Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-20

pie to be inferior to that of peasants and
| u tends to cause physical retrogressioy,
~ me leisure class, wherein girls marry
| ouIg, as compared with the class az
workers IN which the young women
nave 10 take up trades or domestic SER
marry.
| $3.50
Genslewemen Not Wanted.
An interesting contribution to the cues
lion OF domestic service was recently
hlaae by woman who has tried hard Ia
| secure u position in a household for an
otner woman of refinement-a friend
VINO Tvs IN such straitened circumstances
that II was imperative that she So
cure work at once. Having for years
read articles in which the mistress class
was represented MS being eager to get
better type of efficient domestic than
presents itself in Intelligence Offices. she
naturally supposed that she should have
no uiLhculty IN securing a desirable place.
LOT her friend who is in robust health
ana still young woman, besides having
had the experience of successfully man
aging home and several servants of her
own. Although the applicant for a place
was willing to eat in the kitchen and to
Mait upon the door, the women to whom
the Application was made had been dis
tracted over the domestic problem of no
help, and We're offering $50 with no
sweeping or washing, were not disposed
10 accept the service of the gentlewoman
and IN the few instances where they
sighlned willingness to do so offered
her $40 month, in a home where SD
mad been paid for the service of negro
girl, and So month where $25 was the
invarla BILE wage rate. Small wonder
that the friend who had interceded in
her behalf should conclude that all the
ciamor IN regard to housewives desir-
ing a better class of servants is mere
pretense, and that there is no encourage
ment for higher class women taking up
domestic service.-Vogue.
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A Husbands Wall.
In his dreams Joe had seen himself
the master of a pretty house, in which
ne ana Margaret, would live simply but
with comfort. Friends would surround
him-poor bachelor friends; he would
show them thing or two, once their house
was settled. He fancied himself bringing
his friends out with him whenever
he, chose, and finding cozy little dinner
all waiting for them, and Margaret
ready to smile them a welcome. Real
life didn't work out like his imaginings.
Unexpected company was greeted with
an amount OF apprehension and furry
he found it difficult to understand. He
didn't try it but twice. 1t is embarrass-
ing to bring home a man and find that
the servant has left-and for some time
Joe never knew, ON arriving home, in
what state he would find the domestic
problem. AT first he had the keenest
sympathy with Margaret; later, there
came day when he wondered if it was
always quite altogether the cooks fault.
This traitorous thought wandered into
his mind about the time that Margaret
made him feel that letting the furnace
fire go out had gotten beyond the point
of joke.-A Husband in Harper's Ba-
gar.
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Mrs. Rice Puts on the Soft Pedal.
From all over the world, Mrs Isaac
J.. Rice receives greetings as the "Apos-
tie of Silence" says the Delineator for
November. Since the success of this
modern crusader in overcoming the UNI
necessary blowing, screeching and toot-
ing of whistles in the New York har-
bor and the establishing of quiet zones
about hospitals in her home city, she
has been urged TO wage universal war
on noise. Although Mrs. Rice is the
mother Of FIVE children and the mistress
of beautiful home on Riverside drive,
she devotes eighteen hours a day to her
sef-imposed task of making New York
more agreeable place III winch 10 llVe.
Although scarce year has passed,
she has accomplished wonders. Not only
do the tugs and steamers up and down
the I'll udson and in the harbor of New
York. ply their way without disturbing
the residents who live along the shore,
but the sick and wounded in the hos
pitfalls have been benefited by the vigor-
Gus crusade that Mrs. Rice has carried
on. Drivers now are required to drive
more slowly while passing in the neigh
borhood of hospital, trolley cars slow
down, and motormen may not clang
their gongs. except in cases of danger,
when in the vicinity of institutions for
the sick. These reforms have been ac-
complished through the determined effort
of one small woman, who, after sue
ceeding in making New York more quiet,
turned her attention to foreign lands.
Mrs. Rice is a very handsome woman
of the Spanish type, and in her youth
was graduated from one of the big med
ical colleges. Her husband is a mil
lionaire and has aided her in forming an
anti-noise association.