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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1913.
DIO CHILD ME UP
Look, Mother! If tongue is
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Mother! Yotir child isn't naturally
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fornia Syrup of Figs,” then look and see
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I don’t know that I would make the
salt that my bread demands, but this
sort of weather makes me wish for a
Job in somebody’s cotton patch. It is
not enough for me to simply be in the
sunshine and fresh air, I want motion
and at the end of the day I like to fool
myself into thinking something has
been accomplished.
These autumn woods are beautiful
and the haze that envelops this part
of the world these Indian summer days
brings memories of days so long past
that one is not sure how much was real
ity or the gilding of imagination.
Cotton field, to me, are things of beau
ty be the season what it may. My
brother" had acres and acres planted.
The house set on a hill that gave a
my heart for the boy or girl who has
she turned her eyes to the woods where
a white road shone like a ribbon wind
ing among the shrubbery and across
a stream with a most picturesque foot
log, or looked in another direction at
the “forest primeval” containing beech,
oak, and sweetgum trees too tall and (
stately to be lightly considered as : any-
ihing but inonarchs. My favorite scene
was the cotton field, in the first scene
the long, long rows as smooth and
straight as my lady’s vegetable garden
later the tiny thread of green that
showed the' bursting of the black seeds.
The women and men chopping and sing
ing as they worked was interesting.
Then the sleek mules and careful plow
men pulverizing the soil added life to
a vividly investing scene. The first
boll was an event, then in early morn
ing acres of deep cream blossoms chang
ing as the. day grew older into crimson
proved a pleasant scene to eyes tired by
too near proximity to walls and win
dows. The first boll, the first bale and
the line of wagons coming from the
fields piled with the result of the day’s
work, or the deep body made by bag
ging and packed with cotton for the
gin, arly or all of them proved fascinat
ing. I always have a sort of regret in
picture to any nature lover, whether
lived in the country and has failed to
see the beauties of God's handiwork.
Truly, “the heavens declare the glory ot
God, and the firmament showeth His
handiwork,” and there never has seemed
to me a time that a look to the hills
would not comfort one.
I once worked with a young woman
who had been raised in a boarding
school, the nearest to real home life
that she had enjoyed had been during
her vacations, and that was marred by
the big empty rooms and the work her
parents had to do toward getting things
in shape for the next school year,
individual flower bed, no back yard with
its sand pile or play house, or well dug
with miniature garden tools, no pets
of any description, and later there was
j the deprivation of a place to ask her
: company and feel like it was her very
! own. I don’t believe that any girl en-
; joys any one thing more than her par
lor and the young people who drop In
there.
That is one thing I deeply regret
about girls and boys coming to the city
and stopping at boarding houses, be
they what they may. At home a care
ful mother knows what is going on
without seeming, in the least, to spy
or pry into affairs. Her presence among
her daughter's guests is an accepted
fact, and it does not take more than fif
teen oV twenty minutes to “size up” the
trend of thought and skillfully turn it
in a healthy channel if that mother has
be§n fortunate enough to have been
trained ' by the right sort herself. If
she has not, it is high time for her to
get busy and fit herself for the honor
able position as counsellor and most in
timate friend of her daughter, or her
son.
only the tilings chat appeal to them and
grow into anemic and nervous wrecks.
I saw a boy with his arm in a sling.
A younger brother rather proudly told
me that it made four times some bone
had been broken since he had started to
school. Somehow the fact hung in my
mind and a few' days later I met the
boy's cousin and asked tier what was
the matter with Guy’s bones. She did
not answer for a moment then said:
“I never thought of anything being the
matter with him, nor has his mother.
We have always said that he certainly
was careless, or unlucky.” I asked what
he ate, and the answer was not much of
anything except tea and toast, some
times a little soup, or if she had straw
berry jam he would eat that with hot
bread. She said he seldom ate fruit
and never tasted any cereal. Think of a
boy going to school after a breakfast of
tea and buttered toast. He learned the
trick from his grandfather.
What I said put them to thinking and
the doctor has given them a diet for
Master Guy and he must eat that in
stead of taking the tonic from the drug
store.
