Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27

| tti-alilIS OF ner position and DISCHARGES
taem pleasantly, while the latter takes
me mental attitude that it is enough 10
have invited her friends and nroTided
some sort Of entertainment for them.
Ihat they may not seem TO be euioyinp
II does net disturb her e0uanimity II
i as though she said they sbonld If
they do not, and they must take the
! consequences.
| y successful hostess, on the contrary
observes her guests constantly, though
they may not be aware of il. and If
one IS bored she does something to alter
that condition. Should two persons he
calling together, with apparent lack of
interest. she moves about in wav thar
!actiully breaks the combination. bring
ing another person to them or taking
them where they will have other diver,
| sion
One of the most difficult situations of
| present day Possesses is that in which
they are placed after dinner where the
guests do not play bridge So accus-
toned are most persons now to sitting at
| once to a card table that to keen them
from it seems odd. Yet there are few
who do not care for the game. and in
eYltably they must sometimes be enter
tanned at dinner. Because of being out
| OF the habit. sitting around in the draw
ing room for an hours talk after the
meal has become a lost art Either
| r
! ent and it takes q skillful hostess to pre-
vent either condition. Yet even this
may be accomplished As rule the
men are in the smoking room, and thus
| the women are left entirely to their own
| devices. Few there are who cannot talk
clothes aud servants
Ii she can find no other topic of CON
Versation hostess had better let them
| pursue this than to sit silent. Even the
woman who does not care for either of
| these topics must have sport work ETC.,
| Ia which she is interested. 1t is precise
! " % this point that a hostess tact as
sertS itself.
Without the fact being evident. she
| must have her eye upon them all. and
when she finds that the woman who is
bored by clothes has fallen into the YER
| bal clutches of one who adores and is
| taking about them. the moment has
| come for her TO make n change. The
! TWO must be put into congenal surround
lngs, feat achieved either by going
where they are and breaking up the COM
bInauoa by taking one to another part
| OF the room where others are talking, or
! else by sitting with them herself and
making change of topic After IL few
minutes of this she can shuttle her
guests, as one woman puts it, and in the
move those who are we'll assorted must
! be put together.
However simple dinner may have
| been at the house of tactful woman
! her guests will have a good time. when
| they may be bored to extinction in an
other home where the cooking is perfect
and the hostess knows nothing of the
gentle art of entertaning.-Ros
Schuyler in New York Examiner.
| ~o+.'o-
ProlOnging Life
Startling proposals nowadays are fire.
&c do brrI Or
| professor of political economy at Yale,
that life insurance companies shall spend
money to instruct the public in the laws
of health. Seventy-fve per cent. of tu-
berculosis could be prevented This
would increase the average length of life
two years. For typhoid the figures are
! So per cent. preventable, with half a
! year of life thus saved; diphtheria, 20
| per cent, with half a year. The average
could be raised almost a year by the
elimination of accidents which are pre-
ventable. At least eight years could be
gained by reasonably pure air, milk and
water. If we live longer, we live better.
| Men and women must scratch hard to
| find enough for food, clothing, education,
| leisure, recreation. 1t requires some six
! teen or twenty years before the individ-
ual scratches for himself Kill him off
! at 30 and it is rather hard to get ahead
! in the task of raising standards. No
! body would gain more than the mothers
| The cost of children to them, in pain, in
grief, in time. in every kind of sacrifice,
would be indefinitely reduced. To make
! the world better, nothing could accom-
| plISh quite as much as a few simple inn
provements in our habits. To breathe
sufficiently, chew with thoroughness,
choose food for nourishment, drop the
splitting pastime, exercise, keep the win
dows open, and not overhead the rooms,
would be to lengthen life, improve it.
make it far more unmistakably worth
! the living.-Collier's Weekly.
~O..o-
More Good Laws in Colorado.
The following are among the laws
passed by the last Colorado Legislature
for which the women had worked:
/. Providing for the examination of
the eyes, ears, teeth and breathing ca
Ipacity of school children.
=. Declaring the school for the mute
and blind an educational institution, and
thus relieving the students from the stig
ma Of receiving public charity.
,. Allowing additional good time for
a certain class of prisoners.
| /. Giving a paroled convict money
and clothing, the same as in the case of
Il discharged man.
>. The loan shark bill.
8. Factory inspection; requiring three
inspectors, one Of whom snal be a
woman.
I. Creating a state board of immigra-
ton.
8. Appropriating $1,000 for the pur-
chase and free distribution of diphtherla
antitoxin.
8. Creating a home for the feeble
minded and making an appropriation
therefor. One of the most needed bills
of the Assembly.
10. Authorizing the donation of state
lands for state charitable or philan-
Ithropic institutions. This bill has a spe-
cial bearing on the location Of the home
for the feeble-minded, and the, probable
location Of the national sanitarium TO be
Established by the actors of the country.
II. Making the methods of the sweat
box" in connection with prisoners tel
ony. Should do away with the infamous
third degree" -,
II. Validating the wills Of married
10. Appropriating 100000 for a mu-
scum for the collection of material now
occupying a large part of the Capltoi
ii, Making it a felony to live off the
Of tho The So