Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-24
When There Won't
Be Amy Women in the World.

be ANY women IN the World.
Every now and then | am foycibly re-
minded OF the fact that the millennium
will have arrived when we learn TO mind
our own business
But it win be an Eveless Eden, with
out n single woman in it,
No woman has yet arrived, or shows
signs of arriving, at the point of graSe
when she can behold another person maxi
ing a pie without putting her finger in it.
1t has always been that way. And it has
always been her bane. She has broken
her heart over other peoples sorrows.
She has lain awake nights, and lost
sleep, over other peoples worries. She
has brought on more nervous prostration
trying to run other peoples affairs, and
stirred up more hearthurnings and jeal-
ousy, and bitterness and strife. than all
other causes combined. just because she
would not mind her own business.
II is distinctly feminine mania, the
end whereof is trouble and tribulation.
The ayerag re man feels he has got about
all he can manage with his own affairs
and trouble enough of his own without
borrowing his neighbours. The average
woman attends to her business in the
intervals she isn't specializing about why
the Browns don't sead their children TO
the public school when Brown is only
on a salary, and how the Smiths. across
the street, can afford new carpets this
season. And the queeTes part of ii all
is that by some quirk Of feminine logic
this unwarranted meddling with other
peoples affairs is accounted Il virtue.
\ woman's definition of another woman
who was Il selfish creature would be one
who attended strictly to her own bust
ness and didn't interfere with some rem
edy of her own when the children next
door had the Group
I,
business. and leave other people to run
theirs without any assistance from her,
goes n long way towards explaining many
Of woman's failures. 1t is one reason
why so many women break down. They
try to carry the universe on their shout
ders. They could manage well enough
with their own work and bear with SUI
ficient fortitude their own troubles. but
when they add to that the accumulated
Affections of everybody in the neighbor-
hood. they collapse under the nervous
strain 1t is doubtless Il pity that Mrs.
Jones should be such poor manager
and 50 wasteful and eXtravagant: it is
much to be regretted that young Blank
does not 60 to work and support his wild
owed mother; possibly it is crying
shame that the Gray baby should be fed
on sauerkraut and beer instead of ster-
ilized milk: bnt after all we are not re-
sponsible for these affairs, and there isn't
a blessed thing we can do about them.
The Joneses. and the Blanks and the
Grays of our respective neighh0rhoods
don't want our advice and wouldn't take
/. ut any price. and we merely wear our
selves into frazzlcs with uuavailing worry
over something that doesn't in the least
concern rs.
OF course. when there j. any real need
for q solomon we all feel capable of
speaking right up, bat il is well 20 coca
,ionaly reflect that other people are al
most as capable Of running their own af-
fairs as we would be- This is always q
surprise to rs There was probably new
or "a marriage when everybody in the
community didn't feel that they could
have made a much more judiclous selec-
rion for both parties than they made for
themselves. yet divorce is comparatively
rare Every ole Of US is dead sure thar
we could bring up everybody elses chill
dren much better than they are doing il,
yet the children 20 along turning out all
right in spite of our predictions TO the
! contrary.
We really aflict ourselves about these
matters We are reduced 10 tears ba-
cause Sally S0-and-So is going 10 marry
the man she wants instead Of the man
we think would suit her, and We agra
waite our souls in vain because little Mrs.
Somebody else lets her babies play in
the back yard with the cat instead OF
folding pauer mats at the kindergarten.
If the sympathy we lavish on people wha
don't want it and don't need il. and tbs
amount Of wasted energy we eNpend on
other peoples affairs, could be applied t.
some useful purpose IL would revolution.
izc the world.
or course We shall have 3d. more gos.
sip when we learn to attend 20 our OWL
business We shall be occupied IN pay