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My Dear Children: Happy New Year to all: may many blessings
tome to you this year. You have been dear, generous children and
one of the greatest thinaa you've done is the adoption of our French
baby. We are only a few dollars from our goal and I feel sure that
this first week of the New Year will bring a response from many
of you. No doubt some one person would be willing to make up
the amount, but then it wouldn't be your baby, and I know you
wouldn’t like that, would you?
There’s a plan and hope in my mind whereby we may be able
to get more letters in print; if it pans out I will let you know at
once. The way you can help is to make your letters not more than
150 words long.' Write only one side of the paper. A dear cousin
from way up in Vermont wrote such a nice letter, but it was on both
sides, so it went to Mr. W. B.
By the way, I wonder how many of you know how to pronounce
• our baby’s name. I will tell you as nearly as 1 can: Yvonne (e, as
tn eve, von), Dupouy (Dupoy). Will let you have her picture as
soon as possible. With much love,
AUNT JULIA. •
Here i» your latent Honor Roll.
Tin Foil—Mary Holt.
Alice Puer. sOr: Sarah aixl Beulah Fotier.
*1; Nora Nix. 1«e: Ora Alexander. 10c: L.
Bart Vickery. 10c; Beedy Dodd. 10c: Ellen
I Gray. 10c: Mary Smith. JOc: Gladys Nichol
son. 10c: Edith Chamber*. 10c: Mae Drue.
lOe; Beatrice Langtloo. I®e: Anita Wade.
YOe; Mary Cox. 25c; Thelma Kinssey (broth
er and sister*. 23c; Etta Mae Keys. 10c;
Annie Mae Evan*. Mabie Evans. 10c: An
nie Davis. 10c: Ijcuta Jeffords. 10c; Lottie
Vincent. 10c; Ix»i* Allison. lOe: Bessie
Vincent. lOr; Enid K. I Ketterman. 10c;
Miriam Holladay Hu reins. $1; Allie Free
man. 10c: Ruth Hardin. 10c; Ernest Pen
nln<t*-n. lOr; Anna Lee. Wr; l»os oe Nix,
20c: Addie Mae Avery, 10c: Julia Mae Bur
ton. lOc: Stella laicas. 10c; Fred D. Vana.
10c; Tarleton Dumas. 10c: Della Gordon.
10c: Willie Mae Merl ami Incram Holmes.
50c: Annie Wallace. 10c: I-eola Akins. 10c;
May Belle Lowery. 10e: Velva Lon Haygood.
10c: Jessie Cramp. lOc: Garnett Scott. 10c;
Pauline Moreland. 10c; Jes»le Wils-m. 10c;
Myrtle Holbrook. 10e; Eunice Jenkins. 10c:
Irene Bimp*n. 10c; Mildred Brock. lOc;
Mrs. O. D. r<w<ins. SI: Alice,Franklin, sis
ter and brother. 2Or; Clyde An,lre .Vs. 10c:
Lois Irene Orr. t'k: Bessie Phillips. 10c:
Gladys Jenkins. lOr; Georgia Flinc. 10c:
Winnie Bishop. 25c; De-naris Cherry, 10e;
Bertha Tearqe. lOc; Peartie Teague. lOe:
Pearlie Thoma*. 10,-: Ruth Gray, 33c: lam
EUa Perdue. 25c: Ruth Spillers. 10c: Mary
Lea Blackwell. 10c: Madge Idol. 10c: Fran
ces Holloway. lOr: Johnnie Byrd. 10c: El
lie Glenn. lOe: Mamie Parker. 20c; Alice
Drew lOe. Alice Dempsey. 10e ; Aria ter
Long. 10c; Maggie Rader. 10c; Bertha Har
non. 10c.
Dear Annt Julia-—Here I come with JOr;
10c for the French baby »«d 10c for the
R. C. I got my club O. K. From your
friend. ROtK OE NIX.
Blountsville. Ala. Rt. 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Costatea: What ha«
become of our “OM-T inter* ?'• I have just
finished reading t«day's paper and didn't
'find a sirgle ra» that had written be
uare. But. of epnrre. the letter* ta« n»u
ill. were fine. But why don’t some nt
the nnes that wrote brng ago. just after
••our club" «n organized, write? It is a
gre.it pleasure to me to find a letter from
some who hare written before. So. now.
won’t seme of yon “first line** cousins
write? I am sure that other of the cous
ins will join u>e in my reqne»i. I think
It is very sweet in Annt Jnlia to suggest
«*tr adopt ion of a little Frosch child.
•nd the have answered her nobly,
of course I am in favr «f our adopting
’be child, am! I am sure that it w<-n't
be long until—thanks to ••we” cousins- »lu
ron tell u« that she has wri.teu for the
pb-Ho aod nan.* . f oar dear baby Lot’s
all form a hard of true friend'liip and
pat our total am-mne “over the top” at
•are. I think that it would he s’ nice if
we eeold all meet at a nice little club
room and discuss this thing over. I am
sure that we vrould do h’tsineaa. But as
thia is impossible, we will have to “send
l in” oar talks and dimes. I tbiuk 'iait
Aunt Julia is doing a wonderful thi
f»r us children, and I s-metimes feel that
L it can't he possible that 1 hare never
K met her. for •!* aeeans like a “really and
■ truly” aunt. Dwta'C she cousins? And
, hope some day to be able to exp: * my
her vocally. And now I wish
»a’tew tnore words to you all anj
URB***** ■"» thrnegh: Y-m sh> wrote to
r* agi-la’t ge- an a: ..-* . r t> vour le-ter*
M -r this t r an an-«. r. F r I = t
it imp -»ib!c for me to
them al! then. But if any of you
• write lo me I s'.si! t v to .m*arrr
xow. I w >uid e*| <•< iailjr like to
, from acme ?t the girls ail over the
► F*- 4 Se now I mtsat go for this time,
■bet will con*e again before long if j may.
