Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-08-18
MR. AND MEs. {. G. wADE,s gRIP
BY Mr.. c. G. Wade
Continued from last week)

Leaving Carols home after supper
Saturday we drove over to Oberlin
to spend Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. Frances Nlckerson, Clara's sis
ter. She is matron of May Cottage,
where are housed and fed forty young
ladies who are taking kindergarten
training, ostensibly to fit them for
teaching Tots in public schools, but
in reality being trained for private
"Child Garden" work in their own
prospective homes. Some of them are
already engaged, and the rest hope To-
pc. | took particular notice, as we
sat in the dining room waiting for
dessert, that there was not one among
all the girls, who wore that woe be-
gone expression common to women
sentenced for life, or for term of
years, to teach.
Oberlin is a typical college town.
We visited many such on our trip. Of
course, Chicago has a great university
and SO has Milwaukee, but there is a
peculiar atmosphere about the small
town college, where the life Of the
whole community centers about the
educational institution. That is inn
pressive.
Some one told me the students went
on the streets bare headed to preserve
their hair-that great mental activity
tended to create a fever destructive of
capillary bulbs; and then an unpoetic
sophomore suggested that the real
reason was that there was no place
for a fellow to put his hat during
classes.
We attended church services twice
that Sunday. Everybody goes to
church in Oberlin. It is easy to go.
You Just follow the crowd. / grow
day younger for every day / spend in
college town, so / hated to move on.
Nevertheless, on Monday, resuming
our journey, we reached Cleveland
Were we dined at the home Of DR..
VIM. Morehouse and his wife and high
school darsirCer and Madame More
house. all formerly of Wauwatosa.
Later in the day we called at the home
of John Potter, a Wauwatosa product,
and made the acquaintance of his two
interesting children. We should say
we renewed acquaintance with Mrs.
Potter, for we had known her years
before John met her.
Leaving my better half in Cleve-
land to d the visiting, took an
hours drive along the lake eastward
to Painesville, where formerly / hal
many relatives living perchance
there were some there now. accosted
native and said unto him, "Where
may | find any Wellses Of the house
of one Newton Wells, long since de-
ceased" and he directed me to a home
where lived venerable lady who had
been a Wells in her girIhood, and of
her begged that she tell about the
family Of Lila Wells, and she answered
me that Ida had died, but her two
daughters were living nearby. And
what of Fred? "He is dead also. y
And what of Orry? "He is also dead p
Then ! recalled the story Of Rip Van
Winkle who slept twenty years and
returned to find the old familiar faces
all gone. And stroked my chin to
see whether had long, white beard
like the pictures of Rip.
Pinching myself into consciousness
! figured that had spent week end
IN Painesville just thirty years ago,
yet did some Of the people remember
me, and some who had been born
since then had hee-d of me through
their parents, and they were ali very
cordial and treated me ike an uncle
on a grandfather, and departed re-
joicing.
ITO be continsed.)