HOME AND EDUCATION

...there is no acceptance of the slightest charity in using it...

...This has already been the case in that fortunate district of New York City called Greenwich...

...THE Woman's Journal notes that a change of little more than 4,000 votes in a total of nearly 190,000 would have carried Nebraska for suffrage...

...The movement toward voluntary union is one of the striking characteristics of the present time...

...The housewife who is anxious to provide the family under her charge with a pure milk should choose her milk man carefully, should insist on bottle delivery and then when the milk comes to the house should put it promptly into the ice box and not allow it to stand on the porch, window sill or kitchen table...

...little boys work nights in glass factories...

...Suffrage Notes and News By Anna Cadogan Etz AN EMINENT MINISTER was once asked if he thought that Christianity was a failure and he answered, "It has never been tried...

...A Call To Womanhood By OLIVE JILFORD DARGAN "THE Lord of Little Children to the sleeping mothers spake...

...The city pays for the music and the pictures, and the audience simply comes in, is entertained, and drifts away again...

...and if we extend its developing support and stimulus to all our citizens, and not confine it almost entirely, as in the past, to those under fourteen years of age, we are building up a mighty force to make for democracy throughout the nation...

...Strong smelling foods, such as onions and cheese, must not be kept in the same compartments with milk or butter...

...A simple beginning of the school center movement is found in cities where, from time to time, school houses are opened after school hours for use by the community...

...A POPULAR SAYING in New Zealand," said S. M. Fisher, the Minister of Marines and Customs of that far away country, at a recent Philadelphia meeting, "is that a man must be a pretty clean potato or the women won't vote for him...

...We have seen her kneel in anguish and the bitter blow receive, And we arise and go...

...To do this it is necessary to have club leaders who understand the importance of this training, who have the social point of view...

...Lo the dreaming time is over, ye the hand of Life must take...

...Milk bottles should never be used for any other purpose than holding milk or cream...

...The difference between this kind of School Center and the first kind is that instead of the passive participation of an audience which comes just for entertainment, we have the active participation of club members willing to work for their own development, and to contribute part of the expense of the club,—the city giving the building, heat, light, janitor, and general director of the Center, and the members paying the cost of whatever leader they want for their especial work...

...in no other building will they go as they go to the school house...

...Third, because of the scattered locations of the school houses, their halls, gymnasiums, and large number of rooms fill the needs of the work especially well...

...In the Boston Centers, it is arranged for each group to help decide its own management, and for each group to send a delegate to form a Council to help in the direction of the whole center...

...Do not return any unused portion to the milk in the bottle, but place it in the ice chest in another dish...

...As has been well said: it is evident that centers vitalized by the brains and money of the people who use them are of infinitely greater value than those which offer opportunities for the merely passive participation of a passing audience...

...Milk prepared for infant feeding in nursing bottles should be kept in the ice chest until just before using...

...The practice of heating the baby's milk at evening and keeping it warm until night or early morning feeding is very bad...

...In some places...

...The extra money thus obtained either meets any deficit the club may have, or is given to the general fund of the Center...

...Such workers never have the education which comes from making decisions in their work, and from failing or succeeding as a result of their own initiative...

...FREDERIC C. HOWE, Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York, diagnoses the anti-suffrage person as one suffering from plain scare—the object of which fear is freedom, liberty, and democracy...

...this is required by law...

...and clubs of the neighborhood give entertainments at the Center...

...as the years go on, neighborhoods are trained by practice to meet these needs themselves, and leaders are furnished by the neighborhoods to put the right methods into operation...

...They feel it is theirs, as much as a city street or bridge is theirs...

...The best way to wash a milk bottle is to first rinse it out thoroughly with cold water and then carefully with very hot water...

...To allow the milk to stand in a warm room will hasten greatly the growth of bacteria and hence lessen the keeping qualities of the milk...

...The heat thus maintained is most favorable to the growth of bacteria...

...It was a hot debate...

...Even so Supreme Court Justice Guy, in an article in the New York World, rebukes the quib-blers about the success of democracy...

...doing things for others is being replaced by doing things with others, and the perception is growing that democracy is not mainly a form of government, but is the attitude of man toward his fellow man...

...Milk will readily absorb odors and, therefore, the ice box must be kept scrupulously clean...

...Another leader allowed two hours to be given to the discussion of the simple question of whether the colors of the club were to be dark blue and white, or medium blue and white...

...Keep all milk containers tightly covered to prevent the entrance of dust, dirt, or other foreign matter...

...Self direction, however, is no easy matter for anyone to learn, much less for those who spend their entire days in occupations which tend to stifle all initiative, all power of decision, all capacity for self expression...

...women cannot serve on school boards or on the boards of charitable institutions...

...It is important to take the proper care of your ice chest...

...Tis bringing in His day...

...those interested in dancing, in dancing clubs, and so on...

...In opening the bottle, first wipe the mouth of it with a clean towel before removing the cap...

...The difference between a leader who does and one who does not understand this point of view was illustrated by two methods of getting a decision from a club: One leader put a question to his club members, took an immediate vote, without discussion, and announced that the club had decided what was to be done...

