Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-01-26


For neither Of us could forget
Robert Chichester
A Girls Resolutions
for the New Year.
Resolved, during the coming year.
That | will try to think less of myself.
and more of others.
That | will try to remember that | am
not the whole show, and thai there. are
several other individuals in the world be-
sides myself.
That | will endeavor to recall. now
and then. that they have rights that
ought to respect even If | don't
That because l am Il girl, and every
body is good enough to want to give me
good time, does not make it right of
me to impose upon them, and | herein
record a solemn vow that after this |
am going to show some appreciation and
gratitude for the sacrifices that unsetish
people make for me- and that | have
beer in the habit of taking as no more
than my just deserts
That | am going to get on the breaj
wagon today. and so on no more choco-
late cream debauches.
That | am going to cut out chewing
gum, also writing sentimental notes to
actors,
That l will write no letters to "A man
that | would not be willing to see pub
lished in the newspapers
That | will spend less time marcel
waving my hair. ana more time trying
TO put a few crimps in my ignorance of
what Is really going on in the world
That | will read more good books, and
fewer novels of sizzling passion.
That | will cultivate an ambition to be
something higher than Il mere animated
fashion plate.
That l will try to praise other girls
without giving them a cat scratch i'll my
last word.
That | will waste no time yearnng for
a career If | feel it in me to do things
outside of the home circle. | viii get out
and make an honest try at them If
don't. l will stay contentedly in the lot
wherein l was placed by Providence, and
not make it a bowling wilderness with
my groans and lamentations over being
an unappreciated genius.
mat L VIII devote certain portion of
every evening to trying to get acquainted
with my father.
That | will make as much effort to
please and entertain him rs | do to
make myself agreeable to the young men
who come to the house.
That | will endeayor to make him feel
that the money he spent on rearing and
educating me was not the worst invest
That | will try to be merciful as | am
strong, and not bankrupt him with my
millinery bills
That | will try not to snub my mother
any more than | can help and to re-
member that she. poor thing. did not
have the advantage of belonging to the
'O7 class.
That | will not have seven hats to her
one nor silk when she has to wear cot
ton.
That | will try to Oc Il companion to
iier, and let her find again her lost girl
mood III mine by telling her about my
ueauX and the places | go, and the pleas
uros | enjoy.
That 1 will not lie on the sofa and read
novels while she washes the dishes
Neither will | be afflicted with sudden
headaches when dull old relatives and
stutfy friends come to dinner.
mat | will ever bear in mind that
S'rI s mission is to her mother, and not
70 reform drunkards or NEEDLE with the
domestic relations of the Sulus.
That will devote some of the smiles
Iof which | am admired in society to
my little brothers and sisters.
mat | will deal fairly and squarely
ny the young men who come to see me.
mat | will adopt our national motto.
friendship with all. entangling ALI
ahces with nOne"-until the right man
comes along to escort me to the altar.
Ihat | will keep my first kiss for the
man | marry.
That | will not be accessory to the
crime of any mans robbing the cash
drawer of his employer in order to sup
ply my demands on him.
That | will not hint. nor graft. nor
mold up any young man for any sort Of
present or a treat.
a. That | will not firt except with the
firtatious.
That | will not play with an honest
That | will devote less time trying To
catch husband. and more to fitting my
self to be a good wife to the man | do
Eet-Dorothy Dix in Philadelphia Even
ing Bulletin