Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-16

in disgrace! 1.-The martyr. the rightful
| 9wner OF the bonnet. Now there was a
real trouble brought about by no fanlt
OF my own. But as / was three | was
/ allowed 10 brood on it, II il had oe-
| Cured now sympathetic friends would
| have Helped me to keep unhappy about
/ Il for years.
/ | remember another trouble; my hatred
of bread and milk To this day | can
recall the monotony of its taste morning
/ after morning. Yet had always TO eat
a cupful before the interest of the meal
! began. One day / struck. was re
/ proved. / continued to strike | was
| kept IN my chair till | ate it. Injustice
| ranking violently, l repeated the strike
next mornlng. l continued it until per-
sonal ehastisement had to be resorted to.
Then | ate the bread and milk again
bur morning was made of this atfiiction.
| never liked bread and milk. but / had
/ 70 ear II, aud as far as | can remember
| the rest OF the day passed in a normal
| iashion. | played as usual after break
fast. Nowadays | suppose | should pass
my entire time in thinking of the bread
and mix that | had put away and the
bread aud milk that doomed before me
ana discussing the whole hopeless ire
frleNahlhty of the nauseous torture. the
humdrnm horror, the dreariness of daily
bread aud milk, with every person who
would listen to me.
| suppose that is why ones childhoods
days are said to be the happiest of ones
| life. We are not allowed the troubles
that come with our freedom When we
We're little we were called naughty. aud
! told we were silly TO make troubles ont
OF nothing. Why ia not there anyone TO
can Us naughty nowadays. and make us
4at our bread and milk. and put up with
our SISTERS wearing our best bonnets?
W Zen we begin to examine our
| n9ubieS and the troubles of our friends
we cannot help feeling we need some
| one 70 look after as. Because If peo-
pie VINO have not got exactly what they
want and SO so round with discon-
tented faces, We're not pitied and CON
doled with, but just called naughty. life
would be simpler, would it not - Con-
stance Smedley in The Queen.
Notable Gift.
One Of the most gracious gifts-an
about which there has been much CORE
| spondence-is that of Constitution island
to the government. 1t isthe united gift
OF Mrs Russell Sage and Miss Anne
Warner. 1t is in the Hudson opposite
West Point Mis- Warner is to live in
the old house and have the exclusive use
of the island until her death. There
were two Misses Warner. and the one
THE Wide, Wide World" 'Queechy,"
| and also, | believe of Say and Sea-"
old-fashioned tales which delighted the
| hearts of our grandmothers. and al
though a bit religious and fearful. never
theiess We're pictures of the manners of
gentle people in the country about the
middle of the last century / am glad
that the island viii not pass into the
possession Of manufacturers. Vogue.
~o.to-
Modern Ideas in Education.
We all know that the children of the
last two decades in our schools have not
been educated. With all our training
we have trained nobody. With all our
instructing we have instructed nobody.
says Rheta Childe Dorr, quoting Wood
row Wilson, president of Princeton uni
versity, in The Delineator. At an educa-
tional conference held in Kansas City,
Mo-. Miss Mary Fisher, a high school
teacher. said:
ssFor some years it was my duty to
conduct examinations for entrance into
higher courses of study. In one
examination of nine girls, ranging from
rs to 20 years, two of them high school
graduates, not one knew who Benjamin
Franklin was. All of them said he had
been President of the United States, and
one essssl that he had invented electrici-
~ with kite"
To illustrate the hopeless confusion ar
mind of the majority of grammar school
graduates this teacher described an ex-
animation of pupils in the manual train
ing high school of Kansas City. A list
of words was given and the pupils We're
requested to use the words in Ineligible
sentences. Here are a few OF the words
and resultant sentences:
Discovery: Invention-"The invention
Of the locomotive was discovered by
Watt" "James Watt discovered the
steam which now runs on steamboats,.
Science was discovered by Prestly.'
Steam was discovered ut this period
and was put into use, hence the laboring
classes were thrown out of employment"
Cotton--'Cotton grows on a sleeps
beck"
Psychology Psychology is the study
of rocks. Psychology is the study of
how the world began"
When exhibits of this kind are shown
to educators-not teachers, but the big
men who make out courses of study and
tell the teachers how they ought 10
teach--they show annoyance, and say
that the ideal of modern education Il
not 10 cram a child with facts. but to
develop in him the power 10 accumulate
facts Is the ideal even family realized?
Not so. according TO business men who
employ boys and girls, civil service exam
ners. and others who have ample OPP
portunity to know.
-o..o-
Covetous Girls.
One OF the saddest things imaginable
is 70 discover that girl has q cOyetous
spirit. Ii robs her of 50 much that is
womanly, charming and sweet There
are girls who see others march ahead
in some pursuit, gain step by step in the