Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-25
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Interesting Deductions
From the Last Census.

An analysis of the federal census of
1900 shows that men continue 10 be more
numerous than women. 500 per cent. of
the population of the country being male.
and 1913 per cent. female. In the eastern
and middle states 51S out of every 1000
white inhabitants are either foreign born
or the offspring of foreign parents. In
the south the native white population is
more than holding its own. the number
Of foreigners and the children of aliens
| being only 40 in 1000. The atlantic
states are, of course, the dumping ground
for immigration which, in ut least 80 per
cent of the cases, should be dispersed
over the country, to the great advantage
both of the ports of entry and of the ma
ton. In spite of the large number of inn
migrants who are continually arriving
from all over the world. the birth rate in
this country has steadily decreased, until
now the family averages only 4.6 per-
sons, which gives about one child to each
female over Is years of age. The census
bureau is disposed to put blame for this
state of affairs on the city life in flats,
tenements and apartments. 1t more prob
ably results from the desire of parents to
give their children advantages which will
raise them above the social class into
which they were born, and one or two
children can, of course, have greater adj
vantages in the way of care and educa-
| ton than can several.
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Dreaming on Wedding Cake.
My sisters" said Brother Claude,
! "are now busily dreaming on wedding
cake
Three days ago we all went to we'd
! ding and of course each of us got Il nice
! little box of wedding cake, and every
might since then sisters have been putting
'hese boxes under their pillows nights
and dreaming on them to see who they
| are going to marry.
There is en- old saying you know, that
marriage is Il lottery, and from what my
sisters tell me about the modern way Of
| dreaming on wedding cake | should say
| that marriage is now Il greater lottery
than ever 1t seems that the custom
once was to put the cake under your pill
| low three nights i'll succession, and then
| the man yon dreamed of two out of the
three nights was to be your future huS-
| band. That was the old, the simple way,
| before things had taken or their modern
/ present day elaborate compiled tons. In
! these days dreaming on wedding cake APP
| pears to be c"rried on like this:
| You take seven little slips of paper
| and on each Of six of these you write the
name of a sutton, leaving the seventh
| slip blank. So here you have six slips
with names on and one blank slip, and
now without looking at them you mix
|
won't know which is which. and Then
you put all seven slips together in an
envelope.
by this modern method of dreaming
on wedding cake, with the envelope sys-
| TEN, you dream on the cake seven nights
! in succession, and in the morning of each
| following day you draw 81 slip from the
envelope, and the last slip left in the
envelope after the seventh nights dream
ing indicates your fate; if it's got a name
| on, why, that's the man you are going to
| marry; if it's the blank slip, why, then
! you are going to be an old maid.
You see that by this method there is
| doubt and uncertainty, and the period of
excitement. suspense and interest is
| very greatly prolonged; but while the old
and simple way was certainly tanner, the
modern way, though far more exciting
! and interesting, may not be without its
! disappointment in the end. Just see how
| it may work out.
Among the men whose names you
| put on the six written slips there is
| pretty sure TO be one whom you prefer
to all the rest: but his may be the first
name you draw out of the envelope after
/ the first nights dreaming, thus, alas
putting him out Of the question. On the
other hand it might be that the first slip
you draw out would be the blank, the
/ old maid slip, and in this you would find
/ perhaps reason for elation and self-con.
graduation.
Again. the first slip drawn might
| be neither the blank nor the slip bearing
! the name of him you preferred, but q
/ slip with the name Of a man for whom
you cared less; and so nigh. the agony
! be day after day prolonged and growing
/ all the time more narrowing to the very
! end of the week.
Such is the modern method Of dream
/ ing on wedding cake. as my sisters hav,
l SO kindly explained il to me- / believ,
there is a reservation. if you don't lkt
/ the way one weeks dreaming comes on
you can dream again. on another piece
that you get at the next wedding yoI
/ happen to attend."-New York Sun.