HOME AND EDUCATION

...Light is abundant, for there are almost no skyscrapers and the sunshine is undimmed by factory smoke...

...On his next visit, six months later, the owner greeted the inspector cordially...

...The way to fight them is rake up in the late fall and burn all leaves and other kinds of plant refuse that have collected in depressed places in the ground where water has stood and is likely to stand again in the spring...

...THE TOTAL NUMBER of books in Royal Auction Bridge that have been sold since last summer is so large that it would make the author of many of "The Six Best Sellers" green with envy and perhaps purple with rage...

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...Whitewash this factory,' stormed the owner...

...That depends upon the mosquito, according to a writer in a recent number of Science, a man who ought to know because he represents the United States Bureau of Entomology...

...have never attended a political meeting...

...Into this anomalous political situation, a new movement has descended like a cyclone,—or shall we say, like the dawn of a better dayt For a Woman Suffrage campaign, to enhmnate on March third, in a pageant and a monster parade, is in full swing...

...Literary Notes SCOTT NEARING tells in his new book, Social Religion, (Macmillan), about a Factory Inspector who insisted that the owner of the factory whitewash the inside of the building...

...Beyond any other it is rich in public buildings...

...A pioneer division will represent the seventy-five years' struggle of women for freedom...

...It is a form of sin.—H...

...She has been speaking several times a day since the first of February...

...No one would ever for a moment suspect (from her style, not her subject alone) that Sarah Grand was a man, or even John Oliver Hobbes, notwithstanding her pseudonym and her cynicism...

...A woman suffrage parade is always a picturesque and an impressive spectacle, and makes converts by the hundred of people who are impervious to or beyond reach of the spoken word...

...If other publishers have had the same experience, the circulation of Royal Auction Bridge Books must reach into the six figures...

...WHAT IS once well done is done forever.— Thokkau...

...It is wonderfully cheerful and bright —and the girls have done so much better work that I believe I have already got my money back.'" Mr...

...Suffragists, men or women, who desire to march in the parade, should write to Headquarters, 1420 F Street, without delay and should specify the division in which they desire to be enrolled...

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...I heard one say to another, 'Dash blank it...

...Thus it happens that a large part of the population, even of the male population, have never cast a ballot...

...C. L. * * * The Spirit of The Age and The Seat of Government By a Suffrage Campaigner ELIZABETH GLENDOWER EVANS WASHINGTON, by all consent, is the most beautiful and the most interesting city in this country...

...Headquarters are thronged, experienced campaigners assigning duties to the less experienced...

...Killing the Mosquito in His Winter Quarters HOW do mosquitoes paas the winter...

...It is in reality a course in domestic science which every woman can take and every man, too—without enrolling in any institution...

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...I wouldn't have believed that a woman could have brains like that!' Another said, 'If I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I never would have believed that a woman could reason out such problems.' An older man turned to me and said, 'I could listen to that woman all day, and never get tired, for every word she says is true.' "—B...

...aesthetic and moral, hygienic and economic problems of highest importance suddenly seem involved in apparently little matters, the whole surroundings become luminous and wonderful—Hugo MuenSTEBBERG in Good Housekeeping...

...Beatrice Harraden is decidedly masculine in her touch...

...To explore the work carried on by the government, the treasury, the patent office, the Smithsonian Institute, the Navy Yard, etc., would tax the energies of the most indefatigable...

...every little item in the house bristles with interests, every activity of hers is linked with all mankind...

...The color scheme of this division will shade from pale violet to deep purple...

...Now eggs are, for the huntsman of average skill, more likely prey than winged creatures, and in this fact lies hope...

...At a meeting of a citizens' association, which was largely attended by men and women, where we spoke together, the President of the Woman's Auxiliary in introducing Mrs...

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...And this Washington affair gives promise that it will eclipse all its predecessors...

...And wives of Congressmen and Senators, speakers and organizers from many states, together with Washingtonian residents, are hard at work making ready for the demonstration...

...Of all of the women writers who have recently come to the fore she is the least feminine, that is, her style is the least feminine...

...The College and the Household Sciences A WOMAN who sees the detail of her home work in the light of broad knowledge no longer knows it as drudgery...

