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J! THE COUNTRY HOME
Women, on the Farm
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THINGS THAT NEVER DIE.'
The pure, the bright. the beautiful.
That stirred our hearts In youth.
The Impulse to a wordless prayer.
The dreams of love and youth;
The longings after something lost.
The spirit’s yearning cry.
The strivings after better hopes—
These things can never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need.
The kindly work ' n « r, ' r .’J ,rk hour ’
That proves a Mend indeed. .
The plea for mercy, softly breathed.
When justice threatens high.
The sorrow of a contrite heart—
These things shall never die.
The memory of a clasping band.
And * sweet and frail.
That make up love’s first tliss.
If with a firm, unchanging faith.
And holy trust and high.
Those hands have clasped those lips have me
These things shall never die.
The eruel and the bitter word .
That wounded as It fell;
The chilling want of sympathy
We feel but never tell;
The hard repulse that chills the heart
Whose hopes were bounding high;
In an unfading record kept—
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must find some work to do:
Lose not a chance to waken love—
Be firm and Just and true.
fie shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high.
And angel voices say to thee—
These things .ball never die
Hint* to Boy# and Girl*.
The following old and familiar lines con
tain, according to elocutionists, the en
tire principles of the management of the
voice:
"Begin low.
Speak low.
Take fire.
Rise higher.
When most impressed
Be self-possessed."
Already the young debaters tn our mul
tiplied schools and colleges are getting
ready foe next spring and summer’s en
tertainments. where patrons and friends
are to be infilled to attend and hear be
batea.
Almost any sensible speech will sound
well if the speager has a pleasing man
ner. controls the voice and is self-pos
sessed
The effects which are generally most
gratifying come from plain, matter-of
fact. stralght-to-the-point addresses, that
everybody can understand and spoken in
a voice sufficiently loud, that everybody
can hear and slow enough to pronounce
each word distinctly and with no more
gestures than would belong to animated
conversation in a company of refined peo
ple
The best speakers I ever heard used
but few gestures, but it cornea naturally
to some people to be more demonstrative
than others, and when the fire burns with
in them they turn loose and let the steam
on to good effect, provided the action is
natural.
Nothing is more tiresome to me than to
listen to stage wh’*i>ers and see low bow
tngs and genuflexions when 1 am intent
ly llfitening for the argument. I heard
a discourse some time ago with a plain,
matter-of-fact, every-day subject, and the
entire effect was completely spoiled for
me by excessive airs and graces of the
would-be orator. Actors on a stage in a
theatre may use such methods because it
Is expected they will be abnormal tn grief,
ecstacy and love. People go to those
places to watch the actor transform him
self into the hero or villian of the play.
But the debating contests in our schools
and colleges are supposed to be training
exercises for those who will speak in af
ter life to some good and practical pur
pose.
Therefore such strivings for effect on
the school platform are almost always
painful for the listener to look at. and
useless for practical improvement to the
pupt|.
Every first-class speaker has certain
marks of individuality. No imitator of
others can hold on to public applause
long at a time, because he is only the
copy, not the original document.
This individuality in nine cases out of
ten makes the attraction and draws the
crowd, but there must be also clear, dis
tinct enunciation and something worth
listening to at the same time. .
It is painful to attend a public gather
ing of persons equally interested and no
tice how very few people are able to get
up and make a plain statement of the
grievance or maybe dther object of the
meeting which had thus called them to
gether. I have seen clear-headed business
men. In various professions in life, who
seemed to be completely lost on such oc
casions.
I have. seen. also, some dapper little
speaker whose brain would rattle in a
mustard seed, jump on his feet and tell
the whole business, and lots besides,
when thosA excellent people mentioned
were dumb with embarrassment and quite
unable' to speak to their own resolutions.
All these things are affected by habit,
cusfbrn. and our American boys and girls
should be taught to say what they are ex
pected to say in plain words, slow enough
to enunciate properly and loud enough to
be beard perfectly. It Is a very great ac
complishment to sing well, talk well and
speak well before others, and the merit
in. all three will depend on the. rules here
explained for excellence. '
Heaven Bless Our Country'Boys.
