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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
How to Protect Birds

Among the greatest causes Of the de.
crease of birds are the actions of man
kind, either directly in destroying Them
or indirectly in failing to provide for
their preservation. says II. A. Surface,
professor of zoology at the Pennsylvania
State college.
Some of the steps that can be taken TO
induce birds to colonize about the prem
ises are the following:
/. Do not shoot them or permit them to
be stoned or frightened.
.. Erect nesting boxes. In these ten or
more species ay nest.
3. Prohibit unusual noise around the
premises during the nesting season, particu-
larry while birds are selecting sites for
nests.
4. Provide nesting material for use in
constructing nests.
>. Put out trays of water and mud for
robins, swallows, etc, to use in building.
9. Erect and preserve old posts, stumps
and logs with holes in them.
Z. Suppress providing cats and dogs
g. Plant few extra fr:!t trees aud berry
bushes. Give the birds their share of
fruits to pay for destroying insects
o. Plant some of the native fruit bearing
shrubs and trees around fences. These
may be service berry, raspberry black
berry, elderberry, wild cherry, choke cher
ry, mulberry, haw, grape and blackberry.
10. Permit a secluded corner to grow up
as a thicket for shy birds.
IL. Feed and water them during times
u StdTtllN VI lDOtl anu water. bOIl In VIII
ter and in summer. Give grain In the
straw to quail In winter.
u. Mark the spots where nests are built
in the field and have the farming nipple
ments drawn around them without destroy
ing them.
10. Discourage egg collecting and need
less slaughter of birds.
IA Discover and check their natural enc
mics, which vary with locality.
Is. Put a band Of tin. foot or more
wide, around a tree or post containing "a
nest, TO keep climbing enemies from nest
and young.
IS. Discourage the manufacture, sale ana
use of air guns, sling shots, etc.
II. Do not use for OrnamentatiOn wear
ing or otherwise, the feathers or parts OF
birds that are killed solely for that pur-
pose.
1S. Organize nature-study societies for
the study and preservation Of native birds.
10. Aid in disseminating knowledge OF
existing laws, In enforcing them and IN
effecting proper new laws for the protec-
ton of birds
20. BY personal effort promote the gen
eral and specific knowledge Of the value OF
our native birds and the necessity Of pro
tecting them.
u. Aid the growth OF public opinion on
this subject by advocating the observation
Of bird day I'm all schools, the Introduction
Of bird studies and by other means
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
EGG POISONING.
Some Persons Always Affected-Otbers
Only Occasionally.

instances of egg poisoning appear from
time to time in periodical literature and
the subject is referred to in some but
by no meaES all works on dietetics.
Nhlle cases of acute poisoning are
rare, writes physician in The Medical
Record, some susceptibility as regards
eggs Is not SO very uncommon. People
constantly assert that eggs make them
bilious and while in some this is often
imaginary, IN Others the condition actual
1y exists.
This is notably true of infants and
young children. Not only do many in
fants and young children digest eggs
with difficulty, especially when first eat
en-. but many more are made i'll if this
particular food Is partaken of too free
~, or, in the case of older children, if
the egg diet is kept up too continuously.
This inability of young children to di-
gest eggs is probably in line with the
well recognized fact that the infants
stomach or digestive juices, must be
taught to digest most dietary articles
other than the maternal milk Cows
mlIk, Tor instance, is a veritable poison
to some infants, while many a newly
born requires some practice and educa-
ton before it can thoroughly digest even
mothers milk
individual susceptibility as regards
sons eggs always act as poiSons, while
IN Others the toxic influence may be
marked at one time and at another much
diminished or entirely wanting, especially
when the subject is in sound condition.
The susceptibility may be observed
in eggs OF every degree of freshness, and
in some cases only with the eggs of GER
tain birds. Changes in eggs may also
be brought about by methods of cooking:
susceptibility only when the egg is raw
others are poisoned when it is cooked
or prepared in some unusual and UNI
accustomed manner.
In most of the reported cases the white
of the egg appears to have been the
offending element, The symptoms of egg
poisoning differ greatly in degree: in
some cases only nausea and headache
occur; in others the most violent symp-
toms. suggestive of irritant poisoning,
are observed
Sometimes, when the use of eggs is
long continued, they give rise to the
symptom group which we call bilious
ness. which after all is but a form of
administration, due possibly to the
presence of some alkaloid in the blood.
The symptoms of egg poisoning are es-
sentially those of so-called ptomaine
poisoning.
lit is true that the eggs giving rise to
toxic phenomena are in most instances
apparently fresh when eaten, but when
we recall that the porous shell of the
egg will admit the heterogeneous that
cause the egg to rot, as well as various
strong odOrs, it is easy to comprehend
that an egg may appear fresh and yet
contain bacteria that in susceptible per-
sous. and in certain conditions of di-
gestion, may produce changes which
may cause toxic symptoms.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
A More Equal Chance for Federal Jobs.

