Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-30
FOR THE LADIES.
In Autumn Rain.

FOR The LADIES.
In Autumn Rain
what spirit is it calling in the autumn
rain,
That bids me cast my needle by. set wide
the door?
The day is troubled with its voice and on
The football of the dead that come no
more.
To reminiscent languors now the gardens
In spring they ardent press-in fall re-
They have fulfilled the fate of summer
now to sleep
Beneath the lullaby of winds that strow
The drifting yellow leaves from unfesist-
TO Weave in mellow strands along the
lane and street
Vague Moorish patterns of forgotten suns
golden tapestry for autumn's feet.
Well hath the spring a throbbing fever OF
waking and breaking from reluctant
thralls in vain,
since ali her prophecy at last is lulled to
In natnre's sure narcotic, autumn rain.
o guest beloved of my heart and wailing
wind.
For you / light the hearth, entreat your
Will its way,
Pile high the cones and neutrality-suspicious.
That haunting spirit Ger my sill should
stray
Let us eude tonight the intervening drear,
While in the leaping flame hopes droop-
ing pinions thru,
Until as southing birds we cry, " Ills but
sleep,
Ere April call us by the daffodil!"
Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi, IN
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The Husband as an Occupation.
A clever widows reply to one who
asked why she did not marry again, was
that a husband is an occupation, and
that she prefers being a woman of lei
sure. The reason is amusing, but aside
from it's testing significance, expresses
truth that is worthy of consideration
in this age when there appears danger
that marriage wrecking may become a
national habit. Regarded as an occupa-
ton the bread winner is doubtless not
50 romantic figure as he is pictured
in song and story, but as it is the prose
and not the poetry of life that the hui
man race lives, it is certainly wise to
take facts into account and order life
accordingly.
Although the majority of married
women, including those who live on
farms. as well as urban dwellers, are
type of servant wife surely cannot be
said to be the American mans ideal.
More than the man of any other race,
he is prone to regard the woman of his
choice as a companion in the comrade
sense, and to expect of her more than
the conventional requirements of the
marriage state. He may not put his
views into words or seek to enforce
Them but he holds them nevertheless,
and he is right in the position he takes,
that. IN the absence of any agreement
to the contrary, he and his affairs shall
be her supreme interest. The increasing
independence of American girls is apt
70 develop in them a sense of selfsuffi-
cheney that makes them self-eentered,
even to the extent of regarding a hus-
band as an incident. rather than as the
central figure of their lives. and to this
tendency may be attributed much matri-
Moaial discord and wreckage. The
american woman is much given to re-
&aTding with Seorn German and English
wives, whose subserviency she deems as
beneath contempt, but while she COM
placently accepts the higher esteem in
which she is held. and vaunts herself
accordingly, the idea of reciprocity does
not always occur to her.
Marriage is coming more and more TO
DE an affair of convenience to the young
eF generation of women, who place their
go vi Nhe IlhlNiuual OASIS. anu dpD1iT-
ehtly object to modifying the scheme
enough to give their husbands the status
ICY should hold. Now of marriage, as
ot christianity, it can truly be said that
que cannot serve two masters-using the
word not in the sense of superior and
save but rather in that of leading life
m9tiTe-and in the one case as i'll the
otner an attempt to combine self-indul-
Sehce with duty ends in duty going by the
ii. M N
GnE klhd to be rendered as a just equiva-
itit Tor material advantages, which their
husband $ supply does not appeal to
many leisure class wives, nor do they
S5sih 70 realize that they have assumed
V0Heatons IN marriage which they are
aI1rllhg IN bad faith by repudiating.
he course of the social reconstruc-
GgA gong on at present is likely to bring
sIafpiy to the fore. for analysis and re-
@pJastment, the mutual relations of all
ay}lal units and groups, and it is newt
@U.e mat the duty of the wife. under the
Ji"ltions OF modern life in the land
h1efe the greatest liberty is accorded
d;s,,, ~la come in for large amount Of
USSl9h IN one way and another A
WORD has already been spoken in
9niah ana Economics, and it is safe to
y g'et that Ill several regards at least
s,a husoand.s status win be improved,
49, r1 4 certain large class of women be
lUn1SHt TO realize that marriage implies
c4Sa3lons as well as Che receipt of
axes aud wine.-vogue.
~o--O~
ae dependent Child Needs Mother.
v.l lney have been rescued from so much
Use that is really why society has
c ~" ays telt that it had a right to be
e5b.alIR3ttascently self-satisied over the
Ws Sillte s that it supports for them, says
Dag 5e! Potter Daggett, in the November
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