The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-09

and hasty retreat.
! No. . is more successful-in fact she
/ speaks so luently that her audience does
not feel constrained to listen and keeps
on an independent flow of conversation.
Speaker protests and insists upon unre-
served attention which she gets after her
TWO minutes are up.
! No. 3 has taken the affirmative,
against her will. and is continually on
the verge of forgetting her forced point
of view. She lapses into the expression
of her own private opinion, but with
timely hints from the audience she sue
ceeds in making strong plea for the
throwing of bricks at the obtuse heads
! of all men. No. defaults after saying
ami so forth and 'er-er' interchange
ably, but Nos. 5, 6, and s insist upon
| talking overtime. What is more the last
two work upon their minds in order to
get another chance at a speech and talk
on both sides at once. No III, urged to
! ly:
"Oh, yes, all right but I'm talking
now" No. IL speaks to the ceiling,
pulls down her belt at regular intervals
Tor emphasis, but ends up by quoting q.
i b. Shaw and sitting down amid glori-
Gus ovation.
If my male friends could hear me talk
suffrage" said the last speaker on the
defense, they'd sure think / was luna
tic. don't know anything, but I'll talk
all the same"
AS the budding orators here present
are of the opinion that no POSTMASTER
ever introduces speaker without saying
1T gives me great pleasure" they are
learning to avoid that phrase by making
half minute introductions of their right
hand neighbors. Naturally when some
thing is taboo the temptation to use it is
doubly strong, and so each was on the
verge of taking the pleasure" Miss
Jones, however, was ingenious. 81 have
ing begun Il take great pleasure" cor
rected herself by saying, ''No, don't"
1t was long past 9 when the extern
poraneOus speaking began last week,
but no one seemed to mind a little thing
like that. With helps, hints and sug-
gestions they all managed to fill a part
of their allotted two minutes in discours-
ing, learnedly upon a variety of subjects,
such as Automobile Accidents" "A
Stitch in Time Saves Nine,' ''Black
Cats and Luck" wireless Telegraphy"
and "Chivalry in Street Cars Not the
least interesting part of the programme
was the final mutual interchange of
criticism which gives joy to the heart of
all womankind.
So successful have these classes been
that Miss Ida &. Craft is opening a
similar school for Brooklyn at the Inter
urban Suffrage league.-New York Sun.
Friendship.
1t would be dreary world indeed
were friendship to be obliterated from
which blooms at all seasons; the per-
fume which delights the senses: the
wealth which thieves cannot steal; the
comfort of our declining years and the
foretaste of that heaven which we all
hope to reach.
Have you a friend? Fasten him to
your heart with ''hoops of steel" Be-
lieve in him. trust him as he trusts you,
let never breath of suspicion come be-
| tween you. Allow no one to interfere
in your friendship, and listen to no vague
hints or inuendoes against him. If the
years have tried him and found him
loyal under all circumstances, be loyal to
him.
1t is often said there can be no real
friendship between a man and woman;
that the question of sex always enters
! in and the feeling must turn to love Or
cease altogether. l do not believe it.
We have instances of many such pure,
lasting friendships in the lives Of noted
men and women, and we have known
of them among our own acquaintance.
True friendship knows no sex, nor time
nor place. 1t is the attraction of one
soul to another, unhampered by exter-
nal considerations. and its fire will burn
clear and unquenched throughout life I'M
| less meddlesome hands destroy it and
leave only dead ashes in its place.
| -o.o-
Enough Sleep for Children.
| Jean Williams, M. D., who is conduct
! ing department of advice to mothers
/ for Woman'S Home Companion, says:
| mo cav fpw words IN tho h.
ers who forget that their growing chill
| dren need long sleeping hours, in order
| that healthy growth shall be continued
and well organized nervous system be-
come established. 1t is especially i'm
portant that good judgment shall be ex-
ercised during puberty. Great physical
demands are made at this period, and
| the wise mother makes every effort to
| avoid for her children unnecessary dissi-
| patton of energy.
| 1T is not easy to state definitely the
number of hours of sleep required, as
| there are individual requirements that
| will materially modify any rules; still
we may safely say that in the great ma
jority of cases after early infancy, when
the normal child sleeps most of the time,
at least twelve out of the twenty-four
hours should be spent in sleep. Until six
years of age the daily nap SHOULD be
added to this. The twelve hours of sleep
should continue until the tenth year, and
longer if the child is delicate or of es-
pecially sensitive nervous organization.
From 10 to II years, ten hours of sleep
are usually required, and often twelve
would be advantageous; from IA until
full maturity the sleeping hours are, as
rule, more irregular than at any other
period of life, and then the effort must
be made to compensate for the short
hours by longer indulgence when oppor-
tunity offers, remembering that few have
the endurance TO cope with the complex
ties of modern life and thrive on less
sleep than a daily average of eight
hours"
Every Day Trials of Life.
Occasionally there comes a day when
the disagreeable things forget to hap
pen. On such a day we busy ourselves
up with a fine philosophy. Optimism
our guide, philosopher and friend. Never
again will we be trivial enough to allow
the little disagreeable things of life to irk
us. We look back with pity on our cow
ering selves of yesterday. We remember
how we trembled before some ghost Of
a might be, how we quivered under a
fancied sting, and how each hour of the
day brought us some reproach, some
fear, or some slight. Today, like Metz
che's Superman, we are striding over the
high mountains and the little tragedies
of life mean nothing to us.
Some inner whisper may tell us that
we have experienced this mountain climb
ing before, and that it was invariably
followed by a tumble into an abyss of
crouch and gloom; but we push the mem
DRY away from us and go on our way
rejoicing and the sun sets upon our OPP
timism and the next day it rains and
we wake with a headache and the coffee