If there is any class of persons to whom
my whole heart goes out in tender sym
pathy it is to the country boys who are
doing their best to grow up Into honorable
and Industrious manhood "far from the
maddntrg crowd." Because a Country
Home Is sometimes far removed from
the frivolities and excitements of the
town, a great many boys find country
life irksome and its labors onerous. be
cause of discontented longings for some
thing different.
But when I do see a boy set his face res
olutely towards country life and turn his
hands towards agriculture and the vari
ous duties that attend farm work. I
great
P] EASE
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\ washing—no
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M PEARLINE
=== above every
! other washing medium. Plenty
of things make washing easy,
but are ruinous to the clothes.
Plenty are harmless enough,
but hard to wash with. Wash in
common sense way—eoak out
the dittj with little or no rub
bing- PE AR LINE’S we. y- 669
Proved by Millions
feel a great *and growing respect for his
efforts and I am obliged to congratulate
him upon tB good choice he is making.
If any careful reader will take the
pains to look over the biographries of our
greatest statesmen and successful busi
ness men of this country it will cause sur
prise to see how the overwhelming major
ity have been country boys in the plain
est occupations of the title. Many, very
many, have come up from deep poverty.
Whether it is the free air and independ
ent thought or action or whether it is the
hard discipline which has made them self
reliant and self-sustaining I am not able
to determine. Maybe it was a good deal
of both influences, which helped them to
ultimate success.
A letter from a “country boy” in South
ern Georgia came to me today. It made
me feel so thankful that I shall not apolo
gise for transcribing a few lines from it,
and then I will say again, “Heaven bless
our country boys!”
"Dear Mrs. Felton: I have enjoyed so
much your articles to boys in the Country
Home department of Semi-Weekly Jour
nal. that I feel that I must write to you
and tell you the good I have received from
them.
“I am a country boy. ‘bom and bred
in the country, and oh! Mrs. Felton, how
I do love you for the good things you are
always saying about the country boy.
"Tour advice is always so motherly. I
have never read a single line in one of
your articles in'which you have plead for
manhood and good character, for the com
ing generation, without resolving to be a
better and more useful citizen.
“May God bless you and give you
strength to still lead in public life by
writing and speaking earnest words of
truth in the years to eome!”
Some Advice from Professional Cooks.
To make good orange flavoring boil a
handful of fresh orange skins or rinds un
til thev are tender. Then chop them up
flne and add a pound of brown sugar to
every gill of water in which the skins
were boiled. After they are cooked until
quite thick set away in a glass jar ready
for use.
Orange peel preserves are nice also. Boil
until tender and add white sugar—to
make a clear, thick syrup. Then they are
boiled untik fully preserved.
SALAD OF CELERY AND ENGLISH
'WALNUTS.
Cut the celery into small pieces and add
one-third the quantity of English walnuts
broken into small bits. Four over them
mayonaise dressing and serve on lettuce
leaves.
TO CLEAN ENAMELLED SAUCE
' PANS.
Rub well with soda in hot water. Then
scour with a mixture of flne sand and
salt. Afterward scald in hot water and
dry them well.
Sometimes you wish to use the white of
an egg and not the yolk. Drop the latter
into a cup of cold water, where it will
keep two or three days if necessarj.
To boil cabbage that no unpleasant odor
may be detected plunge the cabbage into
boiling salted water. Allow it to boll hard
one time, then simmer slowly until cooked.
Is it improver to ask for a second help
ing of soup?
Answer: It hi considered so at a fash
ionable dinner. Take what is set before
you is the rule. '
Prepare to Evaporate and Can Peaches
The steady cold weather that has pre
vailed during January and February
would indicate the backward blooming of
peachtrees this spring. If the peachtrees
do not blossom until danger from frost
has passed, Georgia will have a mammoth
peach crop to care for in this year 1902.
If the Season of gathering should be
rainy, or transportation of fruit cars
should be hindered, there must be provis
ion made for saving the fruit at home,
which would otherwise be wasted—una
voidably.
It behooves all peach-growers to be on
the lookout for a suitable place to dry
the fruit by evaporation or can the green
fruit in canning establishments.
It will not do to delay matters at all; be
cause the fruit has cost the growers so
much that they must save it.
Where there are many peaches grown in
a neighborhood there should be concerted
action taken, early enough to be ready for
the emergency.
