Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-22
WOEIEN'S COLUMN,

WOMEN'S COLUMN.
The Traveller,
reply 70 49 Rudya I'D, KiiPins,s HE Travels
Who travels alone with his eyes on the
heights.
Tho he laughs in the daytime oft weeps in
the nights
For courage goes down at the set of the
When the toll of the journey is all borne
lie spe,sds but to grief tho full goyly he
Who travels alone without love at his side.
who travels alone without lover or friend
But hurries from nothing, TO naught at
the end.
Tho great be his winnings ana high be
lie is bankrupt in wisdom and beggared
III soul
Iifes one gift of va,ae to him is denied
Who travels alone without love at his side.
1t is easy enough in this world to make
IL one live for that purpose-but think of
the waste.
For life is poem TO leisureIy read
And the JOY of the journey lies not in its
speed.
o. vain his achievement. and pettv his nrida
Who travels alone without love at his side!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Education of Home-Makers.
Between the years of and IS along
with the rapid physical development. which
is draining her strength, girl is supposed
to attain to proficiency in mathematics
one or two languages, history, one or
more of the sciences, literature. and
rhetoric, not counting the rudiments of
spelling, reading, grammar and geogra-
ply
She must be accomplished. too. as well
as educated. and her home training must
not be neglected. 1t is not much won
der that large percentage Of girls ed
ucated after this method break down in
health. and that a still larger proper
ton hnIsh Their schooling without hay
ing clear comprehension of any single
branch of study, and with a mere con
fused smattering of learning.
The brothers of these same girls are
given from four to six years longer at
school, and at each of these mature
years is worth two of early youth, as
far as mental grasp is concerned. Nor
is his time dissipated upon acquiring
accomplishments. And yet women have
always been branded with the accusa-
ton of being superficial as to their in
tellectual requirements.
Again, a man is educated for his Iife's
work. As soon as possible his energies
are bent in that direction, while most
girls are trained with a special view to
their social success.
The inadequate and crowded years de-
voted to the education of girls are fire.
quently perverted to fitting them for
the brief period of their young lady"
life and the long, trying useful years
which are to follow after they have as
sumed the solemn duties of wife and
mother are not anticipated or provided
for by the training of their youth
No attempt should be made to force
a girl into any particular groove unless
she has decided talent, and so ardent
a devotion for it as to be capable of
and determined upon attaining to some
thing higher than mediocrity. If she
has the necessary time. talent, and en-
ergy. speciality gives her independence,
resources and opportunities, and is
worth the arduous work necessary
1t matters little whether or not the
mothers of the world can play on mu-
slcal instruments, paint pictures, or en-
broder 'centerpieces," but a great deal
depends upon their being instructed in
physiology and hygiene, in chemistry. in
practical housekeeping, in the rudiments
OF familiar sciences, and i'll the simpler
details of business
The ncblest destiny to which women
are called is that of homemakers. and
the highest duties which Providence as
signs 10 her cluster around the holy
office of motherhood. 1t is absurd and
wrong to ignore this, their highest and
most natural destiny, in educating our
girls. lie, us then, instruct our girls
D1VSIOIOUV
the structure and the demands of their
own bodies and the bodies of those COM
mltted to their care.
Let us teach them hygiene, that pure
air within or without our homes may
purify our blood clarity our brains,
lengthen our lives, and increase our use
funoss.
Let us teach them chemistry. that
When it becomes their important duty
to provide food for a household, nourish-
ment to the muscle and brain which
helps to run life's machinery and to
shape human destiny. they will know
enough OF the properties of foodstuffS
to serve only wholesome, well prepared
foods specially suited to those bodies
which are to be nourished by it,
Let us teach them, also, something
Gf the sciences that they may compre-
bend the properties and laws of heat
and cold of light, air, and water and
enough of business to enable them to
use day book, and to understand that
an income of $500 will not keep up a
$500 establishment.
such coarse of education for our
girls might result in fewer pianos and
guitars, fewer pictures on our walls. and
fewer embroidered linens on our tables.
bur there would also be fewer wrecks
81 Womanhood strewn along life's path
way, fewer cross, dyspeptic, harassed
men in the world, fewer delicate, dis
eased children to add to life's inherited
curse of suffering, fewer clubs where
men seek relief from ill-conducted
homes. and fewer boarding houses to
winch women carry their families in
order TO shirk solemn duties for which
lAey find themselves unfit.
And there would he more happy
ZONES more contented men and women,
more healthy children, more congenial
Marriages, more security in the present,
Tnd more hope in the future-Bascom J.
"udIrW in Cooking Club Magazine.
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The Call of Outdoors