Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-25
FOR THE LADIES.
Girls Of Then and Now.

randmother. pardon my sympathy
brains, be thought. were lovers foes
A warrior maid is the maid for me-
knight Of a Rewfound heraIdry.
clustering. bold little suffragec!
Who pours inyectiye well as tea
A ils for the fairies of Yesterday,
A truce to the songs of the garden close
And siumhering loves by the summer sea
Give me woman whose Noes are Noes
4 warrior maid is the maid for me;
The china doll and the QuakercSs flee;
Vanished are Prudence and Coryphee,
My hearts reserved for a Phi. D.
\ Ii Z for the fairies of Yesterday!
L'ENVOI
Princess, the ballot is yours in fee:
"A warrior maid is the maid for mel
II you'H vote me oEly your slave for aye
fig for the fairies of Yesterday!
Chester FirFins in woman's National
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Fatigue and It's Consequences.
Luther Halsey Gulick. NJ. D., president
If the American Physical Education as
ISOLATION and director of physical training
in the New York schools. writes as fol-
lows in Good Housekeeping:
That great Italian Psychologist An
cello hloSso, has given an account in his
book on fatigue, of the arrival of flocks
uf guails on the sea coast of Italy on
their northward migration from Africa
The distance across the Mediterranean
is 300 miles or more and the bird covers
this distance in less than nine hours, fly
ing at the rate of eighteen or nineteen
Yards per second
When the quail sights land its
strength is almost exhausted Ii seems
TO have lost the power of recognizing OBJ
5octs, even though its eyes are wide open.
Every year vast numbers of birds dash
themselves TO death against trees, tele-
graph poles and houses on the shore
Those that have met with no accident lie
m0tIOniess on the edge of the beach for
some minutes as if stunned. They seem
TO have become incapable of fear, and
sometimes even let themselves be caught
by hand without trying TO get away.
When they finally awaken to theirexposed
condition they pick themselves up sud
denly and run for a hiding place. But
they do not fly. 1t is days before they
will use their wings again
We can see effects of a somewhat sim
liar kind in ourselves when we are ex-
haus+cd. | remember q certain ten-mile
bicycle race in which ! was contestant
/ had fastened my watch TO the handle
bars in such 4 way that l could keep
my eyes on it during the race Before /
had finished the fifth mile, l found that
1t was impossible for me to read the
watch hands. | saw them plainly enough,
and after the race was over / could recol-
in the course; but at the time | had lost
all faculty Of getting any meaning out of
them.
An incident of this kind suggests how
deep the effects of fatigue strike in It
IS easy to show by experiment that ia
tigue slows down the circulation, dulls
The nerves, lessons the secretion of the
glands decreases the power of digestion,
reduces the ability of the system to re-
cover from shock or injury, and makes
the body peculiarly liable to disease.
In other words, fatigue lowers all
the faculties of the body. The effects ON
the other part of a man are just as i'm
portant 1t puts a ehasm between seeing
and acting; II makes Il break somehow
between the messages that come in to
The brain from the outside world and
the messages that go out. 1t destroys
willPower. In every direction it de-
Teases efficiency, forcing the personality
down to a lower level.
Fatigue is destructive agent like
sickness and death. 1t is a condition
which in the nature of things we cannot
avoid, but it is important for us to know
what it means Cnd how to deal with it
II we want to keep out of costly blunders
When we are tired out we are not
ourselves. A part of us has temporarily
gone out of existence. What remains is
something which belongs to a more prim-
hive state of civilization.
tur personalities are built up IN
strata, one layer added to another. At
the bottom lie the savage virtues and
wees of our remote ancestors. The code
Of morals of cliff dwelers and hunting
tribes still holds there. At the top lie
the higher attainments of an advanced
SocIety-the things that have taken hun
dreds Of centuries to acquire. In men
patience is one of these, modesty is an
other; chastity, and a fine sense of jus
ice and personal obligation belong in
the list. too.
Now when fatigue begins to attack
the personality, it naturally undermines
these latest strata first. When man
IS exhausted, he finds it difficult to be
patient. That is not his fault. 1t is be-
cause fatigue has forced him back a few
hundred generations. His self-cOntrol IS
at low ebb. The smallest annoyances
are enough to make him lose his temper.
The same holds true of all the list Of
recent charter acquisitions. Many temp
tations are more violent and harder to re.
>lSt when man is fatigued. His moral
sense is dulled. He loses the yividness
OF his distinctions between right and
wrong, honesty and dishonesty.
We degenerate from the top down.
The last thing acquired is the first lost.
therefore bodily vigor is moral agent
IL enables us TO live on higher levels, to
Keep up to the top of our achievement.
We cannot afford to lose grip on our
The only thing to do with fatigue,
,4en, is to get rid of it as soon as posi-
h'e' As long as it is with us, We ought
10 realize that we are not our normal
selves and to act in accordance. Import
4h5 questions must not be decided then
IS bad time to make plans for the
fntare. 4 man has lost his faculty OF
seeing straight
Il IS often said that the best way of
getting rid of fatigue is a change of oc-
crpation This is usually true, but not
always A moderate degree of muscular
laHgue will not keep a man from taking
up something which will use his brain
a4a while his brain works his muscles
VII rest. But there is a degree of mus
mar fatigue which makes headwork i'm
possible.
The converse of this is also true. II
= mans brain is used up, hard exercise
IS nothing but a sheer drain upon the
system, and not in any sense a form OF
rest The central battery has run down
ne energy supply is exhausted 70
IFce anything more out of it is 10 XII
NE goose that laid the golden eggs.
lou cannot live well and keep happy
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