Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-29
NOTES FOR WOMEN.
ring IN the Rain.


Singing IN the Rain.
-rsu mo. what's the use of fretting waet
Ne think that things 90 wrongg
l. rever makes them better; but I've heart
Makes the heavy load seem lighter. ane
viii cheer the troubled heart
Tin it quite forgets its worries, and its
vexing cares depart,
As the wind that sweeps the marshes where
the fog hangs chill and gray.
Moves the mists that mar the morning til
il blows them all away.
So. whenever storm clouds gather till they
hide the sun from sight,
And its darker in the morning than II
ought to be at night,
Then iet's sing about the sunshine that is
on the other side
Of the darkest cloud my comrade; let the
song ring far ana wide
on the listening ear of others who must
climb the hill with yon.
Till The rifted clouds are scattered and the
gray old world seems new
Sing of gladness and of beauty Let the
faith that cannot fall
In the great eternal Goodness over fear
and doubt prevail.
As the robins song sounds sweetest when
we hear it in the rain,
So this song of ours, my comrade, in q
time of tears and pain,
Will to those who grieve message full or
hope and comfort bring;
So look upward toward the sunshine,
though it's out of sight, and singt
-Eben f. Rexford.
$3.50
The Idealist
Do not be afraid of being called soar
er-better soar through clouds than walk
through the mire-there is less friction
with earth's pebbles. Better lift all life
to the Hill crest than drag all thought to
the valley.
We live in the to be- We build castles
in the air and our real life is spent in
the castles. Happy is she whose castles
have a firm foundation upon the earth.
One needs contact with the earth for
warmth and sympathy-one needs life in
upfift and inspiration. Our bodies
are i'll the air, only our feet are upon
the ground, and if we become too heay-
lily bound TO earth we stumble.
1t is not necessary to grow mystic in
idealization of life; the real, the simple
life, merely means to lift the everyday
common things out of the mre, into the
upper air, where they get the high lights.
and where their true relation and true
beauty are seen. The reputation of the
novelist, who depends upon his talent in
depicting unusual incidents-dramatic
combinations-is as short lived as the in
cidents of which he writes; while Charles
strength and beauty of everyday expert
ence, will live as long as man is human.
To take occasional flights and soar to
the realm of the abstract is to become
cognizant of general principles governing
all fe-is to be broader, to have a wild
er vision and to see incidents of life in
right relation to each other; it is to look
upon all life from a vision point above
it, it awakens the sympathies and all
selhshness Is seen as small.-Susanna Co
croft in Ideals and Privileges of Women.
-o5O-
American Children Spoiled.
American children of wealthy parents.
perhaps, have station and dignity to
maintain. In this they are different not
only from royalty, but also from the
nobility and the gentry in other eoun-
tries. They are pampered from the time
they are born and when they reach the
mature age of or 6 there is nothing
more in the world for them. Miss Kath-
leen Vanderbilt, for instance, a beauti-
full and charming child of a lovely
mother, travels abroad with a suite of
her own on the ship, including a sitting
room separate from that of her parents
and train of servants. Little Miss
Carnegie brought up in more secluded
possible luxury. Why not? She is be-
ing fitted for the station in life which
she is to hold. The old Spartan manner
OF bringing up children was unnecessary
and cruel. One may look back to ones
childhood days now with some pleasure
and not have visions of a nursery and q
nursery governess, a schoolroom and an
early dinner with rice pudding and only
an occasional visit from ones parents.
Perhaps it is better for a boy to know
that by the time he is years old he
can demand motor or two, a steam
yacht, and perhaps an establishment of
ms own, rather than look forward to
the circus as a rare treat and be obliged
10 save up his pocket money to buy
baseball and bat or pair of skates. |
nave known boys to have every imag-
Unable toy under the sun, not to have
wish unqualified, to have horses and
motors and yachts and servants to rush
at their bidding; to be able before they
were In their teens to entertain their
young friends in princely style and to
be excellent judges of tobacco and wines
when hardly out of the nursery. This
Is not an exaggeration. What becomes
OF these boys? What is there for them
when they reach manhood?
Wen, you may find the answer quick
ly II you review the history of Newport
and the set there during the past ten
years. There are some boys who can
Withstand all this, aud who come out
OF the burning all the better for it; but
fear that there is only a small percent
age of such brands.-From LAS Seen by
Him. Vogue.
>O+SO~
Managing" a Husband.
Dorothy Dix gives a humorous descrip-
ton of the way in which some vainglori-
Gus husband are quiestly managed by
wives who play upon their inflated sense
OF masculine self-importance:
My Experience in Matrimony leads
me to Believe that it is not What
Wife Docs. but the Way she Does 1t,
that matters. For instance, if | have
Decided to move into a Larger and
Sweller Apartment, do not Thrust that
faet RLdely upon My Husband, for if
did he would say that the place we had
was Goo,, Enough, and cost More than