Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-06
WOMEN's COLUMN.
Respite

80 once inv hand along the ingerboard
and grant me respite in the dusk an hour
r., row accustomed to the straining pitch
rben Key me to thy thought, nor heed the
q life ''' o Great Composer. not in vain
TN patient handling and thy master
e,n,et fling catch behind confusion's din,
Something I guess at. of thy symphony;
Not least Of all thy instruments | thrill
10 voice the music dripping from thy
.,rasrsrfnl fingers. Yet little while
And thy wise patience shall its end arain-
These jangiing tones shall all be recon
Jor With With despair, and grief with gladness,
ru death ana birth the perfect octave
Then break the strings-T shall be salts
fed! Allan Munler.
The Genius of Energy.
Genius is common sense intensified.
It is the power of making efforts. 1t is
patience 1t is talent for hard work.
There is no genius like the genius of
energy. It was neither luck nor chance,
but hard work. which enabled all our
great men to force their way upward in
the face of manifold distractions.
Our greatest men have been among
JUS and were as persevering as the sue
ceSsfUl men of a commOner sort. OF
course, without original endowment of
heart and brain, no amount of toll. how
ever well applied, would have produced
"A Shakespeare, a Milton, u Beethoven or
IL DiSraeh,
No man appears to have written with
more ease than Dickens. yet he said:
My own invention or imagination. such
as it Is l can most truthfuly assure
YOU. would never have served me As it
has but for the habit of commonplace,
humble, patient daily toiling drudging
attention" When requested to read n
few selections from his writings he re-
piled that he had not time to prepare
himself, as it was his custom to read
piece twice daily for six months before
appearing with it in public.
Bayle said of Meyerbeer: HE has
some talent, but no genius; he lives soil
tary, working fifteen hours a day at
music" Years passed. Meyerbeers
hard work brought out his genius.
Newton's mind was of the very high
est order; his philosophy sought with
all-comprehendlng grasp to encircle the
universe OF God and yet, when asked
by what means he had worked out his
extraordinary discoveries, he modestly
answered; By always thinking upon
them
Haydn said of his art: ct consists
of taking up a subject and pursuing il.
Beethoyen'S favorite maxim was: THE
barriers are not erected which can say
to aspiring talents and industry. Thus
Tar and no farther Mozart said:
Work is my chief pleasure. Sir Joshua
reynolds was such a believer in the
force of industry that he held excel
!ence IN art, however expressed by gen
JUS, May be acquired" Titan in his
letter to Charles V. said: Il send your
majesty The Last Supper after work
ing at 1t almost daily for seven years"
r. Inc ndefatigable industry of Lord
Bfougnam, Michelangelo, Arkwright and
,enner is matter of history. Lord Ches-
tertleld. who acquired such a polish of
style, Tor many years wrote down every
brilliant passage he met with in his
reading.
Lyman Beecner's greatest sermon was
on the Government Of God" When
asked as he descended the pulpit steps
now long it took him to prepare that
sermon, he replied: about forty years,
sir"
Why is it that the busiest men seem
to be in demand for everything and have
time for everything? 1t is because they
nave trained themselves never to leave
their time unemployed.
Success is ever on the side Of the
hustler as winds and waves are ever
on the side of the best navigator In this
ushtnlng- footed Twentieth century things
no longer come to him who waits, but
to him who hustles while he waits
We are bringing up in America a
numerous train of gentleman oilers who
are passing down the stream of life at
the expense of their fellow passengers
there are plenty of fellows about who
live off the earnings of their fathers until
they can find girls who are fools enough
TO marry them, then they will live off
their wives fathers
by borrowing and sponging for years.
eludlng the police, and by keeping up
fashionable appearances they are often
received IN polite circles and walk rough
Shod over many a worthy young man
who has too much good sense to make a
dash or initiate the monkey-shines of the
Itinerant dude.
| want to impress on your mind the
fact that idleness from choice is both
destructive and disgraceful, and | want
you to take home to yourself what | say.
Don't try to persuade yourself that the
cap does not fit you. Honestly acknOwl-
edge its fitness; it will be a great point
gained TO become honest with yourself.
DR.. Madison G.. Peters, Exchange.
~O-:-O~
The Present Unrest Among Women.
! think there is little doubt that this
World-Old statute that the man alone
shall WOO has more TO do with keeping
down the mental and moral tone of wom-
en-, with cultivating her ignoble talents
Tor deceit and intrigue, chan any of the
other forces which she finds arrayed
against her, says Gertrude Atherton in
The Delineator. 1t is not the softening
influence of the matrimonial and mater
nal states that work so many miracles,
but the abrupt removal of the necessity
TO practice a demoralizing self-control, to
appear something that she is not, to still
much ugly anger and resentment l have
known many girls, plentifully endowed
with good looks and charm, to confess
that they have lain awake nights
Scheming how to get that man." only
IN nine cases out of ten. TO find him
later on, quite unwOrth the trouble.
We are all familiar with the selfish.
ness, the shyness, the lack Of real frank.
ness, in what might be called the Tires
hold Girl-anywhere between seventeen
and nineteen. This is nothing worse
than The mating instinct driving her
hhnd!y until she has learned to play heI
part with taste and tact. During that
EprVnH she OH II bar e+S4 oh 4