Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-06

room especially for the purpose. She
explains the method of obtaining fresh
air without producing undue dra1ts,
and assists mothers in scores OF ways
on how to better the condition Of their
children Although this woman gives
all of this service voluntarily Tor the
benefit Of others in the community, she
is only a workingman's wife, with no
independent means; lives in small
cottage, and has large family of her
own. She is able to join in the work
of helping others. and at the same time,
according to Dr.. KING: mas sunnG he1a
duties and to keep her homo in apple
pie order.
The only cure for the divorce evil is
in the proper education for the home,
in increasing the
Home Education strength and rela-
tionships W h
ana UlVoIce. form prime prob
lem in the civilization of every age
This is the opinion of DR.. Benjamin R.
Andrews. assistant professor of house
hold economics in the teachers college
of Columbia University of New York.
who has just completed a series of
studies on education for the home for
the United States bureau of education.
For all it's MEMBERS" says DIR. An
drews, 1.-The home is the center OF 1ife's
satisfactions, and in it we live. This
personal life of the home can be
strengthened and enriched by well con-
sidered plans and by better home
ideals. Strength and satisfaction in the
home relationships form a prime prob
lem. The breaking down of the family
bond is to be overcome by strengthen
ing that bond, by enriching the home
experience Of the individual, child and
adult alike. This is the only cure for
the divorce evil.
ITO the child the home furnishes the
intellectual and moral life with the
fundamental attitudes that control in
all other relations. The home expert
ence and manner of living is needed
for adult members. In the home, if
anywhere, does the average adult find
the personal satisfaction and develop
ment which is the central experience of
living.
Our education for the home will be
a sorry thing indeed if it concerns SIM
ply the household arts of cooking, sew
ing and house care, unless, indeed, it
teaches US the arts of family building.
of home making, of living in families
sonal satisfaction as the years go by. It
is just this strengthening of the per-
sonal life that education for the home
is ultimately to furnish.
I'VE need to teach home making, too.
II we would reach the child. The child
has become school minded; all other
knowledge reaches him through the
school, and the school can therefore in
crease the child's interest in and re-
spect for his home.
Briefly, the school can do these
things for the home: First, it can rein
force the natural interest of the child
in the home and strengthen that home
mindedness of the best type which CEN
t,n
small kin group as the only enduring
basis for his wider social relations; sec
ondly, it can impart knowledge neces-
sary for leading or sharing in the ac-
tivities of the household as regards
shelter, food, clothing, management,
child life, thrift and other household
matters of Importance; and lastly, it
can afford some practice in these activi-
ties where such practice is necessary
for learning both by laboratory prac-
with the home.''
Government engineers stationed in
Washington are puzzled over the re-
ports that salt water
Salt Water in from the Pacific ocean
1r.a has invaded Mirafores
AiA oA0AeS' lake on the Isthmus
of Panama, at an astonishing rate. not
withstanding the fact that the bottom
of this fresh water lake is at a higher
elevation than the water at high tide
on the Pacific side of the isthmus. An
added cause of establishment is the
fact that the Mirafiores locks Of the
Panama canal are about eight miles
inland from the bay of Panama Miraf1ores
lake is slightly less than a mile long. ex-
tending from the foot of Pedro Miguel
locks, at the Pacific. end of Culebra
cut, westward to the head of the Mira
flores locks.
When a vessel passes through the
Pedro Miguel locks a lockfu1 of water
is discharged into Mirafiores lake. and
a similar amount is taken from Mira
flores lake as the vessel passes through
the Miralores locks toward the Pa
cific. When the canal engineers de-
cided to use Miraf1ores lake for
water supply for the various towns
they had every reason to believe that
the water would continue fresh and
only a very small quantity of salt
water from the Pacific would invade
the lake when the locks were emptied
and filed.
: 1t was soon discovered. however. that
salt water invaded the lake at an as
tonishing rate, and 60 investigation ,a
ply for the towns along the canal
would have to be used. The lake was
abandoned and a pumping station set
OD on the CnaRreS river at Tam DOd,
requiring the laying Of a line of large
iron pipe over a. distance of more than
ten miles.
That many small colleges of the
United States are wasting their efforts
in trying to do four
Small College years of college work
and in offering a large
1AooAeM' variety of courses
which reduce to the lowest minimum
the effectiveness in the use OF funds
which are at the disposal of a faculty,
is the opinion of DR.. p. p. Claxton,
commissioner of the United States bu-
reau of education. There are. in the
United States, more than 1000 insti-
tutions which call themselves colleges
OF this number, however, only $50 are
listed as colleges by the federal bureau
of education, and a large proportion of
these are said to be attempting to
carry on work from which the meag-
erness of their equipment and small
amount of funds give little or no OPP
portunity. for satisfactory results.
The solution of the small college
problem in the United States, accord
ing to DIR. Claxton, is the establis hment
of Junior colleges" The faculties of
institutions in this class should con-
centrate their attention upon the first
two years of regular college work, Civ
in dfo1n oft hn and of