Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-23
wOMEN's COLUMN.
-. &c suffragist Poem.


Mere man in the person Of Louis J. Block,
MCNEIL Of a high school in Chicago, won
10 nriZe of S1U) recently offered III the
.cstarn metropolis for the best poem on
woman suffrage Ihfee OF the s'ailzds
follow:
10 the nations have been toliIEg up a steep
Resting Oft 6y stream and mountain, benz
beneath the heavy load,
Gazing toward the coming freedom from
the anguish and the goad,
For the hope has led them on.
rrrerlns words Of potent wisdom in the ear
of struggling man,
Women rose and strobe beside HIM mia me
dangers of the van,
Kindling hope that led BIN on
Forth they step and march together forth
thn man and woman go,
tn the plains of vast achievement, Wnefe
unfettered rivers dow,
And their work shall stand exalted ana
their eyes shall shine and glow.
With the hope that led them on.
or p l." said to be Chicago University
nrofessor ran Il close second. Here is a
sample StanZa:
10 YOU hear the surging murmur that is
filling all the air!
tbs the Mothers loving daughters; they
are whispering their prayer.
IeayJ your toll 10 share.
And we will right her wrong"
Anti suffragists are said to be circulating
tho rumor that IL. L. l." was denied the
first prize because he said the sufragettes
whispered.
The Mother and the Daughter.
TO the mother chiefly is entrusted the
responsibility of keeping the family
peace: and sometimes she finds she has
a pretty large contract on her hands.
Some children are born inordinately self
ish: others have this trait developed
By excessive indulgence. Some children
are born with an arbitrary disposition
and from their cradles impose laws upon
all about them. The mother has bet
ter opportunities than any one else of
understanding the peculiarities of each
child and can. if she will, check the
budding selfshness and restrain pas
little ones to do. No idle child can be a
good child; and no children are so rest
less and unhappy as those who have
everything done for them, and are never
called upon to forget, and even sacrifice,
their own inciinatiOns to secure the hap
piness of others. Pleasant and varied
occupation IS very potent in preventing
is the great bond of peace.
Mothers should have a care that a
passion for dress and personal display
be not generated in the hearts of their
daughters. Many lives have been blight
ed and many souls dragged into the
depths of sin for a craving of fine dress
and jewels. Every little girl should be
taught the beauty of modesty and the
virtue of modeSty and the virtue of con-
teEtment from her earliest years, and
when she grows up she will be the nobler
woman for it, and ADLER to withstand the
temptations of the world. And from the
day when her baby fingers begin to han
die money, and her infant mind is reused
to laudable ambition by the income of
few cents week, she ought to be
taught the true value and wise eXpendi-
ture of money; to keep her accounts and
balance them; to pay the minutest debt,
or better. to avoid mourning it; to OBJ
serve the just proportions of having and
spending, and above all, the golden rule
j for every one of us, whether our income
q be small or large-waste nothing.
u All mothers should see that their
81 daughters are trained to do something
ID Of marketable value, for if a girl does
marry she ought to be able to make
VI her own living. As ii is they are often
~ know nothing-nothing about homework,
81 servants, buying, selling health of chill
& dren method, Order-all is hapDy-gO-
lucky with them. Mothers, you want
3 your daughters to be good wives; but do
~ not consider how much their future de-
81 ponds upon the education you give them
sd previously. If so show them how you
n manage your house; let them observe the
q patience and good temper with which
you treat those who work for you. Teach
n them tidiness, industry and frugaity; let
81 them see money cheerfully spent, but
carefully; teach them to entertain their
4 trends according to their means, not ac-
,S,F{ 1,NsY. i
Il from their earliest childhood let them be
taught some knowledge of business. For
q hold that any woman who has any
money at all, either earned or inherited.
ought to keep it in her own hands and
learn to manage it herself, exactly as a
man does. There is no earthly reason
why she should not. And | feel sure
most fit for what is their proper sphere
good, lovable and beloved wives
NO household is complete without a
sister. She gives the finish to the fam
i n.y. sisters love, a sisters influence
what can be more hallowedI \ sister S
"atchful care-can anything be more
tender! y sisters kindness-can any
thing be more pure? Who would live
q without sister? A sister that is a sis
Ter IN fidelity, in part, in love, is a sort
u guardian angel in the home circle
j her presence condemns vice. She is the
4ulckener of good resolutions, the sun
SHINE in the pathway of home. TO every
u brother she is light and life. Her heart
IS the treasury house of confidence In
Il aer be finds fast friend, a charitable
Iorglying, tender, though often severe
q Trend. In her he finds a companion.
Her sympathy is open as day, sweet as
fragrance Of flowers. We pity the broth
fT who has no sister, no sisters love.
q We feel sorry for the home which is not
4 ehiivened by a sisters presence. A
n SISTER Office is a noble and gentle one.
u II Is hers to persuade to virtue, to win
n % Wlsdom's ways; gently to lead to
a Where duty calls; to guard the citadel of
Il nome with the sleepless vigilance of yir-
n lae. to gather graces and strew flowers
around the home altar. To be sister
81 r % mold sweet place in the heart of
q nome. 1t is to minister in a holy office
n Jane Wheaton.
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Sne Called on Carmen Sylvia.
j had been told that the Queens first
q ldd}-ln-waiting would receive me and
y present me TO her majesty. / had been
N t"Q that | must make a sweeping bow