Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-07

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They are what the jury says
indicate he damages,
judge.
Economical Women.
The greatest quality "A woman can nos
~ess rs t4~ify With it. in spite of tha
handicap Of sex she can go twice as rar
as man. Women have been savers If
money fron time immemorial. Their
speciality does not lie so much in maxine
it. Saving, however, has been the foun
dations Of most great fortunes. CONNIE
dore Vanderbilt once said that any fool
could make money; 1t took Il wise man
to keep it.
No matter how much money man
makes, If he spends it all he is no better
than the Verlest pauper, while the wom-
an who saves on a salary of $40 is n
capitalist and on the road to fortune
Whenever it is possible the interest
on savings should be reinyested, thus
making money earn money Money
earned in this manenr is all ''yeIyet." Il
is the product of self denial instead of
labor. But who would not 20 without
Injuries or few pretty clothes in order
To secure competence in old age. to he
a responsible member of society instead
of perhaps a derelict or at least a slave
Ia salary?
The people who plod on and on are the
people who have nothing saved. In this
world. as rule, employers do NOT give
the worker any more than they have 10
1t they can get a woman to work below
what she is worth they are going to do
it. And II woman has nothing behind
her, nothing that will enable her to tide
things over until she has q new position
she is naturally very nervous ahout ask
inS Tor the sum she is worth for fear of
losing her present position.
The habit OF borrowing money is one
which mas Kept more people down than
any other The borrower is like the
opium fiend-her life is unreal she il al
ways struggling beyond her means. she
never owns what she has. and she is nj
ways mortgaging the future.
borrowing is a habit-just that and
nothing else. If you have never Dor
rowed you will feel the utmost renug-
nance at doing SO. but if Won have SUE sue
cumbed the first step, you are never CON
tent until you repeat it.
The trouble with the borrower is that
she IS a luxury lover and has not learned
TO do without what she has not the mon
ey TO buy. Borrowing is 50 easy. The
borrower and the spender are both sad
victims of lack of self control
1t is self control and nothing but self
control, which helps us to win in this
world 1t enables us to keep our health.
and health is strength and power. Re
member that, my sisters
Self control enables us to keep from
flying. to pieces and giving the other fell
low the advantage. II enables us to see
life straight and master the forces that
would ruin us. In fact. it is the greatest
thing on earth.
The French are a frivolous nation A
Sour-faced English woman said to me:
They don't feel anything very deeply"
That shows how little she knew about
human nature. The people that laugh
and joke most are often those who feel
things the most deeply.
The women who go round with glum
faces are those who have very few or
very small troubles to bear. The others.
who have learned to wear a mask, are
those who really deserve sympathy
Providence Journal.
A Boy Needs Boy Friends.
Strange as it may appear, it is right
here. in this failure to recognize the ma
lure of her boys longing for companion
ship, that more mothers than we think
fail and more boys than we know are
harmed. Her knowledge of the possible
corrupting of good morals and manners
was less than her ignorance of an evil
attriti0n
4 young lawyer so years Of age.
college man of parts and promise, of ex-
cellent physical appearance and bearing.
sad to me not long ago, Il am satisfied
that my work is never going TO tell very
much
Why not?'' l inquired in surprise.
IN tell you. | know my law books
fairly well, but | don't know men. It's
too late. for me to begin" he added hast
lily, as l started to protest. Here | am
80 years of age and l ought to have be-
gun before | was 3. | was an only
boy and my mother never let me play
very much with other children. She
thought she was gLing to save me from
contamination, but what she really saved
me from was being normal. She was
always good to me and generous beyond
her ability, but no one will ever under
stand what | suffered when | went away
to college. | wanted to be liked, and
think l had it in me, too; but from the
very start | was 'queered.' If my moth
CT had not kept me from playing with
other boys | shouldn't be where | am
now" There was a note of bitterness in
his voice which the smile on his face
could not conceal; and hardest of all was
the knowledge that what he had said
was true.
And not only for the boys pleasure,
but also for the very best part of his
education, does he need his fellows.
There is nothing like the brutal frank
ness of boys with boys, and it is in such
associations only that he learns what
he is really worth. Defects, which the
father ignores or the mother condones,
there are called by their true names.
If the boy has been coddled at home, his
mates generously provide the antidote.
II he has been unduly praised, it is GER
tain the weakening process will not be
continued by ''the fellows" If he has
had his own sweet will, by vigorous and
sometimes compulsory methods he will
be compelled to recognize the rights of
others
Whatever may be the later successes
or failures. one thing is certain-that
no one ever passes for what he really
Is worth as does a BOY with his own
crowd. In all this world nowhere is
such exact and ideal justice found as
IN the dealings of boys with boys. Even
IN the nicknames they so freely bestow
upon one another the same law of innate,
almost instructive justice prevails, for
boys are like the original savages bestow-
ing the name upon the individual which
ne has earned. and no other; and the
name which at last is bestowed is far
more likely to be the true name than