There should be canning factories and
evaporation plants anyhow, because in
large orchards there will be quantities of
fruit that may be inferior in some respects
for crates, but which would be very sala
ble for other purposes.
Let the peach-growers look out for a
good place to can the fruit, and to also
evaporate.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
GLiMPSESOF THE FUTURE.
Here Is an Idea of What Housekeep
ing Will Be Like Two Thousand
Years Hence.
In many houses there are still the offen
sive-duties of Alling lamps and blackening
boots to be done. Our coming houses,
however, will have no lamps, and, as for
the boots, really intelligent people will
feel the essential ugliness of wearing the
evidence of constant manual toll m»»n
their persons. They will wear sorts of
shoes and boots that can be cleaned by
wiping in a minute or so. Take now the
bedroom work. The lack of ingenuity in
sanitary fittings at present forbids the ob
vious convenience of hot water supply to
the bedhoom. and there is a mighty fetch
ing and carrying of water and slops to be
got through daily, but all that will cease,
says The Fortnightly .Review.
Every bedroom will have its own bath
dressing room which one will use and
leave without the slightest disarrange
ment. This, so far as “upstairs" goes,
really only leaves bedmaking to be done,
and a bed does not take five minutes to
make. Downstairs a vast amount of
needless labor at present arises out of
table wear. “Washing up" consists of a
tedious cleansing and wiping of each table
utensil in turn, whereas it should be pos
sible to immerse all dirty tableware in a
suitable solvent for a few minutes and
then run that off for the articles to dry.
The application of solvents to window
cleaning also would be a possible thing,
but for the primitive construction of our
windows, which prevents anything but a
painful rub, rub, rub with the leather. A
friend of mine in domestic service tells
me that this rubbing is to get the window
dry, and this seems to be the general im
pression. but I think it incorrect. The
water is not an adequate solvent and
enough cannot be used under existing con-
I ditions. Consequently, if the window is
I cleaned and left wet it dries In drops and
these drops contain dirt in solution which
remains as spots. But water containing a
suitable solvent could be run quite simply
down a window for a few minutes from
pinholes in a pipe above into a groove be-
I low. and this could be followed by pure
rain water for an equal time, and in this
; way the whole window cleaning in ,the
house could, I imagine, be reduced to the
; business of turning on a tap.
Pathological Point.
Puck.
Mrs. Doggett: “Oh, dear! I don’t know
'what on earth to do with poor Prince!”
Mrs. Fayth-Kuer: “Why don’t you try
Christian Science? It worked wonders for
our baby.”
Mrs. Doggett: “But. my gracious! I
can’t afford to experiment on this dog;
he's won prises at five shows."
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MARCH 3,190 L,
IS IT A FACT THAT WOMEN
DO ONE-HALF THE WOOING?
BY EMEL JAY.
Is it a fuct that women do half the
wooing?
This profound query, put to a variety of
persons in Atlanta, provoked various re
plies.
“Half the wooing? Two-thirds!" prompt
ly replied one man (he is married). “And
it’s all right,” he hastened to add. "Why
shouldn't a woman have a right to pro
pose?”
“She should and she does,” said an
other Benedict who joined the group.
“That is not my experience,” said a
modest bachelor standing by.
“Oh. well,” said the other, “you don’t
realize it at the time, but wait until after
you are married, and you will remember
that she did more than half of it, and you
are glad she did!
“Oh. don’t quote me.” he hastily added
as he spied a pencil. “I have enough do
mestic troubles on my hands!”
“I think it very conceited of men to say
things like that!” exclalmeo a maidenly
maiden at my elbow. “I don’t believe it’s
true, either. A conceited man would mis
take the frankest sort of friendliness for
something warmer. A woman may uncon
sciously show her feelings for a man, but
that she in any way consciously woos
him—lt isn't true!”
“That sounds like a page out of the last
century,” laughed a woman who is—well,
sophisticated, to say the least. “In these
days,” she went on. “ ’feelings' never get
the best *f one. There isn’t any trembling
supplication or trembling yielding. Now
adays, the momentous question is crowded
into the whirl of a two-step with hun
dreds of people looking on; or it is all got
ten through with While the two are wait
ing a minute for the couple ahead. You
see. there is a perfect understanding long
before the vital question is put. A man
nowadays, is not going to risk a rejection
—at least not many men. Occasionally—
very occasionally—there comes along one
whose ardor compels him to speak in spite
of consequences. But he is a rara avis. In
nine cases out of ten, a man knows what
the answer will be before he asks the
question. And how could he know if the
girl didn’t help him in a thousand ways,
unspoken, if not spoken? Os course wom
an does half.” She ended in a tone of
conviction.