The census bin contains the important
provision that hereafter all examinations
of applicants for positions in the govern
ment service, from any state or terri
tory. shall be had in the state or terri
tory in which the applicant resides. and
no person shall be eligible for such ex-
animation or appointment unless he or
she shall have been actually d0miCiled
ia such state or territory for ut least one
year previous to such examination
The object of this legislation is TO OBJ
tain Just apportionment of Federal en-
ployes among the states and territories.
Naturally. persons who have u desire
10 enter the service of the government
are able to keep in closer touch with the
work of the Civil Service Commission
if they live in Washington or in one Of
the nearby states. Under the existing
system, it is easy for resident Of the
District or a resident of one Of the near
by states to take the examinations rcgu-
larly held ut the capital. 1t has been
common practice. too. for the residents
of the District and Of the adjacent states
10 ascertain which states had an un-
filled quota under the law, and then
10 apply for All examination as a resident
Of one of those states, Once in the
service the persons might or might not
eventually ask TO be credited to the Dis
trict Of Columbia or the nearby states
from which they came UnquestiOnably,
the government rolls contain the names
Of hundreds Of persons who arc credited
to states which they never visited All
that was necessary 10 get credited IT,
a state that had an untitled quota was to
find two persons Of repute in that state
who would attach their signatures 10
an application blank stating that the
applicant was a resident Of the state in
question. Under this new general leeis-
lation it viii not be easy 10 evade to
law.
Wisconsin is one Of the states whose
aspiTauts for federal office will profit
by the change which has hecn effected
iu the law At present Wisconsin is
credited with 237 appointments. while
the number credited to Massachusetts
is 40. to Maryland 40 aud to the Dis
trict Of Columbia $50.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07

the meeting was not wholly opposed to
reform.
1t was agreed to send committee
To Albany to urge that $4,000 be fixed
as the minimum clear assets of the inn
migrant banker, who shall also be a citi-
zen of the United States and shall report
to the state banking department. II
was also agreed that willful failure 10
transmit money within five DAYS after
its receipt should be made n felony.
Perhaps the Legislature of New York
will go further than the immigrant bank
ers are willing to go in safeguarding
the immigrants against dishonest and
mcompetent banking but even these
stipulations would be better than none.
1t is sad thing that swiudlers and
irreSponSibles should have carte blanche
TO prey upon fresh arrivals from for
eign lands in the great state of New
York, where most of the immigrants
land and many of them remain until
forced by the pressure of circumstances
to push on into the interior of the coun-
try
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07

BY an order Of the supreme court
John j. Williams. an employe Of the
Garyin Machine company Of New York.
must pay to Mrs. Janette G. Fisk 50 a
week until he has paid $14.34I9O with
interest from May 3, 1904. If he lives
to settle the obligation. Williams. who
is nearly GO years Of age, viii be more
than TO years old when the bin is paid
and Mrs. Fisk viii he more than n cen
tury old. Twenty-Five years ago. Clinton
Il. Fisk and John J. williams. partners
in tho brokerage business, had n dispute
ana Williams recovered n Judgment,
which was never paid. In 1904 Mrs
Fisk reopened the case ms executrix Of
her husbands estate. She was given
judgment for S1434f99. Williams said
his income from his present position net
ted him $50 a week. and Judge Hem
bricks ordered an execution against his
salary.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07

An earnest plea was made BIZ Attor-
ney Charles PettijOhn to Judge Pritch
ard Of the criminal court for lsniency to
a client who bad entered plea Of guilty
to larceny. The burden Of the attorney
argument was that his client was the IA
fler of twins, and was tempted to theft
in order to feed the mouths Of the in.
gauts.
Your honor, ] will say frankly" said
Ar Pettijohn in closing, that If / were
fhe father Of twins and needed food for
my family, ] would not hesitate to 81
out and steal it"
"Ar. Pettijohn, when yen are the r.
Their OF twins / will consider your prop0
sition.' said Judge Pritchard.-Indiau.
apolis News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
A Survival Of Wildcat Banking.

