Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-19
FOR THE LADIES.
80 Chorus.

On-earee.
Not 70 the choir of heaven
lose braggart throats belong
pan in the swampy thicket
Timed their rough reeds TO song.
A strain of roistering music,
4 burst of rustic glee,
Sounds in the ripping challenge:
On-caree!
These are the sweets of April:
frosty sky and sun;
Brown fields new plowed at evening
And the slant rain thereon;
The FIRST raw scent of pollen,
The first rare hum of bee
THESE and the blackbird's gurgle:
On-caree.
Hope is a rowing gypsy
With laughter ON her tongue,
And the blue sky and sunshine
Alone. can keep her young;
And year by year she fingers
Under 4 budding tree
To io1. the red-wingS' chorus:
On-caree,
Dora Read Goodale
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Duchess Sounds a Trumpet Call.
The speech of the Duchess of MARI
borough at the dinner given to Mrs.
Humphrey Ward in New York by the
Playground Association of America was
trumpet call to American women. 1t
should stir them to response not in New
York alone. but in every part of this
country.
The duchess comes back to us after
twelve years residence in England, dur
ing which she has observed the brilliant
part played by English women in poll
tics as well as the admirable work they
are doing in philanthropc and educa-
ti0nal fields. In her speech in New
York she did not 'criticise American
women" as she was foolishly accused
Of doing by several newspapers. She
merely pointed out what many have felt
but too few have expressed-the need of
more activity among our women in poll
tics and in other public fields where
their influence can be exercised with
benefit She said, among other things:
I'm England, as you know, the intlu-
ence of women has permeated every field
Of human endeavor, political and philan-
thropic, no less thin social and artistic.
The results appear in the really splendid
achievements of the associations formed
to guard and help girls who toll in fac
tories and shops; to provide employment
for the wives of convicted criminals; to
care for the fatherless and orphans; and
to make Fairgrounds for little children.
From their earliest childhood, Eng
fish women are made to feel the obiga-
tions of individual responsibility, and So
cienty itself demands adequate fulfil
ment. 1t is this sense of obligation that
| venture to think we American women
should foster and develop. Here there
are, of course, no customary obligations
But does not the mere privilege of citi-
zenship in a republic sucn as this involve
personal responsibility and place it on a
far higher plane? That every citizen
owes this to the mother state in such ra-
ito as his influence his intelligence, and
his capacity to help certify, is q very
al s1xy1sa IA,.N a
INTO the sphere of enterprise. Is it not
possible for the women citizens of this
great republic to recognize that personal
obligation on its ethical basis and to
turn 1t to account in practical work."
How much practical work can be
done Englisnwomen are constantly dem
onstrating. A few fine American women
are doing excellent work here Jane Adj
dams stands on level with any woman
IN the world today as a practical hui
manitarian. Such New York women as
Miss Helen Gould. Mrs. Arthur Dodge,
Mrs. Russell Sage, Miss Grace Dodge,
Mrs Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, Mrs.
Robert Able. and Mrs. James Speyer
are doing much for the causes of phi
lanthropy and education. But there are
not enough Of them. America needs new
recruits. and these recruits should
spring up in every city and from every
walk in life. They should represent not
SO good record in New York and other
cities, but working women as we'll
women in the professions and women in
the factories. When these have been
made to realize how much influence for
good they are permitting to lie dormant,
something will be accomplished. After
that. bit two things remain:
lrst intelligent study of American
conditions and the selection of those in
especial need of betterment
second, intelligent activity along the
lines thus indicated.
If the Duchess of Marlborough sue
ceeds in creating widespread interest in
inns national need of ours she will have
performed a very real service To her
country and her country women. Then,
happily, the prediction with which she
ended her speech may be realized:
III American women can do so much
and do it so WELL" she said, ''why is it
mat a greater number do not interest
themselves IN philanthr0pic and edTca-
lonal work? / believe that it is, as I
haVe said. because the sense of our per-
SOhal obligation to the community has
not yet been fully developed. The mo-
ment the women of this country recog-
nlze this claim, which to me seems so
pressing, so needful. so appealing, | feel
sure they will take it up with all their
Wonted energy and capacity.
And they will record their good citi-
zenship in works that will live to com
memorate the awakening of that great
sense of personal obligation to mankind
which lies embodied in our religion and
our ethics and finds expression in our
pest and noblest work. "-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
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Little Essays for Mothers.
doubt if there is any position in the
home more difficult to fill than that Of
the fifth wheel in the family coach, and
for the mother of husband or wife it is
peculiarly hard. Herself an experienced
housewife or mother and perhaps with
particularly methodical ways-it means
positive suffering for her 10 stand aside
ahd see things going at skies and sew
ems when just word out of her ma
t0red experience would set it right.
But Just here is where a rock comes
INTO view against which the 'family
coach is likely to be destroyed, and, in
I9ct, this very thing is what happens in
nine cases out of ten. The property
rights of a mans home come under an