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He knows not that I love him,
The dearest one of all,
And yet my heart is with him
In all things that befall.
My spirit leaps to greet him
When first the day is born,
And low I pray: “Dear Father,
Wake him to joy this morn.”
He knows not that I love him,
And it is beter so,
Yet through the busy morning
With him in thought I go,
And in what tasks engage me
Sometimes I pause and pray:
“Oh, Father, guard and guide him
Within the narrow way.”
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Georgia Women First in Useful Work.
In Miss Rutherford’s recently pub
lished History of Georgia are chron
icled a number of useful suggestions
and achievements by the early and
pioneer women of the new Empire
State. We learn that the first wo
man in all the world to receive a
diploma was Miss Catherine Brewer,
cf Georgia. The first idea concern
ing the cotton gin came from Mrs.
Hillhouse, of Augusta. The first Wo
man's Foreign Missionary Society
originated in Athens, Georgia, in
1819. The indispensable invention of
the brush used in the cotton gin was'
due to Mrs. Nathaniel Greene, of Sa
vannah. Georgia women were the
first women in the United States to
have degrees bestowed upon them,
and the first to have a college (the
Wesleyan) erected for their educa
tion. A Georgia woman was first to
suggest the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, the bestowal of crosses
of honor upon veterans, and the cele
bration of Memorial Day; each origi
nated with a Georgia woman.
In colonial days, Georgia was first ■
of the States to rule rum from the
colony, first to teach Christianity to
the Indians and to invent an Indian :•
alphabet. She was first in the new U
country to establish an orphan asylum
—the Ebenezer —and first in the
world to institute the Sunday School,
which was formed by John Wesley a
year before the birth of Robert ;
Raikes, of England, to whom the (
credit of originating the Sunday,*
School is usually ascribed. < .
It is not generally known that the|
first railway to have a passenger train)
was. the road from Augusta to Char-V
leston, and the first person to applyf
steam to navigation was Williamii
Longstreet, in the Savannah river, intyi
1737. Georgia also sent the first!
steamer across the ocean —The Sa-Sj
vannah. She was also the first Staten
to have a sewing machine —and their
only. State in which three large bales®
of cotton were made on one acre offfl
land. M
Saving the Wrong Way. |!l|
A correspondent writes: “Through?!
his generous trust in a friend my hus-S
band lost nearly all the means we<;
possessed, and we have been obliged,'
to practice strict economy in living.lt
We have cut down our table expensesM
wonderfully. I never thought so muchAi
could be saved in food. We have cutrH
out meat entirely, and also otherk
THE HOUSEHOLD
A Department of Expression For Those Who Feel and Think
LOVE UNTOLD
MARGARET A. RICHARD.
He knows not that I love him, —
He scarcely would believe,
And yet I sit in shadow /
Apart from all at eve,
And whisper: “Oh, dear Father,
When fall the shades of night,
Lead him from toil to shelter
Warm, beautiful and bright.”
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He knows not that I love him,
Yet in the heart of none
Was ever one more cherished •
Since was the world begun.
And nightly I pray: “Father,
Keep safe whom I love best;
Till morning bid him slumber
In sweet, restoring rest,”
costly items we once thought abso
lutely necessary. We see no bad
physical effects from it, but my hus
band, who is a lawyer, complains of
a lack of mental energy. I, too, feel
this lack. I am a writer in a small way
and contribute short articles and
stories to the Chicago Press Syndi
cates. I have never found writing
such an effort as now. My brain
seems to have grown unusually dull
and unresponsive. Can it be caused
by the quality of the food we are
eating?” I think the-lack of nourish
ing food is most likely the reason of
your feeling stupid and uninspired.
Food furnishes the motor power for
our brain and body. One may econo
mize in food, but not in the quality of
it. Vegetables are laxative and health
ful, but not all of them are nourishing.
Peas, beans, sweet potatoes, rice, are
the vegetables that contain most nu
triment. Meat may be eliminated
from one’s diet, but the lack of it
should be supplied by eggs or nuts,
which are rich in nutriment. The
most nourishing articles of food are
sweet poptatoes, eggs, milk and bana
nas, but bananas are such a compact
food that they should be eaten with
a little bread and, to get their full
, excellence, sprinkled with a little
lemon juice. Many famous people
will not touch meat, through con
? siderations of religion as well as
phealth. Among these are Upton Sin-
S clair, the famous author, Grace Me-
Gowan Cook, Ella wheeler Wilcox,
| Edward Markham and Mrs. Robert
diVan Wyck. These are Orientalists —
for Vedantists (as Buddhists are now
n’t called) in their religion, and non-
killing of any animal is one of the
>’(chief tenets of their religion. Other
eschew flesh food because
Tthey say it clogs their intellect and
Liclips the wings of their imagination.
