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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1913. He was a youngr man who had come to this city hunting: work. He had never been out of a job, and as he ex pressed it, had an idea tnat jobs were like ripe fruit, waiting Co be taken. He was a stranger in Atlanta. He thought he had outgrown things in his home town, so with $150 in his possession, he persuaded Her to marry him and off they started to conquer the world. At first they decided to go to Califor nia, but they only bought their ticket half way and stopped to see the city. Then she got to thinking about things and begged him to turn his face to the south as “Mamma and papa were going to Florida in November and California seemed such a long way off.” Some body at the hotel began to tell what a wonderful city Atlanta is and that settled matters. Instead of San Fran cisco Atlanta was the name stamped on their next ticket. By the time those two tickets were paid for and the boaird bill settled (don't tell them that two can live as cheap as one), there wasn’t much money left. „ They had no more idea of economiz ing than little children and were ab solutely astonished when he went to one of the big chain of stores belong ing to a certain firm and was polite ly told that there wasn’t any sort of opening in all the fifty-seven varieties. Three days, four days, a week passed, and their money had actually given out. Fortunately he had something to pawn and got something like enough money to give them two meals a day for a week. Of course before that time he would have work, or so he thought. About the middle of that week a very practical business woman sug gested that the bride might get work and tide them over. She was de lighted, poor child, at the i'dea and this Business Woman found a place for her. The princely (?) salary was $6 a week, Jt>ut Mr. So-and-So knew that he would surely have work by the end of the week. Figure out how far $6 will go when there are two to feed, a room to pay for, and street car far e an absolute necessity. The Samaritan came along and took them to his house; there was a room and breakfast for them until the clouds rolled away. Plenty of people interested themselves in the couple, for this is a world full of helpful people, still Mr. So-and-So did not get work. Such cheerfulness and optimism was a good thing to see, the poor man answered every adver tisement and walked mile after mile because there was no money to spend looking for work. Mrs. So-and-So was with “the crossest. woman on the face of the earth,” but she made a joke of the fact and every evening livened up her husband and Mr. and Mrs. Samari tan by telling how things had gone during the day. A month passed. Bil lie, as Mrs. So-and-So mailed him, final ly reached the desperate stage. 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B.—Write to: Ladies’ Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Instructions, and G4-page book, “Home Treatment for Women," sent in plain wrapper.—tAdvt.) was as chipper as ever and had half a dozen new places to go to. Finally he got a job. There never will be two happier people and the les sons taught them will be worth thou sands bf dollars to them. “We had no idea that people could live on so little and be respectable." he confessed, “and the next six months is going to see us living just as sensibly." Mrs. So-and-so agreed to all he said and in that way they got the habit of saving and today they own their home and he has some money laid by for the proverbial “bad spell of weather.” Don’t understand me to say that they save every cent. They are normal young people. He comes In occasionally with some treat, or they occasionally go to the moving picture shows, but it must be a good one, whereas they used to go to at least one every night except Sunday, just to pass the time. They have one of Ben Franklin’s quo tations typewritten and she declares that Billie wears one copy in his hat. He smiles and says its more than in his hat, its in his head. This is the one; “There are two ways of being happy —we may either diminish our wants or augment our means—either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself and do thai which happens to be easiest. If you are idle, or siclc, or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. “If you are active, or prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may b^ easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise you will do both in such a way as to aug ment the general happiness of society.” Few things please me more than to see a girl, or boy, who has assumed the responsibility of self-support, sav ing at least a little out of every week’s salary. It is no easy job, I know for I've grazed the edge my own self. But the man or the woman who makes .