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THE ATLANTIAN
And
“The Bag of Gold”
The alluring get-rich-quick prop
ositions offered by the grafter and
fake investor are dangerous.
They are as absurd in reality, as
“The Bag of Gold” at the end of
the Rainbow.
Never risk your money on the
altar of Promise. Place your sur
plus in this Bank, where you have
an absolute assurance of
4$, Interest
100i Safety
Central %aitk and ^?ru$t Corporation
Capital $1,000,000 Resources Over $5,000,000
CANDLER BUILDING
BRANCH: Comer Mitchell and Forsyth Streets
PAINT.
Paint is used on houses, park settees,
fences and faces. It conies in colors.
Red paint is used on towns by young
college men and old deacons. Fresh paint
is used by children when they have their
new clothes on.
Paint is also used on sign boards which
are put up everywhere to improve the
scenery. No American scenery is con
sidered complete without them. Ladies
even use it.
J. OSCAR COCHRAN,
Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue for the State of
Georgia.
THE SAME OLD CHRISTMAS
SPIRIT.
Don't laugh at grandfather if he
lmngs up his stocking. Probably he
won’t do it. Strong old man that ho
is (or even a weak old one), he has re
sisted tho temptation a good many sea
sons, and ho will doubtless manage to
get through another. But the desire is
there, latent, and if ho dared do it, bor
rowing perhaps from grandma, and got
up Christmas morning to find faith re
warded with a candy cane, few young
sters would feel much happier.
Christmas, in fact, is for the young,
tho old and all intermediate periods.
We lose sight of it temporarily. Buying
gifts that we cannot afford in return
for gifts that wo do not want seriously
obscures the joy of giving where we wish
and receiving from those whom it warms
our hearts to know have not forgotten
us. Thcro are moments when the whole
Christmas season seems a business ex
pedient invented by trade to take advan
tage of sentiment, sentimentality and
false pride. Santa Clause is a hypocrito
—and Christmas exclusively for the rich.
And yet the Christmas gift is sturdy
enough to survive the handicap. It wipes
out tho unfriendly criticism of tho im
mediately preceding period; leaves some
thing, after thebuying and the worrying
are over, that is well worth the cost in
nervous exhaustion.
And grandfather, although he dassent
admit it for fear of ridicule, would like
to hang up his stocking.—Ralph Bergen-
gren.
WHAT AILED HER.
A vivid light is thrown upon the des
perate loneliness of the lot of a farmer’s
wife in a thinly-settled district of a new
country by the following incident—
Seth Hodgkin’s wife had been taken to
the asylum for the insane, and the day
after she left him Seth—who had been
a good husband to her according to his
lights—received a visit of condolence
from his nearest neighbor, two miles
away. Seth turned from a sink piled
high with dirty dishes to clear a chair
for his guest.
“I shall have to hire more help. It
seems as if she had been gone a year,”
he said.
‘‘I always supposed that Harriet en
joyed good health,” said the sympathiz
ing friend.
Seth looked in dazed and futile in
quiry from tho bright new oilcloth that
his wife had bought with the carefully,
saved egg-money to tho view from the
kitchen window, a wide, snowy field, some
(all, funereal evergreen-trees, and a patch
of darkening sky. Tho kitchen did not
face the road.
‘ * I cannot understand, ’ ’ he said, * ‘ what
ailed Harriet. She has scarcely been out
of this kitchen for fifteen years.”
THE BABY NOT LIKE OTH-
RE VISITORS.
The perfect baby of a' South side
mother has reached the age when he
can coo, an accomplishment in which
ho indulges himself most of the time
when not otherwise engaged.
“He is the most welcome visitor I
ever had,” said the mother, proudly.
“He just lies and talks to me by the
hour. ’ ’
“Isn’t that nice,” replied the caller.
“So unlike most visitors—they just talk
and lie to you by the hour.’
—Kansas City Star.
EUGENICS UP TO DATE.
After Jennie wed ’Gene, their eugenical
bliss
Quite brimmed the hymeneal cup;
Though never a child Jennie had, ’Gene he
bought
Her the cutest eugenical pup!
S. R. GREEN,
Steward Atlanta Aerie 714, F. O.
Eagles.
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Lawrence Floral Co.
138 Peachtree Street
CHOICE
CUT FLOWERS
For
All Occasions
Designs of all kinds our Specialty
No Order Too Large
Or Too Small For Us
W. C. LAWRENCE
Secretary and Treasurer
FORMERLY WITH WEST VIEW
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