Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09
WoMEN's COLUMN.
Judgment

Judgment
when she lay dead
The man looked upon her face and said,
The life is gone, so filled with shining
G, fnII. of ministry to human needs:
And we who loved her are bereft:
What have we left!
when she lay dead
man looked sternly on her face and said
.,Fbank God the evil Of her life is past.
What / have known the world would know
Now ali IS SILENCE, peace; for me
shall be free
The great God looked from his wide heaven
and said,
only the ono who made it knows the
of strength and weakness in a human soul
Cease, then. thy wonder; peace; let be;
Leave her to me.
Grace Duffeld Goodwin.
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The Economic Emancipation of Sex.
Two addresses on the home and econo-
mics. delivered recently before an i'm
portant convention, have attracted wide
spread attention because of the some
what radical views expressed in regard
to the inevitabiiity. as we'll as the de-
STABILITY. of woman as sex becoming
even more economically independent
than she is today.
This will be unpalatable doctrine to a
large number of persons, who, regarding
the wage-earning of women as an I'M
mixed evil. look upon it as a temporary
state. but does not the pregnant fact
that there is so large a proportion as
5.OUO,UOO OF wage-earnerS, out of to-
tai of 100000 of women in this coun-
try, indicate too radical a change in
w0man'S sphere to be merely an epham-
eral development? Suppose the $780,
00U of self-sUpporting women should de-
eide to lead lives of economic depend
ency, where would they find persons
willing, or with sufficient means, to sup
port them in homes? 1t is safe state
ment that girls do not crowd shops fac
tories. offices and Schools-in many in
stances telling under hard conditions for
small financial returns-because of any
special fervor for work. or desire for
independence. The girl worker is driven
TO wage-earning by the stern necessity of
securing food, shelter, and clothing, and
because the erstwhile home industries
such as pottery, weaving, baking and
clothing manufacture have largely been
taken over by man, she must perforce
20 out of the home in search of work.
Inc call OF the more advanced sOcio-
logical leaders is that the remaining in
dustries. such as laundering and cook
ing, also be taken from the home that
the mistress thereof be free to devote
herself to the higher service of home
making as distinguished from mere
housekeeping; that the wife and mother
be encouraged to become economically
independent in order to contribute an ap-
proXlmate share to the family income:
that the drone daughter be eliminated,
ana these are not the vaporings of half
baked; Would-be social reformers but
me s9Derly expressed opinions of persons
VINO nave carefully studied social condi-
IONS Tor years, and who are regarded as
authorities on social evolution
Undoubtedly the revolution is upon Us,
and since the demand for vocational
training for girls and the establishment
u vocation bureaus indicates that the
advanced change is to be scientifically
directed, it is incumbent upon all who
pretend to take an intelligent interest in
ahalrs, to awake to a realization of the
important fact that the economic enamel
patton of sex numbering half the hui
man race,-is under way. Nothing COM
parable to it in Importance has been pre-
Sehted Tor centuries, and-destined as it
IS profoundly to affect marriage, the
family in all its outside relations and
Sthe bearing and rearing of chiidren-how-
ever little one may relish the new doc
lunes the time for protest has gone
The most that can be done is TO miti-
the progress of reforms and while the
advancing Of the age of marriage cannot
De regarded as such, divorce must be-
and no effort should be spared to develop
public sentiment sufficiently powerful
70 discourage it. One great means to
tins end would be to lay emphasis upon
the disciplinary aspect of marriage in
'conlradistinction to the rhapsodical views
perSlstently presented by novelists. poets
ana pIayWrlghts. These give the mex
penenced and the unrefecting prepos-
ferrous notions of relation that in real
NY Is by no means continuous gala
state of the romantic emotions. and such
Illusions should be destroyed before the
'eyent-Vogue.
The Alchemy of Cheerful Mind.
Above all else, | love courageous
ealety-one that can accomplish great
deeds with smiles and song; that gaiety
OF the soldier who makes the best of ev-
erything, seasons his thin porridge with
a JOKE laughs over the primitive bed the
lhclemency of the seasons, and huns the
tunes of his native country while firing
his gun"
What marvellous gift to have that
mental alchemy which makes even pow
erty seem attractive. which sees the lu-
dlGrous sides of misfortune
once met young American in
foreign country who was so poor that he
was obliged to resort to all sorts of ex-
pedlents to pay his way. He would stop
al the cheapest kind of places. 1t did
not matter how hard the beds, or how
poor the food, he always managed to get
lot of fun out of his discomforts, be-
t "a ne saw the ludicrous side of every
have seen him when he had only p
cents in the world, and he would toss it
up INTO the air and laugh over the situa
non as huge joke. | have known him
Tor many years, and / have never seen
nm detected or discouraged, although he
mas had an unusual amount of trouble,
ahq many discouragements.
lie is always cheerful, always ready to
EFack a joke. His optimistic attitude to-
ward life is worth infinitely more than
fortune without it.
While travelling at this time, I also
met an American millionaire with his
family, who seemed to be having a most
uncomfortable time. They said it was