Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

held as precious above rubies. But for
the present. these Biblical words de-
scribe the situation perfectly:
1.-THE tongue Is little member, and
boasteth. Clara Morris in New Idea
Magazine.
Institution Children Have No Toys.
Il have brought the children some
toys, said one of the lady mana gers TO
the superintendent of a ehildrens asy-
lam in Brooklyn. And on the floor she
showered an armfuI of rubber animals,
the kind that have a delightful whistling
squeak when You squeeze them. She
came back a mouth later, and again the
children were sitting in rows. why.
where are their rubber animals:" asked
the donor in chagrin
W Ell, now, Mrs. - answered the
superintendent, would you yourself take
the responsibility of their swallowing
tue whistlest | wouldn't So they're all
put away"
That's where the toys usually are, -all
put away. One institution has them on
a high shelf in the infrmary. on the
third floor. If child gets bad enough
Group or a hard enough stomachache, he
may look up at them from the vantage
ground of a sick bed. There is almost
a toy shop of them-Teddy bears and
dolls and horns and tin soldiers-all
shiny and new as the day Santa Claus
brought them. They keep so much nicer
up there than If we let the children
have them, the superintendent told me.
we couldn't have the things around
under foot, you know" said another ma
tren of a home. There are 1900 girls in
her care. She was explaining why all
the personal property they may possess
is limited to the treasures they keep in
a spool box 1t usually holds hair
ribbon. A fortunate girl may have two
or three. Isn't il quite plain why the
institutional child manifests perfec;
passion for possession? delighted let
ter that came back from a little orphan
boy taken from home and adopted by
a country family read: Il own two pigs
and four goats and three black cats and
a calf and they are all mine" He never
before had even an acorn, or Il string, or
a rusty nail that he could treasure IN
-o+.o-
The Simple Life Not So Easy.
1t is easy to talk about the simple
life and so hard to live it, for life is not
simple any more It's complications
seem unavoidable.
The trouble lies in ourselves; the en-
tire trend of womanly sentiment is away
from the things the centuries held dear.
1t was not so hard to keep life sim
Pile when ones best black silk did duty
for decade. Nowadays if the silk
didn't cut into ribbons the cut of the
garment would mean the patch box in
at least two seasons.
1t is the craze for something new that
is the undoing of simplicity. Novelty
is the keynote of most of our lives. Even
friendships and matrimony are getting
infected with the microbe of restless
ness.
A mother said not long ago: Baby
Louise is so finnicky she will only play
with her toys two or three times before
she is tired of them and have to send
them off to the hospital"
And the mother seemed to think that
it showed a progressive spirit in her
child. Such a craving for novelty can
mean nothing but unhappiness, no mat
ter what ones ability to crafty It
If we are ever to become simple again
without some dire calamity forcing it
upon our country, we must change our
views of much that we now think pro-
gressive.
We will have to learn to draw sharp
distinction between our necessities and
our frills. A woman who is noted for
her restfulness and her placidity IN the
midst of a hard life was asked how she
managed to keep unfretted
Il try to keep my life simple. Long
ago | learned that what women possess
beyond the real necessities soon grow
to be a WEAKNESS to the nerves. That
more of the unessentials we acquire the
more we want Our most coveted treas
ure soon grows insignificant In the
thought of something still to be achieved.
| make my rule of life less change and
more Fepose."
That is a good rule for any harrassed
mother or business woman who has come
to think life too much for her.