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SIXTH TAGR
7HE SUNNY SOUTH.
JUNE 5, 1905.
Gossip Corner
A BatcH of SHort, Chatty Letters
Talks on Timely Topics.
SHOULD THE STATE SUPERVISE
MARRIAGES AND CARE FOR
MOTHERS?
If the state needs and wants big fami
lies, as President Roosevelt says It does,
then let the state help the average mother
to train and care for her children. So
declares Mr. H. G. Wells, the famous
English author, in a published utterance
regarded as of so much importance as
to be specially cabled to the American
press. Mr. Wells says: “Motherhood is a
service to the state. The future of a
nation rests upon the quality of its chil
dren, but note the unjust conditions under
which the. average woman Is obliged to
rear her family.
"We have all read wonderful fairy tales
about women who bring 'ip a dozen chil
dren In best modern stole with one
herself, but a family disaster to a moth-
! er is a catastrophe.
i "I submit the situation Is preposterous.
I do not believe that with increasing
general intelligence and refinement worn-
; en will go on marrying and bearing chil
dren under such conditions. Statistics of
marriage rates and birth rate s bear me
out in this. I don't think that the rem
edy lies in instating women at large and
Jabbering nonsense about the decadence of
morals. If the state wants sound and
healthy children, the state must be pre
pared to put people who can and do pro
duce them in a better position than those
who don’t. The state, in fact, must*be
prepared to pay for children in some
way or other. For example, at present a
man and wife pay just the same income
tax on their joint incomes whether they
have no children or a dozen. A home!
with no children pays no heavier rates
than one^witli a thriving family. These
are tw<> things that might be changed
forthwith."
When I finished reading aloud this re
markable expression of opinion, my listen
er said: "Fifty years ago. who would
have believed that such an article as that
would he written and published?" I an
swered: "Five hundred years ago. the
slate measures, which the article advo
cates. were heing carried out successfully
on this continent. The model government
of the Incas In Peru made marriage
obligatory and provide^ for the comfort
and well-being of each family, in pro
portion to its size. And that was a heath
en people!" m. E. n.
With the Household
All Communications to This Department Should Be Addressed to MBS. MARY E BRYAN, Clarksto-i, Ga. Inquiries and
Letters Requiring Answers by Mail Must Ba Accompanied by Postage.
Chat With Householders.
hand, while with the other they keep the
house clean, the husband happy and take
in washing; hut we know that for a THE C7AR.
woman of the lower or middle class, wlm ; Ruler of mighty Russia—this am I!
has brains enough to look beyond the | For centuries my fathers filled this
present moment, the anxieties and sor
rows of motherhood go far to outweigh
her natural Joy and pride in parentage.
The present state of affairs is not just or
reasonable toward the ordinary mother of
the common people. It exacts too much
from her and does too little to help her.
In that Utopian system of government,
of which we dream, it will not be a mis- |
ery for decent married women to have j
children." I
Mr. Wells not only declares his belief.
that the state should help the respecta
ble midde class women who do it the j
eervice of producing children, but he also
believes the government should ta.ke a
fate of empires In their
tit rone.
And held th
hand.
And crushed the life from nations amid
moan
And futile prayer; now. T, too. stand at
bay.
Pressed hard by foes that I was wont
to scorn.
TI fear to hear the voice of doom each
day;
Sleepless I lit and dread the nows of
moin!
Envying the Joys of each poor peasant’s
hut.
I sit within my palace day by day,
hand In providing proper fathers for these ^ mo[} ^ thout sho , It forth
children—and controlling the nap-hazard
fashion in which young persons^ marry.
their hate—
Hearing afar the roar of Woody fray;
And I am bid to stop this awful strife.-
Wifehood and motherhood being the pre
dominant and all-important profession of I j whom with iron' fetters” they have
women, he affirms that this profession bound;
To break one link, the forfeit is my life.
Is exercised under the most "silly and
rotten conditions." Incidentally, he gives
n hard sldewipe at that blind passion or
foolish infatuation often dignified with
the name of love, which is responsible
for most of the unwise marriages in the
World. He says:
"How does woman come to her supreme
duty of wife and mother? First, she
has to find n hutfband—or to take the best
fin her crude judgment) which Is of
fered her. She has to do this at the
outset of her life after an education,
which consist largely of the strenuous at
tempts of spinster school teachers to
keep her from the baTe thought of moth
erhood (as something Immodest}, rein
forced 'by love stories that never glance
nt the topic. Th ere exist no written law,
to forbid her marrying a man of vile,
habits or a. diseased or mentally unsound
or senilely old person; but there 1s a
widely known unwritten law that, if she
marries a poor man, she must face labor,
anxiety and the humiliations of a shabby,
limited life.
