Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-20


Buy and try the Peerless ironing wax
For sale a Sehwaigers Pharmacy only.
A newspaper is in no sense a child of
charity. 1t earns twice over every dol
lar it receives, and it is second to no
enterprise in contributing to the up
building of a community. Its patrons
lreap far more benefits from its pages
| than its publishers, and in calling for
| the support of the community in which
| it is published, it asks for no more than
in all fairness belongs to it, though
generally. it receives less. Patronize
and help your paper as you would any
other enterprise because it helps you,
and not as an act Of charity.
A small Kansas boy was once called
in to view his new born baby brother.
He looked it over with dissatisfaction
and finally asked: Mamma, where
did this thing come from?" "Anangel
brought.it Jimmie F." "Wuz you awake
when he cameo" Certainly, Jimmie"
We'll then, mamma, all that | have
got TO say, is that your dead easy. I'd
like to see any old angel put off such
looking thing on me. But Ireckon we
are stuck unless l kin work Johnny
Green to trade it sight-unseen for one
of his spotted pups"
Start right boys. To be anybody, to
accomplish anything for yourself or
the, community, you cannot be idle
Don't drinlS-liquor destroys the mind
and body. Don't swear-gentlemen do
not. 1t is low and vulgar. Don't read
trashy literature. 1t leads to the bad
ways. Don't hang around saloons
Good men are not made that way.
Whenever you see "a man lying around
saloon the devil is after him and vii
get him sooner or later
To bring up a child in the way he
should go. travel that way yourself
Stories first heard at mothers knee
are never wholly forgotten; a little
spring that never dries up on our iodr-
ney through scorching years. The
sooner you get a child to be law unto
himself, the sooner you make "A man of
him. Children need models more than
criticism. We can never check what is
in the young unless we cherish what is
good in them.
The day of union church work is APP
proaehing slowly but surely. The
Cumberland and regular Presbyterian
churches have gotten together on com
mon ground and there is fair prospects
for the Methodists churches coming
together. move is on foot to unite
the Baptist and Christian churches. 1t
begins to look favorable for the reali-
cation of a long drawn out dream.
Florists say that some flowers when
made into bouquets together will wilt
in very short time. Roses and mign-
| onette, for example, are SO destructive
to each other that they will not last
through dinner. 1t is possible that
the sweet scent of flowers was once II
deadly odor which killed other plants
likely to grow in the same soil, and
thus protected the plant giving it out.
Bill Nye had the truth well told
when he said: "A man may use wart
on the back of his neck for a collar
button; ride on the back coach of a
railroad train to save interest on his
money till the conductor gets around;
stop his watch at night to save wear
and tare: leave his ~ or ~ without
dot or cross to save ink; but man
of this sort is Il gentleman and schol-
ar compared to the fellow that win
take newspaper two or three years
and when asked to pay for it puts it in
the postotiice and has it marked ire
| fused