HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE A Powerful Novel By FOLA LA FOLLETTE CHILDREN OF FlTE, hy Marice Rut. lodge (published by Frederick A. Stokes, New York) is dedicated to...
...They told women there was no use in weeping...
...There are also standard recipes for rice, rye, nut, rolled-oats, and other breads, and for various kinds of rolls and biscuits...
...With signal courage he has all but given his life to his country...
...M. P...
...It is a valiant call to women from a woman and an articulate artist who lias lived through three years of the war agony in Europe...
...But the city could not give her what it had taken, nor could men undo what they had done...
...Or else I should have been a soldier from the beginning—an automaton with a gun.' "He had gone the way of the youthful millions and the world was none the better for it...
...Long hours of wot by day or by night, often coupled with uns...
...isfaetory conditions of housing and transit, la hours and lack of parental care, make the dangers grave and immediate...
...Since he must go" her woman's love seals her lips for his sake...
...Childhood in War WAR imposes a severe strain upon childhood...
...Bread and Bread-Making in the Home CAROLINE L. HUNT and Hannah L. Wess-ling are the authors of a bulletin recently issued by the United States Department of Agriculture on the subject of bread-making...
...Again the struggle possesses lu's spirit...
...a courage and endurance far beyond the forevisioning of the individuals who achieve it...
...In the case of little children the protein-rich food should be rafflr...
...She sees that though Pierre's spirit recoils, his family tradition drives him relentlessly to the business of killing...
...And in the dawn the Past triumphs...
...They told men there was no way of escaping Fate...
...She stretched out her arms to the city...
...to her brother she speaks the truth, but to her lover she can only tell what he longs to hear...
...and others would have lived more happily and beautifully because of them and their Work...
...The ancient impulsion is too strong...
...We have been accustomed to regard women as non-combatants so long that it takes the flash of the artist to remove the blinders of habit...
...He bids Natalie farewell, begging her to renew his faith and hearten him again...
...With the woman, the instinct for constructive building, abides even in the hour of stress...
...He begs his mother for release to follow his own vision...
...This is the relentless message which Marice Rutledge's novel carries, not as a tract, but as the inevitable revelation of a deeply moving human story...
...And thus from generation to generation the beauty and hope of the world must perish in the individual until mankind can see with Natalie's eyes...
...After weary months he is severely wounded and returns...
...The bells of Saint Oermain -were ringing...
...they would "have lived happily ever ifter...
...The causes lie far back...
...the short method, the overnight method are described...
...specific instructions for yeast-raised, salt-rising, and potato breads are given...
...lodge (published by Frederick A. Stokes, New York) is dedicated to "The Wiser Women of All Countries—Fore-runners of Universal Peace...
...She has seen France, courageous and bleeding, harassed and devastated, but brave and glorious of spirit...
...It is probable that if bread were nni-formly well made it would be used in even larger quantities than at present, and this from the standpoiut of economy would be a great advantage...
...And she was alone with a grave in her heart...
...These words of Pierre's came to Natalie: 'I don't want* to kill...
...Our duty in the United States was emphasized hy Owen R. Lovejoy, General Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, in a recent address, when he said: "The childhood of the present generation will suffer irreparable loss unless those of us who have dedicated ourselves to the protection of these defenseless ones keep our heads clear and our motives unmixed, determining that whatever happens all other treasure, all other forms of wealth, all other methods of defense shall be sacrificed before we compel the children of America to pass through the lire...
...It is said that the nutritive value of cereals in bread or other forms may be...
...But as he eanvalesees, the suffering women of his family demand his return to the trenches to avenge their nearest and dearest...
...They can resist the jeers and jibes of men, but when the women cry them out they must go...
...She reveals the beauty of that mystic unification of all discordant spirits which temporarily transforms a valiant nation in the hour of mighty external conflict...
...Relentlessly it sounds the awful death knell of humanity if it can work out no other solution of its conflicts 1han scientific carnage...
...He goes to the front, and through th» long solitary watches of the night and the bitter horror of the days, it is Natalie's letters that feed the flame of faith in the cause for which he fights...
...The, exact amount for one, two, three, and four loaves arc given...
...Farmers' Bulletin 807 describes in simple terms the principles and the processes of bread-making, and furnishes a reliable standard method for the ordinary household, indicating how this standard recipe can be modified to make the different kinds of bread...
