Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-25


zen we might be mair indulgent
aisfr forgivin. mair content
Nj sac prone to envy others,
it.eaSed w a that God has sent.
dsisr u us are sorry creatures,
I,vfu' weak and apt to ia;
Sfgist of US viii look for Mercy
IThen we reach the Judgment Ha'.
Vet Mt heart we're rarely loyal
70 each other i our thoughts.
ipsr what's wrang wi others strikes us,
RWr we're blind TO our ain faults.
why not then stop pretendln,
Innk ourseTs straight i the face.
itaan on prayin', Lord, forgie US,
For we need Thy savin, graceF
i. C. II. Beaumont, in The Craftsman.
$500
The Vital Question.
There may be other questions bearing
With equal weight upon the destiny of
woman: it may be vital to her whether
she shall have the ballot, whether the
s[,1l is immortal, and whether the tariff
an art shall be reduced. But day in
and day out. year in and year out, what
fbp great majority of women really want
10 know, what they must know before
anything else in the world has the least
claim upon their attention IS, What
Shall we have for dinner!
Oh. eating. eating, eating; this ever
lasting eatingl what does it not eX-
Main of wCilan'S failure to be celebrat
ed? Has there ever been a woman
Shakespeare? OF course not; she was
@training her intellect to decide whether
Shakespeare would rather nave beef or
mutton for dinner and whether the cut
he liked could possibly be bought with
fine amount of money he had given her.
Has a woman Beethoven existed to
ur0ye the creative genius Of the sex!
Certainly not; throughout the ages, she
has been thinking up some thing new for
dinner which would keep the digestion of
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fine full extent of the intellectual great
ness of woman? Look into the stom-
acns of the people. While Newton was
discovering the law of gravitatiOn watch
ing the falling of the apple, Mrs. New
ton, perfOrce, was thinking how many
apples should be needed for the philoso-
phers pie. While Watt, seeing steam
of utilizing the power in machinery,
Mrs Watt was driven by necessity to
think of putting on the potatoes with
the water boiling for Mr.. Watts dinner.
While COrot was painting sheep in pic
lures Mrs. Corot was deciding to give
him chops or stew for luncheon.
Of what use is woman'S brain to sci
ence, art, or literature so long as it sup
ports the eternal burden of devising
menus for the family? Who can even
dare to hope that her soul is immortal
when it is consumed day after day by
the burning query, What shall we have
to eat? SpinsterS. widows, conscience
less wives who board, may dream of
emancipation when women are allowed
to vote; but liberty for the majority is to
be realized only after dining has become
a lost art and men have learned to live
without meals. Ever since Eve, in a
moment of Needless originality, gave
Adam the apple, the world has been
looking to women to plan the meals. And
4hN Ii
never thought to drop a tear behOlding
the genius of woman that lies buried be-
meath the family dining table. Let us
weep a little here.-Harper' Bazaar.
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Woman Who Earns $4,000 Year.
A New York business woman has
proved to masculine satisfaction that she
can keep a secret. This rara avis is
Miss Katherine Giles, the cotton statis-
tcan, who in her comparatively short
financial career has frequently bucked
4 up against the government reports and
81 has come out with flying coIors, beating
81 men who have grown old in the business
81 at their own game. In Wall street this
81 young woman is known respectively as
q the cotton queen and as the sphinx. says
y the Washington Sta 1.he sobriequet
d was given to her six years ago, on that
memorable December 5, when her re-
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the government returns by a large per-
centage, turned the tide of the cotton
market and increased cotton values by
some $5,000,O00
The likening of this pretty and capa-
pie young business women to the sphinx
comes from her inscrutable manner when
anything connected with the cotton mar
ket Is the subject of discussion; never
by word or look does she indicate in the
slightest degree any of the secrets, for a
knowledge of which some men would pay
good round sums to possess.
IT IS estimated that between 5000
and $4,000 is annually spent by the
government in getting a line on the cot
ION crop from which to compile its an
lual report, but in this report Miss
Glles thinks there are many mistakes.
hef system in getting at the extent and
condition of the crop is accomplished by
sending out return postal cards to the big
COTTON growers of the south. Among the
Twelve states that grow cotton she an
hually distributes $4,000 postal cards,
me returns from which are tabulated,
tAe information carefully weighed and
oaanced and an unbiased conclusion as
10 the state of the crops arrived at. She
lhen sends out bulletins indicating the
coh1ltIon of the market to her customers.
Miss Giles attributes her business sue
cess to the fact that she never specu-
NJ
Waterloo of more tina. one statistician.
70 quote her own words: IF one spec
IqiiateS it is only human nature to be
oiased in the direction in which you
want the market to go. Whether you
WIN or lose you forfeit the confidence of
your clients" Miss Giles began her
BUSINESS life as an assistant in the of
nee OF cereal statistician in Wall street
al a salary of So a week; now she is
one OF the very few women who by their
4 S S1d efforts are earning an income of
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country and City Life for Children.
10 far as the welfare Of children is
4 t,pSucetned, is it better to keep house in
n ~Ie cry or in the country? Probably no
u F"F VIII hesitate to answer at once in
4 s'.or OF the country, its advantages as
residence for the young being so mani
n vs. Yet city life is not all detriment
q w. mem; they acquire an aptness for
n i@UlE dong almost anything that is not
oh1 the average power of their age;
Il epQyIty of all matters that are alb
rr.oed through the senses; and an alert
u (g,, r ana ,quickness that are foreign to
q so o~nlfy children. Their faculty of OBJ