HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Farm Women Give Suggestions For Improving Rural Home Life IN OUR issue of October 18th we called atten- tion to the fact that Secretary...
...Cover very closely, and let it simmer for 1 1/2 hours...
...Buy a slice of the fillet of veal, 2 inches thick, weighing 2 1/2 pounds...
...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Farm Women Give Suggestions For Improving Rural Home Life IN OUR issue of October 18th we called atten- tion to the fact that Secretary Houston of the U. S. Department of Agriculure had sent out 50,000 form letters to men on the official crop correspondents list to be transmitted by them to the women members of their households...
...Expression in Writing BULLETIN No...
...The big purpose of the evening was the exchange of ideas concerning the preparation of food and the most interesting activity of the evening was the inspection and sampling of the delectable dishes displayed...
...Turn out and serve hot or cold, with cream or sauce...
...These women will naturally become active in their various communities and alive to the value of any new knowledge or suggestions furnished...
...The greatest barrier to the reformation of the prisoners at present is the system of short sentences...
...Admission is absolutely free, and the undertaking is dependent on the co-operative support of the whole community...
...trap shooting...
...in 1913 it exceeded ten thousand...
...There have been 2,000 answers, many of these are signed by a number of individuals...
...entitled The Reorganization of Secondary Education, says: Expression in writing includes : Ability to write a courteous letter according to the forms in general use, and of the degree of formality or informality appropriate to the occasion...
...1 teaspoonful salt...
...Hints to Home-makers INDIAN PUDDING...
...Ability (for those who have literary tastes or ambitions) to write a short story or other bit of imaginative composition with some vigor and personality of style and in proper form to be submitted for publication, and to arrange suitable stories in form for dramatic presentation...
...There will be seven separate, one-story, out-of-door class-rooms facing full south...
...The grounds must be gotten ready...
...Much of the Jewish cookery is very dainty and well flavored...
...Farmers' Bulletin 559...
...Add 4 ounces of powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons of rosewater, yolks of 4 eggs, and the beaten whites 'of 3. Whip for 10 minutes, pour into a buttered mould and bake in a quick oven...
...Boy Scout drills and competitions...
...Add pars-lev if desired...
...5. Contests and competitions are not the main thing...
...Blanch 4 ounces sweet almonds and 3 of bitter almonds, dry them and pound very fine...
...4. You can't drink strong drink and be an athlete...
...a grand march...
...The Secretary requested that the women receiving the letters should discuss with their neighbors, in their church societies, clubs and other organizations the question of how the Department could improve its service and make it more helpful to women on the farm...
...Recipes were printed on cardboard about the wall...
...Membership in the association is open to every citizen of Amenia and the surrounding territory, upon payment of the annual dues of one dollar...
...Don't merely watch others play games...
...1/2 cupful molasses...
...Beside the play picnic, with its games for all ages and both sexes, the features of previous celebrations have included folk dancing by young girls...
...a ten-mile parade "around the mountain" with prizes for the most beautifully decorated farm wagons, grange floats and other vehicles...
...In addition to these, an agricultural demonstration, with special reference to alfafa growing under the supervision of the Dutchess County Farm Bureau and the State Department of Agriculture, was included on the program of the Fourth Annual Celebration...
...Exchanging Cookery Ideas R ECIPE Exchange Night" meant a jolly so-cial evening for a number of Wisconsin communities on Friday, January 23...
...A Field Day like this is, therefore, not a single day's work or pleasure, but is a source of happy activity and an incitement to public spirit for at least two months...
...We begin to see who were the leaders, and who were the blindly led.—Samuel McCbord Crothers in The Atlantic Monthly...
...stories for children...
...serve with cream.—U...
...THE MODEL SCHOOL at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania , at the entrance to the college, has been made an open-air school...
...Get your boys interested in honest and healthy sports, and save them from drink and dissipation...
...Effectively massed vegetables, strings of fruit, and exhibitions of old fashioned dishes and utensils in contrast with the most modern improvements, were suggested as decorations...
