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

mated faithfulness. Even from world.
! " point OF view, mothers would do well
| 70 remember that whatever keeps the
family together ia faithful allegiance
adds to tie position and influence and
consideration OF each member individ-
Magazine.
As to Divorce.
A paragraph that is looked upon az
tunny, bur is really tragicaL Is going
around tie papers: 4 mother came into
the room and found her two children
quarrellng about doll She said ssYon
must stop quarreling, or l shall take the
doli away" We aren't really quarrel
ing, mamma" said one of the little girls
re playing Jennie's suing me for al
Vorce and we're trying TO decide who'll
! nave the custody of the child" When
divorce becomes so prominent a feature
Vi american life that the children play
| at IT, 1t is high time to give attention
TO dong away, not with the possibility
! OF divorce. but with the underlying
! causes OF domestic unhappness that
lead to so many divorces. 1t is also an
argument for keeping the details of d.
/ dren read.
According to the census bureau at
! Washington, there have been 100000
divorces in the United States during
the last twenty years. Papers and
magazines are busily discussing who is
responsible, and many lay the blame
on the new woman" They wholly
| Ignore the yerdicts of the courts
L Iese show that in fully two-thirds Of
the cases, the divorce was granted on
account of the husbands wrong-doing
hn Nv
woman party that a husband is some
times driven to do wrong by his wife's
shortcomings; but the converse is
equally true. Add to this that the
number of women who put up with
unfalthfulness and drunkenness in
ther husbands is much greater than
the number of husbands who would
put up with the same faults in their
wives without seeking a divorce and
II is clear that those who want to
check divorce ought to devote the
mons share of their preaching not to
the women, but to the men. More eff
1ectlve than preaching to either would
probably be the Improvement of the
general conditions of living, and the
systematic teaching of hygiene aud
ethics In the public schools. If a sepa-
rate course of ethics for men should
ever be introduced in college, as Presi-
Wisconsin suggested the other dav in
his address to the Association of Col
leglate Alumnae, it might well include
some strenuous instruction on how
husbands ought to treat their wives
wives have been deluged for centu-
ries with lessons largely wrong) on
their duties to their husbands, but
course on duties to wives would be
something new, and might be made emf
nently Embellishments Journal.
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In Times of Trouble.
have always thought is best if posi-
BILE to disappear in times of trouble.
There is not much sympathy, these days,
for some misfortunes. When it comes
to question of money, our best friends
will grow uneasy and cold. They will
feel of their purses in their pockets and
wonder if they will be asked to con
tribute. we often look to women more
than men for encouragement, because we
know that kindness finds a home in
their gentle hearts, but even then. it
must be confessed that they too often
act from impulse and from the emotions
of the moment, and we cannot depend
on them. | have heard the best of wom-
en- say when trouble was beginning to
! cast its shadow over their homes, that
/ they would do anything for their hus-
4
| have been very brave indeed and self
sacrificing. But there is always an ele,
ment of the spectacular and theatrical
about their devotion. They like an au-
dience and they want at least a part OF
the world to applaud They will say
with tragic emphasis Il am content to
| beg my bread from door to door" and
| then having uttered this beautifully
sounding if trite speech feel that they
| have discharged half of their duty. You
| would not be allowed to beg bread from
| door to door The police and the Charity
organization would soon get after you,
and then you know you would not care
| for bread perhaps, but would want some
! thing else. Bread is fattening and bad
| for the figure, however poetical it may
! be in the abstract. Dry toast would be
/ far preferable. There are certain things
| in times of emergency, that people al
ways say and which they have not the
| faintest intention OF, putting into effect.
| But after all it is gracious to go through
| the formula and we must not judge the
world too h2rshly. You will find it the
| same old world then, now and forever.
| There will be a day when even the loved
ones will lose patience with you and they
will berate you for your mistakes and
! heap reproaches on you. And perhaps
women who are subtle in this species OF
cruelty will be the greater offenders, al
| though they never dream that they are
hurting you, but only because they lack
audience they make you the confidant
of the chagrin which they feel and which
| for the moment they forget you are sup
posed to have inflicted. | have known
women to remain by disgraced men who
have been abandoned by everyone else,
and to share poverty and exile and worse
even with them, and yet in some mo-
ment, without reflection, to make the re-
! cipients of their self-sacrifice feel keeniy
| what has been done for them. Women
have taken off the rings from their fing'
ers and have actually gone to places the
existence of which they should not have
fknown-I am speaking of women IN our
station of life-and come running back
| to their husbands or brothers or fathers
with the money for which these gems
have been pawned, only too glad that
| they had them and could assist those
| they loved in the hour of need. And yet
| this or that woman, who has made such
q sacrifice, could not help plaintively re-
/ marking one day wnen perhaps the
/ clouds were lowering, or the dinner was
bad or something had gone wrong, TO the
| one for whom the sacrifice was made, Il
| always wear gloves now. | hate to look
/ a+ nv rnnr hare hands and | do not