$50 a week has just as touch a proposition, for an increased salary means increased responsibilities, and incessant calls for help. Consequently, don’t think that you will begin to sa\^ when you get more. It would astonish many of my readers to know how many girls in business are buying homes. Some who get the most meager sort of salary eat a sandwich at noon and struggle to pay $20 a month on a home. Many are bought on - " the “extortion” plan as the old darkey expressed it, but they would have to pay rent, so “why not add a little more and own the home some of these days?” Such girls generally succeed. But I want to tell you of one rock that wrecks too many of the home buyers. It is having the payments too large at the beginning. I have not heard of a girl losing her home but there are scores of men who either have to give up, or sell their equity. Perhaps a word of explanation will not come amiss right here for so many do not seem to know how the installment plan works. Suppose you buy a place, so much down and so much a month, say $20. Kach month a little interest is added, II or 12 cents more does not seem heavy for perhaps a year, but that much., additional each month amounts to $6 or $7 before the five years is up. Better make it $15 a month and be a little longer. Or, better still, save the money and pay it in a lump sum. Fjit hundreds own homes that have been paid for that way who never could have saved much and paid rent at the same time, and there are others who must do this way because money burns a hole in their pockets. My work in the office of the Chris tian association gave me a more de cided leaning toward the idea of every girl having a home; One has no idea of th e derelicts that come floating in on the tide of helplessness and must be helped. Woman past even their sec ond youth who perhaps have earned ?9°d salaries for twenty years and let it slip through their fingers. Women who gave their best years to loved ones who were too selfish to let them make for independence. Women whose homes and husbands had gone at the same time. Yes, there ar e as many widows as —unmarried Women among those looking for work, and totally un fitted for the modern methods. It’s like turning a canary out of its cage. And right here let me comfort the “old maids” by telling them that in evei y Old Ladies' home I’ve ever seen there were as many widows as “maid en ladies.” So don’t be scared # into mar rying for a home. Every one of you have heard that far cry, “You won’t have any on e to love you when you will need love most.” Well, a Pity. I’ve been trying all my life to see when we “need love most,” and it seems to m e that \ye need it all the time, and nobody has a guaranteed hold on any of it. Nor have we on property for that matter. So I am going to say that in my opinion the way to do is to vsum up the situation; do the very bset you can; give God His fair share, and you may b e sure that you will never suffer, for “th e path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” Faithfully yours, LIZZIE O. THOMAS. WHEN WE MEET OUR FRIENDS. Uear Miss Thomas: I have been thinking 1 would write you for a long time Went to church yesterday, heard a fine ser mon oa faith and the good 'of prayer I thoiiht of the first time my baby boy tried to pray two , oWe1 ' children were, studying ?heir lessons., Joyce and Breeze were in bed. r was l(Hrt lng ’ i* ' e . b ?, by t>la} ' in S around. All at once Hlida said, Mamma, look at brother/’ And there he, was kneeling at my knee to say his prayer. We thought it awfully sweet^ and SSTw^uS - " e couM • han,,y ,alt a " d School started today: the children are all happy coining and going. This fall weather makes me wish to be out seeing everything. I went out riding the other oay and the trees were just turning yellow. It will soon be association time, and we are going to have one here Ibis year. How I wish you could be with us. ’ I hope a lot of the Household will be there. I have only met one of the Household friends, but wo certainly <m- joyed each other’s company. It is such a pleasure to meet one’s friends when away from home and the Householders all seem like friends to me, and when we meet there is so much to talk about. Friends are a great blessing in our life, but some one has said, Cicero, I think, “Every man can toll how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.” Lovingly, REBECCA WIIITAKER JENKINS. THE HANDICAPPED ONES. Dear Miss Thomas: Last week I was riding along the road that leads into a certain town and' saw a boy about ten years old walking on crutches. A man called his. wife’s attention to it and said, poor little cuss, he is plucky and tries to keep up with the other boys, but he has a bad handicap. “There ought to be something done for biiu,” was the lady’s answer. “I’ll bet his father and mother thought that he would outgrow it and let him alone when they might have helped him ” was the comment of another woniai>. “His parents may have to work so bar-l that they did not have time nor money to spend on him,” suggested still another. “I’d hate to think that any one would let any • iiild g». through life like that If there