HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE A Visit to North Dakota THE North Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs invited me last March to address their annual meeting in October....
...The long stretches of level road are ideal for autoing...
...Add other ingredients, and heat well...
...and I noticed they do have a low rate of tuberculosis...
...North Dakota is a prohibition state, but it adjoins Minnesota which is not a prohibition state...
...She was educated in the Michigan and Chicago universities...
...When the time arrives, she is splendid timber for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, an office very appropriately given to women in the states where they have suffrage...
...The Library Commission, the Domestic Science School, the Historical Society, were represented in this exhibit...
...Wahpeton owns its electric light plant...
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...When I speak to anyone to correct the manner of dancing or for any reason whatever, I speak in a perfectly polite way...
...Constitutional prohibition, the endorsement of both party organizations, the large Scandinavian element, made it look like easy sailing for suffrage in North Dakota, from afar...
...Men came to the dance halls intoxicated, and often with liquor in their pockets, which they drank and offered to the girls at intermissions...
...I dance with the girls partly to become better acquainted with them, and partly to establish a certain standard of formality and dignity for, the dancers...
...The mere fact that pool alleys and dance halls and cheap theaters are under your observation, and that you are in frequent conference with their proprietors, assuring them that if they conduct their places right, they are rendering a high service in supplying amusement...
...I thought, of course, Congress would be adjourned...
...They are introducing a corn adapted to the state, and here and there I observed an alfalfa field...
...Women who are known prostitutes are not allowed, I mingle among the dancers, keep track of the conversation, and do not allow men to stay around with the sole purpose of seeing girls and making dates...
...And they share with men the enthusiasm, and loyalty for their state...
...Judge C. F. Amidon of North Dakota is one of the rare men of our times...
...North Dakota women have confidence in themselves, as the men have...
...With its wonderful living-giving air, it is hard to believe that anyone can be sick in North Dakota...
...The direct use of police power, I should think, would be needed only in exceptional cases, where any of these agencies that supply amusement to youth, are in the hands of persons who are wholly irresponsive to ethical considerations...
...The men go when I order...
...The photographs of a historical pageant given at Fargo last year reveal the wonderful possibilities of this form of expression...
...She assisted Miss Sears in the summer outing work of the United Charities...
...The Fargo policewoman attributes her good health to her vigorous outdoor life, walking from the farm to the school...
...I do not anticipate that much police action on your part will be required...
...I never stand and argue...
...The expense...
...This little lady was not only leading the suffrage movement in Wahpeton but was—maybe unconsciously—a pioneer in a home economics movement...
...She did voluntary juvenile court work...
...I often fail, but that means try again...
...If I am not obeyed, the offender is told to leave the hall at once...
...I had read much about it, but one must really see it to appreciate its educational value...
...The Federation meeting was an inspiration...
...This makes a problem for Fargo and cities similarly situated...
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...The law against liquor and drinking in connection with public dance halls in Fargo is, of course, quite rigid, and furnished a good working basis for the complete elimination of any objectionable features associated with liquor...
...North Dakota rural communities are adopting the plan of the Little Country Theater, and are using the plays which have been successfully tried out at the university theater...
...the fundamental preparation for her life work was the need to meet early the responsibilities which develop self reliance...
...Ladd is the head, next attracted my attention...
...Professor Arvold is cultivating the spirit of the drama and pageantry at the University and throughout the state...
...First of all, one must have an ordinance, which furnishes reasonable regulation and gives the inspector or public chaperon sufficient power...
...but I really suspect she did it herself, so rarely capable did she prove to be in all things...
...The audience crowded the opera house...
...immediately after a rain, they are gone over with a machine which puts them in condition for use at once...
...Helen Louise Johnson, Chairman of the Home Economics Department of the General Federation, greatly pleased her audience with an address on The Home, which she spiced with comments on suffrage...
...She does all her cooking by electricity...
...He is a prophet in his own country...
...WHEN we reached Wahpeton our pretty young hostess, who is President of the Suffrage Club, received us at the door of her small but artistic home in a big apron, which she did not remove until we sat down to a beautiful little luncheon, which she had herself prepared...
...that it would not take long...
...Our ride was through the great wheat country, but it was by no means all wheat...
...SUNDAY night I spoke before a University free lecture club...
...There was a large hall devoted to it...
...The oldest and most dilapidated room in the agricultural building, such as any country school or church might afford, was purposely selected and converted into an attractive audience room, with stage and scenery adapted to the production of plays by amateurs...
...Supervising dance halls," said the young policewoman, "is a problem that must be met in different ways in different places...
...A splendid group of three hundred women,— alive, keenly interested, well-dressed, up-to-date women...
...This rarely happens...
...It brought her in contact with Jane Addams...
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...Dairying, stock and poultry raising,—a more varied industry, is the slogan of North Dakota as it must be of every progressive agricultural state...
...It is the turning on of the light that will be productive of good...
...The antis put up a very aggressive campaign,—determined leadership, strong organization, and many of their best speakers...
...Irma Erwin was born on a farm near Free-port, Illinois, of one of the pioneer families...
...When the time came we were still in Washington...
...One woman of our party made comparison of household accounts with our hostess, and found it cost as much to light her house in Fargo as it did our hostess to do both her lighting and cooking in Wahpeton...
...They are made high in the center so as to give drainage...
...Many girls have thanked me for making the place as clean as it is, because, as they say, 'You see we have no other place to go, and we simply love to dance.' "The dance hall, of course, keeps me in touch with many girls and young men I would have no chance of meeting in any other way...
