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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913.
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Tor March 23. Gen. 24:58-67.
Golden Text: “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct
thy paths.” Proverbs 3:$.
DAWNING OF SPRING.
Oh. tell it again, the sweet old story,
' The oft-told story of dawning Spring,
When cometh the first real hint of
glory—
The first glad day when the year
takes wing,
The pulse of Nature is quicker thrilling.
The lark is singing, the grasses
sprout.
And the maple trees their sweets are
spilling.
And eager bees from the hives fly out;
The wayside brook that was frozen over
Begins its longing to wander again,
And Hope is ever a gay young rover.
Who flits about in the hearts of men—
There's a fresh green leaf, springing
now and then
Where she drops her seed in the hearts
of men.
• —IDA SCOTT TAYLOR.
. CHAT.
‘‘There could be no Easter without a
Good Friday; no rising again without
the dying on the cross. Christ must
taste death for every man before He
could offer deathless life to every man.
The touch of the cross is on every hope
of Christian faith. The light that
shines its soft luster throughout the
W'orld streams from the cross.”
Next Sunday will be Easter. Have
your thoughts been on the material
things that the occasion seems to de
mand. or has the spiritual side of this
day been uppermost? Are the children
in your family, or within the circle of
your influence, familiar ^ith the story,
not the legends about rabbits or the
gaily-cojored eggs, but the beautiful
story of God’s dear son coming to this
earth and the beautiful things He said
and. did? flow He blessed little chil
dren 'and when a man who pretended
to love Him sold Him to His enemies,
and they crucified Him, how the third
day He rose from the dead and that
Easter is to celebrate that event.
Teach them the meaning of Good Fri;
da>\ I asked a ten-year-old girl some
thing about it. She could not tell me
anything. Her older sister was quite
disgusted with her ignorance! and said:
‘‘Goosie, that’s the day everybody plants
beans.”
There will be plenty of people who
will display their new clothes next
Sunday, plenty who will have the eggs
ready for the egg hunt, and I’ve not a
w-ord to say against either set if they
can honestly wear {he clothes or’ claim
the eggs. “Owe no man anything,” the
Bible tells us. That means not to buy
things with no idea o£ where the money
is to come from that should pay for
them, and not to fail to pay when the
time comes.
Easter day to many is a day of envy
and bitterness because the dress or hat
of a near neighbor or so-called friend
is more stylish. Is that the spirit of
the One whose resurrection we cele
brate? Does He no 4 - teach us to love
others enough to rejoice in any good
fortune that may come to them? I
don’t believe that things would be
quite so material if Good Friday
should be spent in prayer and fasting.
If the memory of the cross and who
did hang there all those hours were al
lowed to permeate our minds the Fri
day before Easter surely the Sabbath
would be a day of rejoicing and spirit
ual uplift even though the hat and
dress worn should be two years old.
In teaching this story to the chil
dren do not fill their young hearts
with th*e sadness and desolation of that
time, but the beauties of Christ’s char
acter, and the glad- ess of His follow
ers when they found the cave opened.
Later, when life has battered them,
they will see all the woe. The fasting
and praying may be done in such a way
that nobody is repelled. Do not go
about with a long face, that i^| the
hypocrite’s way. If going without a
meal makes you cross, it’s a pity, but
with some it’s true, so eat enough to
avoid that. And by all means fix
things as nice as usual for jthe children
and those who do ot see "this matter
from our standpoint.
This year Easter cornels early, the
season already seems far advanced. The
hills are radiant in pink and white,
peach trees and plum are vieing with
each other, a carpet of violets leads
one “over the hills and far away” to
the brook that has left the hills and
seeks the valley. The birds are sing
ing their love songs and home-making
has begun. Across the hedge the pigeons
are cooing and among the pines some
doves have announced theiT return. All
up and down the hills a green coat is
showing and the brown garment Mother
Earth used so many months is replaced
with livelier hues. Great baskets of
daffodils are taken to the city each
day, with pyramids of handsome, fra
grant violets 'to sell to the busy men
and women and to let them realize that
spring is coming. •
“Coming,” did I say? Spring is here.
