Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-19

/ her interest in Alaska was aroused bv
| the pictures that passed through her
! hands. She was a widow with four
/ young children TO support. and failing.
| eyeslght compelled her to consider a
/ change OF occupation. She had a small
/ capital of 5000, and she invested il in
/ TWO lots In Seward. Alaska and i'm the
/ furnishings OF rOOming house Rum
mng restaurant and a hotel were sue
ceedlhg activities, and she made $1,000 in
/ three months. Her success has been
quite uninterrupted and she is yiSibIy
! iroud of the $1,000 worth of furniture
mat distinguishes her hosiery i'm Sci
0ovla For five months in the year navi-
cation Is closed and Mrs. Mercer spends
/ the winters IN Seattle, her children in
school During the season." the chill
/ V,ren are her efficient aids in running the
/ notel. Her effort to keep her little fam
! ny. together meets with the unqualified
approval OF her fellow townSmen. Last
| Aprll Mrs. Mercer had some difficulty
over lease and, pending threatened
| ntlSaton. the following document was
uraWn up by the postmaster and signed
! ey every man in town:
We, the Undersigned as men and
c!tiZens of Seldovia. do hereby agree to
ga protect and see justice done Mrs
! Myrtle Mercer and her four children: we
! Know Mrs. Mercer to be a hard working
| woman who has taken better care of her
chlldfen than many men, under like cir
! cumStances, would have done and we
WlSh to do for her and in her childrens
I penalf what we may, in case she is COM
| PEELED to ask for our assistance"
-, mus testimonial is quoted simply as an
illustration of the chivalrous attitude of
| the men of Alaska toward women. The
country, IN its exterior is hard; it's peo-
! pie are rugged, and there is an absence
| OF convention and so-called culture. But
the gold in Alaska's hills has its counter
! part III the hearts of her sons: and in the
| last analysis the standards of the coun-
! try S citizenship will be found in the
| ideals maintained and proclaimed by her
womanhOod.
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Is Woman a Servant?
In the MAN, the position of woman
| Is cqriously like that of the servant in
The house, says Inez Haynes Gilmore
| III success Magazine. "A servant with
| good wages and a generous allowance IF
| afternoons and evenings out a servant
carefully nursed when she is III and at
| tended to by the masters own physician,
| a servant who is sure always of generous
! ups, when there is extra work, and of a
! carefully sinecured old age. Like serv-
ant, however, it is to her interest to spy
on the master, to discover his weak
neSSes and to play upon them. In some
respects 1t IS a pleasant position, al
IHouSn 1t Is always an uncertain one.
For. from her birth to her death, her
welfare depends not on herself. but on Il
man; her father or brother or guardian
nrSt, her husband second. her son last.
| Luck always controls her destiny
Though the wheel of chance may set
her III pleasant place today, there is al
ways the dread on her of a weeks no.
ice. the possibility of the crowded vista
OF the employment agency tomorrow.
Her duties, ranging over a limited
arc OF human endeavor. made for a cheap
versatility rather than. as in the case of
the men, for the development of special
gl1tS. Her working hours and her wages
are arbitrarily fixed by men. Her habits
are settled by men. Her intellectual con-
ylctlons are doled out to her by men.
She has never until this generation, been
permitted to cultivate her mind. As her
chief control of man is through his
senses, she thinks almost entirely with
her emotions
Promptness and Success.
Delay in our day is an objectionable
SIN, and even i'll the days of the stage
coach unnecessary delay amounted to a
crime. 1t has wrought untold and in
calculable mischief from the earliest
| times.
Caesars delay to read a message cost
him his life when he reached the senate
house. Col. Rail, the Hessian command
er, was too busy at the card table TO
attend to Il messenger bearing a letter
which stated that Washington was cross
ing the Delaware. He delayed to read
that letter until the game was finished.
and that he had only time to rally his
men in a forelOne hope and rush to the
scene of activities, but, alas, the enemy
had the vantage point, and the gallant
colonel fell at the head of his regiment.
while the men who followed his lead
were taken prisoners, whereas had he
been prompt at duty's call the tables
might have been turned, at least, that
! day. and instead of being the vanquished
he might have been the victor How oft
| Ell on a few minutes depend liberty, hon
or, and life itself.
| Napoleon laid great stress on the "su-
preme moment. and became an adept
! ia taking advantage of that nick Of
time" which comes in every battle. the
| crucial moment on which often depends
| The destiny OF nations. He said he beat
| the Austrians because they did not know
[ the value Of five minutes.
| 1t has been said that among ciicum-
! stances that conspired to defeat the hith-
erto inyincible CorsIcan at Waterloo was
| the loss Of few minutes by himself
with Grouchy's delay to join him, though
| Iut few miles distant All day long the
| fierce struggle ragged with terrible in
tcnsity, but no decisiveness on either lie.
| The shades Of evening were falling and
! the allied forces under Wellington were
almost worn out by wounds and loss Of
numbers. 'Tis said that the little Irish
man was almost in despair, and muir
INJURED: "Oh, for night or Blucher!' At
that moment Butcher with his Prussian
I contingent came dashing up, and the re-
enforcement of the allies decided the
issue. Grouchy, on whom Napoleon was
depending failed to come. His delay was
fatal to the little corporaP'-it sent him
to exile and to death on St. Helena.
! What may be done at any time will
be done at no time. If thing is worth
doing do not stand shiyering on the
brink. but jump in and do it:
! 1t won't do to be perpetually calculat-
ing risks and adjusting nice chances. The
man who waits, doubts and hesitates,
and consuts his neighbors and relations
as to whether he should do this or
whether he should do that, will find him