...And that makes business for the doctors...
...One has always the sense of the great sweep of the country and the impression of an inexhaustible soil, which might feed the world...
...I accepted...
...While teaching in the public schools in Chicago she became interested in the problems of truancy and delinquency...
...The grain pours from the threshing machine into galvanized iron granaries, standing in the field, where it remains in perfect condition until taken to the elevator for market...
...I was told that North Dakota has an ample supply of coal as good as any coal to be obtained anywhere, for making electric power...
...I watch and stop any familiarities between dances also...
...It was a long trip, and hard to get away...
...The farms have fine buildings, and usually a grove of trees, which, however, do not obscure the view...
...My dancing with them proves to them I am not just a crank who doesn't know how to have a good time, but that I want every one to have a good time in the right way...
...When I first came here, however, the ordinance was not enforced...
...But it was not until I called at the police headquarters and talked with her that I grasped the significance of her work...
...If he does not go an officer or proprietor is asked to put him out...
...The eastern part, where we put in two days automobiling, has the appearance of an old and settled country...
...In inviting Miss Erwin to come to Fargo, Judge Amidon said: "I have great confidence that you will be able to meet the situation and that you will find the work enjoyable...
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...that we would be home in Wisconsin...
...I EST our readers think that I found every-thing perfect in North Dakota,—nothing to criticize,—I want to add that west of the Missouri River in mountain time, in the flourishing town of Dickinson, with great stretches of unoccupied land as far as the eye could see, they were building flats...
...It encourages each locality to develop and control its own amusement and to keep it wholesome...
...But there is where Wahpeton has the advantage...
...The vases and jars and bowls were very beautiful in form and color...
...that all you ask of them and all that society asks of them is they do not seize upon and use the deep instinct of youth for play to corrupt our young people...
...Naturally I was pleased that they wanted me...
...Her social work grew...
...And the people of Wahpeton, a town of five thousand inhabitants, are profiting by the object lesson...
...She chaperoned the young folks, loved them, felt they were her tried and true friends...
...When Judge Amidon was in search of a policewoman for Fargo, Miss Addams, Graham Taylor and other social workers of Chicago, recommended Irma Erwin...
...Half fill tins and bake in moderately hot oven...
...This enterprising city has a store dealing in electric stoves and fixtures, which is a very interesting exhibit...
...But I found they had a difficult situation, in that they had to get a majority of all the votes cast for the highest office,—which experience has shown is almost an impossible thing to do for any constitutional amendment...
...Everything about the theater is simple, substantial, and craftsmanlike...
...I met her the first evening I spoke there,—a fine, wholesome looking young woman...
...It delighted me to know that this brilliant, capable little woman, with her wide influence, had gotten down off the fence, where she was a few years ago, and was now an enthusiastic advocate of Votes for Women, * * * * * * THE Federation endorsed the suffrage reso-lution by a vote of about five to one...
...No better entertainment could be devised...
...The policewoman showed me a letter which he had written her that expresses marvelously well the new attitude of society for prevention rather than punishment of crime...
...But I shall always rejoice that I availed myself of the opportunity...
...First I noted the health work of the state presented by maps and charts...
...I am anxious that you should take time to grow into the work, studying carefully the situation, getting acquainted with the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. people, the presidents of our educational institutions, superintendent of schools, teachers, the pastors of the churches, on the one hand, and studying the vice conditions of the city on the other, thus bringing the two ends of society together...
...The motor plows, turning over a wide stretch of furrows at each turn, make a field ready as if by magic...
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...An English Recipe Fairy Buns 4 oz...
...The President of the Federation, Miss Niel-son, a county superintendent of schools, is a fine, large, noble type of young woman...
...This was manifested by an exhibit in connection with the Federation meeting...
...FARGO, a town of perhaps twenty thousand inhabitants, has a policewoman...
...The exhibit of the Agricultural Experiment Station, of which Dr...
...cornflour 1 tablespoon milk 1 teaspoon baking powder vanilla or lemon to taste...
...She was clpsely connected with church work and always had a thriving class of boys and girls in Sunday school...
...North Dakota appreciates Dr...
...THE North Dakota Agricultural College is located at Fargo...
...Of course there was a leader with vision, and a responsive citizenship to secure this unusual official in Fargo...
...But the doctors say people are stimulated by the climate to overdo...
...Her mother, left a widow when Irma was a, small child, has always been a strong suffragist and W. 0. T. U. worker and has kept alert and in active touch with the outside world, while bringing up her large family...
...I have often referred on these pages to the work of this station as being particularly valuable to the housekeeper, because it gives publicity to the results of its analyses,—contents, and weights of manufactured foods and drinks...
...Her chic gown might have been imported, or better, "Made in America...
...The experiments of the North Dakota University in making pottery out of their native clay by students, was an especially interesting feature of the exhibit...
...Ladd...
...I visited the "Little Country Theater" which Professor Arvold has worked out as a model...
...THE few days I spent campaigning for suf-frage gave me an opportunity to view the wonderful agricultural development of the state...
...This has been entirely done away with...
...For eight years this club has furnished lectures Sunday evenings in Fargo free to the people...
...It takes infinite care and tact to wield authority in these places, and yet establish friendly relations with the young folks...
...In North Dakota, before they have finished threshing one of their great grain fields, they have begun plowing the ground for the next season's crop...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
