Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-12-16
DUTY OF RESIGNATION.
We Should Pray to Know When to AS
sist and Have Courage to
Do 1t.

a beautiful and accomplished woman
had married man of position and some
fortune. writes Margaret Hubbard Aver.
in the New York World. Two daugh-
tiers were born to them. but before the
birth of the second child the husband
had developed an already strong ten
dency TO drink excessively, and at the
end of the fourth year Of their married
life he was a confirmed drunkard.
The wife. as a result of her mental
and often physical suffering. lost both
health and spirit. A further conse-
quence of the husbands intemperance
was the loss of his own fortune and that
Of his wife.
The children grew up in terror of
their father. stunning other children,
whom they could never ask into their
homes on account of the terrible condi-
tons that reigned there
The home became merely shelter
from the curious, searching eyes of the
world in which the father aud his vice
fattened and ruled supreme
The wife's relatives told her that
there was nothing to do but to be re-
signed to her fate.
For thirty years she was resigned.
For thirty long years she bore all that
was evil and wrong, associated with all
that was ugly and brutal.
Her husband and his loathsome vice
dominated the household and terroriZed
the children. who as they grew older.
| finding neither comfort nor cheer at
home, sought it elsewhere. and finally
drifted out into the world to take their
places as wage-earners.
The mother, still thinking that she
was doing the will of the Almighty, had
entirely ceased to assert herself, and
spent her time trying to smooth out the
i, Of hon. h.,eh nd I'D
thetically waited for the moments of
respite between hi attacks"
She was growing steadily weaker in
body but was still firm i'll the knOwl-
edge that she was showing true resigna-
ton.
At the age of so, white-haired and
pTematurely aged, she awoke to the
tragic realization that she had been re
signed to the wrong thing.
Though she was still more or less an
invalid. she was determined either to
change the conditions that had made her
life Eideous or to escape them.
There was no reasoning with her hus-
band, no use trying to cure him. She
had made tentative efforts in that di
rection long before. He did not even
profess to love her, and so she went
forth alone without money and without
experience at 80 to earn for herself an
Independent livelihood that would in
sure her a peaceful ending of her days.
Her days have not ended, and she
doesn't want them to. As soon as her
daughters had heard that she had struck
out for herself they came to her aid and
so did some of her old friends who had
been waiting for her to make the first
move. and to assert herself.
She and her daughters live together;
they are not rich, but their little home
is q happy one, and there is no OBJ
stacle, no defect, no condition that the
mother will ever be resigned to again if
there is any possible way of overcoming
or surmounting it.
ITO be resigned to evil conditions is
almost as bad as doing evil yourself" is
presented to the Litchteld Historical So
ciety through ID. &. Kilbourn several
who was settled in Warren in 1772
Indian summer properly comes late in
November. The season gets its name
ffsm the time when the early settlers
first planted Indian corn. This corn
was left on the stalk as long as the
gathered during Indian summer" some
times after snow aad arrived. The cold
spell which usually preceded Indian
summer was called ''squaw winter"
An elm, said to be over 100 years old,
was cut at Bennington, Vt, the other
day, w hen the tree was chopped proof
of its age was discovered near the heart
in the shape of an old-fashioned hand
forged nail.
Lexington, Mo-, News: Brother. if
thou will return the three hens thou
didst take from my hen roost last Fri
day night | win return to thee the
formidable instrument with which thou
didst break down the double door lead
ing to the hen roost. John r. Jordan.
The will of Josiah s TwisS of Hollis
n. H., provided for band of music at
his funeral. He wished to be buried in
the midst of clump of balm of gilead
trees which he had set out himself. He
provided $50 to be spent for peanuts and
candy for the mourners. He left $1,000
to be used to educate his children's chill
dren.