Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-11

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reaching ont for mechanical ideas his
| torlcal Or other researches. Reading in
one respect is like eating: it does moi AZ
you much good unless you have an anne
ute Tor IT. Another thing. when Won
| read book. mark the ideas that strike
you as worthy of deeper thought. we
ai Ike 70 md something in a book that
= topd Ior thought. and a marked para
graph, page, sentence or verse calls at
| tehuon TO that one particular portion of
| feadlh% matter which may be the great
| est charm to all, yet liable to be over
| looked, Tor comparatively few peaple
are steady or careful readers and most
peruse narrative for amusement or ia
XII tune. Try to see something in all
reading matter from which YOU can
learn something, if only a tiny idea
! Ihat Is the value of reading good liter
azure. for II is words and words. cloth
i ing framework of strong, sensible SEN
timents.-Woman's National Daily.
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Battleships Not Needed.
The United States has never been
| attacked by foreign power since We
gained our freedom. Many of our peo-
| pie don't know that: If the United
| states or Great Britain or one of the
other big powers would stop building
oattleships and would construct from an
economic standpoint the other nations
| would have to follow suit. Do Won
/ know that the average battleship costs
S6,OOO.OOO and that its life is only
| twelve years and then it goes to fine
dumpE At the end of the time what
| have you got to show for your money .
why not employ those six million of dol
lars for each battleship to drain the Mis-
souri, river. to irrigaIe our plains. to
establish things that will be for our uni-
Versal and permanent good? The argu-
ment that our men have employment in
| building battleships is no argument
at all against the plan that | suggest.
| The workman would nave employment
Just the same and for just the same
amount of money or more and the coun-
Try would have something to show for
| the money.
! "Battleships are not playthings, or or
naments They are built to kill off hui
mainly. They are built for destruction
rather than construction.
| III there Is any cause in Gods world
| why women ought to be interested in
this question it is the fact that in war
woman is the greatest sufferer We
/ talk about the glory of war; what about
! the glory of the widow? A husband is
| taken away by the shot and shell of the
enemy and who is left TO bring up six
or seven children entirely on her own
resources? l think the woman is the
| hero of a war.
I'VE ought to be too far removed
| from the days of barbarism to want
| to kill our enemies. How ridiculous il
/ would look for a business man to
wish to kill off a customer of his be-
cause he and the customer couldn't
come to an agreement; and we are all
customers of each other from an
economic standpoint. All in the
world are brothers and sisters Why
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court of justice the same as national
troubles are settled between states. and
save money and humanity 1t is the best
man with the best physique who goes to
war. That's where the fighting countries
sacrifice their best and strongest men
| See what you leave at home and what
| there is left in the country when you
send the best men away to fight
THE survival of the fittest is all right
/ but the survival of the fittest does not
| have its highest meaning in brute force
| The fittest should not survive for Drawn
! but on account of brain.
! Now the connection between WON
an suffrage and nation spending all
! this money is obvious 1t lies in the
! fact that women, the chief sufferer on
account of war, has no voice in the
/ spending Of this money for ornaments
and battleships. No woman ever want
/ ed war vet. and. to attain our object in
preventing it, women must necessarily
be suffragists and get the wherewith tC
do with. Do you know that 63 per cent
| of the revenue of the country today is
spent on ornaments and on the army
and navy."-From Mrs. Cowel at Lon
don Peace Congress.
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Widows of Ex-Presidents.
Mrs. James A. Garfield, Mrs Benia.
min Harrison and Mrs. Grover Cleye
land three widows of ex-Presidents, are
now living The Presidents have usual
! ly died before their wives, as the work
of the chief executive of the national
generally uses most of the vitality OF
the man engaged in it. Mrs. Garfield
spends much of her time in Washington
where her son lives, and divides the
rest between her old home in Ohio and
Pasadena Cal She is a gentle, sweet
woman, always ready to speak of heI
husband. Mrs. Garfield receives a pen
sion of 5000 n year. Mrs. Benjamin
| Harrison married President Harrison
after he left the white house, and she
does not receive a pension. Mrs. McKin
| ley also received the $1,000 pension NJ
to the time of her death.
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"Sunny"-Empress of Russia.
1.-The most beautiful queen on any
throrc, she has long been called" KEEL
logg Durland thus begins his marvellous
life story of the Tsaritsa of Russia IL
the September Woman's Home Compan
ion. "She is tall and stately; her hair
is luxuriant and rich in color. Eyes thai
some call blue and some call gray look
out through long, dark lashes, and II
them lies a great sadness, an appealing
usefulness touched with regret, a silent
melancholy. Yet as a child she was
known as Sunny.
The life story Of Sunny has never
| been told in English. This is curious, be
cause there probably is not person in
the world who would not like to heal
the wonderful romance of how poor
little German princess became a great
sovereign the co-ruler of one of the
vastest empires on earth. the mistress
of a fabulously rich and bewilderingly
extrayagant court, and perhaps the mos
powerful woman in Europe. Sunny
was the childhood nickname Of this pooi
little princess, and after a quiet girl
hood, where there was constant strug
gle 10 maintain appearances, she was
courted by wayward gallant, who was
heir to the royal wooer, and he, putting
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