Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-12-09

the fashion to paint woman in aluminous
| foreground with the devil behind her Ia
! the shape of man.
In very truth il is man who is the II.
| lQmlnatmg power in woman's life. as
she VIII readily agree il she only stops -
! think about it,
! In the first place, he is the father Of
! her children, and no woman can defy
! mat the rearing of child IS the most
| Softenlng ana civllng and cngentlng
! phase of 4 w0man's life. In the second
| place, he has moulded for her certain
! ideals of purity and virtue, of spiritual
/ health and bodily eXouiSiteneSs, and lie
demands that she keep to these ideals or
! forfeit All claim To his respect and es-
| TEEN.
Noman's honor is but a pale shadow
| Of man :, yet anaemic as ii is, is exists
| solely hy reason Of the suStenunee 1t re-
| ceiveS from his. 1t is man who has laid
down the laws which women are content
10 follow. Without them this world
would be Il Tough-and-tumbe old place,
! with hnger nails for ten commandments
and the supreme court Il tribunal of tive
edged tongues
! Many woman who was fitted by ma
| ture for scold. dowdy. or q coquette
| is moulded by man to almost angelic
! form. but let the woman who has been
a gentle. obedient Wife become Il widow,
let her husbands influence be once re-
moved and immediately her old nature
| reassertS itself, its pent-up torrent over
flows, and in n few weeks or months her
own friends will not know her for the
same woman.
The man whose wife dies may go back
to his clubs and the companionship Of
other men, but in no other essential ~
he changed from the man he was; but il
is not possible for a man to die with the
| assurance that his wife will carry out
the routine Of life in every particular as
it was during his lifetime.
The mother in the household has been
pointed ont as the Center of Refinement.
the Gentle lntluence-all in capitalS-but
let the husband and father 90 out Of
town on a 24-hour business trip, and
the girls lol into breakfast in wrappers
and the mother comes 10 dinner in n tea
gown. and every advantage is taken Of
his absence to indulge in mental and
| physical relaXations which are never per,
mitted in his presence.
! \ manlcss house like a horselcss car
rage, will move smoothly enough for a
| little space, but it is only question Of
! time before it comes TO an abrupt halt,
| and there's the very mischief to pay be-
fore il eau be started going again. for It
| is u we'll known fact that more temper
and less Self-c0ntrol exists in the manless
family than in any number of households
which represent the sterner sex in all It's
| phases
No matter how quiet and unohtruSive
Il man may be in his own house, his very
| presence is protest against uncon-
trolled temper, backbting mkmd Cos
| sip. and Il certain SlipshOd attitude of
mind into which his wOmenkind are apt
to fall when left to their own DEVICES
| He may be something Of fast liver,
! Ills morals outside of his home may be
! Ian, or he may have 4 reputation for
| risky stories, but at home lie demands
| the very best and highest ideals of wom-
anhood in his wife and daughters. and
/ what's more, he usually gets them.
! 1t is living up to her husbands stand
ard that lends naturally mwomanly
| woman all the charm of WOmanlinesS.
that makes an embarrassing woman in
| tereSting and a plain woman almost
/ pretty. He demands of her that size
| shall be womanly and 10, she is womaii-
/ ~; he will not have his wife other than
| interesting, and it is because of his iu-
iiuence that she studies her style and
makes the most of her possibilities.
It is by no means because Of Il wom-
ans influence that a man checks his pro-
| family IN her presence. however much she
may like to think of it, but because the
ideal Of womanhood which he has made
for her forbids him to be other than
/ gentleman in her presence. In every
| phase OF civilized life man is the con-
trolling influence.
What would my husband say" are
characters that are writ in FIRE over
many temptation towards which
woman is drawn. Ii is not her woman
liEess that makes her recoil but the
knowledge that she would fall below
mans standard of that womaniueSs.
| -et us give honor to whom honor is
due.-Cally Ryland in an Exchange