was the barest, chance to help it.” Silence fell on the group, eac hone bad a ipental picture of a brave little boy, whoso feet were useless and his hands of necessity em ployed holding his crutches. What chance has / he Livening Story Earning Her Wage (Copyright, 1913, by W. Werner.) Elsie Curtis sat at the window of her room typewriting:. It was 2 o’clock and at 2:30 there was a matinee to which she was going. She had a new hat and gown to wear, and her head was full of them and the matinee. She loved the theater, she loved her good clothes, she loved everything, indeed, save her work. But in order to enjoy the theater and possess the good clothes she must work. Elsie typed for Miss Brooke. and Miss Brooke wrote stories. Elsie’s ideas on the subject of Miss Brooke’s productivity and her own were in a certain sense socialistic. Miss Brooke .——- xj /‘r/V-' f & ~- “Hoo-o!” some one was calling from below. earned at one end of the scale and she at the other. Miss Brooke thought in terms of dollars and she pounded out copy in terms of cents. Yet Miss Brooke’s thoughts would have been more or less ineffective without the clever elucidation produced by her typing. Miss Brooke fcould not type. And her writing was that of any per son whose mind moves faster than her muscles. No editor in the world could ever have picked out more than one word in five of that intricate script which Elsie had learned to read like so much print. Elsie believed herself to be indis pensable to Miss Brooke. She had worked for her so long that she had every detail of the business by heart. She had learned al of Miss Brooke’s tricks of trade, modes of expression, until she felt that if she ever had time she could dash off a story which would win acceptance anywhere. However, she never had the time, for, she was always either working or playing. Miss Brooke kept her pretty busy. All the rest of the time she amused herself. For some time now amusements had been encroaching upon • business. The theater, the parks, young company lured Elsie continually. She had less and less time for her work, but the such as he is to grapple with opportunity? The habit of procrastination has a great leal to do with many an afflicted baby, or small child, having to go through dife with a handicap. De termination has accomplished wonders. Some times the mother would give her right hand to help her child, would be willing to be hungry and cold if the money „ would , buy a sound body for her child, but some men do not ook into the future or put themselves in the afflicted one’s place and fail to see things from that standpoint. I think that the man’s being off the most of a child’s making hours tends to minimize his making some things as vital as they really are. There are men whose hearts are as tender as a woman’s hut the fact that their minds must, be on their work to make a living is often the cause of their not realizing things. The mother is usually right where she ean see the lone afflicted, and her mind may be fully occupied with the work, yet have a subconscious knowl edge of what’s going on around her. Some of the states are beginning to pay more attention to the personal welfare of the children. Now one’s throat, eyes and teeth are examined be fore they enter school and if the parents are too indifferent or too poor to attend to the de fects found there the city physician takes the case. Some of-,these days, when a child’s birth is registered there will be a law demanding a certificate of its health and whether its body is well formed. If it is not the law will see that proper medical attention is given the help less little creature. The thought that in that misshaped body may be enough mental energy to influence a town, or even a state, for right or wrong is one that every parent and teacher should weigh as carefully as a grain of gold, for the sound mind needs a sound body, and who is responsible for the hundreds of men and women who have had to use crutches since childhood? Science has done wonders and it’s a sin not to help all who need it. How about it, are you who read this paper doing all you can for the children? A CALL TO THE CLAN. Dear Miss Thomas: Rainy days like these make one feel like taking a stroll away off. Somewhere I know the sun is shining and I am longing to be there; I do love sunshine, and T believe I can find as much sunshine and cheerfulness in “Our Household” as anywhere now. I have been away a long time and it seems like all the old timers have gone some where. I do wish that the members could be induced to give us plenty of reading for these gloomy days. I enjoy reading all our letters. MarionOOY.s phens has completely deserted us. and so has Mrs. Hornet. I could mention a hundred of your natpes, but space forbids so I beg one and all to come and let’s take up our winter quarters right here. Let’s have an old time reunion, a family reunion. Aren’t we a fam ily? We belong to Our Household. I fee! like we are a happy family and very much