Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-08-12
The Effect Of Democratic Trend
Is Noted,
INDIVIDUALISM GOES.
Future Work Is to Make Homes So That
Life Will Be Worth
Living

exalted the individual and held individ-
uaI rights paramount. Socialism III
some forms holds that the individual l.
60 be perfected even if society falls; in
the extreme that no tie is to bind an IN
diyidual which cramps him.
so far women and house and home
have been the resistant material, while
all other things seem to be machine
made and the property OF thousands
alike. Hundreds wear the same coats
and the same shoes, but the house has
maintained its individuality, and the
bread has been favored with home
grown bacteria, the clothes have been
Numbered badly after a certain fashion;
the cook has had her own ways OF
spelling the food. and each stove has
had it's own PECULIARLY in smoking.
How Far 1t Affects Character
How far has this last stronghold OF
individuality influenced American char
acter, now that the schools have fallen
under the dead level of mediocrityE
What else is left? The individual man
ufacturers are now leaving the house
like rats a sinking ship Does this fact
have Il warning, Il meaning Tor us! II
so. WHAT Are we doing the right thing
to encourage cooked food depotS? Shall
we use public laundries and employ spe-
cial service by the hour? Shall we be
the same adaptable people when we eat
the same food and sleep in the same dl-
rection to the earth's currents? Or will
the child who selects his own food from
a restaurant bill of fare, instead of eat
ing what is put upon his plate by his
mother. be the better and wiser man?
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swer to our own satisfaction before we
can conscientiously go on in our chosen
work. fancy there is little danger of
our all living in hotels at present. a
goodly number of us will continue to
keep house and make a home for our
friends, and in this age we should be
quite out of fashion ii we did not talk
about economics. Indeed, we have Il
good right to the word, for it has been
taken from its real meaning, the con
duct of the house, and perverted TO
other uses.
Bird Does Things Well.
The bird builds her nest year after
year along the same lines, and only
when climatic changes force her north
or south. east or west does she change
her habitat. But man is at present Il
toy of fate, as it were, at the mercy OF
his environment, yet of an environment
of his own making. The keynote of the
age is mans power, power over natural
forces, power over himself In relation to
them, development of mans brain in
applying his own aud others discov-
cries IN few weeks. so that months
only not centuries, suffice to change the
face of the earth. and the food and fab
RIGS used
1t is recognized that the man who is
TO meet these new conditions must be
helped by all the experience which the
past can bring, and by all the sugges
lions which theory can contribute. No
uHtried man is ever put at the head of Il
great textile mill, or of a great railroad.
aud yet Il silly woman is put at the head
of a household to care for this man, SO
important to the world, and to raise
children who may be still more impor
taut. Intention, fOrsoOth, of spending
money wisely, was never a savage wom-
aus trait any more than knowledge of
how to build Il railroad was intuitive for
a Tuni Indian. To this end we have
cOme--we are money spenders, economic
persons, not Stingy. but wise To get
our moneys worth. not merely in food
and shelter but in health, happiness and
race progress is our real purpose
To Make Life Worth Living.
The future work of domestic science.
home economics, whatever it may be
called lies i'll making life worth living,
in substituting bright happy, healthy,
active men and women for the puny.
cnl0rless, dyspeptic clerks and shop-girls
we see on all sides; in developing crea-
tive talent in the place of the shopping
habit which is 50 sapping the life Of
the community.
IL is the opportunity and duty of
those Of us who have had peep into
the glass of the future to establish GER
tain principles and lay out certain paths
SO that those who come after may find
it easy to follow. Above ALL it be-
hooves us to separate the kernel of the
home from its chaf and keep it intact
from the blows it is likely to get.
We are all animals. We use food in
common with the vegetable world We
grow and work, but what is the purpose
of it all? Is it only To eat the most
dainty food. 10 wear the softest raiment
to walk in giIded halls and through trop-
zeal Conservatives? History teaches Ms
that such human beings soon die and
their offspring after them that only
those who strive ever survive. Strug
gle for existence brings out the latent
power. The Selt-sacritce demanded, til,
self-reStraiut learned strengthens, no
weakens. Hence our great need in III,
immediate future is to protect our chill
dren from the evils Of luxury, from tn
p0rtatiuu, constant excitement, the com
pleXity of modern life. and the weurines
of having everything done for them.
High Ideals Are Offered.
And to those to whom present luxur
is not danger. wd are 10 offer highe
ideals 20 strive for. Ii is most depreS,
ing 70 note the sort of life our forcig
population secs just above it. the sol
Of ambitions it is to grasp 10y force d
example. We must reform public tast
as we'll as public habits. We must sho,
what the machinery of house and hom
are for. We must show the unbeNeyiu
the interest they can get cut of it.
What is life for? What are we doin
with it, 1t all comes back To The.
questions as l listen Mt the door of iii
future
The present mother and housekecp,
seems powerless to help herself 81
has shut her eyes to what is going a
without. and has missed the stag,
which would have interpreted her hons.
or she has seen and sludiered and ]at
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