’leachers, see what you can do about
the cooking club. It will be pleasant as
well as profitable. Let me hear from
some of you. Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
We turn today aside from our studies ■ and mine has some bearing upon some
body else's life. It is impossible for it
to be otherwise. Therefore, while wo
have a perfect right to eat meat, or to
drink wine, or to smoke cigarettes, or to
to the life of the children of Israel to
join with others in considering the great
question of temperance. In a way the
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What do you think about organizing
cooking clubs in connection with your
schools? It seems to me that these win
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tice cooking by having certain girls, or
boys if they like the work, cook some
thing hot for the school lunch. Oil
stoves or fireless cookers could easily
be bought by a concert, spelling bee or
debate, and a simple course of domestic
science would be a splendid break among
the three R’s. If I had a flying ma
chine I’d like nothing better than to go
from school to school, say three days at
each, and help get things started. Cook
ing is a fine art, the man with very
small wages, as well as the millionaire,
is very dependent on his cook, for poorly
cooked food means indigestion and final
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Dear Miss Thomas: After having read
Evelyn Dare’s letter in The Semi-Week
ly Journal, I desire to write a few
lines in part answer to the question.
There are so many different opinions as
to what would constitute true happiness
and contentment. I think it a hard
question.
I have always thought that the mar
ried state is most natural for matured
man and woman and the only way
wherein they could be the most useful
and happy. But there seems to be as
much or more discontent among the
married as among the single people.
Judging from the divorce suits, suicides
and murders committed along that line.
This should not be. What is the^trou-
ble? Are they mismatched or misled
or have they changed the laws of God
and their own nature? Have they, men
and women, departed from the good old
way and gone out into other spheres,
such as politics, clubs, playhouses,
growing tired of the care and responsi
bility of rearing families?
When God drove Adam and Eve from
the garden- of Eden He gave them a
law by which they should be governed.
The woman should bear children and
the man should rule over her. How does
that take in 1913 A. D.? Some seem to
think there are higher duties for them
to perform than being mothers of fam
ilies and looking well to their house
hold. If there is any difference be
tween a discontented old maid and a
dissatisfied wife I think the latter is
worst. There must be more pleasure
in the old maid’s life than with those
“unevenly yoked,” with a dissipated or
otherwise worthless man, one always
pulling in the wrong direction and at
last she must realize that she had cast
her pearls before swine.
God said that it was not good for
man to be alone, so he made him a help
mate (not a ruler), The true woman and
wife looks to husband, for support and
comfort, ever willing to minister to his
welfare and happiness. Together they
walk the pathway of life as one agreed
on all that is good and uplifting, living
a Christian life to the hour of their
Creator. Then, and only then, can they
realize the sweetness of life. Then their
children can rise up and call them
blessed. Such a union would bing
happiness akin to the “peace that pass-
eth all understanding.”
I know of no better way for the old
maid to spend her life than in teaching
'school, but the question is: would she
be satisfied? This can oe answered only
by herself. With the knowledge of
having faithfully discharged her duty
to God, herself and all with whom she
chanced to meet and the nope that the
world is better by her having lived in
it. Sometime, somewhere she will be
satisfied. Though in this life she has
missed much that she dreamed of, ne
doubt, she has missed many heart
aches that she neVter, never dreamed
of. The little flower grows by the
wayside and is seldom noticed, but it
blooms just as bright, sending out its
fragrance just the same as if it grew in
a king’s garden surrounded by many ad
mirers, is part of God’s creation fulfill
ing its mission. So, let this thought
teach us to do the best we can and be
contented with our lot.
OLD MAIDS FRIEND.
whole story is told in the title, which
has been chosen for our lesson today.
“Abstinence for the sake of others.”
There is many a man who feels that he
can do this, that or the other without
any harm to himself, and possibly with
some benefit to himself, and that he has
a perfect right to do as he pleases,
which in a way, may be granted, but
when it is taken into consideration that
it is not for himself only, but for oth
ers also that he must think, he realizes
that certain things that he allows in
fiis life must be prohibited.
OUR ACCOUNTABILITY.
The passage which has been selected
tc guide our thoughts is taken from
part of the letter to the Romans in
which Paul is making the practical ap
plications of the great truth that he
has set forth in the first part in such
a masterful way. The question arose
amongst the Christians of Rome, to
whom he was writing, as to whether or
not they should be vegetarians only, or
whether it was permissible for them to
eat meat as well. There were some who
maintained that they had a perfect lib
erty to drink wine, whereas others con
tended they should not. It was in dis
cussing this problems with them that he
puts all people into two classes: the
weak and the strong. The strong man
realizes that he can eat anything.' The
weak man thinks that he must not eat
meat, but must confine himself to a veg
etarian diet. Paul classes himself with
the strong in maintaining the liberty of
eating what he pleases, but because of
the fact that there also are those who
he classes weak, he maintains that he
must take them into consideration in de
ciding what he himself shall do.
