Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-24

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and art thou come. cried. 80 arbitress
OF my long fellowship with strife and
But contest in the night, thou, dawns
And where the jeweled splendor of thy
power,
THY crown of bay. the glory of thy dress:'
Nay, ] am Failure! came a voice fore
spent
Then FOUND her presence such light there
AS suddenly a star had crossed NV door
She sat her down beside my hearth, and
Her eyes upon me. Fer space l dreamed.
And strong | rose, as never strong before.
Agnes Lee.
Loneliness a Large
ly Unnecessary Affection.
1t is strange that mankind in its pa
thetically eager and persistent pursuit
of happiness, and its cunningly devised
means of attaining it, has not taken into
account the contentment of mind that
would result if only the instinct for gre
gariousness were curbed. Not only to
people make little effort to check the
craving for the society of their fellows.
but deliberately foster every influence
that is likely to increase a longing for
companionship, thus developing a de-
tendency that is most undesirable in a
being destined by circumstances to live
an individual life. Even our nearest and
dearest cannot enter fully into our lives,
and among tragic realiZations none is
more poignant than that each of Us must
suffer and endure for him or herself
alone. Comparatively few persons are
self-sufficient to the fullest extent and
the consequence is that the dread of
loneliness becomes one of the most usual
and melancholy of human experiences.
He is not truly a freeman who is not
largely sufficient into himself, for depend
ence, whether economic or merely social,
makes the dependent one the slave of
others. indeed TO give ones peace of
mind into the custody of another, which
is practically what is done by large
number of sympathy-craving persons, is
only to prepare the way for disquiet
and disappointment, and even the ordi-
nary reaching out for companionShip has
serious drawbacks, because congenial as
sociates either are not always at hand
or are entirely absorbed in their own in
terests Bitterness and heart sickness
there must inevitably be just so long
as mankind refuses to recognize its fun
damental aloneness and make provision to
meet the inevitable human condition by
developing tastes and interests that shall
free it from dependence upon others for
interests and companionship. Even moth
erhood, which it is customary to regard
as q happy condition, is not entirely free
from the bane of loneliness. for if chill
dren die the pain is intensified, and if
they live they grow to maturity only to
go out into a world of their own, leaving
the mother in many instances victim of
sad heartache with only the memory of
past days to comfort her. Nor are men
and women whose warking hours are
mainly devoted to working for a living
exempt from loneliness, even when so
fortunate as to be members of families
and to live at home. In short all classes
and conditions will be found eating their
hearts out because they lack self-sutti
cheney when circumstances make asso-
citation with congenial people impossible.
Is it not foolish to suffer thus from
a mental malady which it is possible, If
not entirely easy, to prevent? There
must, of course, first of all be the reall-
zation that each human being is des-
tined for individual. not collective, exist
,ence, and that it is the part of prudence
to prepare oneself for this condition. The
cultivation of resources for entertaining
and interesting oneself, therefore, become
prime requisites. 1t may be reading, or
the practical aspect of music or art, 1t
may be collecting or philosophy or
science. For those who are not studlous-
ly inclined it may be philanthrophy, or
interest III any QUIET Ol the ldSNAbdItAE
and important subjects at present so
much to the fore. But whatever the
subject, it must be one that appeals to
the individual, and which he can pursue
individually. If the suggestion of Guilt
waiting an interest in life apart from the
daily grind of school, office farm or
factory were followed as an antidote for
loneliness. the passion for companion
ship at all times would largely disappear
Hoa ,,ooocci+xy for orr rIOuSnp
would be removed. Certainly there
would be infinitely less unhappiness in
the world. and old age would be relieved
of one of its greatest and most painful
handicaps to contentment.-N
-O..O-
A Housekeeper's Paradise.
How much simplifed housekeeping
would be if we lived in the Island OF
Moorea in the South seas! Hugo Par
ton, in the Outing Magazine, declares 1t
to be the happiest and most beautiful
spot on earth. As a contract to strenu-
Gus American trials with cooks, this de-
scription sounds alluring:
Whenever you are thirsty, a WORD
viii send little brown body scrambhng
up tall palm tree trunk and IN two
minutes a green cocoanut IS ready Tor
you to uuaff-the nectar of the Poyne-
sian gods. 1t is worth the trip down
here to eat the native 'Ylttals, Tor you get
at every meal things you never tasted
before, and each seems better than It's
predecessor. The sea gives your dinner
of fresh water shrimps, sharks fins and
roasted sea urchins. The bananas you
eat-thera are eleven varieties-baked,
raw, friend, dried-grow a few rods
back in the valley, ditto the breadfruit,
the pineapples and about everything else
on the board. It's nice to have your
morning coffee grown in the back yard.
Guavas grow in such profusion they are
used as pig food; grated cocoanut IS
fed to hens, while sensitive plant is CON
sidered excellent fodder for cattle.
For perfection of the human body
the Tahitian is unexcelled, if, indeed,
he is anywhere equaled. They are
large race, both men and women being
uoticeably taller and more fully deVel-
oped than Anglo-SaxOns. Every man
looks like a picked athlete, with Stop
ing shoulders and barred chest. DOUBT
if any Society islander ever went
through a whole day in his life with
ont a wreath of flowers on his head or
a blossom behind his ear The love OF
flowers is innate with man, woman ana
child: they can't pass through a patch OF
woods without emerging with q garland;
Every gay mood calls for fowers-and
their life is an almost unbroken Sc
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