So went the talk, the consensus of opin
lorr leaning clearly towards the affirmative
reply to the question at issue.
Looking into literature, too, the reply
is much the same. Novelists more fre
quently than not represent woman as half
the wooer. And although fiction Is not
truth, it is, as some one says, “its en
chanted resemblance.” Its testimony
counts. We need go no farther than Des
demona and Priscilla to see what Shakes
peare and Longfellow thought about it.
Desmona described, you remember, as
"A maiden never bold,
Os spirit so still and quiet that her mo
tion
Blushed at herself”—
the modest Desdemona when the Moor
was telling of the dangers he had passed
said to him that if she had a friend who
loved her, and Othello would but teach
him how to tell that story, that would
woo her.
Surely it was hint enough!
As for Priscilla, the Puritan maiden,
her “Speak for yourself, John,” is a part
of the immortal annals of love-making.
And then there was Henry Esmond be
guiled by that charming widow. And
there are Charles Reade’s heroines most
astonishingly ardent.
Dickens, and Scott, and Bulwer have
most circumspect heroines, but they are
not peal live people. George Eliot’s hero
ines are living, breathing women, and
they do not the wooing. This woman’s tes
timony on the subject is refreshing,
though it is the exception. -
But enough of literature. Let’s see what
Atlanta people think about it. .
Here are some spicy opinions:
MRS.*MATTIE R. MAYS—
Do women help in the wooipg?
I think they do.
Women seldom “pop the question,” I
guess, but they give sufficient encourage
ment to fcee that it is successfully popped.
Her very name just misses spelling the
whole situation—"wo-man.”
Our great grandmothers would have
been shocked, no doubt, at the very ask
ing of this question, but there Is every
reason to believe they helped in their way
as much as the modern women do. but in
those days women had not learned to be
as independent. We know the modern
woman is given to saying what she
thinks.
Woman has ever borne the reputation
of being a sympathetic creature, and
“pity is akin to love.” The natural conse
quence is she lends a helping hand when
she sees a fellow man in need.
A woman is worth the wooing and
should be sought, but she believes in be
ing found by the right man. She need not
say, and dees not, all she feels, but she
looks It enough to help matters on, and
she has w’ays. winning ways, which are
not wasted. She knows actions speak as
loud as words.
A woman of the highest type does not
permit a man to address her unless she
means to say yes. Too often she is con
scious of a man's regard for her before he
knows it himself, and she laughs at him
when he is blissfully unconscious of any
cause for amusement in himself.
When I asked the opinion of my cook
and house maid on this important ques
tion, there was no hesitation on the part
of either when they announced, “Yes,
ma m, they help.”
Shall we live to see the day when women
openly enter the field of courting, as they
have already entered other fields formerly
occupied exclusively 6y men? Whether
she helps In the wooing or not is a ques
tion open for discussion, but one thing is
certain, she does her part tn helping after
ward. MATTIE RUSSELL MAYS.
MR. JAMES W. AUSTIN—
To the picture puzzles on the advertis
ing pagq The Journal, it seems, has add
ed a yet more perplexing problem. Called
as a witness who engages to speak the
truth touching this matter, I, a bachelor
of years standing, do testify as fol-
lows, to wit:
In the matter of heart history every
enterprising ihan usually finds three class
es of women:
(Class a.) The woman he loves who
loves him; (Class b). The woman he loves
who does not love him; (Class c.) The,
woman he does not love who loves him.
My negotiations have been conducted for
the most part with class b. Os the wo
men I have loved (and their name is le
gion), I frankly acknowledge that I have
played the principal role in the drama of
love-making, and they but a minor part.
Indeed, .no manly man would yield to the
other sex this not only ancient and in
alienable right, but pleasing, delightful
and precious privilege. To do the wooing
himself is clearly the right of the man.
