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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Write* of Those Who Are Contin. ually Praising the “Good Old Time*," and Wno See Nothing Good in the Present. (Copyright, 1*07, by American-Journal Examiner.) Among the most tiresome people on the earth are those who go mourning through the Now, regretting the “gold- en eras gone by." . We all know them. These are the "artistic natures" shrinking from this “mechniUcnl age." They have a horror of what the rude and crude souls about them call Prog ress. They detest a railroad train and an ocean steamer, and the least references to an old-time stage coach or sailing craft makes them sigh with useless re gret. “Oh. to have lived In those poetic times,” they cry. “when life was natural and sweet, and people had time to think! This Is such a vulgar, hurrying era—and Its electric lights are so glar ing, Its trains and trolleys so noisy. Its Inventions so ugly and vulgar." • The Age of Romance. They do not for a moment realize that In the days of tallow candles and stage coaches there were people Just like themselves, sentimentalists, be moaning a still more distant "past” and decrying vulgar progress. The poor sperm lamp and the tallow dip hod their day of being anathema tized os “unpqptlc" by the romantic mlndn filled with admiration for the primitive.torch! And I have no doubt the daring pioneers who first used torches regularly to light the evening hours were pronounced common and vulgar by those who doted on the dark ness as more In keeping with setftlmenL It Is fortunate for the world that these “poetic and artistic natures" are In the minority. Were they not, we should all be dwelling In caves today. Is Progress Vulgar? There is an artistic side to every thing if-we choose to see It The wise man Is he who sees It today, instead of leaving it for his descendants to dis cover. Future generations a hundred years hence will regard our methods of travel and our recent Inventions os primitive and romantic. They will sigh (the silly sentimentalists) for “the good old days when people traveled by rail and boat. Instead of flying through the air In such vulgar speed." They will long for the picturesque gas Jets—and shaded electric globes—In place of a radiance which will be like daylight And they will wish' they might have lived In the days when kitchens and cooked food were a part of every home—Instead of the scientific substitutes which I lie next century will give us. Picturesque Discomfort. Meantime, no one who Is longing for the delights of past centuries stops to consider the discomforts—vulgar dis comforts—of those days. I have heard a dainty woman—de voted to her two perfumed |.ath her scientific massage, her complexion and hair specialists, which all helped to keep her beautiful—mourn over the fact that she did not live In olden times. Yet In those olden times baths in the home were an unknown luxury, plumbing was not dreamed of, and women plas tered their faces with cosmetics and their hair with visible dye when they began to fade—Instead of preserving their charms by the old of science. Today Is a glorious era—It Is a priv ilege to live In It. and to look forward to better conditions sure to come. Progress Is always right. In some parts of Switzerland all the dead are burled by the government, without respect to wealth or position. A college of foreign languages has been opened In Canton, Chinn, the port from which most emigrants sail to dis tant ports of the globe. New York city boasts the largest and finest public school building In the world. It Is of fire-proof construction throughout and cost $2,000,000. It has accommodations for (,000 pupils. .Proverbs For Peaches By DOROTHY DIX. These be the words of Seliko, the wise woman, spoken,to her daughter In the mimth when the bloom of the peach trees made a pink and white snow upon the* hillside: “Consider, my daughter, the ways of the peach, which Is the embiem of thy sex, for It Is beautiful and graceful os a woman, sweet to the taste on all men’s lips, and yet nourlsheth life. Yea, more, like a woman, the peach flourlHheth best by Its own doorstep. ~ “Keurn, therefore, of the peach and be wise. Observe, my child: “The ripest ptsch hangs highest on the tree, ’This should teach thee that men desire most that which Is unattainable. No fruit Is so luscious as that- which dangteth Just beyond the arm's reach, anil no maiden so alluring us the one who Is Just so high above a man's head that he rlsketh his life In climb ing up to her. ’’Therefore. If you would be sought by inon, hold yourself aloof. Play coy. Make yourself difficult to get, and In proportion as thy favor costs a man danger and bruises and scheming and effort to win, so shall lie struggle for It. “Consider, likewise, my daughter, that distance lends allurement to the pench that hangeth highest on the tree. Peradventure It Is no rosier, no sweet er, of no more |>erfcct shape than tho one that hangeth on the lowest bough, hut the one at hand Is within