Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-12
r0p WOMEN AND GIRLS
WONT q the Pumpkin Moon.

Ata-F
tba Great drop-scene of starry sheen
~ waiting the prompter call
- sGa who IS queen of this mystic fete
.fa Sptsit of Harvest Days;
M, rfi1a OF Gusk and with scent of musk
SIe is footing the burrows ways.
Her. is a tear, and sigh sincere. for the sun
crowned Maid o the June!
Do. srrt, is acclaim for the stately Dame of
tbs Night o the Pumpkin Moon.
- farers ard folies are feast enough
when SKINNER is fresh and young;
- a roilickiu- song when days are :ong
PaIs sweet ia the eager tongue.
nj ,ae must think Of the cellar bins
When the palld sun swings low,
When the rine IS crisp and the drear
leaves lisp
Thcir warnings of coming snow
here's to the wed of the bursting field in
lrsh. fat Autumn's noon!
and here's to the sprite of the mystic night
the Night o the Pumpkin Moon!
.r,a curtain Of dusk on the eastern hills
Is rolled and pinned with stars;
And the moon hangs low with yellow
glow
For tonight the moon in a merry mask
In Lis stately place unbends,
Ana creets his kin with a gracious grin
Yes calls the pumpkins friends.
And row or row. they smile below. re.
joiced ~ this Lrotherly boon
The emblem brood of plentitude on the
Night o the Pumpkin Moon.
The swift year wheels to the bitter days,
And the grip of the frost $ on:
Bur the bounteous bin is safe within
Heieh-hO. for q summer gone
But the mows are high and the bins are
broad
And the odorous cellars are deep;
We bave bargained our toll with Gods
good soil,
And they who have earned may keep.
Fare forth tonight, the stars are bright, and
winter is coming soon;
But It's draped in the haze of the haicyCn
days of the Time o the Pumpkin
Moon
Holman Day in Good Housekeeping.
~~o-.o~
The Lure CT the Man and the Title.
To credit those of our native girls of
wealth and position who accept marriage
proposals from titled foreigners with be-
ing actuated wholly by ignoble motives
for social advancement is fattering to
the vanity of the American man, and,
moreover, he thoroughly believes that
deep down in their hearts these young
women really prefer him, or would. if it
were not for the barrier of our demo-
>
this may be true, and the theory Of pref
erence stihed by ambition doubtless
would apply in all if the maidens of bril-
liant alliances werc brought up after
American methods, in sympathy with the
ideals and ambitions of our experiment
in democracy.
But the great majority are not. Caste
is the social god to which they are taught
TO bow the knee, the whole trend of their
training being to develop in them a fond
ness for the foreign leisure class pursuit
of life and happiness, and TO regard 9th
er social standards as crude. The young
woman product of the finishing school,
who spends much of her time n the
capitals of Europe, finds in all of them
many men vino know how to be attract
i've socially-an art not SO well acquired,
because less practiced, even by the sons
Of wealth. in this country, where elegant
idlng is looked at more or less askance.
if not indeed with actual contempt. 1t
goes without saying that foreign society,
which was perfected long before the age
when the men of this country were fight
ing Indians for possession of the land.
must inevitably have developed many
Taces that newer social groups lack. and
8 i is not altogether surprising that when
daughters of rich fathers and ambitious
mothers are introduced to it they should
be persuaded that a distinguished posi-
ton in it is the highest and most cOvet-
able of worldly prizes. All social sys-
tens, founded upon and sustained by
privilege quite naturally breed a type of
men that conform to their environment
taking on at least part of whatever
charm the life possesses-and social
agreeahleness being second nature TO
them, because of their training. when
they 20 a wooing, with title to boot,
quite naturally they are distinctly per-
GRO TO tn ho fai 4 1apioa tpoi nnl
as she IS to regard nothing so well with
attainment as dazzling social distinction.
Moreover. it must be said IL her behalf
tlat nowhere in her own country does
she find such a thing as social democra-
cy the keynote of society as an institu-
ton, being here as elsewhere, exclusive
ness Everywhere she sees the fight for
admission going on ceaselessly and after
all the striving she knows that, so far
as brilliancy of position is concerned.
even those who succeed in the game here
md It not nearly so well worth the can
dc as it is in the land of titles.
1t is of course difficult for the Ameri-
can man to conceive how our native
girls can possibly be so thoroughly out
Of sympathy with national ideals as to
prefer men and life that represent alien
ana really feudal civilizations, but when
II Is considered that these young women,
even when they have the impulse to do
80 are discouraged from interesting
themselves in distinctively American
!leas' the fact that they prefer the feu-
dal type of thought and social life is
easily accounted for. While the part the
ac1 and socially ambitious American
sFi Is trained to play is ignoble compared
10 What she could achieve were she to
use her youth, beauty, charm and wealth
I9r the benefit of her own country, by
marriage with an American and by rear
ny her children to carry on the best ma
aonaI traditions. after all she is only
t su occasional unit.s Why try to crush
; ;aese butterflies on the wheel of patriot
+ ,s1i, since the country does not really
HISS them Vogue.
-O...O-
Inc Hard Lot of Mothers.
II IS asserted that women of educa-
WI, MN and intelligence refrain from mar
Te and from motherhood But, if
T nac1 be the case, why should we ex-
~ IN II to be otherwise in view of the
'Ni4' pflVatiOn and har5ebipS " binh