River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-18

world-dressing-g gown and ALTO seek
for nurse. After many trials and
difficulties, he was directed by friend
ly policeman to the house of a nurse,
who put her head to the window and
asked him if she "had to come inn
meiit" He said she 'had to come inn
mejit," that money was no object. She
came-and went away 'immeiit." He
had gone to the wrong sort of nurse.
Of course, men have to go into the
world and earn pennies for the ba-
bies. Not that they grudge the labor,
for a world without babies is no
world at all. But babies require good
deal of looking after, and if woman
cannot be domesticated and help to
look after her own babies, she does
not deserve to have that sweetest of
heavens gifts. 1t is SO paltry of the
average bachelor to sheer at babies.
If every house in the world contained
a couple of babies and a couple of kit
tens, there would never be any crimes
committed; there would never be any
divorce courts; there would never be
any "rapid women;" there would
never be any unhappiness; there would
never be any Misunderstanding
heart-burnings, jealousies, never any
Of the things which go wrong and mar
our daily life. Of course the babies
would have dirty hands and 'pinnies,"
and jammy fingers, and all that sort
of thing; but dirty hands and ''pin-
mics" and jammy fingers made life so
interesting that don't see why people
should want to do without them.
No, after prolonged course of ex-
periments with different types, have
come to the conclusion that the truest
woman is the domesticated woman,
ox-eyed, Junoesque, the woman who
does the work of the world in bring
ing up her children to realize the
greatness of living, the woman who
does not bother her head about social
problems, but goes ON her calm, large,
wise way, diffusing life's sunshine
around her, making the atmosphere of
home, content to believe in her hus-
band, that he is doing his best for her
because he loves her. After all his
centuries of civiliza ton which is no
civilization at all, man is essentially
g. wigwa m-see Bing animal He wants
a particular wigwam of his own, where
he can find rest, and peace, and love,
and affection, and-a good dinner. The
domesticated woman is the wisest of
all women, because she has long ago
realized that a man cannot properly
do the work of the world unless he is
adequately fed. She feeds him prop
erly. and he is sweet tempered; she
ministers to him when things have
gone wrong with him, and gains her
happiness in seeing how she can make
him forget the world. We all used
to think it so funny when some woman
said of a man: ooh, feed the brute,
and he'll do anything you want" But
most men are not brutes; they are
children of larger growth-children
with brawny muscles to do one kind
of work, and without the domesticated
woman to help them they could not
do it.
Sometimes, think in this hurrying,
harum-scarum twentieth century of
ours, we are a little unwise to have
done away with all the backwaters
of life. "The world is too much with
US. Early and Late we lay waste our
powers" in pursuit of shadows. And
when we have chased the shadows far,
and the b1ackness of the growing night
suddenly surrounds us, we want some
gentle woman to take us by the hand
until,
'Half willing, half reluctant. to be led"
she guides us to our haven of rest,
where the bitter cynicism of ciyiliza-
ton, the world-weariness, the aches,
and the pains, and the longings fall
from us forevermore. There is only
one woman in all the world who can
do this for us. G. B. BURGIN.