BeU wishes to all xml “hroSevt” ones to
Attar Julia. Stecerely.
ETTA MAE KEYS.
* t'albc.un. Ga. Rt. 2. B x 2.
P. f.- Here is a dime for enr baby.
L Dear Aust Julie and Cousins: Will
■*' ain allow me to enter your .mes? As
look into y ur bright faces this nt n ug
■or B broad 'mile then-, and yo-.i ► ;r, ly
■pre a go-jd re*'-a for 'mi.ing. for the
war known in history Ims «-■•«■> d
Mbd already «.>mr of our friends and h ved
have returr.-M ic u« while oth.ws arc
the way. and although some will not
Mfatra I think w- have g» d n-.,»0-,« to Is*
at this Yuletldc. Ann: Join, yt-u
ns to tell von what «•* w«-ro pl.in
doing Christmas. Well I am plab.iing
rxbl.lt hunt it. : 1
:be •
Brother Kal.‘it “a-.-t fnrllw-r.** I
’.i,r..ts
not answer H—n all personally.
But I was fairly "delnrfed” with letters.
Ua’come to believe the slogan that
**Tl>e Journal Covets Dixie Like the Dew.
and I think it is folly for any one to say
that they will “answer all letter* rwetved.’
unices ’hey ate made out of stampa Cott'
in*. I have a motion t« txtt tw'.re tbe
house this moruiua. I make a tuott. n :hnl
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we make Anna Kieff honorary vice presl
dent of onr club. Did I bear Gippie -la
vis say she would second that motion?
Good. Moved and seconded that Anna. Kieff
i be onr honorary vice president. Cousins
let’s hear vour yeas and nays on that mo
tion. Her duty will be to write us one of
those cheery, inspiring letters that have
- won her fame, every now and then. Her
• letters are fraught with good counsel and
’ advice, and I believe we sltonld show our
• appreciation of the saute by bestowing this
e boner on her. I believe all the cousins
will agree with me that she is growing tn
Z popularity. I am heartily in favor of
- adopting the “French Irnby” and inclose
ten cents for same. Fact is, you _ haven t
. got a stronger backer in anything you
undertake. Aunt Julia, than I. Where
' vott lead. I will follow. I would love to
' »et a letter shower on February 24. my
• birthday. Hark. I hear footsteps Mr.
Wastebasket is coming in the front door
• so I will go out the back. Wish.ng
: v.m all a happy Christmas nnd a yrosper
: ons New Year. I am The Cousin from
; MissimiPPi- TARLETO n DCMAB
; Lucedale. Miss.
i Dear Auntie and CoWiaa: Will you make
I tuuui lor a tittle Alabama girt: Ants is my
• tun attempt to epter tue circle. 1 live ou
1 ,ue farm and thin, farm life is Ute happiest
r of all. 1 go io sellout ami am iu the tuuitli
■ grade. 1 eujoy reading the letters trout the
- evusius. Tue la-Her uux is the tirst thing
‘ 1 hunt when papa gels ui « paper. 1 thins
r the luea of auoptiug A trencli baby is just
' grand. Just uust of the poor little, suf-
leriug bautes, auU how thankful we should
be that uur country did not have tu suiter
; w ou account or tue war, and that we are
• able to iielp »sire for one of those little ones.
r .So come ou, cousins, let’s do our best. 31..
.ittie sister and tuyself are sending a di...
each, auu 1 huve a little hrouier wuo wau,
to help wild bis mite, i cents, so here is „■
, cents for Uie trench t-aby. Well, 1 fej.-
t uiy letter is getting too long. 1 will «.
. cribe myself and go. lam thirteen yeui
. uh., ugve light brown hair, gray eyes au .
lair complexion. Would line to get letlei'
f iroui some ot the couxins about my age.
. wild love to ail.
THELMA KIMSEI.
• Dawson, Ala.. Route 1.
« Dear Aunt Julia: 1 aui right on to adopt-
- lag a 1 rettcu tMtuy. I uiins it la just gnunl.
: a am a karuier * giiL come again, a.uiu>
e.'’.Jef. Tour leiier was xine. Well, as
. ..1,-Mt of tue new cousins describe lueui
...es, 1 will try, so here 1 go: Dark hair.
r b .-y eyes snu .air complexion, 4 feet 4
l ... •* .ail, weigh sixty-live pounds and am
i . e.ie years oiu. 1 will answer ail letters
■ died. Aunt Julia, you will find eu-
- t« acd 10 cents lor tue Soldiers’ Relief cluu.
• DELLA GURDON.
t I Geneva, Ala., B. F. D. 1.
f ———
Hello. Aunt Julia and Cousins! Here we
•utue again tu join your cuaruling circle ot
j ’ i-e-ys ami girls. We are two Alauauui gills.
»«c wrote once beture, but guess Mr. Waste
. t whs uur.,ry aud ate it up Uie lust
■ t.-mg. We hope ue will be on a vacation
alter Christinas. We are new cousins aud
. will <,escribe ourneives aud go, so here we
I go. l’lea*e dou t get scared, cousins. Annie
. 1 -was: itark hair and complexion, brown
ey+s, weigh seventy-five pounds, aga t*-
i twevNi tweive and fourteen years. J, Ma :,le .
( .rg.it uair and complexion, black ejes,
J w-ieU sixty-tiva pounds, age between teu
and twene years. Oh, we think it w n,v ®
of Aunt Julia to adopt a French baby. We
are sending 19 ,-ents for the baby. We will
i close, if we see this tn print we will come
, again. Will answer all letters received, so.
