Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-25

coded, in imitation of ourselves. 1t has
often been said that. in marrying, the
American girl ends her period of fun
freedom. resigniug herself to restrictions
and limitations she has not hitherto
| known; while the frenchwomen. in con-
trast. not only gain greater freedom
| through marriage, but sometimes mar
ries solely in order to have greater free
dom. While America is the kingdom of
the girl. Europe is the married woman's
paradise, the empire of the wife But
venerable and most mysterious Asia is
me realm of the mother. the old w0man's
hlngdom. This is as true in India as il
IS III China or Japan. The mother of
grown sons enjoys extraordinary dignity
'nd honor She is 4 family goddess. a di-
VINE oracle. The belief in her almost in
spired wisdom IS implicit. sincere and
mai; and she is held TO come by this
wisdom through a kind of intuition, run
nng ahead Of the mind and its expert
ence; a kind of absolute faculty, we'll
nigh supernatural. 1t was Kwang-Su's
nllal reverence for the Dowager Empress
of China which put that great realm in
her power for Il generation, and, like
charity. covered a multitude of sins. 1t
Is the same reverence for millions of far
worthier women. the mothers of all Asia,
which is the determining factor in many
drama, social, political and even dynas-
tic. When we were ut Murshidabad the
good old NaWab held the esteem and de-
clded liking of the whole English colony.
He was the head of an immense semi
royal settlement. the young folk of his
Iamly even having college to them
selves, so numerous were they. He had
body of soldiers to keep guard at his
palace. and unnumbered retainers gor-
geously colored as the Arabian Nights
Yet this great and good man would
never venture on any important act with
out consulting his aged grandmother. 4
queenly old lady, who had been the wife
OF NaWab with far larger dominiOns
ana powers. He had for her the deepest
and most unfeigned yeneration: and the
words of this white-haired old lady, who
had never seen the outer world and
whose views We're all CLEANED behind the
veil in the seclusiOn of the harem. were
to him very Oracles And much the
same is true of every household in In
dla. whether Hindu or Mussulman. The
father may reign, but the mother or the
grandmother rules; rules. be is said, i'll
virtue of her lifelong abnegation and
obedience, through a purely spiritual
quality Of poise and stillness.-Raja
Rama, in Harper's Weekly.
-O-.'O~
One of the Promises
Lift your eyes to the hills and help win
come. That is one Of the promises Be
thankful incidentally that you live
in a billy region. How some folks are
going to lift their gaze to the hills when
they dwell in the marsh lands. or ON the
plains or on deserts and sand dunes
is a problem. And there are lighthouse
keepers surrounded by watery waste,
and those who follow seafaring for
life, and the dwellers on the dead level
of falkland. There are no hills for some
folks except hills of difficulties.
But who knows but what help may
come even from the hills of Difficult
| ties. AT any rate the promise stands.
Lift your eyes to the hills and you
shall experience relief You have been
| brooding too long with your gaze fixed
on the fire until your optics are scorched
| in the sockets. You have been weep
| ing so long that your eyes are yelled
| with \ film of mistiness and can scarce
| ~ distinguish the red end of your nose
| You have been peering and prOwling
into dark, dismal corners until your
| whole sense Of vision is biased and
cross-eyed. Lift up your eyes to the
| hills, even to the hills of difficulties, any
uplift is better than a close, distorted
range of vision, such as you are enter
! tanning.
! You are straining your sensitive sight
| over the wearisome account books, you
are forcing your tired eyes in the long
| hours of lamp light, you are working
! your delicate vision over Web-like needle
work. or at the writing desk, or the intri-
cate handicraft; in the purely physical
sense YOU are willfully attempting to
blind yourself. Lift up your eyes to the
! hills. even the hills of difficult ascent
over which your thrifty tendencies rebel
as a climb misspent; but any sort of a
diversion, even the eleyating of an eye
| lid, is better than the bandaged, blind
mans buff game you are playing with
yourself.
| Lift up your inner vision to the hills,
even though the hills are snow-crowned,
frosty and apparently without life or
prospects. The view is immensely more
inspiring than the dreary cavern of your
own doubts and fears, or your selfish
ambitions and desires Lift up your in
ner eyes, any sort of a higher view
point is a strengthener to cramped mus
cles and brings about expansion of
nerves and ideas.
The minute you sit down and brood,
the minute you force your physical sight
to focus in one set or restricted place,
the minute you turn your inner vision
on the one small insignificant vanishing
point known as self" just that minute
you begin to lose out, so to speak. Lift
your eyes to the hills and lift them
as quickly as you can. lhIC your VISION,
even though the hills be hills of diff
culties. even though the hills may be
merely the cloud heaps in the heavens,
or the foaming dash of mountainous
waves. or the tall grass of the crested
plains, or the heaped up duties of daily
life. lift your eyes to the hills!
In other words. lift yourself out of
yourself: lift yourself out of the Slough
Of DespOnd; lift yourself out of your
willful disregard of physical nature and
its laws for eyesight is a precious boon;
lift your thoughts to a higher plane.
Lift up your eyes to the hills and your
help will come-Cara Reese in Elk
change.
Cupid's Festival.
The day given over to the reign of
| Cupid is a fayOrite one Tor entertaining,
and there are endless ways to make the
festival memorable, but a Valentine eve
party or luncheon generally affords the
best opportunity to do homage at the
shrine of the patron saint of love.
No matter what the affair may be,
there are certain little valentine touches
i'm the way of decorations that will add
greatly to the success of the entertain
ment. From the moment the guest en-
ters the heart bedecked door until she