J,Some society women declare against
because it coarsens their com
plexion and features. The most ex-
Lquisitely beautiful woman in high life
( Mis said to be the Grand Duchess
fgSerge, whose husband was assassi-
Js|nated some years ago. Both she and
pthe beautiful Princess George, of
lOjGreece, are ardent Vedists—or disci
ffl&ples of Buddha-—and therefore eat no
Ipflesh at all, not even eggs. They live
gjupon rice, nuts and fruits—chiefly
Sedates and figs.
I] But the kind of food that suffices
Jj for one person may not answer the
needs of another, and one should find
B out by experiment what kinds of food
<are best for their health and give the
nourishment to their minds
Iffiand bodies,
The Golden Age for June 1, 1911.
Large or Small Families.
The question of large or small
families is agitating the wise doc
tors and professors of the country.
One of these, Dr. Charles Eliot, gives
it as his opinion that every married
woman should bear a child every two
years, and that restrictions on the
birth rate are neither moral nor really
economical, since health is the highest
economical consideration. Professor
Carver, of Harvard, differs with Dr.
Eliot. He says there should be legis
lation restricting the size of families
to conform to the income. Professor
Samuel Lindsay, of Columbia Uni
versity, declares that legislation can
not fully regulate the birth rate after
marriage, but that it can be a power
before the knot is tied. It can compel
every couple applying for a license to
be examined as to their physical
soundness, and prevent any man or
woman who fails to come up to a law
established standard from becoming a
husband or a wife.
He advises also a financial standard
so that a man who has not a certain
income, fixed by law, should not be
permitted to marry. If these restric
tions were carried out, he says, chil
dren would not be brought into the
world by unhealthy parents, and would
not be born to suffer poverty and
hardship.
Marriage in Indiana.
Indiana has gone ahead and made
marriage laws which she is strictly
enforcing. In this State every cou
ple who applies for a license is com
pelled to bring a certificate from some
reputable physician asserting whether
or not each is in sound condition.
Any slackness on the part of the li
censing clerk is punished by a fine of
?500. If, for any reason, the certifi
cate does not satisfy him, he can with
hold the license. Another thinker on
the marriage problem declares that
it is high time the question should
not be based upon sentiment and ro
mance. It is a plain, practical ques
tion of much social significance. The
parties who enter into the marriage
compact should not marry until they
are sufficiently mature in mind and
body.
Wttb ©nr Gorresponbents
SIMPLY A QUESTION OF JUSTICE.
A Man’s View.
I seldom express my opinions re
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believer in the efficiency of time to
rightly adjust all matters, but in these
piping times it is hard to remain si
lent, especially upon questions which
involve the very first principles of
simple justice. The question of “Wo
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most of those who object to granting
women new rights are men, I shall
address my remarks especially to my
own sex.
I feel sure that were I to ask one
hundred men if they believed in jus
tice to all, ninety-nine of the hundred
would answer “yes,” yet when it is
proposed to make some of the changes
in the customs and traditions of the
past which are demanded by justice,
the greater half of that ninety-nine
will be found opposing the change.
It does not require extraordinary in
telligence to perceive that the place
assigned women by the laws and cus
toms of today is rank injustice. Os
course, every one admits that the
place assigned her by the laws and
customs of the remote past was noth
ing short of a shame. Yet the men of
those times were ready to oppose
everything which tended to change
woman’s station or enlarge her free
dom. All along the line it has been
the same, not only as regards the
rights of women, but all other reforms
as well, but it seems preposterous that
the majority of the men of this en
lightened age, who profess to be ad
herents of Justice, can not perceive
that justice demands a change in the
laws and customs concerning women,
and that the question of Women’s
Rights is merely one of Justice.
By woman’s rights I do not mean
simply woman suffrage, though this is
the one right being most discussed at
this time, but also the social and
moral standards which regard her as
man’s inferior must be changed be
fore woman has her just rights.
First, concerning her right to vote.
The Constitution of this nation asserts
that “all persons born or naturalized
within the United States and subject
to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens
of the United States,” and that “the
right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied.” Are
women not persons? We do not class
them as brutes nor wish to imply that
all women are idiots and criminals, do
we? To refuse them the ballot is to
do one or the other under the terms of
the Constitution, and either is most
surely a rank injustice, to say the least.
Nor is it just to compel women to help
support a government in which they
have no voice.
When men were forced to pay taxes
to a government in which they had no
representation they called it tyranni
cal, and the long and bloody war of
the American Revolution was fought
by our forefathers to gain that repre
sentation which they justly regarded
as the right of those who are taxed.
How, then, can the sons of those hon
ored heroes refuse to the daughters
the very same just rights for which
the fathers bled?
That woman’s place is the home is
no argument against giving her the
ballot, but rather in favor of it. Do
not the laws affect the home? Is not
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