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


Through al the years sustains. decides,
Prevents, and holds us TO our best
Her smile. Madonna-like ana pure
She on hCr sleeping babe doth bend,
Is Still the Steadfast lamp and sure
That lights our lives from end to end.
Her tears dear pearls of arice that fall
For pity of our childish pain,
Ia manhood are the balm for all
Our wounds, and make us whole again
Let her the fever and the FUSS
ForsakiBg, bar her part again.
To mother us and marry Us
And first and last, TO make US men,
Francis Medhurst, in Harper's Weekly
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The Contention Is Women's.
Woman's protest against woman's lib
GRAFTON from the trammelS of the past is
a highly interesting thing. 1t is worthy
in every way to be regarded. and it is
perfectly sure to be regarded, by men,
for the hearthstone" theory of womans
sphere is in harmony with most men 5
desires. The man likes TO think of a
cherished woman always in his home
and keeping i welcome for him when
ever he wants to return to it, no matter
how little he may choose TO be there
himself His ideal of the womanS con
tent is his own content. He likes to
Il
thought, to which she is willing to sac
rifce all other thoughts The woman
who wrote a recent pretty Song of Con
tent" and made it end with the follow
ing stanzas, expressed the mans ideal
of what the woman's ideal should be:
4 wholesome smell of bread new baked
The spinning wheels low hum;
These with hundred homely tasks
Make of her day the SUM.
Yet search the whole world thro and thro
Her happiness to match
Her drowsy babe upon her breast
His hand upon the latch
Beyond question the ideal Of most
women IS the ideal which has thus been
projected into their minds from the de-
sires of men. They are content to be
what men want them to be- The oueS-
ton which is now being agitated by "ad-
vanced' women is not at all the question
whether women who have this ideal
should abandon it--they do not expect
or ask them to abandon it-but as to
what should be the position of women
vino are not waiting for the mans hand
on the latch.
There is nothing more certain than
that our industrial development has
thrown a large proportion of our wOm-
en- into the market place with the men.
There is nothing more certain than thar
custom and circumstance have endowed
higher degree of cultivation than her
husbands and given be- more time to
think about the problems of society
There IS nothing surer than the spinning
wheel and the wholesome smelling home
baked bread have become obsolete in
American life. We may go a step
further, and say that there are now eX-
tremely few American men who main-
tain that women should not be exactly
us free as men to do what they want TO
do, or that constraint in any form
should be put upon their ideals.
So it is really question that women
have to answer themselves. The quar-
rel between the hearthstone and the
market place, or between the hearth
stone and the ballot box, must be fought
out among the women. We have fire.
quently noticed that mems foundations
of the new ideal for women usually
work in the opposite way from the way
intended. making converts for the new
IDEAL among women by the hundreds
1t is probably much better for men to
keep silent and let the battle go on.
truStin-, rather to the operation of prime
val instincts than to the effect Of back
action arguments-New York Mail.
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LET the Women Do It."
And now comes trouble-making man
with the suggestion that Uncle Sam en-
man says that capable workers of mas
culIne persuasion can not be employed
for the salary that the government will
pay its enumerat0rs-S2 a DAY ur there
about-and that the kind of men who will
apply for positions as census takers are
'ldlerS who are not seeking good jobs.
Therefore, says the man, let the women
do the work You see, ''they are accuS-
toned to accepting small compensation
for their services and if they take the
Jobs offered by the census bureau the
work viii be better done than could
be expected from lot of $2-a-day float
ers." Moreover adds a contemporary
which falls in line on this idea, most
of them (women, of course) have bet
ter educations than $2-a-day men, and
their work in every branch of human
endeavor is more painstaking and ac-
curate."
Now. there is not the slightest doubt
that if the next census were taken by
women it would be as well taken as was
ever point of order raised by an ad-
miniStratiOn man against an 'insurgent
in the House of Representatives-and
that. We know. is always well taken.
But this isn't the point If capable
men can not be obtained az census emu
merators at a salary of 81 a day, what
reason is there for assuming that women
would be particularly delighted to do
the arduous work at that price? II 81
is not enough money to rent masculine
brains. it certainly is unjust to expect
women of equal mental ability to rent
their brains for that price. 1t is on
this unjust principle that school boards
pay male teachers materially larger sal
aries than they pay woman teachers who
do exactly the same work that man
teachers perform The fact that the
women have heretofore been willing TO
do the work that men have rejected and
to do it for less than men are paid IS not
justification for presuming that women
will never rub the sleep out of their
eyes. They may be accustomed TO
accepting small compensation, but then;
Won know, one may become accustomed
70 a great many abuses in this life that
he or she does not intend always 70 sub
nit 10 meekly.-W National Daily
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Physical Culture for Young Girls.
In some recent remarks about exercise
for girls l recommended walking as the
very best thing they could do. a candid
friend with perhaps too keen sense Oh
humor and of her prowess at basket pail