Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-02

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guild air castles. child:
Bald high and build regal.
10 ssefl-igayen halls
Bring bloom Of the wild
And wing of the eagle
70 blaz0n the walls.
FIRING laughter and law
Float standard and streamer
From basTions upsprung.
Oh when you are gray
Dream get for the dreamer
Forever IS young.
Agnes Lee.
The Story OF Z City Club.
an going to tell the story now of a
club which VIC formed of seventy fami-
Hes In the nope of mending for our
selves the uEsociabiiity of city life-be-
cause for i've and twenty years, more or
less. we succeeded. Ii began in times
which are prehistoric 10 most of the
readers now, the years before the war
As it happened, il began in another
sunday school from that of which | was
speaking-a school of two teachers and
two scholars. The two teachers and the
four fathers and mothers of the two
children knew each other well, and they
agreed to make this club or society. 1t
was not TO be a church. 1t differed in
methods and purposes and in practice
heard OF. 1t had not much of consti-
tuition, but you might say the Golden
Rule was the constitution. I'VE united
TO help each other in any want of body,
soul and mind; and we promised to ask
help as readily as we offered it, Be
ginning with dozen of us who made this
promise, the little club grew until there
were seventy families in it--familieS OF
all sorts of people. Generally speaking
they lived near each other. They had
little hall at disposal for meetings which
they could use whenever they wanted to-
Ii became in way sort of clubroOm.
But they had no rules or regulations,
they had no fees Or assessments. Sooner
or later they did q good deal that re-
0uired money, but this was in every case
contributed for that special purpose In
practice there came to be meeting
almost every night in the week But
this might be meeting of two or of
two hundred. The club grew to such
proportions that it had an officer, whom
you would call a minister But he had
no authority, and | do not think that he
kept any record. Only he gave most of
his time to its affairs, while the rest
of us gave more or less time, as might
happen.
One thing happened which broke up
once for all that loneliness of city life
For instance, the members got in tie
habit of calling on each other Sunday
the women were apt to be at home, and
for those seventy families there ended
that wretched condition, true so often in
q large city, in which no one ever crosses
the threshold except the parents aud
their chilcdren, the butcher and the
baker, the doctor and the minister. and
the man who comes for coffin.
We ask help as readily as we offer
it, That, as / said, was the statement
of the ten-iine constitution. 1t gave an
interesting variety to the religious serv-
ice which we had every Sunday evening
This service was led by one or another
OF the members. / used, myself, to
conduct it the first Sunday evening in
every month. Somewhere in the midst
of Scripture reading, hymns and prayer
YOU would read the announcement of the
weeks affairs. Il am sorry to say that
the Binghams will leave for Omaha
next Friday. Mrs. Bingham will be
glad if six or eight of the ladies can
come around afternoons and help her
in some sewing she has on hand" Or
it might be, doctor Temple gives a ia
vorable report about Mr.. Wallace, but
we want some one to watch every night
Of the week, and we have no one for
Tuesday and Friday. Whoever can go
can leave his name here" Or, Our
club will play the Ashmont club on their
grounds Wednesday afternoon The
Milton car goes by" Or, There will
be social here Tuesday evening.
George Jones will give an account Of
gold washing Wednesday evening. The
singing school will meet at half-past
two instead of half-past three on Satur-
day. Or Miss Albert will take party
to Jamaica Plain. She thinks she
knows place where they will find rho
dora or dog s-tooth violet"
In other words, what / call the oper-
atoms of the mild police" in the coun-
Try neighborhood were fulfilled in the
informal gatherings of Sunday evening,
This did not imply that the people in
that little club were any better than
other people, nor that they were pecu-
liar in any way. 1t did imply, in the
ontset. that they wanted to bring into
city life the freedom of intimacy and
the mutual help which comes of course
in the country. where you are not fet-
tered by the conventional restrictions of
city lifes-Edward Everett Hale, in
Woman's Home Companion.
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Teaching Children Ethics.
Miss Jane Brownlee, the public school
teacher of Toledo, VINO originated a new
system of teaching children ethics, has
agreed to give a series of talks before
the women's clubs and teachers associ-
atoms all over the United States, from
New England to the Pacific coast eX-
BldIuillS uef system. Inc ueIuduu loI
these lectures has been so great that
Miss Brownlee has been forced to give
up her place in the Lagrange school in
Toledo in order to devote her entire
time To the work.
Miss Brownlee begins her teaching of
ethics by saying: Children, l have dis
covered that each of you has a little
servant who will go with you through
ME and viii do just what you tell him
70" This pleases the children. They
nave to obey everybody and are delight
ed to hear of some one who must obey
them, Miss Brownlee then explains
That this servant is the body. One by
one the needs and duties of the body
are brought out by answers from the
children themselves.
The next day she tells them that they
nave second servant. the mind. This
servant is studied in the same way, and
me third day she tells them about the
real child to whom these two servants
owe obedience. After impressing it OF
llem that this real child cannot grow
UP as he should in an unhealthy body
OF with an undpveioned mind she takes