Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
IN Reducing Domestic Expenses.

Word has lately been cabled from
Europe that the Emperor of Germany,
feeling himself poor, is trying to reduce
expenses 1t is further stated that the
first step he mas determined upon is to
reduce household expenses. That is
perfectly reasonable course for any man
to pursue, be he Emperor or plain Amer
lean citizen. AS between saving the
wages of the Office boy and of the nurs-
cry maid, it is obvious that the nursery
maid should go. A man cannot afford to
run errands, but his wife, who has not
much to do, anyway, but to sit around
and be expensive, can just as well as not
replace the maid. Her time is certainly
not money; besides, it is really great
opportunity for her; the hand that rocks
the cradle rules the world"
A simple little device for saving on a
wife's dress is to be recommended to the
Emperor and to all men DESTROYS of econ
umizing-praise her in her old clothes
With the first sign of spring millinery
say to her, How awfully pretty you are
in that black felt; / never saw you in
anything more becoming. unless it was
the yellow straw you wore all last sum
mer." Or upon the approach of winter
tell her she should always wear white;
that you love to see her in white, she
looks SO like the little sweetheart you
married. This policy, faithfully and con-
SiStently followed. can be relied upon to
make a woman cOntented il; a fur hat in
August and in a muslin gown in Janu-
airy. Another plan is for the man tact
fully to ignore the fitness of his wife 5
attire. When she is trudging along be-
side him TO church, clad in her poor,
threadbare tailor-made gown, he should
appear hurt and ask sadly, why don
You ever wear that beautiful decollete,
yellow satin gown of yours when you re
wit mo hp
instantly blame herself for the WORKOUT
talior-made gown, and she may apologize
to her husband because she did not wear
me yellow satin gown to church.
one can fancy William. irritated by
the sight of the Empress, tired and dis
outraged as she helps with the house
work in one of the small castles where
he has decreed that they shall lead the
simple life saying to her in an injured
Tone There you are, my dear. going
around again without your crown on and
not scrap of ermine about you.
w bereupOn, the dear Empress will beg
ms pardon, and the next day may see
hef busting with one of the largest
crowns upon her head and an ermine
uutf hanging by a pearl chain about her
neck. And every time the crown falls
OH, as she stoopS at her task. she will
replace it patiently, thinking the while.
as she strokes her muf lovingly for a
lllHnte: How fortunate ! am. Count
Jess poor wives do homework for hus-
bands who would never think of giving
them crown or any kind Of a muff
The real business of the true wife be-
ing to make a man happy, it Is always
I.riectly safe to cut down expenses
where she is concerned, SO long as the
man enjoys doing it and she does not
Erotest,-Harper's Bazaar.
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Sedgwick Versus Tennyson.
Prof. William T. Sedgwick, at the
recent hearing on Boston on woman
character, sphere and functions Of men
,ssad women become more aud more diff
Ierentiated with the ad rance OF civiliza'
Ton, and that anything Jyhicn lends &c
essen this differentiation is a step back
ward toward barbarism.
MS argument proves altogether toe
H. NHra