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THE FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS IN THE SOUTH
A Department Designed to Create Federation Interest and Promote Growth
STOP THE DIVORCE EVIL
T IS high time somebody
should raise a voice of pro
test. Americans are mad
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on the subject of divorce. Our
courts and judges have gone as wild
on the subject as the plain “bench
members.” The most trivial domestic
disturbance is readily construed by
them to be a legitimate ground for
separation.
On the sanctity of our homes rests
the safety of our nation. What can
we expect of our children or promise
the society of the next era if this in
sane practice is allowed to run on,
rampant?
We refuse to accept mere surface
evidence as fact. We refuse to believe
that the American people, en masse,
are degenerating. Pessimism is too
disastrous to allow it to get a hold on
our hearts. It is not true that chival
ry among our men and chastity among
our women is a lost art. But it will
be distressingly manifest in the next
generation if moral and civil legisla
tion does not step in and grapple with
this runaway race for so called per
sonal liberty.
There is a bill now pending before
the Georgia Legislature, presented by
Hon. W. D. Ellis, Judge of the Su
perior Court of Fulton County. Judge
Ellis, in presenting the bill, said that
the great number of divorce cases
that come into his court had prompted
him to get some legislation prohibit
ing the wholesale breaking up of
homes and families without due
cause.
The bill provides among other things
that no undefended application for di
vorce will be given cognizance in the
courts. In instances where no defense
appears, the court shall be authorized
to appoint counsel to make sufficient
investigation and if satisfactory cause
of action is found to exist, then the
said counsel shall appear before the
court and show just cause why di
vorce should be granted.
It also provides that no divorcee
shall be permitted to marry again un
der twelve months after the granting
of such bill of divorcement.
Now, this is a step in the right di
rection. But it is hardly more than a
fiy-blister on the surface. Fundamen
tal cleaning up must be done before
the roots of the evil are eradicated.
There ought to be a law prohibiting
ordinaries from granting licenses to
irresponsible persons, such as cymlin
headed dudes, two-by-four cigarette
suckers, simpering school-girls, and
silly women.
Mothers ought to be taught them
selves, and then teach their daughters
to take large views of life. Train them
to meet philosophically the disagree
able phases that are bound to come in
to 'every married woman’s life. Train
them in the glorious art of house-keep
ing—home-making. We like the latter
word. It has soul-stuff in it. Teach
them that to cook a good meal, scien
tifically is as much an accomplish
ment as to dispense interesting small
talk in the drawing room. Teach them
that a woman’s greatest fame, in the
sight of God and man, is to be known
as a faithful, capable, satisfying wife,
and an earnest, prayerful, broad-vis
ioned mother. Our boys, too, need
training. They have been too long
neglected. We are today reaping the
folly of our own grandmothers. Their
theory that boys left to their own de
vices all day f turned over to the flesh
“INFORMATION IS INSPIRATION”
and the devil in the evening, and tuck
ed away in a cheerless, tireless pic
tureless attic room at night, would ul
timately develop into manly, gener
ous “God-loving and God-serving’’ citi
zens has begotten a race of men to
whom home means little less than
four walls and a roof, and a demand
for PERSONAL PURITY is receiv
ed by them with supreme contempt.
Our club women, bless their noble
souls! are throwing themselves brave
ly and unselfishly into this awful
flood-tide of lawless irresponsibility.
They are generously spending and be
ing spent in a heroic effort to spread
the wholesome doctrines of hygiene,
science and culture. It is, perhaps,
best that they should undertake the
task of purging the source of our so
cial stream, and we know they will
do their work faithfully and well. But
it is gratifying indeed, to see their
j The Cry of the Divorcee |
? By GILBERT PATTEN BROWN. I
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? We’re drifting apart, you and I, dear heart, ?
I Far out on a tideless sea; ?
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? With no sentinel star on horizon bar, i
’ To guide me back to thee; |
j With no beacon light cleaving the night, ?
; Above a savage I'ee. •
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f Yes, drifting away in mist and spray, |
! On Time’s billowy breast; •
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• Nor compass, nor chart, nor mariners art, i
? Can guide to haven of rest; |
• For some distant sea unknown to me, ?
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i Holds all I love the best. ?
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• Yet in that angry hour when storm-clouds lower ?
! And angry billows swell; ?
? It shall be my prayer that heaven may spare i
? The one I love so well, |
i From seas of strife where gales are rife, ?
i And hidden dangers dwell. •
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• From a heart that’ll ache and never break, ?
i Nor find surcease in tears; ?
? From the conscious gain of a life that’s bain; i
? And the empty, fruitless years, ?
f That drift away in the foam and spray, ?
| And take what time endears. •
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ranks being augmented here and there
with men of the Juge Ellis type, who
realize that some responsibility rests
upon them as to how the current of
the stream shall run.
We believe the divorce evil is large
ly traceable to a species of nervous
ness that has come upon our nation as
a result of our reckless rush after
material things. We need to stop;
get a large view of nature now and
then; think on weighty subjects, con
template the steadfast and immovable
courses of the universe; and plant
into our national and domestic life a
serious appreciation of the relative
values of life.
