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I THE COUNTRY HOME '
Women, on the Farm
Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. j
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THAT WONDERFUL CHICAGO GIRL.
X cannot write no poems .while I'm asleep.
Nor I can't do no epics in my dreams—
-shev ain't no livin' subject I can keep
A-goin’ on for sixty-seven reams;
I jrot no ctacherino on the Muse—
There’s others that can do some little stunts—
But whdn the folks jest rise up an' enthuse
'Bout that Chicago sleeper, now. to once.
I want It understood I ain't enraged—
Thev ain't no jealousy within my breast-
But oh! for mercy's sake, keep that girl caged
An' give the sufferin' populace a rest.
An Epidemic of Suicide.
Today's paper contains a notice of sev
eral suicides. Every day's paper recounts
from one to three or four. If the reader
Is acquainted with the unfortunate person
then the untimely death may cause some
reflection. If the suicidal manta is a
Stranger—unknown—then his name passes
out of remembrance as quickly as he
passed out of life. This mode of death
ha« become so common nobody feels much
surprise and very few are much con
cerned. The vessel that was dipped into
the pool makes circling ripples when lifted
out of the water, but in a few. seconds the
water is as smooth as ever and the pail
full is not missed or wanted about there
any more.
The wretched suicide is a painful remem
brance to those connected with him or
her. as the case may be. and the outsiders
care nothing at all as a rule.
There to something wrong somewhere In
American social life that has made self
destruction an epidemic.
It to not an attendant on poverty, for
many rich people blow their brains out or
die under opiates and poisons. A woman,
a few days ago. drenched herself with
kerosene oil and then touched a match to
the oil-soaked apparel. A great many
swing off like a criminal on the gallows.
There seems to be no method too violent
. or repulsive to deter the self-destroyer.
But it may be understood once for all
U>a: while a suicide violently shocks rela
tfvrs and friends the idea is not new or
unfamiliar to the one most concerned. The
intention has been a plant of considerable
growth, perhaps exploded by some fuse of
dread, anger, grief or loss, which even
tuated in self-destruction.
* If the roofs of hundreds of homes could
be lifted and a glimpse taken of the in
mates in hours of abandon and without
concealment it would doubtless surprise
the most sagacious to see and know how
many, many lives are tortured to' agony
by cruel treatment, mortification, injus
tice and despair. Trouble is the rule, free
dom from care the exception in most
dwellings. Pride, ambition, appearances'
sake, love for helpless children, unwil
lingness to expose the family skeleton
have made thousands walk on "burning
plowshares" until death put an end to life
and to misery, if by reason of overstrain,
despair or defeat a spring snaps in the
brain s delicate machinery, then it to per
fectly in order for the machine to’ go to
pieces or become useless forevermore.
Eccentricity to many times harmless,
but sometimes it is’ a finger-board pointing
to something more serious. If there were
enough interested people to stop and ex
amine symptoms in the beginning of mind
disease without, waiting until the fever
is wasting and the malady bearing down
in dead earnest on a patient not able to
bear the pressure of both physical and
mental suffering, there might be preven
tion many times when cure to not to be ac
complished later on.
Many years ago. when my young life
was unworn and tender. I knew some
young people whose mother went out one
day and hung herself. It is impossible to
express tn words the pity and unspoken
grief I felt for them. It was said she had
a hard, rough-speaking, unkind husband,
and my young mind jumped to conclu
sions at once. I have, however, livgd long
enough to know that physical weakness
will sometimes produce mental weakness,
and maybe the hapless mother's death was
not affected at all by the husband s un
kindness. but resulted entirely from her
own distressing ailmenta
Brain troubles are for the most part in
explicable. Jaundice will fling out its yel
low flag, tuberculosis will show the hectic
with the cough, rheumatism will puff up
the joints and contract the muscles, but
brain trouble must and will work its way
ailently until dementia is developed, and
then it is generally too late, for after the
wreck the pieces will scarcely bear weld
ing together any more.
There is manifest determination and x*al
tn care and treatment of the Insane by our
public authorities, but the preventive
measures are in their infancy still, hence
I account for the epidemic of suicides.
The strenuous character of American
life to likewise a promoter of brain trou
bles. This epidemic of suicide is a serious
Indictment against our habits, methods,
business absorption and brain overwork in
the present era
Too much business, too much study, too
much ambition are each and all worse
than an overplus of manual labor for the
mind's health and satisfaction.
