Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-18

taE better on than their brothers A.
/ Iet longevity, they offer far ulGrc in
| ylIlnS, RISK Tor a life insurance COM
/ But If the figures deaEag with the SUI
perlor physique and mentality OF pres
| eAt day girls are any criterion. they her
! ala the era of the new woman. IT
| would take only 4 few more years. pos
sioly twc or three more generations. at
F! the same rate to develop race of physi-
cal and intellectual giantesses. Iii the
same time man would be deteriorating,
/ ana the end would be 4 complete change
IN the relations of the sexes.
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Women Yesterday and Today.
| OF course the old-fashioned woman
! Degan to get old while still yonngl She
nad nothing else to do. Human facul-
lles give out just as machines must
when not used. The woman who
doesn't exercise loses her strength. With
los loss OF strength she loses her beauty.
Inc woman who doesn't fill her mind
/ WIN new thoughts and interests be-
comes mentally old. When her body is
old ana her mind is old she is old her.
sen. whether she has lived ninety years
or ohIy forty. The public women of the
past ana not grow old prematurely be-
cause they continued to use their facul-
ties.
Inc most representative women of to-
| day don't have time to grow premature
y Old. While marriage aud motherhood
are sun. as they must always be, their
chief activities, they are no longer their
only activities. They now take active
part IN very many phases of life outside
the romantic and domestic spheres They
are no less women for being more ind
Ylduals. The old generalities about
women are less and less applicable be-
cause women are less and less like cook
les out of the same mold
The modern handsome. athletic Girl is
certainly better qualified for bearing
children than her weak ancestress whose
most violent exercise was playing ero-
quet. The mother of today with her
clvlc. philanthrOpic, artistic. or literary
interests is certainly better equipped for
training her children than the old-fash-
toned housewife who had no interest out
SIDE her domestic affairs. The vigorous
nlocern grandmother, who is fast chang
ing the time-honored significance of that
word. Is certainly n much more cheerful
and useful member of society than her
decreplt counterpart of years ago-and
she has better time.-Appleton' Mag
aZine.
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The Habit of Judging People.
One of the commonest of humanity's
petty weaknesses is that of judging pee
pie. entirely by their conduct to ourselves.
inns habit has sometimes a very confus-
ing effect. For instance, we hear Mrs.
A. talking of Mrs. E. with great scorn
She lis not lady" Mrs. A. would not
know her for anything; always tries
to keep clear of such people, though, un-
fortunately, society is becoming more
ana more crowded with them,' ana SO
on. One day Mrs. b. calls on Mrs. A..
thing she had before neglected 20 do
(Which neglect had been the cause of all
the trouble), and now we hear that Mrs.
Il. is charming, a sweet woman, the best
of companions and a thorough lady. Mrs.
n. did not mean to be guilty of mis-
representation. far less of untruthfulness
on the subject; but she had allowed the
petty slight of the other lady's not call
ing on her to become such a burning
grievance that it ended in warping her
own mind to the distortion of facts. Mrs.
BIS eventual politeness changed the
focus through which the other regarded
her and now she could not do anything
or be that was not right.
1t IS, of course, natural to be affected
by other peoples conduct toward us.
II would be unnatural to wish to make
friends with those who obviously do not
like us; but to make our opinion of 9TH
er peoples moral and mental qualities
dependent on their social attitude toward
ourselves in the paltriest and poorest of
JudgmentS-in fact, it is not a Judgment
at all. but mere prejudice. 1t is tile
same sort of mental attitude which
causes people to be guilty of one of
the commoneSt sorts of infidelity To
friendship-that of indulging in general
abuse of a former friend because some
purely personal feeling has weakened
the friendship. The fact that Glare is
not so gushingly friendly toward Ethel
since her marriage is no sufficient rea-
son that the latter should find her former
intimate to be without q single virtue;
but she frequently does so. The prin-
clple of abstract justice (even in our
thoughts Is not an easy one to follow
where our own feelings or vanities are
concerned; but it is at the same time a
fact that its absence serves to make
most social likes and dislikes of no sort
of value. The woman who can say of
another from her heart, Il do not think
she has behaved very politely to me-
and | am consequently not disposed to
like her. but | believe her to be a good
and nice woman" has shown herself to
be superior TO one of her sex's common
est weaknesses. But alas. the women.
or men either, who can do this sort of
thing are very rare indeed.s Unfortu-
nately. most of us have feeling, often
unacknowledged to ourselves, that we
can get even for petty Sights by gos-
sip or making more or less unkind re-
woman.
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The Woman Who Fritters.
The physicians says that the most
hopeless type of woman he has to deal
with is the one who fritters her vitality
on everything that comes under her
nose: who does not reserve her strength
for the important things of life.
Every one knows this kind of woman,
and at times every one is this kind,-of
woman. 1t takes a good deal of Self
investigation to call a halt and see if
you are not working overtime.
No life is so secluded that it does not
have important things to be done. Usu-
ally the woman who uses good Judgment
in trivial life is the one who works
her way out into the bigger world and
learns how TO handle great things out
there.
But in both spheres is the woman who
gets excited over the thing that is not
worth while: then when she must bring
all her energies to bear on the big things
worth accomplishing she finds herself
bankrupt.
You can put your finger on this lack