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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30

why do watches get dirtyT' said the
jeweler. You'll find the answer in your
watch pocket Turn it out"
The patron turned out his watch peck
ct, sheepishly bringing forth pinch of
mud-eolored dust, some lint, and a small
ball of black fluff.
There's the reason" said the jeweler.
Watches get dirty because the pockets
they are carried in are never clean. A
watch pocket, my dear sir, should be
cleaned out regularly once a week. OBJ
serve that rule, and your watch's works
will not get clogged up again.
Another and a seasonable rule Is
never to lay your watch down on stone
or marble. The cold deranges the deli
cate works.
Never lay your watch down, in fact,
anywhere. Hang is up on hook, YER
tically, in the same position 1t occupies
when in your pocket. Watches are
made to lie, or rather stand, in that pc.
sition only.
wind yonr watch in the morning,
never at night"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
Inhumanity to Children.

Did you ever have your feelings wound
ed when you We're child by some wom-
an not in your own family? If you
have, you never have forgotten it. 1t is
not always an easy thing to do the right
thing at the right time and place, but
We should all be careful of our conduct
toward children. Not long ago a little
girl was called from play with other
children and severely whipped for being
with them. The whipping was unneees-
sary, so were the words, because the
child went right out on the street to ex-
plain to one playmate that her mamma
forbade her playing with her because
they were not Sin her class" This made
a heartache for the child whose feelings
were wounded, and also wounded the
mother Often there are times when one
does not care for her children to asso-
ciate with other children, but the reason
should never be explained, and certainly
not known when child is the innocent
cause of something which cannot be COM
pretended. No difference if a ragged
newsboy approaches you to ask a civil
question, look into the boys face, and
see the soul and not the poverty which
is his only environment. Be child at
heart when you meet child, and respect
his feelings, for he looks ON the world
with innocence and trust, so don't be
one of the many to destroy his faith in
humanity. 1t will come sooner or later,
and it will be blow to realize all are
not friends, but the way to keep childish
faith alive is to be gentle, kind and con-
siderate with the children at all times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
Where Women Till Fields
and Men Ply the Ocean.

A visitor to Ouessant, off the Brit
tany coast will see few, if any Cues
santais. All that ne will see are Cues
santaises-women of Ouesslnt, harvest
ing. The men are at sea. The women
do all the work of the land, and one
may see them in their quaint short block
petticoats, their tight bodiees, their
black kerchiefs on their heads, bind
ing and carrying corn and bending III
strenuous labor over the fail. The men
OF Ouessant do no farm work. They
belong. 10 the sea, and the sea is a Jeal-
Gus mistress.
One sees this idea in the women's
costume and in their hair, which they
wear short, as the men peasants of old
time used to wear it They are straight,
Wen built, handsome women, dark, with
Dig brown or big slate-colored eyes.
They are entirely unlike the Breton
Women Of the mainland, and look more
ASe Italians. They are calm and Dig
aihed, and kindly to the stranger, and
Iley are afraid of nothing except the
photographer. They do not Ike Pho
losraphers, for they fear that their pic
.'Fes may 90 abroad on postcards, and
nat they would not like.
hen news comes of a loss at sea-
ah9 such news often comes-the widow
and friends of TIE dead man hold .
wake In the living room Of the little
outage, a little waxen cross called the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
A Girls Rights.

