Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-10

practicable TO get out Of ones own way
rs To pull oneself up by ones boot straps.
YET It IS Always more or less practicable,
and always makes for success. The wom-
an who learns to look ut lie imperson-
ally, for example. IS the one who sees
lie straight and walks most safely
through II. The woman who can put
away prejudice or nlQue j. the woman
VINO wins her way socially and person
ally. The woman Iyho loves others bet
ter than herself Is trad .Uonally and
eternally the most useful and most
blessed of women. 1t is Goethe's old
dctum over again, "Renouncew In that
lies the way to larger possession. The
moment that personal desire is re-
nounced. its place is open for larger ener-
gies and hopes. when half-gods go,
the gods arrive said wise Emerson.
Self is TO many the demi-god of life, con-
ditioning all steps, looming up in all
paths, and generally obstructive. Even
Self-sacrifce needs watching at times,
when it does not regard the real good of
others, but only its own impulse. Some
mothers, by such selfish unselfishness,
get into their own way as far as train-
ing their children Is concerned. In fact,
the ways by which self can thwart prog
reSs are legion, and have TO be dealt with
by each individual separately. But once
recognized under its Protean DISCUSSES,
once firmly and repeatedly shown the
door, what an access of power and of
content comes into life only those who
have tried it know.-Harper's Bazaar.
-O-.o-
One Wise Woman Has a crest Room"
A woman who is ID years old, and
looks only 30, sank back in a comfort
able chair and looked compassion ately at
another woman, who appeared to be
more than 10 years, although she was
three years younger than the youthful
matron.
You look as though you were dead
to the world declared the fresh-looking
woman, "and here l am, thvee years your
senior, feeling fresh and young. Know
why | do? I'm going to tell You.
Il have rest room. OF course, iG
you live in an apartment you can't have
one, for you can't get away from the
sound of domestic machinery. But in my
house | have reserved one room on the
third floor, and I'm not sure that Ii
doesn't cc"+a' die clements of perpetual
youth.
"Wht there and close the door I
leave hat | am to be disturbed
by nOthins, ass than sudden death in the
family or fire. That is an inexorable law
and any maid who infringed upon il
would be dismissed.
This room on the third story is queter
than one downstairs.
1T is furnished quietly. the walls are
gray, and there are soft green linen hang
ings. OF course, there are dark shades TO
keep out strong light for nothing is more
firing than light when one is fatigued.
The furniture in this room consists
of a few comfortable chairs of straw,
with green cushions aud one steamer
chair You can relax tremendously in
a steamer chair. Then, for entire ease,
there is a broad couch covered with
gray. 1t has green cushions. The color
combination is soothing to the eyes and
to the nerves.
ION the walls there are only three pic
tures-one large photograph of some of
the Swiss mountains 1t was grandeur
and is quoting in effect. Then there
is one of the ocean, a picture that is
pillows only-no ship is in sight. The
third is a wooded glade with sunlight
glinting down through the trees.
'On my table there are always two or
three books that can be read without
taxing the mind.
And in that room I rest. do not
permit myself while there to think of
troubles, and | am never disturbed. A
card hung at the foot of the stairs an
nounces to the Made that l am in my
retreat, and they say mot at homen
to visitors, be they social or businessl
And it keeps me young and fresh, for
never am utterly tagged. Try it,"