Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-30

When you think yourself looking fine:
MlilY, stop squinting;' Margaret, get
away from that frown:" Don't be COW
l9let But endure it as you would a
bad medicine.
There is no remedy too severe in the
interest OF restful face in this day of
distortions. Plain features that are quiet
as nature planned them have more real
! beauty than Greek nose, a perfect
mouth. and inspiring eyes that are al
ways in motion.
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Paying Women Less.
In deploring the fact that women are
usually paid less than men for the same
work, many writer's overlook certain
points which are necessary to a Just
consideration of the question. AS no
one individual or corporation, more than
another. is to blame, it is the world in
general that must be blamed or justified
With many notable exceptions, the world
tends to frame its customs so as to work
out the greatest good to the greatest
number. The individual must be for
| ever secondary to the common good
The question may then be stated thus:
Can we blame the world for not encour-
aging women to give up the proper fem
mime ideals of home making by making
them even-handed competitors with men
NN'fNA L
especially needs two things, more and
better homes and more and better peo-
pie. Is it to be blamed for not framing
its customs to attain those ends? If
1t be denied that this general result is
good, then it may be denied that the
means to gain it are good. But if it be
| admitted that the general result is the
right one, then the world is justified in
not encouraging too great a divergence
from whatever will conduce to that end
The world is justified in saying to wonl-
an: For you, business IS bur q pre-
| paratory school. stepping stone, a par
tial service. Your real work is to be
wife and mother Be employed at any
| useful work so long rs that seems best
Tor you individually, but remember that
you are endowed with higher capacity
| for service, and there is need for your
work in the home" To give emphasis
to this dictum, and TO keep it hourly
fresh in mind, the world, perhaps wisely
and kindly, declines to encourage wOm-
an overmuch to prefer an independent
| life.
1t is difficult if not impossible. to
speak in general terms of the problem of
women in business without seeming to
countenance many fragrant wrongs. In
presenting this view it is not to justify
any known injustice The reader may
| have in mind. but to AFT 1rd a perspective
which may enable us to consider univer-
sal endencies.-C0llier's
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Making the Best Of Things.
A man of large affairs who had won
great renown in his profession, was
asked his secret. II have none," he re-
| piled, unless it is tnat ] never admit
| failure. treat every group of circum-
| stances, good. bad or Indifferent. as if
| it were a game of chess, and / try to
| find the move that under those condi-
! tons seems inevitable" Such an atti-
tude masters circumstances, whatever
| they NAV be-
| a factory girl in a college town. partly
| as a result of the poison she had
! breathed in at her work, was struck
| down by n disease that makes her abso,
| lHtely helpless except as she is moved
mechanically. She might have had only
the charitable pity which her condition
would warrant. But instead, she has
made her sick room such a center Of
! cheer and inspiration that people visit
| her as they might royalty A club of n
| hundred college girls find in her constant
! stimulus, and the whole town is the bet
ter for her bright coura geous spirit. As
a factory girl, they might never have
! heard of her. But, crippled and appar-
| emily out of the race, she has used to
/ the utmost the one talent she had and
| chosen the attitude of mind that makes
! her life a glory.
Usually, however, our trials are NOT
so dramatic Everyday character tests
! seem rather stupid oftentimes. not
| nearly SO interesting as those done be-
fore the public. But because we can
make heaven or the reverse out of the
very same materials, and because the
materials for our earthly heaven. at
| least, are just these humdrum incidents.
our point of view toward them is per-
haps the most important of all.
A friend of mine had a very hot tenn
per, which she could not indulge without
severe nervous disturbance afterward.
| She decided that it was not only i'm
moral, but destructive to health to give
way to it, and set about reform. Soon
afterwards she ordered q new gown for
wedding, which the dressmaker prom
| Used. by all that was sacred, to deliver
on time. She did. She sent it at the
last moment to the train half finished.
| Ordinarily there would have been an
explosion which would have spoiled the
day for my friend and everyone with
| her. But this time, instead. she sought
corner of the staterOom and through
out the journey TRANQUILITY put in
stitches where they would count most
| When she reached her destination she
was basted into her gown, and in
stead of suffering fortunes with a nerv-
1 OuS hon dacha ms n rpSuIt of her uSua |