We cannot burn our candle at both
ends and have perpetual light, neither
can we eat our cake and have it.
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The Golden Age for July 20, 1911.
THE CHILDREN’S SUMMER HOME.
Vacation weeks arie not always an
unmixed joy to mothers, who are
sometimes at their wits’ end to devise
home amusements which shall out
weigh the lure of the street and of
play hours where mother’s care and
vigilance cannot follow her children.
A Suburban mother presents an inter
esting solution of her own vacation
problem. Why not, she says, make a
wigwam for these restless children?
It will be a source of amusement for
them and prove an attraction at home.
I will give a bit of my own 'experience
for the benefit of other perplexed
mothers. We are not 'blessed with
broad acres, so a regulation play
ground was out of the question, and
my little folks found the street more
attractive than I wished; but our
large back yard was a sunny spot, and
one bright spring day I found there
the solution of my u.ificulty. I acted
upon it at once, sending for a seed
catalogue and ordering a quantity of
long wh*te birch poles.
When the catalogue came I selected
and ordered several packages of fast
growing vines. Reasoning that two
wigwams would double the attrac
tion of one, I marked two circles,
eight feet in diameter, in opposite cor
ners of the yard, in which I set the
poles, at a slant, about fifteen inches
apart, leaving a space for a door on
the north. When the poles were
drawn together and tied securely in
the center, the skeleton of an Indian
wigwam was complete.
The next thing was to make the
earth around the circles fertile and
mellow, and plant the seed. My young
people were so interested that they
“moved in” before nature could close
the walls. The vines flourished and
before the hottest weather, the poles
were covered to the peak, and soon
blossomed with all the colors of the
rambow. A load of clean, white sand
with tiny shovels, old spoons and
dishes, and a diminutive wheelbarrow,
destroyed the last wish to roam, Ujj-
Edited by Margaret Beverly Upshaw
til the frost turned the green leaves
to a withered brown, yes, until they
fell to the ground, leaving the poles
bare and white, those wigwams were
a delight.
ino millionaire ever had a summer
home that was more appreciated! It
pays to provide amusement —healthy
innocent amusement —for the children
and a very little spent in this way
uimgs a large return of satisfaction to
the whole household.
ASPARAGUS.
Elma lona Locke
Fried Asparagus.—Cut the stalks in
about finger-length pieces, boil until
nearly tender, then drain, din each
piece in egg batter and fry in hot
butter or oil until lightly browned,
drain well, sprinkle with salt, and
serve hot.
Asparagus Pudding.—Boil 2 bunches
of asparagus and chop fine. Beat well
four or five eggs, add two tablespoon
fuls of soft butter, three tablespoon
fuls of flour, a pinch of soda dis
solved in a cupful of sweet milk, salt
and pepper, and lastly, the chopped
asparagus. Mix thoroughly and put
into a buttered mold with a lid, or tie
down tightly with a floured cloth, and
boil for two hours. When done, turn
out, and serve with melted butter
poured over.
Asparagus Croquettes.—Mash to
gether equal quantities of cooked as
paragus and potatoes, season to taste,
moisten with a thick cream sauce,
add one-half as much bread crumbs
as you used of potatoes, and pack into
a shallow, buttered dish to get cold
Turn out, cut in slices or form into
small cakes, dip in beaten egg, roll in
fine cracker crumbs, and fry in smok
ing hot cooking oil, drain well, and
serve.
Asparagus and Cauliflower Salad. —
Break the cooked cauliflower into tiny
sprigs and pile in the center of the
salad dish, surround them with a
wreath of cooked asparagus tips, and
pour over all either a mayonnaise, a
boiled or a cream dressing. Sprinkle
the top with chopped capers or pimen
tos.
Asparagus Omelet. —Beat four eggs
very light, add two tablespoonfuls of
sweet cream, salt and pepper to sea
son, and one scant cupful of boiled
asparagus chopped fine. Put a spoon
ful of butter in the frying pan, shake
it over the fire until frothy, turn in
the omelet and shake over a quick
fire until it is set, fold it over and turn
out onto a hot dish. Serve at once.
SPINACH.
To those unacquainted with spinach
cooked in any way except as ‘‘greens,”
the knowledge of some of its many
possibilities in other ways may be of
help. In some of the following recipes
the left-over, cold spinach may be
used, instead of being wasted.
Cream of Spinach Soup.—Wash one
quart of spinach, drain, and put on to
cook in a sauce pan of boiling salted
water. Boil rapidly, uncovered, until
tender, which will be in a few minutes,
then drain in a colander, run cold
water through it, chop fine, and rub
through a sieve with a wooden spoon.
While the spinach is cooking, prepare
the soup by cooking together one
tablespoonful each of butter and flour,
slowly adding one quart of hot milk,
and salt to taste. Season with one
naif saltspoonful of white pepper, one
half as much grated nutmeg, add the
sifted spinach and servo hot,