Winter tried to hold a longer season,
there was rain and hail and wind. The
lightning was as vivid as I ever saw
and the cloud that held death, or sorrow
for so many as black, but that was
the last struggle. The sunshine and the
south wind have tried to atone for the
wilfulness of that one impressive display
of Nature’s forces.
Spring is here. In a day or two the
lilac buds will burst, the dogwood trees
are awakening; and the wall flow r ers
have loaded the southwind with their
incense. Spring is here, up from Flor-
idea comes the orange blooms and jasa-
mine. The long gray moss is dotted with
tiny stars and the silvery sheen is
like a butterfly’s wing, so satiny and
soft.
Spring is here. The heart of man
and woman stirs in sweet discontent, a
home seems the finest thing on earth
and the garden and flowers signify per
fection. Some have a box in a window
and some have only the flowers that
can be bought, but in almost every
heart there tingles the impulse to stir
up the soil and plant ^eeds.
How can we hold the season? That
is an impossibility, of course, but we
can throw' off the grave clothes, the
faults that beset us and with God’s
relp renew the bitter past of our dispo
sitions. As the flowers, the birds and
the waters break winter’s fetters and
glorify the season we can open
our hearts to the good, the beau
tiful and true and every day, not just
one day, say by our lives: “The Lord is
risen,” and soon our neighbors and ac
quaintances will say: “He has indeed,”
for they will 'see the change that has
come over us.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
IS THE YOUNG MAN SAFE?
Dear Household: Did you ever read this
passage of Seriplure in the Bible and compare
It to the present-day parents: “And the king
said. Is the young man Absalom safe?”
Do you imagine the keen anxiety David felt
for Ms rebillious son while he was away from
home, and the company he was likely to get in,
and if he were well? But Absalom was young
and no doubt gloried in his strength, good
looks and excellent health. David knew thta
Absalom was without experience, and that
there were* temptations tnat his son would
likely yield to.
Mothers and fathers of today should examine
the company their boys are keeping and ask
themselves this one question. “Is the young
man safe?” If the boys who associate with
tneir sons are intemperate, do they not know
that “as the twig is bent, the trCe is in
clined?” The environments of a boy from the
day he is born till he reaches the age of
twenty-one have a good deal to do with the
soaping of his future life.
Are they sure that the environments of their
home and the community in which tney live are
wholesome for a boy’s moral life? Are they
sure their bov.i are s-afe in walking in their
footsteps, taking up their habits and doing ex
actly ns they do? If they are yielding to
every request the boy makes upon them for liis
worldly pleasure, is he safe? Are tney anxious
to see their boy placed in the society in which
he can dance, play cards; take social drinks
uuid smokes?
Is the son st^fe who has already entered the
society or Joined the sort of club that counte
nances these things if he revels in the dance
balls half drunk till a late hour at night?
Parents, when your proud and handsome son
leaves home for the city with its temptations,
do you ever ask yourself “is the boy safe?”
Parents, if you encourage novel reading, danc
ing,, card playing, cnewiug tobacco and social
drinks, stop, ask yourselves this one question,
“Is my boy snfe?” If you teach the boy the
lesson, “let every fellow correct his own mis
takes” in business affairs, is he safe? If au
agent or an unwelcomed neighlK>r knoqks at your
door and to rid yourselves of thenr you tell
your boy to tell them you are not at home,
is that boy safe? Don’t you know if he will
lie for you ne will lie for himself?
Come, let us go to a great city and stand
oh a busy street and watch the mighty throng
of humanity pass. We will readily see that one-
third of the passing throng are young men.
sons of anxious mothers and fathers. Then let
us look about tnis great city and see its tempta
tions, and then .ask ourselws the question, are
these young men safe? And let us ‘get the
Idea in our heads that if we as Christian people
do not save these boys and young men and
point them to a Saviour, they will go to ruin
sooner or later.
