Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-11-26

tolerate anything but the truth in his
stories" said Mrs. Hooper. Il never
met one such, but | am not mt liberty to
doubt the word of mothers who have.
One mother told me she had to abandon
all fairy stories and Santa Claus litera-
ture because her boy would not have
anything that he could not think was at
least perhaps true. So we know OF some
children who read almost anything ut a
very early age | saw Il boy Of lying
on the floor reading a history, and the
book was of such nature that he asked
his mother To explain to him what 'im-
pregnable fortress meant. But such
children are unusual children. We are
sneaking only of average children. -
New York Tribune.
Why We Don't Marry.
| plan to answer the question. some
times almost Il taunt that is put 10 us
from the time we are twenty years old
by uncles and aunts and elderly friends.
why don't you marry" My standpoint
is that of New York girl in the middle
twenrieS, who is of neither the selfsup-
porting class nor the smart set girl
who has been well educated with no 9TH
err aim than that of culture; who loves
dancing and music and books, and sports
of all Sorts who gives a share of her
time TO hospitals and mission schools to
girl of the wcl-todo class of a great
city.
Whether or not society was better. do
nestle life happier when girls married
at Is and brought up eight or ten
children. is question beyond me. |
promise only to give my reasons for not
following the example.
There are three facts that tend to
keep Twentieth century girl from mar
rying young; the fullness of her time, the
intimacy she is allowed with boys and
men, and the many interests open in
these days to a woman. Our grand
mothers finished their education at 16
and then what lay before most of
them except dOmesticity? They expected
and wished to have homes and families
of their own, and they fell in love, or
thought they did. with the first men OF
their own class with whom they came in
contact. and married them when their
relations were such as a modern girl
would call a mere acquaintance.
Consider the life of the girl Of today. Un-
I'll she IS Is, or, If we 80 to college,
until we are D. we don't stop
long TO contemplate marriage very Sc
rlouSly; we have no time. School takes
our mornings, and the afternoons are
never long enough for all that must be
crowded into them. There is always a,
lesson in dancing or riding, in music or
L ItHNIs du appointment at the NRHilSI >
or the dressmaker's, some pictures that
we must see or concert that we ought
to hear, and always walk to be tucked
In somewhere and preparation made for
next days Tecitations. Saturday morn
ingS. If our mothers don't insist that duty
points toward cooking lessons or some
sort of charity work we may get
chance ut some longed-for book or even
a coveted hour of skating or coasting,
SO the winters so by until we come
out What of the summers? Life he
comes an entirely different matter in the
month of June. From the time we are
, till we are - we spend the long days
with our brothers and our cousins and
our boy friends. From building sand
forts we pass on to wading, fishing, dam
ming brooks and sailing boats. At II
are we gathered in to our mothers to ''sit
on cushion and sew Il fine SEAM
Not we! Wet feet and Sunhurn have mol
terrors for us, and we 20 right on with
the boys We can shoot as straight. ride
as well. swim as far as they. They find
us no drawback to their fun and are
urgent III their invitations to us to come
along. Our minds develop side by side
with theirs. Each new impression. ideal.
| interest. is discussed as it comes up. No
subject is closed to us. We hesitate at no
question, no explanation. We learn to
see from a mans standpoint ats we'll rs
from our own, to understand his faults
and his feelings, his impulses and his as
pirations. We discover, Ia short. what
compani0nShip with a man can be. and
nothing less than the best We have known
viii! satisfy Us when it comes to settling
| down with one man for all the years
ahead.
Before she has got very far the clever
Girl knows one thing wcll-that Senti-
mentand senSitiyeneSs, too much INDUCED,
soon spoil the charm of the frec-and-
easy relations she enjoys. After her first
mistake She draws back and in her after
| friendships there is a freedom from emo
ton that constitutes her great safeguard.
/ ! have lately seen Il note from Il man to
/ Il girl whom he has known so intimately
! for many years that Older people find
/ i hard to believe that they are not lu
/ love with each other. He thanks her
/ simply for service She has done him
/ asks her TO try his new car, aud adds:
! You're the best pal n fellow ever had,
and pal is The best word in the English
/ language That sentence fypiGps cur
connection with most of the men We
/ know we'll \ @ir Is satisfied with that
much sentiment, delighted With that
much praise. The man who finally wins
/ her WiD have 10 give her the same SOFT
/ of comradeship. with some unuSJia.
/ charm added to tip the ba!auce in his
/ favor.
Charm and fascination Hone are not
J enough for Us. We know Of too many
marriages. based on that alone. with NJ
/ consideration fur sympathy or even COM
/ pafbili,y. that have turned out most mr.
! fortunately. / have heard it said that
/ in these days young people speak over
/ lightly Of divorce. We speak as we hear
our elders do, that they may not guess
Our real wonder and horror l doubt ii
there il Il girl Of ms class who dOesn' {
suffer a shock that lasts for days wien
she first meets with case Of divorce
within her own circle. She determines
anew that her marriage shall be as near
the ideal as possible, that She viii make
100 mistake that she will wait till sho is
surc: and wait she does!
l. it impatient waiting: by no means.
/ There are too many enchanting paths
stretching away before US, Interest and
even aetien in affairs municipal and 30
litical are not denied us. The develop.
neut of charities IF AL kinds has pro
aHcod claims Oh ones finr and energy
that often prove very absorbing. 4 de-