Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-17

4 fhe dark thundereioud that terrifies
The hearts Of children, when the opeI
The other side are lighted gloriOusly2
roday friend betrayed mech. refined
last gift of pain! You know the words
Won cannot know the mystery behind.
You do not see her poor soul, paSsOn-led-
RIindfolded by the dark yei of her mind
THAT weeps and never may be comforted.
ELSA Barker In The Craftsman
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Woman and the Home.
4 representative medical association.
national in its scope, at q recently held
convention received some startling pro-
posals from few physicians who have
apparently worked themselves into a state
of nysteria over the woman question as
If stands today. Not so many years ago
there wag considerable talk in regard to
the proper disposition to be made of
superauous women-this discourteous
term being employed to designate those
of the gentler sex who had failed TO ac-
auire husbands-but now the worry
seems to be that the ranks of unmarried
women are increasing too rapidly as a
result of deliberate choice. and the pres
ent problem is how to induce the better
class to become wives and mothers. The
wise doctors could think of no better aid
TO the demonstration of the girl than
to enact legislation to compel her to re-
turn to the ways of her grandmother,
and as this preposterous suggestion was
not openly derided in the eonven-
ton it would seem to indicate that the
medical profession generally disapproves
of the typically modern woman, and is
prepared TO go to extreme lengths to get
her back into the domestic traces Quite
naturally, but still to their credit be it
said that some women physicians stoutly
insisted upon the right of their sex to go
in for professional or commercial life. or
Self-deyelopment along any desired line,
in preference to wifehood, yet their elo-
quence did not convince, and the conven-
ton broke up in a seriously troubled
state of mind over the present and flu
ture dearth of mistresses and serving
maids for the homes of the land.
Perhaps physicians are to be excused
for becoming excited over the detection
of the female sex, which has heretofore
given them the large majority of their
patrons, for 1T is quite evident that il
80 per cent. this being about the aver
age made up by college graduates and
the middle class from which they most
ly Gomez continues to decline matrimony
and that if those who do marry have no
children, or but one or two, the medical
profession must suffer great loss of pa
tr0nage as compared with that enjoyed
in less sophisticated times. 1t is also
the free and independent women who
largely support doctrines that make for
physical well-being without the interven-
ton of drugs or physicians trained in the
orthodox schools, and these of course
play some part in revolutionizing the
practice of medicine.
Now the wisest course is not to war
with the inevitable and those physicians
who object to the voluntary single life,
and outside the home work on the part
of women, instead of undertaking any
thing so foolish as to plead for laws
restraining the sex from exercising free
dom of choice, should bend all their
energies to aiding movements, like that
instituted by the Teachers college, for
scientific training in the domestic arts
and sciences-a development that is the
only nope of satisfactorily solving the
domestic service question But more eff
fectiye still would it be TO make married
life additionally attractive to women.
and this Is a task which may well en-
gage the energies of the protesting physi-
clans. What does economic independence
offer to the girl that is denied her in
the married state? Does she shun matri-
mony because of phases she regards as
wholly undesirable, or does she remain
single merely as lesser evil and not as
wholly preferable state? Until these
questions are settled it is sheer waste OF
time to engage In academic discussion of
ways and means to force women into the
old social relations. Discussion and in.
terrogation has developed the reason
why girls of the tenements prefer the
factory and the shop to domestic service,
and lust such intelligent investigation
must be applied to the problem of why
the majority of girls do not marry, With
improved conditions it may be possible
to lute all but small percentage of
them bach to maCrimony, but it will GER
tainly be impossible to legislate them
and the country the United States, de-
tails the doctors seem to have overlooked.
Vogue.
A Club Greed.
Mrs. Robert Burdette, first vice-presi-
dent of the General Federation of
Women's clubs, has formulated a club
creed. So favorable was the impression
It made when read before a Chicago
club that Mrs. Burdette had TO allow it
70 be printed upon slips of paper, to be
distributed after her departure. The
creed reeds:
l believe in afternoon club life for
women.
believe in evening club life for men
and w0lnen together, when it does not
rob the home of father and mother.
believe that woman has no right to
undertake any work whatsoever outside
OF the home, along the lines of philan-
thropy, temperance or club life that
does aot emanate from the home, and in
ats final and best results return TO the
nome. Home must always be the cen
ter, but not the limit, of woman's life.
believe in equal rights in the fam
lily for father and mother, in intelli-
Genee, affection and flial respect. These
me club should foster.
believe in nine-tenths of the club
members doing the work and one-ten5h
tue criticising instead of the reverse.
l believe in individual responsibility
Ior every interest of the club mutual
sympathy. and appreciation of results.
believe no woman has a right to ac-
cept place ON any committee I'M
leSS she serve faithfully, promptly, in
te'lgently, and is willing to stand by the
results Of her individual action.
believe that women should have a
moral responsibility regarding fnan-
eial matters in the prompt payment Of
uues and pledges, and comprehension
mat. as no other phase of life can be