Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Don't Let the
Song Go Out of Your Life.
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Though it chance sometimes to flow
In a minor strain, it will blend again
With the major tone, you know.
4 What though shadows rise to obscure life's
skies
Il And hide for time the sun;
NJ They sooner will lift and reveal the rift
81 II you let the melody run.
81 Don't let the song go out of your life;
Though your voice may have lost its trlll,
though the tremulous note should die IN
the throat,
Let it sing in your spirit still.
81 There is never a pain that hides not some
gain,
And never a cup of rue
81 30 bitter 10 sup but in the cup
Turks measure of sweetness, too.
q Oh, why should we moan that lifes Spring
Il time has flown,
Or sigh for the fair Summertime?
Inc Autumn hath days filled with paeans
Of praise
And the Winter hath bells that chime
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Let It ring in the soul awhile here,
N"u t Waen y2u so hence it shall follow you
And sing on in another sphere.
Then do not despond, and say that the fond
S"eet songs of your life have Town.
'qt II ever yoc knew a song that was true
ItS music is still your own.
kate r. Stiles, in Eternal Progress
~o.so-
Selt-Examination.
AL wad SOON power the gifue gle
us, 10 see oursels as ithers see us" sang
Burns. The idea is as old as human
thought. 1t is the basis of all the mys'
ferrous spiritual exercises which make
up the Hoga system. 1t was in the mind
Of the sage who wrote upon the walls of
Tue great temple of Delphos those ire
nendous words, Know myself"
Helt-eXamination is not self-knOwledge,
out It leads to self knowledge. Self
examination is not Justice, but it leads
70 justice; self-examination is not power,
. nut 1t leads to power.
!, by determination l do not mean
uIdl morbid introspection which is so
usual symptom of a certain stage OF
our mental growth. Such timid self
sonSclousness has in it too much of self
aeproach to be either instructive or in
ssplFlng' L mean an honest, straight
onward and impersonal examination of
eeEJaln acts of our lives-which acts it
uaheS little, large or small, exactly
WI |Hat did we do, why did we do it, what
eIect viii our action have upon our
s,fSIes' what effect upon other people,
cue probable reasons for that effect, and
50 on and so on.
ne art Of thinking, that splendid old
%a' winch the ancients thought so much,
81 Nalch even our grandfathers prided
oI-eulSSelVes, the art which gave us the
40 masterpieces of literature and
t|''EF-the art of thinking is almost a
, ,osl art. From the man of deep thought
tbaS,yt people turn in derision. "Old bore, "
M cry Look out, or he'll begin to
- gou that the nearest fixed star is
wlHlE millions of millions of miles
KY OF he will preach sermon with
H'49e OF grass for text"
P;;AiHL from the resI wit. the wit Of the
'-I"1eleu and the Sheridan type, most
~" turn IN fear. He's awfully clev-
ON ,Hey VIII say. But, you know,
M M never quite sure how to take him
49, people do not want thought; they
80 ciap-trap. They will not listen. for
uge' TO lecture on popular sci
-, nut they will follow fads to the
80 oI madness and sometimes over
tEcr verge. They do not want wit, but
r.,.s VIZ spend hours in gossip and vac
r... mental horseplay. | say this Of
arre,.t !agopie' Happily there are many
I'M AaI mainly because o. these excep-
~ w., people, and the entree i gives is
.+ T attention and respect. the power
i act persistent, logical thinking is a
greatly to be desired. Now. there
i viii mental exercise known to me that
r,-,- Nc rapidly develop the power Of
IF lie '1hsecutive thinking as the habit
Termination.
ars 'Sl' because in examining ourselves
& s. 'r own actions, their causes and
,ers-- we nave abundance of material
mrrs On hand. Second because the
IT, ueeply we examine these things
Ss more interesting they become.
Il nh nination leads as to be just
'->''ce means justice not only to tie