Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-01

| lieh there Is no opportunity ~ read a
D9oA az once, prompt note of acAnowl-
eugeInent should pave the way for a
letter OF appreciation written later. If is
q common aud irritating fault TO 6ll a
| CHRISTMAS or birthday letter of thanks
with catalogue of other gifts instead of
dWeillng upon the pleasure derived from
the git whIen should be the real subject.
- careful observance of these consider
! ATOMS IN writing letter does noe neceS,
safliy Imply loss of spontaneity and
slncerlty-tae ail-important eachet of in,
ulFlduallty may still be retained TO make
Z a true spIrircal gift.-Alrs. Cecil
smith in The Home Magazine.
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Danger IN Athletics.
Another class of people who have So
rlously impaired health, not merely by
aeVotioh TO so-called physical culture
put 10 athletics in general is 10 he
round very largely in colleges and acad-
emles, where boys and young men who
nave not yet hardened to their fnH
Strength have engaged in competition
ana IN feats of strength which have
aHeeted the heart or the general consti-
tuition in ways from which they will
never recover. No man who seeks en-
during power and long life should cult
| fatigue
DIR. Coughlin of Brooklyn has been
collecting statistics upon and following
the careers OF athletes for years. He
s Examine the contestants in amateur
| boxing matches, and the abnormal de-
Velopment of the best of them struck
him. Magniicently developed as to
| their muscles, they were far from being
men OF normal health and strength Be
yond certain point the muscular train
ing was at the expense of their vitality.
| IL took away from the heart and the
l Ih0FR W IL. e
the system not affected and made less
efficient
| ONCE beyond the bounds of moderation.
| physical exercise and physical training
not only weaken the heart for a life
tlme, predispose to pneumonia. cause
pulhoharJ tuberculosis, and make other
! serious ills possible. but they unfit a
man for being the ideal husband and
| father
| The real course to pursue is to let
| mind and body develop together She
effort should be made not to secure great
bullying muscles. but a uniform sinewy
development over the whole body.
When an athlete has been in training
and becomes what is called fit" he is
| IN an abnormally nervous condition. In
| other words, he can never remain at
| ease for minute at a time. and, like
| the Gagged lion, is forever on the move
during his waking moments. When the
| contest is over he retires, and nutrition
and digestion are often seriously de-
/ ranged.
1t is time that a protest should be
| made against OVERRIDING good thing.
Real physical culture means regular
hours, good food, plenty of fresh air,
| but no exercise to real serious fatigue.
| or beyond the limits of ones strength
Dr. A. B. Lawrence in Healthy Home.
The Joy of the Woods and Fields.
| There is something pitiful in the ig-
norance of the average city boy and girl
concerning nature. Conversely, there is
an almost disgusting cockney familiarity
among them, with the names of the
swell hotels and restaurants. the popu-
lar actresses and plays, the criminal
eases in the courts, and all the rest of
! the lore of the billboards and news
lpaper headlines. In order to have any
sort of proper childhood for our young
people. this matter ought to be reversed
for the boy or girl who does not know
the flight of a swallow. the note of a
thrush or a whippoorwill, or the places
where the yellow yiolets, the red column
| bine or the white ladies' tresses grow,
seems to have been cheated out of one
| of the sweetest and most legitimate in
heritances of life How vulgar and ar
tificial and degenerate" look those other
man-made, gaslit, unhealthy toys and
pleasures beside the joys of the woods
and fields!
Even children who have spent their
summers largely in the country are too
often densely ignorant in nature lore.
One would think that the tremendous in
| flux of mature books" within the last
decade would have done away with this
condition. Probably good has been ac-
complished by them-but everything that
all of us can say and do is needed to
help them out
| 1t is too bad that the birds are most
tuneful and lively before the city schools
are dismissed for the summer. If we
| could only reform this matter. the thou
sands of city children who are let loose
upon the country about the first of July
would know ornithology much better
than they can ever hope to know it now.
Many of the birds become practically ST.
| lent after that date. Some whose song
has been loud and long in April and
May, merely chirp after July. They will
not even fly forth from their leafy COW
erlets in the daytime, in many cases. To
one who wishes to show these birds to
the children this is exasperating.
| Still. to a skillful and determined
| bird-lover who has studied the books of
| Olive Thorne Miller and Florence Mer-
riam Bailey and John Burroughs, a good
! deal may be learned about the habits
and notes of birds even during July and
August. 1t is astonishing to see the in
terest which may be aroused among chill
dren by an enthusiast in any natural
science. He can set a whole houseful of
boys and girls to searching the woods
and fields. They will be almost beside
themselves with joy over the discovery
of a rare bird or moth or stone or flower.
They see at once that here is a pursuit
which is worth while, and in which there
| is fun at The same time.
! OF course, after the leader goes away
any such craze is likely to diminish. Per-
haps it may seem TO die out entirely
/ but in some of the little souls in which
1 it has ben enkindled it viii usually live
to be communicated to others, and per-
haps lead to great and useful labors later
on.-Kate Epson Clark.
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
An interesting description of the new
museum to be built by the Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts is published in a re-
cent bulletin. According to it the new
museum will consist Of a group of small
buildings INSTEAD, as is usual, of one
| large structurel which will be devoted TO