• -.u-ius, get your pen and pap* r • u ' l l« l
your letters fiy to
ANNIE MAB EVANS.
MAULE El AN’S.
Atmore, Ala., Route A. *•* 1 *»‘«
Dear Annt Julia and Cousins: i’ajia takes
Tlie Journal and I am always anxious to see
J lie letters of Ibe cousins and have decided
io write a letter, tw. Listen, you all,
cuirntmas will »ooa be here and it is so cold
| 1 am afraid Santa won’t get to see all of
I uis cilildreu. Well. a» ibis is my first letter
I will describe mywelf. lam a country girl,
t-r.iwn eye*, brown hair, dark complexion.
If this escape* the wastebasket will come
l again. Wisaiug Attut Julia aud the cou.*-
.O' a merry Chrinimas and Happy New Year.
i iju.mgly y.air niece,
ANNIE DAVIS.
I’. S.—l’iml enclosed 10c for S. R. 0.
Dea: Aunt Jnlia and Cousins: I have
■ -u ..aumg the cousins’ let lei s for a toug
time aud Drink them fine, and 1 wish tu
join them tn favor of adopting the French
lati.y, lam a little buy. live on a farm teu
miles I’rmn town. Well as most of the cous
ins tiescribe themselves I will try. Brown
eyea, dark hair and fair complexion, be nine
years old the fourth of July. 1 go to Fair-
■ view Mhuol hut it hasn’t started yet. Will
la-gut tbe first of the new year.
.luuue. find enclosed HI cents for Hie
l .-- neb lathy. With love aud best wishes
:» auntie aud the cousins.
MfED D. VANN.
Bome, Ga., R. F. D. 8.
1 Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
a country giri just “sweet sixteen” from
central North Carolina, to join your large
uami of Isiys an<l girls. Uh, indeed, I m
fond ot Auut Julia's letter box aud think it’a
so nice that the Relief club is going to
adopt a littl French orphan. I’m going to
do bij “bit” to help, lor I’d dislike tu tie
■ue only slacker cousin. Weil, cousins,
what are you all doing tftese days? Having
a delightful time. I hope. I'm having a fine
I time going to school and believe me, 1 have
a spivuutd teacher. Iley, Iteubeu I’reslar,
you’re the peaclilaud "tarheel” aren't you?
Come again. Well, as I'm a new- cousin.
I’ll describe myself. I am five feet five
inches high, we.gh 116 pounds, blue eyes,
fair complexion, brown hair. Goodness! You
all sure know bow to giggle. But anyway,
’tia better to laugh than to cry. My. my,
there's Mr. W. B. looking crosseyed at me,
so I'll close with a riddle, where did Noah
strike the first nail?
Here's wishing Aunt Julia and all tbe
cousins a Merry Christmas aud a happy New-
Dear. a new cousin,
STELLA LUCAS.
P. B.—l inclose a dime lor tbe little
Fren' li orphan. 8. L.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: May we
’ join your merry baud of school boys and
Mamma hM told us alxoit Frenclt
, tmbies and we love tiiose little babies that
’ the Germans nave taken their mothers and
fathers from them. Mamma and paint have
bought War Savings Stamps, for we all love
our flag or red. white and -blue, and dearly
love our preAdent. Aunt Julia, we want
, to help support the French baby, so you
■ will find eti<4osed 50 cents for the baby.
We wish Auftt Julia and the cousins a
merry Christinas and happy New Year.
Yonr cousins, i
WILLIE MME. MERL AND INGRAM
HOLMES. Goodwater. Ala.
Dear Aunt Jt)lia and Cousins: Here we
come again and. Io vote fur the little French
baby. We thiffk it can be eared for very
easy. Enclose ■IOO for the baby (30 cents
each I. We glad to see our let
ter in print. and ret
the baby’s pi< tuißrtin' it in The
I Journal. Our LrutT-r that is An <-amp will
CHiue home on a furlough soon, ifo-hwe sure
i! I>e glad to see him. you
going tu do <-hri*lnias? I guess\we will
•ty at home and sit by the fire. Some of
‘U cousins eime and we will have \a fine
•:me. We will close, hoping you \all a
merry Christmas. Vour cousins. T
BARAH AND BEI’LAH POTTfcR.
Vernon, Fla. f
Dear Aunt Julia: I ant a little girt five
I years old and a* • have no little brother
I or sister 1 want to help raise the bin lance
for baby. I am enclosing ten/eents
in stamp*- Hoping you a merry Christmas
and happy New lear. Your little ffriend.
ELLEN GliWh'.
Pinebb-m Ga. \
fhese FREE n ’
Loikct **-• Lnatn. txxxxwooooAj*
~ ~,.| Neck Chain, inn ... T |
Wrist Watdl with ad- J J
, k-atl. r strap and ■£-.%■
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ALL Glsaa FREE t« V 1 (j,
f, r aelii:ig *-niy 12 of W’wtff'
V H Dale Mfg.
rovidence. B. I.
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THE ATLANTA SEMI-U EEKLY JOI. KN AL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, DEULM^—O 8 L
Mechanical World
Calling for Women
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MISS Ivy WILSON, GIRL MECHANIC, REPAIRING PHONE
Women can construct or repair
i sewing machine as well as they
can run a seam.
They are neater, cleaner ana fast
er than men in certain lines of me
chanical work.
Centuries of repression has not
crushed this surprisingly strong nat
ural bent for mechanics. War’s ne
cessities brought t out over night.
It demonstrates that sex has nothing
to do with mechanical genius.
So says M. J. Gannon, foreman,
telephone repair department of th e
big Western Electric plant in S>D‘
Francisco. , ,
Today more than three hunfffeu
women’ mechanics are used by tue
Western Electric in their two large
plants near San Franciscff.