...All summer long, therefore, these places must be sought out and either drained or covered with kerosene...

...Meetings are held, not one or two, but rarely less than four or five, and sometimes numbering as many as nine in a day,—meetings in parlors and halls, and— Oh, signs of a new order,—meetings on the street, with women orators preaching social justice and a new civic patriotism to disfranchised mortals, men and women alike...

...The tiers of seats erected from which to view the inauguration of the President the day following, afford an unusual opportunity to see the parade...

...The sales of books on the old form of Bridge were nothing in comparison...

...while press agents are in daily attendance to gather news, to be chronicled in each day's papers, and to learn where the street meet-ings are to be held that they may snapshot the novel spectacle...

...There are several fine parks, including the magnificent botanical gardens, and a zoo, and everywhere are open spaces adorned with trees and shrubs and statues...

...The common house mosquito, according to the writer, Mr...

...Having some of the natural curiosity we are all heir to, I got off the car and went over to see what the trouble was...

...At the head of the parade will ride a mounted brigade wearing purple cloaks...

...By a strange contradiction, the seat of government is without self-government...

...Nearing's comment is that every improvement which makes a more livable place pays...

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...Besides the public buildings, there are the palatial residences of the multitudinous political and trust magnates, set on wide streets arched with trees, and, so genial is the climate, often clad with English ivy, and with magnolias and shrubs in their yards...

...Humphrey Ward, strong writer though she is...

...All this is for the visitor...

...The effect is of an ordered variety, of variety within an order, which is full of interest and beauty, and which, so far as I am informed, is wholly unique...

...Frederic Knab, passes through many generations in the course of the summer if it is allowed to breed...

...Glendower Evans, speaking from a motor, making a strong plea for woman suffrage...

...NOW THAT Beatrice Harraden has published another novel—Out of the Wreck I Rise—it is interesting to recall what Miss Jeannette L. Gilder said about her as long ago as 1894...

...Earnest, magnetic, witty, ready with anecdote, she holds the crowd, and is everywhere in great demand...

...IN THESE DAYS of dustless dusters, vacuum cleaners, rounded room corners and pure food campaigns, such a book as Robert E. Buchanan's Household Bacteriology should find a welcome...

...There are large books and small books and even small pamphlets...

...The natural home maker,—such is the burden of the propaganda, — neglects her proper function and wrongs herself and her family, when she withholds her peculiar contribution from the state, and the state is robbed of an essential element when the influence of woman, the guardian of the young, the eternal civilizer, is excluded from its service...

...It is believed that "Tooth Ache" will help develop public interest in oral hygiene...

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...While the cosmopolitan society of the capital of the nation, for those who are admitted, is in itself a liberal education...

...There is the classic White House set in spacious grounds, adjoining a wide park sweeping down to the Potomac...

...There are the innumerable Departments, many of them admirable in design, and bringing home to the mind of the most casual observer the vast affairs of the nation which are transacted at the seat of government...

...A lawyers' brigade will march clad in academic cap and gown...

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...But a word as to the suffrage activities which are to culminate in this event...

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...A MOVING-PICTURE film entitled "Tooth Ache" is one of the agencies employed by the National Mouth Hygiene Association to demonstrate the importance of instruction in the care of the teeth...

...Even the more modest houses are of an ample pattern, with wide porches or piazzas and with grass plats in front, and trees...

...If a large proportion of them would, the first big advance would be made toward that "Social Religion" for which Mr...

...have never discharged any single function such as falls within the experience of a free people...

...It breeds in still water wherever that can be found,—in puddles, old tin cans or gutter pipes (if they happen to be stopped up...

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...From all over the nation will come volunteers to take part, some in the pageant, but many more to march under their respective state banners or with the professional or industrial divisions,—home makers, teachers, nurses, business women, wage earners...

...You remember the row we had about the whitewash?' "'Yes, indeed.' "'Well, sir, that $1,500 was the best money I ever laid out The building hadn't been touched for ten years, and the whitewash makes it look like new...

...Near at hand are Washington's home at Mt...

...Evans, said: "In going down town on the car one afternoon I was attracted by a large crowd at the intersection of 8th and F Streets...