There was a tendency for those who
ate meat to criticise very severely those
who were merely vegetarians, and there
was an equal tendency on the part of
the vegetarians to criticise severely the
meat eaters. Paul condemns this, point
ing out that we have no right to judge
any man’s servants whose services are
accountable to his own master, not to
us, and since we are servants of God,
we have no right to judge anyone else
for anything of this kind, for we are
accountable to God. The other man is
also accountable to God. God will judge
each one of‘us. So then we should be
very careful ourselves to live so that
our way may be pleasing in God’s sight.
In this sense, it is none of our business
what our brother does. In this sense,
we* must look to our own way, not tc?
his.
RIGHTS OR RESPONSIBILITY.
However, as he points out, we must
appreciate that our lives are so inter
locked with others’ lives, that none of
us liveth to himself, nor does any one
of use die to himself. Every act of yours
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go to the theater, or to play cards, or to
dance, or to do any one of a number of
other things, we must not endanger the
other man by anything that we allow
in our lives. While I have a perfect
right to do anything, because I am a
free man, 'I am also in a sense responsi
ble for my brother’s actions, since my
life necessarily influences his life.
While I have a right to do a thing, I
must realize that in exercising that
right I am taking upon myself a terri
ble responsibility. Since in the exercic- !
ing of my liberty I influence the weaker ;
brother to do something which will j
harm him even though what I do does ;
not harm me, I am destroying him for
whom Christ died and making of no ef
fect in that sense the sacrificial work
of Him who loved us and gave Himself
for us. The kingdom of God is some
thing greater than the gratification of
an appetite. It is joy and peace in the
Holy Ghost. So' then in exercising ray
liberty I must do that which will make
for peace, and which will build my
brother up, making him strong, wherein
he was weak before, and thus assisting
the work of Christ, rather than destroy
ing it.
LOVE LIMITS.
This is the sum of this whole ques
tion—Love Limits. While I have a
perfect right to do anything, if I have
in my heart anything o{ that love for
my fellow-man that Jesus Christ had,
I will be more than willing to refrain
from doing that which will harm him,
even though I am perfectly sure that It
will not harm me. Go further than
this: when the Christ love is in my
heart expressing itself toward others,
it would not only not harm anyone else,
but it would constrain me to count no
sacrifice of my rights too great, if by
refraining from the exercise of them I
can in the leastwise help to build my
brother up.
I heard a primary teacher telling her
class of little tots something the other
day which illustrates in a very plain
way this whole truth. She said, “You
like candy, don’t you? And when you
are well it is perfectly proper for you to
eat some candy. It will not only not do
you any harm, but the right sort at
the right time may do you a great deal
of good. But little baby brother could
not eat candy, it would make him sick,
and sometimes it would be wrong for
you to eat candy, because it would make
little baby brother want it, and while
it might not make you sick, it would
make him sick. So because you love
him you would not eat the candy so
that he would not get sick.” So here
is the whole thing. If you love your
fellow-man. you will decide every ques
tion as to whether you have a right to
do it, but whether it will help him.
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Evelyn Dare gave us a vivid picture
of the life of one country school teach
er. Do most of them feel that way?
People are so different. In my opinion
it requires less to make some contented
than others. She asked, “What shall 1
do with my life to make it worth
while?” Surely if she is interested in
her work grows monotonous. I, too,
ing souls for time and eternity, that hei
calling is one of the noblest on earth,
she must feel that her life is not only
useful but in the eyes of God and man
eminently worth while.
Although doing her duty to others,
she is not 'contented, her life is not
sufficient unto herself—she is lonely and
her work grows mountainous. I, too,
was an old-maid country school teach
er, and can understand her loneliness.
What did I do? I married a widower.
(Oh, horrors! I hear.) I’ve never “been
a slave to thankless, rebellious step
children”—quoting her words. My step
children were grown and married. One
might do wors| than marry a man wor
thy of respect and love, even if he is a
widower with small children. I believe
I’d take the risk of winning the children
over to my side—despite meddling out
siders—who usually cause the trouble—
if I was sure I loved the man. A -woman
of tact and tenderness who makes up
her mind to be a real mother to step
children will nearly always succeed In
making them love her.
