Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-24

about and wearing out their nervous
energy. They take their walks In
church attire, With high-heeled OK
fcrds and gauze hosiery on Sunday
afternoons upon public thoroughfares
where they may be seen of men,
Much good energy is also frittered
away by the girl in studies which Will
nerer be of any use TO her: While the
spine grows curved, the chest fiat, the
lung space decreased, during the pur-
suit of these mathematical chemical,
astronomical, and heterogeneous
branches, related to nothing in her fu-
ture, while all the while within her is
the silent yet positive conviction that
she will be married woman at the age
of twenty-five or even earlier. How
strange it is that it requires so many
''ologies'' to secure a husband and So
| little of that material will hold hin
after marriage ''She starts out on
| her married career says famous
woman writer las if on a lifelong
Joyous holiday, devised for her person.
al happiness. Happiness in her mind
means good time, ease, opportuni
ties for self-culture, money, possess
sions, the exclusive devotion of her
husband She is like yoyager, who
starts out on a great sea with no
other chart than sailors yarns, no
other compass than Curiosity She
has ''scrappy" education regarding
this new relation, derived from SER
wants, inquisitive playmates, or the
gossip overheard in her mother
society. All else is a sealed book I'M
til she, all unsophisticated, is plunged
into the relationship.
| Once married, woman cannot shirk
| the economic side of life, small as ii
| NAV seem to her She must know
something of what is ADDING IN hel
own kitchen or she is an ignoramns
In her study of domestic science
either at school or at home the aver
age girl needs much more knowledge
of how to make bread, biscuits, corn
bread, graham bread, and cottage
pudding, how to prepare plain vege
tables and meats than she needs tC
know how to make fancy salads, fruit
cakes and elaborate concoctions of so
called foods, whose innumerable anC
nameless ingredients are all finally
rescued from the inspection of morta
eye by coyeret of whipped cream
Besides making the dishes which ap
pear upon her table she must bu,
the ingredients for them. Women are
truly the spenders and they SHOULD
consider it a business of as much i'm
portance as is the earning OF money
! Here she may develop the finest kline
of training in thrift, managem ent
and quality of selection and no school
would have any influence upon Cir
once reared in a home where such
training had been well done. | have
in mind two families in Madison who
had no need of domestic science
schools because of the very efficient
home training.
| think sometimes that it is wo
mans limited sphere that checks hel
IenergieS in so many lines that she
finally will find an exit somewhere
and so her imagination runs riot in
the widest creation of new and com
pick tastes and structures in foods
and also in the most bizarre combina-
tion, arrangement and array Of colors
up and down and across the front OF
back of coat and waist; ruffles of al
gradations, stuck to the front or sides
of gowns without regard to direction
or harmony; invisible waists that re-
veal vista after vista of visible trump
cry beneath. Skirts which are SYM
I bolic of woman'S limited world with
a possible exit through a slit in the
front, through which style demands
that she do not escape, but merely
kick at intervals petticoat of fam
| ing red, green or blue so that no one
m. y be in doubt that the victim is
swathed in silks which talk much
louder than the outer garments, for
is there not proof positive of it as the
sample appears and disappears through
the mysterious show window in fronts
Hats are decorated with various-col-
ored feathers combined with nc
thought of blending, or harmony as
much as TO say: "COck-a-doode do
See me. You may not admire, but
you cannot help but notice me-"
Now our girls are reared in this be-
wildering atmosphere of foods, and
fashion in dress and spend valuable
hours, days and weeks in the contem-
plation of these nightmare combina-
tons Should not their attention be
called at least to styles which are
productive of loose morals that they
may be avoided? Should not some
attempt be made to cultivate the ar
tistic in them, harmony in relation.
| beauty in adjustment, and yet at the
same time allow freedom of arms and