Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-23

ment of rest, recreation and lunch rooms
ana lntrmaries have been adopted nv
the architects. In this one respect alone
t1ey nave rendered service of incalcula-
Die value TO the employees. But even If
they had accomplished no results other
lhah 10 make their mission known to
the heads Of departments their work
would have been cOmmendable. The
men III charge of the various branches
OF government work would have at least
oeen made aware that there was some
organization that was interested in the
Welfare of the employees, and that in
itself could not have failed to have had
a beneficial effect
The example set by these Washington
women. all of whom we are informed
are prominent socially, is one that might
Wen be followed by women in other
parts of the country. There are public
buildings OF some sort in almost every
city ana town. Conditions in and about
I IEe buildings are not always the best.
energetic women, possessed of a little
tacI' could do much toward lettering
such conditions. They need not confine
themselves to public office buildings. but
hlisnt adYantageOusly extend their in
designations to prisons, jails and Gala
bosses. to fire department houses, to asy-
iuIhs' hospitals, poorhouses and to other
similar public institutions. y little in
VeStlsaung will nearly always provide
puDllc-splrited women with material
upon which to base extended work. They
may, not be able to Immediately accom-
pllsh all of the reforms that they advo-
cate. nut II they are persistent, and
work in harmony with public officials,
Tathef than in an antagOnistic manner,
they will nearly always be finally sue
ceSstul in their undertakings.
organizations devoted to the ameliOra
non OF unsatisfactory conditions in pub
ne buildings and institutions may nearly
always depend upon receiving the unani-
nous support of the local press, not
alone because they are likely to discover
that which ought to be exposed but be-
cause newspaper editors as a rule are
personally favorably inclined to this sort
OF reform work. There is little excuse,
with the opportunities that are offered
TO women for volunteer public service
TO-DAY, Tor any of them anywhere to
plead inability to Droftably occupy their
tlme-W Oman's National Daily.
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Women Who Lose
There are. after all. only two kinds of
women in this world - those who like
to work and those who don't.
You can tell them apart a mile off.
The woman who likes to work usually
looks like thunder when she has pretty
clothes She wears them in an absent
minded way, and you all know what
mean by that. Clothes are utterly dead
and without meaning unless some life
is impaired to them by the wearer.
The woman who loves to work never
thinks OF her clothes. The woman who
hates to work always bears them in
mind; consequently she always presents
good appearance.
The woman who hates to work gen.
orally has a husband. You see, ne is
necessity. She CRAFTS on him the live
long day and makes him do everything
for her. And yet he is perfectly happy,
because, thanks to her being so lazy, she
is good to look upon. Her skin is satin
smooth and her eyes untroubled she
is never too tired to be amusing. She
has sweet and cooling ways. She is never
hurried or dusty or tired
But the other woman?
Well, she usually has a husband too,
but he is rather in the way than other
wise. She is very clever, quite as clever
as he is. and her interests are quite as
numerous as are his. SO you see she is
pretty nearly always hurried and dusty
and tired. She is too sensible to have
cooling ways, and she scorns powder and
such artfulness.
She helps her husband and is very kind
and reasonable in her demands on his
purse. But is he grateful and happy on
this account?
No, indeed. He would rather she took
his last cent with a sweet kiss than to
be as independent as she is He wants
to have fuss made over him. He wants
to be thought the whole thing He likes
to have a wife he can be proud of, who
looks as young and as dainty as a girl
and woman can only be this type when
she doesn't worry, when she doesn't take
life seriously.
If you want to know the truth in nine
cases out of ten a wife does more harm
by earning money than good. The chief
effect is to make man consider him
self wrOnged, and very justly so. by los
ing his home atmosphere, for wife can
not attend to her home and to her bust
ness, too, if she is in an Office all day.
And the second effect is that she loses in
terest in her appearance and good looks.
which are the principal asset i'll any
woman when you come right down to it.
Personally, l would rather be a good
looking woman than a clever one any
day, and | think that's just the way the
men. feel about us, too
While on the subject of wives let me
say this: 1t is great mistake to be too
economical. Women are extremists.
They either spend everything in sight or
they count every ear fare, every oilve,
every radish.
i nave heard OF women VINO began to
save by approprating all their husbands
earnings, leaving nothing in the family
scheme of expenses for amusement or
improvement. l heard the husband of
such Il woman exclaim after he had at
tanned a fortune: Eyes, my wife helped
me, and we are now rich, but paid the
price. She sacrificed everything. For
years we did not 90 out a single even
ing. We never bought any new books or
magazines. We never went to the thea
ter or took an outing. My wife looked
shabby. so that l was ashamed of her,
Would have it happen over again? No
"a thousand times, no, The sacrifice
was too great. 1t was a living death"
Allowing nothing to go TO waste-that
is the secret of good housekeeping.
The woman who has made a study of
this need never stint her husband in
order to keep within the limits of her
allowance.
For breakfast and for lunch she uses
odds and ends, making the dinner a sub
stantial meal with a good steak or
roast. fresh green vegetables and des-
sert of fruit.
| have heard women say they could
not afford to have salad for dinner when
n baoJ IF Ipftupp costs only from = TO