Many and many girl has from child
hood been influenced, and even discour-
aged, though unconsciously, by being
more or less indirectly taught that a girl
doesn't amount to much--that her value
in the world is small compared to that
of her brother.
Now the girl has right to feel that
she is just as important as anyone; to
know that so long as God sent her into
the world. she has her place and her
work in it. She has a right to feel that
even if she will never be able to do
rough work, she is to do much needed
work: that if she will not be able to
earn a great deal of money, what she
can do is just as important as earning
money; to be taught, not that she is
nothing but an expense" but that her
sweetness and service and love, even
while a little girl, are worth just as
much as her brothers strength and
work. She has right to know that she
needs all the education, all the training
she can get, because she has a mind
and soul, just as truly as boy has.
The little girl has a right to not be
taught that her brother says and does
is sensible and worthy of notice just be-
cause he is a boy, or that all her ideas
OF things are simple, not worth notice,
because she is girl; but that she can
be sensible and bright as well as he,
mas Aisht W tiy W iithuSASS
when she knows that he is wrong and
she is right.
If the little girl hears parents talking
about My son." and what he can do
and what they intend to do for him. she
has a right to hear them talking about
My daughter" and what she is good
for-making plans for her future. In
short. a girl has right to not be taught
to think less of herself because she is a
girl. She certainly has right to know
how to value herself highly because she
is human being-to look upon what she
can do. what she likes to do, what she
i to do. if done in loving spirit. as
the necessary and beautiful and God
designed complement of her brothers
doing-Jeannette n. Phillips in Moth
er's Magazine.
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as possible, in historic sequence. so that
while an Italian woman works with the
most primitive stick spindle. her Russian
neighbor goes step further by sitting on
a frame which changes the position Of
The distaff. A Greek and a Syrian have
similar stick Spindles. The thread which
these women spin is at once used by the
weayers.
The earliest spinning by wheel is Illus
trated by Syrian wheel, which origi-
nally belonged to the grandmother of a
Syrian woman who sent back TO her ma
tive country for it, and presented it to the
museum. There are also wheels used in
Ireland, Holland and our own New Eng
land colonies-and photographs illustrat-
ing many pieces of hand machinery too
large to be exhibited. There are beau
tiful specimens of silk, cotton, wool and
fax. in all the various processes. and
samples of weaving from all over the
world. The room itself is an inspiration
TO anyone interested in handicrafts.
Five looms, one run by electricity, are
IN use. and the weayerS are proud OF the
fact that they are supplied with warp
and in most cases with wool prepared by
the spinners. Most of the finished work
is sold, often before the piece is COM
pleted. A Danish woman does beautiful
figured goods of colored aud white linen
on a loom brought frof her own coun-
try. One of the five is a massive Amer
lean loom such as our grandmothers had
built into the walls of their houses, the
timbers being six inches square and at
least seven feet high. The parts are all
made by hand. the great batten swings
from a timber that looks as if it had
all the Ouessant men have died at sea-
Exchange.
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Proela," is put on clean napkin in
the center of the table, and round If are
! placed few lighted candles. In the
morning the priest comes with his in
esiise swlngers for the Proella, ard gives
aDsoiatson at the house door. The little
church bell sounds the glas. Or fu-
neral kneil. The widow. followed by
| the priest, carries the Proella down IN
the church. There are PRAYERS. and
everybody kisses the small waxen cross.
ana on the following day of the dead
Whlcn IS the day after Ash Wednes-
uay, the Proella is carried to the ceme-
terry. where it is placed with many 9TH
ers IN special place All round the
resting place of the Proela are tomb
STONES. And the names on the tonb
STONES are names of women only. For
mace IS IN using too heavy cotton. max.
lng lumpy, uncomfortable. and un-
signify place, when in reality it should
be perfectly smooth. 1t is better to hold
the stocking over the hand rather than
over darning ball, as the latter method
Is apt TO stretch the stocking and make
the hole larger. The darn doubtless will
look better if it is done on the right side.
Use one strand of the darning cotton
ana run the stitches in on the length of
the Mole hrst, taking about three stitches
beyond the worn place at each end. The
threads muss be laid close together.
then take stitches across the width in
the same manner. only interlacing them
IN and out of the lengthwise stitches.
Naturally no knots are permissible. and
when finished, if evenly done. darn is
actually a thing of beauty. If a person
only can be persuaded not to hurry with
work, but do even the smallest things
with care. the result is sure to be a keen
pleasure in the doing of it, and it will
be only short time before a good de-
gree of perfection is attained. When
one understands thoroughly how to do
a thing well, it naturally will 90 more
or less rapidly, and this without that
hurrying which is exhausting to ones
nerves and disastrous to good work.
Sometimes one may be unfortunate
enough to make an ugly tear in a wool
en- dress. Small boys and girls are IA
nous, as we all know, for getting the
worst kinds of tears in their clothes.
The torn place must be held together and
darned with threads of the material if
possible, or fine silk or wool, as the case
may be, On twilled goods the darning
stitches car be taken the way the twill
runs, and when pressed will hardly show.
Sometimes mending tissue answers the
purpose perfectly. This is kept at tine
notion counters of department stores and
full directions for using come with it.
1t is next to impossible to detect torn
place mended with this tissue-Ex-
change.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30

