Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-18
W0MEN'S TALENT WASTED
0entler Seq Need Reawaken.ug Which
Would Energize and Revolution. '''4
ize Social Life

There Is immense amount Of for,.
lhlhe talent and energy wasted a..
the world every day. This !, ~
due to the Indifference or tba nv.
ness Oh woman, for she is eager =.
oi " accomplish, TO 70 QUO inn H.,
neld OF lite and achieve for Lor.nlf l"e
Tor her kind But she siuniv ~ anu
KNOW now. One of the most in,,,,..I n1t
movements of the day. Therefore - AM
feawakening of woman, the builj;n., lHe
up Oh new basis of self help and 7ra,.I-
i ior. otuerS' That movement will ~
t tIo an amount OF energy and talent
nm ~ VIII feVoiutlonlze our social life
mus writes Mrs. Russell SAGE IN +I.
November North American Rayinr.
an article On "Qppor;unit.es and p ~
sponsibllities of Leisured Women AZ
IL Is absurd" Mrs. Sage saws .,l
Suggest that women VINO have n r,Io,t
Tor music or literature. or art shor3iJ '1
ehslaved by domestic drudgery rhao
Tue struggle Tor the civilization of tIa
world is going on" '"e
Mrs. Sage thinks seIfishuess and ijl,.
ness great sources of danger 81
thinks wOmen's laxity toward drinl,in',
ana smoking is injurious. AT n dinna-
she recently attended she saws: ..It wo!,
put to vote whether or not smnl,in,,
should be INDUCED in. The ladies nras7
eht, not wishing to be obnoxious. voted
yes, l being the only one that yoroI
no. The result was that the men inl
dulged their love for tobacco to the dis
comfort OF almost all the women nres.
ent, and to the nausea of some of them
This sort of thing is remotely rpsnon'
sible for the cigarette smoking habit
among reputable young women. Thev
indulge IN order to affiliate with your,
men and be considered good fellows
'lbr1nE1np IS In load
FALLING extent by women of the wealth.,
idle class, and their daughters are fol-
lowing in their footsteps The great
danger of this is that the idle rich class
influences the succeeding strata of so.
Getty This class is surrounded with -,
certain glamour that those not so high
up in the so-caled social scale mistake
Tor something genuine, but which is the
Yerlest sham Bear in mind that | refer
To nc. set or clique, but to a condition
manifested in all parts of the country.
Now. the persons of this class are widely
initiated. If they drink it is considered
smart to do so, and others follow suit.
II they smoke cigarettes other girls do
the same"
Mrs. Sage denOunces gambling as one
OF the inevitable cOncomitantS of idle.
eNtravagant life She tells of hostesses
politely bullying" men into games Of
poker or bridge whist and making them
pay dearly. She adds
THE trouble is that the wives of many
men in this class squander in gamblin,
and other forms Of dissipa ton the money
their husbands give them for household
expenses and are compelled to resort to
Just such measures to make up the
deficit, lest their husbands find out the
true state of affairs and adopt drastic
measures to correct them.
Weekend parties have bridge whist
as n sole purpose. Rooms are hired and
furnished in all parts of New York city
by fashionable young women. who do
nothing but gamble there. | was sitting
i'll my carriage not long ago, and, seeing
Il young friend of whom | am fond walk
ing up the avenue | invited her to drive
with me- But she waved her hand and
exclaimed: L can't today. I've been los
ing at euchre, and now I'm going to
make it up at bridge, and she hur-
ried on.
'The idle rich are no more vicious
than the idle poor, but they are much
more lacking in sympathy with one an
other"
Mrs. Sage recommends women of leiS-
ure to apply themselves to missionary
work in improving towns and villages.
She suggests:
'In our great cities many women are
necessarily lonely or are forced into
vicious society. And this loneliness is
not ameliorated by attending balls and
other entertainments. 1t is unfortunate
that men of small means, having to at
tend business, must leave their wives
alone in hotels and boarding houses. 1t
is not womans nature to be philosoph-
ically resigned to solitude She must
have society, preferably good, but she
must have society.
AN inexperienced man is apt to
neglect his wife and still expect her To
be chaste as Lucrece. There is Il great
field for work among the unemployed
wives of salared men. If the idle rich
woman would only learn to look upon
her sister of this class as the daughter
of a woman like herself. co-equal with
her before God, she would take her by
the hand and draw her out from her
solitude, and by so doing reap reward
in the unfolding of her own character;
Mrs. Sage very earnestly declares that
the only remedy for the social evil in our
communities is by educating boys and
girls to one standard of morality.