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ettes or whiskey beforehand —and found a house
hold sure to be wanting in all that goes to make a
true home and well endowed children.
Girls of the Household, your sex Is responsible, in
great measure, for these conditions. Are such men
yoUr ideals? If so, heaven pity us! If not, why do
you treat them with such favor? Why do you not
raise the standard by exacting that the men you
smile upon shall be worthy of a good woman's com
pany? It seems no use to appeal to the self-interest
of the young men, but will you also refuse to assert
your own interest in the matter?
Concerning prohibition —that all absorbing sub
ject—l have a friend, a physician, a noble man, a
Christian, a total abstainer from liquor and opposed
to saloons, yet he is not in favor of prohibition, and
he explains his status in this way: He says the
drinker will get liquor, anyway. To do this and
shield the seller he will have to lie; this will influ
ence young men into general crookedness, while not
preventing the drinking of whiskey. Householders,
what do you say to this?
Collinsville, Ala. ANTIQUE.
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’TIS THE MAN WHO MUST CHANGE.
Only a few weeks ago Earnest Willie —the sweet
spirited lover of humanity—while at a teachers’ nor
mal in Mississippi, put in my hands his paper—The
Golden Age. I am of a paper taking such a.
high moral and literary stand, and proud of those
whose busy pens write for its pages the thoughts that
help and comfort the masses —coming down from the
heights of dreams and fancies to toil for humanity
like the river in Lanier’s “Song of the Chatta
hoochee”:
"But, oh! not the hills of Habersham,
And, oh! not the valleys of Hall
Avail: I am fain for to water the plain.
Downward the voices of duty call;
Downward to toil and be mixed with the main;
The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn,
And a myriad flowers mortally yearn,
And the lordly main from beyond the plain
Calls o’er the hills of Habersham;
Calls through the valleys of Hall.”
Yes, we hope for our paper a golden fruitage in
the lives of its readers. Would that we might all, in
cheerful, happy strength, after a while, attain to
piety in the home, power in the life, purity in the
state.
Gwinnett County Farmer and Ben Ivy, we wish you
would give us some way to get the girls to remain
at home. Gwinnett County Farmer, I protest that
the true girl will appreciate goodness in a man —
that the “pocket full of money” is not necessary to
win her love. “God createst the love to reward the
love,” says Browning. The love between man and
woman that understands, sympathizes and forgives is
possible; but only to the “pure in heart” does this
great unselfish affection ever come. Ben Ivy says
that women are now by necessity and their capa
bility being called upon to fill nearly all wage-earn
ing positions. Ought this state of affairs to continue?
No; I agree with him that woman’s true place is in
the home. But the only solution lies in a changed
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The Golden Age for August 15, 1907.
manhood. Let men make themselves strong physi
cally, mentally and spiritually. Then will we have
“man for the field and workshop, woman for the
hearth.” In the present state of affairs, men are not
men enough to care for woman. She goes wage
earning. She may grow in sweetness, or she may
lose some of her womanliness. Then, too, men musty
be men, else woman will be called upon by the
“powers that be” to fill their place. Why? Because
of her greater competency. We wish men ajnd wo
men were as Ruskin pictures the ideal in his
“Queen’s Gardens.”
Tennyson says:
“Woman is not undevelopt man, but diverse —
Yet in the long years they must liker grow,
The man be more of woman, she of man:
He gain in sweetness and in moral height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world;
She mental breadth, nor fail in child ward care,
Nor lose the child-like in the larger mind,
Till at last she set herself to man,
Like perfect music unto noble words.”
Would that this beautiful ideal might soon be
realized in the relations of man and woman all over
the world.
Now, is the solution to be found merely in keep
ing woman from business? I think not. Let us
hear from her who wrote such a good letter about
her happy married life —the one who is now “living
poetry instead of writing it.” Perhaps some one may
help us to remedy this evil, which now seems almost
a necessary evil. TEACHER.
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LOOK UP!
I have been feeling so dull this warm weather that
nothing seemed to inspire me to take up my pen
until a few minutes ago. A duck, dullest of all crea
tures, inspired me, and this was how it did so: I
had thrown some dried-up flowers from my window
and this brought the ducks. I looked out and the
mother duck was left alone; the ducklings, disgusted
with disappointment, had moved along. Ducky looked
up at me in her curious sideways manner. “What
are you waiting for?” I said. “I have nothing for
you.” She remained silent, but continued her plead
ing, upward gaze. I was touched by her pleading
looks and threw her some corn, which she seemed
to enjoy and appreciate. That way poultry has of
looking upward, expecting food, brings the thought
to my mind that we should look upward for strength
and encouragement to help us along.
Flowers look up to the sun for life and growth.
Almost all of us have some one to look up to us for
help and encouragement, and we in turn look up
ward to those superior to us in wisdom and experi
ence. We should always remember our benefactors
and make returns to them by helping others.
Alabama. MATTIE HOWARD.
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WOMAN’S MOST INTERESTING AGE.
This question was recently discussed by an artist,
an author, and a woman of society. The artist said
he did not like to paint the portraits of those be
tween the age of twenty-five and forty years. Be-
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fore twenty-five the face has an expectancy which
charms. It is looking forward with joyous freshness
and hope, and it is full of nuzzling promises. At
forty years the character is formed, and the lines
of the countenance are stronger in the painter’s
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into consideration, the best answer would be, that
women are always interesting to the friends who
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LIVE UP TO YOUR IDEALS.
Some one writing under a nom when urged to use
his real name said, “I am not ashamed of my name
but afraid of the critics.” Now, I think that criti
cism is needful for it arouses one’s pride and spurs
one on to renewed effort, and causes one to strive
to excel. It also awakens a spirit of determination
to improve ourselves. Os course I refer to friendly
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very defect that we did not see and thus enables us
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uplift and the stars are always beautiful, aye, none
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whatever lowers will inevitably detract. “Raise a
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to improve and if possible to excel.
Talbotton, Ga. MAY E. McMILLAN.
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MY AMERICAN BEAUTY ROSE.
See me! I am only a rose,
And soon I shall fade away;
But, oh, how my being yet glows
Over what was said yesterday.
For “Prince Charming” admired so the bloom
Os my heart and its deep fragrant spell
That I breathed out the wish —in perfume—
Just to rest on his coat lapel.
My name! Can anyone tell?
Well, what do you really suppose—
He said (and it made my heart swell),
“My American Beauty Rose.”
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