Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-02

I would NOT struggle again.
Take me now in thy breast,
Earth, sweet mother OF men.
Hide me and Jet me sleep;
Give me a lonely tomb
Sn close and so dark and so deep
shall hear no trumpet of DOOM
There let me lie forgot
When the dead at its blast are gone;
Give me to hear ii not,
But only to slumber on.
This is the fate | crave
Fer / look 80 the end, and see
If there be not rest in the grave
There will never be rest for me.
Herbert f. Clarke,
$3.50
The Social Outlook.
\ faculty that is not used dies That
is the law of nature. 1t is law ex-
eupliied by many women's lives. The
faculty of social work. of cooperation
I'm the best interests of the community
is horn in woman as in man. She is Il
social creature by nature. But as she
settles down into home of her own, in
most cases her visions and desires mar
row. The only outlook many Il prosper
Gus and happy woman keeps into the
social world is on the aimless and dis
torted society" size. The true social
fllnctions-those of cooperation. inspira-
closed to her. She is shut in within her
four walls TO think and talk only about
her children. her servants. her dress,
and her card parties. That this is not
an exaggerated statement may be tested
by anyone who tries to talk to an aver
age housewife on community topics The
social faculty has died within her; the
larger life is outside her closed gates.
She is not heartless or mean; but she has
no relation to the real aitruiSm of com
munity life.
\ few women in every town and neigh
boThood use their social faculties, and
grow thereby. But they are handicapped
by having it all to do. The same faces
are seen on every board of manage in
every league and guild. The home wom-
en- do not come up to their help. Yet the
home woman can find, in every effort to
help other people. a development of her
own nature-reactiOn as well as action
and can also find the thing she is meant
To do Who better than domestic woman,
devoted to husband and family. can I'M
derstand, for example, the need in every
large town for home for aged couples,s
where Darby and Joan can rest after the
bitter storms of life? This is a charity
which many towns lack just because the
home women have never thought of pro-
viding homes for others 1t is a beau
tiful and helpful work. too often forgot
q sheltered mother, again, can appreciate
the need of day nursery for the tOiling
widow with her orphan brood. or the
necessity of ''schoOl scholarships" for
the laboring child.
Out of her abundance should come
their help; out of her leisure should
come their joy. But the result is not
confined to them. 1t is her benefit as
well as theirs that follows. Her social
instincts awake; her sympathies broad
en-; her wider outlook commences. She
becomes a part of her community true
part, a useful part. She begins TO recOg
nize the interrelatiOnS of her home to the
whole social organism. Just as individu
al unselfishness and sympathy develop
the character. so social unselhshness and
sympathy bring a deep reward. y so
cial outlook is the home woman's duty
and her privilege.-Harper' Bazaar.
-O...O~
Worry.
One who could rid the world of worry
would render greater service to the race
than all of the inventors and discoveries
that ever lived
We Americans pity ignorant savages
who live in terror of their cruel gods,
their demons, which keep them in alb
ject slavery. but we ourselves are the
slaves of demon which blasts QUE
hopes bights our happiness, casts its
hideous shadow across all our pleasures,
destroys our sleep, mars our health, and
keeps us in misery most of our lives.
This monster dogs us from the cradle
TO the grave. There is no occasion so
sacred but it is there. Unbidden ii
comes to the wedding and the funeral
alike. 1t is at every reception, every
banquet; it occupies a seat at every
table
No human intellect can estimate the
unutterable havoc and ruin wrought by
worry. 1t has forced genius to do the
work of mediocrity; it has caused more
failures, more broken hearts, more blast
ed hopes, than any other one cause since
the dawn of the world.
What have not men done under the
pressure of worry! They have plunged
into all sorts of vice; have become
drunkards, drug fends; have sold their
very souls in their efforts to escape this
monster.
Think of the homes which it has brok-
en- up; the ambitions it has ruined; the
hopes and prospects it has blghtedi
Think of the suicide victims of this de-
mon. If there is any devil in existence,
Is 1t not worry, with all its attendant
progeny of evils?
Yet. in spite of all the tragic evils
mat follow in its wake, a visitor from
another world would get the impression
helpful friends so closely do we hug it
TO ourselves and so loath are we to part
from it.
Is ii not unaccountable that people
who know perfectly well that success
and happiness both depend on keeping
themselves in condition to get the most
POSSIBLE out of their energies should har-
Tor in their minds the enemy of this
very success and happiness? Is it not
strange that they should form this habit
ct anticipating evils that will probably
never come, when they know that anx-
lely and fretting will not only rob them
ut peace of mind and strength and abil-
llE to do their work, but also of pre-
ci2us years of life?
~ Many strong man is tied down, like
Nulhyer, by Lilliputians-bound hand
ana foot by the little worries and vexa-
IONS he has never learned to conquer.
What would be thought of a business
man who would keep in his service en-
IoyeS known to have been robbing him
Tor years, stealing a little here and a
httle there every day? Yet one may be
keeping in his mental business house. at
me very source of his power, thief