Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-10
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
1hose Cood Old Pumpkin PES.

hose coca va PUMPKIN PIES.
When the trees upon the hillside don the
crimson and the gold.
And keener grow the breezes day by dav
Elpwing .ayly from the Northland DER the
ia1eSr and the wo.d,
Then q chldhood's days my thoughts be
over ongforeotten pathways in the fields
0f long age.
Ere ny lie knew aught of sorrow or of
sighS;
And IN fancy once again taste the bliss
used TO know
when he time had come for making
pumpkin pies
can see she quaint old farmhouse. with
the hohyhocks so gay;
Gloss beside it were the fields of yellow
Nodding sayiy in the sunshine as it ripened
day by day,
Tin at harvest-time its glories all were
shorp.
Then the merry huskers gathered in the
roomy old red barn
Lads and iassies from the country far ana
nigh,
And tempting spread would follow
where each spun his choicest yarn.
While they munehed the good old-fashioned
pumpkin pie.
The crust was crisp and fiaky, it was done
just to a turn"
And the golden filing spread with gener-
All the nectar and ambro is for which
heather gods might yearn
Never with this toothsome dainty could
compare.
When the healthy youngsters gathered
round the table 1--WE were tenn,
On the wholesome fare we cast a longing
eye,
When our father asked a blessing that
seemed all too lengthy when
We were waiting to attack the pumpkin
pie.
When the Midas touch Of autumn turns fine
woodland into gold,
And the chill wind through the treetops
seems to sigh.
Every zephyr breathes a mem'ry that to
me will neer grow old,
And ] long for just one homemade pump
kin pie.
Katherine L. Daimler in Leslie's Weekly.
$3.50
Good Results of Equal Suffrage.
The fundamental argument for wom-
an suffrage, of course, is its justice; and
this would be enough were there no
other But a powerful argument can
also be made for it from the standpoint
Of eXpediency. 1t has now been proved
to demonstration, not only that woman
suffrage has no bad results, but that it
has certain definite good results
It gives women position of in
creased dignity and influence DIR. Mar
OF the Navy Long, who has resided for
years in Denver, writes: 1T seems i'm
possible to me that anyone can live in
Colorado long enough TO get into touch
with the life here, and not realize that
women count for more in all the affairs
Of this state than they do where they
have not the power that the suffrage
gives. More attention is paid to their
wishes, and much greater weight gwen
to Their opinions and Judgment
Mrs Sarah Plat Decker, of Denver.
eN-PreSident of the General Federation
of Women's clubs, and also ex-President
OF the Colorado State Board of Charities.
writes: Under woman suffrage, there
Is much more chivalrOus devotion and
respect on the part OF men, who look
upon their sisters not as playthingS or
as property, but as equals and fellow
citizens"
Mrs. X. A. Sheppard, president of the
New Zealand Council of Women, SAYS:
Since women have become electors,
their views have become important and
command respect. Men listen to and are
influenced by the opinions of women TO
far greater degree than was the case
formerly. There is no longer heard the
contemptuous What do women know of
such mattersF And so out of the greater
civil liberty enjoyed by women has come
perceptible rise in the moral and hui
manitarian tone of the community. A
young New Zealander in his teens no
longer regards his mother as belonging
to sex that must be kept within a pre-
scribed sphere. That the lads and young
men or a democracy should have their
whole conception OF the rights Of hui
mainly broadened and measured by truer
standards is III itself an incalculable
benefit"
Mrs. A. Watson Lister secretary of
the, Woman's National Council of Aus
tralia, says: One striking result of
equal suffrage is that members of Par
lament now consult us as to their bills.
when these bear upon the interests of
women. The author of the new divorce
bill asked all the women's organizations
to come together and hear him read it,
and make criticisms and suggestions. |
do not remember any such thing hap
pening before. in all my years in Aus
tralia. When a naturalization bill was
pending, one clause of which deprived
Australian women of citizenship if they
married aliens, a few women went pri-
Yately TO the prime minister and pro
tested, and that clause was altered inn
mediatey. After we had worked for
years with members of Parliament for
various reforms, without avail, because
we had no votes you cannot imagine the
difference it Makes
Ex-Premier Alfred Deakin, of the
Commonwealth of Australia, says;
htIt - lAoN Il tlbScI dtlCLtlOli pau IL
Parliament TO matters especially affect
ing the (feminine) sex or interesting
them"
1t leads to improvements in the laws
No one can speak more fifty of this than
Judge Lindsey of the Denver juvenile
court. He writes: I'VE have in Colorado
the most advanced laws of any state
IN the Union for the care and protection
Of the home and the children the very
foundation of the republic. We owe
this more to woman suffrage than to
any one cause. 1t does not take any
mother from her home duties to spend
ten minutes in going to the polls, cast
ing her vote, and returning to the bosom
Of her home: but during those ten min
utes she Yields a power which is doing
more TO protect that home, and all other
homes, than any other power or influence
IN Colorado. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
WOman's Journal
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