Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-16

" haAsNer the pain may seem, nay sweet,
let US take II now with willing feet.
Ana time our steps to our hearts glad beat.
| Whatever the path may seem:
L L.1l me road be rough that we must follow
Mnat care we for hill or hollow
Where here in our hearts, as high as the
We bear the same loved dream.
However the road may roam. my sweet,
Let II lcad us far from mart and street,
oue where the hills and the heavens meet
However the road may roam;
SO. hand in hand. let " go together,
And care no more tor the wind and wealth
er.
And reach at LAST those hills of heather.
where CLEAN the lights of home.
Madison Cawein-
-o.:o-
Homemade Troubles.
People get certain satisfaction out of
trouble; il is such an excellent excuse
for thinking about themselves. Also for
making other people think about them.
Many entertain the deusion that trouble
makes them interesting: the more pro-
found the trouble the more they con
slider it removes them from the common
herd. 1t certainly does. The common
herd takes care of that.
Does anyone realize how selfish trou-
bic is? All do not Quite good, religions
PNNHAC East Il SAdupN over every OiiC iilSS
meet by expiating on their trials; the
more trials they can scrape together for
their friends edifcation the more they
seem TO feel they are contributing to the
general stock of virtue.
Other worthy individuals-generally
ladies-appear to think that a pensiye
demeanor is helpful to their fellow
beings ms a sign OF sympathy; Il finger
post directing people with troubles to the
place where trouble is. Then when they
have caught Il sufferer they sit and nurse
his troubles until they have worked them
up to really imposing size. 1t is quite
astounding what a lot of trouble can be
made out of the most tritling Happenings
if the listener is sufficiently kind-hearted.
Unfortunately, the trouble is not shelyed
after the sympathy mas been bestowed.
Some women wallow in other peoples
troubles; they give advice with positive
| JUNCTION; they swell with the importance
of being consulted; they have lovely
time, and give the sufferer an equally
happy one.
But the worst of it is that person
who started out with quite Il small-sized
trouble may return to the bosom of his
afflicted family with that trouble SO en-
larged by kind treatment that the poor
| family is under a blight for days. Hun
ger for sympathy grows upon people. |
have young friend who never meets me
without producing a trouble. If she has
not been unjustly treated by her office
chief she has been cut by a woman to
whom she was introduced at a Mayfair
party. If she goes to a wedding it in
eyitably rains or is sunny At the present
moment she is preening herself at an at
tempt at sprained ankle on the occasion
| of weekend visit. She has put down
her name to go to prison in the next
batch of Holloway enthusiasts, and is
already darkening her friends lives with
recitals of the troubles she will have to
bear--if she goes. She has had such an
orgie already in imagination that | fancy
she will be wanting another sort of
trouble when the time arrives. IL she
does 90. | cannot contemplate the re-
citals following her discharge: so / shall
cut her, and feel | have contributed to
her raison d'etre in doing so. Some peo-
pie live for trouble.
Still, the age is growing happier We
may be less romantic, but we are more
cheerful The future is allowed to hold
more hope. We do not spend nearly SO
much time before the drawers of escri-
torres, turning over packets of old love
letters. Many people file them nowadays,
or keep busy writing new ones. We stay
younger longer, and surely it is wiser 10
use old love letters for purposes of refer
ence than tears? To make light of the
old love is better than TO make trouble
cut of it.
People who are suffering from love
disappointments are not favorites now
but they are not the permanent infliction
they used to be. IL times gone by they
were allowed to make such a business of
their troubles; in fact, they were expect
ed to concentrate their whole remaining
years to a round Of darkness and regret.
The simple fact that they had not graft
fed one particular desire was accepted
rs a valid reason for the abandonment Of
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ness. 1t was considered most praise
worthy of gentlemen to give up their
careers and pass their declining years in
restrosDecti0n of the tragedy Of their
past. If they could manage to decline
away altogether they were held up as
examples TO the race; they had proved
their troubles were real. In those days
grief was looked on as positive accom-
plishment; a tiue art; study in which
h0nOrs could be taken. Even today one
hears Observation-Disclosures individuals
referred to with a certain respect as peo-
pie who have kept up their unhappiness
for commercially lengthy period The
OnloOkers vaguely feel this shows sta
bility. a good many men-and women
too-do not get what they want. either
in love or their professions, and vet
maintain n cheerful interest in life and
their fellow beings. But the outsider
feels their troubles cannot have been
real" ones. Onlookers reserve their
sympathy for those who carry their dis
appointments about with them; who
nurse the sense of Fate's injustice; who
feel they deserved better treatment. and
let the world know they think so. They
are accredited with depth. Cheerful
people are always suspected of a lack of
profundity.
Besides, trouble is held by some TO be
a hallmark of superior refinement
When we were little gloomy expires
sion was promptly corrected as denoting
"sulks:" but when we grow m We
should brand such a criticism as sheart-
less" When one is grown M troubles
are considered proofs Of sensibility. and
sensibility is universally felt to be m
adornmept We were whipped for il
when we We're children.