If there is in any state in the Union
IN which the old but not honorable BUSH
ness Of wildcat banking should seem ut
terry impossible in this enlightened and
advanced Twentieth Century, that state
is New York But the Immigration
Commission appointed last year by Gov.
Hughes reports that during the year
ended September ], 1908, there were
twenty-five failures Of small bankers in
New York. involving the loss Of 1862
24J belonging to 12,279 creditors, and
that the assets Of these failed bankers
were purely nominal"
There is a statutory provision which
requires any person doing a business
ina which the name "bank" is used to
comply with the state banking laws; but
the intent Of this provision is evaded
by the use Of the words banker.
passage" and exchange" There are
more Ian a thousand concerns in New
J 0rk which transact what is in effect a
hauking business and q large number
VI them offer to accept deposits az well
as to transmit money. Their business
chiefly with immigrants who are com
paratlyely recent arrivals and not sut-
tjrteutly familiar with the language and
with law and business customs in tins
opuntry to be kecnly alive to the risk
they take in putting their money into
The hands OutztretChed 10 receive IT,
At a meeting Of private bankers,
sfnamship ticket Office proprietors. etc,
which has been held in New York city
20 discuss the report # the Commission,
there was objection 10 the Commission
r-rammendatiOn that no one but "A citi-
zon Of the United States should have a
license t. be- a private banker, but this
objection did not prevail. There was
also objection to the Commissions rec
umendation that every banker hand
ling immigrants money should be com
relled TO deposit a bond for SlOOUB
with the state banking superintendent
and that every banker should have al
least $4,000 above all liabilities. But
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
Nature Wronged.

Someone has SAID. Mature makes no
mistakes" What philosopher has dared
make that assertion? Look only in your
own mirror and see how Nature did
make u mistake when she made your
eyes less beautiful than another wom-
ans; instead of the little pink rosebud
mouth, you discover you have the full
blown rose: your hair is not beautiful;
your neck is not plump, and-Nature
made a bad mistake and you know it.
But you can improve on what she did
for YOU She has made mistakes and
you have only to view humanity at large
and see all sorts of tricks she played
on the clay that passed through her fin
gers and came out in humanity's differ
ent models of too little men, too little
women. too large or TOO slender per-
sons, too bent, or too something. Just
as we see a blighted bud on a healthy
plant, so do we see the misshapen infant
in the mothers arms. Yes, Nature has
PLAYED some cruel jokes, or made some
bad mistakes. Yet every woman has it
within her own power TO make many cor
rections. First of ALL she must be en-
dowed with good health. good spirits and
a desire to build up the misshapen body.
These are her best architects, without
which no Improvement is beneficial. To-
day there are too many methods of hid
ing defects for one to display them. One
of the most fascinating and beautiful
young women | ever met was a cripple,
Yet she learned TO walk gracefully with
clutches. had a good carriage. and
through her own personality and win
someness of spirit she attracted a myriad
of friends, men and women, and what
is more, she keeps them. Make over
your misfits. if possible, but remember
that nothing helps more than what has
just been mentioned and neat. clean APP
parel. When persons are friendly, com
panionable and likeable, we soon forget
their little defects and they never are
noticeable. If Nature knew her business.
she would not turn a woman's hair gray
at 30, and she would not cause Il great
many defects, but it seems that she and
her companion, Fate, like to lash their
children at times. Show her she can't
hurt you
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07