.Homicides are more frequent than sui
cides and perhaps both are generated !•
the same place and by the same Influences,
if the secrets of the hidden were disclosed
to human understanding.
It to a common plea in the defense of
murderers that the mind was unhinged
and the act. therefore, not one of guilt.
While improper in many Instances no one
Is prepared to decide thus for all who are
arraigned at the bar of justice. Who
knows? Who can know but the Great In
finite Mind?
NICE GINGER BREAD AND POTA
TO CUSTARDS.
"Dear Mrs. Felton: I have been a very
delighted reader of your pieces in the
home department of the Semi-Weekly
Journal for a year past.
"I have saved all the pieces you have
written and pasted them in a scrap-book,
ao if ever you should go on a strike I
would still have some of your helpful
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wear, tear, time,
hard work. Things that have
I less cleansing power are more
expensive to use. You use
more of them, you haUt to
rub. and that soon wears out
the clothes.
Pearline Everywhere J
writings to which I could turn in my leis
ure hours and refresh my memory.
"My husband has renewed his subscrip
tion to The Journal and it is my sincere
praver you may be long spared to do your
noble work, at least for many years to
come.
"May I give you some suggestions as to
ginger cookies and potato custards?
"In making the ginger cookies use no
milk.
“Rub the shortening (either butter or
sweet lard will do> into the flour, then
add ginger to taste with molasses suffi
cient to work into a smooth dough.
"These cookies will keep sweet and fresh
indefinitely.
"For the potato custards you can make
them in the usual way. except omit sweet
milk and use buttermilk and soda.
"I think the custards are much better,
not so clammy, but they will be light and
easily digested.
"I may be telling you some things that
the sisters know already, but having
found them out for myself I felt willing
to add my mite of domestic knowledge.
•T wish your readers would take a Bve
ly interest in your country home page,
because it is set aside for country home
pleasure and profit.
"If they have good magaxines which
any have read and would exchange it
would be a great help to all. Best
wishes."
Many thanks to this valued correspon
dent for her suggestions. All good re
cipes for information and profit to our
readers are most gratefully received.
She says truly that the country home
column is set apart for the benefit of
country home readers.
"Blest be the tie that binds" us to
gether in the effort to help each other.
As the New Year time rolls in we can
recall many delightful interviews tn our
beloved home column work during the
twelve-month past and gone.
Mav the editress present each and every
one of the dear readers with her love and
best wishes for another year of blessing
and good cheer to themselves and all they
love in life!
Nothing has occurred to mar our mu
tual confidence or affection in the year
1901.
Why Not Allow the Chinese and Japa
nese to Come South?
The outlook is so gloomy for reliable
farm labor in Georgia that I am continu
ally asking this question: "Why not al
low the Chinese and Japanese to work
the land?”
I have heard the various objections
which have been urged against Coolie
labor, and if we were not already afflicted
with labor not so good or so cleanly or
so reliable, these. objections might impress
me, but as we are situated now, we need
not be painfully particular on some of
these points burdened down already with
labor that cannot be controlled or depen
ded upon or Influenced by love or money,
to fulfill a contract.
The great objection uyged by the Pacific
coast residents was the cheapness of Coo
lie labor, and that competition reduced
the price of the white man’s wages in con
sequence. but any objection of this kind
obtains with negro labor also, so we need
not be squeamish against the Oriental
laborer, when we have been acquainted
with the African laborer for a couple of
centuries and endured the strain so well.
Unless there is decided action taken by
congress in this matter the Chinese will
again be excluded, and this country must
suffer and for help to cultivate the
soil, perhaps another third of a century,
and this waiting means neavy loss. It is
becoming a serious matter with farmers
to secure any sort of assistance in farm
labor and with heavy taxation which
amounts to almost confiscation people will
either be obliged to abandon the cultiva
tion and allow the fields to lie barren and
grow up in sedge and briar or import la
bor. With Coolie labor every foot of land
in Georgia could be made productive and
profitable.
On the Pacific coast these Chinamen
made California the garden spot of the
continent before they were excluded by
the wild fanatics who aroused bitter prej
uaice against the yellow laborers because
their labor was cheap. With present
farming conditions in the south the scar
city of labor is the terrible drawback of
the country, and with this scarcity of la
bor there is unrellaoillty and utter dis
regard of contracts.
