Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-14
The Home Coming:
A Thanksgiving Poem.

The Home COul4uS.
A Thanksgiving Poem.
we must get home-for we have been away
So long ii seems forever and day.
And o. so very homesick we have grown,
THE laughter of the world is like a moan
In our tired hearing, and its songs as
We must get home-we must get home
again,
We must get home: 1t hurts so, staying
where fond hearts must be wept out tear
And Where to wear wet lashes means, ut
when most our lack. the least our hope OF
rest
When most our need of joy. the more our
We must get home-we must get home
again.
The touch of loving hands on brow ana
Dim rooms. wherein the sunshine is made
mild
The lost love of the mother and the child
Restored in restful luilabies of RAIN
We must get hcme-we must get home
again!s
We must get home, where, as we nod ana
browse
Time humcrs us and tiptoes through the
house,
And loves us best when sleeping baby
wise,
With dreams,-not tear-drops trimming
our clenched eyes
Pure dreams that know not faint nor earth
ly stain
We must get home-we must get home
againi
We must get home; and, unrememDering
there
All gain of all ambitions otherwhere,
Restroom the feverish victory, and the
OF conquest whose waste glory weighs us
Fame's fairest gifts we toss back with dis
We must get home-we must get home
againl
-O.-o-
Where Women Vote.
In 1900 America is to have a lively
object lesson in the worldwide spread of
womans suffrage, says remarkable
article in Appleton's magazine. For the
first time on this side of the Atlantic,
the quinGuennial convention of the Inter
national Suffrage alliance will meet
III new 1oIh unuer the AneIIcdH
Gait AT least eleven countries
eleven, mind you-will report that
they give women equal suffrage, every
suffrage except parliamentary, or munic-
ipal suffrage. 1t may be recapitulated
that full suffrage thrives in New Tea
land, federated Australia, Finland, and
the Isle of Man. Norway, not to be out
done by her neighbor Finland, lately be-
slowed parliamentary suffrage on low
taXpaying basis, thus qualifying practi-
cally every woman. Every suffrage ex-
cept parliamentary, moreover, obtains in
England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales;
and to unmarried women in Sweden.
Schooi or municipal suffrage, or both,
prevails throughout the provinces of
Canada. The latter, it may be mention
ed, granted municipal suffrage forty-hye
years ago. Municipal suffrage for I'M
married women exists in Iceland. In Rus
sia women householders elect members
of the local council. In Italy and France
women vote for and are eligible to sit
upon the Tribunal of Commerce. In sew
eral German, Austrian, and Hungarian
states an intinitesimal franchise is al
lotted the fair sex. TO add cosmopolitan
coloriEg comes the glad tidings of mu-
nicipal suffrage from Natal, Africa; like
wise from Bombay. India.
Tie half-enfranchised sisters are in
dustriously clamoring for bigger ballot.
Under the auspices of nine women, So
cieties III Paris have been issuing big
posters beginning, Women must have
votes for the taxes they pay and the
laws they obey" In Sweden the man.
moth petition of 142, 16S women has re-
suited in no less than six suffrage bills
being introduced into Parliament. In
Denmark. where the fair sex have not
one fra gment of the franchise, the gov
eminent has presented to Parliament q
municipal bill. Bohemian women, 24OO
of them, have signed a petition to Par
lament, urging universal suffrage, ire
spective of sex. In Holland the COM
mittee on revision of constitution reports
n favor tf giving women representation,
thus ma king them eligible to Parliament
In the late Russian Donna feminine sut-
frage was thrifty issue. In short. ae-
cording to the article in Appleton's ma
gazine, the only women who have not
raised then voices for political freedom
are the Hottentots and the Fiji island
ers or their semi-barbarous sisters in the
submerged corners of the earth.
--o+..o-
Women Can Do Much for Their Town.
What can woman do for her town!
Make it a decent place to live in! says
Martha 5. Bensley in the November De
lneator.
If the boys and girls are turning out
badly, she can visit the schools and find
out Wnat is wrong. she can see II Ine
compulsory education laws are enforced,
and if children who must come up before
tile court are wisely treated. If factory
conditions are bad, she can at least learn
whether they are within the law or
not.
So complacently ignorant do women
remain of the infraction of law before
iaeir very eyes! | happened to be in
Nashville when a fragrant violation of
Inc child labor law was discovered in
hosiery mill employing many women
and girls. According to Tennessee law
40 child under fourteen may be en-
pioyed in a factory, and yet here in one
room worked some twenty children of
len 70 twelve years. The employer had
blinded the eyes of the people by
clever ruse He did not employ these
children directly, but each ''seamer"-
see one who knits the feet on to the legs
9i the stoekings-was compelled to hire
enid 10 help her as a traveller" By
.nis means the employer escaped both
i.e expense of paying, and the reproacB
% employing child labor. Nevertheless
Sle iaw vas violated because the chill
LIth We're allowed 20 work Yet al