Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-22
Nike Work Your Servant.

Make Work Your Servant.
vocation is something which we be-
love is a call from on high. We be-
love that our duty lies in some par
t;rrlar activity or office.
This is an age of disbelief, it is said.
4 nleasure-loving age which recks not
cf tomorrow.
Whether this be true or not it is sur
nrisng to find how universal is this
striving for better things. Each one of
rs yearns to achieve great things, to
build noble characters of purity and
sweetness.
Women, good women particularly. arc
stirred by these thoughts which forever
grge them to do something worth while;
IRE forever troubled by these warnings
which will not be stitled.
So we see them zealously seeking a life
work: heart and soul they throw them
selves into this pursuit of high ideal.
The unmarried ones take up mission
ary work with the poor at home or per-
laps in foreign countries; the more prac-
tical ones seek to idealiZe teaching, for
theoretically this task of training the
child mind Is a fine one.
The religious ones join the various or
derS of the churches; others perhaps
think that to nurse the sick is Il task at
once hard and heroic.
Sometimes they marry and as wives
and mothers have the highest of yoca-
tions: and the most absorbing also.
Unless their circumstances are very
easy they find that it means a complete
sacrifice of SELF it means giving up So
cety relinquishing vanity and its plum-
age; it means all day work and all night
watching. But the loving little wife and
mother finds it all worth while. Here
is her true vocation, she thinks, and
willingly she offers her all upon the
altar.
So time goes on and on; and, now, con-
sidered from a coldly critical standpoint,
comes the penalty which attaches to all
vOcatiOns
The men must pay it as well as wOm-
en-. Minister'S, for instance, have had to
pretend so long Qor a minister is but a
man after alb, that the habit of hypoc-
risy becomes almost inevitably his por-
ton
But it is the woman with Il vocation
who always seems to have to pay the
heaviest.
She who has taught, unless she has
watched herself very closely, has become
high pitched in voice, pedantic, tiresome-
ly correct in utterance, her manners
smack of the platform.
The missionary, too, too often has u
satisfied air, an oil-on-the-water way
with her which all unregenerate mortals
resent most bitterly, as a general thing
she is not a favorite at home.
The wife and mother, alas! She pays
the heaviest of all penalties.
She has sacrificed all. Youth beauty,
brightness of wit and readiness of con-
yerSatiOn. She has not been able to
keep up with society, literature or even
small talk.
So devoted has she been to her house
aud its care, her babies, their food, cloth
ing and characters, that her mind knows
only this, but nothing more.
She has cared for everything but her
self. Sad, indeed, but tragically true,
that middle age often finds her unloveIy,
and, in Il way, unloved.
ner husband has grown away from
her He loves her, ah, yes, indeed, he
loves her, but she is not a cOngenial
companion nor a striking figure of pleas
M beauty to take around with him. lie
loves her, to be sure, but somehow they
are not very good company.
HE children grow up and go out in
the world; children are proverbially sell
hsh and life is so very full and interest
lnS, and the mother finds herself very
much alone; and, in truth, she with her
chudren is often at a loss, for they know
50 much that she does not; their ways
ana thoughts are new and different, and
She has Travelled so long in one rut that
sLe hnds it almost impossible to get out
OF it,
30 fare these poor souls of one idea,
toeSe ardent pursuers of an ideal. these
WHO have lived for a vocation.
Contemplating these facts, it is al
most 60 realize that the mortal with but
one idea will find herself after awhile
VIVA hut that one for her comfort and
pleasure.
one may not develop just one or two
faculties or talents except at the eX-
iehSe of the others.
ne only right way of getting the
i""SI 81 ones self and out of life is to
Keep everything in balance
10 with the woman with vocation:
$Ne should not allow her mind and will
I'D become lopsided with the intensity of
her convictions.
ne teacher must get away from the
S'oiroom. the nurse from the hospi-
a." the wife and mother from her home,
-, certain periods of rest and recrea-
,.'n; would She be at her best for her
q. or things done over and over until
monotony is appalling soon show a
, ,,,gfloratlon of workmanship.
"e law OF all nature and life is the
T. t| Of change; and the law of health
.4. iAi4d and body and spirit is change
That healthful change which re
-.<Hes and reinvigorates.
he men say that the care of a home
sl Tie rearing of family is enough
''r any woman.
~. n IS enough, yes, verify, it is too much;
the husband who expects his wife
4. 10 this and nothing else is making &
I've mistake from the effects of which
''.t OF item will suffer.
3cauous are all right, but we should
I'VE them, rather than allow them to
Cur work must mean character build
,'-. we must work to live. never live to
l" endure existence is a mistake: rath-
H,eSt we make life work aud the
world our servants, to bring us joy and
Ia-ee rather than allow them to be
r.. masters, 20 gring us under foot
"-ladelphia Evening Telegraph.
Batty's Twilight Chat.
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