The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-11-23

that his wife had an ungOyernable
temper. .She is 4 fine cook and Il
good housekeeper," he said, .'but she
has an ungovernable temper"
Probably the browning yir ,ue of a
woman, to make married life a success
year and year out, is alniability. 10
cheer the heart, to make easy the
friction of the world, in sunshine and
in tempest, nothing is SO bracing to a
man as to find at home woman who
is always agreeable. She may annoy
her husband, may humiliate him, may
be slack in dress, inferior in under
standing and suffer from even more
serious faults; but if she be peren-
nially good-natured, troubles take
their fight and veXations wonderfully
untangle themselves.
But temper is by no means the
worst of faults. Men and women
alike possessed Of the raw material OF
temper have the elements Of leader
ship. They are strong in convictions.
inmoyable and doors Of things. Men
and women with temper under control
are the shapers of events. One need
not go to George Washington to know
the type. And yet men are strangely
Illogical about temper as female pos
session. They tolerate temper in their
male friends and even think it
virtue; but they seem to think that
women have no right to this character
istic; that it hopelessly mars them. A
woman with temper. even though
she impose some of it on those at home
occasionally, is infinitely preferable to
these pink and white spiritless crea-
lures who have no will Of their own,
and lack the vitality to resist what
seems to them imposition and injus-
tice. Such do not breed great Off
spring. Some of the most successful
wives and mothers in all the happy
world of homes are those who fly off
on tangents under stress, and surely
tired and perplexed homemakers have
most excuse for outbreaks. Sucn
women have times of calm as we'll as
storm. Everyone knows homes where
the woman is an April day, now tears,
now sunshine; yet who year In and
year out fills her place nobly and we'll.
Some of the most successful home
makers are women Of this sort, and
for the man who will be patient with
such a wife, full appreciation and a
keen devotion is waiting-such as the
husband of a tame and kitten-like
spouse knows nothing about
God made 1t as a great corrective
in matrimony,. that no matter how
much of a misfit a young couple may
be; no matter how inauspiciOus the
start, unselfish devotion On the part of
the man will force respect from the
woman and such is the relation that
love tumbles in at it's heels. Woman
is made that way.
This old fellow who has lived for
thirty years with wife with no fault
save that she had temper has prob
ably made mistake. She had the
making of queen.
Wisconsin's New congressman.
Wisconsin now has ten congress
men. The house of representatives
numbers 356, one for every 173,9O1 of
population. Under the census de-
cade ago the number Of congressman
was 325, Wisconsin having gained one
member, as it has under this latest
census. Fifteen other states will add
one member each. Two members will
be added each to the representation of
Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania and three to Illinois, and Texas.
The house will then number 3S7,
which is really too big for efficiency.
Wisconsin has over 100000 popula-
ton, and so have thirteen other states.
Five of these passed the 2,OOO,0O3
mark during the interval from 1890 to
1900. These are Iowa, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Wisconsin and Tennessee
three southern and two northern
states. Wisconsin takes fourteenth
place in the sisterhOod, advancing
from thirteenth, Tennessee yielding to
her.
our GRANTEES at Buffalo Fair.
DR.. E. r. Buckley of the geological
end Of the university faculty has made
popular the survey for which the
state appropriates $4,000 year by
developing the commercial side CT the
researches His work ON the building
stones of the state, issued by the sur
vey, is worth much to the state. He
will be in evidence at the Buffalo ex-
position with collection of some fifty
varieties of samples all cut into eight
inch cubes, of some forty varieties of
GRANTEES, sandstones limestones and
shades of various colors and textures,
finished so as to show them polished,
rough hewn, dressed and edged so
that every manner Of using them is
shown Many Of the manufacturers
of the state are becoming interested in
the exposition and it looks as though
Wisconsn's part in the fair would be
a considerable one.
Why Whitefsh Disappear.
The papers on the Michigan shore
and in the Green Bay district report
that the fall fish catch is failure. 1t
has been so far the smallest of years.
One veteran says that the daily catch
only amounts to five or SIX packages,
where last year it was thirty or more.
On Monday his father, Matthias Bailey,
made a lift and out of four nets only
secured two packages. The fishermen
are discouraged"
The pound net system is said to be
at fault In New York state these
are abolished Pound nets slowly but
surely reduce the number Of fish by
catching the small as well as the large
ones. When pound nets were first de-
nounced whitefish We're plen iful in
Lake Michigan. and those who tried
to protect the fish were r:diculed. But
the whitefish have gradually disap-
Daarpd and now Lake Michigan SUD-