Indeed, the barons were culpably negli
gent in failing to incorporate this as one
of the articles in that famous manuscript
they prepared for King John to sign. At
any rate. I am unalterably opposed to re
linquishing it during my day and genera
tion. I had as soon lose my right to vote
as lose my right to woo. I Would suffer
the more by the latter loss (though my
lady might suffer much the less.) It is
the chase that is exciting whether we fol
low the hare, the fox or the “dear.” The
chase of the "dear” is. in my opinion, the
“purest ray serene” of delight and joy -
that ever illumined the heart of a man,
and the, fascination is just as keen even
when the game escapes. I know of no
sensation comparable to it. Many a man
remains a bachelor for the pure and sim
ple reason that love-making is his dissi
pation, and he simply can’t quit it, can’t
give it up, no more than a drunkard his
cup. a gambler his cards, or a turfman his
horse. The most striking local Illustra
tion of this great trjith is the case of my
venerable contemporary in the ranks of
bachelorhood, Jim Nutting. Love-ma
king with him is his breath, his life.
Married, his occupation would be gone.
The moment he entered Benedictine or
ders, he would be utterly and dejectedly,
frightfully miserable. (He, like myself,
however, has played to crowded houses
of class b.) And there are a score of oth
er bachelors in Atlanta uncatchable and
unsnareable because of this same master
passion.
Now let us look at the case from the
standpoint of class A—where the man
loves the woman and she loves him. This
is the condition ecstatic and idiotic, and
what man under such circumstances is
capable of giving any testimony at all as
to which did the wooing, the woman or
himself? I had once a faint impr/ession
that I W’as in class A. The first time that
I had a distinct mental conception of this
fact, I lost consciousness because of what
the doctors call "shock.” On coming to,
I had a few lucid Intervals, but was de
lirous for weeks and didn’t recover until
I received an Invitation to act as an at
tendant at the girl’s marriage to another
man. So, therefore, as to class A I must
stand aside as an incompetent witness.
Now, briefly, a word as to class C, where
the man is loved but loves not the woman
in return, alas! I avow distinctly that this
is not my class, but the majority of men
I have known tell me that they belong
strictly in class C. (Couldn’t help it, you
know; women are peculiar). Now here
the case seems to be pretty well made out
against the woman, as it would be but
natural to presume.that if she did all the
loving she must, ergo, do at least half the
wooing. But even here, I think a verdict
of acqultal should be brought in, for if she
does it at all, it is by proxy only, for my
observation is that the mother-in-law
(prospective) handles the reins and drives
the unsuspecting (?) bird Into the net.
Yours in a state of single helplessness,
JAMES W. AUSTIN.
MRS. E. L. CONNALLY—
“A newspaper discussion of that topic is
rather out of my line. But it is my opin
ion that women do help. If they
the men would have a hard time.”
THOMAS SCRUTCHIN—
From a limited knowledge of the women
of today I sincerely believe that to accred
it men with all the wooing, is a gross in
justice.
If the male element is guilty of so se
rious a charge, why that infernal machine
the cosy-corner? Why are husbands made
bankrupt through the furnishing of these
pit-falls of propinquity? I venture that
there is not a mother, in the world today
possessed of a daughter over six years old
who can be blindfolded and backed into
a residence not literally pigeon-holed in
this manner.
To manSi agility tn eluding the cozy
corner is due the Equal Suffragists’ As
sociation and others of a like character.
What a pity Susan B. had nothing but
straight-back chairs! Had architects- in
those days oeen more foxy, some fragile
youth would undoubtedly have basked in
the sunshine now vented on an Angora
cat.
Take the case of Miss atone! If, as is
contended, men do all the wooing, why
did she chase that poor brigand chieftain
into the mountains of Bulgaria? Mrs. Na
tion used a hatchet—Ellen might have
purchased an ax and landed an American.
ALLAN GRAY--
Would you ask a man the story of his
life? Such a position to put one in! Shall
any man be so frightfully arrogant as to
admit that she condescended to do any of
the wooing? -io
Or is this to be answered from, personal
experience, madame? Then my embar
rassment increases. Let me hasten to de
clare. first, that I know absolutely noth
ing of this thing of which you speak.
Having thus asserted my innocence, per
haps the rest must be my imagination—
quien sabe?
She was very beautiful. They all are, I
believe. I was young at the time, and
perhaps could not be blamed for thinking
so. I know she is not as beautiful now as
she was then. I saw her last summer.
