Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-18
woman's Aim the Building of Home.

over the words that 1 did not say
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Womans Aim the Building of Home.
Miss Laura ID. Gill, the talented dean
If Barnard college and recently elected
president of the Association of Collegiate
AlumnGe. says that she is an old-fash-
toned woman in some of her ideals ami
believes primarily that every woman's
aim in life should be the building of the
home.
Women" she says, should always
have in view that homemakns when
it comes should come as woman's
vocation, but that it is well worth to
have the avocation ever and anon to be a
refuge for the wife, taking her away
for time from her serious home work.
The successful life is found in personal
power, which may be divided into pow
err and happiness, neither of which is
gained without continued effort, and
no happiness is genuine and perma-
nent unless we have used our power to
attain some sincere end. There is no
longer the danger of our women being
idle; the danger lies in that we may be
too active in attempting to attain ends
which are not best.
This, OF course, means loss of
power and happiness, and therefore de-
teri0ration. Women must have a sin
geneSS of purpose and ever seek to
attain some one desired end, and have
such interest in their work that, in it
self, it will be a relaxation. How many
men are there whose work is not pri-
marily in the service of the family and
home; and if a mans vocation is his
view of his social service, why should
it not be the same with women?
The vocations of both men and
women in their highest sense are their
individual racial services rendered in
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racial service takes him into outside
competition; why should woman's keep
her from it?
Girls" Miss Gill feels, fought to be
allowed to choose their vocations for
themselves. Many mothers object to
their daughters going to college because
they say they return unwilling to serve
in the home, but l have never known of
a college girl who would not return to
such service if given the proper scope
IN which to attempt to accomplish other
results Fathers are more willing than
mothers that their daughters should be
gigen opportunities to become stronger
mentally, and they are in most cases
willing to let them work just as hard as
they please, as long as there is no fnan-
cal return. Their argument is that they
do not wish their daughters to compete
with poor women who need the money.
II men of means are allowed to compete
WIN lHeiE dOT6 unfortunate brethren,
why should the women not be as free as
the men?'
There are fewer women doctors to-
day than there were ten years ago. There
IS no increase in their number in the
legal and theological professions. The
occupations partly interchangeable with
nome duties are those toward which
women naturally turn. Today so per
cent of the teachers are women They
are to be found in all kinds of schools
from the A B C's through painting,
music and sculpture 20 architecture. The
eternal feminine leads ever upward and
onward through well-acquired intelli
gence to chosen avenues of use, in which
are found at once her happiness and her
success.
Refuse to Garry Burdens.
When you have had an lawful night"
or hard day." say nothing about it.
Refuse absolutely TO carry burdens.
Throw off what you do not want, and
cease to remember what you would
rather forget. To continue to think or
speak of an unpleasant experience is to
make 1t part of your mind but we can
not afford to place defective bricks in the
mansion of life. Many a structure, that
was otherwise perfect, has fallen to the
ground because there were too many
bricks of that sort in its walls. The day
out to go to sleep brooding over its rough
places will not tend to make the morrow
more smooth. Forget the day that is
done, and prepare to make the coming
uay the best day you ever knew. Expect
The new day to be the best day you ever
knew, and you will do your best to make
II so. Meet the new day in this attitude.
ana whatever the day may bring forth
viii serve you well. Meet life as a king,
and you will be treated as king meet
ME as a weakling, and a place among
"eaklings will be the only place to be
offered to you.-Eternal Progress.
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Hospitality Analysed.
Analyze the feeling of hospitality to
It's ground work and trace its develop
nent. and the common estimate of the
AoSpltality found among various persons
ana peoples will have tO be reconstruct
ed. 1t is essentially a sympathetic feel
llG and has had the origin of the other
HLmpathetic feelings. Hospitality, though
9iten very prominent, is not always
what it seems. Such a feeling as this,
directed toward making others comfort
ae1e, II not happy, at ones own expense
vi effort or property, usually both, Is
i"uhd IN the lower races in crude form,
apparently much resembling the hospi-
tality Of the most developed peoples, but
ID reality considerably unlike it in sub
Elahce The handspring Of action, at
nrst, is the probability that it will be
ttsufhed; there is a mere exchange OF
zeTVices in situations where now one Is
ia need of a host and now the other: the
42st expects to get even with the guest
N' IN turn becoming his guest.
Out Of this very primitive condition
hospitality people grow as they travel
ttftler from home and enter situations
.a winch the comforts of some one else
ZONE will be particularly agreeable, for
night or some brief time. But the
a,SJ. in such case, realizes that, very
-Sely, be VIII never have the opportunity
becoming the guest Of his guest. Hos
nIahty then becomes somewhat Ike
QiH Of exchange-payable eventually by
he one who draws it, but in the first
-lstance by another. The entertainer