...Wash and parboil 1/2 pound of spaghetti, drain it, add 1 pint of stewed tomatoes, mixed with a little stock or beef extract, some chopped onion and herbs, also a small piece of ham cut up...
...in 1912 at eight thousand...
...or the cook simply told how she did it...
...add molasses, salt, and ginger...
...They are from all parts of the country and can not fail to be mutually helpful and stimulating as to ways of lightening their work, shortening their hours, marketing their produce, making their homes more convenient and securing more leisure and a larger social life for the family...
...Under this system prisoners might be sentenced for a maximum of say two years, and be subject to parole upon good conduct at any time prior to the expiration of the maximum period...
...When brown, but not burnt, add 1 1/2 quarts of chicken broth and one cup of cooked chicken, cut into dice...
...others are from clubs and various organizations so they represent the sentiment of many more than 2,000 women...
...Ability to compose on the first draft a clear and readable paragraph or series of paragraphs on familiar subject matter, with due observance of unity and order and with some specific detail...
...Favor Indeterminate Sentence THE Board of Associated Charities of Wash- ington in a recent report to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia say...
...It is hopeless to expect to establish substantial change of habits within such a short period, and the result is that men and women are sent over and over again to the institution within short periods, at a considerable expense to the community on account of frequent arrests and trials and with but little if any benefit to the prisoners...
...serve with a plateful of grated Parmesan cheese...
...Only the dressing-room and laboratories will be indoors...
...Simmer, covered 2 hours, then add salt, pepper, and yolk of an egg, blended with a littlt A the broth first, before adding to the soup...
...The actual work of preparation is carried on, under the direction of the executive officers, by ten committees, appointed by the Board of Directors...
...The answers to these letters are now being studied and classified as a basis of bulletins containing helpful information and advice to rural women...
...Every healthy boy should be interested in at least half a dozen others...
...3. Baseball is a splendid game, but it isn't the only one...
...pour into buttered pudding dish and bake 2 hours in slow oven...
...play them yourself...
...441, U. S. Bureau of Educa-tion...
...Farm women who have not already written in reply to these letters might do well to request the Department to place their names on the mailing list for any bulletins that may be published on any subjects of interest to them...
...BACHELOR'S STEW (England).—This is still another old recipe, a relic of the days before clubs became plentiful and lonely men cooked their meals on the hob of the little fireplace of their own rooms...
...Italians also use a clove of garlic in this sauce, but this can be left out...
...This must be cooked for 20 minutes, then strained and seasoned, before pouring it over the spaghetti...
...Rural Recreation WINTER offers the opportunity for farmers in their grange and club meetings, to consider plans of entertainment for their annual fairs, picnics, and other rural gatherings...
...potato, sack, obstacle, and other races...
...But in addition to the members of these committees, scores of other people in Amenia and the vicinity find work to do in preparation for the great day of the year...
...FONDUE (Switzerland).—Take as many eggs as there are people, add 1/3 of their weight in grated cheese, and 1/2 their weight in butter...
...All expression in writing demands correctness as to formal details, namely, a legible and firm handwriting, correct spelling, correctness in grammar and idiom, and observance of the ordi-nay rules for capitals and marks of punctuation...
...The ideal of the Amenia movement is that of community play...
...Exaltation of cookery and cooks was the theme of the evening...
...a band concert and parade in the evening...
...Wash and trim one dozen leeks, cut them in pieces half an inch long discarding roots and tops, then fry them in one ounce of butter, with two stalks of celery and one carrot, cut fine...
...To overcome this condition, it is recommended that the indeterminate sentence and parole system be introduced for the prisoners now sent to Occoquan...
...Cook milk and meal in a double boiler 20 minutes...
...It is said to be the intention of the Department before long to prepare plans for the building and arrangement of farm homes adapted to various climates and conditions...
...the writer should make an effort to gain an enlarged vocabulary, a concise and vigorous style, and firmness and flexibility in constructing sentences and paragraphs...
...the weak look on and grow weaker...
