Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-23
FOR THE LADIES.
An Encounter.

An Encounter
yl,o aares for the burden, the night and
All III tbe steep. lonesome road.
when a. last through the darkness light
when Sli,ii voice calls hail. and friend draws
VIII an arm for the stubborn loady
-rbouah his way lie over the prafries green
And mine up the sunrise hill.
Though no more in nay path may his light
be seen
His suecor aids me sa!!.
ror life is the chance OF friend or two
This side of the journeys goal.
Though the world be desert the long
night through,
Yet the gay flowers bloom and the sky
When i soul salutes soul.
Harriet Monroe.
The Value of Elimination.
one of the many advantages Of middle
age is that we develop the last sense
that is necessary for our protection and
neace of mind-the seventh sense of
equilibrium. For most of us the years
breeding that time have been a long
hard climb upward, by the hand-over-
hand method of gripping one thing firm
~ only to learn that we must relax our
hold upon that to grasp something else
birher M 1t is interesting to look
hack and note the things upon which
our grasp has been forced to relaX-and
LET 90. 4 bit of ignorance here, perhaps,
cherished hope there, a secret longing
for something life has denied, an ideal
fhat proved TO be tinsel, an ambition that
would have crumbled in our hands
these were the little daily dyings of
self" that have bloomed in the beautiful!
resurrection of thankfulneSS we have for
each and all todayi
1t is a pity that these priceless bits
Of knowledge could not have come to
us earlier in life; but this sense is de-
yeloped for us only through suffering,
and if that suffering does not overtake
us in our immaturity, its results must
be accumulative. Because of this fact,
| want to bring it before you for your
deeper consideration. From so prosalc
an experience as discarding worn out
garments in spring and autumn and dis
patching them elsewhere, to the higher
plane of thought where the relinquish-
ING of something long hoped for, but
never seen, marks an epoch in your life,
the process of elimination occupies Il
very important place in your existence.
Its activity is the fine art of separating
your life upon this system. One of the
first things that comes to you, once your
discernment has taught you this value,
is the consciousness of peace that per-
yades your being-your heart, your
mind; your soul assumes q lightness that
is amazing. The term Brightness" is well
chosen, for that is exactly what it is
you have frightened your heart and
mind by throwing away supert1uous
high road TO simple living and being. One
of the other things that you gain is the
ability to discriminate between worry
ing over a problem and thinking it over.
Worry is chaos, thinking is organized
consideration of a subject. In the for
mer you eliminate nothing; in the latter
you have thrown out everything but the
main points of interest. Your one hour
of sane, cool thought will give you more
light than the weeks of anxiety you have
needlessly expended upon it. Learn to
shut out persistent thought of a harass-
ing nature Train yourself to hold the
subject, as it We're, at arms length, and
force it to await your moment for quiet
consideration If the thing has hap
for it has been done. Tell yourself this
truth. If you cannot go off by yourself
at the very moment of it's occurrence
and think it over calmly, then force it to
abide your time.
Remember this: what you are to con-
slider seriously is not that the thing it
self has happened but the way in which
you are to deal with it. Do not be afraid
to look it in the face, straight and hon
esuy although it may be breaking your
heart. We often dodge our troubles or
refuse to look them squarely in the face,
ana 1t is this that eats our hearts away,
not the fact that they actually exist If
they are there, they don't call for worry.
Ou! for clear, intelligent thought with
philosophy back of it.
II your boy has stolen, your daughter
ashonored you, or our husband proved
Iallhless, do not fall crushed and broken
under the sad experience Be thank
lql that you knew the truth since the
lhlhg actually occurred. Then gather
your big, splendid motherhood together
ana ma the way out for yourself and
lheln; Perhaps a mistake fell like a
pau between you and them-some mis-
understanding of their needs. perhaps,
ana you had gone on ignorantly supply
sus thelr wants, instead. Be thankful
LOT your enlightenment although the
price you had to pay for it turned your
nalr white IN night and stripped life of
us ldeallsm. Bear this in mind: it is not
80 much that your love and faith have
Oeeh outraged, but what you should
inlouIIi over is that the objects of your
l9Ye have had to gain experience for
'ner development iH this unhappy way.
Most mothers make the mistake of
ulhKlng that their children must be
carried up to maturity upon their mater
MAJ wings only, and they never realize
ssne Jolly OF this until repeated acts of
tsauiSS,cretion on the part of their children
1W44aiiy bring some ray of light to them.
e might liken life to some big factory
"llere different departments have their
especial work to do in perfecting the
product which it manufactures. You
nust not try to do the work assigned
70 other hands" than yours. Life has
soiasiethlng for the child to learn by him
i'll &c and he will be passed on up for it.
- q. YOU nave been the conscientious moth
l assume You to have been, you have
s,,eA your child of the best of which
III ooG are capable-neither God nor man
iuiu expect or want you to do more.
r Ai,u you do not have to expect it of
au1st!I. Try TO be philosophical and
c o-osllAe this fact. Let mind. not heart.
bI. u'' u YOU and guide you through trou-
II mat threaten to overwhelm you
,adte. Iou have been a consciously neg
tLjtuI mother, that is, of course. regret
- bGt YOU must suffer while raa ming