Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-12


borne. out also by the fact that divorce
| is more than four times as common
among Protestants as among Catholics.
| The Protestant element in the popula-
ton is the element in which individual
ism is more highly developed; besides
the Roman Catholic church refuses to
sanction absolute divorce upon any
ground.
Finally. two-thirds of all divorces are
granted upon demand of the wife. This
! suggests that the standards of moral
ity ot the male element of the population
are not what they should be- and that
| husbands too often give ground for di-
vorce ny immoral conduct. Higher
standards of morality are necessary as
| civilization advances, and conduct which
! the wife overlooked in the husband a
| half-century ago, or bore in silence now
i becomes a ground for divorce
This last statement suggests another
cause for increasing divorce in this
country, and that is the emancipation of
woman. Woman has now almost equal
| rights with man, and has achieved her
economic, intellectual and moral as well
as legal independence of man. This
has been a good thing in itself, but many
women have used their freedom to en-
phasize their rights rather than their
duties. and consequently have rendered
| the family life less stable. In so far
as the movement for "woman's rights
has been simply an expression of grow
| ing individualism or seifshneSs On the
part of our women, it has tended. like
| all individualism, to destroy the home.
The Visiting Ladies' Maid
A woman has told me of an exceeding.
| ly satisfactory arrangement by which
| three women living in the same large
apartment hotel share the same combina-
| ton maid and seamstresS. She has two
rooms in the hotel, one of which she uses
| entirely for the service of her three mis-
| tresses. She conscientiously divides her
| time between the three equally, and they
| divide her wages and expenses. This ar
| rangement has proved successful for two
| years and still continues TO oe. This
| woman not only performs all the service
] of ladies' mald but has time for en-
| hroidering underclothes and knack for
making dainty handmade neckwear. She
never seems to object TO serving more
| than one mistress, and is tactful enough
not to allow any conflict of claims ever
| to appear If they do actually occur
Invaluable in this connection is the
visiting maid, who can be procured TO
come once a week and so over the list of
| things which have been jotted down
! against her visit. In half day such a
maid can manicure the nails, massage
! the hair. look over the clean laundry run
| III fiHtlOuS anu ihtitu llttlt tears III uHlillN
waists or lingerie. oil the shoes for the
week, and attend to an infinite variety of
details.
One woman has recently told me about
a small room which she has set apart
| solely for the purpose of keeping up her
| wardrobe In ii are several cabinets,
| originally intended for medicine chests.
| In one of these are all the nccessaries
| for cleaning clothes, several kinds of
soaps. cloths of various kinds, pieces OF
1 4
| The little accessories ordinarily more
cumbersome than useful, when kept thus
out of the way, become distinctly yalua-
bic. Vogue.
| Hobbies Good for Health.
| The best thing in the world for nerves
is sleep, the next, proper food. and third.
| proper dress. But as good as one of
| these is hobby
| How often does one hear the express
sion, "Oh, that is So-and-So's hobby
spoken rather disparGgingly. IL is the
| tendency of the average mind to regard
a person who bus n pronounced enthusi-
asm as a species OF harmless lunatic,
rather to be pitied. The truth of the
matter is that any one who has any
especial fad Is greatly TO be envied, as
! il probably provides more interest and
| amusement for its pOsSeSsor than any
| thing else Any decided interest in life,
| NneJbef II Is ul2HIDed nS the name OF an
occupation or is simply an enthusiasm,
or even mentioned slightingly ms "A fad,
| is emnently desirable.
! Il have never seen genuine collector
| that is not happy when he is allowed 10
| crafty his tastes, remarked a student
! Of human nature, land 81 bent in that
direction should always be encouraged.
| 1t is curious phase of our humanity
| that we will work diligently to make
! provision for our material needs when
we are old and quite neglect to store
| up mental resources that will interest
and amuse us until We are called hence
Health Culture.
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Have a Library in Your Home.
In these days no well equipped home
| is without a library 1t may not neces-
sarily be a large one, but if it consists
! of only few shelves. it is nj least the
nucleus of "A library that becomes con
| slant source of instruction and pleasure
| for the family and all It's visitors. In
| these days books are no longer thrown
! together on shelves, to be dust-coyered,
| buupagaI 9BJ InGfppv4I lint .tra