...It is felt that the people of the open country should learn how to play, rather than merely watch others, however skilful, play for them...
...and classes were arranged for this purpose in Amenia, Sharon, Wassaic and Pawling...
...a Punch and Judy and other shows for little children...
...Thicken the gravy with flour and pour it around the meat and vegetables, neatly arranged...
...The main thing is play...
...Each class-room opens on a large uncovered platform 8x36 feet, which will be used for the gymnastics and siestas that are part of open-air school work...
...tug of war...
...Add a spoonful of Worcestershire sauce and a cup of boiling water...
...Its festivals should be, not only for the people, but of and by the people...
...2. There's a good deal of work in the country, but most of our boys and girls have forgotten how to play...
...The following principles control this co-operative recreation movement: 1. You have got to make the country as attractive socially as the city if you want to keep the young folks on the farms...
...ALMOND PUDDING (Budda-Pcsth).—This is a Jewish recipe...
...SPAGHETTI (Prevailing Method in Italy...
...Stir the spaghetti well...
...Ability, with due time for study and preparation, to plan and work out a clear, well-ordered...
...tableaux...
...A special program featuring the delights of cookery was mailed to one hundred and fifty communities that receive regularly all program material sent out by the bureau of social center development of the University of Wisconsin Extension Division...
...The strong compete and grow stronger...
...Many prisoners are sent for periods of from fifteen to thirty days, and the same men and women are sent repeatedly at frequent intervals...
...speeches by distinguished men and women on subjects of interest to a rural community...
...transportation and a multitude of other details must be arranged ; and games and sports must be practised...
...Cook until it is thick, and pour into a deep dish...
...the village streets and houses, farm wagons, floats, and other vehicles must be decorated...
...Fry it in a pan with some butter, a slice of lean ham, 2 carrots, 3 onions, sliced, and some celery and green peas, 1/2 cupful each, or more if desired...
...It was inaugurated in 1910 at Amenia, Dutchess County, New York...
...Cornelia Kane Rathbone in The Atlantic Monthly...
...a baseball game between local teams...
...The games included discrimination tests of the different senses...
...One day a year the people of Amenia invite the whole countryside to a free day of wholesome recreation, without gambling, fakirs, vulgar sideshows, or any other objectionable features of commercialized amusement...
...We have before called attention to the Amenia Field Day as a successful experiment in rural co-operative recreation...
...One advantage of this movement is that it will furnish the Department a nucleus of names of interested women who can be reached directly...
...Learn the great lesson that play is just as necessary for your sons as work...
...In 1910 the attendance at the Field Day was estimated at three thousand...
...but it takes an intelligent and justice-loving people to maintain Liberty.—The Public...
...in 1911 at five thousand...
...The program quotes from Miss Adelaide Keene's With a Saucepan Over the Sea several recipes, among them these: COCKA LEEKIE (Scotland...
...Ability to analyze and present in outline form the gist of a lecture or piece of literature, and to write an expansion of such an outline...
...6. The community should help to run its own recreations...
...Competitive sports have their place in the day's amusement, but they are subordinated to the idea of the play picnic, in which all, both young and old, may take part...
...The valley weaves her kirtle With strands of April green, Fern fronds on deeper myrtle And willow buds between...
...or typewritten and the sheets distribiited at a penny a sheet...
...While, tiny rills laugh love-songs lo" Beneath their sedgy screen...
...Beat the eggs, whites and yolk- together, add the cheese and butter, salt and pepper...
...A FEW enthusiasts may overturn Despotism...
...In 1913 an expert teacher was employed by the association, in advance of Field Day, to give lessons in folk dancing,and various games to boys and girls...
...This is the oldest recipe for soup known, as it dates back to the fourteenth century...
...5 cupfuls milk...
...1 teaspoonful ginger...
...1/2 cupful Indian meal...
...and interesting report of some length upon one's special interests—literary, scientific, commercial, or what not...
...AS THE sequence of events becomes plain, History revises our judgments in regard to political sayacity...
Vol. 6 • February 1914 • No. 6
