Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-07
LEISURE CLASS NECESSARY
AS Beautifers of Life They Are Indeed
Essential

This nation has need of women Of
leisure, women who have time to be very
busy about things that are witho:L.
money and without price, declared
college president recently.
NO one has any wish to quarrel VIII,
the quickening interests which have con,a
into women's lives. but it is certain thar
II all The women in the future are to IT,.
too busy to attend to the things that ara
without money and without price. if thev
are TO be harried and hurried over H.,
things of the world, the WI ole of life viii
have become incomparab!y the poorer.
there are three ways in which WON
en- are pre-emnent: They are the binders
together OF society. they are the bpauti-
Tiers of life. and they are the PRESERVE,
Of morals" said President Hazard or
Wellesley in one of her addresses
As beautiierS of life they are indeed
most essential. Theirs the privilege and
duty to making centers of sweetness and
light where the things of this world cease
from troubling and the weary one may
rest. Theirs the primary and essential
function of furnishing refreshment ana
inspiration for those who are wrari.d
with the conflict of life.
But how are they to do this if every
moment is devoted TO some money-gai.
ting pursuit and they reach home with
every nerve in Il state OF tension. evert
muscle aching with WEAKNESS and no d.
sire but To creep away into a corner with
their bruised being?
1t may be taken as an axiom that few
women engage IN Labor outside the homo
unless forced to do so by stress Of cir.
cumstanccs, and there are few women
who do not prefer the home life with its
duties ara privileges. But apart from
these there J rapidly increasing circle
OF women WHO have become 50 absorbed
IN the varioua activities of Society" Of
club lie. of athletics and the 101 cults
that claim attention from time Ia time
that the type Of women who grects Won
in her quiet drawing room as one who
has Tong days of repose behind her ana
looks Serenely forward to others of The
same tenor is becoming SO rare as IN
Impress one as an exotic.
Leisure is no+ Il luxury. it is simpc.
human need, as necessary to normal
health as food and sleep and air. 1t is
so gracious and civilizing Il possession
that no man shGold be willing to do
without it, and he should command it, il
possible, for his women folk. as one of
the most precious possessions he can
give them.
Zoo much hard physical work, whether
undertake IN from necessity or for pleas
ire witt: asS the athletic craZe) is bad
for women, 1t is asserted by more than
one critic. The savage or peasant wom-
en-. who are often beautiful iii youth. de-
vel0p into unSeemly coarseness after
some years IF unremitting toll.
Not that women violate any obligation
of womanhness or detract from its dig
nifty by making themselves more capable.
but if they are forced to labor 10 the
verge Of exhaustion they cannot fail Of
losing some of the gracious charm Of
freshness which is The fruit of beautiful
leisure, cf years of abiding in green pas
lures and beside the still waters of life:
of doing the things that are without
money md without price And beauty
born of murmuring sound shall pass into
her face wrote Emerson of his Lucy.
and it is certain that one must first 'ah-
sOrb at The great natural reservoir and
fountains of the beautiful before he him
self can become truly beautiful in life
and character aud so able to transmit
beauty to All around" Rochester Her
adj