reach so that every man may see Its Im perfections. while the other Is too far away for the eye to mark Its blem ishes. This teaches us. my child, why the woman who rhummeth with all men hath many friends and no hus band. “Consider, also, my daughter: “No man gathersth the overripe peach. "I know not, my daughter, why the peach that la ready to fall Into any man's hand no man deslrcth, and every man paaseth It by: but I did not make nmn and I ran only put thee next to his ways, which are strange and past all reasoning. And this Is even as I tell thee, and what Is true with his way of the peach Is also true of his way with woman. "The woman who hath prepared her self to make a good wife, who under- stnndeth the pot nnd the pan, and eke the gns range: who hath skill with the neeblc anil can cunningly patch nnd mend, ant) who la frugal with the mnxumn. nnd who wenrtclh not In her chnse of a husband, la never lleet- footed enough to rateh one. Many, yen, verily, n multitude of widows nnd old maids liuvr I seen upon the anxious seat waiting for a husband, nml thud have 1 heard Ibelr lamentations, 'Any body, O Lord, anybody!' but In vain were tlielr supplications. “Therefore, my daughter, be not pencil that Is ready to drop Into any mouth. Keep always a firm grip on the tinrent stem,-nml turn toward men a aide that Is a little hard and bitter,' and that looketh as It It might have a lang to It. Bo shall thou escape the mortification of hnving been of fered nnd rejected In case thou dost not marry. “Likewise, forget not. my daughter: “That neither nsturs nor srt can give back the down to th* peach when it hath onco been rubbed off. "What the down Is In the peach, my child, the Innocence and Ignorance of youth are (o a maiden. It Is made up of dew nnd dawn, nnd all subtle allure ments and enchantments, and It Is so K rlshable that at a touch, a word, a >k It vanlsheth forever. “Many women, O. my daughter, do High Salaries Make Reckless Wives. •xia AHiouoa who thlnketh to render herself attract ive to men by shedding the down of feminine reserve and reticence and del icacy. They call this variety of peach In the market place 'The Good Fellow,’ and every passerby turncth It around nnd handleth It, and the gossips relate strange stories In Its presence, and mayhap, at last, some one with a strong stomach purchascth It, but the connois seur passeth by to' where the fresh peaches lie with the down still upon their rosy cheeks. “By and by the old peach percelveth her mistake and seeketh to undo what Is done, and to afreet the Innocence and unanphlstlcatlnti that she luis lost, but In vain. The blush cometh, back no more to the cheek that la hardened, nor the look of Innocence to the eyes that have seetf. Therefore, my daughter, be not In haste to lose that Innocence and unworldllncss that are the chief charm of woman to man, and that hath been the means of many a simpleton catch Ing a good husband. For If thou wilt look about thee, thou wilt perceive that most of the fools are married, while tho wise woman hath to earn her own bread and butter. 'Consider, also, my daughter: Even M shriveled ptsch looketh rosy whon a pink mosquito netting cover eth the basket. “Learn front this, O child of my henrt, the value of environment and dress. If thou hast beauty, enhance It by raiment that will bring out thy strong points, nnd If peroilventurc heaven hath dealt hardly by thee, and bestowed upon thee a pug nose, carrot- ty hair and a figure of tho similitude of a bean polo, withhold not thy hand from purchasing the Imported gown, yea, nnd the pattern hat. po shalt men, beholding thy fine feathers, mistake them for thee, nnd great shall be thy praise In the bazaars. “These be the lessons of the peach. I. who was, once young and a peach my self, and am now old and canned, speak (hem unto thee, who art still a peach." Lord Cromer stale* that Egyptians have s propensity for hoarding gold. A native, who recently died, left 2400,000 stored to gold In his hnnne, and many of them pos sessed of wealth will borrow money st In- foousbiv vnx-zrtSKFS .z was zooliNliiy, but none 10 fool tali on biipjoj converted into onumonta. ***** By MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN. (Copyright, 1907, by American-Jour- nal-Examfner.) There Is no denying that the high wages of skilled workmen and of effi cient men who receive high salaries from corporations and managers of pri vate enterprises have had the effect of changing the ambitions of a majority of their families. Many of them have acquired extravagant habits and are no longer satisfied with the style of living to which they had been accustomed In the days of conservatism. They have an especial abhorrence of all kinds of domestic duties and insist upon having servants In their families, they put up with all kinds of stupidity and wastefulness on tho part of the 11- Iv-tralned domestics they are able to secure, when If they paid attention to their household affairs, doing part of the work themselves, making all the purchases of supplies