For one. I am anxious to see the yel
low man given a living chance here in
the south. The Chinamen I see or know
about are well-behaved and law abiding
and their work Is excellent when they
promise to do.lt. We must study this
question in view of our own necessities.
Public Schools Without Pupils—Name
Confederate Home After Our Own
Great Men.
Mrs. W. H. Felton. Cartersville. Ga.
Dear Madam: I am a constant and ap
preciative reader of your articles in the
Atlanta Journal, especially on school and
Confederate matters.
I have no children to attend school, but
my husband and father are taxpayers and
I feel the burden in that respect. There is
something terribly wrong with the school
system under present management. In
this county there are now two salaried
schools being taught, so I am informed,
where the one teacher with a school of
three pupils draws a salary of $25 per
month, and the other teacher draws S4O
per month on seven pupils. Are such
things right? I see in one issue of The
Journal that some one writes and asks to
have the Georgia Soldiers’ home named
for William McKinley! I am opposed to
that, as are most southerners.
All honor to Mr. McKinley, but to it ap
propriate to have our Confederate home
for soldiers named for him.
Where are the names of Jefferson Davis,
R. E. Lee, J. E. B. Stuart, P. M. B. Young
and our gallant Gordon that we should go
north for a name? .
Speak of these things. Mrs. Felton, and
you will be listened to and heeded. Your
voice has weight, mine is unknown and
my pen too weak to appear in print.
I merely wish to tell you of how some
of us think and feel, leaving it to you to
prepare it for print.
With best wishes for a merry Christmas
and a bright, happy New Year. I am sin
cerely, ESTELLE P.
Athens, Ga.
A Rare Coin.
A correspondent writes:
"I have a small gold coin in my posses
sion. My mother gave it to me when 1
was quite a small girl, and I want to
know if this coin is worth more than its
face value.
“Can you give me the address of some
firm which deals in old coins?
"It is a half-dollar gold piece, minted
tn California in 1853. The shape of the
coin is octagon and it has not the thick
ness of a well-worn dime.
"On one side is ’Callfomiar-Gold—One
half Dollar.’
"The other side contains the head of Lib
erty and the date 1853. The coin is splen
didly preserved and an offer of S2O was
I once made for it."
Those rare coins should have extra
value, because there will be no more made
like them.
My correspondent is willing to sell the
coin, and any person writing to Mrs. Sal
lie 8.. Mayfield, Ga., may obtain further
information.
The governor of Finland has ordered the
proaecution of the Lutheran pastors Who refuse
to read the new Russian army regulations in
their churches.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27. 1902.
Experiences With Mentaf Telegraphy
And Wonderful Psychic Phenomena
JfrSe Josiah Carter Gibes
cA Personal Experience.
This is a simple statement of two ac
tual happenings in the lives of two moth
ers—myself and one of my grandmothers.
Fifty years He between the two experi
ences.
In April, when my maternal grand
mother was a young woman with three
children, her little son, William, four
years old, was drowned by falling into a
deep spring. He fell in head foremost and
was found dead by one of the negroes.
The spring was enclosed in a section of a
hollowed tree in what is called a "gum"—
like a rude beehive and so small a child
could not extricate himself from such a
narrow enclosure.
My grandmother was a very religious
woman and believed she received answers
to special prayer. One of her beliefs
being that her eldest living son would
pass safely through the war between the
states and become a minister—that as
surance she insisted had been given her
from heaven'. That son is still living, af
ter many narrow escapes from death and
is now a Baptist preacher.
In April, when my only child was four
years old and I knew she was playing in
a big yard with a high fence around it
and a kind mulatto womtr. to watch over
her, I had this vivid experience:
Just as I took up my sewing after din
ner a voice like a faint whisper arrested
my attention as if a hand had grasped
mine closely. The very words: "Find
your baby,’; sounded so faintly yet earn
estly in my ear that I dropped my sewing
and went hastily in search of the chilli.
I found her in a corner of the
standing beside a big tub full of rain
water with one hand on each side and
looking down at her reflected face. She
was small and plump and if she had lost
her balance nothing could have saved her
from drowning. The colored woman w’as
standing beside the fence some distance
away chatting with a friend.
If we believe in immortality and any
degree of angelic or spiritual guardian
ship is it unreasonable and unchristlan
llke to feel that the souls of our departed
loved ones may be allowed to warn us
of danger?
ANNIE L. CARTER.
Inman Park, Jan. 15, 1902.
