HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Lincoln Steffens on Mexico LINCOLN STEFFENS talked on Mexico at our house recently under the auspices of the Woman's Peace Party. Mrs....
...Kent replied: "We women are not against war only because we do not want our own sons killed...
...Their histories teach that" we took our great Southwest territory from them...
...They hate and fear and distrust us...
...THE United States Census brings out strikingly the relative proportions between bad women and bad men...
...New Ideas in Sandwiches IN MAKING sandwiches, if the filling is one which you can spread,—such as jelly, peanut butter, deviled eggs or meats,—butter only one of the two pieces of bread as the filling can be spread much more easily if the bread has not been previously buttered...
...the people are preparing to plant and work—and play...
...The United States Department of Agriculture is planning home classes or groups of ten women who may receive text-books, lantern slides and other means for short courses in poultry-raising, fruit growing, soils, cheese and butter-making and farm book-keeping...
...Texas has a Farmer Women Club which has for its object improvement of the farm women in environment and opportunity...
...Did it not take time to restore conditions after our Revolution and after the Civil War...
...Steffens' talk filled the house...
...They work in the camps, but when the men fall the women do not hesitate to take their places...
...William Kent first spoke briefly of the purposes of the Party...
...That is why he is so patient...
...Ninety-five per cent...
...She gives her services so freely and naturally to good causes, we forget to be grateful...
...Pennsylvania, suffrage vote, 385,348...
...How can a woman of your ability," he said, "be contented with the political status of a child...
...They can not make a saddle just for utility...
...We want in this country to add the special plea of women, who know the value of human life, against this method of settling international disagreements, and we want the united and determined effort of women directed toward securing another way consistent with the progress society has made in the settlement of individual disputes...
...To take as an example the four states which voted on suffrage last fall...
...Baked beans, if put through a sieve to remove the skins and make them of a spreadable consistency, will make dainty, but hearty sandwiches...
...We felt we were getting at the truth and reaching conclusions based on first-hand knowledge, interpreted and illuminated by the trained investigator who also had the wisdom of the philosopher and the vision of the prophet...
...In a word they want to accomplish the purposes of the revolution...
...Steffens says Carranza knows that only time and opportunity will make the Mexican people free...
...Cook the meal and salt in the milk for a few minutes...
...There will be no loss of flavor, nor of daintiness...
...These are but a few instances of the interests and activities of farm-women and illustrate forcibly the injustice of depriving this important and intelligent class of women of the vote to protect their investments and express their opinions...
...S. Farm-firs' Bulletin 565...
...HintstoHome-makers FRUIT GEMS 1 cup com meal...
...New York, suffrage vote, 514,198...
...INTEREST in Mr...
...We shall do all we can to this end, but our work is a much more fundamental one than that...
...They love pleasure and must have joy...
...It is a great saving in the matter of time, as well as in the matter of butter...
...New Jersey, suffrage vote, 133,282...
...When cool add the baking powder and beat thoroughly...
...If left to themselves, Mr...
...to knock out 'the' system, and develop, not a rich, cultured, leisure class, but a well-to-do, educated people with very general opportunities for some work and a good deal of play...
...Their hats and scarfs and drawn work and pottery are expressions of their aesthetic nature...
...One-half cup Zante currants...
...All of which means that he is trying to build government for the future on a democratic basis...
...And Mrs...
...teaching our children constructive ideals of peace...
...Kent if it was not natural for boys to settle their differences by physical force she answered that from her experience as the mother of five boys and two girls and recalling her own childhood when she was the only girl with seven brothers, she should say it was a primitive instinct in both boys and girls to at times settle their troubles with their fists...
...They can not understand the drive and greed and commercial spirit that characterize the American exploiters in Mexico...
...With the problem of reopening the banks, presses the problem of opening banks that have no government privilege and no monopoly of credit...
...The Woman's Peace Party means that thousands of women are standing together against War,—that alone were worth while...
...we do not want our sons forced to kill other women's sons...
...Kent to appreciate how her direct, simple appeal wins the heart and convinces the mind...
...1 teaspoon baking powder...
...They love the beautiful...
...contributed by men...
...They recognize that war with the United States means defeat, but they prefer any fate to that of being conquered by the Gringos...
...Kent made a strong appeal to women to join the Party...
...Steffens contends, they will develop a rare civilization—not like ours, but along lines of a free Italy or Greece...
...The discovery that Wall Street spoke well of Villa and expressed hatred of Carranza was an eye opener...
...ORGANIZATIONS of rural women are mul-tiplying with surprising rapidity...
...Republican vote, 88,835...
...of the twelve million people of Mexico are Indian...
...Meetings such as this, which prove, as Mr...
...He started his investigation at a point he had often found helpful in getting the right hunch...
...He appreciates it will take time...
...Will it not take time to restore Europe...
...We are trying by every means in our power to get the idea of peace and law and order and sanctity of life into people's minds, to inoculate mankind, as it were, with this idea and so create immunity against the madness that has seized and stricken Europe like the Black Plague...
...Steffens reached the conclusion that Carranza is honest, sincere and politically wise, that he is not a dictator nor a demagogue, that he holds his position of First Chief as a trust for the Mexican people and is first of all concerned in preserving their liberty against another Diaz or Huerta...
...Steffens will prove, the awful mistake of trying to settle questions of dispute between nations, by cannon...
...His clear statement, apt illustration, and occasional touch of humor, made the Mexican situation seem very close and real...
...We women have learned so many things since we have advanced a few steps toward the realization that we are human beings...
