HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Spirit of the Age and the New South By ELIZABETH GLEN DOWER EVANS "THE CAMPAIGN for woman suffrage which is in...
...Kent spoke again...
...The day thus ushered in by historic memories was crowded with events as unexpected and incongruous as they were delightful...
...Attention is called to the fact that several good manufacturers with whom Washington merchants deal are now considering the question of bringing their factories within label regulations, and that an insistent demand for labeled goods will help furnish the needed pressure to bring about this desired result...
...TO MANY OF US the call to work is one of those agreeable sensations which affirm the value of life, but, alas, to countless thousands of men and women it brings but gloom and a sense of hardship, for labour shorn of dignity is no longer a joy to man, but a cause of discontent with himself and his fellow-men.—Sir Thomas Oliver...
...He was just the last man on earth whom one would expect to find a suffragist His wife is an officer of the local suffrage league...
...Today 50 per cent are farm laborers and servants and over one-half of these are working as efficient modern workmen under wage contract...
...Above and beyond this material growth has gone the spiritual uplift of a great human race...
...Glendower Evans of Boston, and Mrs...
...more were just being released from slavery...
...Evans and Mrs...
...And in our own country, bent on a pre-eminently modern undertaking, or was it all an adventure into the land of romance...
...Put in jars, boil down syrup, pour over and seal...
...The South, the once Solid South, like the man from Macedonia, is stretching forth its hands for the modern gospel...
...Hints to Home-makers PICKLED PEACHES A friend furnishes this recipe, which she has tested: 1 quart sugar and 1 pint vinegar to each gallon of fruit Let sugar and vinegar come to a boil and skim...
...Self-realization is thus coming slowly but surely to another of the world's great races, and they are today girding themselves to fight in the van of progress, not simply for their own rights as men, but for the ideals of the greater world in which they live...
...Suffrage orators who spoke from an automobile yesterday on Main Street were shooed off the thoroughfare (by no means,—the request of the officers was most courteous) into Commercial Place, when the unusual spectacle attracted such crowds that traffic was blocked...
...Their organized commercial life is extending rapidly, and includes all branches of the smaller retail businesses and 40 banks...
...Long before they appeared, the Blue Room was filled to suffocation by both men and women...
...They raise themselves $7,500,000 a year for these churches...
...Wife of Congressman and Boston Woman Here...
...She dealt briefly with the effects of women's votes on legislation in states that have equal suffrage...
...Already the poems of Dunbar and Braith-waite, the essays of Miller and Grimke, the music of Rosamond Johnson and the painting of Tanner are the property of the nation and the world...
...These slaves could be bought and sold, could move from place to place only with permission, were forbidden to learn to read or write, legally could never hold property or marry...
...By 1880 this was increased to about 6,000,000 acres...
...but 99 per cent...
...Then and not till then shall the cities of the South, and the other cities of the nation, afford safe and happy homes for all our children, rich and poor...
...The Negro was freed as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer...
...Evans urged Virginia women to join the parade next month...
...And we found moreover, that southern women were as up to date as any in the land...
...The Consumers' League Libel on goods assures us that they are not the product of sweat shop labor...
...There was a big group of respectful listeners, chiefly men, at the outdoor meeting in the morning, and a grist of pledges were handed in on the membership cards passed among them In the afternoon there was a meeting at the Naval Station at Portsmouth, with the Mayor of the city to introduce the speakers, and with a score or more of young girls decked out in suffrage buttons, evidently new recruits, but hot with enthusiasm and very much to the fore...
...It had brought about, she said...
...Ninety per cent...
...The hours were sounded by ship's bells...
...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Spirit of the Age and the New South By ELIZABETH GLEN DOWER EVANS "THE CAMPAIGN for woman suffrage which is in full tide at Washington,—the time and place being selected as a vantage point from which to reach into the four quarters of the nation,—is already bearing unexpected fruit...
...Look for the Label THE CONSUMERS' LEAGUE of the District of Columbia is sending out a list of the stores of Washington that carry goods which bear the League label...