Married, thank you, and two flne boys. I
was between my first Scylla and the other
place. Fortunately for our tender pas
sion, she was quite three years the older.
She managed it all; else there would have
been no wooing o’t.
Perhaps this will not stand as any ar
gument? As I say. I would not dare to
express an opinion. There was another.
Also she was older than I. Her hair was
like the raven’s wing—at least, I think it
was. I have never seen a raven. She was
very nice, especially as to the eyes. She
patted me on the head and said I was a
nice boy, but silly. I dare say I was. But
I know I never would have had the cour
age to say what I did had it not been for
those eyes.
Pardon me for alluding to it, but I am
the most bashful man I know. With that
stupid admission comes my inspiration.
Madame, I have solved your problem.
Let her be attracted by the man. and she
will do as much of the wooing as may be
necessary—no more. The personal equa
tion of the other character is her Delphic
oracld. If he be a man experienced in
such things, she will let him do it all, and
he will. Bitt when she condescends to
cast the radiance of her eyes upon such
as your unsophisticated friend, she must
do all of it, or heaven knows it will not
be done at all.
Yet, as I say, I know nothing about it.
This is mere conjecture. There is a very
c-arming girl who has promised to teach
me the reality of these things. She is very
beautiful. I am very anxious to be taught.
Her eyes are like the unfathomable depths
of a summer sky. Her laugh is like the
innumerable laughter of the gray sea.
The witchery of her presence binds me in
a potent thraldom. Clearly, I may prove
a good pupil.
Until then, I pray you excuse me.
ALLAN GRAY.
MISSALICE BAXTER—
"Is it a fact that women do half the
wooing?”
The question came over the ’phone mer
rily from The Journal’s womanly woman
editor.
"Why ask me?” was my rejoinder. I
am not expected to answer a query like
that."
“Well, put it another way. if you like it
better: Should women propose in mar
riage? If not. why not?”
"Oh, dear!” was my exclamation, “I am
proposing to veterans right and left to
help Daughters of the Confederacy make
money, and the effort is much against my
nature. I would surely draw the line at a
more serious proposition. However, I am
neither marrying nor giving in marriage.
Do excuse me and apply to an expert in
the business—pretty Mrs. , for in-
stance, who has twice made the marriage
venture.”
But the voice over the ’phone was per
sistent, and I gave a half consent to think
about the matter.
“The Journal wants to know why wo
men should not propose in marriage,” I
remarked, on returning to the library
where a couple sat looking into the glow
ing coals—a couple who had walked to
gether in sweet companion ship for 56
years.
My electrical question roused the mama
to Indignant rejoinder. "Because it would
be indelicate, and I don’t think the sub
ject one for you to handle. Custom for
bids women proposing to men, and a time
honored custom is likely to be grounded
on some fundamental truth.”
“But it had not always been the cus
tom,” observed the pater. “In bible days
Esther proposed to Ahasueras, and made
a good trade.”
And Esther >was not an emancipated
woman, I commented, and did not live
in an emancipating age. Poor Vashti lost
the crown that Esther won, not so much
because of the disloyalty of a subject to
her sovereign, but because as wife she
dared disobey her husband. All the
mighty men took fright, and advised pun
ishment of this daring woman lest other
wives in the province should follow her
example.
Wouldn’t it be a nice question for stu
dents of social evolution, should the so
called “new woman” with all her ad
vanced thought resort to the same meth
ods of husband-getting that obtained in
the days when women .were counted as
so much goods and chattels?
But she will not. And why will she
not. and should she not? Because wo
man’s intuition will and should carry her
safely along the varying but upward path
of social and educational development.
MISS NITA BLACK—
To solve the problem as to who does
the wooing would be rather a multitudi
nous undertaking, and as to whether wo
man does the greater part would depend
on the kind of man wooing.
Many men are like balking horses and
need some one to give them a push; and
others are like the shrinking violet which
grows unseen awaiting the hand of some
sweet maiden to pluck it and share its
sweetness.
Now. in foreign lands, it is-an admitted
fact that woman, the old lady, is the chief
wooer, and w’oe to the girl that tries to
Interfere with “mama.” The duchess
plants and stamps her little foot and says
her nay!
