HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE The Germans NO WORDS can express what the German peo-ple, the German language, the German Literature means to me. Sauk County, Wisconsin, my...
...When the equal suffrage amendment was referred to the people of Wisconsin, it was generally recognized that we were up against the German hausfrau traditions and the fear that its adoption would conflict with the personal privilege of drinking a glass of beer...
...It seems that Mr...
...They were smart, especially in arithmetic...
...Why should not every country have a way out to the sea just as the humblest landowner has access to the common highway...
...IN THESE TIMES when almost every one is a bit sensitive and quick to take exceptions, some reader may say, Mrs...
...I am beginning to realize that the economic question is at the bottom of all the difficulties of women, and, therefore, if there is anything that a woman of the present generation can do to put the women of the next generation on a proper economic basis she ought to do it...
...She loved music and flowers and the German language and customs...
...I am out of work, sir, and to-morrow morning my children will wake up and cry with hunger...
...Some of those boys have attained national reputation...
...Whatever the feelings of power that were aroused at the thought of a world war, the event has more than justified expectation...
...I .do not know what I can sell next...
...Margaret Stockman of Hampstead, England...
...They are afraid I might strike again, I suppose...
...It is felt that signing such a card really helps to stamp out the idea that war is inevitable and to point the way that the world must go, if civilization is to be preserved...
...I confess that I have felt hurt to learn that our Peace policy has been construed to mean that we were anti-German...
...What thoughtful person does not shudder at the idea of one nation conquering another and proceeding to divide and gobble it...
...Helpless to Stay Destruction We sentimentalize and we scold, and yet, we, a nation of 100,000,000, are helpless to stay the hands that blast so many lives as unconcernedly as though they were dealing in scrap...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr...
...We have not grumbled yet...
...For each soldier who bleeds his life away prematurely, some woman has gone down into the valley of death to give him that life from which humanity has received so little return...
...It seems to me no one could have a greater love or sympathy for an adopted language or an adopted folk than I have for the German...
...I have met literally hundreds out-of-work railwaymen during my wanderings in search of work...
...They hope women will lay in a supply—they are only one pent apiece—and send them out with their correspondence...
...He was either strongly against or strongly for it...
...The only satisfactory method is to add washing soda to the water and let it settle five or six days before using.—Annabell Turner, instructor in home economics, Extension Division, University of Wisconsin...
...Fair minded folk must concede that there may be a difference of opinion about the Kaiser as there may be about the Czar or King George, or President Wilson or Theodore Roosevelt, but I do not see how there can be but one opinion as to what German civilization has done for us and for the world...
...Woman produces human life and war destroys it...
...How To Make Hard Water Soft for the Laundry IT'S carbonate of lime that makes water tem-porarily hard...
...If we sell them and then the landlord turns us out of the house, what shall we do...
...We men sacrifice so recklessly the life they create with so much loving care and desperate suffering...
...He advised us when we left school to read German a few minutes each day independently of the dictionary...
...These cards are to be sent to 31 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts and then forwarded in bulk to President Wilson...
...After the campaign was lost, we were talking it over...
...She had not one foolish notion...
...The joy, the strength, the peace, the heart-hold of those leisure hours will stay with me as long as memory lasts...
...Truly, it is elemental to man's constitution...
...Sons and daughters of the prosperous German farmers attended the Baraboo school...
...Mrs...
...The only remedy lies in the use of some chemical...
...AN UNUSUAL reason for disinheriting a son in favor of a daughter is assigned by Mrs...
...In the last analysis Society is to blame for tolerating war...
...For each gallon of water use two tablespoons of a solution made by dissolving one pound of washing soda in a quart of boiling water...
...We can but pray that in some miraculous manner peace will come, and that with the passing of the blood-red harvest moon we can go back to our everyday toil without the spirit of this great calamity hanging over our heads...
...I regard the editorial that follows as an epoch-making event in the woman suffrage movement...
...I grew up with a faith in the German character and a regard for the German people which has never been shaken...
...In the face of such terrors, can the struggle for freedom which springs eternal in the human soul, be of less than divine origin...
...Women Suffer Most" THIS day (October 4) has been set aside by proclamation of the President of the United States as a day of prayer and supplication to Almighty God to "restore once more that concord among men and nations without which there can be neither happiness nor true friendship, nor any wholesome fruit of toil, or thought in the world...
...1.00 for 1,000...
...War places a heavy hand upon the heart— a heavy weight upon the mind...
...For a number of years, all the time I could spare for reading I devoted to German literature...
...But I am wandering from my purpose...
...Peace" Weapons For Making War on War Forged by the Women of Massachusetts THE women of Massachusetts, like the women of this whole country, were at first stunned by the war tragedy now ravaging Europe, but now they have found themselves and are to work with a fervor almost consecrated towards making this war the last...
...In the one country, disputing the right of absolute control by their industrial overlords is met by machine guns and fire...
...It was, indeed, a whimsical fate that reserved this greatest of all wars for our twentieth century...
...it embodies the results of centuries of evolution, and it is being wasted more hopelessly than the maddest spendthrift squanders his patrimony...
...He did not laugh and say, "I don't much believe in it, but I'll vote for it...
...It is folly to try to place the blame for this war...
...It is difficult for a man whose point of view toward living things is affected by countless generations, imbued with the desire to kill and the lust for battle, to look upon this frightful carnage and realize the waste from the point of view of a woman...