Here and there / find a perfect
woman" said the Critical Man. But
she is very rare. There are five things
in which the average woman is sadly
lacking If she would cultivate these,
she could step right along with men,
She should learn 20 control her
emotions better
She should think more generously
of other women.
she should develop and exercise
her will power.
''She should teach herself to con-
centrate.
She should cultivate judgment.
Bad judgment is what makes women
buy cheap bargains, and make frights
of themselves, and marry the wrong
men. and get all balled up at critical
moment
If i were a woman. I'd paste those
five things over my dressing table, and
practice them daily, till ! could beat
my brother. or husband, or father. at
the game"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
Facing Death at Sea.

The captain, who was omnipresent,
seemed always there, eyes fixed on the
pinnacle, signaling orders that could not
be heard Then Quartermastre Swift
would leave his side. and, with his Lam
tern stuck inside his coat, struggle forth
to hold the reel, often returning to re-
port that instead Of making 200 miles a
day, we more than one day made not a
single mile.
II was not wash OF waves. Great.
ugly. green seas would pile up and stand
like mountains Then the demon wind,
with cntiass between his teeth, would
cut the crest clean away, and hurl tons
and tons Of water upon us; and when
their repeated assaults were loosening
the anchor clamps on the cat heads, we
were Obliged to 20 with rope lashings 20
doubly secure them. In doing this we
lay at times buried under tons of water
and when we came out we could not
speak for the noise Of the tempest.
While all this was going on we were
given extra instruction in the order t.
Abandon ship" Each division com
prises forty-four men and two officers
divided into two watches. Lieut.. Sher
man and Midshipman Todd We're in
charge Of my division, and they went
from man to man, screaming their orders
into our ears. We already knew oui
places and what to do, but the genera
plan for the emergency was explained
again to each. Should the moment ar
rive when the fires could no longer b,
controlled, we were to 60 az fleet.
We have launches, boats, dinghys, ant
eatamarans sufficient 20 carry every mar
in the crew The sailing launch, with IL
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.

tall masts 70 carry signals, would have
taken the lead as flagship. She was al
ready equipped with charts, one to be
given To the officer of each of the other
boats, in the event of their being buffet
ed in.
How wish ! could write something
that would convey Just an idea of a ty-
phoon-what il was like, and how we
felt. Four hundred and forty hui
man lives We're imperiled and not a man
whimpered.
From fighting the fire, we would joy
ously so for trick at the wheel-al
though il was tug that called for
strength nearly superhuman. / recall q
night 50 dark that the darkness could al
most be felt. The frenzied wind blowing
off the crests of black seas was hurting
them with terrific force, and they stung
me with biting brine as | stood in the
foretop listening for the stroke of the
bell, My ear was glued to the speaking
tube, vet the shout from the bridge came
to me in the faintest of whispers;
whats the matter aloft?" and |
screamed back: Cant hear tie bell,
sir A-l-I9ss welll" Oh, the winds, the
winds, the windsi
Again. | stood on the signal yards. but
it was day. They screamed, and roared,
and yelled, drowning every other sound.
Like boys creating new noises by breath
ing across the mouths Of empty bottles,
they cut across the smokestacks and
moaned into their cavernous tubes. Then.
exhausted by their fury, they tagged and
soughed through the rigging, quipkcning
every line and ratline into wh-h-T-r-r.r
and Rrr-r-r-ra rafting that swelled
into melody such as no Aeolian harp has
ever played; then, blending into single
note, deep monotone struck masts and
yards, rising and falling, rising and fall
ing like the blue ocean in calm.
1t brought balm to my WEAKNESS, and,
looking down the slim mast, | discov
cred that the ship was gone; / saw only
the rushing, surging, seething waters en-
quilting the decks, and from my exalted
height felt like bird of the greenwood
blown out to sea.
Lieut. Buchanan told me one night,
when we were buffetcd against one an
Other on the bridge, that | should never
meet another blow like this, and men
are wondering how the ship ever lived
through il; but think | know.
The flagship Is thing alive. Ii has
its parts and being. We have heard It
breathe. and who will question that in
Capt. Reed Il has both brain and soul2
Who has not watched the Reaper who
Is called Death shake his sickle in mems
faces, when many would lie down and
die while one, like a panther at bay,
would fight him off and live on?
That is why, like a stormy petrol, the
Olympia rode through the typhoon.-St.
Nicholas.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
Where Women Are
Taught Spinning and Weaving.

