Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-31
FOR THE LADIES.
Is Life Worth Living?

Is Life Worth Living?
Is life worth living? How can you
LOOK up INTO Won skies OF blue.
In heavens sunshine smile aud hask,
And such a question dare to ask
How can you clasp within your hand
Gods roses and not understand
| With thrOtbing heart, fond, dutiful,
The infinite and beauttfull
At blossom time. how can you hear
Biithe messengers with notes high, clear,
FROM branch and bough proclaim his
Without a tArll Of glad delighty
How can you know the gentle press
On cheek and brow OF Winds earess,
And not within your bosom feel
An earnestness, newborn zeals
i life worth living? How can you
Gaze lovingly in eyes dark, true.
And no. within their depths behold
The lisat that blends each hour With goldr
How can you. the ones who wear
The crown Of motherhood. bright. fair
He-query thus, when gainst your breast
Two little warm red lips are pressedf
Kathleen kavanaugh,
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The Way of the World
Do you ever stop suddenly in the
tnmult of this rushing, tearing, busy old
world and ask yourself what is it all
about anyhow?
& Such striving, striving, striving.
And what for?
Such endless work. such endless worry,
rush, pell-mell-oh! Really. isn't it won
derful that some of us live through il?
We must all stop sometimes and ask
ourselves what it's all about, and wheth-
err we are getting in the returns for the
striving, the effort, the clambering after
things. If our ambitions are of the right
kind, the returns win come in so fast
that we can't keep track of them. That's
true.
This is an excellent time of year to
take an inventory of our thoughts; of the
way we are spending our precious hours
that are slipping away very fast-only
We don't realize it until our hair gets
scanty and smooth on the top of our
heads and the little sunbursts about the
eyes grow strangely and sadly visible
There is one ambition, however, that
is really worth striving and rushing
after;-and that is self-betterment Self
betterment means making oneself agree
able, kind, good-generally sweet 20
know.
We all want to look pretty. That's a
A1ASSVuc touCluSloH there isn't the
slightest use i'll discussing it, The in
stinct was born in Eve. Why do we
want to look pretty? For our own self
respect and because our friends will
like us more if we are dainty, sweet-n
sort of pleasant picture for tired eyes.
Add to this a natural cheerfulness
an even disposition, charming personal
ity. and these are the qualities that
come from identifying the inside of the
head and the lining of the heart.
Here rs a little creed, little expIana-
ton to help us: To be woman who
is slowly lifting herself above the com
mon everyday type. to learn to speak
because we think and because we have
something timely, bright CHEEKY or in
teresting TO say, not because the air is
rather calm and one thinks a few voice
vibrations might stir it up. To be good
and honest always. not for anybody
sake or for any reason but the greatest
reason of all-for the sake of having a
clear. clean, beautiful conscience. To
know refinement of speech and action,
beliefs, opinions and thoughts-to be in
teliectual.
By this il is not meant that we should
talk wisely of Ibsen and all those others
that not one of us really understands.
although we all think we debut to learn
something each day, gradually gather
ing such a nice little collection of the
worlds wisdom that me must agree with
ourselves that what we have learned.
after all, is but drop or two out of
the sea of learning.
To be kind and sweet and considerable
and charitable, for it is in these things
that one finds the only real reward for
all the scrambling, cares, sufferings,
tired nerves and heavy spirits.
10 be loved, not because we are state
~ or stunning but because we are
worthy Of the deepest regard because
we are good and dear and filled with
human sympathy and deep, tender emo
TONS
Isn't that an ambition really worth
while?
Isn't that creed worth living up to?
New Idea Magazine.