Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-04

auire whether that vow Of obedience did
not keep Elizabeth Il virgin queen.
u dne time the dissenting churches
followed suit. and when preparing THEN
'Wh special marriage services adopted
'he MlIe vow OF obedience contained in
.1e Church of England service. So the
'-ed OF the subsection of the wife has
Deeh emphasized throughout Protestant,
isi!i' the Society of Friends. however,
gelhS notable xception.-Sarah A.
AooieS III the London Chronicle
-O.-o-
Frances Joseph Gaudet.
\ remarkable colored woman is now
issuing Boston, one of those little
SHOWN heroines Of humble life of
whom this world is not worthy.
Frances Joseph Gaudet was slave
III louisiana before the war. She has
strain of Indian blood. an intermix-
eure winch often seems TO result in
exceptional power. Even as = yonng
sh, she showed unusual character
ana ability. After emancipation. she
earned her living as dressmaker.
ana was so skilful that the most fash
lohaole women in New Orleans were
glad to employ her.
one day her attention was attracted
~ the street by the grief of poor coll
oreu mother whose son had lust been
taken to prison, Mrs. Joseph Gaudet
Meht 20 visit him. She was struck by
ihe toflorn condition of the prisoners.
niahy OF them mere boys. without n
friend IN the world to help or advise
,Heil' and almost sure to be corrupted
py contact with the older aud more
nIaruehed criminals. She began to help
thell. nrst one and then another Now
Tor mmy years she has practically
served as an official probation officer.
one mas an almost unerring Judgment
Oh character, The prison board RELY
upon her advice as to what shall be
done with the different young culprits
ana almost always follow it.
sue soon saw that prevention was
better than cure. Thousands of coIored
| children We're growing up in the slums
OF New Orleans without care, and UNI
uef conditions that made them almost
| sure 70 drift into the criminal class
For these little waits she started an in
dustrlal home. Here she teaches trades
TO Doth boys and girls. She also in
cuIcates morals and manners, and fits
them not only to support themselves but
to be honest and respectable men ana
}fomen' OF the hundreds who have
passed through her hands, not one has
ever been arrested in later life for any
ottense-a remarkable record.
She commands the confidence and eS-
TEEN OF the best people, both white and
colored. Among the trustees of her in
Sttutl0n are Booker r. Washington and
/ the mayor of New Orleans. The Gordon
sisters of that city, well known to all
our readers, speak of her in the highest
terms The Protestant Ministers alli-
ance OF New Orleans endorses her, and
there is no doubt that she is doing a
rare and admirable work
1t IS work which grows constantly,
ana for which money is needed. Mrs
| Joseph Gaudet would be glad to tell of
her work before churches. clubs or othec
organizations. She is a beautiful WON
an, OF strong personality. with great
deal to tell that gives the deepest pleas
ure in listening to her.-Woman's Jour
nal.
-o+.o-
In Chinese Drought.
In many districts of China water be-
comes very scarce during the summer
months. Some of the fearful results of
the drouth are described thus by Rev.
John MCGOWAN: THE great sun blazes
down from an unclouded sky and drinks
up the. water that is clinging to the
roots of the rice The soil now cracks
with the ferYent heat and every blade
of rice seems to be making an appeal
to the heartbroken farmer for the water
that alone will enable II to live. He is
now at his wits end to save his crop.
for that, perhaps, is the only thing now
that lies between him and poverty and
despair. A failure of the crop means
very likely that he will have to sell his
daughter or son, perhaps. or even bar
ter away his wife, if he would keep tie
homestead from slipping from his grasp
Some of the most piteous scenes, in the
many tragic ones that cast their shadow
Oxrnr hn -. h. 4 j..
Chinese husbandmen can be witnessed
during the summer months when there
has been a shortage in the fall of rain
The wells have become dry and the little
ponds have been drained of every drop
of water they contained. The rice in
the field has lost the dark green color
that with its rich sheen tells of health
and vitality and is turning into a sickly
yellow that means decay and death.
Water must be got now and at any
price, for two or three days more of
this will see the grain blasted in the
fields. They accordingly dig the ponds
deeper to catch the tiniest rils that may
flow into them. and as the work in the
blazing sun might at once drink these
up, the work is carried on during the
midnight hours, so that not drop of
the precious fluid may be absorbed by
the great thirsty dragon in the sky
Often these most pathetic endeavors to
save their crops end in tragedy and
death. Men are making a supreme eff
fort to avert disaster from their homes
and in the mad endeavor to gain the
water for themselves the widest pas
sions of the heart are aroused and neigh
bors will struggle with each other for
the slowly trickling drops of water
The solemn air of the night is broken
with the sounds of conflict, and the
stars looking down from the midnight
sky see murder committed by men whose
sole and controlling motive is the preser-
walton of their homes"
-O-.o~
Good News for Wives.
Prof. Alfred Clum in the Cleveland
Medical Journal says it has now been
definitely decided that it is illegal to
operate on any patient without his or
her consent, even if the patient be a
married woman whose husband wants
the operation performed. He quotes the
| following case:
"a woman, the subject of epilepsy.
consented to some minor opera ton on
| the pelvic organs, which took place in
| the hospital. She left the hospital. say
iup that she would consent to no further