Parents, do not get the idea in your head
that it is necessary for your boy to sow his
“wild oats.” If you think this way about it,
you are entirely In the wrong. By all means,
let us make extra efforts to save the young
men and the girls will take care of themselves.
If filoise, of Anderson, S.^C., will send full
name and address I will send her a Texfes scene.
With best wishes for Miss Thomas and the
readers, I am, very sincerely,
WALTER E. WARREN.
Box 333, Amarillo, Tex.
A GOOD INVESTMENT
Dear Miss Thomas: I want to tell you of
the best investment I ever made. When my
dear boy handed me another one dollar bill say
ing, “Mamina, this will help you a little more.:*
I Tittle dreamed of the pleasure it would bring
me, as it went the next day to the Atlanta
Semi-Weekly Journal, anrf since, that 'day I
have reveled in yours and Mrs. Felton’s let
ters. Your speaking of rabbits in your last
letter made me jump, as they hnve eaten my
garden up for the last three years. Am crazy
to know Mrs. Alexander's twins’ name.
Yuurs truly,
MRS. BLANK.
ALMOST AN APPLICATION
Dear Miss Thomas: I feel very muon in
clined to apply to you as assistant farmer or
perhaps guide, for I have had so much sucecss
with my garden and chickens this spring that I
feel almost like I am an expert. I am only
an amateur, ami I am afraid that two acres
would be almost too small for two farmers.
I’m not a farmer, but a farmer’s daughter,
and this little experience at gardening and
cnicken raising that I am having is all under
the supervision of mother. I am a “school
ma'am,” and I find a little domestic work
like this on the farm the best recreation in
the world after ttoree years’ teaching with
only one month’s vacation during that time.
Except tnat one brother is married and lives
in a distant state we have a perfect little home
here in Florida—“the land of sunshine and
flowers” the year round. We live a short dis
tance from the railway village, and drive over
to the village as we wish to. On the farm
is raised all the necessities with the exception
of sugar, rice, coffee, etc. In our home we
have a piano and a library of good books; take
a dally newspaper, three weeklies, two semi
weeklies and several farm papers and maga
zines.
We do not confine ourselves to the farm all
the time. Each takes his or her ’’term” and
spends a week or two in the city or village with
relatives or friends. Unless you try it you
do not know the amount of good it will do you.
No matter how pleasant the home is an occa
sional visit off will help to appreciate the
home more, and the human nature calls for a
Sarah lived to be* one hundred and
twenty-seven years old, and then died.
Isaac was then about thirty-eight years
old. Up to that time he had never
married. But now that his mother was
dead, he could not be comforted. This
devotion to his mother was one of the
beautiful traits of character he display
ed. For more than a year, his‘ father
did not know what to do to comfort
him.
I have no doubt that they discussed
the advisability of his establishing a
home of his own, but the difficulty was
that there was no woman of their ac
quaintance whom Abraham thought was
worthy to be the wife of Isaac. In
a way this was a natural paternal feel
ing, but it was particularly so in Abra
ham’s case, since he realized that in
Isaac God had promised his seed should
be called. Abraham was ahead of the
times in the matter of eugenics. He
wanted to be careful that the wife whom
he selected for his son was tit to be
the- * 1 mother of his grandchildren. He
was quite sure that none of the heathen
women about him were such. He knew
how fereat an influence the mother had
over her children to dare give his con
sent to have any one of these idolaters
amongst whom he lived to be the moth
er of his grandchildren.
Finally realizing his own increasing
weakness and age, Abraham called his
trusted servant to him and commission
ed him to go to his old home in Me r
sopotannia and secure a wife for his
son from amongst his own people,
charging him that under no circum
stances should he allow Isaac to go
back* to that country to live. If the
servant w’as not able to secure a wife
from there, then he would be freed
from his oath. But Abraham had
faith enough in God to believe that he
would send his angel before him and
prepare the heart of the right maiden,
so that she would consent to leave her
own kindred and home to be Isaac’s
wife. These things might seem
strange to us occidentals, but such a
thing would not be impossible amongst
orientals even today. A man of forty
would have the same respect for his
father’s wishes and judgment, partic
ularly when it came to perpetuating
the family name.