J. !. Morgan is the hacker Of vii
liam McAdoo in his subway projects. and
is playing a big part in the traHsporta-
ton warfare now being waged In New
York His connection was never official.
~ revealed until Thursday. when The
Hudson and Manhattan company made
"a supplementary report To the public
service commission. II has often amazed
Wall street where Mr. Mchdoo obtained
ih" millions he needed to carry out bis
improvements. While she commission
did not give ont the figures contained IN
the report it was learned that the HIND
son company, which is the holding com
paHy. controls slight majority Of tho
stock. j. T. Morgan & Go. are the sec
nnd largest stockholders. and the FRS
National bank, in which Morgan inter
ests are large, is the third importau
stakeholder. Mr. Morgan thus appear,
tO have become the chief rival Of Thorn
as L. Ryan in the transit war
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
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The Power of Desire.

Inc FoWeI OF DESIRE.
1T is not good ideas that people need.
so much as good desires.
This remark of a New England clergy
man goes to the root Of humanity's woes.
Pick up a newspaper and look over
mat daily chronicle of mishaps, mis-
fortunes and crimes, and see how many
or them occur because the actors in them
know no better, and how many are the
product of wrong desires.
a little investigation of this kind will
convince us that wrong desire is at the
bottom of most of our miSeries and
when we find it is the prime cause of
all of them, we shall have reached the
perception of truth that is underneath
true mind cure.
1t is not ignorance of how to get we'll
that keeps people sick; and, therefore,
knowing how health may be had is far
from the real problem. The real prob
lem is to rouse the will to right action,
to cultivate good desires. Wrong desire
alone has power to produce disease,
nothing else can. This assertion Is
susceptible to demonstration, but |
leave the reader to think it out at
leisure.
There are many methods of arousing
the will. of awakening and setting in
action good desires. Even medicines do
this to a limited extent; but medicines
being the naturalization of a desire to
evade natural law. to arrive by short
cut, TO ignore cause and trick nature.
they are s-poisonous-dOing far
more mischief than good.
One of the best methods is by mental
picturing and mental concentration.
Picture the beauty of health, the pow
er of health. the comfort and ease of
health, and finally the duty of health.
Make them as alluring and as clear in
the mind as possible and keep such inn
ages before the mind whenever the state
of health is thought of.
Concentration is practiced in several
ways To devote some time daily to
concentrated holding of such pictures
is one way. Another is to make the
mental picture, and then empty the
mind as completely as possible, and in
a relaxed and restful position of body,
let spiritual forces attracted by the pre-
vious concentration play through you,
fixing the mental impression, and thus
altering your attitude toward health.
Your attitude has been unfavorable to
health or your health would be perfect.
Your attitude is the result of your de-
sire, your love. To love health is to
love only that which is wholesome and
useful. Concentration exercises. proper
ly directed aid in the cultivation of
healthy desires, a healthy attitude and
health.-Health Culture.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
WoMEN's COLUMN.
TIE Early Call.

The Early Call.
oh de wind drif' down from de sun shine
Siugin' de whisperin song;
II done hesh up wifi dat mo'nful cry
If was maxim so deep an strong.
Da rpdbird whistle an de bluejay scOld,
Al de- crow come a-laughing loud an bold
/ reckons It's bout what de breeze done
told,
Singin dat whisperin' song.
No buds come pcekin' round to see
who singing dat whiSDerin' song
ne wind says 'Heshi Dis is only me,
An / don mean muffin wrong.
mus have care bout de noise l make,
m tell de arbutus it's time to wake;
! might rouse de roses by mistake
50 Use singing dat whisperin' song"
Washington Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07

