Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-09

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TO teach him now: His father thinks
that it has, has begun to think 50 be-
fore the boys petticoats were OF. has
Ia ugbt him how to pummel with his lists.
/ how To throw stone. low 10 strike back
| when another fellow hits him, and has
gotten up from playing with him,
| shrugged his shoulders and gone off III
/ pretended disgust when the little tod
| ding infant has cried for a hurt. Any
/ thing but a Ty-baby or a weakling,
| paterfamilias exclaimS. and lie watches
/ with an alarm, often tinged by a touch
Of scorn, for evidences Of weak spots ia
the manly character Of his son. Still all
| his teaching is 70 cultivate self-depend-
| euce IN the son.
Alarms the Mother.
All this alarms the mother but the ia
TIERS will is too strong for her. the ira
ditions Of the world are against her, the.
sentiments of the boys playmates, and
! the very nature Of the boy. She has TO
! let him 20 into the world. or be runs into
H. even when the worlds limit is marked
! by Ter garden gate. lie viii find il all
out for himself She cannot walk for
bin nor fight for him. His own legs
must carry him, his own arms do the
battling. But for all that, her vigilance
is not 10 be vanQushed. Her spirit Of
protection. her affectionate alarms, her
anxieties. Ler desire 70 shield, 70 be about
his steps and in his days all these de-
MED a full and free xpression-that
1 expression which. toward q daughter, a
paterfamilias and the world would APP
prOve-all these when thrown back upon
themselves have become the stronger.
though changed.
Vigilance Becomes Aggressive.
1t is just here, then, that the meta
morpbOsis takes place in the mothers
mind. That unconquerable vigilance,
with its instructive obligation TO protect,
which is common to all mothers wher
ever yertebrates appear. is not so easily
/ killed. But il has developed d new eIe-
ment. 1t has become suspicious where
once it was only yigilant, aggressive
where once it was only tender. 1t con
Germs itself less with the boy and with
teaching him how to fight for moral ends
than with the dangers which may assaii
| him. II looks about. scans the horizon.
| keeps an alert and disappearing eye al
ways open for foreign approaches, ard
| generally ends by deciding that every
| other danger may be comprehended and
| provided for in that one of-the other
/ woman.
! 1t would be funny were it not so sad.
| You. my dear Mrs. johnson, if you viii
| pardon my personal tone, became an
/ altogether different parsonage when in
| middle age you married and had a son.
I IBt4piE tldI Ul1it 4 never huEW duNBUG SO
generous il sentiment so cordial to wom-
| en-. so helpful, so sure that they were a
| misunderstood race suffering frequent OPP
/ pressiOns. And in justice TO you now |
| must confess that you have not out
| grown these sentiments when any of
! your female contemporaries are under
/ considerations; but when it becomes a
| question relating TO the female contempt
raries Of your son, ah! then it becomes
quite another affair.
The Girl Next Door.
Do you remember when he was lad
| of only 10, and i'll in bed for week--too
I much sailing in the sun--how the little
girl next door brought him flowers and
her playthings, and how, denied the sick
room, she hung about under the windows
| watching for worG from him? If your
| little son had been cripple, fretful and
hard TO manage, chronic invalid with
| the ability TO win himself much sympa-
| thy, how you would have rejoiced in the
| little girls attentions, and recounted 10
| us all with pride these evidences of her
| devotion! But he happened TO be a
sturdy young fellow, with most Of the
world at his feet. and the little girl who
| was sorry for him tand what is more
! beautiful than sympathy in women o. the
/ little girl happened not TO lie so we'll
born, and so YOU let him laugh, and YOU
laughed yourself, if you remember; YOU
AiipuEHA II was an a great joke WHeu ne
told you that the girl was too fresh"
| that her brothers ought 10 tell her size
! was not doing the proper thing, and shat
the other boys would laugh at her, as if
Ec were already a man and the little girl.
forsooth. Is instead of s!
Protection Against Marriage.
And you, my dear Mrs. Crabtree
should like TO ask you if you remember
saying. when your son was not yet II.
that you never intended that he should
| marry. that you did not believe in girls
/ should like to ask you, but then vour
son died suddenly before he was 20. and
! lett sou alone in the world Hut vou-
son. my dear friend across the way.
think he is nearly 40 now. | saw him
20 out OF your front door this morning
and / noticed as he raised his hat tbet
his head was bald How that stoon ~
( bis shoulders has increased. Even won
confess that lac IL not handsome, though
you add thar he looks like Il gentle,pon'
lie has never married. / ana not sure.
regarding him from purely LiSpasSiou-
| ate point OF view. that | am alio0nfber
| surprised. though he viii get all his IA
| Tiers money, and he has your famiI,,
| name. You evidently would NOT agrea
/ with me- ~ thinking that few women
| would be drawn To- him, for durin,. the
| twenty years in which | have known
You, you have been constantly protecting
| - "S"l4tHl t'S "!PAo dNues OF every
woman who glanced his way! | know
| that you were Il romp IN your oy,n
youth. and had many men friends. Rnt
YOU have never. since becoming f6e
mother Of that son, been able 10 regard
without suspicion any attempt NJ friend.
ship made by any young woman for vonr
/ son. The pitfalls of young men, i the
| burden of your song. You have told me
that Mrs. Jones wanted TO marry Of
that daughter Of hers who asked linn
TO dine twice in one winter And that
pretty southern girl who called him con.
sin lShe was your srandfa;her's niece) Won
insist had already made up her mind ~
! marry him before She left hr,,e W,
tell me that | am unworldly not TO see
these things. o. I You have an enormons
contempt Ter ny penetrative powers.
Woman'S Faith in Woman.
Perhaps you are right. dear madam.
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