And they will remain. They win
not be replaced by men.
“The aptness and skill of women
workers.” says Gannon, “in onr plant
"chanical ability is equal to a
homf
Aw (ofiducM (hi
A Homely Talk On Homely Subjects
As a new year is at hand and be
ginnings for a new crop are in order,
1 am gciitg to take the liberty (1
should say the highly esteemed privi
lege) 01 asking the farmers’ wives
W ho read the Semi-Weekly if they
have ever seriously considered the
profit that lies in poultry culture.
Eggs are selling rapidly at 7U cents
per dozen at this time. A fat hen,
easily brings a dollar, and the
feathers are in demand. According
to amount invested what do you
know that pays a better interest? 1
Turkey meat brings nearly, or quite
fifty cents a pound dressed. Ducks |
are good eating and geese are in [
request among our Jewish iriends. -
Anything of the fowl genius brings |
ready money. Guineas are famous <
egg producers and pea fowls furnish |
the most delicate and toothsome
cooked meat in the known domestic
poultry world.
Why should not farmers’ wives
specialize with poultry? It does not
cost a fortune to prepare what tiic
wise ones call a "chicken run.” There
are wise ones who make big money
by raising choice and fancy breeds
but I am talking about eggs to eat
and fowls to sell in the open market
at prevailing market prices. When
I was a much younger woman than
now, soon after the Civil war, 1 had
a common sort of a chicken house,
with such nests as 1 could put up
with the aid of a colored boy that
loved to stay with “his missus” bet
ter than with his mammy, and we
together managed the fowl business
at that time. He swept off that
dirt flooring every day but Sunday
and bad stormy days. He wheel
itarrowed that chicken dirt into near
by gardens and there it stfrved a
good purpose. I set the hens and
took off the-baby chickens. We fed
them regularly three times a day and
put fresh water in the drinking ves
sels once a day. The hen mothers
had a dry place to hover their
chickens until weaning time. They
had shelters from stormy weather
in the daytime. We saw the chickens
were all driven in and locked up all
of them, big and little. Times were
bard, meat and money were scarce
and we ate chicken the»“lndian sum
mer.” I counted four hundred young
ones before I quit trying to count
the frisky things, and I had at Xmas
time eight fat young pullets that laid
two eggs like they were paid by the
day for keeping busy on the job. We
had a fairly good wheat crop and we
fed wheat, or rather my husband din
after he became enthused with our
success with chickens. We had lots
of company some to stay a month at
a time, and it was his delight to
carry out with a big wash pan full
of wheat all the household going to.
to see him pour a tiny stream of
wheat while I called up the chickens,
to fight their way un anfl down the
long wheat line, until the last grain
was devoured.
There's lots of fun in such a frolic
as that and extra good living also.
We had milk and butter, plenty ot
garden produce, thanks to our faith*
ful colored boy, and it brought day
light into a dark place, because we
had lost all we had except the dis
mantled plantation from Civil war
depredations. We had only common
sorts of chickens, native breeds, pick
ed up here and there, but good care
and good feeding made the mon
grels do their very best.
One year I adventured with tur
keys and had fifty-six well grown
hens and toms at Xmas time.
When you go into the poultry busi
ness vou may set it down in your
book that you can’t lie abed in the
morning and you must keep a watch
ful eve and enr. after dark, and the
chicken house must be cleaned up
as regularly as you clean tip your
kitchen or von will soon find the
voting die with gapes nnd the old ones
will get lousy and die off like sheep
with the rot.'
T have preached yon a long nis
course. as vou will perceive, hut I
am sure vou will trv tn remember
the text nnd the exhortation to raise
chickens beer use they nre good to
ent at home nnd verv good to sei'
when tbe price of e«-rs goes over
twontv-five eents a dozen my
enrlv raising we had dnroinicke
chickens and blue hens chickens, and
nil we-p e-ood to eat ard to furnish
rges If thev had enough cat and
xvere •'•onng enough tn he tender.
DOMESTIC RUG MAKING
There is a state institution called
the Georgia Training School for Girls,
located several miles front Atlanta.
Ga. I am one of the directors of the
institution. Among other instruc
tions we provide a loom for weaving
rugs. We buy the warp, ready for
use and make the filling of scrans of
brown guernsey socks or the strips
[fashioned from worn-out garments,
tin the school. Nothing is thrown out
Vri_ rot. They use dye-stuffs to color
the\ worn cloth strips, and when
those rugs nre finished ‘h°y are not
onlyV useful but decorative.
I tnWnk every farmer’s wife should
secure bxne of these looms. Ther are
modwii construction and easily
inulal«d.
i' be b-* :l ytt_ht>tl coverings
• man’s. They are more systematic
• and keep their work benches much
neater. They manifest a keen inter-
■ est io their work, and are sticking
their nose into every department.
They are eager for knowledge.
; fn the Western Electric plant,
. women mechanics are now repairing
• cords. adjusting coin-collectors,
. firitchboards, keys, plugs and pto-
/ lectors, converting inner phone sets,
/testing all telephone apparatus such
as sub-sets and bells, and assem
bling transmitters and receivers.
The first girl was employed six
months ago. None had previous ex
p'-riciice.
The girls receive the same pay as
men for the same work, ranging
from sls per week upward. “They
learn very quickly to handle the
tools,” says Gannon, ‘‘although at
first they usually skin their fingers
with the screwdriver,’’
here has been a revelation. Their
made on such looms, by a skillful use
of old woolen garments. Every room
occupied by the inmates of the
Training school is supplied with
these useful and inexpensive rugs,
woven by the girls, out of almost
actual rubbish.
A LETTER THAT I PRIZE
GREATLY
Mayfield, Ga., R. F. D. 2.