Abraham was perfectly right in the
stand that he took. Many a life has
been wrecked by the failure to choose
the right partner. Persons who have
been raised to regard the same things
in entirely different lights, are not apt
to make entirely congenial mates. 1
am very sure that it is contrary to the
Bible injunction for a believing girl to
marry an unbelieving man, or vice ver
sa. As a rule, nothing but unhappi
ness can result from such a union,
and certainly it is not best for the
children that result from such a union.
THE WISE SERVANT AND LABAN.
Abraham’s servant was a very wise
man. He carried with him ten camels,
each one packed with evidences of Abra
ham’s wealth; he carried the kind of
jewelry that he was sure would appeal
to a maiden, and after a reasonable
length of time completed his journey
to Mesopotomia, coming to the city
wh<ere Nahor lived, and weited at the
well outside the village where in the
late afternoon the young women of
the village came to draw water in
preparation for the evening meal.
This man was a man of prayer. He
wanted God’s guidance in so important
a project. ,The woman he chose may
either make or mar the descendants of
his loved" master. He felt unable to
make the choice himself, so asked God
to direct him to the woman He had
chosen.
Any woman might have offered him
water for himself. As a sign, he asked
that the one of God’s choice should
have a broad enough kindness to offer
water also to the camels, the beasts of
burden that were with him.
So often is this the case. God an
swered him before he had finished
speaking; fob Rebekah, Abraham’s great-
nice, came to the well with a pitcher
upon her shoulder. She Was a picture
to behold, and her kindness of heart but
added to the beauty of her face; for she
not only gave him water to drink, but
kept drawing water and pouring it into
the trough till the thirst of every one
of the camels had been quenched. Nor
was this any small job that she under
took. In fact it was so large, and her
deed made her so beautiful, that the
servant watched her wondering. He did
not have faith enough to believe that he
would secure so splendid a woman to
go with him on such a journey.
But he was shrewd. He took a large
golden earring and two bracelets of
gold and gave them to her. He inquir
ed wfiose daughter she was, and whether
they could entertain him or not, and
when he found that their hospitality
would be extended to him, he bowed in
' *
change sometimes.
For a part of the summer we invite our
friends from the city to spend a week or two
with us, who always take a delight In belpiug
with the cooking, churning, gardening, chick
ens and the flowers. I did not tell you anything
about our flowers. Well, it would take a
page of The Journal to tell all about them.
I think it is the flowers that make me enjoy
home so much and long for a vacation to get
out and enjoy them to my heart's content. But
I long for the school room and children, and
iu a little move than two months I will b®
with them again. Sincerely,
FLORIDA TEACHER.
thanksgiving to God who had shown
such mercy to him, and had led him to
the house of his master’s brethren.
Ah! there was a reason for that which
you and I should •remember very par
ticularly. Read his words again: “I
being in the way, the Lord led me.”
Many of us go astray because we do
not place ourselves In the way so the
Lord can lead us; but there wes never
a man who was in the way, who failed
to be led of the Lord. So far as you
are concerned, the secret, of success is
to place yourself in the way; then be
sure that God will lead you.
Laban, Rebekah’s brother, had an
eye for business. He was not willing
for his sister to marry any one with
out wealth; and it didn’t take Abra
ham’s servant long to find this out.
When he came to a conversation with
Laban, he made a great deal of Abra
ham’s richness, his gi*eatness, his
flocks, and herds, his jnen servants
and maid servants, his gold, and his
silver, and camels and asses. He was
very particular to tell Laban that Isaac
was the only son, and would inherit all
this; so that when he came to his pro
posal, Laban and Bethuel very piously
said, We cannot Interfere with this
matter, the thing is from th© Lord.
