The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

looked upon as negligible quantities.
children surely nave the right of a home
and of parents living in unity, but these
two. who think only of self. prefer not
to take this fact into consideration. and
so we see these unhappy children III
great numbers throughout America who
lack that greatest of all elements in char
acter building, a happy home.
In their very young days the hard prob
lem of Uncontrolled human passions and
tempers have found them out, and their
childish minds are i'll prepared to bear
such burdens. While it cannot be gain
said that divorce in many cases is right,
even so L ask the pity of all thinking
people upon the poor lost children of
the divorced father and mother, who so
pitifully early in life to lind
their earthly dolls stuffed with sawdust.
Louise Salterthwaite, in Exchange.
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American Husbands.
SIN America the vast majority of wom-
en- get no social help from their hus-
bands" says Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont in
Harper's Bazaar. "The latter take the
position that all the duties pertaining to
society belong exclusively to the wife.
little realizing the burden laid upon her.
Their own duty they consider fully dis
charged when they supply the funds
and present themselves at the appointed
hour, correctly dressed for dinner or
opera. Too often they fail to appreciate
the wife's intense ambition to represent
adequately their name, their fortune.
their standing in the community.
'The fulfillment of social obligations
by no means represents the whole of the
duties of a society woman's existence.
There is no end to the demands of
church work, charities, reforms and
every kind of philanthropy. Practically
each woman has one or more special OBJ
jects with their call for board meetings
and personal investigation and service.
With modern life has come the new de-
mand for ceaseless intellectual culture
through lectures on art, music, science,
and literature. In recent years this has
been supplemented by the desire to keep
abreast of current events, to understand
the problems of the hour, and this is at
tanned through constant attendance on
classes for their study and consideration.
To the culture of the. mind is added in
these progressive days the systematic
development of the body-woman enter
ing the field of athletics as an ambitious
competitor of man IL what has hereto
fore been his w exclusive domain.
Golf, tennis, riding, shooting, driving Il
motor, have now absorbed any fragments
of leisure that might nave been left to
women"
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Don't Hurry, Don't Worry.
There is an old Arabic proverb which
says that hurry is the devil. If this be
true, then surely worry must be his twin
brother, for almost invariably the two go
hand in hand.
The chief enemy of the mentality is
worry, of the body, hurry. Either of
these pernicious evils weaken the breath
ing apparatus, the result of which is
SpaSmOdic respiration, and spaSmOdic
respiration changes the chemicals of the
blood, reducing the red corpuscles and
impairing circulation.
When the body and brain CELLS are not
properly nourished vitality runs low and
the entire being suffers loss. Hurry and
worry shatter nerves and dethrone intel
lect. They are life-takers, and should
be stamped out.
J To these twin spoilers may be attribut-
ed nine-tenths of the illness, ~unhappiness
and general reStleSSneSS and misery Pc
culiar to our age. II business, social, or
domestic affairs do not move exactly to
our liking we should not worry about it,
nor Should we try to hurry matters.
Forced conditions cause d~isharmony, and
disharmony cause everything most to be
dreaded and avoided in life.
Nature never hurries, consequently she
never makes mistakes. She gives to ev-
erybody and to everything time, space
and opportunity for development. An
immutable law exists by which all things
in the universe are governed. When we
move in harmony with this law peace
and success attend us, but when we turn
law breaker, trying to- run things to
please ourselves. we always suffer loss.
The man or woman who hurries little
and worries stii less usually has an hour
for a friend, a moment for the stranger,
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them well.
We may condemn and ridicule the for
eigner for his slowness, his inactivity
and lack of enterprise. However, the
well-bred foreigners has time to be court
eous upon all occasions, a thing that we,
as a nation, are singularly remiss in.
We are prone to feel that the foreigner
has been born to polite conventions. Very
well, then, We who are not to the man
ner born should cultivate courtesy. If we
do not possess it by right of Inheritance,
then we should set about acquiring it,
for a life without courtesy, which means
kidneSS as well, is q selfish one-a dead
existence at best.
Be it known that foreigners look upon
us as freaks because Of our hasty pro-
cliyities. No foreigner ever hurries I'M
til after he has been in America. An
incident which aptly illustrates this fact
is told of a German who, after spending
some time on TINS SIDE, returned TO MS
native hearth. filled with unrest. His
friends looked upon him in amazement
What is wrong? Why this haste? they
inquired. The German looked p%erplexed,
and after a moments meditation ex-
claimed, 'Vy, l must hat A~mericanitis."
Hurry is the evil spirit which domin-
ates many of us by day, and worry the
incubus which by night drives sleep from
weary eyes and sends the blood galloping
in fiery rivers to already Overwrought,
half-fed brains.
Whenever we feel agitated, nervous
and irritable we should let down the ten
sion; we should relax and rest. This can
be done only by putting on the brake of
will power, thus posing the soul and
all its agents. We should not try to
cross bridges where will never be built
but in our Imagination; never borrow trou-
BILE, since for trouble to be troubled is
to have our trouble doubled"
Some poet has said, "Of all the hard
and weary loads meath which we bend
and fall, the troubles that never come
are the heaviest ones of all" Thinking
trouble invites trouble, thinking good in
vites good. We are the makers and the
breakers of our own lives. We are nag
nets, attracting to ourselves the very
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