HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Bell Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Segregation in the Civil Service THE question of race segregation in the United States Civil Service was again brought to public attention...
...Mrs...
...Surely any one who can speak with so much authority might say: '' Hereafter dress made in the United States shall not be subject to meaningless change...
...Those wonderful dark eyes seemed to read at a glance all there was to know...
...This would add more to the support of the family than could be purchased with the same child's wages working in factory, shop, or mill...
...Dress taxes the time of the busy and is very expensive to the poor...
...The children adored her and must always count her love and memory among their richest blessings...
...Sleeves must be set in...
...Should we be willing to wear clothes which do not distinguish us from our most unfortunate sisters...
...The law is carefully drawn to prevent partiality or discrimination among applicants...
...She aims to organize the women of the world in a great united peace movement...
...They had to remodel their institution and let in plenty of the sun's ravs in order to keep the blind in health...
...Edison in his search for Alices for his phonograph has made trial records of more than th ree thousand singers in nearly every city in Europe and almost an equal number of trials in America...
...Music and art of all description is unpatronized unless a foreign label designates it...
...we are going to work out permanent standards that will make women's dress in the United States suitable, tasteful and durable...
...let our women use the brain they are blessed with in aiding our designers and manufacturers...
...Her statue of him stands in the rotunda of the National Capitol...
...Experiments already have shown that with proper direction an average child can produce in an eighth of an acre of land from $50 to $100 worth of vegetables...
...Edison says: "In the October Woman's Home Companion, Miss Ida Tarbeli had an article in which I took keen interest...
...We have learned and have great people in our midst...
...He was glad she did not have to bear the pain of earthly separation...
...One gleans such infallible conclusions as these: "Evening gowns are cut so low in the hack that they prohibit the use of corsets...
...Fulfillment by the allies in the European war, when the opportune moment arrives, of their slogan that their war is a war against war...
...Agreement between democracies that they will support any one law-abiding nation that is aggressively attacked and defend any smaller nation menaced by a stronger power...
...Yet our hearts ached for the lonely man who had so long lived to love and protect Vinnie Ream Hoxie...
...What becomes of the fundamental principles of our institutions if the color line or any other arbitrary line can be drawn by the government among its civil service employees...
...Few residents'of the Capital were as widely known...
...But they reasoned, why provide useless windows for the blind...
...Her address is one of the most wonderful I have ever heard...
...Many other statues of distinguished men were made by her and she created many beautiful imaginative pieces...
...This is a thing more and more desirable, since education for life and citizenship cannot be obtained before the age of fourteen...
...At the June Convention a resolution was adopted, favoring more rational dress...
...She had a magnetism and charm that won the heart and a very keen discriminating intelligence...
...If children can contribute to the families' support while in school, it will make it possible for them to attend school three'or four years longer than they now do...
...Its simplicity and naturalness make you feel it is the real Lincoln...
...Its lifelike lines must always be loved and admired by the throngs of people who pass it daily...
...Of course it does not look right to the eye to have curtains at uneven distances...
...When are we to form our own opinions and be independent enough to stand for our own expression...
...Madison, Wisconsin, was Vinnie Ream's birthplace and because it is our home, she and General Hoxie welcomed us as friends when we came to "Washington and since then we have felt that we belonged to each other's inner circle...
...I wish to indorse all that she said and enter my plea with hers for home industries and home talent...
...Her outlook is too broad for that...
...Then it was discovered that human beings like plants, sickened and died from lack of sunlight...
...For a number of years as I have visited some of our best houses and leaders of fashion, I have begged the designers to use their fine brains and ereat talent in creating an individual style for our women...
...Manufacture of armaments by governments instead of private concerns and prohibition of shipment of ammunition from one country to another...
...AFTER I had written the above, an interesting letter from Mrs...
...Let us demand of our manufacturers the finest of material and fabrics...
...Nor shall we ever expect to meet another like her...
...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Segregation in the Civil Service THE question of race segregation in the United States Civil Service was again brought to public attention when a delegation called on President 'Wilson, recently, to protest against it in certain departments...
...Her genius included music...
...Skirts must be full...
...For the Holidays she would send them gifts, keepsakes, sweetmeats...
...She would sit at the harp or piano and play accompaniments which she composed to the songs and melodies she sang with strange sweet power...
...If there was cause for offense it was unfortunate...
...Creation of constitutional machinery, where none exists, by which democracies may exercise control over foreign policy...
...Fashions Made in the United States WAR is said to have released the fashionable " women of America from the bondage of the Paris man dressmaker...
...She saw through all that was superficial and looked straight into the soul...
...Vinnie Ream Hoxie WINNIE BEAM HOXIE, noted as a sculptor, died at her Washington home November twenty-first...
...At one time it may have been necessary to gain knowledge abroad, but not so now...
...But if it is true, as reported, that the President took the position that the Departments should be allowed to segregate the races because race prejudice was with us and segregation would prevent friction, that too was unfortunate...
...PETHICK LAWRENCE of London, England, is speaking in America for "constructive peace,'' not peace that will contain the seed of future wars such as past treaties have contained, but peace that shall prevent future wars...
...The "Made in America" slogan has extended to the designing of gowns...
...Mrs...
...We build our houses with windows, supposedly to let in the light and then shut it out with several thicknesses of curtains...
...Let's make "Fashions Made in America," "all the rage.'' And let's make them rational...
...Vision, experience, logic, conviction, culture, presence—unite in making her a great advocate of a great cause...