Dec. 23, 1918.
Dear Mrs. Felton: A number of
tir os 1 have wanted to write and tell
; yo 1 how much we enjoy your good
1 articles in The Journal, but just put
lit off. I have a wife and three little
1 children, two girls and one boy, and
jwe all love you so much that we
1 named our boy “Felton” for you. He
i Is now four years old.
I wish you could be with us and
rnjoy our home-raised cornbread,
sweet potatoes, home-raised meat
and sorghum syrup. I have much
that I could talk to you about were
1 to see you. but I now want to wish
you “a Merry, Merry Christmas” and
"a bright and happy New Year,” and
rnaj’ your life be spared yet many
more, years to encourage and help in
many ways the world through the
columns in The Journal. You are and
have been, a great blessing to me and
I want to tell you of it while you are
living, and I know when the Lord
calls you home you will hear the wel
come words of the Master, "well
done.” Again wishing your “a Merry
Christmas,” I am, respectfully
F. I.
Bonds Stop Clock
Frank Gottwalles, an old resi
dent of Fostoria, Ohio, tucked
away somewhere in his home
$54.000 worth of Liberty bonds,
lie could not remember where
he had put them and searched
frantically in his home to no
avail. When his clock stopped
he found that the bonds were
hidden away inside the time
piece.
Delay in Legalizing
“Verbal Orders” Ties
Up Industrial Work
Delay by congress in legalizing
vprbe.l government contracts in caus
ing an industrial setback, war in
dustries board o'it ials declared last
week.
Before industry can return to peace
time production, their capital tied up
in government orders must be re
leased, it was stated.
Laws under which the government
purchased war necessities, required
specific contracts, signed in a pre
scribed manner. But press of work
made it necessary so tfee govern
ment to give “verbal orders” to man
ufacturers with the understanding
that contracts would be delivered
later.
Sudden termination of hostilities
left manufacturers with big sums
due them for goods delivered and
with large amounts of finished and
unfinished goods on their hands,
made for the government on such
“verbal orders.”
Confusion resulted, war industries
board officials point out. Proposed
legislation was submitted to con
gress to legalize the verbal contracts
so prompt settlement could be made.
This legislation is still pending.
Meanwhile, manufacturers are
hampered by lack of capital for re
organizing their plants and facto
ries for their regular business. The
mendous outlays ore required, offi
cials said, for purchase of materials,
for reconverting machinery and for
pay rolls during the period required
for the manufacturers to resume
quantity production.
War industries board officials de
clared that legislation to clear these
matters, to hasten payment for
goods delivered and to expedite set
tlemwits on unfinished orders, is of
the utmost importance as an aid to
Amerimn business during reconstruc
’ion. '
Influenza Restrictions
Lifted in Savannah
The influenza restrictions tvliici
have been on since the Ihtter par'
ot’ November were lifted last week
by order of Dr. W. F. Brun
ner, the health officer. These
restrictions had the town closed up
tight as far as public ' gatherings
went. There have been no movies,
no soda fountains or stores open aft
er 6 p. m., and only limited church
services on Sunday since the ban
went on.
GERMANY BANS TITLES
Tlie German government has an
nounced that no more titles, honors
or decorations will
Those now existing retailed
sausage making
Sausage }s made from the trim
mings wMch are left after the
•ides, baths and shoulders have
been trimm* ’ Only clean,
fresh mdat sht zrd be used in mak
ing sausage.
Grinding —The trimmings should
be cut itito narrow strips and run
through a sausage grinder, mix
ing one P art fa t with two parts
O s lean.
Seasoning—After grinding, the
ine-xt sliouid be spread out thin
ly on a clean table and the fol
lowing seasoning sprinkled over
each four pounds of meat: 1 1-2
ounces of good fine salt, 1-2 of
an ounce of ground black pepper,
and 1-2 of an ounce of finely
ground pure leaf sage. This sea
soning should be thoroughly mix
ed with the meat, either with
the hands or by being reground,
using a smaller plate on the
grinder.
Keeping—(l) If the sausage is
to be kept for summer use, it
should be made into cakes, fried
about half done, packed In stone
jars and covered with melted
lard. The flavor, however, is im
paired to some extent by this pro
cess.
(2) The bulk may be
packed in stone jars, covered
with melted lard, or paraffin, and
kept until hot weather without
the original flavor being lost.
(3) Stuffing into casings is also
a very good method for keeping
sausage. However, if this is done
10 per cent (by weight) of wa
ter should be added at the time
of seasoning, to increase the pli
ability. After stuffing, the casings
should be packed in stone jars and
covered with melted lard.
Casings—Prepared casings can
be purchased on the market, or
they may be made at home from
both the’ large and small intes
tines. If they are to be made at
home they should first be emptied
and washed well, then soaked
over night in lye or lime water.
After soaking, they should be
scraped both inside and out, wash
ed again thoroughly, and packed
in salt until ready for use.
This, together with numerous
other bv-pr*»i*cts of meat-curing,
is explained Iff Extension Circular
No. 32, which can be had on appli
cation to the Agricultural Editor.
Department of Agriculture. Ral
eigh. N. C.
MTEOFOam
DEMES WITH
CHE OF CHILD
I
“Milwaukee offers herself as a
living proof of the truth of the asser
tion that as intelligence in the care
of young children increases the
death rate invariably decreases,” says
a department of labor statement is
sued from Washington.
“Six years ago this city establish
ed a municipal health bureau, and
for two years previous to that she
has systematically complied and kept
her infant mortality figures.
“According to these figures the
mortality of infants under 1 year of
age was in 1912 25 per cent of all
the death occurring in the city. In
1917 it was only 20 per cent. This
substantial decrease is attributed to
the fine child welfare work carried
on by the local committee.”
PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Super
stition is fighting “flu!”
Harry Rosenberg and Fanny
Jacobs "were married in the
Cobb's Creek cemetery the other
day. , , .
There is a superstition in
Russia that a marriage in a
cemetery will stop an epidemic
of disease.
“Flu” is raging in the Rus
sian Jewish colony in Philadel
phia. So Rosenberg and Mrs.
Jacobs. previously unknown to
•ach other (that’s the rule',
■/ere induced to sacrifice them
i Ives for the good of the
colony.
•'Flu’’ is still raging.
400,000 Childless Wives
Problem for British;
Easier Divorce Urged
One of the most active bodies deal
ing witli peace problems in Britain
today is the British Divorce Law
Reform union.
This organization is vigorously de
manding laws that will make it eas
ier for hastily wedded or other un
happily married couples to secure
separations.
“There is no question of social re
form that is so urgent and pressing
from a woman’s and a national point
of view,” asserts A. Horatio Taylor,
chairman of the legal branch of the
union. , .
George Barnes, member of the war
cabinet, recently stated that there
are about 400,000 childless war wives
in Britain.
Many of these marriages were
hastily contracted, contends the Di
vorce Law Reform union, and a re
laxation of marriage laws is neces
sary to enable the unhappy parties
to obtain divorces and start anew.
Says Chairman Taylor: “We are
constantly receiving letters from
these parties. We also receive heart
breaking human letters from desert
ed women who will not break the
moral laws, but go on living out their
sterile lives in lonely, silent misery,
when there are men waiting to bring
joy into their lives if the law would
allow it.
“There are endless cases of women
deserted and left with families who,
to get home and protector for their
families, have taken the moral law
into their own hands.”,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recently
gave some interesting testimony be
fore the National Birth Rate commis
sion.
He took as a basis the figure of a
half million separated couples and
the statement before the recent di*
vorce commission hearing that 50
per cent of divorced people remarried.
Therefore, if divorces were made
obtainable for the half million now
separated, there would be about a
quarter of a million remarried cou
ples.
Crediting each family with an av
erage of three children, he said,
there would be an actual addition to
the population within a few years of
750,000. Thus he held it no exag
geration to state that within a gen
eration or so the ravages of war
could be made up from this source
alone.
Sir Edward says:
“Even if there are children, there
is no sanctity about a home in which
man and wife are constantly at log
gerheads.”
Threatening Fire Is
Conquered in Columbus
Columbus, Ga., was threatened
with a most disastrous fire last week
when a blaze of unknown origin
gained headway in the establishment
of Heard & Averett. automobile
agents in the Exchange build
ing, where is located several
hundred automobiles and various
offices, adjoined by valuable
property, including the Waverly ho
tel. Several big oil tanks in the im
mediate vicinity added to the se
i piousness of the situation until the
blaze was got under control.
DECLARES MARRIAGE A DUTY
“Persons contracting a marriage
are performing a public duty.” wrote
the deputy controller at Liverpool,
England, instructing the withdrawal
of a summons taken out against a
firm for using petrol to convey a
wedding party to and from church.
7,458 WOUNDED LANDED
During the week-ended December
20, 7.46 S wounded and sick soldiers
were landed in the United States
from the American expeditionary
forces. Tlo» surgeon general's report
shdws that 5,828 were landed at New
YOok and 1,640 at Newport 7<ows,
Dallas, Ga., Girl Reveals Her
Headache to Miss Carolina Jewett
Carolina Jewett will answer
your question personally by
mail. Make your letter short,
write on one side jf the paper,
give your full name and address,
and enclose a three-cent stamp
for reply. Only a few of the
hundreds of letters can be print
ed, but she is selecting the most
typical for answer in The Semi-
Weekly Journal. No names and
addresses will be printed.
Miss Jewett has at her com
mand the services of women
physicians, lawyers and other
sxperts upon whom she may call
for authoritative advice in ans
wering your letter. Address:
MISS CAROLINA JEWETT,
The Atlanta Semi-Weekly
Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
BY CAROLINA JEWETT
Here comes a girl, living in Dal
las, Ga,, who apparently still hopes
for a continuance of her romance
with a faithless sweetheart who
married another and ignored the
troth he had plighted.
The letter is as follows:
“Dear Miss Jewett:
“I am writing to ask your ad
vice—l am unhappy and puzzled,
too. I kept company with a young
man and I am sure he loved me
and I was fond of him. He asked
me to marry him and I promised I
would when the war ended. He
made engagements with me, but re
peatedly broke them. One day we
went to a social gathering and he
seemed to ignore me and talked
with another girl almost all the
time we were there. He called on
me frequently after that and we
went ton another social gathering
and he repeated his offense of ignor
ing me and chatting with other
girls at the party. Suddenly he
married—the other girl and they
went to another town to live. A
few days ago, my former sweet
heart turned up here at home and
he has written me to say he is
coming to see me, to spend the eve
ning at my home, and that he
“wants to explain." It seems to me
that if he had made a mistake in
marrying, he should, at least be
■man enough to abide by his bar-
Physical Defects in School
Children and Young Men
Evils and Remedies Given
Which Should Appeal to
School Authorities and Pa
rents Alike
BY JESSE W. ABMISTEAD
In a statement of the defects in
American education, with sugges
tions for remedying them, written
for the commencement of Reed col
lege, and for publication in the Reed
College Record, Dr. Charles W.
Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard
university, one of the most noted
educators of America, says the med
ical inspections of school children
and the medical examinations of
young men called for service in the
American army and navy during the
war with Germany have revealed in
children and young men a large per
centage of bodily defects which im
pair the children’s capacity for doing
efficient school work and which pre
vented many young men from serv
ing their country during the war. It
is pointed out, however, that many
of the defects and disorders tn
school children are remediable, but
thus far there has been no general
organization and enforcement of
remedial processes.