Mrs, ffack sbnes
A Very Strange Incident
Mrs. Jack Jones, the widow of the for
mer treasurer of the state, was asked if
she had any experience along this line
of psychic phenomena.
"No," she said, "personally, I have had
no experience in that way, but my mother
had a most singular one. It was long ago,
tn 1848. We were in Macon. I was a
young girl. My brother, Charles Williams,
was in the Mexican war. He was my i
eldest brother, and between him and my |
mother, there was a peculiarly close and j
devoted love. He was a son who would
have« aroused any mother’s pride—hand
some, tall, brave. My thoughts
were always with him on a possible bat
tlefield. One morning, just before dawn,
our entire household was aroused by
piercing screams. They were from my
mother. ’He to dead! Charles to dead!’ she
cried in response to our questions. ’I saw
him under the horses’ feet—they were
raising him from the ground and his poor
head fell back, dead, dead!’
"We tried in vain to soothe her. My
father calmly presented the facts to her;
The boy was in Mexico, she in Macon,
how could she have seen him! ‘I saw
him!’ she would reiterate; ’I saw even his
white teeth as his dear mouth fell open.
He was dead!’
"There followed many anxious days of
waiting for definite news. At last it came.
My brother had sustained a serious acci
dent, had been picked up unconscious
from beneath the horses’ feet. But he
would now soon be well.
“When he did come home, he told all
about it, my mother adding details of the
incident as she had seen it in her vision
of the accident, my brother assenting in
wonder. And the strangest thing of all
was that on comparing the day and hour
of the accidents occurrence with my
mother’s view of it all that morning in
bed. it was found that allowing for the
difference in time in Georgia and Mexi
co. the time was the same to the very
minute.”
Two Atlanta Women Tell
Os Singular Happenings
Two Atlanta women, who prefer that
their names be not mentioned, add testi
mony to the psychic phenomena in
dreams.
One of these women tells qf a young rel
ative of hers—a bright, harum-scarum
girl, wholly unimaginative, who came
from a western state to a Georgia board
ing school.
One morning before breakfast she re
lated to her roommates a vivid dream of
the night before, in which she distinctly
saw her home in flames. fwo days later
these girls were reading their letters in
an excite/! group and learned that the
far-away home was completely destroyed
bv fire on the night of the girl’s dream.
"My sister,” added the narrator, "was in
the group, and I have often heard her
speak of it.”
Another Atlanta woman, prominent in
the social life of this city, tells a re
markable personal experience. It hap
pened some years ago when her daugh
ter, to whom she was devotedly attached,
and who was absent at the time,
was undergoing an experience of great
mental anguish. One night at about 2
o’clock the mother awoke with the dis
tinct impression that her daughter was
calling her. So vivid was the impression
that she arose and went to the stairway
and called, "Yes. daughter, what to it?”
and was surprised when there was no an
swer. She was not greatly surprised, but
wondered somewhat when, after, the
daughter told -her that at 2 o'clock on
that very night she had longed with the
greatest longing for the mother’s pres
ence, and had almost determined to go
to her.
Miss Mary Brent Whiteside
Gibes Incident and Comment
From amidst a somewhat chaotic mass
of so-called "psychic experiences" two or
three stand out with startling clearness.
One of the most common forms, perhaps,
of telepathic communication is the fore
warning of Illness or danger to some
friend at a distance. A particularly strik
ing Instance came to my observation some
years ago. A lady whose only son was
away in the West Indies was taken ill.
and thinking that her end had come, de
plored the fact that it might be impos
sible to communicate with him in time
for him to reach her side before she died.
The doorbell rang and the absent son
appeared on the threshold. "How is my
mother?" he inquired Instantly.
"She is ill,” replied his sister hesitating
ly.
“I know that,” he returned, “but is she
worse or better?”
An explanation developed the fact that
he had attended a seance In Cuba a week
before and the medium had declared that
there was an important message to be
delivered to him. "Some one very near and
dear to you,” she said, "is about to suc
cumb to a long and dangerous illness, the
outcome of which is very doubtful.”
The gentleman, justly concluding that
this could mean none other than his moth
er, hastened home with the result already
told.
Another experience of more recent date
was hardly less startling. The subject—or
victim, however we may chose to desig
nate the recipient of the telepathic mes
sage—had a dream in which she received
a letter containing bad news of a disturb
ing and very unexpected character. So
powerful was the effect of the intelligence
conveyed that she spent the remainder
of the night not only sleepless but posi
tively ill. When morning came she was
scarcely able to leave her bed, but man
aged to do so, and an hour or two later
received from the hand of the postman
the identical letter of which she had
dreamed.