...With their little son and daughter they inhabit a man-of-war, transformed into a houseboat and fitted up with every facility for sump too us hospitality and for domestic life...
...Once on dry land, however, we found ourselves in the 20th century beyond a peradventure...
...A Half Century of Freedom IN 1863 there were about 5,000,000 persons of Negro descent in the United States...
...The speakers were Mrs...
...The plan of securing exact information as to what goods are to be found at the various stores in cities and towns' and furnishing it to the pub-lie, is the best possible method of reaching all parties, merchants, manufacturers, purchasers...
...she is a born social leader of the typically feminine type...
...Private advices which have followed the campaigners back to Washington bear witness that the city has since "been seething" with "flattering and delightful comment," that "the very heart of Norfolk" was carried, and that "nothing in the history of the league has made quite the impression nor has left such a prolific aftermath," It was tile street meeting that was the feature of the occasion and that gave most emphatic token that the Old Sooth had passed into history and that a new order is to have its day...
...And at the crowded evening meeting, with the elite of Norfolk in attendance, every point in the addresses was greeted with bursts of applause, while the speakers, when the meeting broke up, were given almost an ovation...
...A naval band was playing as the launch brought us to the ship's side, and at appropriate intervals there-after, and sounded the revielle before dawn the following day...
...In 1910 this had increased to over 18,000,000 acres...
...In the evening, a banquet was served in the ship's dining cabin with sixteen at table...
...Your state has led in Statesment,' she said, 'and now let her take the lead in this.'" A most sure portend of the coming of a new South is the spirit in which the suffrage leaders of Norfolk are expressing their civic aspirations...
...extending suffrage to women had made women think, and had raised the moral standard...
...A little suffrage league until recently a feeble band and an object of derision to the few who knew of its existence, within the last few months had grown three hundred strong...
...Another startled Confederate soldier was the one in the middle of Court Street, Portsmouth, where it crosses High Street...
...Kent declared political conditions had bettered...
...in 1890 to about 8,000,000 acres, and over 12,000,-000 acres in 1900...
...were totally illiterate and only one adult in, six was a nominal Christian...
...Rub skin off peaches out of boiling water with flannel cloth...
...the changes in conditions that have made woman suffrage necessary, and the causes that have worked to deny woman the ballot In her own state of California Mrs...
...the emancipation of women, universal peace, democratic government, the socialization of wealth and human brotherhood.—By W. E. Burakardt Du Bois...
...Under the name of each firm there is enumerated just what articles so labeled can be found at that particular store...
...Here is the report of the occasion in the local newspaper: "CROWDS BLOCK TRAFFIC TO HEAR WOMEN SPEAK FROM AUTOMOBILE...
...From contempt and amusement they have passed to the pity and perplexity of their neighbors, while within their own souls they have arisen from apathy and timid complaint to open protest and more and more manly self-assertion...
...Kent drove her arguments home with timely illustrations...
...He nearly fell from his perch...
...Neither hesitates for words, and each displays a wide knowledge of political and economic affairs and of social conditions...
...Come over and help us," ran its urgent and reiterated appeal...
...In a cabin was a big doll house, and the long decks, covered in with walls and roof, formed a vast nursery and playground, seemingly made to order for tricyele riding and roller skates...
...Slavery was the absolute denial of initiative and responsibility...
...a new interest in civic affairs, in political problems, and the difficulties that attend enforcing laws and working out governmental difficulties...
...Negroes support wholly or in part over 60 old folks' homes and orphanages, 30 hospitals and 500 cemeteries...
...they have 200 papers and periodicals, and their voice and expression are compelling attention...
...Perhaps its numbers have grown to three thousand since our campaign...
...Never since the weather beaten Confederate soldier at the top of the monument took his place, had anything like this gone on before...
...Public undertakings such as these, which no man on earth can deny is within woman's peculiar province, have been urged upon the dead ears of City Fathers by citizens and taxpayers, without ballots in their hands...
...There were very few that owned property in the South...
