Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

anu suns = iAiN~-Af ttAtA tAiC A4tSch suns
grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its
death.
Wind Of the sunny South! oh. stilI delay
In the gay woods, and in the golden air,
Like TO a good old age released from care
Journeying in long serenity, away.
In such bright, late quiet. would that l
Might wear out life, like thee, mid bowers
and brooks,
Ana, dearer yet. the sunshine Of kind
And music If kind voices ever nigh:
And, when my last sand twinkled in the
Pass silently from men. as thou dost pass.
-W.iiam Cullen Bryant.
Women's Work.
There are some who would have us be-
Ieve that woman's world is the home
and that mans home is the world. A
great deal of argument along this line
is just now going to waste 1t is argu-
ment born Of thoughtlessness, like much
other argument The man whose home
is the world does not know what home
is and the woman whose world is the
home lives in very narrow sphere 1t
is quite impossible to very successfully
shut the world out of the home. but
it Is within the range of possibility to
build home around the world 1t is
in such building that hope Of the future
lies and it is in such building that wom-
an must play an important part. Won
ans first duty is neither to her home nor
to the world; it is, as Viscountess Eelm-
sey said recently, Ito be a womanly
woman"
The temptation is in this day of wom-
ans rights agitation to place undue inn
portance on political representation. AS
compared with some of the other spheres
of Woman's usefulness, this one is fairly
described as narrow and noisy" 1t is
more than that it is hardly overcrowd-
ed. EnfranchiSement of women is i'm
portant, provided women desire to be
enfranchised. but 1t is by no means all
important. The raising of children and
the superintendent of the affairs Of the
home are likewise important, but they
are not all-important. What we need to
do is to come to complete realization
of the possibilities of roundly developed
womanly womanhood and this we can
never do ii we continually cOnfne the
discussion to the question of woman in
the home VS.. woman in politics. The
woman who possesses no knowledge out
side of that found in cook books and
treatises on the care of infants and who
has no influence outside of the home, is
not greatly to be preferred to the woman
who would professional politician be.
Both spheres are limited and either is
far too greatly limited to make for in
telligent motherhood or companionable
wifehoUd. Womans ambitions, if they
are to amount to anything, must en-
brace both the home and the world
the home first, perhaps, but by no means
to the exclusion of world affairs. The
woman whose greatest offering on the
altar of civilization is nothing more than
collection of babies brings very little,
in the final ANALYSIS to compensate her
for the ordeal of pain and self-sacrifce
through which she has gone.-Woman's
National Daily.
a~OSsH~N
Outdoor Sleeping
There We're six adults in our family
at home and we all suffered from ca
tarrhal troubles and were continually
calling in the family physician, visiting
city specialist, or seeking relief in a
change of climate. When my sister
however, after battling with a cold in
the head for months, became a victim
OF that supposed respeetor of persons
hay cold, a famous specialist in diseases
of the nose and throat said to her.
Medicine is useless in your case, Miss
B.. and so is local treatment of every
kind, but | believe that sleeping out of
doors might benefit YOU Sleeping out
of doors!" we exclaimed in horror, why
a breath of night air starts her to
sneezing and coughing" Bessie, how
ever, was about desperate, and one morn
ing she said to me. IN try that outdoor
sleeping, Madge, if you are willing to
help me to move the sanitary couch out
INTO the balcony over the side door"
The month was December, and | felt
very doubtful as to the outcome of this
venture, but Bessie was very much in
earnest Il cannot get very much worse
IMAM L am, she argued, "and | would
ike to give this outdoor sleeping a fair
trial. In this half-hearted way she
made the trial Of the scheme that worked
her cure
The first night that my sister spent in
her outdoor bedroom she slept very poor
~, continually disturbed by the many
sounds of the night. But the second
night she slept soundly and continued to
do so for weeks. The hay fever and
cough disappeared before the close of
the second month. But it "eappeared,
when owing to illness in the family she
was Obliged to spend several nights in
the house, but was quickly banished by
tonr or five nights in the open air.
Bessie became rosy, plump, bright
eyed and jolly. The change was mar
Vicious. She was formerly very sensitive
70 slight changes in temperature, CON
tlnally taking cold, but sleeping outdoors
altered all that. Now she scarcely no.
tees even an extreme change in the
weather.
| feel that / cannot close this account
without giving few words of advice
and warning to those contemplating the
outdoor sleeping plan In the first place
nave good bed, at least two-thirds
width Have a thick mattress, hair per-
terred. and over that one or two thick
Wooen blankets. By way of covers
nave, if possible, all-wool light weight
blankets and wool or down comfortable.
10 not use heavy cotton comfortabes or
quilts. They are exhaustng.
Wear a flannel vest at night and an
outing flannel night robe, and either
night cap, such as our grandmothers used
70 wear, or cover the head with a shawl.
heat the bed before retiring Undress
and make all preparations for bed in the
warm living rooms. Never go to the out
door bed room feeling chilly, get warmed
up hrst, if obliged TO get up in the night
Tor any reason, bundle into the house at
once and do not return to your outdoor
bedroom again that night unless you are
feeling perfectly warm and know that
Your bed is still warm.
II these rules are Observed, any one
VINO can lie down in bed and stay there
can sleep out of doors from December to
december with comfort and derive great