"With her small experience, she has to
Judge about the man's pas? and future,
and gauge hie character. She has to
-HARRY DEAN.
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MEN AND
WOMEN.
To my mind, friendship in its many
phases is a far more interesting subject
than love. Friendship is often a B self-
sacrificing as love, and more lasting. Also
awhile, then later we yield to the per
suasions of the little sisters to try the
tlsh awhile, and taking a book and a
rod and line, we saunter down to the
big brook tank where, seated under a
cork in dream ini
t he
should like to do. In ttys way we spend
part of our holiday time.
I have taught school, and I like teach
ing the dear children on whom so much
depends—trying to Impress on them the.
great principles of honor, loyalty, justice
and truth. It is a great privilege to as-
si'.-t in moulding these
men and women
who wrote:
"Our life Is the mirror of king or slave.
’Tls just what you are and do;
Give to the world the best that you have
And the best will come back to you.”
SIMPLICITY.
Mart. Texas.
"The Chronicles of Lynn’’—the compos
ite story—is begun this week. 1 have
written the llrst chapter, as you see.
It was. not my intention to write it. I
depended on a gilted member, who writes
that she has not been well. Two ot our
circle liau previously sent excellent
sketches, out imsy Were no, suiuwa as
me opening installment, oi a story in
tended to oe eniargeu oy various u-nua.
touch an initial chapter would need to tu-
troauce a variety or characieis, »v.tli a
hint ot the peculiar characteristics or the
little incipient romances surrounding
each one. It would need also to show
What tile chier plot was meant to be,
with Intimation of the different ways in
which It might b handled. T his 1 nave
tried to do, as well as haste and limited
space allowed.
The scene of the story is a little town,
ten miles from a city. The characters
Introduced may eacn be taken up and
written about, either almost independent
ly or with a bearing on the main plot,
a column of the Sunny South page being
the general limit as to lengtn. I feel
sure 1 have transgressed in this re
spect. however; but 1 could not well
make the chapter siiorter. There was so
much it was necessary to bring in.
Three love stories are suggested—one
of these complicated with mystery, the
oilier two bearing upon questions lately
discussed in the Household. Humorous
and pathetic incidents may be evolved
from the characters and situation of the
two spinster sisters, the cranky amateur
detective and Nick, the hermit-tramp.
Other characters may be brought In and
strung on the main thread of the story.
A slight connection with tills main thread
will be suflieh-nt.
For the best chapter I offer a little
prize of $2. For the second best SI , . .
and a nice hook, and another little prize j Ah. dreamer true, what p°#t but repeat
of S2 for the most correct and plausible Enrapt, your terse with beau _ .
Interpretation of the plot, showing how aglow
and why Sadie disappeared, this to come j
In near the end of the story.
These small prizes are just to make the
contest a little more interesting. The |
members and renders of the Household 1
last chapter in the brief story of one
little life; and yet, perhaps, less sor
rowful than had been its beginning.
There had been no welcome of love
awaiting it on earth—this child whose
shady tree, we dally awhile with the j only birthright had been a heritage of
sportive fish, then torgei the bobbing aim—and when the little spark of life
rent things we j went out. no one had really mourned.
A mother had not fondled for the last
time tlie still, waxen hands; a mother's
last loving kisses and tears had nit
rained down on the little unconscious
face. It was this thought, most of all.
that caused tears of genuine pity and
sorrow to fail from my own eyes.
n S minds to the. So small. so helpless and JU-ft to die
end that .hey may be good and useful ; among strangers.’ Slowly slowly the IR-
I believe vuth the poet | tie procession went as it'had come-out
into
the shadows of the gray, stormy
day; only a mile or so alonj
KEATS.
"I fee’ the daists growing over me.”
Said Keats to one who watched his
bed,
Before the last faint, flickering hreath
had tied;
The friend whose care had nurtured
tenderly
The poet-soul, so fraught with fantasie.