The most interesting query that presents
itself to, me in this connection is: Why
are these telephatlc communications al
ways in the nature of warnings of illness
or danger rather than predictions of suc
cess or unexpected pleasures of any kind?
This Is a question to which works on
psychic phenomena have given no satis
factory explanation. Yet it is certainly
true that one rarely, if ever, hears of
one’s receiving a supernatural message
regarding anything of a pleasant or desir
able character.
Again is a certain sensitiveness to
psychic impresions to be desired or oth
erwise? One possessing a “psychic tem
perament” may be useful occasionally to
his friends—unless he is laughed at—but
that It is a quality calculated frequent
ly to make its possessor uncomfortable is
certain.
However, it is a fact beyond argu
ment that the subject of psychic research
opens up a field of vast and immeasura
ble proportions, in which explorations as
yer, though interesting and important,
have not made the headway that might
be desired.
Many conjectures are befhg expressed
as to what new improvements will be
given to the world during the twentieth
century But the last 50 years ha!Ve seen
man blessed with almost every comfort
and labor saving device tha /’he desired
or imagined, and may we not venture
to believe it possible that the chief prog
ress of this new century may not be in the
material world at all but in the world of
spirit?
MARY BRENT WHITESIDE.
Miss Effie Walker Disclaims
The Uncanny But Tells of It
"I have no sympathy whatever with the
uncanny,” said Miss Effle Walker. “A
thing that is abnormal and unexplainable
is abhorrent to me. I don’t care to inves
tigate it, to think about it.
"We had a governess once, long ago.
whom I disliked, I think, for no other
reason than that she was so queer in her
presentments and dreams, which always
’came true.’
"Her name was Miss Lavonia Shackle
ford and she lived in Kirkwood. I remem
ber, one day, she suddenly burst into
tears, saying she saw her sister’s face in
deep mortal distress. W’here she said she
saw the face, we could see only the folds
of a covering carelessly thrown over a.
lounge. She was .Inconsolable.
"Her sister lived Tn a distant state, and
it was days before she could heart But
when the mall did come, sure enough,
there was the news of the sister’s extreme
Illness, the crisis.., at the same hour in
which the face had appeared to Miss
Shackleford, when the sick woman had
been calling insistently for ’Lavonia!’ ’’
Mrs, M. R, cMays Tells
Os Dream's Fulfillment
"O, yes,” said Mrs. Mattle Russell Mays,
"I have heard of those queer experiences;
and though I have never actually had one
myself, they have come pretty close to
me through members of my own family.
One of these, I remember, an elderly lady,
was taken suddenly ill one night. The
family was summoned; and when they
reached her bed, they found her not only
in great physical pain, but also in an aigi
tated state over a dream which she pro
ceeded to relate to them; and, in spite of
her suffering, she would exclaim, ‘Oh,
that horrible dream!’
"She said she had seen in that dream her
daughter who lived in a distant city driv
ing in a buggy in great haste and wring
ing her hands as if in greatest distress.
"After a while, the attack seemed to
pass away, and the family retired.
“When the servant entered the room the
next morning, she found her mistress
dead.
"The daughter whom my kinswoman
had seen in her dream lived a few miles
in the country. When her husband, who
was in town at the time, received a tele
gram notifying him of the sad death, he
hurried home, bade his wife make haste
to catch a certain train which passed near
their home, urging that they would not
have time to go into the city. They jump
ed into a buggy, and drove rapidly to a
near by station to catch the first train
that would carry them to the old home.
The situation seemed an exact fulfilment
of the dream.
"Another very strange dream was ex
perienced by my maternal grandmother,
who awakened her husband one night by
her weeping. She explained to him that
she had seen her sister, Anne Maria, in
her night dress wringing her hands in
great distress. The next morning at
breakfast time a telegram came announc
ing the death of her sister Anne Marla’s
husband, which had occurred about the
hour my grandmother had the dream."
Miss Phillips Tells of
A Wonderful Experience
My mother and her sister in their girl
hood days possessed what psychologists
call a "highly developed sub-conscious
ness.” to a rather alarming degree. My
mother has lost it. but I can remember
the time when its manifestations were ac
cepted and acted upen by us withou?
question; we treated them as divine in
spirations.