“The remedies for the large per
centage of abnormal and diseased
school children and young men,”
says Dr. Eliot, ‘‘are, of course, med
ical, including all the agencies
grouped under th 1 ? head of preventive
medicine. The medical examiner, the
school nurse and the district nurse
should be regular members of every
school system in the country, rural
as well as urban, and their work
should go on incessantly, not for a
lew days out of the year, but all
through the year. The first duty
of these permanent officials should
be the detection of defects and dis
eases, unt their principal function
should be following up the children
to their homes ’.nd instructing their
parents as to remedial action. Since
it will not be possible to obtain per
manent improvement in society as a
whole in respect to the bodily de
fects of children and adolescents
until the whole community has been
enlightened in regard to nutrition,
housing, community cleanliness, anti
the medical means of controlling epi
demics, this medical instruction, to
be given through physicians and
nurses employed at public expense,
is the most legitimate kind of public
instruction in a democracy become
heterogeneous. The expenditure is
accessary .to the accomplishment of
an indispensable reform. The begin
ning should be made at once, and
the national, state municipal
<and county) governments should all
take part in the work.”
Mistakes in Diet
Dr. Eliot points out that the stud
ies of the American and European
lood supplies have brought into’view
the fact that the diet of the Ameri
can people as a whole has been very
wasteful and poorly selected as re-
the chemical constituents. “AU
classes, the poorest as well as the
richest, have erred habitually in re
spect to both quantity and quality
of their food.”
‘‘The remedy for the bad diet of
the American people as a whole.”
iavs Dr. Eliot, “will be found in the
addition to the program of every
school in the country of so much
instruction ;n chemistry, physics and
biology as is necessary, first, to tho
cojnprehension by every pupil of the
different elements which make up a
complete diet for Infant, child and
adult, add, secondly, to the mastery
by both sexes of the processes of
cooking and serving food in whole
tome ways. That amount of applied
science should be learned by every
boy and girl in every American
-chool before the age of sixteen, and
no subject, except the English lan
guage, should take precedence of
that subject.” ....
To secure for every child in the
country a complete course of physi
cal training is a great national ob
ject, Dr. Eliot declares, and part of
the expense of the course should be
borne by the federal government. In
Switzerland there is a program of
physical training for every school,
and inspectors are appointed to see
that the program is properly car
ried out. “The war with Germany
has already taught us that the Unit
ed States should henceforth and at
once do the same thing in aid of the
much larger expenditures of the
states and the municipalities on the
same all-important subject. When a
proper course of physical training
has been in operation for twelve to
fifteen years, the productiveness of
the national industries will show a
wonderful increase.”
Dr. Eliot says it remains to be
seen whether the efforts made in
Russia and America to abolish the
manufacture and sale of whisky, and
the attempts of Great Britain to re
strict the sale of whisky, will have
permanent effects toward reducing
the evils wrought on these people by
alcoholism. “They are evils trans
missible from one generation to an
other through the birth of diseas
ed, defective and feeble-minded chil
dren, and of children peculiarly sus
ceptible to formidable diseases in
later life.” He says it is the duty of
all schools and colleges to impart
this knowledge to the pupils, and that
no vested interests and ik> class priv
ileges should be allowed to interfere
with the discharge of this serious
public duty.
Mental
Tiu ' 1 -- "YgU
’ ' 1
■ r ■
1 >(: r I’l1’l a>fl
gain. And yet—l cannot feel, in my
heart, just what I should do. Do
you think I should see him again.
"PUZZLED.”
I believe you would be commit
ting a great folly, a shame upon
your honor, and committing a great
sin against this man’s wife if you
were to see him again. Surely his
faithlessness should convince you
that he is not a real man. Forget
him.
“Dear Miss Jewett:
’“I am a girl eighteen years. I
am in love with a soldier boy. He
seems to like me very much, but
persists in flirting with one of my
friends. Should I drop him?
“A. W.”
If you are not engaged to your
soldier man. I am af~»ld you can
not very well prevent hint from
flirting—flirting is'a pastime to
which all young fcpks are more or
less addicted. don’tTyou think? Why
not make yourself tso attractive to
him that he wilLnot care to flirt
with other
“Dear Miss Jew/tt:
“My sweetheart is a soldier in
France. When/ he went away, in
deed the very-'day he left here, he
asked me to do something and I got
angry and jve quarrelled. He has
never to rne, although I
know where and how to ad-
dress him. x' that he isi
gone, that I love rim very muck
Perhans I was foolish ’re-get angiy
with him before he went
fight. Anyway. I do want him to
come back to me. Do you believe I
should write him and say I am
sorry?
“ELLA G.”
• ••
If you quarreled over a trifle, it
would be best to write him, as you
suggest, and tell him you feel in
jured that he should not have writ
ten to you. Perhaps he is only
waiting for some sign from you
and reallv wants to write to you
very much. Os course, if the re
quest he made of you before he
went away was one that he
should not have made. I believe it
would be the better wav to wait till
he comes home. Perhaps things
will work out best that way.
conditions of affairs until the army
officials were compelled to deviate
from their fixed practice of denying
illiterates admission into the army.
