Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-10
FOR THE LADIES.


Who sent us TO school again,
For he that would learn TO be more than
Must suffer and work with men
They put US into the Poor Mans Class;
NJ ioye mad shovel and pick,
And a wash-tub was mine for a spelling
Until was tired and sick.
And ..Iet MS 90 back" | cried TO my Love,
Il faint in this School of Pain!
But he smiled, ITO learn to be more than
We must use mans heart aud brain.
But when it was done we went back to
Who said we had studied well
And sent us to play for Il thousand years
In the Meadow of Asphodel.
Georgia Wood Pangborn'
Training in Resourcefulness
Is there anything more pitiful than a
grown man or woman who simply must
have something provided for his enter
tanment every minute of the time!
Yet there would not be such men and
women if resourcefulness had been
forced ON them in earlier years.
A wise mother of an exceedingly in
teresting family. each one of whom has
some decided hobby which will keep him
or her happily employed for hours, de-
clares that her children are not unusually
gifted or brilliant-they have simply been
trained from babyhood to rely on them
selves for most of the pleasures to be
had in life.
Toys were lavished on those children
from birth, but they We're not allowed
to have them, except on rare occasions
Each Christmas and birthday the
toys. sent by friends and relatives, who
resented the mothers scruples and
thought the boys and girls needleSSly de-
IF IN IF oh
enjoyed for the day. then put into a big
glass-uoored closet in the nursery and
locked away, to be taken ouJ as a rare
treat on rainy days or when someone
was ILL.,
Then the boys or girls were set to
amusing themselves as their special
bents inclined them.
One small boy with taste for natur-
al history was given all the books on
the subject that could help him, be-
came the proud owner of a microscope
butterfly net and biologists kit and was
set to digging out for himself the secrets
of nature.
Each of the children was given a gar
den for his very own, and allowed to
make of it what he would. provided it
was done without help, save advice of
course, from grown ups.
Another of the boys, presented with
Jig saw, soon showed a mechanical bent
fession in life.
One of the girls was artistic. while
the other was quite as decidedly domes-
tic. The mother encouraged both of
these traits and developed them by a iu-
dici0us training in which each was
forced to individual work and self-reli-
ance.
Lest they grow one-sided or narrow
in these hobbies, the entire family was
induced to take an interest in the Dur-
suits of the others and get a helpful
working knowledge of what each one
was doing
As those children approach maturity
they are noted for their originality, but
even more for their power to keep them
selves content and happily employed I'M
der the most boring conditions.
Would you save your girls from be-
ing restless, fretful women who must
keep on the 60 all the time or be utter
" miserable?
Would You save your sons wife from
the dire affection of husband who ey-
cry minute he is not shaving for daily
bread must be amused; who gets grouchy
or goes out and hunts amusement else
where. when wiley is too busy with the
babies or with the family mending to be
at his beck and call?
Then by all means begin early training
IN resourcefulness. Let even the baby
learn unless he amuses himself there will
be no amusement.
Give him toys that will develop his
resourcefulness, those of which he can
make things as crayonS, paints or blocks.
Study his tastes carefully. but let him
develop them himself.
1t is surprising how quickly even the
tiny child learns to depend on himself.
Keep up this training too: though all
your friends tell you to your face how
mistaken you are not to play with your
obi lz,l,; 8
that selfish Mrs. Newvlews who neg
lects her children shamefully, poor little
souls"
This does not mean, naturally. that a
mother or father must never play with
a child. That would be to deprive both
OF some of the happiest hours of life.
II does mean that oyer-playlng with
1t is laying up store of misery that
will bear bitter fruit for him and all
who have to do with him through life.
1t is inevitable that we all must face
lonely hours that will be bitter indeed
II we have not been trained early to
amuse ourselves. a.
But if that training has been neglected
we should train ourselves. If we get
deadly duh when not constantly ION the
Jump, it is time to begin. Nor would
We stop until we are as contented and
happy when alone as when others are
struggling to keep us "cherked up"
that makes us independent of others for
our pleasure is to have found the secret
OF restful contontment that is going to
Keep us from boring ourselves and being
nuisance 10 our friends to the end of
our days.-Helen Bruce Wallace in Elk
change.
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Social Amenities for the School Girl.
Graceful Difference to age is one of
The prettiest attributes that school
siri may have. 1t is demonstrated really
IN good manners and thoughtfulness. but
a girl. being young, is not apt to com
pIhe the two unless she has received
careful instruction. Innate goodness of
heart viii always make her think of lit
ue things that selfish or self conferred
Ehi VIII ignore, but attention in train
ing VIII do much toward developing a
gracious helpfulness.
., Every girl is expected to know it is
we part of good manners that she shall
plck up handkerchief. glove or what
nov dropped by an older woman. 1t is
lualiy supposed that she will stand