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

success. Both parties conspired to eject
him and united against him. The wom-
en-, irrespective of party, have just re-
elected him.
In New Orleans the DISTINGUISHED
women petitioned again ana again ana
again for 4 juvenile court After six
years of labor and expenditure they
have obtained II. But straightway the
machine politicians have selected the
judge and appointed its officers, held
| glorihcation meeting. claimed the credit
and divided the spois.
Jane Adams, in an address recently
| delivered i'm Boston. stated that the Chi
| cage women had succeeded in getting a
/ juvenile court, but had been unable by
their indirect influence" to retain the
| judge whom they regarded as specially
| qualified to influence the children. This
| disappointment is probably one reason
| for the strenuous effort they are now
making TO get municipal woman suf-
! frage Incorporated in the new city char
| ter.-Woman's Journal
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Breakfastless School Children.
Looking at the subject from a purely
medical point of view, poverty is not the
cause in more than an extremely minor
! ity of the cases of those who go break
! fastlesS. according to the Journal of the
| American Medical association. Every
! physician is aware of the caparicious
morning appetites of children who are
| physically below grade from any one
| of numerous causes, and this is espe-
/ ciaily likely to be the case with those
| living in the urban sums and crowded
| tenement districts. Any dispensary ply
stefan or visiting nurse will testify to
| this fact In a recently issued edition
of a work on the British poor, the au-
thor says that ii large proportion of
the children, if asked why they had no
breakfast. would say il was because they
| did not want it, often, in case of TIC
younger children. because rfleir mothers
could not make them take any. The
cause in many cases lies farther back
than the mere lack of food. which is
often plentiful enough; it is generally
| the unhygienic customs and conditions
| of the poorer classes that are the real
cause. 1t is not in the poor alone. more
over, that we observe these irregular APP
petites they are common enough in the
! children of the comparatively wel-to-do,
but the condition appears in a more ag-
gravated form in bad hygenic environ
ment. The practice of giving children
| Stimuants. such as strong coffee and
| tea, the heavy evening meals and meals
at irregular hours, sleeping in crowded.
| ill-ventilated rooms, etc. are all active
| factors in producing capricious appe-
| tiles, and they should all be taken into
account when seeking a remedy.-CoOk-
ing Club Magazine,
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Marvellous Gains in the
| Number of Women Workers.
| In 1870 there were just IA women
architects. craftsmen, and designers in
| the United States. In 1900, 1911! Ar
| fists and teachers of art. from 4l2 in
| 1870 to 1902 in 1900. Clergymen
| from 81 10 1878! Dentists from "a to
SO1! Journalists from 80 TO 2i93! Law.
| yers from Gust - to i4OOi Literary
! aud Scientific Persons" from 159 TO
| 1884! Musicians from 1858 to $3.50!
! Government officials mote this partiCu-
| larly) from Ala to S119! Doctor On spite
! of the long, ignorant clamor about hen
| medicS'D from l2T to 1887 And teach
! ers accomplishing unchecked, as long as
men cannot lac bribed away from COM
! mercla! pursuits to perform their uplft-
| ing task of masculiniZation. the feminiZa-
| ton of our schools from "a ,047 in 1870
! to 327 ,6i4 in 1900
! The gains III Trade and Transports
! ton are even more marvellous than
those in professional Service"
! In the year 1870 all the women book
/ keepers, accountants, clerks, copyists,
stenographers and typewriters in this
/ country were Jumped together by the
| census office and turned out to number
| S023, In 1900 they were sifted apart,
! but if they should be thrown back TO
! gether again into the same column they
! would show up with a membership of
! 245.5t7!
! Women agents in 1870 amounted to %.
! In 1900 they amounted to 1886!
Women office boys tthe diction is
taken from the census) existed in 1870
10 the number of go. In 1900 they had
! grown to be 6GG3. And if they should
| acquire ali the positions new held by
! that most appallingly inefficient element
/ in our population, "men office boys
| there would be few business men who
would have cause TO weep.
! In 1870 there were 21I5 women who
were allowed to he saleswOmen. In 1900
! there were l49 $50,
| Tie gains made by women in these
various occupations in professional
| Service aud in Trade and Transporta-
| ton have been great enough to affect
| profoundly the sex character Of each
group as a whole.
| In 1870 out Of every 1000 persons on
gagged in professional Service" 24S
were women. In 1900, 342 were women!
| In 1870 out Of every 1000 persons Ell
gagged in Trade aud Transportation,
/ only 16 were women. In 1900. 106 were
women,-From THE Woman's lnya-
! SION in Everybody's