Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-30

Nineteenth century methods of milan
lllropE are called sternly To the bar by
N N ANehtletn century. Why" falters
! the amazed defendant. see. have in
vested millions of dollars in the beautiful
buildings IN which | have housed thes@
! cAIIdfen! But demands the plaintiff
are tney happy: And before this
e!ilafse down go defenses. The insfitu-
tion has done much fer the dependent
ehil1 But the Indictment brought
| 9 d$Sst II IS that 1t cannot do enough.
or When it has fed and clothed ana
warmed him, it has not loved him. There
| Is the difficulty that weayes and inter-
Weaves all through its carefully regn-
lated system.
III Is the duh stoical Indifference en-
rendered by absence of affection that
= u IKE dangerous dynamite with
III the institutional child.
At first, when nobody cares for him
he is only sad. Later. when he cares far
NOBODY, he Is unsafe. Society finds him
SO When later it gets him on its hands
as an adult criminal. That is the future
DeIofe an alarming proportion of insti-
tutiohal children. Another alarming pro-
portion drift out to the world to produce
i iiole dependent children, and then at
last ger themselves in line for the aims
house. These things have been happeu-
ing flght along, i'll spite of the fact that
tnefe nave been diligent state boards of
CHARITIES and committees of inspection
70 see that the steam-heating, check
approving, MISREPRESENTATION process
In the children's homes were all correct.
Inen at last the sociologists and the
chLd eulturists. many of them learned
men wearing glasses. got together to
study the situation. Today they have
seen the look in the eyes of the child
Superntendents and matrons and
boards OF managers, and trustees, please
stand aside. There is one who can laugh
at all or your methods. 1t is she who
can sing soft, grooming songs with
little head Graded ON her breast; who
can answer all foolish questions. like:
w ny do the flies walk on the WALTZ"
ana why isn't the grass purple?" who
can KISS all tears away; who can bake
cookies like nobody else will ever be
able to bake; who is SO near the divine
III her wonderful nature that she can
work miracles in child training where
all the institutional specialists fail.
Oh, the sociologists have studied care
fully the exhibit in the institutions
where these 100000 children wait Up
stairs and down through miles of pol
lshed corridors they have Travelled. And,
having seen the look hat can only be
loved away, they have turned to each
other with the verdict: Gentlemen.
what the dependent child most needs is
mother"
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European Women Ahead.
I'm proportion to the population the
sentiment for woman suffrage is strong
err in Europe than in America" said
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, who re-
turned a few days ago from Eurone.
where she presided at the meeting of the
International Suffrage association at
Amsterdam and attended the meeting
of the International Women's Council
at Geneva. The reason is, | think.
that all over Europe agitation of various
kinds is going on for further extension
OF suffrage to men, and the women come
III on this movement.
For instance. the Hungarian Diet for
many centuries was made up of certain
owners OF great estates. A woman
landholder of this class did not sit in
the body, but she was represented by Il
male proxy.
'She appointed this proxy; she could
remove him il he did not vote to suit
her and she was not obliged to appoint
public career as a proxy for a woman
in this Parliament
With the granting of popular suf-
frage to men in Hungary two years ago
this ancient right of women was swept
away, and that fact is the most potent
argument III lHe present agitation Tor
woman suffrage in Hungary.
1.-The reports made by the women from
New Zealand and the six Australian
states of work done in education reform
and every line of progress was so SUI
perior to any others that astonishment
was marked. And in each case the dele
gate closed her report by saying: We
could not have done this if we had not
had suffrage
the most telling example of Dutch
thrift and generosity combined" said
Mrs. Gait with q smile. They enter
tanned us royalty; all the arrangements
were perfect, all the social functions
most splendid And after it was all
over and they had balanced their books
they found they had $1,000 left over.
1T is very curious to an outsider to
find that the Queen and her husband and
mother do not seem to count for any
thing. No one seems to pay any atten-
ton to them or think anything about
them. No one speaks of them.
Holland is at the other extreme from
England, where the Endorsement of
ROYALTY is so immensely valuable to any
movement. Holland is. essentially re-
publican.
The ever present horror in Holland is
that Germany will swallow them up.
They seem to think that this could be
done more easily if they were a republic.
and this seems to be their only reason
for maintaining a monarchy / met only
one woman who seemed to have any
opinions about Queen Wilhelmina. She
said: 1t is beautiful the way the
Queen effaces herself. That seems to
be their ideal of good monarch; one
who will effaee himself and let them run
the country without him.
Mrs. Gait will return to Europe in the
winter to lecture Tor the suffrage asso-
Citations in Italy, Hungary, Bohemia,
Bulgaria and Germany New York Sun.
"The Blues"
There are two opposite tendencies in
medical practice Of the present day. One
regards mental disturbances as depend
ent upon abnormal physical states; the
other looks upon the mind as the regu-
lator of. or at least exerting a very
marked influence upon. the health Of the
body. Both these views are undoubt-
edly right in part, and both are wrong
in their exclusiYeness. in refusing to adj
nit that the mind and the body exert a
reciprocal influence upon each other
Mems sana in cerpore sano. a sound
mind in a sound body, was the ancient