Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-03-25

ada 10 the pleasure Of your journey. but
10 taem u great kindness as well. /
can remember half the scores of fell
lows We persuaded to Join me in ten
or m jeen-miie walk. and not one Of them
Ialled to confess that the journey mad
done him 10 end of good And If Won
are 50 unlucky that You must 90 alone.
take only pleasant thoughts with YOU.
Don walk III city streets il YOU can
possibly avoid it. Get our in the country,
Win your feet on the kindly earth, ne
friendly sky all around you, among the
trees ana the grass. with Il stream and a
rev hlrds To sing To you now aud rhen
no" can any human creature 20 on a
nrlsh. swinging jaunt among these cheer
ing influences and dare To have the
Dlues You can't keep from feeling eX-
hliarated
Neither. dawdle nor try to break the
records of the champions. Be brisk, bur
doh make any task of your walk Don't
ne AFRAID 10 swing your arms from side
70 sue dlagonally as you advance. You
may save the nice, dainty, lady-like stiff
ness OF the arms for formal occasions,
put when you are really walking put a
LOT OF power III the full swing of the
arms before you as you go. The arm
swing makes the effort of walking seem
easier. and it is fine exercise for the alb
dominal muscles, strengthens them and
an the internal economy | never knew
the great tonic value of it until | cues
toned several champion pugilists l had
observed at their training. OF course,
none OF US seeks to acquire the muscu-
lar equipment of n pugilist. True. But
ne doesn't walk to get muscle. He walks
Tor health. stamina. efficiency. SO you
see that his object is the same as ours.
Al the end Of the walk be sure to have
tepld bath, followed by a cold shower.
or at least a cold sponge, and brisk
fuD-uoWn with coarse towels. Then rest
nan an hour or so, and observe with
what zest you will enjoy your next meal,
ENJOY every moment of the next few
days of living. Many a time have |
fe!t blue, but forced myself into opti
mlStlc mood by putting on a cap, sweat
er: and hannels and taking good twelve
mile hike over country roads. Not that l
advise twelve miles as a good distance
for soft girls or any of the great army
OF the unframed. Begin with short
walks: Don't over-exert. A brisk,
swinging, cheerful half-mie is better
than twO-mile jaunt at a forced and
painful pace.
Don't overdo any exercise. Be careful
about this, for the folly of OVERRIDING lis
the bane of American athletics. In
brief space like this there is not room
to enumerate in detail all the forms of
exercise suitable for girls. Chief am ing
them | should recommend for girls be-
tween Is and 80 swimming, riding, shat-
ing. tennis. golf, moderate rowing, Caboo-
ing or bicycling Lifting heavy weights
or using heavy dumDbells is dangerous.
So are all games of strife, such as basket
ball, hockey, etc. Above al, let your
exercise be interesting and entertaining
and don't think of doing anything ath-
letic without first taking the advice of
wise hysician.-W iliiam Iaglis, in
Harper's Bazaar.
The Ideals of Our Mothers.
As for the difference between us and
our mothers, of course we all begin by
protesting that if we can ever hope to do
our duty as well as thGy did our con
sciences will acquit us. Who of US
women. in our comfortable living, dare
compare ourselves to our mothers? They
did not talk about their rights" they
fulfilled them-in taking care of their
families. They did not talk about re
FORMS they would have thought inter
ference in muuicipal questions, and agi-
tati0n for legislation, most unbecoming
and unIela;nine. They had-bless their
dear hearts!-a gentle and ladyli1e ire
sponsibility in regard to the world lying
in darkness in city halls or legislative
hambers-thOugh they gave their pen
MES toward the saving of souls in dark
Africa, with a true, even tender enc
ton, to which most of us are strangers.
No: the mothers of forty or fifty years
ago had no theories about improving the
world Except the heathenl outside their
own respectable doors; but they had
strength, ami patience, and tenderness.
and courage, and selfessness. Chat, l
think, would be the name of their ideal
-seltishnesS.) Can we remember that
Selhessness. and see no difference be-
tween it and the present feminine indi-
vidualism? - Margaret Deland. in At
lantic Monthly.
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Sphere of Woman.
Now that the subject of womans
sphere is so much to the fore, some ideas
on that subject which have been cleaned
from the records of sixty years ago
by Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell are of consider
able interest Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale,
the editor of GOdey's ''Lady's Book"
was a progressive woman, says Miss
Tarbel IL The American, working hard
for the medical education of her sex
and other advanced things, but, like most
of the women of that time. she held fast
and literally to the Biblical theories about
women. But she had an ingenious way
of squaring these theories with her own
belief in w0man's qualities. The first
chapter of Genesis, she held. for in
stance. didn't show that the creation Of
woman was an atterthOught; on the
contrary. it showed that superior care
and preparation were used in forming
woman.
Mrs. Hale says Miss Tarbell, consid-
cred that woman was Goods appointed
agent nf morality" and that anything
which led her away from that mission,
any assumption of Intellectual profess
sional or industrial equality with man,
obscured 'her real and high calling"
That appeared to be the view of most
American women in the '40s and sos.
They seem to have been wrapped up
in their homes. their husbands, their so
cial circles and their churches, and to
have no warnings for the ballot, yet
they we're not incapable, it would seem,
Did not Cornelia Wells Walter take
entire editorial charge Of the Boston
Daily Evening Transcript from 1S43 to
1S4S? And what woman Of today could
show more bravery than Mrs Hale. who
on finding herself, in 1921, a young
widow with five children and no money
with which 10 support them, set to
work her baby in her arms, to earn
their living with her pen?
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Outdoor America.
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