...Permanent hardness is caused by sulphate of lime...
...If woman had a large voice in the counsel of nations there would be no dictate, there would be no shibboleth, no war slogan, no dream of necessity of empire which could lead her into the sacrifice of that life of which she and she alone knows the real value...
...She says, "I feel that my daughter is politically handicapped or will be, and I want her to have the advantage economically...
...This struggle for balance of power, this idea that war is the only way of settling differences among nations is a survival of the dark ages...
...But it was also agreed that once converted, the German took the matter seriously...
...When it came to the discussion of profound questions of religion and philosophy, which we, who brought our dinner pails, undertook to settle at the noon hour, they were handicapped in their English, for they all spoke the mother tongue at home, but it was plain they had thought more and knew more than the rest of us...
...We were too confident that this thing could never be, and yet it has come, and now we stand aside and watch the orgy of blood, we argue and quarrel and lay the blame now on the one and again on the other...
...Cheapest and best of these are alkalies, as washing soda, borax, and ammonia...
...Two groups of women have made themselves organic parts of the Peace Movement, and gone to work at once to make public peace propaganda...
...and similar gentlemen who consider themselves called "to administer the propertied interests" of the United States, have their counterpart in South Africa...
...A letter from a former railway employee of South Africa, denied the chance to work because a year ago he joined a strike, is quoted in a recent Labor Leader of England, as follows: "I am starving, and my wife and children are hungry and cold o' nights...
...IN THE long struggle for a better government in Wisconsin, the Germans were loyal supporters of the movement just as you would expect the confreres of Carl Schurz to be...
...It was characteristic of the German mind that, reflecting on woman's share in the awful cost and burden of war, reaching the conclusion that therefore she should have direct voice in the control of affairs, the writer should give expression to his conviction in the most earnest and eloquent language he could command...
...I have sought work high and low, but as soon as they know I worked before on the railway it is no use...
...More than one influential German minister, editor, teacher, legislator, recognizing the grave responsibility, made a study of the question and having reached a favorable conclusion, became an earnest advocate and worker for the cause...
...I must have work—I must have it...
...Already they are being sent to all the clubs of the State Federation for endorsement...
...The desire in America for the preservation of the integrity of the Fatherland can be second only to that of the Germans themselves...
...Why should nations be so blindly selfish, so insanely jealous of each other...
...When I went to the University of Wisconsin (it was forty miles away, the farthest I had ever been from home) it happened that my room mate, who possessed one of the rarest spirits I have ever known, was a German from Sauk City...
...Borax is more expensive than washing soda but it is especially good for colored goods and wool...
...Yesterday I sold my wife's wedding ring to buy food for the kids...
...I remember my father always praising the thrift, the industry, the honesty and reliability of our German settlements...
...And why should not nations engage in friendly or even unfriendly rivalry for the world's markets and commerce...
...it was agreed that the Germans must be converted one at a time...
...She personified the truth...
...In the other, it is met by starvation...
...Slow work...
...It seems too grewsome to think that this thing can continue from day to day with all the devilish ingenuity of the developed modern mind, and that it threatens to bridge the weary months with its millions of losses in lives and money...
...It is too cold at night to manage without them...
...The human body has been reared at a cost of suffering, expense, and experience...
...But a government of the people, by the people and for the people is still far off in our industrial order, the world over...
...The furniture is already nearly all gone...
...Washing soda, the most effective softener for ordinary use, should be used in the following proportions unless the water is very hard...
...If I could only get work...
...We have practically nothing left now but the bed-clothes...
...The producer should have a say in the tiling he or she produces...
...And here are hundreds like me...
...Women Suffer Most If our prayers for peace are heard, a great burden will be lifted from the women of Europe...
...I do not know whether we shall sell them yet for food or whether we shall die under them...
...La Follette is siding with the Germans...
...A single suggestion from a German professor was one of the greatest educational factors in my life...
...it is an investment of cvilization resting on years of development...
...Such water can be softened by boiling...
...IT WAS with a thrill of joy and a profound sense of gratitude that I read this noble article by Herman Bidder the brilliant and distinguished editor of the leading German paper in the United States, the New York Staais-Zeitung...
...I would steal, but if I go to prison what is to become of them...
...They are using them on cheques and letters— MAKE WAR ON WAR advocate world-wide disarmament and an international court properly policed Another group of women are getting out the following post card petition...
...The Progressive Women, 257 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, have issued the following stamp—20 for 5 cents...
...We knew it was only a matter of more time because the German conscience is a factor on which you can always depend...
...Often I am so oppressed with the horror of it all, so utterly tired of stories of barbarity, atrocity, cruelty, and death, that I shudder when I take up the morning paper...
...Stockman added that she knew of several other women who were contemplating similar action...
...I do not want her to be handicapped one way and not have some sort of advantage in another...
...Wage Earning and War By ELIZABETH GLENDOWER EVANS THERE is more than one way to wage war...
...Should Have the Vote I confess to a belief that woman should have a direct voice in the control of affairs...
...They would only die, and I would rather die with them...
...She taught me more than any of my teachers how to appreciate Heine, Schiller and Goethe...
...Sauk County, Wisconsin, my childhood home, was strongly German— largely Forty-niners...
...So we were not discouraged although the German element constitutes about sixty per cent of our population...
...After all they pay the greatest price...
...They are all to blame...
...Iron in water is harder to treat...
Vol. 6 • October 1914 • No. 42
