Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-02
A Woman's Dignity.

Show me nySen and thus teach me hui
mility. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Woman's Dignity.
Women want above all things to be
liked and admired.
OF course, they want first of all the
affections of some one person-that is
the essential to any happy life for
woman. whether she knows it or not.
But in addition TO the one great admir-
alton, women crave general approval.
We propose to do the average woman a
favor today by telling her that the best
of all qualities is within the reach of all
women.
1t is not good looks, or deep learning,
or any accomplishment Of the mind, or
voice. or fingers.
1t is Il simple mental quality, easy to
cultivate. 1t is dignity
Many Il poor female creature has lived
unhapplly because no one ever told her
this.
Many a poor, foolish girl wonders why
duller, less beautiful sisters are chosen
while she remains among humanity'S I'M
claimed baggage.
DOlefully poor girl sits and communes
with herself thus:
I'm not homely. I'm amusing. People
Keep the house full. | have had more
friends than those other girls that mar
ried so we'll Yet | do not seem to at
tract the right sort of man to me. What's
the m2tter?'
Lack of dignity is the matter, you
poor, suffering sister. Men like anus
ing girls They like girls that are
sprightly and gay They are amused
by foolish girls. They joyfully frequent
silly girls, and are liberal of comph-
ments. They can and do tolerate vain
girls, ''stuck-up" girls.
But they love dignifed girls-and we
beseech marriageable females to clutch
that fact to their bosoms with hooks of
steel.
This is not lecture, it is not ser
mon. 1t is simply a piece of plain,
homemade, valuable advice. And it ap-
plies to every girl and woman living
from the sad-eyed lady who wonders at
the pohceman's choice to the heiress
reaching the doubtful age and full of
amazement at her single cursedness.
The plot is simple. A man will want
to marry you if he thinks that after
marriage you will please his ideas. Your
way of treating him decides him in his
choosing. If he would like his wife to
treat other men as you treat him on
short acquaintance, he will think you
desirable life partner.
The desire of this writer is not to dis
courage or criticiSe the gay-hearted girl
with the canary bird nature. 1t is nat
ural for her to tWitter and present her
pretty feathers, and turn her eyes in all
directions for admiration. We are we'll
aware that any kind of a good girl makes
good wife when the time comes. We
want to see all the good girls trans
formed into good wives as fast as posi-.
BILE. Hence this advice.
Some girl may ask:
Can girl make herself digniied to
order? And what is dignity"
les, any girl can be dignifed. If shs
could not, we should not bring up the
question-tO do so would be only cruelty.
AS well tell women that they must all
be consistent.
Dignity simply consits in diverting
vital energy from your animal spirits to
your brains. Let your emotions origi-
nate III your head-not in your heels.
Remember that a human being is the
finest creation of Providence, on this
planet at least. A girl is the finest kind
of human being, and therefore she
has responsibilities which she should not
ignore.
Take any girl. put a tin crown on her
head. load her on to floral chariot. and
tell her she is a Queen of the May, or
Queen of the Carnival, and she becomes
dignifed i'll Il minute
In the public parks you may see pa
thetic little skinny-legged girls, or s
Years old, crowned and leading childish
professions. Each of these miniature
women has enough dignity in her strut
to fit out the Queen of Sheba.
Girls should remember that they are
crowned queens at their birth. every one
of them, and they should be worthy Of
their position in the world
Each is destined to be the good wife
and absolute ruler Of some man. That's
quite an honor in a world where man i
destined to do the worlds greatest work
as the mother Of good children That
is very great honor, the greatest pos
sible here or anywhere else in the unis-
verse.
Girls have every reason to take them
selves seriously and be dignifed. and
they OUGHT to be dignitied.
Set Il good example to men. in ad
respects Talk sensibly and intelligently.
the English language decently. Drop
slang Drop off-hand manners. If you
are presented to promising young
American boy with a red crayar. and 4
good future. act as though he were the
Prince of Wales. In that way y1u wiz
make him thiuk that You ought to be
the Prince of Wales wife and he viii
propose and not wait for the Prince TO
get You.
yourselves thoroughly. and Won will make
yourselves Observation-Disclosures above
rnhies. in very truth.
American COLLEGES
Not Fair to Women.
President Harper o. Chicago UHiver-