the United States...

...Personal cleanliness, purity of food and of drinks, the nature of disease and the method of transference, are all things which can be expressed in the simplest terms and made clear to the understanding of children,' asserts Dr...

...But whether women move in a spiral or by the cut direct nothing so well expressed the gist of the woman suffrage movement as the banner borne aloft in the great parade last May in New York City on which were inscribed, "This is the result of teaching...

...Catt writes from China that from two to four thousand women, largely from good families, joined these clubs and that many of them were killed...

...Heat in very hot oven till cheese is melted, 20 to 30 minutes...

...Bureau, New York IT IS several decades since the Woman's club movement in America inaugurated itself by the formation of Browning Clubs and similar "near-culture" societies over the length and breadth of the land...

...But the Chinese woman out of her...

...very desperation has soon taken the short cut and arrived at a point in but a few years almost, if not quite, in advance of the American woman's leisurely progress...

...She" WAITING recently in my oculist's outer office, I picked up a book of stories by American authors and read for the first time Bayard Taylor's Who Was She...

...But a sex that had- the race habit of serving human needs could not, when organized, long dally in the pleasant fields of literature and of art and the American club woman soon turned her attention to the alleviation of distress and the attempt to adjust the many civic needs which she saw around her...

...He eats a breakfast, the component parts of which the city has assured him have been correctly measured out, and are of a healthful character...

...The question raised by the title is not formally answered but we may infer that "She" is that creature of serious thoughts and purposes that exists within every woman, sometimes under a frivolous exterior, and with whom the average man takes little pains to become acquainted...

...He combines expert knowledge with vision...

...Health Education THE United States Bureau of Education re-cently issued an article by Dr...

...1) Put in a buttered baking dish or shallow casserole an inch layer of cold stiff cornmeal mush...

...The Chinese Woman Suffrage Club Emerges WHEN the revolution was over the "Dare To Die Clubs" turned into suffrage clubs and demanded an equal voice in the new Republic...

...Pour on this nearly half a cup of rich, well thickened beef stock or better, gravy from a roast of beef...

...In the story "She" appears as a vanishing lady of whose existence the Hero receives constant intimations, but with whom he is unable to secure a personal interview...

...He believes that normal schools and teachers'colleges should have regular courses in public health, so that the country school teacher may be armed with the essential facts of sanitary science...

...And the other waste products of his domestic economy are removed by the sewer, the ashman, or the rubbish collector—all provided by the city...

...He has fought long and hard for a public utilities law which shall place the public service corporations of the District under a much needed supervision and control...

...In a recent address on "Washington, a Model City," he said he would liken his ideal to a great demonstrating farm, where, under the most favorable conditions and under the guidance of experts, results should be obtained so nearly approaching perfection as to encourage other cities, set a standard for them and demonstrate for them the best methods...

...The quality of babyhood is sadly neglected...

...Before she had a chance to answer, however, he added, "But, of course, there is no use in asking a woman her reason," and the conversation came to a sudden close...

...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Washington, A Model City SPEAKING recently before the sub-committee of the House Appropriations Committee, Colonel W. V. Judson, lie engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, urged that this year's District appropriation bill provide for the harnessing of the Great Falls of the Potomac, with a view to furnishing electricity for lighting the streets and public buildings of Washington...

...Remarkable results may be expected to follow adequate public-health work by rural school teachers...

...The vanishing lady finally brings to a close a long and mysterious correspondence by writing to the Hero that during all the months when he has been frantically trying to get acquainted with her he has frequently walked with her, talked with her, joked with her and flirted with her, but that she has been unable to reveal herself because he has never once addressed to her a. serious remark...

...SIX-YEAR old David was explaining his report card to his aunt "What does F. stand for...

...Pour a very litte sausage gravy over the top before putting in the oven...

...Mrs...

...2) If you have a little cooked pork sausage "left Over" use it in layers with polenta as above, omitting cheese and breaking sausage into crumbs...

...Shortly after reading this story, I was witness to the difficulties which "She" experiences in making her appearance...

...North...

...North emphasizes the need of special training in this subject for school-teachers...

...The household becomes too multitudinous and the weight of responsibility is thrown upon the one in the family whom we call 'the little mother.' This 'little mother' is the older sister of the domestic flock...

...Hearing her express an interest in equal suffrage, he said, "Why do you want to vote...

...Ascending by means of an elevator, inspected by the city, to an office in a building whose height is limited and whose structural safety is assured by the city, if it be a dark day, he turns on the electric light, or gas, the character and price of which are controlled in his interests by the city...

...In her careful investigation she found that only the women of Canton had voted for their provisional assembly and that they would probably not be permitted to vote again...

...In rural communities annually 400,000 persons die and about 2,000,000 others are seriously, ill from infectious diseases...

...The debris from his meal is removed by the city before it can become nauseous and unsanitary...

...convenience, safety, and pleasure for each dollar expended by him collectively with his fellow citizens, through the agency of the municipality...

...Hints to Home-makers TWO POLENTA RECIPES (They call it that in Italy...

...This is a "whole meal" in food values...

...And what does that mean...

...For a cold day it is an economical and satisfying luncheon dish...

...He said that all during the period when scientists and engineers have been working out proper methods of transmission and utilization of electricity developed by waterpower, we have had in the District of Columbia a horrible example of economic waste, which is an especial reproach to a generation professing such devotion to the conservation of natural resources...

...He enters a street car, which the city requires shall be comfortable, sanitary, and operated upon a convenient schedule...

...Traversing this street safely, under the guardianship of proper city traffic regulations, and crossing a park owned and beautified by the city, he catches a breath of air which the city says shall be free from smoke...

...persisted his aunt...

...Repeat so that you have two layers of each...

...she asked...

...It is estimated that if effective sanitation were enforced, the present average of 45 years for human life would be prolonged to 60...

...Wells...

...The advantages which a model city should afford its average citizen are described by Colonel Judson, in part, as follows: "Awakening from sleep in a house which has been safely built, with due provision of light and air, under the city's inspection and protected from from and burglary by the city, he bathes from a spring Of clear and limpid Water, which the city provides, issuing from metal pipes at Convenient places within his domicile...

...The student of civics is probably still searching, if indeed he ever thought it worth while to enter upon the quest, for a woman of serious mind...

...The capital city of the nation could thus be made an example of tremendous value to all the other cities of the country as to how the average citizen can get the maximum of comfort...

...A man, a writer of textbooks in civics, which he distinctly declares are intended for boys and girls but in which he urges his youthful readers to prepare for citizenship because they will soon grow up to be " men," was introduced to a woman of wide experience in public affairs...

...Perhaps those who like him entertain the interesting biological illusion that girls must become men before they can be good citizens, will be obliged to get rid of the idea before "She" can take her place familiarly among them...

...His meal he washes down with pure and filtered city water...

...Oh, that's faithful," he replied...

...If the Ultimate development of the latent powers of the Potomac be as complete as conditions per-mit, not only public lighting, but all private lighting and the operation of street railways may be economically provided for...

...LOVE is a thing to a large extent in its beginnings voluntary and controllable, and at last quite involuntary.—H.G...

...Physiology may satisfy the curiosity of children as to their internal organs, but it does not protect them in any way against tuberculosis, from contaminated milk, or typhoid from impure water...