...Do not keep more than one day's supply of milk at a time, but order a fresh supply daily...

...On one night a school house is opened, and a good concert is given, free, to a large audience...

...Hence the more advanced Centers provide means to develop initiative, will power and self direction...

...New needs arise each year, different needs arise in different places...

...As the statement was met by great applause one must conclude that times have changed since the Jew included in his morning prayer, "Thank God that I was not born a woman...

...We have heard our sister weeping for the child that must not live, For the hands that may not tend it, for the milk she may not give...

...After twenty-three years of woman suffrage," he added, "New Zealand has the lowest child death rate in the world...

...In other cities a more advanced stage of the movement is found...

...IN THE great Jewish Commonwealth," said Louis Brandeis at the Zionist Convention in Boston, "the equality and rights of women stand uppermost...

...those interested in music are then organized in musical clubs or orchestras...

...We have heard the babes that called us from the whirr of wheel and loom, In a world of sun and meadows crying for a little room, Ere their blood ran to the coffers, ere their labor made their tomb...

...Our public school system, with all its shortcomings, is still the great bulwark of democracy...

...WITH the training of group activities to de- velop group resposibility and group initiative, the possibilities of the Center are inexhaustible...

...WITH cooking and dancing clubs for women and girls, with debating and athletic clubs for men and boys, and with the last half-hour of the session given to dancing by members of all clubs, the Centers attract whole families who go to them together to enjoy the evening...

...little girls of fifteen are legal prey for immoral men...

...And we arise and go...

...One of the most needed forms of group action is self direction...

...The next week a school house in another part of the city is opened, and good moving pictures are shown...

...It may be asked why the school house is the best place for this social education of the people...

...In New Zealand at any rate mothers don't let voting distract their attention from home duties...

...And the dawn was in our faces as we started up awake On Liberty's great day...

...their taxes help maintain it...

...Pour out only the amount needed for a specific purpose, and pour into clean receptacles only...

...Inverting the bottle rapidly two or three times will do this...

...IN WEST VIRGINIA, where the electors will vote on the question of woman suffrage next year, there is no law to limit the hours of work for women...

...Through the spirit of general cooperation the whole neighborhood is enriched, and the ideal grows from the ideal of bettering oneself to the ideal of bettering the neighborhood...

...in it, the members were learning, in some measure, not only self expression and initiative, but also self control, courtesy and regard for the opinion of others...

...W. D. FROST University of Wisconsin THE QUALITY of the milk when used, de- pends to a considerable extent upon the care it receives in the home...

...Not so bad...

...It would clearly seem that the interests of women have not been safeguarded by the men of that state and require a little personal attention from the women themselves which they can only effectively give by having a direct voice in the government...

...We are sometimes inclined to blame the milk man for troubles which are due to improper care of the milk after it has left his hands...

...and the leader understood this value...

...Wash the milk bottles carefully before returning them to your milk man...

...First, because the school house is an absolutely neutral meeting place...

...As a Democrat," he says, "I believe in democracy— which is something this country has never tried...

...The Care of Milk in the Home By DR...

...there is "neither Jew nor Greek, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but all are one...

...Our government now, in which one-half the people is denied a voice in its affairs, is a government of hypocrisy and not of democracy...

...In the case of many workers, every movement they make is regulated either by the ever present foreman and the inexorable machine, or else by orders from above...

...one Center had entertainments for twenty-three days arranged by twenty-three different clubs of the neighborhood...

...In this way not only the individual life but the family life is developed and enriched through common interests in the School Center...

...The members of such clubs often pay a small fee to compensate a leader in their work or play, and when the clubs are far enough advanced in their training, they sometimes give a concert to which they sell tickets, or give a dance, open to all members of the Center, to which they charge admission...

...people are coming together in all manner of associations to promote municipal, national and international movements...

...Mix the milk well before using it...

...Fourth, because of the attitude of the people toward the school house...

...The woman who understands parliamentary law volunteers to come and teach it to others...

...In one district in Brooklyn, it was evident that Friday nights were reserved for the Centers by hundreds of households,—fathers, mothers, and children attending the Center, regularly throughout the winter...

...All vessels used for holding milk or cream should be cleansed in the same manner...

...Second, because the people are largely familiar from childhood with the school house, and the associations they have with it are connected with the higher and hu-maner sides of life...

...Over law unblessed, unsanctioned by a mother's holy name, Law that gives the child to bondage and the woman unto shame, See the star of justice rising with a dread, consuming flame...

...members of the community come into the school houses, after school hours, and are asked their different interests...

...the foundation of democracy is liberty and liberty leads the way to voluntary union...

...mothers have no legal rights in the control of their own children...

...Use a sharp pointed instrument to remove the cap, lift it with care and rinse it in clean running water before replacing it...

...It was the two hours' discussion that was of value to those young people, not the two minutes at the end when the vote was taken...

...musical artists generously give their services at low rates...

...the Center does not supplant other helpful organizations, but gladly asks and receives their help...

...From bettering the neighborhood to bettering the town, the state and the nation, the steps follow naturally...