Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-03

And To- beneath yon slanting ray
4 creeping life its path pursues;
N fold in self-spun shroud away
rs form in ehangeful sleep TO lose!
Fv,n so. the Day,-the Year, perehance.
with ali its shimmering afterbloom,
II clothed, amid its growing trance
With wefts seif-drawn from mystic loom.
IN chrysalis, or in cocoon
Such as the Soul herself might spin
Were it not well while to swoon,
some winged, waking life to win?
From The Contributors Club of the At
lantic.
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The Lamented Old-Fashioned Woman.
These perpetual plants of publicists
about the old fashioned woman are a
source of vast amusement to those who
study the needs of today remarked Mrs.
julius c. Burrows, wife of the senior
member from Michigan, recently re-
turned to her Washington home after
an absence of nearly six months. Now,
this old fashioned woman who is so
much lamented, what are her charac-
teristics that she is held up to the
eternal discredit of the modern pro-
gressive woman? Possibly she is the
housewife familiar to readers of Miss
Mulocks charming stories or to those
who remember their grandmother's or
female relative of the ante-belum
DAYS or even before that turning point
in the national character. Possibly
they are the women who bake and
mend and cooked and cleaned, who
knit their husbands and fathers socks,
who made rag carpets, who corded
and spun and patched and built and
rebuilt every article Of the family APP
parel. Now, what man of today who
is above grinding want wishes his
womankind to drudge in those old
ways? Where is the necessity for il?
We talk about the Industrial develop
ment of the country and boast how
new inventions have taken the place of
the slavish work of former days. But
to read some effusions and to hear
some public men talk it would seem
that women alone are to continue in
the ancient ways, the only creatures shut
off from modern progression.
There is the old reproach about the
club women and the consequent neglect
of home duties. Nearly all those who
make this charge have never taken the
pains to examine into conditions before
forming their opinions. 1t is the expe-
rience of those who have studied the
question that women that belong to clubs
are those with a serious end in view and
are the most punctinous IN discharging
their home obligations. There is the case
of Mrs. Mary A. Liyermore, one of the
most noted women lecturers and the elo-
quent advocate of woman suffrage. 1t
was the reiterated charge of those who
opposed her propaganda that she would
better be employed at home attending to
her obvious duties. Mrs. Livermore
was one of the most thorough housekeep-
ers in her community. She had mastered
every detail of the science and her bread
and cake were as fine quality as her
speeches and that is high praise. She
never left her home for a short or long
time that every detail had not been
worked out. Menus for every meal or
dered, about cleaning the house and ar
ranging domestic matters, all were at
tended to, and, having capable servants,
her commands were faithfully executed
Margaret Downing in Detroit News
Tribune.
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America Needs Trained Children.
a universal complaint of business men
Of the present day is that children are
not taught useful occupations To this
point Albert w. Shaw, the magazine
author, writes:
The American needs trained children.
Manufacturers, merchants, bankers, law
yers and even preachers, complain that
l.
think this is true. In a few brief SEN
fences [ would like to show where
think the responsibility for this lies.
In foreign countries, notably Ger
many, France and England the child is
scarcely born Git makes no difference
whether it is boy or Crib before the
father and mother, the uncles and the
aunts, begin planning that it shall have
useful future. AS the child grows up. it
constantly hears in the home circle the
plans that it is to be miller, or a me-
chanic, or an artist, or an engraver, and
IS saturated with the idea that it is born
TO work and that it must learn to do
something definitely helpful for itself and
the home. Consequently it is trained to
be helpful to all the world.
Except where poverty through con-
gestlon or population mas provided more
workers than there e work. there are
very few idle children in The three coun-
tries of Europe named. Few communi-
ties exist there that do not have many
children above the level of unskilled
workers. am not citing this as an ar
gument in favor of child labor. am OPP
posed to child labor outside of the he ne,
but when the child does leave the h, le.
i should be fitted for some line of " Olk
Tor which it cares. Love of work and
knowledge breed useful labor.
In American homes there is a
strange neglect of this important fact.
Inc child is too often allowed to drift
through eighteen or twenty years of COM
paratlve idleness, and then, upon being
thrust into the world, whether it is from
the farm or the city, it finds itself use
less; The responsibility for this lies 6i-
FFectly with its parents. They must start
me work of producing trained children,
we are to have sufficient for the labor
10 De performed in this land"
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Loyalty in the Home Circle.
Loyalty in the home circle is not as
oiten considered as it ought to be. II
should be held as part of the family
honor never to speak slightingly of any
MEMBER of the household TO outsiders
Inc old and somewhat vulgar proverb,
wash all your soiled linen at home,
contains the glst of an obvious truth
AIothers should impress this family 10y
aiy upon their children, and teach them
mat 1t means dignity and strength and
IIapplness to be guardians of their own
hearth, as il We're; the stancn defend
Fes OF each and every member of the
sIhey. should point out the bad taste
VI saying derogatory things about each