de voted to each other and I believe we all love Miss Thomas, the head of our family, do we not? If we fove her as we should we will try to help her. Help is what each house hold needs. There is no one that can make home what it should be without help from the other members of the family. Were you ever in a home where the mother had all the work to do? If so, did that mother seem like she was enjoying life as much as she could have done had. she had the help and co-operation of the members of her family? I’m sure you saw a weak, tired, despondent woman, one who was almost ready to give up and “flee from the wrath' to come.” Can you see any thing like that with this Household? The members are sitting idle and waiting for Miss Thomas to do all the work and by and by she may flee from us. I know a few of our mem bers who could, I think, do better. I have !>een too busy to visit, but 1 am going to turn over a new leaf. Let’s not use our neigh bor for a moral umbrella, let's nut ourselves in the category of delinquents and sit down and write a letter this very day. Or week anyhow, that we read this. BUSY REE. work must go on just the same. She hurried her work and 'loitered over her amusements. She could make her fingers fly, and she let them go at the speed limit of accuracy—and beyond. Imperfections blotted her copy and Miss Brooke began to find fault. Elsie listened carelessly. Let Miss Brooke grumble! Elsie was not afraid. She was too valuable to Miss Brooke to be risking much, and she had something to gain—added mo ments for a novel or a chat. Miss Brooke could not find anybody to take her place. It would take a year at least to break in another girl. On this particular afternoon she was more reckless than usual. Her type writer table stood at the open window of her upstairs room, and she could look down into an enormous syringa bush, which not only charmed the eye by its bloom, but sent wave after wave of sweetness up to her nostrils. It was May and everything was young and bright and full of the joy of life. Earth, sky, syringa bush, tenderly greening foliage were kin to her and her girlish senses rioted with them in an abandon of delight. All outdoors urged her to come—come, and here she was fast be fore an old typewriter, with a lot of copy ’that must be handed in before the day ended. Rebellion seamed up in Elsie—rebel lion against Miss Brooke, against the necessity which made her earn wages, against the whole system of life. Click—click, click went the keys, ting went the bell ks the carriage flew back and forth, and page after page of messy transcript fluttered to the floor. “Hoo—oo!” Some one was calling from below. Elsie leaned on the sill and looked down into a laughing, up turned face. “I’ll be right down, Marjory. Just let me put on my hat.” She sprang from the chair, nearly up setting the typewriter, caught her new hat from the bed and flew to the glass to put it on. 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GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGY CO., 32-42 IVleans St,Atlanta,Ga. ©EL’ fiStSSSEi*-^ * Sunday School lesson for October 12. 1 Cor. 13: 4-5. Golden Text—Love envieth not; lovo vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly. She left Marjory staring* open mouth ed. get back to it,” she thought. “I’ve put her off twice successfully, and I guess she won t make any great fuss if I have to put her off again. A day sooner or later isn’t going to make any great dif ference with one story, I’m certain.” She ran downstairs and joined Mar jory, whom she found enjoying the syringa bush. “Lovely and white, isn’t it?” Mar jory said, as she tucked a sprig into her belt. “ I saw you were working for dear life. How,do you get on with Miss Brooke, Elsie? Isn’t she dread fully flpstartish? I can’t understand how she can write stories. Why, she doesn’t look a mite different from you and me.” “She isn't any different, Marjory. But don’t let’s talk about her. I want to forget her and everything else unpleas ant for the whole afternoon.” On their way to the theater they stopped at a confectioner's and Elsie bought a box of chocolates. How gooxl it was to be twenty-two, wearing a new hat and sitting out a spring afternoon at a charming new play! There was only one thing to spoil El sie’s happiness, and that was the thought of the untidy work with which she must presently confront Miss Brooke. But by the time the first act was over she had lost herself complete ly in the play. As the curtain went down she sat staring at it as if she still saw the scene it had just hidden, hjr eyes big and bright with emotion, the hero’s last passionate utterance repeat ing itself in her ears. “She doesn’t understand, and I can’t make her understand. I've tried, in deed, to Impress upon her the fact that life is something more than one long matinee; th a t each one owes a duty to her fellows as well as to herself. And a duty to her work. After all, life is work. And the more one gets out of one’s