...The tribal memory is multiplied a thousand fold...
...She has vividly portrayed the heroism, that group action brings...
...Today we are weaving the Fate of Tomorrow...
...while the novice in the art of breadmaking can, with the exercise of intelligent judgment, work out the problem of home-made bread for the family from the carefully prepared directions...
...The nutritive value, of bread and its place in the diet is discussed in plain terms...
...The call of the country to arms, the call of his family dominates bis own faith...
...The belligerent men, those who believe in fighting, who have lust for battle, go in response to an inner impulsion...
...Europe's experience indicates how great is the problem of maintaining educational and working standards for little children, to the end that the nation's fibre and vitality shall not be impaired...
...She refuses to bless him unless he returns to the trenches to kill the men he no longer hates...
...But the men who hate destruction, wiio conceive their love of country in terms of building for her, cannot hold their vision true when women demand that they kill...
...All this is presented with the skill and sure power of the trained writer, and vivified by that rich, colorful style peculiarly her own...
...Cecil Leeson of the Howard Association (London) figures that juvenile offenses have increased 34 per cent, since the beginning ol th" war, and that thefts have increased 50 per cent-Sir James Yoxall...
...She lies to him in his need and builds for him the dream of a great cause as he must see it to overcome his revulsion and achieve the power to kill...
...She cannot again belie her vision of life even for the sake of >love and she speaks the truth to Pierre as she has to her brother...
...But the dark doom of an inexorable Fate shadows even the sunniest vistas...
...His own heart answers hers, but it is too late, he has pledged his sword to his mother, and goes back to perish in battle...
...THE central story of Children of Fate is an almost lyric tale of the exquisite love of two artists, Pierre and Natalie...
...But these two builders are caught in the jaws of the world's destruction...
...But the stern avenging ideals of the past rise from the Pri-e Dicu in the crepe clad figure of his stoical mother...
...If mankind is not to destroy itself we must revolutionize the structure of society, building a new Fate on new foundations...
...Men are the Children of Fate...
...Natalie, desolated and alone, clad in black, stands on the little halcony of her studio, where she and Pierre have often watched the fading twilight together in happier days...
...This "War to end War" carries the seeds of future destruction...
...Even under normal conditions, there is some danger of juvenile employment adversely affecting physique and the danger is materially increased by the, present conditio of employment...
...Natalie is happy in the faith that now he is saved for her...
...The experienced bread-maker will find if suggestive and helpful...
...No mere "patching up" will suffice...
...used to the extent of about three pounds a day in the diet of the typical family—father, mother, and three children between babyhood and adolescence...
...His farewell letter in her hand, she' looks out over the city...
...Bread is the largest single item in the diet of the great majority of people, ft should be accompanied by reasonable quantities of fruits and vegetables and of foods richer than itself in protein, in fat, and in sugar...
...is quoted as estimal ing that from 150,000 to 200,000 children between the ages of 11 and 15 have been released from school to go to work...
...I don't want to throw away any of the gifts civilization has given me, unless in offering my life I am benefiting future humanity...
...If I had been let alone, I would have created, built, justified my place in a constructive society...
...Both are creative builders, endowed with the longing and the power to infuse beauty and harmony into the hearts and homes of men...
...The author has seen women in war time and gives a new vision of their part in conflict...
...The consciousness of war's futility and madness have burned deep into her soul...
...Unless the whole system is uprooted the tragedy will be repeated from generation to generation, with increasing horror, as the mechanical skill of man develops...
...Their story, written before August, 1015, would have been a Spring love idyl...
...Her picture will reveal to many a disheartened woman pacifist in this country why we find women in the forefront of the recruiting automobiles trying to shame men into the trenches...
...Throughout a weary night vigil he fights the battle of his soul...
...It is scientific and practical to the smallest detail...
...They rang as if they would never stop, as if their voice must reach the ends of the earth awakening sleepers...
...Commenting upon child labor in manufacturing war supplies, the Health of Munition Workers Committee appointed by the British Minister of Munitions, says: "It is to he_ remembered that boys and girls need a sufficient reserve not only for the maintenance of health, but for growth...
...The Past has created the destiny of the Present...
...But the pain and torture of the land have unfolded before her eyes for many months...
Vol. 9 • April 1917 • No. 4
