Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-05-06
WoMAN's WORLD.
Eorr ar Thought.


And should tell him, as he stood beside
This is oar Earth-most friendly Earth and
paIly its sea and shore through sun and
r,ifhflI K .urns, robed in it's azure air:
There Is biest living here, loving and serv-
And quest Of truth and serene friendships
But stay not Spirit. Earth has one de
Ills name is Death; fee. lest he dnd thee
here!
And what If then, while the sull morning
And freshened in the elm the summer 5
Should graveiy smile on me the gentle an
And fake ny mana and says MY name Is
Death. Edward Rowland Sill.
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The Great Blue Hall.
Discourage. with all the wisdom of
which we are capable, the mating of
the unfit; encourage far, far more than
we do now encourage, the mating of the
fit. So viii we bring aid to the anxious
millions of the future-to the children
of the vast, blue hall in Maeterlnck's
Blue Bird" the unborn children. They
wait in the unearthly light the unborn
children. each attending his summons,
each with some symbol of what he is to
do or II become in that life toward
which he is yoyaging. Time opens the
door. "YOu-and you-and you!'-
Wait, Father Time, wait until | get
my fathers birthday gift-the disease
| am to carry with me always! But
when he sees the grandchildren l shall
give him" wait wait, Father Time,
until l find the jug marked Old Bour-
honp'-'I can't come any quicker, sir,
I'm lame. Mother worked overtime
ten hours and half, and nine looms to
mind" And out they troop, the con
demned.
Verify womanhood is not without
b!emiSh; nor is manhood. Imperfect
trail. and furnished, are they both. But
as surely as l sit here in this sunny
window. writing these words, woman
has on her side the future, She is will
ing to rest her case with the unborn,
in the vast, blue hall, undulating with
light, sapphire as the sea or as the Ma
donna's robe. Il was weak, my children
weak and ignorant. | was a stupid
mother l did not know just how to go
about things-it was all So new. But
was | not right to make the fight! 1t
was for the right kind of a home for
yOu-and that you should have strong
bodies and clear eyes and a right spirit.
. my daughters, was | not right to de
yel0p myself, to make them give me
education, to make them give me liberty?
How could | use my powers until | had
trained them? How could l even find
that | had them until l tried? Where
could | try but in the place of trial?
Where could | get my training but in
the arena OF lie? There is none other
provided. Yea. l have fought with
beasts at Ephesus | fought that you
t,itylff ha faSr nd che ctr CT nd
free and wise. and : conquered!-O my
sons! it was for you, too, that | fought.
They say that in the long, long past, |
brought you in my arms, q sacrifice to
Moloch; that upon the Ganges l gave
You to the river, sacrifice to the croco-
die. | know not; my life has been very
long; l have done wild things. But oh,
million times more often have | been
the sacrifice! | have been the scapegoat
Of the world. But when | fought at
last it was for yOu too, that | fought.
| fought that you might be fair and
chaste and strong and free and wise,
and | conquered. For l would be the
mother, not of death but of life; not of
slaves but of heroes"
VIII she not have recognition in the
vast, blue halls? Yea, verify, she will.
And not she alone, the mOther-the vital
point Of this matter, the central figure
among women, the one almost solely inn
portant to nature, however it may be
with the end whom nature serves-but
those others VIII be welcomed, the wOm-
en- who have never married, who have
only helped other peoples children, who
have only served. They, too, reproduce
in their own way, but their children are
ldeas-brain children. Brain children are
OF great consequence in the future, but
they do not fill the human arms. Thus
IL Is the unmarried women are good sol
'hers In the wOman's war. They are
Stanch legionares; they make Il strong
coiorguard But the bearer of the col
orS Is natures masterpiece, and the
coloTS are-one says they are one thing,
and one says they are another To this
man the banner seems blood-red, to an
other 1T Is Il washed-out white a third
sees mere flag of revolt. fourth some
what wiser, the eagles of human prog
TGsS One cries, AN uprising of the
Helotsu' Another smiles. "PShaI
SIeazy piece of cambria! Vague feminist
ic discomfort" A spirit, in act to cross
from a higher sphere, might pause to
marx the approaching army; might say,
see the ensign - and it is babe
IN arms"
There will be defeats and victories.
Inc defeats lie nearer to us beyond
mem IS the zone of victory Even to
Gay IN the fight for the unborn babe
the allied forces are large. Men are
nShtlng, boldly and well. Women are
hshing; more and more and yet more
OF women. But their arms are anti
41ated If they had even an old
>mooth-bore musket or a Revolutionary
mint lock! but they haven't any weapon
at all-not what man would call a
weapon. They have a thing called I'm
direct influence" the indirection of which
Is extreme, indeed. 1t has been claimed
mat they are furnished with an ancient
y-40ebuSe called virtual representation"
Virtual representation? There is no such
iMng in the field of law. nor. | should
imagine. in any other field The cleo
'r is directly represented by the man
a' sends TO the Legislature. An army
'fps virtually represented" on the
Efueheld sounds somehow like some
.a.ns out of Alice in Wonderland -
ne arm the women want is the stand
ara one Of tested efficiency 1t is called
Ne 9,aIlot.-AIary Johnston in Atlantic
Monthly.
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