work, the more one enjoys life.' Elsie started. Her heart started, too, and got into her throat with one cruel, headlong leap. For that was Miss Brooke who was speaking just behina her. And she had never dreamed that Miss Brooke would come to the mati nee. “Elsie is no longer a very young girl,” went on Miss Brooke, in that soft, carrying voice of hers. “But she still has a young girl’s utter lack of responsibility. And that, you know, is always so hard to deal with. I’ve had to find a feood deal of fault with her of late, but instead of taking more pains she takes less. She dashes off her copy apparently at lightning speed. Her one thought seems to be to get' it off h mind and out of her hands as quickly as possible. You see. auntie, she hasn’t got to the point where she realizes that it is work. 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Sugar coated, tiny gradate* *a*y to take a* candy. © Some time while the people of Slsrael were at Sinai Moses was joined by his wife, Zipporah, who was a Cushite. In some way she and Moses’ sister Miriam, did not get along very well. There is no evidence to show that Zipporah had done anything to induce the disfavor of Miriam, but because o\ some femin ine disagreement there was not the best feeling between them. Up until this time there had not been any outward mani festation of thip dislike, and probably there never would have been any had it not been used by Miriam and Aaron as an excuse for a\ graver sin of theirs. Miriam - was twelve years older than Moses, and Aaron was three years old er. You will recall that Miriam had been set to watch the ark of bulrushes, and through her ready wit had assured the salvation of her baby brother by securing the services of his own moth er. I have no doubt but that she took a keen interest in his advancement, and when he had returned to Egypt to lead the people out, she was one of his most trusted councillors and helpers. But now the continued success of Moses and the place of prominence into which he had been thrust were in a measure re sponsible for the feelings of envy and jealousy which were beginning to grow in her heart towards him. She had not crushed this out at once, as she should have .done, but had allowed it to grow. If Aaron had -had any such feelings in his heart they had been dormant un til' after he had been so severely re buked by Moses for his part in the matter of the golden calf. I don’t be lieve that Aaron would have been guilty of this sin had he not allowed Miriam to influence him. He had been elevat ed to the sacred office of the high priest, and the homage which was paid him was in a„ measure no less great than that given Moses by the people. Aaron, however, was of a ^rather yielding character, and Miriam was an unusual ly forcible woman. She used her fem inine prejudice against Zipporah, who belonged to another race, as a cloak to in cheating me she cheats herself. These little things, these little every-day er rors in the way of honor, leave such in- dellibie impressions. And too many such impressions spoil any character. I learned it through my writing. Writing is the hardest work in the world, the most heartbreaking, the most inspiring, the most uplifting. You know how I have slaved to get where I am today. You know how I ve lost sleep and given • up every pleasure. Why, even now a matinee is a great event for me. And I wouldn’t be here now if I hadn’t stopped in with you on our way to that club meeting. But enough of me and just a little more about Elsie. I’m fond of her, I long to keep her on, but I’m afraid, auntie, that I can’t keep her. She is too careless. I can’t risk my own literary reputation by continuing to send on the copy she turns out. She has a piece of work in her hands now which I am going to let decide for me. If it is up to the mark I shall keep her. If not I shall let her go. I have a trusty applicant for her place and I can’t afford The curtain went up. “Can’t we stay through this second act, auntie?” A deeper voice answered: “I think we had better go to the club.” They went out quietly. Elsie turned her head and sajv them go. An allur ing herojjpe was holding the centre of the stage, but Elsie looked down at her hands, instead—her wayward hands that were capable of such good work and turned out such poor work, j She was thinking over what she had ! just heard Miss Brooke say. There j had been revelation in the words ut- j tered unconsciously in her presence. ! It came to her that her work was her very self, that she was not indispen sable. that all 'the matinees in the world could not r^pay her for losing { her job, and with it the brightness of I her young honor. She touched Marjory. “You stay on, Marjory, I must go: I’ve got to go. . Don't^-ask any ques tions. Just let me go.V She left Marjory staring open- mouthed a£ such unwarranted beha vior. She rushed out into the spring day. As its light fell upon her ■ she seemed to be bathed in a new con sciousness of self and of the whole system