of all kinds—es pecially those used In the culinary de partment—they would save at least half the expense; and If they saw to It that till foods were properly prepared and economically used they would beyond question add materially to their com fort and consume much less of their husDands' salaries. In matters of dress they are equally reckless, and as a rule are dissatisfied with the styles! wearing apparel which Is really more appropriate for. them. They wish to Imitate their acquain tances who may be wealthy and able to afford expensive wardrobes. In many of these' fatnillea there are children who never do anything but go to school. If they are boys, they must have all the requirements for athletics of every description. They must pay their dues In their clubs and be fur nished with money for car fare to and from the fields where they practise and play their games, and never think of taking exercise by trying to earn a dol lar by securing chanco employment. They seem to think that It Is their pa rents' duty to support them until they are 21. Girls are even more dependent, and require greater expenditure of money to supply their demands for dress and Indulgence in all sorts of things that only the rich are Justified In spending. In many cases the president of the cor- tstration and his family are simpler In their tastes and their expenses than Ills high salaried employee and his fam. Ily. One is very glad to see capable and faithful men rewarded by compensa tion commensurate with their services, but regrets that they do not emulate the example of economy of their em ployers more frequently and save up for adversity, which Is sure to come to most persons. The doubling of prices of everything one must have to live even comfortably has not seemed to make any changes in the manner of living or disposition on the part of these wives and motheni to practice self-denial and strict econo my, or to-be more octlve'ln the care of their resources. They only Inveigh against trusts, corporations and every supposed cause of the Increase of prices and wages. If they took a different course, while they could not cure all the evils of present conditions, they could mlnlm- xe the Inconveniences and difficulties, which beset them. The wives are not wholly to blame. The men. feeling sure of thelr-comfort- able salaries. Indulge themselves In ex cesses that are really unpordonablo. Somebody once collected statistics to prove that salaried men rarely saved any money, that the surety of their stated Incomes made them Improvident In their provision for the day when they might be unfit for duty; that MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN. ter, half year or year they will re ceive their salaries or wages makes them reckless and extravagant, and It was found there were but few who did not spend more than they were to receive at a stated time. ■“Fixed salaries upon which Individu als can rely make cowards of all men, since the old adage, “a bird In the hand Is worth two In a bush,” so well known, deters far too many from making a dash for something uncertain, how ever promising, when they have a cer tainty of even less return for their la bors. MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN. The Kentucky Colonel. Recently s Washingtonian In conversation with “OHIe" James, the gigantic and gonial congressman from Kentucky, made certain Inquiries with reference to a mutual friend whom he had not seen for a nutnlier of years—a Colonel I*., of tho state mentloaod, says LimitDentt'a Mngaxlne. "Ami now does my old friend, the colonel, spend his declining years?” asked the. Wash■ Ingtonlaii. "Beautifully, sir; beautifully,'' answered James. "He has-a fine fnnn, sir. And n string of trotters, sir. And s barret of whisky sixteen years old, and a wife of tbs same ugc, sir," ' His Temperature. “That was rather alighting," aald Senator Revcrldgo of a certain speech. "It was like the speech of the old Adams Imtler. When I was a Imy In Adams county Judge Illauk was taken very III. The doctor called regu larly, lint the Judge kept getting worse, and finally the crisis came. The morning after the crisis tho doctor rang the Judge’s bell The quantity of damm or macaroni wheat exported from Atlantic and Onlf ports from July I, ISOO, to March 15, 1907. was 14,36*.- *71 bushels, or nearly twice as much aa In tile same period of 1906-1905. Most of It Is bought by tho countries along the Mediter ranean sea. but shipments to Great Britain. Havre, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremen constitute nn Important part of the total—about one-third. Italy Is the .... 106 bushels), hnsholsl si a,007,115 bushels). The Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad Com- pany la shout to erect what Is aald to be the largest grain elevator In the world nt Mission river. It will have a capacity of 10,000,000 bushels. The Southern rad fie railroad has thirteen new lines nnder constroetlon, rennwentlng on expenditure of 253,000,000. knowing at toe tod of a monuC',^ WMS BSBL"? *