In America, it is always the talk of the
town, and very forward, for a young lady
to be even so assuming as was Bettlna
who worked so hard to win Jean in the
Abbi Constantin. The young man would
probably tell her “to go way and
sit down, for he had other fish tb fry.”
Naturally, though, a girl should meet a
man half way, for it encourages him and
makes hope spring up within him. A shy
look from under dusky lashes, or a lin
gering hapdshake. a telephone message,
or a dance "saved just for you,” is some
thing a man can very rarely resist.
All these rules and many others might
be said to belong to the code of wooing.
Puck and Judge have no end of jokes
about the 20th century proposals, and it
is always the woman who says “will
you?” But now that the new century has
risen somewhat above the horizon, the
girls of today are not found to be so
vastly different from their sisters of the
nineteenth century. What girl would
miss the excitement and pride of having
a man on his knees before her, and would
put herself in his place?
NITA HUGHES BLACK.
MR. HOWELL PEEPLES—
This is a very personal thing you have
asked me to do, to discuss a proposition
with which I am not sufficiently familiar
to form an opinion and certainly not so
favored as to know by reason of experi
ence that woman does or does not do half
the wooing. In my personal view if she
does she doesn’t half do it—and yet she
becomes the “better half.” To me this is
singular.
The word "Wo” is from the Anglo-Sax
on “Wogian,” meaning “A bending.”
“To solicit in marriage.” “To make love.”
“To court.” These women, bless their
hearts, stay their bending and may not so
licit in marriage, but they "make lo've”—in
fact they are love incarnate—and they
frequently go to “court.”
By the very nature of things woman
does half the wooing. Eve devised it and
it has been going on ever since, being ac
cepted as a hereditary belief as tremen
dous theological problems are. Her very
existence courts the admiration, the defer
ence, the love of the entire brotherhood of
man, making the wilderness to bloom and
blossom as the rose and frames man’s on
ly prayer about her name. She is the very
center about which the schemes, hopes
and plans of men revolve; she absorbs
the heart and mind of man traversing the
whole extent, exercising absolute domain,
and by every test covert and overt does
at least half the wooing. I am too gener
ous in this matter to place any limitations
around the subject and will therefore
grant full pardon to those desiring to do
all the wooing. It is a beautiful thing to
do. I am told. But don’t let it be marked
down to half. So commercial it is to say
"Wotng—Marked down; take me home for
half price. Woman’s exchange." or 28 woos
for 25 cents—four poses.” "Liberal dis
count for violets. Transfers given at cen
tral points to all diverging lines. Rain
checks given with carriages, red or green
trading stamps for American Beauties.”
Make it whole hearted., If you have ever
been “half wooed” you will appreciate
this.
Society has evolved a condition that re
quires the woman to do half the wooing
and woman must conform to society. To
plan and successfully conduct a card par
ty where the “unfair” sex are desired a
woman must woo every man she knows to
insure an attendance adequate to the exi
gencies of tfie occasion. Then the demands
of society generally make it necessary for
a great deal of wooing to be done as all
other subjects were long since exhausted,
and woman of course always does her
part, and this is fully half. I think she is
all—everything—and does nothing by
halves. It is a big subject. There is a va
riety to the thing. It is too much for me.
I am now over my head and ears. But I
Invite all “would be wooers”—not half
hearted “would be-hers,” but whole
hearted ones. My experience covers a cir
cumscribed territory, but I am for whole
hearted woers in the future and it will Be
my mistake if it becomes necessary for
her to do even half the wooing.
Man’s gallantry should be a controlling
Influence embracing rhe scheme entire,
brooking no interference and bringing the
subject to a near relationship. After all
the positions are relative.
When misunderstandings arise and dis
rupt Cupid’s realm, the woman graceful
ly invites a reconciliation and should sur
render completely, including side arms.
There can be no logical conclusion, for
Love and Logic are strangers. There is
no reason in Love and no Love in reason,
but women should gladly do half the woo
ing. Whatever they do they do happily
and well. “Barkis is willin.”
Some men deserve to be wooed (not half
wooed) in consideration of long and faith
ful service, and I hereto subscribe myself
a willing candidate as
A WUNCE-WUZZER AND
A HAS-BEENER.
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CARTERSVILLE. Ga., Feb. 17. 1902.
