Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27

Protect her life / pray,
Who gave the gift OF life to me;
snd may she know. from day 10 day,
The deepening glow of Life that comes
from Thee.
opre upon her breast
EaarlasS and well content | lag.
a III her heart. on Thee at rest.
Feel fears depart and troubles fade away
Her every wish fulfill
And even if Thou must refuse
In gnything let Thy wise will
A comfort bring such as kind mothers use
And hold her by the hand,
As once her hand held mine;
And though she may not understand
LIES winding way, lead her in peace
divine.
cannot pay my debt
For all the love that she has given;
But Thou, loves Lord, wilt not forget
Her due reward-bless her in earth and
heaven. Henry Van Dyke.
$3.50
The Marriage Question.
The marriage question, like the poor,
j. always with us. This year it has had
prominent place III the wise utter
ances of learned men addressing college
Graduates No one has been quite 50
passimistic as the professor who, last
wear, announced that love and romance
die out with the sound of the wedding
bells" Still, the general tone is mourn
full. and it will be a brave woman who
marries with its echo in her ears
\ comparatively i0cund world is refu-
tation of these dismal views. The sim
ME truth taught by all experience in all
ages is that the great mass of man
kind are happier married than they
would otherwise be; because for most
marriage is the fulillment of natures
benign law, without which the race
could neither have originated society nor
uerDetuated it, In the fultilment of
that law. heaven has ordained, shall be
found the completest happiness. For
innate, however, the man who. as Gold
smith counseled, chooses his wife las
she her wedding gown, for qualities
that would wear we'll" Every woman
does not obey PENIS injunction, Never
marry but for love; but see that thou
lowest only what is lovely" The great
multitude of husbands and wives wed
without reasoning about it. For most
Of them no wedding bells ring out. They
do not know the word romance: they
feel it, and, although Max Muller claims
there is no thought without words, yet
is there romance in millions of married
Ives without a vocabulary from the die
ti0narieS. Such as these have been the
makers of the human faroily. From
them have sprung the noblest Of every
era the geratest in the sciences. the
most illustrious in the arts: aristocracy
has been always a pauper in the democ-
racy of genius. The poor who know not
the pitfalls of artificial society live their
welded lives out, if not in ecstasies. in
content; and they serve the world better
than all others who, otherwise unde-
voted to humanity, linger in loneliness,
and perish leaving no trace behind.
If 10 per cent, OF the marriages were
unhappy, as the pessimists claim, giving
in marriage and marrying would cease.
For mankind would not consent to vir-
tually wholesale foreordained wretched-
ness.-Harper's Bazaar.
A-O+..o-
How to MAIZE the
Summer Home Cool and Comfortable.
Cooness and comfort are convertible
terms in warm weather, and the posi-
bilities for realizing both during rhe com
ing summer are practically limitless.
Never before were there so many be-
gnilements in the shape of cottage fur
niShings. Never before was it possible
to procure such satisfactory results at so
moderate an expenditure. You can he
eXtravagant if you win, but you need
not unless you choose.
All the newest summer furnishings
bark back to the early sos. Instead Of
the modern reed and rattan we have as
the very latest novelty furniture made of
rustic hickory-that is, hickory saplngS
with the bark left on and guiltless of
stain or varh,sh. You can buy. in this
tine OF goods, everything that can posi-
bi7 be needed in the way of cottage fur
niture and at a reasonable price For
mat matter there are complete log cab
ms for sale ready to be shipped to any
out-oftOwn place. These are built on
the regular pioneer plan, with two rooms
3l1 Yeranda, and cost not more than
H5UO apiece.
Chairs, tables and settees of this hci1-
Dry furniture can be bought in all sizes
ana variety of designs. Some of them
nave the uncompromising spindle backs
gear to our grandmothers, while others
nave comfortable backs and seats of
hdhd-Woyen splint. Even bedsteads are
not wanting. You can procure one of
lheSe full size, for $40, and it can be
made as luxurious as you please with a
NoHyen-Wlre spring and a soft mattress.
VI course, when furniture of this sort
i used, modern decorative fripperies are
0IStlnctly out of place. Old-fashioned
tLelonnes, closely resembling chintzes
mat belonged to the middle Nineteenth
century, are being shown as the correct
luIuS Tor draperies, cushion covers and
50 on. Another innovation which will
tIYe TO Keep up the illusion of primi-
ufeneSs is the old-time wicker bird cage
f "nieh none but the old folks can remem-
oef, All the really up-to-date pet birds
~ MS year of grace, 1906, will sing
,infr summer songs in these veritabIe
prison pens.
Inc latest styles in swings are built
!. accordance with the fad for hickory
MT9as supports are made of saplings
SllI IN the rough, the swinging saats be
,uS OF woven spint in a hickory frame
r Mofk and suspended on stout. hemper
Lae new hammock is constructed or
st'HIiar lines, but the hammock part OF
N about as luxurious a thing as one
3ud desire, consisting of a piece OF
1nEaS stitched up squarely at each cor
,gI so as to form a receptacle for a fell
ma liress To sleep in the omen in a ham
rnotN OF this sort is to reach the COLDER
Ill I'll between primeval simplicity anC
modern sybaritism.
'tuch OF the art Of being comfortabI,
a., NOT weather consists in maintaining
a. appearance of GOODNESS throughou
lug mousse. Even a summer in town car
made bearable if the home. like thu
lily ions warm-weather clothes.
,,, ILSt have all the winter draperies ant
aES cleaned, and put away in moth