Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-10

fourteen hours a day. They said that
sanitary conditions in the cloak rooms
ana lunch rooms of some of the stores
we're such as 10 endanger health and life
AAef sand that the whole situation was
50 bad that no clerk endured it for n
longer period than five years. Mostly
lneF were used up in two years They
proposed labor union of retail clerks
tort failed
\ group of rich and influential wom-
en- prominent in many phiIantEropic eff
IWftS. became interested in the Working
" omen 5 society. They investigated the
cnarSes brought against the department
stores and what they discovered made
changed
g, In May, 1880, the late Mrs. Josephine
shaw Lowell. Mrs Frederick Nathan.
anu others: called large mass meeting
III Ohlckerlng hall. Mrs Nathan had a
constructive plan for raising the standard
III Shop conditions, especially those af-
ieGtlhg women employees
II women would simply withdraw their
patronage from the stores where. during
5ue christmas season, women and chill
ureh tolied long hours at night without
any extra compensation. sooner or later
me night work would cease. 4 few
stores, said Mrs. Nathan, maintained a
standard above the average Ii was
Wlthln the power of the women of New
York to raise all the others 10 that
standard, and afterwards it might be
possible to go farther and establish Il
standard higher than the present highest.
we do not desire to blacklist any
hrm, declared Mrs. Nathan. but we can
Whltelist those firms which treat their
employees humanely. We can make and
publish list of all the shops where en-
ployes receive fair treatment, and we
can agree to patronize only those shops.
by acting openly, and publishing our
white list we shall be able to create an
immense public opinion in favor of Just
employers
Thus was the Consumers league of
New York ushered into existence. Eight
months after the Chickeriug hall meet
ing the, committee appointed to cooper
ate with the Working Women's society
IN preparing its list of fair firms had
finished its work and made its report
The new league was formally organized
on January l, 1891.
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Individual Thanksgiving.
Among the occasions for THANKSGIVING
our opportunities for personal service
and our precious friendships take chief
place. 1t is because we have friends.
some who have been ours from child
hood. others whom we have met as it
seemed casually and recently, that life
for lis has its deep Significance The
man without a country and the man
without a friend must be equally for
lorn. Our Thanksgiving has in it fuller
chord because of our service and be-
cause of our friends. Yet in both these
features of human existence there is
room for caution. We are not to ex
haust our capacity for service so that we
become mere withered husks or shriyeled
fruit, nor are We to stand still in friend
ship.
President King of Oberlin college says,
One fears sometimes that mothers, for
example, so give themselves to their chill
dren as to forbid all growth for them
selves; and that only means that the
time haStens on apace when, with the
growth of the children, the mothers will
not have the self to give what then is
needed. If you would not cut yourself
off from later service to your friend, you
must grow with his growth. So Jowett
wrote to Stanley: Il earnestly hope that
the friendship which commenced between
us mauy years ago, may be a blessing to
last US through life. | feel that if it is
to be So We must both go onward, other
wise the tear and wear of life, and the
having Travelled over each others
minds" and thousand accidents will
be sufficient to break it off, ~
In taking stock of our lives we must
put down as one of the most valuable
assets a talent for making friends. If,
supplementing this, there be another tai
ent that grapples our friends to us with
hooks of steel, we are thrice blessed.
The cynic may scott at friendship, the
stole may profess himself able to do
without it. The pessimist may decide
its sincerity. We do not belong to the
ranks of those who are Indifferent to
friendship. We care a great deal, do we
not. for our friends, and we are deeply
grateful that in times of joy and of sor-
row alike we may count upon them as
our comrades and close allies.
For all true words that have been spoken,
For all brave deeds that have been done,
For every loaf in kindness broken,
For every race in valOr run,
For martyr lips which have not failed
TO give God praise and smile to rest.
For knightly souls that have not quailed
At stubborn strife or lonesome quest;
Lord, unto Whom we stand in thrall.
We give Thee thanks for all, for all.
For each fair field where golden stubbIe
Hath followed wealth of waving grain;
For every passing wind of trouble
Which bends Thy grass that lifts again,
For gold in store that men must seek,
For work which bows the Sullen knee;
For love by which we climb to Thee:
Thy freeman. Lord, yet each Thy tnrall,
We give Thee praise for all, for all.
Margaret E. Sangster in Woman's Home
Companion.
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Mary Tudor and Love.
But at all events Elizabeth was a great
Queen, and. as the time went, humane,
saws Gertrude Atherton in her brilliant
paper on Love" il Harpers Bazaar.
Love. although it belittled her. did not
splash her memory with blood. Perhaps
the most terrible example of the demon
alizing influence of the tender passion"
is Mary Tudor. Queen of England. In her
youth and even maturity, one of the most
humane and kind-hearted of women,
who never signed a death warrant when
She first assembled the throne except at
the insistence of her ministers, became,
under the influence of her ill-starred pas
sion for her husband, Philip II. of Spain,