Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-05-27
wOMAN's WORLD.
Year.

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.n. teeps up her physical culture.
M MAYS basketball with her might;
.,,Tias Latin and algebra probtemS
md. 90, ; 20 bed early at night:
Wiz she likes is to dance until morning
IN r1,mes all frfy and pink.
-, ..s,ootr up the Drive ia 4 motor,
0r 10 csiy roll round at the rink.
She practices Grieg and Moszkowski.
l,horgh her brain wanders OF in 4 dream;
she eoes 10 hear symphony concerts.
Nj h Damresch eXpoun0ing the theme.
,yt.t he lies is the waltz OF the widow,
Gay two-s,ep that tlngle and STIR,
m. resonant chorus of ''bOOla,
IN the lay Of the Little Chauffeur
s,l,. ,,aes TO hear Julius Caesar,
Wifb notebook. not just as a lark;
ssba visits Greek casts in museums
And sketches bare trees in the park.
,lhaT She likes is Maude Adams as Peter,
or jolly good "Hippodrome" show.
roluraue to laugh with-and caramelS-
she il only a schoolgirl, you know.
-By Elizabeth Elliott in St Nicholas.
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An Indictment of Mothers.
There has been great interest mani
tested in facts that have lately been
made public regarding the American
white slave traffic. Much has been writ
ton in regard to it by those who con-
tribute to the Peoples Forum of this
newspaper Condemnation has invari-
.bIv bepn strong The writers have evil
IDENTIFY ransacked the dictionary for ex-
pressive, forceful adjectives with which
70 drive home the facts regarding this
infamous business. The traffic has been
repeatedly referred to as our nation 5
greatest shame and strange though it
may now seem, it is our intention TO
question this assertion.
Various estimates have been made as
10 the number of white slaves in the
United States. The figures are in some
respects contradictory, but of this Ee are
certain that the proportion of white
slaves to the total of the women who are
leading lives of shame is very small.
The white slave traffic should be stopped,
and stopped Immediately On that point
we are all agreed. But the work of ref
ormatIon viii not have been fairly begun
when that is accomplished. Every year.
more than 10000 recruits Join the army
of sinful women. Perhaps this state
ment astonishes you, and therefore we
pause TO say that this figure is considered
conservative by those who are familiar
with the conditions of social impurity in
all sections of the United States. And
where do these women-these young
women. these recruits-cOme from
From the slums? Yes i'll part, undoubt-
eddy, but in very small part. The major
ity? All, now you have hit at the vital
point The majority, if the estimates oil
careful investigators are to be credited,
come from the homes of the land.
Some one is responsible. Who is 1t! On
this point let us have the testimony OF a
noble woman who is at the head of one
of the rescue homes of a great city.
How many young women have you had
here?' she was asked. about POO" was
the reply. DO you know" the inter
viewer asked, whether these girls had
been taught by their mothers. before
leaving home, the proper care of them
elves. or warned as to what temptations
might be placed in their way The an
swer was emphatic. Il have talked with
each one personally the rescue work
er replied, land | can assure you that
although most of the girls came from vlr-
tuOus homes. not one mother hau thus
particularly warned ner daughter. and
only n few had given even the vague in
junction: BE good while YOU are gone
That is the indictment! Does 1t not tell
the parents of girls in words Il plain as
any thar we could use where much of
the responsibility lies for the 10000 re-
cruits who each wear join the army of
women in sinful life?-Woman's Nation
al Daily
Colleges and Women.
The head of Bryn Mawr college is a
profound. sincere, and brilliant woman.
Recently she has taken up the charge
that the college-trained woman is I'M
fitted for domestic life. Her inquiries
have convinced her that 80 per cent. of
college women do their own homework;
that though they marry later in life,
they marry more wisely; that they have
an average Of three and SiX-tenths chill
drcn, as against the non-college wOmen'S
three and fiye-tenths. Said The Spec
tator of POO years ago:
AS our English women excel those of
all nations in beauty, they should en-
deayor 10 outshine them in all other
accomplishments proper to the SEX and
to distinguish themselves as tender moth
erS and faithful wives rather than as
furious partisans. Female virtues are Of
a domestic turn"
Nobody doubts that the home and the
small childs care will always fall to
the woman. She is the more directly
responsible for the succeeding genera
ton. What is receiving heavy blows
ut present is the traditional and stereO-
typed idea that knowledge and intel
iectual training are less suitable to these
nigh tasks than are frivolity and ig-
horance.-Colliers.
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Teaching Women to Speak.
The price of admission to the class for
public speaking, which is held under the
auspices of the Equality League of Self
Supporting Women at 43 East Twenty
second street, New York, each Tues
DAY evening is a speech. At the
a3gi you are hidden to give name
aud address, and you may not
leave until an address has been delivered.
School teachers, society women, shirt
waist strikers, clubwomen - all ardent
Suffragists, of course - meet in a little
room on the top floor Of the Woman's
Trade Union building to learn the funda-
mental principles of elocution and to CON
Quer the common bugbear stage fright.
Under the supervision Of Miss Frances
Nelson the scholars begin the evening by
feciting Tennyson in unison and with APP
Ir7priate gestures. Inspiring as is THE
Nharge of the Light Brigade nothing
quite equals The Splendor Falls on
Castle Walls,'' as the little graceful ges-
lure accompanying falling splendor" is
30 effective, particularly when followed
ny And the wild cataract leaps in
glory Think of leaps" done in Del
Sarie-where you can sway forward with