But the servant wasn’t going to give
him a chance to change his mind until-
he had clinched it; so. in addition to
the presents of jewels of silver, .and
jewels of gold, and clothing which he
had given Rebekah, ne gave to Laban
and her mother precious things also.
Finally, when they put the matter to
Rebekah, she answered his “wilt thou?”
with an “t will,” which showed how
completely she had been won.
How simple was this decision. The
servant told Rebekah all about the
man, and asked her would she go and
be his wife; she said “I will,” and tne
tning was done. She didn’t say, ‘ A’d
try,” or “I’d like to,” or “I am afraid
I couldn’t hold out,” or “I am not good
enough.” Just so must every individ
ual come to Christ. His servant tells
us about Him, about His wealth, the
beadty of His character, His desire for
us, and asks pur consent. All that is
necessary for us to become the bride
of Christ is to say “I will,” and leave
the old life, as Rebekah did.
ISAAC’S HESITATION AND MAR
RIAGE.
While they are journeying on their
way back towards Canaan, let us go
back here and se e what has become of
Isaac. Still mourning for his mother,
and musing over the qualities which
had made her such a devoted wife and
mother, and appreciating keenly his
loss, Isaac went ou A into the field to
meditate. I am not sure, but I imag
ine he was thinking wha{ his wife
would have to be to comfort him for
the loss of his mother, and what he
would have to be to help her form such
a home as he ought to make, considering
te lives of his father and mother. And
while he was meditating, he looked up
and saw a cloud of dust in the distance,
and finally, distinguishing the train
of camels as they drew nearer, he saw
on one of *them one he did not recog
nize as one of those who had gtme out,
and his* heart beat in high hopes as he
realized that God had prospered his
father’s servant-In his undertaking* So
he started to nibpt her.
Rebekah had not been unmindful of
her new surroundings either, but keen
ly interested in the varied scenes of
th e trip, she is most keenly interested
in the sight of this handsome man
walking towards her, especially when
she is told he is the one she has come
seeking. Modesty and propriety re
quire that she do as she did. She took
her veil and covered herself.
When Isaac learned from his fa
ther’s servant the circumstances, he
was sure that th^s was the one whom
God had chosen for him, so he brought
her into his mother’s tent, and she be
came his wife, and Isaac loved her de
votedly, being comforted now as he
had not been since his mother left him.
A love story is always fascinating,
and this is particularly so because it
gives young people, in some ways, the
directions for choosing a life partner.
But it is particularly fascinating be
cause as the result of the strict ad
herence to these principles, there has
followed the most remarkable race in
all the. world’s history, and the one
from whom was descended the One
.Perfect Man. The girl or man who
chooses the right partner for life will
choose the one who most closely resem
bles Him.
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the country.” Representative Capelle, of
Cincinnati, last night introduced a bill
in the „ lower house of the Ohio legis
lature providing for the appointment by
the governor of a commission to “pre-
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YOU AND YOUR WIFE
”7.—THE COURTSHIP DAYS.
BY GRAHAM HOOD.
Courtship bears about the same re
lation to matrimony that the commer
cial school does to the real business
of life. It is the period of awaken
ing and preparation—an awakening to
the fact that life has greater joys than
the imagination has ever pictured—a
period of preparation during * which
two individualities are given an oppor
tunity to determine if they are fitted
to face life’s problems and meet life’s
responsibilities together.
If existence had but one joyous ex
perience—that of falling in love—it
would be well worth# living. No mat
ter how many misfortunes we may
meet or how sorely we are baffled in
our struggle for success; no matter
how many years may accumulate over
our heads, we never forget the day
when the great truth first dawned upon
us that we were in love—the day on
which we made the startling discovery
that there was one girl whose smiles
were sweeter and whose good opinions
were more to be desired than those
of any other lass in all the world. It
may not have been our first “affair.” In
all probability it may have been pre
ceded by several transient “interests,”
but when love comes we forget all that
has gone before, and the desire to win
the. object of our affections becomes the
dominant ambition of the soul.
