Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

WlsF an This bloody row about?
For laWst me eyes, / cawHt find ont
i.saI this blooming ballad rhinr
'riai Il iydy takes a Ming
I road Il Az, but cawn't te WI.
Il sounds TO me like tommyrot:
Ths Woman with Serpent Tananc- -
Ald poet WHU is getting stung
Do Rot ike such ballads much
N,t ART SO wen as My Old Dutch ~
And there's another, III be bowed
n badly good un, '0ld Kent Road
This other enc may catch the snail.
Eut il won't 20 in music ais
Let women gossip all they can.
Iut Gawd forbid an Englishman
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The Lure OF Luxury
y miilioa or more girls and Young
women III America are making the same
mistake at the same moment. And it is
a plhtul mistake, toO-a tragic one in
many eases. They are saying. "Tn ha
happy when | get'-this or that or tba
other thingi And the result? They are
utterly losing the capacity to enjoy right
now today Those who pin their low
to the skirts of tomorrow will never
catch up with that vanishing Jade for She
will always Keep Just sunrise ahead of
them. If you ever kiss the lips of con-
tent il must be under the skies of to-
day.
But this is not the worst of it. Those
who wait upon elusive tomorrow for
their gift of happiness generally hitch
their hopes upon the attainment of some
thing that money viii uuy-or s6methinp
they believe money will bay Fine and
dainty things are DEAR to the feminine
heart. The soft trappings of luxury
have always been a sure and unfailing
lure to the senses of womankind-that IS
OF the undisciplined and immature WON
an. Are girls and women to be blamed
for wishing to array themselves in beam
tiful clothes, for desiring TO surround
themselves with all the soft enhance
ments OF dainty nOuriShment" for
longing to live in the charmed atmos-
phere Of luxury and brightness and ad-
miraton? No! But first consider the
price and the value! 1t is easy-okl so
easy,-to put too high a price upon lux
ury. Thousands of girls and women
90 into mental and moral bankruptcy
because they are paying too much for
these things. To get them they execute
a mortgage upon all they are or may be.
To be explicit: Isn't it inexpressibly
shocking to your sense of womanhood to
know that nine-tenths of the women who
are today leading abandoned lives were
baited to their downfall by the baubes
of fine clothes, jewels, of the things with
which to make themselves look pretty ?'
And yet this is the testimony of those
who give their lives to rescue work
among fallen women. This is the re-
suit reached by years of sad research
among the faded and the sorrOwing and
the shameless women of the Red
Light" inferno.
The lure of luxury is the unfaiing
bait with which the white slave trader
sets his hendish trap. And what are
you-the parents of daughters-going to
do about it? Are you going to try to
stamp this love of bright and beautiful
things out of your daughters nature?
Not if you are wise parent That is
generally short cut to disaster. Show
your daughter that these things are well
and good if they come rightly and natu-
rally. if she and you do not pay too
high a price for them and get them from
the right source; that any human being
who offers here short cut to luxury
is sure to demand too nigh a price and
that happiness has small relation 10 the
amount of fine clothes, jewels, theater
tickets, automobile rides and good
times" which are within her possible
grasp. The happiest woman | know is
one who thinks the least of these things
and thinks most Of how she can serve
the whole human race.
Size has fine taste in dress. likes dainty
clothes and adornments and knows how
to wear them; she loves the bright
things of life and has a genius for hap
piness. But she is so spontaneously
eager for the good of others that her
own graces of person, the garments and
the Jewels which she wears and the
good times" which luxury offers her
are yelled from her conscious thought
by q graeiousness of heart that counts
them as little in her invoice of the as
sets of happiness. She knows the gifts
of modest luxury but counts them at
their true value. which is small along
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less material than a new gown, stun
ming" hat, a set of modish furs or a
touring car. She could never be cheated
INTO paying too high a price for these
bargain safes on luXury's counter for
vanity and shallow love of display are
beneath her standard of reckoning.
And do not think thar men are not
bought by the lure of luxury. They are.
They cheat and lie and steal and de
base themselves for it. But there are
some perils from which their sex eXempts
them when they strike for this gaudy
bai5 that girlhood and womanhood often
incur when dazzled by the brightness of
this peculiar lure.
When the girl of today gets a sane
ana level perspective on life she Will
know that all the things which a prin-
cess can hang upon her person or with
which she can surround herself are not
worth the sacrifice OF a single fine and
womanly virtue and that the taking Of
one careless or ill-considered step is pay
ing too high a price for them-then the
lure of luxury will DE pJrerless to draw
thousands of unthinking girls into lives
that are vain, shallow, coarse or pollut-
ed.-Forrest Crissey, in Woman's World
Magazine.
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The Manageable Son.
have met numbers of women who
believed they We're showing their moth
erly devotion in bitterly opposing the
marriage of their sons. | once talked
earnestly with one such, telling her Of
my own experience, and warning her, for
her own sake, if not for her sons against
the attitude she was assuming. But it
was OF no use, she geing one of the I'M
iortunates who can see only their own
Slae, for first and last and all the time
II was the same: No, l want to keep
nm Tor myself. | will not, if [ can help
myself, give him up to another woman.
want no rival in his love"
accept early the thought Of my
son marriage, and as he approached
manhood strove to keep myself in ac-
cord with the idea. | had been happy in
securing his boyish coufidpnce-thprn