TIE problem Of helping foreigners, who
come to this country equipped with a
knowledge of some handicraft, TO apply
their knowledge so as to afford them
means of livelihood, is a serious one, TO
be solved only by experiment In New
York. Russian and Italian women are
given a chance to make lace, which IS
sold for them by a group of American
women. In Chicago one of the most sue
cessfr1l experiments was started four
years ago at Hull house along the lines
Of spinning and weaving. The prepara-
tion If flax from hetcheling to spinning,
i done by women who have issrned II
In childhood and show naive deight IN
Tgroviuc themselves mistresses OF this an
Gent 9nd time-honored craft. found
women of several Dationalites at WORK
IN q large room truly remarkable for ITS
beautiful collection of tools and mate
rails gathered from all over the world,
distaffs and spindles. wheels and reels
and looms. Every Saturday evening
demonstration IS made Of the various
methods * spinning and weaving to be
found among the nationalities living near
Hnl house. These are arranged, as far
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
England Growing Radical.

Three women were elected munich
pal coul cilors in England on November
/. for the first time in history The pre-
dietion that there would be a wild
scramble of women for Office was not
fulfilled. Only seventeen women in all
England and Wales presented themselves
as candidates for councillor lin Eng
land the candidate dominates himself or
herself) Most of the women candi-
dates represented the advanced and radi-
cal parties that are still in the minority.
But the growth of the radical vote was
one of the striking features of the
election. The first report was that the
Conservatives had mace marked gains
The next day the more detailed news
came. showing that the gain of seats by
the Conservatives was because the Lib
eraI vote had split up, a multitude Of
former Liberals voting for Labor or
Socialist candidates, who in most cases
were supposed to have no chance. but
quite a number of whom were elected.
to their own surprise and that of every
one else.
1t is said that the old-time Liberals
and the Conservatives are now plan
ming to join forces against the Radicals.
and that there will be general realign-
ment of parties. Out of these troubled
waters, it may be hoped that equal
rights for women will emerge.-A. s. b..
Woman's Journal.
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Instruct Your Daughter in
the Fascinating Art of Meudiug.

1t seems sometimes as if the art Of
mending is almost a lost one, and yet
there is nothing more essential for n girl
to acquaint herself with. And if She
really learns to do this well it is safe
to predict it will be a real pleasure.
Things skilfully mended last twice as
long and certainly look much better
while they are worn When a dress or
any garment is taken off it should be
looked over and never put away il there
is anything that needs to be done to it.
In this way clothes always will be in OF
der and ready to put on at a moments
notice.
Darning stockings is necessary form
of mending, and mistake too often
been hewn out, without any finishing
touches from the plane yet this loom
produces really exquisite work. One of
the most interesting of the looms in use,
called the ''tiy shuttle loom, illustrates
an intermediate step between hand and
machine work. Although at Hull house
the most delicate and beautiful work is
entirely done by hand, yet this particu-
lar loom, generally used for rag carpets,
is very interesting. In it. the shuttle in
stead of being thrown by hand, is shot
across by means of a spring which is
released by pressing a lever with the
foot. Ordinary rag carpet is limited in
width by the distance to which the smut
tie can be thrown by hand, generally
thirty-six inches or less, but in this loom
the goods can be made as wide as the
frame allows.
The few mechanical devices used in
this loom make it seem as far in advance
of the primitive looms as the first locomo-
tive might have seemed compared with
a wagon, yet the ones now in use in fac
tories are of course, as much ahead of
this as fully equipped modern railroad
train is ahead of the first locomotive
Mertice MacCrea Buck, in The Crafts
man.
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Insect Hypnotism.