...It was in answer to this solicitation that two suffrage campaigners ran down the Potomac by night boat, through Hampton Roads in the early morning, to Norfolk...
...William Kent, wife of the representative in Congress from California...
...Five millions a year are raised by Negro secret and beneficial societies, which hold at least $6,000,-000 in real estate...
...In these same years the Negro has relearned the lost art of organization...
...By 1875 the Negroes probably had gotten hold of something between 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 acres of land through their bounties as soldiers and the low priCe of land on account of the war...
...Where nine-tenths of them could not read or write in 1859, today two-thirds can...
...Above these, to use the figures of 1900, there are 750,000 farmers, 70,000 teamsters, 55,000 railway hands, 36,000 miners, 33,000 sawmill employees, 28,000 porters, 21,000 teachers, 21,000 carpenters, 20,000 barbers, 20,000 nurses, 15,000 clergymen, 14,000 masons, 13,000 dressmakers and seamstresses, 10,000 engineers and firemen, 2,500 physicians and, above all, 200,000 mistresses of independent homes, and 2,000,000 children in school...
...The fundamental principle of the Consumers' League is so essentially sound that it needs only widespread publicity and understanding to make it one of the most effective movements of the time...
...there were a larger number that owned property in the North...
...Stick four cloves in each peach and boil a bag of stick cinnamon in the syrup...
...Instead of being led and defended by others, as in the past, they are gaining their own leaders, their own voices, their own ideals...
...In strange contrast to these domestic appurtenances were the Filipino servants, as oriental looking and as remote as if they had stepped out of the Arabian Nights...
...Ten minutes after the speaking began the streets and sidewalks were filled with people who flocked from all directions...
...From personalities all our broader interests arise, and to personalities they return.—H...
...At least that was its number on the historic morning when we reached Norfolk...
...Today Negroes have 35,000 church edifices worth $56,000,000, and controlling nearly 4,000,-000 members...
...G. Wells...
...A strong appeal accompanies the announcement...
...Then let us arm ourselves with ballots, we mothers and future mothers of the children of Norfolk,"—so runs their suffrage propaganda,—"and voice our legitimate demands in terms that no public servant can hold office and deny...
...Fifty years ago tie overwhelming mass of these people were not only penniless, but were themselves assessed as real estate...
...Of these 4,000,000 and...
...There are 200 private schools and colleges managed and almost entirely supported by Negroes, and other public and private Negro schools have received in forty years $45,000,000 of Negro money in taxes and donations...
...of the race in the South were field hands, servants of the lowest class...
...Mrs...
...Luxuriant tropical blossoms adorned our viands,—carved out of vegetables by the Japanese steward's deft hands...
...that they are made on the premises by factories that obey the state laws, that do not work overtime, and do not employ children under sixteen...
...Women are urged to remember the label, particularly during the January White Sales, and in making their purchases to use every effort to find satisfactory label goods and to buy goods not labeled under protest...
...Were we on land or at sea...
...I hope all the leagues of the country are pursuing the same course...
...Many crowded round the doors to listen...
...Not a note is heard of the old insistence on "woman's rights...
...LIFE is, I suppose, to begin with and end with a matter of personalities...
...The eternal mother in-stinct is speaking in them, as in their demand for playgrounds for the children of the city,— rapidly growing and planning for further expansion with the opening of the Panama Canal, —for a police matron, for a municipal dance hall properly supervised, etc...
...In the Lynhaven Hotel last night Mrs...
...Both women speak well...
...Our host, as it turned out, was a naval officer, —a very pattern of his kind, straight as an arrow, and with the breeding and the gallantry appropriate to his profession and to his southern birth...
...Their pleas for equal suffrage were on the basis of a need for political reform in national, state, and municipal affairs...
...If free stones, cook 10 minutes in syrup: if cling stones 15 to 20...
...When we insist on goods bearing this label, we are helping to establish and to extend the adoption, of these reasonable standards in all lines of manufacture...
Vol. 5 • March 1913 • No. 9