Why shouldn’t she be a useful and a
happy woman, even if she doesn’t “feel
the thrills she once dreamed about.”
It’s a sure cure for loneliness: try it.
I am old-fashioned enough—shall I say?
—to think that a woman is happier that
has the love of husband and children.
Nothing else ever completely fills a true
woman's heart, and if the children are
her own so much the better.
Suppose Evelyn tries organizing a
club of some kind; for instance, a lit
erary society (who better qualified than
a teacher for just such work?). Get
everyone, who will, to join—whole fam
ilies; in that way everyone will become
interested. Meet twice a month—some
times at the school house, again at dif
ferent homes in the neighborhood. This
would be both pleasant and improving.
An organization of some kind is badly
needed in every isolated country dis
trict. Then, too, it brings the teacher
and patrons more in touch with each
■»ther; something to be sought after
>y both. Or suppose since she is get
ting tired of her line of work, and as
she has a home, why not get some con
genial woman friend (and sometimes we
can find such through the papers), and
go into the chicken business for a while!
A complete change of occupation is
what we need often to rest our weary
minds and bodies. Or again, why not
try traveling after she finishes her pres
ent term of school? Nothing like that
to get one “out of a rut” and brighten
ed men. I am a teacher and have
reached the age that the girls of sixteen
call “old maids.” I can fully appreci
ate every word of our sister’s letter.
In fact, I was so much amused by the
typical scene portrayed in her letter
that I hadn’t forgotten it when I re
tired. And, “bless me,” if I didn’t
her mind seeing new places, making new | dream that night that I had quit teach-
friends, change of climate and all. Trust 1 ing and married an old, old widower.
And was in the kitchen washing dishes!
me, she will feel .like a new woman aft
er a time and come back with renewed
zeal for her work. If she wished to
keep up expenses while out seeing our
fair land, she might try soliciting sub
scriptions for magazines, or selling some
tide of ladies’ wearing apparel. Hon
estly, I would not teach, feeling as she
does. Try something else for a while
at least.
But, after all, there are few things
more to be desired, and more consoling
than sitting under one’s own “vine and
fig tree”—not necessarily with a widow
er—but when one proposes, don't let him
get away—that is if he is a nice widow
er!
Here’s to you, Evelyn Dare! “May you
iiv(» long and prosper.”
BINGHAJVJ.
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like you would rather take a man you
do not love, and probably one who Is
only wanting a housekeeper without
hiring one, just visit some unloved wife
Now I am sure that the teacher who j ri your community and watch her for
wrote that letter didn’t feel just what 1 a while. Then return to your room and
her letter implied, or else she just thank your God that you are an old
wrote it while suffering a severe attack ma id teacher, who can walk along the
of “blues.” I imagine that she had fin- ! same woodland path every day for nine
ished up her extra cleaning and tidying ! months, and find therein the great
garden of nature something new and
beautiful every time you pass. Some
thing that speaks to you of His undying
love and of the great reward for those
who labor and wait op God. And rest
assured that patient endurance will
bring its reward. JULIA.
ADVICE TO THE GROOM.
Dear Miss Thomas: Some time ago
a young man received these lines. He
tells me that many a time when he has
ueen tempted to be unreasonable, or ir-
iitable, they have popped into his mind
and helped both of them. So I am
sending them /to you for I know that
many who read your columns will ap
preciate them and some may be bene-
ited.
“Remember that the girl of »ur
choice is human, and to err is human,
and that you are no saint yourself.
“Remember that your best girl is a
ack of nerves, and that you must be
'atient if you would be happy.
“Don’t think that because you work
for this best girl, and give her your
lay envelope on Saturday night that
.herefore she has no right to an opin
ion of her own, or that you own her,
>ody, soul and mind, for you do not.
“Remember that she loves you and
is thinking only of you.‘ She adorns
her person only to please you and
wants your admiration and praise.
“Remember that she was brought up
in an atmosphere and environment all
her own, probably entirely different to
yours, and that it takes time to adjust
herself to your way of thinking and
doing.
“It does not take much of an effort
to be gentle to a pretty young wife.
Remember that the test of your good
breeding lies in the after years when
she no longer has the endearing charms
of youth. That is the time for you to
be the real bridegroom.
