Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-06-08

ing a face to those outside the pale. But
in point of fact, as the centuries have
proven conclusively, he cannot do it, He
has got TO keep forever at work-busy-
exercising pounding with his hands or
thinking with his head-or hoth-or else
he becomes rusty both in mind and in
body
In this very city of Brooklyn one Of
the three daughters of a prominent and
well-to-do family became an invalid.
Doctors and surgeons prescribed for her
and operated upon her, but like the WON
an in Scripture. she did not grow better
but rather grew worse-aS most of rs do
when We turn ourselves over too entirely
TO those excellent public servants.
AT last, sensibIe counsellor advised
that the girl be put To housewOrk. The
mother was Mortified.
None of you are any too well" urged
this bold and untlinching friend IF
you had to engage in active. necessary
work TOR two or three hours each day. il
would 5e the best thing in the world for
life
Some good angel made the mother lis
ten to this voice of wisdom. Her two
servants Were well trained. The house
hold wheels moved smoothly. 1t took a
great deal of decision to discharge the
Eood waitress ana feel that there was
only the cook to depend upon. But the
mother and daughters talked il over, and
they really did just that
Ihen they divided the dusVng, sweep
Ing, bed-making, door-tendinE and other
work between them. One girl. who was
fond of cooking. undertook to provide the
desserts, if the cook would in return
help her out with her sweeping The Ii
brary open fire had been under the care
of the waitress. One daughter engaged
to clear away the sashes and built it
freshly every morning.
Ia a few months the health of the
Whole family became greatly improved
The sick daughter walked from Flat.
bush down to the shopping center only
the other day-enjoyed the walk, was not
too tired. slept like Il top" that night
and calls herself now the strongest mem
Der OF the family-and it is all the result
Of that blessed exercise known aS house
work.
1t has been more than once suggested
in these columns that the present Skring
ency in the domestic labor market may
have been providentially sent upon us in
order that our women may be driven
back to the Eden of health, which is to
be found in doing their own work.
The feeble and aged, and the mothers of
little children can hardly be expected to
sympathize with this view-but there is
large, idle, semi-invalid class among us,
who do not work, because they think
they do not need to-but who, if they
only realized ii, do need to work more
than they need anything else on earth.
The wise father and mother will see to
it that they not only work pretty hard
and regularly every day themselves, but
that every member of their family has
steadily. necessary work to do also. No
body can appreciate like the strenuous
worker those vacations which are such a
JOY to the right-minded. His week or
month Off brings surely its need of
lasting idler as too many Of our wel-to-
do class deserve to be called. what is Il
'vacationT All of his life is that-and
vacant" is too likely to be written all
over his life and his face.
He is more likely than not to be al
ways ailing, too.--Kate Epson CLARK,
Brooklyn Eagle.