From that day life assumes a differ
ent aspect. Oceans of tenderness that
we did not know we possessed
well up in our hearts. Aspirations that
point the way to heights of nobility
of which we have never dreamed as
sume all the attractions of an intimate
possibility. Where selfishness has ex
isted unselfishness reigns supreme;
where ambition has faltered it now
soars into practically limitless space.
The assertion that “love is blind” is
usually true only during the court
ship days, but it cannot be denied that
at this time the blindness of love is
often so cqpiplete in the case of both
as to make it impossible for either to
form anything like a correct estimate
of the character of the other. Under
this influence personal qualities that
may later loom so large as to obscure
the horizon and shut out th$ sun of
happiness frequently pass unnoticed.
It is not easy to say that we should
want to change this, even if we could.
Though serious trials may come—
though the years may bring the sad
dest of disillusionments—one who has
lived through days like these never
forgets the experience—never comes to
a time when his heart does not beat
quicker at the recollection of some of
the tender incidents which memory
recalls.
And it is a period of uncertainty, too—
of delightful uncertainty. Certain as
the youth may be as to the character
of his own sentiments, the inability to
look into the he^irt of the maid upon
whom his love is centered is productive
of a sense of doubG that causes him to
hesitate about speaking too plainly lest
he shatter his golden hopes altogether.
But at last the day arrives when all
this is forgotten—when his heart rises
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Introduction of the measure resulted
from a charge filed with Governor Cox
by a woman who did not sign her name,
that “immorality is practiced by mar
ried men in the offices of the state l\puse
and elsewhere 1$ the state of Ohio.”
Under the provisions of the bill the
proposed commission would be com
pelled to fix limits on decollete dresses
so that “not more than two - inches of
the neck below the chin shall be un
covered.” Another clause of the meas
ure provides “th£.t transparent stock
ings shall not be displayed or worn in
public places.”
Another provision of the bill states
that “it shall be unlawful to display or
wear an outer garment trimmed or com
bined with lace, insertion or any kind
of embroidery mesh or net through
which the color or texture of the skin
may be distinguished without having
the lace or other transparent material
backed with opaque material.”
Members of the proposed commission,
according to the bill, would have to be
between thirty and fifty years of age.
Not more than two of them would have
to be married men and of good moral
character. One wotfed be a minister,
one a parent of not less than three chil
dren and the third a social settlement
worker.
The commission would be authorized
to “prescribe rules and regulations for
the designing and manufacture of wom
an’s clothing and to prohibit such styles
and patterns of garments as the com
mission, after hearing, shall deem to
be detrimental to virtue and chastity.”
The bill goes so far as to prohibit
department stores from displaying un
draped artificial figures. The bill makes
a violation of the act punishable by a
fine of not less than $25.
ALMOST GOT
PAST GOING
Miss Duff Writes Interesting
Statement for Publication
in the Behalf of
Women
Webster Springs, W. Va.—In an in
teresting letter from this place, Miss
Agnes Duff says: “I had been af
flicted with womanly trouble for three
years, and felt weak all the time.
My back and sides ached so, I al
most got past going.
I had used a great many different
kinds of remedies, but they failed to
do me any good.
I had heard of Cardui, the woman’s
tonic, and decided to try it. When I
had used the third bottle of Cardui,
I felt like a new person entirely. I
gained both in health and weight.
I praise Cardui for my recovery and
good health, and I feel sure it will do
the same for others, as It has me, if
they will only give it a trial.”
The above letter is an earnest, frank
statement of Miss Duff’s opinion of
Cardui. She has confidence in it, be
cause it relieved her, after many differ
ent kinds of other remedies had failed,
and she believes it will help you, just
as tt did her, if you will give it a fair
trial.
We join Miss Duff in urging you to
give Cardui a trial. It cannot harm
you, and, judging from the experience
of thousands of others, is almost sure
to do you good.
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