Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07
Working for the Children.

Working for the Children.
Mrs. Lowell White, president of the
Outdoor Art league of San Francisco,
headed courageous band of its mem
bers who worked at the polls during
the recent election, in behalf of the
amendment to provide Fairgrounds
for the children. The women districted
the city, and stood near every polling
place-100 feet away, as prescribed by
law-handing the voters cards asking
them to vote for the amendment. One
woman was threatened with arrest by
a policeman for lacking up a card on
a telegraph pole within 100 feet of a
voting BOOTH but in the main the la
dies were treated most courteously
Some of them distributed cards in the
street cars, and one had to make a
speech in a crowded car. The amend
ment won. Mrs. White is reported in
the San Francisco Cab as saying:
"This is a new experience here, but the
women of England have done it, so we
| know it can be done. Personally |
am so much interested in the measure
providing Fairgrounds for The chill
dren that nothing | could do to ad-
vance it would seem hard. The re
Spouse of the women of the Outdoor
Art league was beautiful. Some Of
! the most conservative, whom | hardly
/
| volunteered to take the hardest pre-
cincts." The women have worked
| faithfully for the last six months.
| They drafted the amendment, brought
| influence to bear upon the men who
were to launch it, and persuaded all
the political parties to make it plank
| in their platforms. Honor to these
women! But they would have found
| it easier to vote themselves than to
stand all day at the polls.- Womans
Journal.
Something About Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish.
! Though her husband is justly ceIebrat-
| ed at a railroad king and defer of
! Hartman, yet his fame does not dom
! mate in his family, says the New Broad
1 way Magazine, for his wife is the one
whose name is most upon the popular
! tongue Probably more is known of her
character, customs, eccentricities, likes
and dislikes of any other woman from
coast to coast. she mas an Intense per-
sonality. If she enters room, no mat
! ter how crowded. every one knows it,
/ when she leaves. she seems to take
| something with her out of the social at
mosphere. She has individuality, is out
| spoken, capricious, witty and brilliant.
| Whatever che does or says is utterly UNI
/ like what anyone else does or says, and
/ she is never ordinary. Yet it is almost
certain that she couldn't be a supreme
leader. She is reckoned too ebildlike to
control others.
Another thing that would handicap
Mrs Fish is the fact that her husband
| is not in sympathy with her social life.
| a man of letters who knows him well
/ said to him:
| Twill you tell me one thing truly? Did
! your wife really take monkey to din
/ ner %
Il don't know what particular monkey
| she added to the list Of dinner guests.
they were all there" he replied.
/ If the set that must be am Used al any
cost makes Mrs Fish its ibader. there
are chances that it may override the eff
( forts and desires of the saner and bet
| ter element. But here is. at least. a
harmless set The viciousness that has
been imputed to it by preachments does
not exist. There was no harm in giving
that tp dinner. Of which everybody has
heard. at Mrs. Fish's house, burlesquing
the Russian Grand Duke Boris and his
pretensions The same thing could have
been done in any house, less consp1cu-
Gus. to rounds of applause and laI}ghter
from even diynifed people; but nneer the
+ circumstances. il angered and Irr.tated a
great number of the New York set
Mrs. Fish always gets the popular
! American vote. because she is the loyal
at American Of them all. She believes
firmly that nothing on the other side
of the water equals what is on this side;
and il was this feeling. far more than
any desire for revenge. that led her to
give the burlesque Boris dinner. Kow-
towing IS not in her line.
-O--o-
Is Home Making
Woman's Normal State?
The satisfactions which women most
need to earn, which they most hope to