One morning when I was in my sev
enth year she struck terror tc the hearts
of the whole family when she announced
at the breakfast table that she must have
immediate news of her oldest son who
had gone to Norfolk the afternoon before
to spend the night with a cousin. She
claimed to have seen him floundering In
the water with hand reaching out for. but
not touching an overturned boat. The
vision had come to her in the early
hours of the evening and she had fought
it all night without being able to convince
herself that It was a foolish vision born
of her mother's fear for her boy. My fa
ther attempted to treat her fears lightly
but his own belief in her peculiar power
of second sight revealed itself In his
strained smile and his face which went
white at the announcement; so unheeding
the calls of the sick and suffering whose
messengers waited at the gate and in the
office, he turned his horse’s head in the
direction of Windsor, the nearest railroad
station to our country home. In that ride
of three miles he reasoned much and suf
fered more. There was no time to visit
the telegraph office when he reached
Windsor, for the 8:20 train from Norfolk
★ ★ ★
BY
EMEL JAY
was slowing up at the depot and brother
John was standing on the rear platform
ready to alight. My father gripped the
reins and waited for him to come up.
“What happened to you, son?” was his
greeting, never taking his eyes from his
boy’s face.
“How did you know?” was the aston
ished answer. /
"Just tell me about it, quick” my father
said.
“Cousin Jasper took a party of us out
in his yacht. It Is a light affair. There
were a dozen or more of us and we were
watching a big ship sailing Into harbor,
when a flaw of wind struck our boat and
over we went. There were so many small
craft in the harbor that all were saved
and unharmed except for the wetting.
We were rather a sad looking lot when
we reached the shore. But how did you
know?”
“Your mother saw it.”
But the most gruesome manifestation of
this power came through my mother’s
sister Mary, wife of William H. Darden,
of Isle of Wight county. She was just
seventeen; had been married not quite
a year, and was on her death bed. She
had a friend. Lucy D , member of a
well known and prominent Norfolk fam
ily, much older than herself, and mother
of a little girl of four or five years of age.
The family history is best withheld, but
this friend had seen much trouble, and
there was a fear in the hearts of all her
friends that some day this high-strung,
impulsive nature would rebel—and some
thing would happen. The probable fate
of the little girl had caused Aunt Mary
to toss sleeplessly on her pillow through
many a weary night. .
On this particular evening—lt was
about 9:30 o’clock—my mother, an older
sister, and a friend, were sitting around
the reading table in the hall outside of
Aunt Mary’s room, embroidering and talk
ing in low tones. There was no light in
the sick room except that shed from the
reading lamp through the partially open
door. In the midst of the conversation
a scream from the sickroom brought the
trio to their feet and to Aunt Mary’s bed
side. My mother took her hand and with
what calm she could command spoke to
her.
Aunt Mary raised herself to a sitting
posture. "Lucy,” she whispered, “where
did she go?”
"She is not with us tonight,” they told
her.
"But she to—she was,” was the excited
reply. “She was standing just there a
moment ago. trying to persuade me to
take care of her little girl. Oh, she begged
so hard, and I m afraid she thought me
cruel, but I couldn't promise—l am so
tired.”
They tried to comfort her in every way
but she wept heart-brokenly.
"And when she turned away,” she
continued. "I saw how worn and sad she
looked; she was all in white with some
dark thing around her neck which looked
like a piece of rope; it dangled from the
front of her gown, and there was blood
on her gown—great splotches of it —•”
Aunt Mary died that night, and the next
morning a telegram came addressed to
her: "Lucy died last night” it read.
“Hung herself from the poster-bed.
Child left to you. Letter will explain.”
That was all. Nobody understood or
sought to explain; but it was an actual
occurrence just as I have given it. It
happened in the early fifties when my
mother was a young girl. .
MARY ALICE
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Dr. Tucker, 15 N. Broad street, Atlanta,
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SOLUTION OF CHRISTMAS RHYM
ING REBUS.
Dear Santa Claus, I’ve tried to be
A nice boy all the year,
And so when Christmas rolls around,
Why, don’t forget us here.
For baby bring a rattle box,
For Harry leave a bat;
Mamma would like a warm fur cape
And Belle a brand-new hat.
I wonder what papa would like—
Well, send him an auto.
I think I’ll take some caramels.
P. S.—l want a lot, too.
Yours,
WILLIE.
