Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-02


tain any connection with charitable or
ganization or receive any pay for ju-
venile work beyond their official salaries,
| Two physicians, DR.. Anna L. Bacon
and Dir. Mary ]. Rochelle, are on the
| list of probation officers.
! Miss Elizabeth A. Oman of South
| Bethlehem, Pa, has been appointed pro-
baton officer of the juvenile court of
| Northampton county. Miss Oman has
been teaching in the local public schools
/ for nearly twenty-five years and has
| dealt successfully with her pupils. 1t
| is believed that she will be equally skill
full with delinquent and incorrigible chill
dren.
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Men Who Want Wives.
| The Woman's Homestead association
| is beginning to wonder just what it is,
anyhow. 1t organized under the impress
sion that it was to help homeless, hus-
| bandleSS, moneyIeSS women to help them
selves by the simple plan of establishing
| them upon some of the land lying in ac-
cessible places, and furnishing them
with tools and so forth to raise pigs,
bees herbs, flowers, mushrooms, straw
berries, vegetables, squads and chickens.
That is what the Woman's Homestead
association supposed it was starting out
to do, but so many men hare taken it
for matrimonial agency that it begins
to doubt its identity, The association
had no sooner opened it's Headquarters
which are in the Colonial building in
Boston-than it was simply flooded with
letters from men who wanted wives;
good wives, wives warranted never to
be jealous, but, above all, hard working
wives.
Here is a cry from the desert. There
is such a note of sadness in this letter.
especially in the last eight words. that it
is impossible to feel cross with the man
for installing the object of the associa-
ton:
Messr dear Sir: / saw account of your
! association In the paper and anne A single
Man aged A. and would like A Helpmate
hoping you will not thing 1t strange for
| making Such request would like A Let
ter Acquaintance with some Lady or Widdo
of your Section as Wiman Is very Scarce
in this Section. Yours resp'hy, II. WIND.
Ohio, n Y
Another aspirant writes Il am
young man of Al and no wife yet, but
am still willing" \ man who sends an
application from the wilds of Oregon is
quite particular:
Il don't want any widow" he speci-
fies Il want a girl that has never tried
mattromOny before. She need not be SO
terrible hausome. but ! want girl that
won't go off in none of your Jelous tan
trums and she's got to be willin' to
work.
Right from Salem. Mass, comes a let
ter written by a young man who appears
10 have thought long and deeply upon
the sad plight Of lone women in this
rude world.
Il know" he says, there are lots of
nice young women who would get mar
ried if they could find some good man
who would give them n good home. l
know that girl can't choose, but she
can accept. Now, ! am a young man of
good habits, never smoke, drink or chew,
and am a lover Of a good home. | read
of what the Woman's Homestead asso-
citation was trying to do for the young
women who are trying to earn az honest
living. | would like to marry, and if
you could put me into communication
with some of them | would like to give
them good home"
The secretary of the association says
she doesn't think he is a Mormon. She
thinks the plural pronOuns in the last
sentence just happened.
A German in Big Falls, Mimi. would
like ''one of the spinsters of Massachn-
sets who would be willing to live on my
farm, and of about the following de-
scription: Age, % to 80; height, ) feet
, inches to feet 6 inches; weight, 10
pounds to 133 pounds; medium com
plexion, social and kind disposition neat
and willing to do reasonable amount Of
word; but, above ALL one who is no
scold, jealous or a continual fault find
err"
In the intervals of receiving these
letters the Woman's Homestead associa-
ton is working away at the undertaking
for which it was organized A petition
has been addressed TO the members of
the Massachusetts Legislature, asking
their influence "for legislation and co,
operation in behalf of the industrial
women of the state The petition. of
which 10000 copies have been circu-
lated in Massachusetts, sets forth what
the federal and state governments spend
IN other directions, and says it is high
time for Christians, humanitarians and
legislators to come together and unite
on some practical plan to encourage the
landless to secure, own and control their
own homesteads." A bill has been intro
duced in the Massachusetts Legislature.
and if it passes the association will be
ia fair way to get mothers with chill
dren dependent upon them for susie
nance, also widows and spinsters''-t0
quote the petition-really at work on
their own little farms on now unused
land near large cities.-New York Trib-
une.
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A Graduation Frolic.
4 new and pleasant way to enter
tain June graduates. whether all girls
or a gathering of both sexes, is a school
days party.
slate slate pencil aud sponge. Games
are all played, or mainly 50, with chairs
ranged in a row, and are all suggestive
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