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The Iowa Homemaker vol.10, no.1
The Iowa Homemaker: Volume 10, Issue 1
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I have been thinking about what Dr. Alexander said concerning our fourth H-that we had handled the other three very well and we were just beginning to get the significance of the heart.
We hear so much about synthetic jazz, synthetic blues and now. synthetic fibers. The silk worm and spruce tree are running in competition with each other.
There are three "Husmoderskolen" or householding schools in Denmark. They are privately owned, but are under a certain amount of state supervision that is to say, the state fixes the minimum of work which must be taught and gives tho examinations to candidates for teaching certificates.
Have you ever noticed how many people need new furniture in their houses~ I mean when you talk with them they tell you how badly they need new furniture. It is usually a new davenport, but the one they want costs a hundred and fifty dollars, or an over-stuffed chair, but the latest style, like the one Mrs. Jones has in her new house costs eighty-five dollars and they simply can't afford it.
Why is it we seem to take measles so calmly? We merely regard them as one of the disagreeable but unavoidable things which parallel youth. So many take little precaution to keep their children from contracting the disease. And often they forget the whole incident as soon as the rash is gone, overlooking, or failing to realize, the great number of physical ailments of later life which have their origin in a neglected case of measles.