“The remedy for the high percen
tage of illiteracy in the United
States,” says Dr. Eliot, “is to be
found in an increased interest of the
state governments and the national
government in public education. It
is an intense national interest in
peace times and war times that all
the people should be able to and
to read the English language. ‘
“Every school program in the
United States should provide at once
for the acquisition by every pupil
of some kind of ocular and tnanuul
skill. There is no such general pro
vision or expectation now, but the
lesson which the war so plainly
taught must not be lost on any of
the authorities that control or influ
ence the programs of elementary and
secondary schools. . . . It is not
to be expected or desired that all
pupils should acquire the same sort
of skill. On the contrary, variety
among pupils is highly desirable, but
it is indispensabile that every pupil
acquire some skill. Every girl should
learn to sew and cook, and every
boy, when he is strong enough,
should learn to use tools. Every
child, whether girl or boy, should
learn mechanical drawing ajji the
elements of freehand drying ■
Struction i» thea* ■
begin in the elementary school
be carried through the secondary
school. And, in addition, every child
should study the elements of cheift
istry, physics and biology ip an ex
perimental and concrete 'manner,
partly for the reasoning of
sciences, of course, but alsot for the
training of the senses whidh come
through the proper study oA them.”
Training the Senses ■
In regard to the training uof the
senses, Dr. Eliot has this to say: “In
most American schools there has
been a lack of systematic training
of the senses, and little intelligent
effort has been made to procure in
cessant activity on each pupil’s part
to record, remember and describe ac
curately observations made by his
own senses. Little systematic train
ing has been given day by day in
the processes of determining facts
and weighing evidence. No systema
tic, every-day practice of accurate
statement in speech and writing has
been insisted upon. Worst of ail.
American schools have neglected to
enlist and cultivate assiduously the
interest of each pupil in his daily
work, in spite of the obvious fact
that no human being—child, youth
or adult—can do his best work un
less he is taking an interest in that
work. Hence, American schools have,
as a matter of fact, failed to train
the great mass of children for suc
cessful earning of a livelihood in
the American world of today, and at
the same time they have failed, for
the most part, to inspire the children
with the tastes, ambitions and as
pirations which would guide them to
a sensible and enjoyable use of their
leisure.”
As Dr. Eliot says, this Is a se
rious indictment against the
can schools; but to nrove the truth
of his statement, the grownups of
today have only to look back at their
own school experience, when they
will no doubt find that the same con
ditions existed then.
Our powers of observation, reason
ing end correct statements are due
largely, if not altogether, to the
training of the home or to the trade,
cal’ing or nrofessinn from which we
gain our livelihood.
It is not altogether for the col
leges or school authorities of the
country to bring nroner influence to
bear on nubile opinion in snnnorr
of such remedies as are suggested
by Dr. Eliot, but it Is the dntv of
every nerson possessing leadefshln.
as well as the parents nf every child
in the country, to discuss these
nroblems and cause nroner measures
to he taken as wiD these
"•rent evils in our school life.
Armv
Described h Detail
Information reaching the state de
partment in Washingtoi from Buch
arest describes them tlain force of
the Bolshevik army in lussia as con
sisting of Austro-Huigarians, war
nrisoners. 50,000 men Yom the Bal
kan provinces, 40.000 Chinese work
men. and about 500,000 Russian sol
diers, forced to join tie Bolshevlkl
by fear of starvation.
It is v orted food s very ~arce
in Moscow and even the Bolsheviki
are unable to obtain enough of "t
for themselves. There is fear of a
Bolshevik unrising and in
Kiev, according to thjßse advices
A Swedish press report which
reached the state department todav
describes conditions in Petros ias
desperate. The captain of a Swedtch
steamer which has just reached a
Sw- nort from Petrograd reports
that men envag.to ’-id his shin
were so emaciated they could
work six hours daily. Thev wcrjfll
hungry they eagerly s -’ ed food
garbage barrels.
NEW EASTERN
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fbe Household Editor of
paper invites everybody to send in
keeping helps—to describe
utensils, plans, etc., that have nS
b< nsekeeping a little easier or a ■
more efficient. ■
We do not want cooking recipes. I
If you have a plan that saves stM
that saves labor and time, just
out in simple language, sign your n®
and address, and send it to HOUw
HOLD Editor of Tbe Semi-Weell
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HOUSEHOLD
To Keep Iroua Hot Bl
cse a hot brick as an
and you will find that
irons will retain heat
Robinson. R. F. D.. No. 2. Likw
ton. N. c. j
To Hold Pink Color
Rinse pink goods in water wP
a few spoonfuls of vinegar 1
been added. Turpentine and a n
solution of epsom salts are >
good to set color in fabrics/
Tor Cleaning Kitchenware
Sew a big button with sh
edges tothe dishcloth; you wllla
scraping burned o'
and other “hard” 1
stances from crockery and m
pots and pans. It beats all
patent scouring devices for s
and general efficiency. M
Pierce. Logan. Ala,
Important Notice
Cash for au “hints” that ap
in this column during January
be paid for on February Ist.
HOUSEHOLD ETtUtf
CURRANT
Sift together one cupful oftl
flour,, onr-half cupful of rye fl
one-half cupful of rice flour, fl
teaspoonfuls of baking powderfl
half teaspoonful of salt, work tifl
tablesjxvonfuls of shortening antfl
to a biscuit dough with onefl
cup of milk. Turn on a flqfl
board and roll to one-half inch tfl
ness. brush with melted
stitute and sprinkle with
spoonfuls of brown sugar,
spoonful ot cinnamon and
cupful of currants. Roll
jelly roll and cut in
Greas® a si;.i]!',w pan,
■■•■•l • :> t-r:i n:
buus cP c t.-. e , th. >• and
niinut. s in a hot oven.
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K AISIKS AND CUREfl|||
tint lug, grapes
concentrated, and so r.
more nutritive
pound, than the fruit
they are made. It takes'
pounds of fresh fruit t
j.mn.l nf r;-.- !-o-n’*
"lie ni tbe ..Id
the ra: in industry on ts■■■
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breakfast dish. *
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