Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-01-12

What Women Are Doing.


| In the United States there are at least
one million more men than women. I'm
migration has caused this increase of
numbers with the male portion of hui
manity. While statistics are mostly cor
rect IN tins respect yet one can not help
/ put think there was Il mistake some
place when it was stated that only one
tenth of the females of the United States
are engaged in work outside their nat
ural spheres, their homes. To view the
! business districts OF any metropolis, one
VIII wonder if there are any women left
| to attend TO household duties There are
comparatively few large business houses
! or factories where women are not en-
| ployed. From time to time some manu-
featuring concern resolves to pay higher
wages and have men only in their en-
ploy. and for time there is painful
absence of typewriters. bookkeepers and
other office girls. A short reign of this
kind and we see the girls in their old
positions
Fortunately everything has "Ameri-
can stamped upon it in our country,
ana the American women are as much
the promoters of improvements as the
men. They never have gained the au-
thorIty they so earnestly have striven for
/ IN political realms, yet there are thou
sands and thousands of women who new
er wish that honor @, and all credit is
( due their superior judgment in that re
Spect. 4 woman is a queen of her own
household until she tries to take away
mems privileges to protect our country
and families i'll their own strength OF
mind and muscle If needs be- Take all
YOU can set from the man, but civ. him
the right to vote for both.
! Women are not moving out Of their
realms of W0manhood to better humanity
IN their phianth ropic work: she il need
( ed there and bpp mission ig So
4 one. Women are at the heads OF civic
/ cfeeds. and here is where every man
should take off his hat To the women
VINO are earnestly trying to improve
beautiful America
In past ages but few women could
take time from their duties to read and
study 70 get broader views of life and its
needs fer tie people They were a hum
/ BE class OF women, content with the
/ nome and home duties. but the time has
come III this progressive age. when it
IS well women know when and how to
! take up their own interests If women
were not great readers the patronage Of
/ the world Of journalism would so beg
glng. for the majority of readers are the
women folks of the household. Men
read the newspapers, yet the magazines
and journals are read by the women
Women have succeeded as doctors. yet,
strange to say when woman gets very
sick she is going TO place her life in
the hands of a man physician There
are great many women who make re-
markably good lawyers. YET the majority
OF them are backed by the head member
Of her firm Sometimes We hear of
some who 90 ahead rough-shod and
make sWath ten miles wide in their
rush to the goal. They get there. and a
stampede follows them.
/ \ woman is a woman rs long as she
/ keeps within the bounds of what Is WON
anly. When She leaps this boundary
/ she may be on an equality with men
1 yet we doubt whether the satisfaction
/ Of being mayor of some city. Justice of
! the peace for some district, and country
! doctor for some province is just exactly
| what she mapped out when she was a
| young girl, in the heyday of her youth.
! and got into the rush and had to sink
or swim. live or die, or 20 out stump
/ speaking fof an existence. Women may
60 where they please, get entanglcd in
! all sorts of business intrigues but nine
out of ten prefer to sit down in coy
chair at home and make baby clothes
rather than the laws of the whole ma
/ tiion. - Margaret HumphreyviIe. in
| Woman's National Daily.