Sat. Feb. 18,1911
Tin and Mary met me for lecture. Helen B. has grippe. Matinee by School of Expression. Fine! Practiced. Tin and Fran rode down town - around loop and home. Nearly lost at Belmont. Box from home - house dress - cookies - candy - oranges - money. Wrote letters. Trying to catch up.
Sunday, Feb. 19, 1911
Tin and I went to church. Met more nice people. Awfully nice. Afer dinner, Mary came. We all went to Gertrude House to see Maude S. Helen Abbott there - invited us to her home a week from Sat. Dandy time. Wrote letter.
Lesson at 9:30 - almost an hour. Then "Italian." Practiced. After Fran came, she and I took a walk down by the lake - around Sheridan Road and home. Beastly cold and windy. Played solitaire as usual. Letter from H.E.B. made me grouch all day.
Practiced hard. Fran came home early. Tried to sleep while I practiced. Succeeded pretty well. Snored. Positive proof of the fact by Tin. Fran and Winifred took a walk. Read all evening.
IN RITA'S DAY: Young teachers and "kindergartners" in Chicago could find lodging at a nominal fee at Gertrude House (see picture above). It was described in the following manner in an article from the early 1900s:
Chicago kindergartners may well be proud of their "kindergarten houses" where kindergartners, teachers and students, young or old, native or foreign, are always made at home and welcome, provided with fine food and shelter at a cost purely nominal... In Chicago there are two such houses. For Gertrude House...it is actually the only house of its kind in existence. It is a home, a real home for over sixty women annually, and it receives and constitutes a pleasant temporary home for many others...
It was at this time period that women were pressing for a kindergarten program to be added to public schools.
TODAY: Teachers are not held in the high esteem that they once were. Because of the failing economy, politicians are trying to find ways to save money and public education cuts are one way. The governor of New Jersey recently said that there are just two occupations where individuals are not held accountable for what they do... one is weathermen and the other is teachers.
Judy's Entry: My daughter is starting to feel a bit better. She (and all of us) have been struggling to decide whether or not she should have an MRI. Of course, all the doctors have different opinions. The actual technicans that perform MRI say it is best to wait until your second trimester if you must have one when you are pregnant. Wouldn't it be nice if the doctors were all on the same page?
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