...The common house mosquito hibernates in the adult stage and has been commonly supposed to set the fashion in this respect for all other mosquitoes but either because he has not sufficient social prestige or for some other reason he has no very great following...

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...and her remarks are just as true today as they were eighteen years ago...

...Representatives and Senators who make their homes here lose all touch with public sentiment And among the army of civil servants, gathered from every locality, and the Washingtonians born and bred, there prevails an absolute detaehment from public concerns...

...Moreover, the debates in the House and the Senate, always open to the public, and the technique of their procedure, affords a never ending source of fascination...

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...A Pilgrims' Brigade, headed by "General" Rosalie Jones, will march in gray cloaks with knapsacks and staves, and headed by a splendid banner bearing the legend, "Pilgrims of Justice...

...It is to be questioned how many employers and owners of buildings, would accept this statement...

...There will be forty divisions in all...

...Vernon, and General Lee's home at Arlington,— the latter used as a national eemetery for the slain of the Civil War,—both of them places peerless in beauty and of heroic memories...

...City planning has had a free hand in Washington as nowhere else in the United States...

...And the events of the 3d and the 4th of March, taken together, will give double their money's worth to the multitude who are certain to flock to Washington for the occasions...

...The spectacle is to open with a tableau upon the steps of the Treasury representing Charity, Justice, Liberty and Peace impersonated by girls chosen for their beauty, and by a multitude of children...

...As would be expected, Miss Gilder's taste is now seen to be justified...

...I listened intently for an hour, but at times my attention was somewhat distracted by the remarks of the men around me...

...Streets, laid out at right angles,—to the north and south according to number, and according to the alphabet to the east and west,—are crossed by diagonal avenues (named for the states) radiating in every direction, with circles at intersecting points...

...It is as one who is impressed by the weariness of it all and yet would laugh it off...

...There are large numbers of mosquitoes belonging to other species and equally indefatigable in carrying disease to human beings, that pass the winter in the form of eggs...

...The kinds of mosquitoes, on the other hand, that pass the winter as eggs hatch out in the spring and then multiply no further till the next spring...

...The division portraying the condition of women at different epochs of civilizaton will give scope for costumes of varied and picturesque effects and of historic interest...

...A bonfire of this kind will, in a mosquito country, serve as the funeral pyre of many billion enemies of man...

...I was most pleasantly surprised to find that the 'trouble' was Mrs...

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...There is the stately capitol that crowns the hill...

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...There is the Washington monument, a graceful shaft, rising a sheer four hundred and fifty feet from the green sward of the Potomac Park, and commanding from its summit a view of the whole city and far beyond...

...Its citizens are without a vote, and have no representation in Congress...

...In Rock Creek Cemetery is Saint Gaudens' masterpiece,—the Adams memorial—probably the crowning work of art of modern times...

...Miss Gilder wrote: "Notwithstanding the note of pathos that Miss Harraden always sounds, there is at tits same time a toueh of humor that goes with it...

...Not to communicate one's thought to others—to keep one's thoughts to oneself, as people say—is either cowardice or pride...

...But it is said that in Washington one encounters a curious lack of interest in public questions...

...In next week's issue will be recorded one of, the first fruits which home resulted from the Washington suffrage campaign...

...Everywhere is an impression of magnificence and of space...

...some treat the game fully, some give the barest rules...

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...Nearing's book is an argument...

...Government, good or bad as may happen, is a thing handed down to them by superior powers, appointed by some extraneous will The citizens themselves are passive recipients...

...W. G. Ebersole, of Cleveland, Ohio, who is secretary of the organization, says: "I believe that if each child be taught to keep thoroughly clean and healthy the gateway to his system, the mouth, we shall have a healthier, more self-respecting, and all-around better class of citizens for the next generation...

...it will cost me $1,-500!' "'You will obey my order, or I'll swear out a warrant,' said the inspector...

...But they are selling in every bookstore from Maine to California...

...The building was whitewashed...

...Frederick A. Stokes Company, who published R. F. Foster's Royal Auction Bridge last October, state that it has sold far beyond the best figure reached by any of their popular books on Bridge...