...After three months of observation and study...
...One-calf cup cream...
...Republican vote, 455,428...
...urging upon Congress legislation that will provide other ways of dealing with international problems...
...Carranza's critics complain of disorder, petty thieving, lack of transportation but the First Chief and his advisers are making a more radical beginning: they are planning ways of putting a stop to big grafts,—mining, oil, land grafts...
...When they see United States soldiers on Mexican soil they think it is for conquest...
...1 teaspoon salt...
...A Pertinent Question AT A RECENT suffrage hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, Congressman Taggart after listening to a good anti-suffrage speech by Miss Lucy Price, asked her a very pertinent if amusing question...
...One must see and hear Mrs...
...Steffens visited Mexico twice, a year intervening...
...They believe the Americans who are exploiting Mexico are seeking to put another tyrant over the Mexican people who will make them work for American masters...
...Steffens' talk is that the Mexican people are quite the opposite of warlike...
...these are some of the things being done by the Woman's Peace Party...
...With the problem of restarting transportation runs the problem of making the railroads carry, not exploit, their traffic...
...He found it very difficult to overcome the Mexican distrust of any American and when at last he secured permission to ride on General Carranza's train, the hospitality he received was that accorded any stranger and in no way tended to prejudice his judgment in favor of Carranza...
...It is but the work of a few moments to put through a dozen hard-boiled eggs,—and the result is very satisfactory, and it is much easier and simpler than chopping them...
...A few moments spent in preparing a spread-able filler, of any one of many tasty left-overs, will amply repay one for the time so spent, by the ease with which the filling can be put upon the unbuttered bread...
...Tested, and Found Good By ABBY HEDGE CORYELL II...
...Steffens puts it thus: "With the problem of getting a currency, goes the problem of getting money that is not, like ours, a bank privilege...
...One-half cup raisins...
...He spoke in an intimate conversational way...
...I have made hundreds of sandwiches in this way, which have been delicious...
...They love the land...
...With characteristic thoroughness and caution—in order to make sure of his facts and con-elusions—Mr...
...Republican vote, 155,948...
...Republican vote, 273,505...
...When we learn that as a result of that war—shot and shell, disease and famine, twelve thousand women and children died, men must acknowledge that we women have a right to be heard...
...The vote stood: Massachusetts, suffrage vote, 162,615...
...For they have the Southern temperament...
...They revel in decorating it...
...And yet the impression one gets from Mr...
...First and one of the most important things we have learned is, that as women no less than as human beings we are tremendously concerned in this business called war, which for centuries has been considered exclusively 'man's business.' "When we hear that in the Boer War four thousand men were killed or died as the result of war, we as mothers of men, lament and rebel against this needless waste of life, for which women have paid the price...
...The United Farm Women of the South is the name of another new organization...
...At a farmer's meeting held in Springfield, Mo., more women than men were in attendance and silos, alfalfa and dry-farming were the chief topics discussed...
...Carranza's purpose in traveling slowly over Mexico is to meet the people, find out their wants and learn what can be done to restore the country and get the people started anew...
...Is it to be expected that Mexico will suddenly become settled and society organized, peace established without any of the aftermath of war...
...But when boys and girls become men and women they must learn to restrain this impulse to fight and acquire self-control in small matters and abide by the decision of the courts in larger affairs...
...In his article in the May number of Everybody's Mr...
...Women as a class, therefore, constitute only 9.1 per cent...
...They would rather die and they are not afraid to die...
...On this occasion she said: "We are frequently misunderstood to be an association of women who are presumably undertaking by a few meetings, letters, literature, badges and resolutions, to stop the War in Europe...
...Her influence and usefulness are like sunshine and summer rain...
...1 cup milk...
...Kansas has a large number of women in its Agricultural Colleges who arc studying various phases of home economics and rural problems...
...Add the fruit and cream and bake in well-buttered muffin tins.—U...
...She said: "The War in Europe must make every thinking person feel that difficult as it is to find another way, that the way of violence and slaughter is the worst way and that war is the most horrible crime against the welfare of the world— against civilization...
...The Wisconsin Dairy School reports many women students...
...Steffens believes that a war of intervention in Mexico would mean a war of extermination like our Indian wars...
...Suffrage Notes and News By Anna Cadogan Etz The Woman's Journal points out that though none of the four eastern states which voted on the question in 1915 gained woman suffrage, the vote in favor was larger than the total vote of the Republican Party in those states at the last presidential election...
...When some one asked Mrs...
...And so, while they want to reopen the mines and keep the oil-wells flowing and revive agriculture and industry, they want more of that wealth to stay in Mexico and go, as much as possible, to the people, Mexican and others, who do the actual work...
...Steffens said that before he began studying the Mexican question, his sympathies had been with Villa...
...out of a total of 30,380 inmates of the prisons, penitentiaries and reformatories of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts 27,606 are men and only 2,774 are women...
...And already with the possibility of peace, life is beginning...
...Mexico is up against "the System" as we are, but better able to cope with it in her own way, and that is one reason why she should be left to work out the solution of her own problems...
...In answer to a question as to whether the opposition of women to war was not selfish, Mrs...
...of the lawbreakers of these States as against the 90.8 per cent...
...The President of the International Congress of Farm Women has been decorated with the Order of Agriculture of Belgium...
...The women and children go to war in Mexico along with the men...
...They are simple, agricultural folk...
...If you wish eggs, chopped fine, for a decoration, or a salad, or for sandwiches, put them through a coarse sieve...
Vol. 8 • May 1916 • No. 5
