Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-26
wOMEN's COLUMN.
OR u the Fields.

,0ut 4 the Fields.
The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday,
Among the fields above the sea-
Among the winds ut play;
Among the lowing of the herds,
fhe rustiing OF the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.
The foolish fears of what may hap,
cast them all away
Among the cloYer-sceuted grass,
Among the new-mown hay;
Among the husking of the corn.
Where drowsy peoples nod,
Where i'll thoughts die aud good are born,
OCT in the fields with God.
British Weekly.
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The Lonely Ones.
In speaking of a recent suicide,
thoughtful observer, who had known the
unfortunate man, remarked impressiveiy:
II pelieve loneliness was at the bottom
of H. | believe loneliness is at the root
of very large part of the unhappiness
in this world. | believe this because con
yersely there is no doubt that congenial
eompanionship is the source of a very
large part-probably most-of the happI-
ness in this world.
This view seems right and reasonable.
one source of our respect for tue pioneer
* that he is willing TO go off into the
wilderness. away from friends and com
nanions Everybody knows how queer"
ana grabbed most of those become who
live by themselves. The soul turned in
ward constantly-shut away from the
calls of human sympathy-Iong unrespon-
siye to the moods and lenses of its fell
lows-becomes warped, unnatural-often
ripe for treason, strata gems and spoils.
Those who have worked much among
the young men who are constantly pour
ing into our city from all over our land
have been painfully impressed with their
loneliness Think of the thousands of
such young men, living in hail bedrooms,
or in lodging house dormitories, with no
place in which to spend an evening, and
no one to speak to except their chance
acGuaintances.
There are Christian associations and
bows and mems clubs but timidity, or
distate or other reasons keep many from
res0rting to them. Some of these young
men have confided to their friends that
their loneliness amounts to actual tor
ture 1t literally drives them to drink"
and to all sorts of vice. Some of Dau-
diets novels picture the ways in which
some of the poor and friendless young
men and women of Paris walk, because
of this loneliness. There are many such
III our own christian" land.
Even if there is society at hand for
the strange boy or girl-or older emf
grant-it may be so uncongenial as to be
almost worse than none. A refined and
gentle soul, placed among the coarse and
soTdid. must suffer unspeakable pangs.
He must feel loneliness of heart to
which that of the body is as moonlight
unto sunlight.
1t is the loneliness which sleath brings
about which graves the deepest marks
upon our faces and our souls. To lose
the loving companion-wife, husband,
mother, father, sister, brother-to whom
your every word and thought was inter
esting, who wanted to know every ue-
tail of your busy day, and told yon hers
or his-ah! this is the loneliness which
strips off all the glamour from life.
But it is through this awful scourge
of loneliness chat the higher spiritual
forces make their appeal Driven al
most to despair by its longing for that
loving and intimate companionship
which the world no longer furnishes, the
noble soul reaches out into the dim
spaces of the spirit. Religion offers the
surest solace. There are fake" reli-
gions, and they find their strongest sup
port among the bereaved and lonely.
But as education and common sense
increase, it would seem as though the
really strong and pure religious must
be more and more utilized to meet this
terrible need of the world-its inevitable
and omnipresent loneliness. The wise
tell us that it is in order to make us fee
to powers that are higher than we that
the great crises of life must be met 10y
each human soul alone. Alone man IS
born alone he dies, alone he goes up
to Judgment"
This view holds in other than religious
matters. Nothing is achieved in the
realm of art without loneliness. The
man must shut himself often away from
all companjonship if he would accom-
Org a. in in
painting or sculpture. 1t seems as
though no one could enter into the aus
tefe corridors of truly high art unless
ne goes. alone. There, as everywhere,
{he loneliness means sorrow-that sorrow
winch Is the nurse of nobility.
But, among the rank and file Of man
KIND, let US remember that social loneli-
ness presses and degenerates. In our
judgments and i'll our charities, do we
take enough account of this common
source Of misery and crime BY Kate
Epson Clark in Exchange.
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Should Cousins Marry?
a correspondent asks this question.
;blology answers, No. The facts of
neecedity are against the intermarriage
9l cousins. 1t is possible for cousins to
marry without any unhappy results, but
i 11e FISK is too great to be disregarded.
1ne iacts are simply these:
40 human being is perfect. Every one
Is born with weaknesses and deficiencies
Oh some sort. In members of the same
family these defects are likely to be
!qentlcal in character, aud consequently
lhe mtermarriage of such persons will
AdFe an inevitable tendency to empha-
s3ze and increase the defects. The proof
~ tAls is found in the fact that serious
Geiects, physical, mental, and moral, are
c eGHHa 70 DC much more usual among the
children of those in whom close blood
Eetatonshlp exists than among the chill
aten OF those in whom there is no such
ttslaIonshlp. Cousins who are descended
run common ancestor through their
tt4.aers, when both take after their
d3IAers, are similar in temperament aud
general physical and mental develop
ulent' The children of such parents are
more likely 90 show defects than ordi-
C u",g children. On the other hand, when
eeas1as marry, one of whom takes
a+st the common ancestor while the
"suer shows decidedly the characteristics
~ lile other line of ancestors, the danger