...In the Fall and "Winter particularly every bit of sunlight should be utilized as though we were paying for it by the meter...
...No one can possibly ivear a last year's gown...
...While the extravagance and waste of our dress is in a degree the fault of individual women, still in the final analysis it is the result of custom and usage so deeply entrenched that it can only be overcome by organized effort, united action...
...The spirit of her address is like that of the remarkable editorial of Herman Ridder in the New York Staats-Zeitung entitled "Women Suffer Most," which was reproduced on these pages in our issue of October 17th...
...None who knew her can ever forget her...
...from the Iowa farm there would come apples and nuts and flowers, always with joyous greetings that gave them the flavor of fairyland...
...Surely our designers can make for us stylish, more womanly costumes...
...Ratification by the people of all treaties and alliances made by democracies...
...The General was very brave...
...Mrs...
...They hold out no greater hope of sanity in dress than the usual fashion page...
...New York and Washington social leaders have inaugurated and have become patrons of style exhibits for the express purpose of encouraging the new movement...
...They installed scientific heating and ventilation...
...But notwithstanding that fact the Americans demand tho foreign talent...
...Thomas A. Edison, published in the December Woman's Home Companion, came to my attention...
...Newspaper , reports say that the President resented the attitude of the spokesman because he threatened political reprisal...
...It concludes with this sentence: "Woman produces human life and war destroys it...
...Why should we be mongrels, following first Paris, then London, Berlin, Vienna, etc., and not their best form at that, but allowing the big houses of those various cities to put on our backs the demi-monde type, we accepting it because it is imported...
...In a personal interview she strongly avows the belief that in America militancy has no place...
...Do we not show ourselves an advanced nation when we compare our methods in war with those of the present terrible condition in Europe...
...No one who has the opportunity should fail to hear her...
...Lawrence's address in Washington, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Creation of an European Senate for discussions of national concern...
...But, alas, the descriptions of the costumes worn and exhibited at these American-made fashion displays sound strangely like those of: "Paris creations...
...One well known New York society woman has said in an interview that she did not believe it would ever again be considered necessary for a well dressed woman to purchase any of her wardrobe abroad...
...he was better prepared to meet it...
...Consent of the population of a province, including women, before the province is transferred from one government to another at the end of the war...
...How religiously many a good housekeeper keeps the shades drawn to the middle line of the window...
...And she would tell stories of her experiences so simply yet dramatically that they must ever remain indelible...
...Admission of women to the Hague conference...
...There should be no prejudice against her in this countiy because she was in the beginning of the movement a militant in England...
...For she was different and belongs to the immortal great...
...She also made the commanding statue of Admiral Farragut in Farragut Square, which the Hoxie home overlooks...
...it is not going to be a jumble of absurdities...
...an appreciation of the value of money as measured in terms of labor...
...A singer must have come from abroad, in fact must change his name from plain American Richard to Riccardo, the imported name, before he is recognized as a singer...
...It is impossible to estimate the enormous amount of time, money and energy expended on women's clothes, say nothing of the ethical problem involved...
...We have no appreciation of the value of sunlight in our every day living...
...She wore her wedding gown and lay peacefully as though asleep in the room banked with flowers...
...He finds that as a rule the European voice is afflicted with a very disagreeable tremolo, variable timbre and poor interpretation —whereas the American voice is far more frequently free of tremolo, has a fairly even timbre and as to interpretation the Americans far surpass the European singers...
...People from all parts of the Avorld met under her roof...
...Often we sit in the house, when we might be out of doors in the sun...
...Every woman's club should become a center of activity...
...Sunlight IN England they built an institution for the blind...
...The same is true in other vocations...
...Some individual clubs following the suggestion are taking up the subject for study and discussion...
...They have won these positions absolutely on merit...
...It was aways a privilege to take a friend to her salon...
...The United States government is in a very different position from the private employer...
...It would be hard to conceive of an organization better fitted to undertake the great work of promoting fashions made in the United States, than the National Federation of Women's Clubs...
...For the past three or four years it has been impossible to go upon our streets without a shudder...
...Mr...
...Her house was a center of hospitality and rare interest...
...BUT if they are all run up to the TOP of the windows they will be uniform and will let in all the sunlight possible...
...Pethick Lawrence's Mission MRS...
...While still a very young girl in her early teens Lincoln sat for her at the White House...
...If woman had a large voice in the counsel of nations there would be no dietate, 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.'' At the close of Mrs...
...No fashion devotee has ever awaited the latest style dictum more eagerly than I have watched for some such decree as this as a result of fashions made in America...
...The colored people constitute about one-tenth of our population...
...S. Bureau of Education...
...should we not now pause and enjoy that which we have...
...The extravagant dress of the rich is one of the greatest temptations to the weak...
...A civil service examination is open to all citizens alike...
...Hoxie was greatly loved and will be greatly missed...
...Reinforcement of democracies by inclusion of the mother-half of the people into the ranks of citizenship...
...SCHOOL GARDENING will develop habits of industry...
...Now, if our women recognize this talent, the designers will do this, and we shall have in dress a national individuality equal to the greatness of our country in other lines...
...Nor should any one fear that because she is English, her appeal for peace will be tinged with partisanship...
...While she had the free spontaneous nature of the artist, yet she always impressed me as very wise and democratic in her judgment and value of people...
...They hold about that proportion of places in the United States government civil service...
...and a realization that every man and woman must make his or her own living, and contribute to the welfare of the community...
Vol. 6 • December 1914 • No. 46