T
’ HE times and the seasons are
sometimes subjects of medita
tion and discussion. I was
down on the Etowah river with
an old neighbor the other day
discussing the high water and its rav
ages upon the farms along Its course,
and he Incidentally remarked that he
had noticed In his observation of the
various stages of the river that it
never did the same thing twice, though
it might rise to equal heights, and yet
It Is said that history repeats Itself.
Well, things do happen and happen on,
but somehow or other we are never
hit twice the same way by the same
thing, no matter If it has been around
In Our neck of the woods before. There
is a vast difference in the seasons,
our winters are getting later every
year, and our falls prettier, and our
•summers hotter.
I know, again, that we have for four
years now aboqt had a period of un
interrupted prosperity, not in booms
and bubbles, as we have had In the
past, but in railroad traffic, in the iron
industry, in all the marts of trade and
manufacture there has been a glow and
scintillation. Prophets who have
known the history of good times in the
past • have told us that these good
times would end last year. Some pre
dicted they would end In the stringen
cy the year before. Whatever else may
or may not oe, it looks now that the
momentum of the tide will surely car
ry us through the present year.
There Is a change of conditions in the
south. It has been a long time since
we paid a dollar for corn. Labor is
scarcer on the farms In the south to
daji than it ever has been since the
civil war. More farmers want to sell
their farms and more of them are In
doubt about their future Interest.
I see Sister Felton Is in favor of pull
ing down the fence and let China
come in that labor may be supplied.
This much I know, that with a very
short crop of corn and a short crop of
cotton last year, the farmers in Geor
gia, and in fact, of all the south, are
not in near so good condition today
as they were twelve months ago. The
farmers of Georgia will be more in
debt to banks and merchants and
warehousemen for fertilizers next fall
than they have been at any fall in the
past six years. I see them wisely con
sidering the raising of more corn and
less cotton this year. If we could com
bine the farming interest like we have
combined the iron interest and the pe
troleum wells and the whisky dis
tilleries they would have the world
by the tail, but poor oid farmer, some
how or other he can’t combine with
anything, each one has to tote his own
skillet alone. Now his cotton all sold
it win soon be selling at ten cents in
New York and he will be kicking him
self because he didn't hold. Next year,
perchance, he will hold his cotton that
he is offered nine and ten cents for,
and then close it out in the spring at
seven or eight. Some how or other the
farmer gets less when he deals with
the outside world. I am somewhat of a
farmer myself. I did not plant but two
acres of cotton last year and that
was my wife’s patch. I cultivated it
and she got the cotton, but I want it
understood, gentlemen, while I have no
corn for sale, I am not buying any.
and meat in my smokehouse. and
wheat at the mill, and corn in the crib
and hay in the loft and pigs in the lot
and cows in the barn. As the Pres
byterians say, I am elected whether I
am a candidate or not.
I have seen farmers raise a heap of
cotton and had no credit at the bank,
but I never knew a farmer with his
crib full of corn that could not borrow
all the money he wanted at the banks
or buy anything he wanted from mer
chants, money or no money. A crib
full of corn to the farmer is just ex
actly what the vaults full of money is
to the banker—it is something he can
do business on.
And as we talk of the times and sea
sons. has the world ever seen such a
record of disaster by Are, by earth
quake, by pestilence, by war, by dis
ease? They are falling on all sides and
in all ways.
I note with regret and sadness the
death of Postmaster Smyth, of At
lanta. He was a splendid official and
a fine character. Peace to his ashes.
The poet was a prophet when he wrote:
“Death rides on every passing breeze,
And lurks in every flower.
Each season has its own disease,
Its perils every hour.
“Since on this winged hour,
Eternity is hung.
Awaken, Oh, God, by Thy mighty
powfr
The aged and the young.”
While resting and recuperating I am
Interested in things near around me. I
have been watching with some interest
the coming municipal campaign of At
lanta. I am perfectly candid when I
say that when Atlanta makes H. H.
Cabaniss her mayor she will not half
way have paid him for the work he
has done for Atlanta, for everything
that has been for the good of Atlanta
Cabaniss has been in the forefront for
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of lasting benefit to Atlanta. Atlanta (
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mayor, if he wants the office, and 4
they will do a good thing to make him
take it, whether he wants.it or not.
Yours truly, 'SAM F; JONES.
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