Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-21

True 10 life ana e ad TO I'VE;
10 he watchful and to be
Rich with noundlesS charity;
To he humble in success,
Strong Of heart in bitterness,
Tender. gracious, thoughtful, good
in eur man-and womanhood
To be smiling; to be glad
For The yesterdays we've had;
TO he grateful all the way
For the beauties of Today;
To lee hopeful and to see
In the days that are to be,
Bigger. better, broader things.
Robes Of purple. crowns of kings.
"A. d. Bismarck, in Golfers
$3.50
What We Remember.
Memory is the ability, or power, to re-
call the events of the past. No one re-
members all the things that happen, and
what we do remember is to a certain ex-
tent an index to our character, for we
remember those things which seem to US
the most important, or in which our
minds like best to dwell. The optimist
recalls all the bright and pleasant scenes
Of life. and let's his mind dwell ON them,
while the pessimisU prefers the gloomy,
depressing scenes. The child who mem
orizes easily at school is the one who is
interested in the lessons enough to give
them undivided attention while study
ing, and to recall them to mind often
perhaps while walking home while do
ing chores, or after going to bed at night
This child generally becomes recognized
as being smart" while the child slow
10 mem0riZe is dull" But this alone is
a very poor test, and we often do
great injustice to the supposedly ''dull''
child. 1t is quite common for the
smart child to be actuated by no
higher impulse than to win appreciation,
or to push ahead of classmates, and,
in point of fact, the seeming faculty of
mem0rizmg easily indicates nothing so
far as real ability is concerned. The
dull child may be observant of and
interested in things quite as intrinsically
important for his future welfare and
happiness.
Dreamers. fiction writers and poets
usually have nOticeably poor memory
for actual events, except such as they
may expect to weave into their writings.
They occupy their minds with their fc-
titious events and characters. The do
lngs OF yesterday may be wholly passed
from the mind of an author or an in
ventOr. because the book or machine en-
crosses the entire attention and trivial
actual events are never, recalled to mind,
On the other hand, a business man may
recall every trivial circumstance that
happens at his office for a month, or a
year, or more. 1t is the interests of
his business to do this, and he makes
1t his business to be alert to all that is
transpiring. If the business man and
the author should exchange places and
each should become intent on success
III their new vocation, their faculty for
remembering would also exchange places.
A politician is quite often said to have
q gltt fdf remembering faces and names.
II is not a gift, it is 4 trick of the trade,
The natural vanity of the ignorant de-
nights TO be recognized by those supposed
TO he higher up, and politicians train
themselves to be alert TO notice the fea-
lures and the name when introduced to
a person, especially if the person hap
pens to he one liable to have some power
in Swaying votes. They make il their
business to recall these faces and names
to mind occasionally. perhaps having a
regular time to do so.
Old people often complain that they
have lest their memory, but such is not
usually the fact Youth dwells in the
present and the future, but age dwells in
the past The aged occupy their minds
in bringing UP the vivid scenes of their
youth, and on these the memory seldom
fails. In the passing events of the day
they have little interest, and such as
they deign to notice usually suffer by
comparison with similar events of fifty
or sixty years ago. Occasionally an elder
ly person, realizing the spirit of progress,
and refusing to believe that all changes
from the time of his youth are necessar-
lily for the worse. keeps alive his interest
in the family, the neighborhood, the
state and the world. And while not
wholly renouncing the past by retaining
an interest III the present age. he retains
a memory. a vigor and Il spirit supposed
to belong almost wholly to youth. We
must all face the fact that without age
and death, evolution would be impossible.
Ia1lt. in IFN.hlnpn
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Mental Attitude.
In one of the current magazines is a
very helpful little lay sermon on the sub
ject indicated by the caption of this edi-
toral The author insists that the in
justices, or apparent injustices, Of life
are magnified or minimized according as
we look upon them. She speaks of
poverty.
The young married girl who has had
her dream of love in a cottage turn out a
treadmill Of hard work, with a burden OF
worry thrown in, really finds herself III Il
position of crucial difficulty. She comes
pretty nearly being a prisoner to clrcum-
stances. She has to work too hard
she is obliged to TASK for money" from
source of meager supply. She must see
her children wish for things they cannot
have and herself shabby while hel
friends flaunt in fnery and wear jewels
One can fix up a pretty forlorn picture
out Of this if one is minded to, but there
Is one way to beat this game of life's
mJustice-0ne way Only-and that Is 10y
The mental attitude.
No one can control that. 1t is your!
and yours alone. No one can make yoJ
unhappy if you refuse to be unhappy
Others may conduct themselves as they
VIII, ignore you, seek to insult you, de