Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-24

| use TO the ordinary woman is a smar.
tering of Latin. Greek. the higher
mathematics music. and all such
branches of learning: If a woman is
| 70 he teacher. or is very talented.
well and good, for there is no differences
between smart man and smart Wom-
an; both should be learned and use their.
taleutS for their fellows good. But ma
ture has ordained that the vast majority
OF women shall become wives and moth
efs, and If they are exhausted mentally
a. Wen as physically how is il possible
70 Keep the race strong and healthy?
The craze to have every girl taught 10
strum on the piano regardless of talent
Is alone profile source of i'll health
Iiln6 OF the money, force and nerve
power that are sQuandered every year
on this one branch alone. and not one
pupll out of five hundred can play Hin
Watha with correct musical interpre-
tatlon, Louis Blumenberg, the cello So
IolSt, said i'll a recent article in the New
York Musical Courier, that in that city
alone there are 25000 piano students
and aside from the wellknown profes
SIGNALS not twelve of them could play
Beethoven. Mozart, Chopin or Wagner
ana hardly one of this vast number
could play anything at sight. If. then
Ihere Is this great waste of health and
force, To say nothing of money. in the
effort to teach music to girls with no
TALENT. how must il be in colleges where
young women sacrifice their time and
vitality ON such problems as the whence
ness of the which, psychology. and other
speculative studies of no use to anyone
whatever, while all those things that
should fit them to become wives and
mothers, robust and healthy as the
TYPICAL Roman matron, are sadly neg
iected Every physician knows that the
!
OF cases. when applied To mediocrity. is
the most frequent cause of hysteriG
heuraSthenia. dyspepsia, aStgmatism
anu dysmcnorrhea. Still year after year
| this thing goes ON like an eudless curse
| WITH constantly increasing physical dis
ability to the women of the country. OF
all these products of the higher cduCa-
ton. or culture, call it what YOU will,
about one-half marry aud produce an
| average of Il child and one-quarter each.
/ showing how mercileSS nature is in her
effort To eliminate the unworthy,
Or the children born by these women
the lack of time forbids me to go into
detail; every physician knows their
shortcomings and limitations better than
] can describe them. 1t is not to be as
sumed from this paper that the sole oh
lect of woman's life is To marry and
! raise children, nor should she be brought
up IN ignorance. \ woman with talent
or genius should have il developed to
the fullest extent. but the constant eff
Tort being made to make ordinary abil-
/ ity keep pace with well defined talent. is
| predestned to failure, because of the
| neXorable laws governing our being.
The draught horse can not turn the race
| track with the fleet trotter but he is
/ more the less valuable for that: on the
! other hand, the world could dispense
| with the racer. but the faithful honest
| beast of toll is a necessity How is this
state of affairs to be changed II can
not he done III day or g ear, but as it
was a thing of slow growth, 50 by de
! grees we must return to health aud hap
/ plncSS. Revise the studies of schools aud
/ colleges to suit the majority. and let no
/ girl be forced to go beyond her Capu-
| city 10 learn with a moderate amount of
/ application. Cease torturing girls with
/ the piano when they have no talent, Tor
] If they have love Of music in their
/ hearts. they will work mt il with pleas
IRE for arts sake alone Music is most
! Jealous mistress aud demands much tai
/ ent and labor befNre She will yield her
self. One Of the greatest faacies of the
times is the idea that Il person to be in-
/ teFpsting must be educated. when the
truth is. that If uninteresting while UNI
/ educated. mere polish viii not make one
! attractive.
IlhIfNltS ~ MS ~tIN&Elt NtitA y III AtuN
7 discovered that when his antagonist
touched mother earth. he gained
strength. and could only be crushed by
holding him from the ground. Is not this
embematc of the deterioration and III
innate decay that await those who shut
/ themselves up with books and close
| their eyes to the great open page of ma
ture? Penelope the faithful wife, Corncl-
ia the proud mother, whose children
wcrehcre Jewels, Thusncldn. the IDEAL of
the ancient Germans, aud st, Elizabeth
the personiication of Christian faith and
charity knew nothing Of soul warnings,
/ teIepathy. psychology and other useless
things. but they possessed those woman
/ ~ qualities which have sent their names
down the ages. and will continue to do
so. until the name of the last graduate
Of the womuns college shall bavc faded
from the recollection of men forever
! Health Culture.