A great Japanese exhibition is to be held at
Osaka in 1903. Special buildings are to be
erected for the display of European and Amer
ican manufactures.
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and Why Physical Culture
Will Bring Beauty and Strength
BY BESSIE LINN SMITH.
That exercise is necessary for health
everybody concedes. The physiology
makes that clear enough.
It tells how the nutriment extracted
from the food is taken up by the blood,
which, as it circulates through the body,
deposits wherever it is needed the proper
amount and kind of material for repairing
and building up each minutest part and
muscle of the body, and gathers up the
worn-out, used-up, impure substance and
carries it to the proper organs for re
moval from the system. *
It shows how, if the .blood is sluggish,
failing to circulate properly, not enough
reaches the different parts to
keep'them in repair; cold hands, cold feet,
sluggish hair action result. Impure mat
ters are left where they originated and
eventually weakness, disease, bad tem
pers, irritability and a whole host of evils
follow. .
It explains how the brain to not a mus
cular organ and must rely on bodily ac
tivity to draw the blood down that has
been used and make room for new, and
unless this is effected and the supply of
blood to the brain frequently renewed the
organ loses Its capacity for vigorous
thought; this is especially the case with
growing children, whose natural Impulses
incline to the activity so necessary, but
who are by our educational systems con
fined to the unnatural stillness of the
school room, childish forms soon becom
ing invaded by lassitude, headache, con
gestion and a host of ills.
Exercise, with a moderate medium of
resistance, brings a copious supply of
blood to the brain and muscle without
breaking down much tissue, leaving a
balance of material in favor of repair and
growth. Rosy cheeks, round limbs, quick
brains, sound bodies are visible results
that repay the moderate expenditure of
time, effort and money that is needed to
accomplish such effects, i
Exercise is absolutely • essential. And
physical culture to exercise In scientific
form. .
Physical culture to one of the fads cf
the day, and a most Ijpppy fad. Books
and periodicals are full of it.
One especial phase of the subject to the
attainment of the beauty of grace through
that scientific method. This is no cater
ing to a mere fad; it is in accord with the
tardy modern recognition of a deep seated
truth long ago duly honored by the
Greeks, “A healthy mind in a healthy
body." . •
The body is merely the Instrument of
mind, or rather of soul, and as It takes
a perfect Stradivarius or Guernarius violin
the body forth to the listening ear t£e
subtle sweetness, the dantiness, the deli
cacy, of the dreams of the master mu
scian; so the body should be perfectly
trained, in order that It may breathe
forth grqce, strength, efficiency, and all
the other qualities of mind.
The groWth of population, the fight to
live, the struggle of competition has
forced the multitude to recognize the need
of all the wit sharpening processes the
Improved educational methods, and the
necessity for mental culture which is
such a noticeable feature in American
civilization. ... . «
With the Immense brain development of
the times and the nervous energy that
has such calls made upon it has grown
the recognition of the necessity of physi
cal culture. With the higher mental cul
ture more wholesome ideals of beauty
and grace are prevailing, in contradis
tinction to former ideas that physical
frailty and a disposition to faint away on
all occasions constituted feminine delica
cy and refinement. Long, slender necks,
narrow shoulders and languishing ways
constituted beauty In the days of our
grandmothers, but now athletics has be
come a part of the education of the
younger generations.
In most of the progressive schools and
colleges there are regular teachers of
athletics and attendance at the gymna
sium is compulsory. Not the flinging
about of one’s arms and legs In the man
ner dignified by the name of calisthen
ics which exercises fall short of their ob
ject for they do not contract the mus
cles completely without an expenditure
of will force that tends to counteract any
benefit they produce: not calisthenics, but
natural gymnastics; work, not heavy,
which is a thing of the past, but such as
admits of numerous movements without
greatly taxing the vital forces.
Such movemGiti develop a better qual
ity of musele and more quickness and ac
tivity as well as strength. Any one who
has for three months kept up such exer
cise. and noted the buoyancy and energy
of life that follows, rarely consents to fall
back into the old regime of inactivity or
actual physical laziness for that Is its
correct name.
A course of development even if in the
years to come, the exercises are dropped
entirely, will have a beneficial effect and
will be evident throughout life.
All athletic diversions such as cycling,
tennis, golf, etc., are of value to give
pleasure to useful exercise, but these
alone do not serve the purpose.