of toil for wage. And with light heart and feet she hurried to ward home and her waiting task. cover her most disgraceful sin, envy. Nothing had been said about Moses’ marriage through all these years, but now it is used as an excuse; this is shown by the words which they used in this connection. They resented the fact that God had spoken through Moses so much, and were piqued because He had not spoken through them. The con nection of Zipporah with the matter was a side issue, an dwas not the real issue at all. PENALTY FOR PROMINENCE. Such envy and jealousy as they aimed against Moses was the penalty for* prominence. Every man who attains prominence in any line has to face just such enemies as Aaron and Miriam proved to be. Usually they do not come out in the open, although sometimes they do, but more frequently they hide their hatred under cover of some other excuse. ' One of the strange things is that ''fre quently these enemies prove to be our blood kin. It seems hard to see a rela tive attain prominence and success. Moses stood this in a most wonder ful way; in fact, there *is little ques tion but that he was/cognizant of their rebellion against him; but he was the meekest man that had ever lived and did pot say anything. Let’s get it into our minds, however, what meekness means, for we believe there is a wide spread misunderstanding of the word. Unfortunately we have come to think of a meek person as a “namby-pamby” sort of an individual who will take any kind of insult and injury rather than resent it. The Bible' idea of meekness is entirely different from this. The original word comes from a root, mean ing one who hears, and if Moses was the meekest man it was because he listened, to God as no other man would listen. You can readily .understand how one meek in that sense of the word would not resent expressions of envy and jealousy that his own blood kin showed. It is this kind of meek man which Christ referred to when He said “The meek shall inherit the earth.” This meekness has its reward, and it was not long before it came to jVlosss. Suddenly God called Moses, Aaron and Miriam to meet Him at the door of the tabernacle, then leaving Moses there He called the two who had been guilty of such a heinous sin, envy, one side and spoke to them in the most severe terms, i He called their attention to the fact that while He had, spoken through other men* and women, He had done so by means of visions; , but Moses was unique in that He had spoken face to face with him, as a man speaks to his friends. When they recognized that God had shown such a peculiar liking for Moses, how dared they speak against him, or how dared, any one else? So saying, God withdrew, and the cloud was lifted from the tabernacle. This was the greatest punishment that God could have inflicted upon Miriam and Aaron. It is the greatest punishment that He can inflict upon you. In His presence there is fullness of joy; in His absence there is no joy whatever. The outward manifestation of displeasure and withdrawal was shown by the fact that Miriam, a woman ninety-five years old, became leprous, as white as snow. The tendency to leprosy was in Moses' family. One of the signs which God used to signify to Moses that He would give him success was that his hand be came leprous when he put it into his bosom. Possibly the only reason why this tendency had not shown itself be fore in Miriam was because of the re straining influence of the presence of God. Now that God had withdrawn Him self, the disease broke out all at once. You can have no greater blessing than the consciousness of God’s presence with you always. May God spare you j the curse of withdrawing Himself. REASON FOR PROMINENCE. We have had another glimpse in lot the life of Moses showing us some thing of the real man. Just as on a dark night the flashes* of lightning show us the way to g 0 so did these littl c instances lay bare the heart of a man to let us see him as God sees him. It did not take Aaron long* to see his enormous sin. and while Miriam did | not say anything, we are sure that she recognized her sin and repented. Aaron hunts up Moses right away, as hf recognizes the superiority of Moses because of God’s blessing upon him. and beseeches him as his Lord that h e will intercede for their sister that the curse might be removed. If Moses had been of an ordinary mind, treated as he was. he would have said, Let her alone; but, their sin had been a great pain to him. I believe that he spent the time while God was talking to them in interceding for them; and now when they show evidence of repentance, he pleads with God that she be 'healed. It was the same spirit that Christ showed on the cross when He prayed for His enemies, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And his soul got bigger and bigger with every word. That was the reason of Moses’ promi nence. God can use a man like that. In answer to Moses’ prayer, God re turns. 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