“Remember that marriage puts you on
your best behavior always. You can
accomplish more, have your own way
oftener and make more substantial prog
ress in your mutual happy relations
by kindness than by nagging.
“Remember it is not the big things
you do for her but the little things that
count. You may leave a standing order
at your florists to send your wife and
sweetheart her favorite flowers every
day in the yqar, at an enormous cost
Yet if you personally brought her one
blushing rose she would gladly forego
the florist’s order.
“Don’t come home with a grouch,
nor throw your ill humors at ber; re
member that she has cares of her own
—many physical cares that your are a
stranger to. Leave your business trib
ulations down town, pull yourself to
gether when you are going home.
“Lastly, remember she is your wife—
first, last and always, and whether sne
is right or wrong—your wife. Never for
get that and defend her and her good
name against the world.”
Some day I shall send you some
things for the bride .to remember. Good
luck to you.
MRS. EDNA WINTER.
BEEN THERE MYSLF.
Dear Miss Thomas: Please give me
space in your Household Chats to say
just a v/ord to the “Old Maid School
Teacher,” as she calls herself.
This is my first attempt to get in
but hope that I may have a seat right
by the “Teacher,” as her letter interest-
her • room and the other work that she
mentioned. Then with the feeling that
her work was finished till the school
bell Monday morning would remind her
that she must take up the burdens of
another week. She sat down alone in her
room and took from memory’s shelf that
great “volume of the past and there in
the solitude of a country home, put
herself to the task of comparing her
“yesterdays” with* the “todays.” Ajid
as we all know that the past pleasures
always shine brightest, she felt that
life is hardly worth the struggle.
Teachers, how much better it would
be for us if we could realize that we
never know the seeds we sow until they
begin to bear fruit. At the very hour
that we feel most depressed and be
lieve that life is the greatest failure,
we may be doing a greater work for
our country and our God than when
life seems pleasantest and brightest.
I think there is but one position
that a lady may occupy In this life that
is nobler and holier than that of a
teacher, and that is wife and mother.
However, no real lady, one worthy the
name, can afford to take those holy
titles upon herself without the real,
pure, true love that it takes to make
home.
Teachers, if you ever get to feeling
MY CREED.
I believe every one enjoying reasonable
health can and should he happy. But of
all happy people I think the old maid
school teacher should be happiest, be
cause she has it in her power to be so
very useful to such a large number of
people. Surely a person should find hap
piness in being “just useful” for doesn’t
the Bible say “it is more blessed to give
than to heceive,” and that “it is better
not to marry because a wife studieth how
she may please her husband, but the un
married how they may please the Lord?”
Consecrated school teachers are one of
the greatest needs of our country today,
and I do not think there are many of
that kind until they have passed the
sweetheart age.
We hear of unhappy wives on every
hand, who likely are so because they
married just to keep from being old maids
and not because they were sure “the
right man had come.” Mrs. Bee’s letter
tells a tale in a few words.
But the happiest wives no doubt, ex
perience a sorrow for every joy with the
great Jrardens, responsibilities, suffering
and anxieties of which only a wife and
mother can know.
So, old maids go rejoicing on your way,
think not that you are unfortunate but
that you are one of whom the world
needs many. Enjoy your quiet evenings
and your calm Sabbaths. Believe thoso
great opportunities and even luxuries.
Give your love to the many little chil
dren whose lives you may brighten, all
are not loved at home. Win their affec
tions and confidence and thus have a
great share in fashioning their future
and be sure they sorely need you.
SARAH.
ALABAMA WILL INVITE
MR. WILSON TO SP^AK
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 6.—Presi-
dent Wilson will be invited to deliver
the principal oration at the celebration
in honor of the 100th anniversary of the
Horseshoe Bend oattle, which* will be
held July 4. This decision was made
by Governor O’Neal, Colonel Thomas L
Bulger and Dr. Thomas M. Owen, repre
senting the Horseshoe Ben& battle an
niversary commission, who held a con
ference yesterday. ^
Definite plans for the celebration wcr«
made. A tablet on the wall of the Tal
lapoosa county court house at Dadevill#
will be unveiled March 27, 1£14, the ex
act date of the 100th anniversary, ami
J. Thomas Heflin, representative in con
gress from the Fifth district, will makt
the address. Governor O’Neal will pr^
side.
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