Again, chopping wood, house work,
field work, cooking, washing, etc.,—neces
sary labors to a large majority of our
people—are valued in their place, but not
of use to brain-workers, who after a day’s
work in one line wish physical recreation,'
not labor. The hewers of wood and draw
ers of water do not wish other labors
after doing their day’s work. Such work
ers should have light gymnastics that call
the blood evenly to all parts of the body,
calling into play every muscle.
Those members of the commonwealth
who claim that the struggle for a living
consumes their time and their energy
should recollect that a continual strain on
any one set of muscles, or organ, tends to
their over development and to the conse
quent injury of the rest of the organism.
Look at the upper arm of a woodchopper,
a washer woman, a prize fighter and see
the huge knotty muscles with flat places
between. Why, such development is act
ually repulsive.
Nothing but regular systematic train
ing can attain the objects of health and
symmetry. Take a girl with hollows at
her shoulders and neck, give her about
four months’ training of the special char
acter suited to such a—well, deformity—
and you will have symmetry and beauty
as well as Improved lungs and heart ac
tion. Five or six months of training will
make a healthy woman of a thin, flat
chested, scrawny armed, undeveloped girl.
Now some people may be indifferent to
personal appearance, but the value of a
healthy physique is not open to question.
And if a system of exercises will ac
complish such results, as it surely will in
a large majority of cases, is It not worth
while to make the effort to conquer indif
ference and laziness and to acquire such
benefit?
Most people who have been used to a
routine life or perhaps to a sedentary ex- ,
istence haven't the energy to exert them
selves. Well, no benefit is ever obtained ,
unless one puts out the hand to grasp it. ■ ;
Health and strength, control of all parts
of the body, cannot be obtained unless a
little time is given to It.
Half an hour each day or one hour every
other day will bring astonishing results,
or even 15 minutes on rising and 15 before
retiring each day will have the effect de
sired.
BUYING COSTLY PRESENTS
TO GIVE AMERICANS
BERLIN, Jan. 23.—Admiral Prince Hen
ry of Prussia selected at the court jewel
ers this morning about fifty presents for
Americans with whom he will come es
pecially in contact during his visit to the
United States.
The presents Included several gold and
silver boxes set with diamonds; they have
the emperor's monogram encircled with
diamonds enamelled on the lids; beautiful
silver cups with “Hohenzollern’’ enamel
led on them; gold and silver cigarette
cases, on which his majesty’s autograph
is traced in small diamonds, and small
compasses encased in gold and silver
boxes, with “Hohenzollern” enamelled on
them, besides larger and more valuable
gifts.
A number of cuff links, brooches and
scarf pins with the initial “H.” in dia
monds, are also included among the pres
ents. The latter are intended for less im
portant persons.
Official secrecy is maintained as to what
the emperor and Prince Henry will pre
sent to the president. Rear Admiral Rob
ley D. Evans and Miss Alice Roosevelt,
though it Is well known that his majesty
will send Miss Roosevelt a jewelled brace
let, and Prince Henry will probably offer
the president a fine hunting gun with in
terchangeable shot and rifle barrels, and
its accompanying equipment.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
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Sir Redvers Buller, having just attained the
age of 62, has five years to serve as a general
officer on the active list of the British army.
Mark Twain’s old home in Tennessee was
sold last week. It Includes the Clemens home
stead, which was chosen as the scene for tha
novel, “The Gilded Age.” '
Admiral Dewey and Joseph Jefferson, tha
actor, are Inseparable friends at Palm Beach.
They frequently stroll in the suburbs of tha
Florida resort, and the other day were seen
sitting on a fence swinging their feet Ilka
two schoolboys.—Detroit <Mieh.) Free Press. ,
Mrs. Polly Allison, who died at her home
near Wingo. Ky.. aged 95, was the widow of
a scldier of the war of 1811. who died forty
five years ago, and had drawn a pension tor
thirty years. She had no children, never
joined a church, never cooked on a stove or
rode on a train.
The Rev. Henry A. Barry of the Catholio
Archdiocese of Boston, has had conferred
upon him by Pope Leo XIII. the degree of
doctor of sacred theology, a very unusual
distinction to be received from the sovereign
pontiff, and one seldom granted by him. es
pecially to an American priest.
M. Santos-Dumont will probably enter tha
airship competition at the St. Louis Exposi
tion.
Baltimore has now fewer than 80.000 colored
inhabitants and Louisville fewer than 4V.WU.
St. Louis has 35,000.