to the woman who charges herself with
the making or marring Of the soul of
little child"
She undertakes the greatest work in
which human skill and creative power
can be employed, and aims at results
which all the selective influences that she
can summon within her are required TO
produce
The glory of the mother is shared
equally with him whose personality is
interviewer in the work she does. We
see men, moved by the unsatSfied long
ing to be remembered when they are
gone, strive lifelong in an endeavor to
perpetuate their names; to be remem-
bered by some permanent monument
that will tell their having lived and ac-
comphshed some worthy thing in life
Yet the mother, in her own silent way
engages herself in building monument
in the form of a living soul more true
and lasting than marble or granite, and
wherein the fathers personality is eter-
nally embodied and handed down
through all the future ages.
When we come to realize, in its full
est sense, the work of the mother in
this respect, greater love, greater es.
TEEN and greater honor will be be-
slowed upon the office of motherhood,
and men will reverence the gravid hui
man uterus as in the old civilizations
was the inspiration at home, in religion
and in state. Even greater and boiler
shall this reverence be, for in the days
to come we shall know this truth, to-
day hardly as yet understood. that the
body Of every mother contains the POI
tential possibility of a child divine
We are laying aside the old belief, con-
tanned in the Adamic doctrine of the
Bible, that all birth is in depravity and
sin. We know. today, that the term
"begotteu in sin" is only a relative one,
and that the character of the begetting
is dependent upon the character of the
union. Motherhood, in itself. is holy.
In the degree that motherhood is
chaste birth is divine
Let us learn this supreme truth and
embody it in all our teachings on the
subject, and motherhood will become a
word transcendently holy to all of u.s.
George Schubei in Exchange.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
The Family Martyr.

Father-My boy. you should give up
/ this fast living. Don't you realize what
/ an effect il has on the younger children?
| Worthless Son--Rut, father. we must
| have one member Of the family to hold
! Mp as an eXumple.--Brooklyn Life.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
Next.

\ broken pitcher was offered as testf-
many that Ephraim Jackson. the colored
prisoner, had whacked his wife on the
head
The testimony doesn't hold water"
said the learned Judge Bohemian.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07

to build Shelter house in Sinton park.
She had already given the park to fbe
city in memory of her father. for whom
it is named. The park was given for
Il playground for the children in the
poorer districts of the city The Shell
ter house is for their use in case of
rain or storm.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
The Woman of Ideas.

One Of my deepest pleasures-I dare
confess this as this article will be un-
sIshed-lles i'll having my mind work.
Ideas move me profoundly, and few
lhihgS IN life have appealed to me more
deeply than the Intellectual quest. Note
That l say few. My earliest and happiest
memories are of hearing nay father dis
cQSs' with his friends, literature. phlosO-
phy, politics, while | lurked half-con-
Teaieq IN some dusky corner; nor could
abide the feminine conversations that
went on IN another room. But those leis-
ure!y, genial discussions of the men. with
thelr deep, rich voices, the warmth and
comfort of the smouldering fire and the
kioW OF the lamps, come back as the
choicest moments of my early life, and
those from which l date knowledge Of
myself
AGAIN, the need of something to do is
strong within me. l have a most I'M
feminine love of work and | fear that,
II had been left as idle as many women
are, should be, by this time, a noted
criminal. Speaking of work, mine is sad
" nampered by a consciousness that my
real place is among the giggling little
girls. | might, perhaps-one can never
lehi-have made some small success as a
writer OF fiction, save for the unwritten
ia" th&t woman must go through the
world with her eyes cast dow II. The
endless spectacle of life, the great tides
that govern being, the very panorama of
the streets-I have always had to move
on and away. for fear of being misunder-
STOOD, and of understanding too much.
know that it is all a blunder, and
am heartily ashamed of my fatal love Of
IDEAS. Of freedom and of work. For a
woman. this is to have failed in life
surely ] have been more sinned against
man SHINING? In the first place.
TOOK after" my father; could | help it
mat he was q man? Could l even wish
10 help, it, My tastes, my ambitions.
my problems and my way of working
mem out were his. He was a lover Of
looks; could ! be less, being his child =?
I or that small portion Of his mind that
faS come down to me / am more thank
-ui man for any other bit of inheritance
ana even now it is all astir with the in
teltF: Inasmuch as in eight cases out
- yen daughters seem to resemble their
S(4thers: Is it not possible that Dame
azure Ideals are different from those
". Mrs Grundy? / often think that she
inns at a more even distribution of
I4o#eFs than society realizes.-"The
''ht OF View in Scribner.
Ont from Mrs. Chas. Taft.
Mrs Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati,
.+SttE-lD-laE OF rna president xrbo ms
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-07
Ont from Mrs. Chas. Taft.

Mrs. Mrs: Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati,
- s'xgIr--in-law OF the President, who was
- aShlngton for the inaugural festiv-
les has signalized her return to Gin
N1unaii by presenting $4,000 to the city