Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-30


Infamin of the womens minds
Ouchtn't TO be allowed
A woman run Il business job
Yan bet 'twould be some funny.
Oh Sue-well, yeS-I kinder guess
She handles all my money.
A woman only thinks of style,
The latest skirt and hat,
And rings and lace and ribbon,
And gossip aud all that.
HER vote She knows no more of life
Than a cat of shakiu' dice.
oh. Sue-well. yes-I mostly guess
l 80 by Sues advice
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Caste and Culture.
In an argument against college for
Girls. which appeared some time ago in
journal that stands pre-eminently for
culture. it was cOntended that the col
lege not only demands just those four
wears during which the girl would natur-
ally take up social life, and develop ac-
nuaintance, but that its ideals and course
If study put her out of sympathy with
the ambitions and interests of the girls
and men of her caste.
Although it seemed peculiar to meet
such views in a journal of leading and
light those who have intimate acquaint
ance with modern progressive mothers
know that this problem OF college or NJ
college for their girls is one with which
they all wrestle: that, while the many
advantages of college experience are APP
preciated, they are outweighed in large
measure by the fact that its training, and
the influence OF association with fellow
Students so changes the girls point of
view that the eligible men in her own
class cease TO interest her, and that 4
good marriage. in the sense in which that
term IS used socially, loses its glitter.
Anxious for the social success of her
daughter naturally the mother does not
regard with favor a course Of study
which may kill her ambition for social
preferment, and yet, if she is progressive,
does not feel altogether justified IN with
holding from her child latter-day oppOr-
tunties for intellectual development.
Herein lies the problem which she wor-
ries ever for years, and usually decides
in the negative.
Ne better illustration than that of
stunting a girl intellectually and depriy-
ing her of the inestimable experience of
college life. because of the fear that
she may marry out of her class, could
he adduced to prove the truth of the con-
tentiOn that we are a long way, as vet
from practicing social democracy To
deprive the girl of higher education is
far more reprehersible than foreign prac-
tees in regard to which we are most vir-
tuouSly indignant ana the time will come
when the force of public opinion will de-
mand justice, not only for the girls sake.
hut also for that of the nation. Those
mothers who substitute the ideals of
caste for those of culture, cripple their
daughters intellectually, and stunt them
morally.-Nogue.
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How to Cultivate the Reading Habit.
The main thing to remember is that.
though a boys habit of reading may be
fixed by himself, his taste and what he
shall read are both matters of cultiva-
ton. Few boys will begin the reading
Of better things by and for themselves
But the boy will listen even when he will
not read Mothers do not appreciate
fully the value of reading aloud to their
boys. OF course, the time for this is
before the boy has arrived at the read
Ing age, for then he prefers to read
rather than to listen. 1t may be hard
Tor the mother, but it certainly is good
for her boy.
Then, too, the incentive which comes
from a boy owning his books is not
too highly regarded. | was in a mag
nihcent private library the other day,
and when its owner land user was
showing me his collection he pointed
to a case that was filled with boys
books. That's where | first got the
taste and the habit" he explained, with
a laugh My mothers promised reward
Tor me was always a book, and the fact
that they were my books was CON
slant delight to me. l think Oliver
Wendell Holmes was right when he said
there was an inspiration in the mere
handling and ownership of books If it
hadn't been that those were mine years
ago, and as he spoke he pointed again
To the case of hoys' books, Il don't
believe these would ever be mine now"
and he indicated the long cases filled
with their rare and beautiful bindings.
Yes" he added, my Office is where l
work, but this room is where | live.
have my mother to thank for it ALL
y boy may read what he owns when
he will turn from what he draws or
Is drawn for him. But the book must
appeal to him. His elders may pur-
chase and store land never read) the
beautiful editions of Milton, Hume and
the standard writers, but the boy is en-
titled to his own.
What your boy reads, and when and
where and why and how, are all matters
that concern you because they deeply
and directly concern him. A recent
delightful essayist mas SAID: "a man
who reads at all, reads just as he eats,
sleeps and takes exercise, because he
likes it; ana that Is probably the best
reason that can be given for the prac-
tce." 1t may be the best of reasons.
nut surely it is not the only one, for the
man who has learned to read has a pos
session which is among the best that
makes his life worth the living. There
IS no home so poor that this heritage
may not be left the children.
The other day l met a woman who
had no help in any way III the work of
her home and the care of her FIVE chill
dren. She said to me, II get the baby
10 sleep by reading aloud instead Of
singing. l am not much of a singer,
anyway, she added. with laugh, ''and
am intensely anxious that my chill
dren shall come to love the best that
mas been thought and said I've been
reading TennysOn aloud TO the baby all
winter. l don't know that he cares for
IT, but | do, and it is my only time for
reading. And don't you think" she add
ed eagerly, IF l bring up the children
from the very beginning in this way.
taeyH gradually grow into love Of such
thlngs for themselyes?"
~, did-with such mother.-Wom s
Home Companion.
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Learning to Keep the Face in Repose.