Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-04
WoMEN's COLUMN.
TaatIe Bateese.

Leetle Bateese.
Van bad leetle boy, not moche you care
IIo0 busy you're kipin your poor gran pere
Tin to stop you ey'ry day
ifsasin' dc hen aroun' de hay
~ don't YOU geey dem chance to lay?
Leetle Bateese.
az On dc feel you foller de plough
Bon ven you're tire you scare de cow
Sicbin' de dog till dey Jomp de wall
81 tC mill amt good Tor NOT ing at an
tg' you're only five an half dis fall
Leetle Bateese.
Too sleepy for sayin' de prayer tonight:
%cvcr min ! spose it'll be all right
Saw dem tomorrow-ah! dere he go!
I-1s' asleep in minute or So
Al he'll stay lax dat till de rooster crow,
Leetle Bateese!
ne, wake MS up right away toute suite
I1okin' for something more to cat
Maxim me tink of dem long leg crane
soon as dey swaller, dey start again,
I wonder your stomach don't get no pain,
Leetle Bateese!
nyt see heem now lynn deere in bed,
I 0ok nj De arm onderneat' hees head:
Ii be grow lax dat till he's twenty year
I bet he'll be stronger dan Louis Cyr
An beat all de voyageurs levin here,
Leetle Bateese!
les feel de muscle along hees back,
Won't geev heem moche bodder for carry
On de long portage, any size canoe.
nprpS not many ting dat boy won't do
For bes got double-ioint on bees body too,
Leetle Bateese,
But leetle Bateese! please don't forget
We raider you re stayin de small boy yet,
So chase de chicken an max dem scare
AM do wat you lax wit your old gran pere
For Wen you're beeg Teller he won't be
derc-
Leetle Bateese.
DIR. w. II. Drummond.
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Undervalued Work of Wives.
The economic value of women's work
in their homes is not fairly recognized or
appreciated. even by the men whose pro-
fession is supposed to be the administra-
ton of justice. That has just been
shown by the decision of Il judge of the
New York sessions court, on the com
plant of wife that she had been finan-
cially abandoned by her husband on the
plea that he could not support a house
hold upon wages of Sc week" The
man was discharged. and the woman's
complaint was dismissed with the curt
admOnitiOn: Let the wife go to work
for a living"
Evidently women in New York have
no share in the appointment or election
of judges That decision was based on
two popular fallacies in the minds of
men: First. that housekeeping and home
making are not work and therefore,
secondly, that the performance of these
does not impose upon the husband any
economic obligation. 1t was not stated
in the judges decision whether or not,
in that special case, the aggrleved wife
was, or was not, the mother of minor
children, nor whether or not the husband
To -,oY,
and comfort of a home provided at her
expense. Nor did the judge base his
decision on any such considerations He
simply accepted the estimate of wives
made by the United States census as
persons having no occupation" and mot
engaged in industry" But, as a matter
of fact, almost all wives engaged in do
nestle duties work harder, longer hours,
and more productivity than any other
class of labOrers, vet receive, instead of
wages, only food. clothing and medi-
cine'--to OOften, as in the present case,
not even these.
Is not the conversion of -four into
bread an addition to the value of the
-four? Is not the transformation of
the same industry for which the 'chefs"
in hotels and restaurants are paid in
4 mary cases larger salaries than are paid
to the president of Harvard university ?
Is not the expenditure of vitality in bear
q inc children and rearing them to matur-
n lty greater and more engrossing than
day labor in shop or factory? Is not the
81 resulting perpetuity of the nation and
81 the race more valuable addition to the
wealth of the world than the making
q Of clothing or the building of houses
1 Should not the woman engaged in the
rearing of children be entitled to q share
m the earnings of her husband, however
insufficient those earnings may be? Did
not this learned judge overlook the fact
mat married woman, unless childless,
has already a double task to perform,
Incompatible with work outside of the
home and that such outside work would
he' IN most cases, a cruel injustice to
her family?
Marriage. therefore, so far from plac-
ing the wife outside economic producers.
imposes upon her a double burden, which
entities her to an equal share in the
earnings of her married partner. Our
census returns tell us that only one fam
lily in ten keeps regular hired help. If
So nine wives out of ten are doing gen.
efal homework, even if no families Kept
more than one hired servant Does
u'uSeWork cease to be productive indus
lIy simply because a husband shares in
me beneficial results ?-WOman's Jour
nal,
Little Sermon to Girls.
Each one of us, then, must do these
Two things: understand ourselves, and
Understand others. 1t is not enough to
eiam the right of the individual TO
grow as he sees fit. 1t is lmpertinent
20 announce that my mother is behind
ne times" None of us can grow rightly
Il we grow rudely, defantly, wounding
unnecessarily, failing in kindness and
consideration. We may sometimes have
70 give pain, as when one changes a
SSHuF'h and so offends a parental preju-
cannot be irritable, the crisis is too vital.
qua 1t is Just because we do lack real
Convection in any stand we take that we
gro" irritable in little things. Convic-
I''u makes us serious. 1t is when we
nave only half thought out some subject
ror ourselves that we grow irritable, and
i EI,e unequal to the task of either en-
1hnSn oFs