did you ever know" said the hyp-
notist. as he played with curious, gilt
tering hypnOtising machine Of crystal and
siIver-"did you ever know that hypnO-
tism is practieed among inseetsT
"No."
ssWen. il is a fact A queer bee cat
hypnotise her whole hive whenever she
wants TO. She make a curious humming
noise. and within q moment or two every
bee IN the colony falls into a hypnotic
trance.
'The deaths-head hawkmoth is also
a hypnotist Of great power. This crea-
ture indeed. makes its living out Of
hypnotism Entering a hive, il makes
d sound NOT unlike the queen bees note,
and. the bees Immediately sinking into
siuniber. the moth proceeds 10 plumber at
its leisure"
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GOSSIP FOR TIE LADIES.
sleep.

Sleep.
And in tie dream, as in a fairy bark
thrift ON and on through the enchanted darE
10 Durple daybreak--little thought we pas
10 that sweet-bitter wefia we konw by day
we are clean quit of 1t, as is a lark,
SO high in heaven no human eye can mark
THE thin swift pinion cleaying through tne
gray.
Till we awake i'll cate can do no i'll,
The resting heart shall not take up again
The heavy load that yet must make it
bleed
is STILL
No faintest echo of 1t brings us pain
How will it be when we shall sleep indeedY
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30

scalded milk. A half pound each of but
ter and sugar were then pounded 10 a
cream and added To the cracker aud
milk paste together with 4 little salt
and nutmeg When the mixture was
cold, ten well-beaten eggs were added
with a pound of boiled raisins and the
whole poured into well-buttered pud-
ding dish. This was then baked about
an hour and a quarter and served hot
with sweet siace, hard or soft
Washington SG@r.
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Loves Language.

Again he crushed her to him.
Darling" he breathed, ''this kiss tells
you all that ] would say"
Pause. Then:
Ibid you understand me. dearY he.
Brushing family, she replied:
s'No. Repeat what you said, please"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
MUSINGS OF THE GENTLE cYNrc

Many a man secures place in history
as an also-ran.
Some men expect to get into heaven
at their own valuation.
Widowers make the best husbands.
They know what to expect.
The one time when the world is will
ing to take man at his word is when
he owns up to having made a mistake.
New York Times.
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A Grave ofense.

Visitor in mountain village just
raised to the rank Of a townD--Yon
have magnificent landscape here.
Burgermeister-Be pardon, town
cape--townscape,- Transatlantic Tales.
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Betwixt and Between.

what sort Of a place do you covet
in heaven. Uncle DaveY
mot so low. sub, dat de angels could
step on me, en- not SO high dat I'd git
dizzy en- come tumblin' Atlanta Con-
stitution
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A Diplomatist.

Mrs Betteraff-My husband didn't
Ike the brand Of scrapple you sent MS
last week
The Grocer-Did you like it. madam
Mrs Betteralf-Yes, liked it very
well indeed.
The Grocer (to boy)-,Iimmy. one tin
of scrapple for Mrs. Betteraf. same
brand as last week
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Tempted Beyond ENDURANCE.

Parson-My dear brother Rightly,
what means this british intoxicat iong
Rightly--Haye TO 'scuse me this time,
dominic. My wife said 4 ! came home
drunk she'd never speak tine gain
Bohemian.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
One Method.

i can take one drink and stop"
"Um."
sin fact. / invariably do"
Don't you ever buy ia return --
Washington Herald.
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Lost.

well, Sepperl, what about the goose
your father was going to send mel"
Dunno, teacher, but it's getting well
again. Transatlantic Tales.
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Az the FORTUNE Teller's.

Madam. beware Of man with black
eyes"
Huh. he amt dangeFous That's my
husband; / gave him them eyes last
night. ~ Houston Post.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30

'Is the man who gave you that cigar
friend of yours r
Don't know. I'll have 10 smoke it
firstln-T Transatlantic Tales.
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Explained.

TELL me, Monsieur Levy, why do you
Hebrews always answer a question By a
question:
Bah! Now w should I answer your
question by a question T'--Transatlantic
Tales.