Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-21
FOR THE LADIES.

Jinnv ana / are nearly dead,
We've notnin 70 drink ana we've got no
And we've suffered So and we've got 50
thin
We're nothif but skeleton bones and skin;
and John he PAGES the shore, and looks
dust Ike they do in pirate books
For a sail. Cheer up! My eye." he'll say.
We'll die with our boots on, anyway!
Cheer MP mates. Give us song. and we
Nv Country IT'S like anything.
But we're all so weak and terrible thin
fSothint but skeleton bones and Skinu
THAT we can't sing long--we're bout TO die,
When John staggers up and calls out Hi.
There's a ship! Alloy! ship! Me eye
And he waves and calls loud as he cam
Then Tom, my uncle's hired man
lies awful NIGEL But he don't know
We're shipwrecked pirates starvin' sol,
Then Tom calls back, Come along, KIDS,
If YOU hump yourselves you can ride back
an ton MOI. Of the loadr' So we hurry away
Fast as we can-and we don't play
Pirates again till another day.
$3.50
A Woman's Possibilities.
Every woman living is conscious, more
or less continually. of having more in her
than those about her will ever suspect.
1t is not a morbid state of mind-though,
if taken the wrong way, it undoubtedly
produces that morbid result, the woman
who believes she is misunderstood 1t is
a perfectly healthy and sane realization
of the psychical fact that every human
being has far more powers than he or
she ever uses. And if accepted and act
ed upon, it opens the door to larger and
larger possibilities all the while
The growth of some women in beauty
character. or social power is a continual
amazement to their earlier friends. Il
never would have believed that she had
it in her" is the surprised comment. But
the beauty expert knows how much bet
ter looking any woman can become if
she brings every power of her nature to
bear on the question. The social OBJ
server knows how a woman can make
tact a second nature and charm a daily
possession. The moralist knows how
character builds up like magic when
mind and will are bent upon growth
The possibilities of any woman are be-
yond computation, even by those who
have known her since she was born.
They rest with herself
This last. however, most women are
slow to understand. The AVERAGE wom-
an. feeling her own limited scope. feels
also that the chance OF being I! complete
personality has been denied her. She
signs, and puts away the thought of
larger things into the back of her mind.
So the greater self that might be sinks
back and disappears into the unsounded
depths of the soul, leaving only the
vague sense that 1T might have BEEN"
Daily life is accepted as commonplace
and unsatisfying; duty is done stodgily
and steadily. The woman adjusts her
life to being average. Or else in I'M
thinking revolt at her limitations. she
breaks them. and sure disaster oyertakes
her For revolt is not growth or CON
troll: it is plain stupidity, in place of the
knowledge which is power.
The woman who understands her own
Possibilities need not understand. at first,
exactly what they are. It is MT the
possession of an extraordinary talent for
anything that makes the superior wom-
an 1t is the recognition that she has
the extraordinary possibilities in her (iust
like everybody else), added to the deter
mination that unlike almost everybody
elsell she is going to use them. A good hard
study-not merely Smattering reading
about the subliminal self, and psyr
cholog7 in general may well be her first
step. Then the determined application.
to every dag of her life, of the very best
she can find in herself will follow-and
surprises will begin for her and for those
around her. The apparent miracles that
Christian Science has wrought for some
women arc simply results of the appli
cation of this best self to the individual
problem, with speedy solution. The con.
u
wife or mother, will do for a woman's
nature, is but another calling out of her
best from the depths. A noble cause
raises some women 10 their real posi-
bilities But the main point is that ev
cry woman has the powers that enlarge
and thus ennoble life-and she can make
them dynamic, instead of latent, if she
50 chooses.-Harper's Bazaar
$3.50
Indulge Your Own Preference.
A frequent mistake is made by wom-
en- who try to live up to somebody else's
standard, instead of INDUCING their own
preference. For example, in the one
item of summer reading the woman who
cannot, to save her life, understand
Robert Browning will be silly and stupid
If she puzzles her brains and wears out
her patience in trying to read The
lectual neighbor may dwell upon that
immortal epic with great satisfaction.
II is not for us all to enjoy the same
book, the same dish, the same converse
uon, the same music, the same play on
the stage. Carry away with you on a
vacation the books you like, and don't
feel that you must apologize if you are
porting over little love stories or shud-
lerlng over an exciting romance full of
halr-breath adventure. Shakespeare and
Mlllon are for some; the last new novel
with its little story of everyday life is
for others. Read the books you like in
your ideal vacation, or, If you choose,
DO not read at all.
Time is well spent dreaming in the
sunshine swinging in a hammock, sit
ling on veranda with knitting or EN-
oroidery, watching young folk play ten
ms, doing or not doing whatever one
pleases, if only one is loafing and resting
ana building up tissues and laying in a
new stock of vitality.
FOR some of us the woods possess a
ssaat attraction. We enjoy what we
eau roughing it in a mountain camp,
and inhale deep hreaths of the forest
AR with a JOY beyond words. We do
not sigh for bath tubs and dainty tables
ana luxurious sleeping quarters, We
are not reluctant to be cramped and
crowded. The thirty or forty miles
drye from civilization into the wilder
ness tiis to the brim- our cup Of enjoy
inent and makes our dream of a summer
Inohday g realization of unalloyed de-
Lght In the same family there are
nose who love primitive life and those
VINO very nearly loathe it. The vacation