Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

/ toward bidding for continuance of tha
correspondence.
Don tease the children at first about
ptlcllS pelhg rude or about spelling and
punctuation. All that will come with
tilhe, and the main thing is to encourag e
them to write at all, to learn To love to
write ana TO express themselves freely
Inc child whose letters are corrected and
COPIED usually never learns to SPELL:
while the hardy youngster who writes
because he wants to viii! outgrow the
haolt OF making mistakes because his
eye becomes trained, while that of the
other child does not.
There is a better reason for troinin,,
cnlldren to write letters than to afford
pleasure to some Spiuster aunt. The
American child of today is very ant To
READ TOO much; he reads the magazines
ana even the daily papers, aud some re-
aCtlon Is necessary. Outdoor piav is nm
absolute requirement for physical health
dHu Tor the mind to he wholesome and
.ioi n1tI thefe must be some means of
WORKING OF part Of the brain force. tha
enid must give out as we'll rs tol,o in
ana there IS no better way to do tbis
thah III writing natural little letters tba
ieSS hectored about style and spelling tbe
better. F''4'iS '''c
/, lhey write at school? Yes. I know
IN 10 Went to school once upon n
tlihe hlNSeH, and though many imnor.
tInt iaGJS nave escaped my mind since
tl'"Se DAYS, l remember FRIDAYS and
compositions. Let the poor little chill,
dren continue To set forth about tho nnni.
per or legs COW has, if they must. no..
maps 1t Is only right that they shanla
Know such things; but don't confuse tbie
Witn letter writing. Telling on onnrn,
claIlEe reader the latest Jokes ON each
o't OF the family is quite a differ
,,-au Al" ',g'' ana educateS the heart as
WEI! as the hand and brain.
W hen writing to the childran loo,,
?uSt eluSINeIy within reach. Do not writ,
III me l. 1t catT' Style. and do n,,+
preach. W hlte grown-up letter ohont
lHihES on interest; send your messages tn
lhe father and mother through the chill.
uISh sometimes, instead of always tho
HtHef WY; ASK sensible questions obont
nome affairs and see what delightful nm,
SWerS won will get
quote now from the letters of an. Of
my boy correspondents, In 1895 hn
wrote me: I'VE are expecting Aunt En.
NEE TO come. She is going TO bring her
TWO babes OF which the largest is n very
pretty girl and then Buffer and I oro
going to sleep out in the outer room in
the yard 80
~ ): Are You with spain in the ouor.
rel with the United states -
Five years later he is writing mo. II
nave mad to deviate from my rule and
put off answering your letter until one
day after receiving it. 1t seems such +,
pity that all the good times you plan for
me are air castles, us | have not decided
to come TO New York for my vacation.
may go to Chicago. Your poetry is
very good and that about me is excel
lent, and somehow | feel at once re-
hukcd and yet encouraged to keep plod-
ding on.
Put the children ut writing up the
tiycs. and you will make a pleasure to
all concerned and do your little ones
wholesome benefit besides. And then
who knows what effect it may have Oh
making the grown people be good" if
they know they are to be reported "A
Spinster Aunt in Good Housekeeping