Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-14

mars nulHn AT all dat's troublin him.
IL t,ieks a com fable leafy limb
AZ kaeps a-nl0 min de whole night through
i'iAs due.
pars heap o folks. twix' me an you,
Dat acts pretty much like de screech-owl
A.sisain' an a-cryin like DER hearts would
An r lfcaf no trouble. 'ceppin what dey
Washington Star.
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HsIf Fares for Women.
As entered the restaurant, a com
motion was raging at the pay desk. The
ueor starved looking little thing inside
The box was flushed with anger or indig-
nation. or some immortal emotion which
had humanized her for a moment. The
serving girls stood around with eyes and
mouth agape. Customers who had en-
loved a good meal looked with placid,
strong, midday, businesslike, well fed
contempt on the cause of their delay.
The cause was a little, frank, fearless
woman, about 80, whose accent an
uonnced that she was made in Ger
many" She was aXpounding a practical
home made philosophy, which would
have erumpled up all the professors of
The Fatherland like an accusation of lese
maieste. She had had lunch which
would have cost man ) pence, and
She tried TO persuade the girl i'll the
pay desk that all the laws of justice de-
manded that she should only pay pence,
because she was a woman | suppose |
came in too late to see the point. How
ever, officialism trihlnphed as it usually
does over originality, and the sturdy
little thing tucked up her short blue
serge dress and stepped bravely out into
the mud; but there was light in ner
eyes which contrasted strangely and
fercely with the singular smile that half
played upon her lips. | pressed on to my
favorite corner table. Ideas are not
nutritious. and reforms are not fatten-
ing Still, by the time | got my coffee
and cigar, the landscape of life did not
look quite So Uttered with i'll fitting
humans, aud ! wondered why a woman
should only pay haE price for her food,
Did she repres ent some society," Was
this protest from organized women
against their absence of manhood? Or,
perhaps discovery had been made in
political economy. | knew one was long
overdue. Perhaps it was going to be a
science after ALL and this woman might
be the first preacher of the new gospel.
brought her all the way from Germany
TO open this crusade?
could make nothing Of it.
But later in the day looked into the
club. and | found my friend Edmunds
telling some yarn to Coleman, which
aroused peals OF laughter and unutter-
able contempt.
Edmunds turned to me and said, "a
woman has perpetrated new joke to-
day. Perhaps even you will see the jest
of this, though you always defend wom-
en-. | was in bus, when woman en-
tered at Ludgate circus, and when the
conductor asked for her fare she offered
him hal fbnrq
were no half-penny fares in that bus.
She replied in a foreign accent, which
made the whole thing very comic, L
am woman. In this country you do
not pay women a full wage for their
work. I work in a shop, and l do more
work than a man, but the master gives
me half wages. So | say, if | am paid
half. | viii pay half You take one
big fat man all the way for a penny;
you must take little woman for a half
penny. DO you not see, it is common
justices? Who gets the other money |
earn, when | am paid bur half Tor my
work?
The conductor gazed upon her as if
she was a mad thing, and with little
ceremony, said Stow your CAB; ii
you're a suffragetter, out you go; | am
not Hasquith.' Then he bundled her
out into the much of Fleet street.
How we all laughed! Don't you
get hold of a crazed notion like this
If she does not want to take half the
pay of a man for the same work, why
does she? There is nobody to blame
but herself. Silly rat, to come out
and want to upset all business arrange
ments with her mad idea of a half-fare
for women! Do you think she is a suf-
fragette:"
She might be, for there is sense in
her proposal, at any rate. | have often
told you that if d gross of boxes are
worth fOufpence for packing, the en-
pioyer has no right to give a man four
pence for doing the work, and woman
twopence for doing the same work.
VI course, you are so mighty sol
emn. Now / should have thought you
would have seen the Joke of this even
IN the severe light of common sense"
My dear Edmunds, so l might but
the joke is always on one side. 1t
IS more monotonous than the advertise
meut Of an undertaken. | should have
thought even a London club would
weary OF the same stale gibe-the eter-
nai Joke at the expense of woman. Now
could see some fun, if it were OCCASION
ally the other way. If we had a hun
urea hrms run by women, and they were
10 employ few M. P.'s or stalwart
Gltizens like yourself, and then pay you
nan the wages of the factory girls be-
cause you were not so quick with your
myers. that would be a joke worth
leilng to your butler, because he would
not understand it, and so he would
laugh amazingly.
But when it Is always at the ex-
Behse Of woman-neglected, down-trod-
den wasted woman--I can see nothing
Ny dear fellow. don't weep. What
VII you have to drink?''
l dld not drink. / did weep. The
SaudeSt thing of all to me was the fact
tnat kdmunds is a most affectionate
father to his three girls. But they do not
Nofk. They never will work. The world
: 7 SiareIqlly arranged to pay their fares.
Inc Woman Worker
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When the Girl Guest Arrives.
The girl guest is delightfully."- well
IIoned by the family, for she comes with
ntr sweet winsome ways, fresh, pretty
Siothes and her presence in the home
y appreciated by all. She was invited,
cynsequeutly the preparation for her
coming was pleasant task and every