Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20


that she will rest upon and look to him
Tor protection; that her physical struc-
tufe and a proper discharge of her ma
ternal functions. ha;-iug in view not
merely her own health. but the we'll
helng OF the race, justify legislation to
protect her from the greed as well as
the passion of man.
The limitations which this statute
places upon her contractual powers,
upon her right TO agree with her en-
pIoyer as to the time she shall labor. are
not imposed solely for her benefit. but
also largely for the benefit of all.
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Concerning "Platonic" Friendship.
There are instances when men of gen
luS have been sustained and inspired
| IN their work and life by the friendship
OF women. Forty thiFty-five years the
poet Cowper--a victim of fits of melan-
choha-was cheered and supported by
| the mlnlsterlng friendship of Mrs. I'm
WIN. IN whose home he lived after as
before the death of her husband, until
the end of his own life. For sixteen
years DR. Johnson was soothed, up-
held and inspired by the friendship of
Mrs. Thrale, who, says his biographer
mlnlstered to him in body and mind, and
was the most tender of nurses-no COM
fort that wealth could purchase or wom-
amy ingenuity, set to work by wom-
AMY compassion, could devise being
wanting 10 his sick room. Through her
influence. her husband had pursuaded
the great man to leave his eomfortless
den and take lodgings in the elegant
Ihrale villa, where lac enjoyed as much
personal independence as if living in
home of his own. He repaid Mrs
Ihrale's friendship "by an affection as
pure as the affection of a father, tinged
with galiantry which, though awk-
| ward. was more priced by her thaa the
batteries of society" Montaigne as
serted that women We're incapable of
great and enduring attachments like
those which history records as having
existed between men; but later on in
his life he was forced to lean upon the
unselish devotion of a woman-bis
adopted daughter. whose soul he ac-
knowledged would zone day be capable
OF that perfect and sacred friendship
10 which we do not read any of her sex
has yet attained. Mary +. Bryan, in
Uncle Remus's Magazine
~O..o~
Trained Nursing a Modern Heroism
The trained nurse goes into battle en-
couraged by none of the blood-stirrinp
indictments of the soldier She is often
entirely alone: her struggle must be duiet
ana her antagonist is grim and terrible
and ever watchful because it is Death
itself. Suppose it is you yourself who
are suddenly smitten in the midst of
your life and work, says Anne O'Hagan
in The Delineator. With the coming of
the trained nurse you feel infinite relief
and thanksgiving. You are no longer
obliged to struggle alone, to watch the
door alone lest that Other One enter
The nurse, calmest of warriors. least
grim of sentinels, sits beside your bed
and will keep the vigil for Won. You
transfer the battle to her. For yourself.
you will lie still and think-not of the
combat before you, not of the turmoil
behind you-that whirling, dusty conflict
of the world which was so important Il
little while ago-but of the great. i'm
portant thlngs-earth and its greenness.
the wide, white. country skies on moon
light nights, the flash of bluebirds' wings
iii the September sunshine, all the daily
miracles you had forgotten to watch
when you We're huFrying 10 those mani
fold appointments of yours. Now you
are in the region where only "the might
Ter movement sound and passes, only
winds and rivers, only life and DEATH"
~O.O-
Concerning Noise.
Labor saving devices we have in plen-
ty, but our inventors do not endeavor to
prevent noise. Perhaps the noise of
American life and its nervousness go to-
gether. Certainly noise even when not
consciously noticed, is harmful to the
nerves.
Noise is largely a habit 1t can be
conquered to a great extent. Family
life is continually allowed to be noisy in
many preyentable ways. Children can
be brought up not to call over the house.
They can be trained to speak quietly and
move gently, They need not bang doors
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heels. On the other hand, the mother
of the family need not scold or command
in a high voice. The example OF a low
and quiet voice in the head of a house
hold works wonders When noise is set
before the mind as thing to be avoid
ed in daily life, occasions for suppressins
it will be found every hour, and the
home will gain in peace and charm by
every suppression. And when the home
feeling against noise becomes estab-
liShed. our cities will respond to the
feeling of their inhabitants. and one
city noise after anotheL will cease Most
street noises are totally unnecessary.
Well-paved streets. to begin with, and a
few city ordinances passed and enforced
and 10! healing quiet will follow the pres
ent chaotic din. The American woman
can help the good work along if she puts
her intelligent mind to it. Some women
are already doing it in our big cities.
1neY ought 10 nave The support or every
thinking man and woman -Harper's Ba-
2ar.
-O.:.o-
The Reflections of the Mirror.
If you wish to prevent or get rid of
wrinkles, crows feet" and a dull COM
plexion, the following hints will assist
you very much if put in practice:
Besides brain. heart and muscle,
which share in the benefits of the rest
cure. there is the tongue, which also re-
quires rest. Some people talk so much
and with so much energy and spirit, that
it is exhausting.
Certain diseases require rest more
than medicine; some indeed. can only be
cured by rest, supplemented by rational
treatment
Fatigue, exhaustion Of the physical
and nervous systems, is one Of the great.
est enemies of human beings, because
from it arise the majority Of the diseases
that prey upon woman-and man.
Indigestion more often arises from
eating when tired, or excited, or in ill
humor. that most people realize. Ten
minutes of complete rest Of both mind
and body, is none too much for the per-
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