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picnics. There are many rustic seats, too, some
very snug—for courting swains, I suspect—and from
the signs around, grass worn smooth, etc., I think
these are the most popular. And when the other
“fellow” is the “right” one, I dare say ’tis pleas
anter to occupy one of the snug kind. We wandered
about for quite a while but darkness, all too soon,
drove us back to the hotel. After enjoying a good
supper we went down to the bowling alley and watch
ed a game of ten pins. This is fine exercise, physical
ly, for men. Two little boys, about twelve years old,
who placed the pins in position, were smoking cigar
ettes. And most of the men, it seemed to me, were
smoking either pipes or cigars. And to smell tobacco
smoke always did make my head ache. But I enjoyed
the day. When darkness came the two little girls
were sleepy and we told them if they went to sleep
we would go home and leave them. That threat
drove the “Sand man” away entirely. I met a young
German who has been over here since he was fifteen.
I talked quite a while with him. He told me that
the people in Germany—the common class I pre
* sume —housed their animals and poultry under the
same roof with themselves. The houses are built of
wood and brick, forming a double square, and the
stock placed in the outer square. He said it was very
cold there and I suppose the heat of the animals helps
to keep human beings warm. The houses are thatched
with straw, one cover lasting several years. He
said farming was a great deal easier here than in
Germany. They do not make corn, but raise all
small grain and get a better price for it than we
do for our production; also one can live much more
cheaply there but they have to work harder and al
most freeze sometimes. When we reached the depot
at nine o’clock, p. m., the electric light of the train
was in sight and we were soon abord, bound again
for dear, dirty old Jasper, where the mocking birds
sing more and far sweeter songs than they do any
where else, because it is “home sweet home.”
MARGARET SMITH GRAHAM.
Jasper, Fla.
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THE MODEL HOUSE KEEPER.
I asked a neighbor of mine—a married man, and
presumably more competent than a bachelor —to
write something about house keeping as a fine art,
but he answered, “No, you are the one to do this.”
Doubtless he thought a single man would have more
freedom to explain his views. I take his suggestion,
though fearful of the sharp pens of some of my sister
members, in retaliation. What the first house keep
ing was like —no record has told us. Adam and Eve,
being extremely primitive, dwelt it is figured, in rose
bowls and ate fruit at all their meals, so cooking was
not, and as for house keepiing Adam trimmed the
grape vines and Eve trained the roses the way they
should twine. Later on the patriarchs lived in
tents from which they moved whenever the grass
became too closely pastured. The more savage races
lived in caves. Even in our Savior’s time there was
but little good house keeping among the middle and
the peasant classes though we are told that the elder
of the two Bethany sisters —Martha —was given over
much to caring for household affairs. As civilization
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progressed, house keeping became more of an art, do
mestic utensils and conveniences multiplied and
houses were built with an eye to comfort and health.
In good house keeping one of the main essentials is
cleanliness. It is next to godliness in the social
scheme the Bible tells us, and it is necessary to the
health and well being of the inmates. Soap and water
—the broom and the scrub brush are great allies of
Hygenia, the goddess of health. Meaical research
into the causes of typhoid and kindred fevers assert
that there is death in the dirty dish rag—stuffed in
a corner to putrify and also in the pools of dirty
water about the back door or where the family wash
ing is done. A perfectly nice looking home may be
foul to the point of disease, for its rooms may be
unventilated —the air poinsoned by having been re
breathed. Also the white, beautifully made bed, may
be uncleanly because the bed clothes have not been
well aired and sunned, since they were slept
in. Next to cleanliness in the home comes system.
No household can be smoothly managed unless it is
pr-arranged on systematic lines, every task fitting
into its allotted groove like a piece of well ordered
machinery. Without system no kind of business can
be successfully carried on as God has shown us in
the wonderful system that is seen in his universe,
where all his many worlds revolve around their sun
so harmoniously that their movements make, as the
Bible says, “The music of the spheres.” Even more
necessary are order and discipline in the home than
in outside business or in the army and navy, for
without this the machinery of domestic affairs would
be at standstill like the works of a watch when the
main spring is broken. There are a number of oth
er factors that go to making up good house keeping.
A knowledge of domestic science now being taught in
all the schools —wise marketing, good economic cook
ing (requires a knowledge of chemistry); the secrets
of the laundry; the art of buying clothes, bedclothing,
etc., to advantage, the management and treatment of
children —and not least in importance—the power of
self government, so as always to be mistress of her
self and able to control her tongue and her temper.
In fact, to make a model house keeper, one who
wisely manages a home, a husband and children, re
quires as great powers and faculties as are needed
by the rulers of a great people. I should like very
much to hear the views of our sisters of the House
hold on this important subject.
Ivy, Ala. BEN P. IVY.
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HER SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.
Gwinnett County Farmer and Ben Ivy, we wish you
would give us some way to keep the girls at home.
From about the center of “Teacher’s” letter’ these
words stuck out and challenged me, so I shall accept
it and give what I am convinced is a remedy. It is
this: Give the girl wages, however small, for her
work at home. Why not? A boy is given spending
money long before his majority and after that he
has regular wages; has a chance to lay up some
thing for himself. How is it with the girl? She
cooks, sews, dusts, sweeps, milks, washes, irons and
often works in the field and gets?—what she eats and
wears. Tie a boy down to such conditions, if you
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can, and note the result. It would kill every spark
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pected to keep sweet and hopeful with not a penny
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and very rare intervals. Girls are blamed for their
foolish extravagance in dress, and I regret to say
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believe that this very reason is the greatest cause. If
a girl is economical in dress she never knows the
difference and consequently gets reckless, declaring
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remaining in the home with father and mother what
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ing, or maybe insufficient support. With all youthful
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measure solve it. She could do her duty with more
cheerfulness if she received some compensation, just
as the boy does his work with more heartiness when
he knows the pay is coming. So give the girl wages
for her work so that she may have money for
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philanthropies of her own, and I think the problem
of keeping her at home will be solved. Miss Bryan,
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Booth? “LEO.”
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A WIDOW’S PHILOSOPHY.
A lady tells of receiving a card in New York which
looked so untidy that she asked the servant what
he had been doing with it, as three sides were ev
idently freshly cut, and the fourth had a deep black
border. The man explained that the lady whose card
it was had herself mutilated it. When the hostess,
went down to see her visitor, a young widow, she
playfully spoke to her about the card. “Oh, yes,”
cheerfully answered the other, “I cut it in that way
after I got to the house, because when I took it out
I suddenly remembered that I had come to tell you
that I am engaged to be married, and I thought it
would look too ridiculous, when I came on that errand,
to use a card of mourning for poor dear Harry. Af
ter I cut off three sides, I forgot the other.” It is con
jectured she was in the third quarter of her grief
soon to be succeeded by a full honeymoon. She was
wearing an expensive mantle of heavy, black English
crepe, and said mournfully: “How I wish I had
known that dear Fred was going to ask me to mar
ry him before I bought this! I could have saved
$45 if I had known I was going out of mourning
so soon. And you know black crepe is too costly
to throw aside; but then what’s the use of keeping
it, because, of course, it isn’t like black silk, or any
thing in colors that you can use with other materials.
To put it away might seem as if I was expecting to
need it again, and that would be horried, you know,
just as if I were a regular female “Bluebeard.”
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