Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-17

The Gentle Souls
Who Are Often Overlooked.

are a little lazy, aren't they?'' And
the mOralist found something to consider
in the suggestion, and the flow of elo-
auence abated. Even the housemaid
noted Il certain going softly" of those
who realize that all life is sanctified: a
hesitancy in action, a considerateness of
speech, a certain wistful attitude toward
the awful spreading of effects once a
thing is given its concrete expression in
the world. There are folk who are born
with this sense; the outcome, probably
of some great inherent regret religiousy
nursed and used as a warning and a re-
straint un0n eli swift impulse: there are
folks vino, as Hearn says, in one of his
letters, never did anything which was
mott will not say right that is com
monplace-any single thing which was
not beautiful"
These souls who add to the gentle
grace and shining softness of life are
often overlooked, and are only distantly
related to the good folk who organize
charities and have cast-ron creeds TO be-
lieve in and live by; such gentle, slow
moving souls are not eager, jealous or
busting; they often seem to have no
particular end in view. and certainly are
not making full tilt toward it; but as
they go they sprinkle a few flowers along
the way. They tighten a few burdens;
they shed a little grace upon life, which
is not, it is true, bread or meat. but is
sometimes as sadly needed as these. For
the little flowers of life are, after ALL
very vital matters. 1t is something, of
course, tc be able to gather together the
necessities for living and to live; some
thing too, to win out, to be aggressive
enough to succeed; but though it is u
quiet, hidden, shy thing that one must
search in hidden corners to find. it is
something, too, to go slowly. and to note
the fragile beauties by the way.
A great many people cross the ocean
every year, but a comparative few
of the number get up to see the sun
spring up with a bound over the vast
expanse of colored water. Thousands
of people motor through the cathedral
towns of France in the summer, but
only here and there is one who watch
es out the twilight in a lofty nave,
sees darkness spread and engulf the
vast enclosed space, and then hears
the slow shamble of the verger as lie
moves about setting a light to a
candle here and there before a saints
image, until finally the spot becomes
in very deed "a dim, spacious frag-
rant place afloat with lights Such
things as these are left for the really
good people whom the housemaid had
in mind, who move slowly over the
earth, stepping softly upon the very
ground beneath them with a care mot
to outrage its latent sensibilities."
These are the people who know most
about suffering. They may not neces-
sarily have gone through fiery fur
naces, themselves, but they have the
vivid imagination which knows what
another's hurt means; their eyes are
tarseelng, and they refuse TO turn
away from the realization of the ac-
tual ignominy and accompanying pain
which are a part OF life Such souls
bake no bread, it may be honestly CON
iessed, but they hold ON to high stand
ards with a grip that is grim and I'M
shakable, and they refine life. 1t is
10 them we look for the unvarying
beauty in human nature which makes
hfe worth while, even when its sordid
and hldeous aspects are so noisy and
SO near as to make the game seem hard
worth the candle.-Harper's Weekly.
-o.:.o~
The Wise Woman
cannot Afford the "Blues."
Perhaps what a woman calls "the
olues" is responsible for more failures
among business and professional wom-
en- than any other factor.
An emotional heritage is a bad thing
TO carry into the business world; yet it
s the inheritance of great many wom-
en-, and it is one of the most dangerous
enemies they have to fight, says a wom-
an writer
No woman can succeed who yields to
Mt after fit of depression. If a piece
OF work badly done, or a mean thing
some one has said, or a sharp criticism,
or the unkindness of a friend is going
TO cloud the business woman's sky and
plunge her into morbid gloom, then there
IS Just that much less chance of her
ever getting ahead. Temperameatal she
may be, and so keenly susceptible to
those things that cut her like a knife.
But she has got to bring all her will
power to bear and rule them out of her
business day, or she may as well get out
OF the race at once.
Good work is done only when the
heart Is cheerful and hope strong To
maintain that state nf mind the bust
ness woman must perform miracles with
IN herself, if need be; but maintain II
she must.
1t is doubtful if there is a woman
Of us who works who isn't subject 70
these hts of depression once in while
Herhaps it's the nervous strain, or I'M
perfect health, or the weather, or fall
down in our work, or one of LIES thou
sand disappoinIments. Anyhow, reason
UT no reason, there come days when we
are clean discouraged, and nothing seems
worth while, and we are ready to throw
up the whole thing and sink off to swal-
NV ue1eat and die Ill corner.
mat is a terribly dangerous moment
ior us. To yield even for one instant
10 the blue devils is to palsy the fingers
ana poison the outlook and enfeeble the
faculties that should be conferred on the
york before us.
There is just one thing to do, and that
to recognize that this depression Is
merely temporary mood. 1t is not
lasllng. It viii pass. 1t need leave NJ
9aa effects, unless you permit It 10 IN
4aence the work Of the present moment
Just so on working hopefully and cheer
~ and trust it to pass away like ans
otner disease. For that is what it is
mental cramp, some one has called u
neuralgia of the soul, hurt Of thf
mind
good cure is a change Of occupa
non; diversion If you can have it.
But persist in standing of, so to speak