Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-14
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

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q the hours which had separated them
since morning.
But now, Richard, tired out, had
leuho that Elizabeth, tired ou.. did moi
inspire that satisfying sense sc reposa
which Elizabeth had hitherto done. d
sense OF repose ws.ich las he affirmedD
nest htted him for his arduous labors in
" all street next day. Richard. there
lore, When evening came wanted the
Ineatef; the excitement and diversion of
dinlng where there were music and a
crowd; the stimulus of rush and noise
OF everything, in fact which in a big
life -
Every one of these things Elizabeth
, found not restful, but fatiguing. From a
sense Of duty to her husband she essayed
them ali, only to find herself at last too
exhausted even to direct her house as it
should be done or to pay proper atten-
ton to her baby.
1t was then that she spoke to me. /
remember 1t well. both Oh us drawn up
by the fire together, Richard. with. a
launty kiss OF apology, having gone out
10 spend the evening elsewhere. With
her blue eyes turned toward the flames
her hands clasped about her knees. she
uttered this Illuminating phrase: Il be-
lleve there would never be so much un-
happiness in married life # people only
knew how to rest together"
And here is one other thing TO re-
understanding which | once heard
Phillips Brooks says Recreation is re-
creation There is q world of meaning
IN that, and great sources of rest to
those who will think well upon THAR
per's Bazaar.
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Social Duties of Schccl Girls.
As in everything in life, it is the small
things that count most in the long run,
so in the little courtesies is the we'll
bred young girl easily distinguished.
Many of the .o-ealled formalities OF
life are not acquired, but inbred. In
stinctively a girl of gentle breeding
stands while talking to an older person,
instinc lively does she rise when an old
er person enters the room, instinctively
does she stand back and allow an older
person to precede here. Yet it has only
been of late that these same little points
of behavior became regular rules laid
out for the worid-be fashionable girl to
follow.
There was a hue and cry when the
fashion first came in of the young chill
dren curtseying when they were intro
duced to any one. 1t was said that it
was not in keeping with the ideas of
free country, was better suited to Eng
land or France. or where there was n
monarchy and where the children of the
their superiors. The young society girl
of today knows that when she grows UP
and gees into formal society she viii
be expected to make curtsey instead of
shaking hands many a time. According
ly the wee tots of children learn to curt
sey, and by the time they are grown
up women they have acquired the rare
0pf Of EranN n 70 a 1 orr aQf ~
The young girl who does not pay at
tention to the small formalities of life is
no longer considered merely rude; she is
simply ignored as being quite old fash
ioned The girl of average intelligence
does not consider it beneath her dignity
to have all the little points of etiq1ette.
and to follow them, too, until they be-
come to her a second nature; and even
if the motive-that of being up to date
is the moving cause, the results are bene-
fetal to her as well as to humanity at
large.
The girl who is carefully coached on
points of etiquette from the time she is
small child starts her social career far
better equipped than the girl who has
not thought it worth while to bother
with a lot of stupid rules and regula-
tons. There is always so much said
about the charm Of unconscious girlhood,
and vet it is the girl who has been the
most carefully trained who will invari-
ably appear the least selfconscious.
There is no nervousness, shyness or
awkwardness when she goes into society.
enters a ballroom for the first time or is
present at some most formal social func-
ton.
The American young girl of the future
bids fair to be almost an ideal person,
for she will combine with all that she
has acquired by care and training the
natural independence of thought and
character which makes American
women so popular.