The heart so pierced by cruel arrows
sped
From critics of fierce pen and empty
head;
“Whose name was writ in water”—
murmured he.
-- „ the de-
erted country road in the sobbing wind,
and mist, and rain, and the short sad
Pilgrimage of the little life on »arth
would he ended, to begin in a world
where want and neglect and unkindness
were unheard of-unknown. For has not
the loving Father tenderly said: "Suffer
fnrhM n fv. ° h ldren t0 r ° m ° ,Into Me 3nc1
rorbid them not, for of such
Kingdom of heaven 7 ”
April 25, 1905
Dear Mother Meb and Household: Will
you admit into the cozy corner a strange
from the backwoods of the old Empire
State of tlie South? I am very much in
terested in this part of the dear old
Sunny. While I do not agree with .alt
upon the different subjects yet I ty, 11111
the ideas as a whole are good. Tom
Lockhart, Cousin Reddy. F. !j. Orton.
Knight ot the Wire. Miller Hand and
all of the fair damsels are among my
special favorites. That's right. Cousin
Reddy, give whisky and tobacco and
cigarette smoking all the hard names
they so richly deserve. I think these
three evils are among the worst in the
land, especially whisky, which lias killed
more people than war. Just think of the
widows and orphans in this land that
ought not to be. all because of that vile
st-.iff.
Cousins, what do you think of the plan
for all to write of some especial inc.dent
that hais taken place in their Immediate
section or town or city, something out.
of the ordinary routine of events? Prob
ably some have been to some noted falls,
en.ves, to the old country or to some
big picnic, fishing party or mayoe some
thing has happened at home that would
he of interest to this corner. T am very
much Interested In rending personal in
cidents and no doubt others wil* be glaa
to rend something of this kind. Tf this
misses the waste basket I may come
again and tell you of n fishing trip utat
I once had the honor or dishonor of he
ing a party to. ZED.
This is an excellent suggestion.—M.
E. 13.
Dear Household Friends: I am sun.
you will understand how glad and gra-».
ful I am to be able, after thirteen yeir 3
of bed and wheel chair, to walk from n y
room to the porch by the aid of sticks,
and to sit up for an hour. I hope to Im
prove still more 1 can never expect 0
be a Sampson, but I shall be so glad to
get well enough to wait on myself, i
hope it will interest you to know that
I am agent for nearly all the magazines
and vteekly papers published; so. If you
wish to subscribe or renew for any
these, please send your order'to me un i
It will be promptly attended to. If yog
wish to know the price of any publica
tion. send me a card. By ordering your
periodical reading matter through me you
! will receive it just as surely, promptly
and cheaply as you possibly could by oi-
dering any other way. and at the same
time you wil^ heip an unfortunate fellow
mortal who’ < gets a small profit, on each
order. I can furnisn the highest testi
monials. I’m not begging, please under
stand; only asking rnur patronage, as
any other business man.
W. C. HENRY.
Shelby. X. C. '■
Ca
th*
I haven’t forgotten that auction at
which Faye sold off us Household bar j
elor to the highest bidders. I don't
know yet to what fair one I belong. Tril !
us, Faye, won’t you? Who were those
highest bidders, and were the terms ca - |
! or on delivery, or say 30 and 60 d, t
with interest and approved security? s
fellows—I mean you five that were r it ‘
up with me. in a bunch at the air
ESSIE PHELPS DT.’FFy.
The years are gone, and o’er the grave
of Keats.
In Italy, the sweet, white daisies grow;
And at his side reposes that dear
friend
In”—men’s
"Whose name is writ
hearts, till the end.
WILL WARD MITCHELL
are to be the judges of the stories. They
must send in their vote on a postal card
or in an envelope. Where two or more
sketches for the succeeding chapter ar-
WHY I DOJT’T BELONG TO A CLUB.
Dear Friends: How often have you
had your best laid plan
tions persist in
wrong direction?
and expecte-
materiallzlng in *he
t wanted to go fish-
rive almost at once, the first sent or the | i n g this morning, hut, as usual, failed
best will bo chosen. | Thi Si though. Is only one instance of
Valuable lessons may be Incorporated 1 many. Tf things don’t turn my way
Smiling Jonas, who complained in his
recent clever rhyming letter that the
Householders paid no attention to him. | .
found in me a. ready sympathizer, for I, Texas Boy and Mamma s Hoy and '
too, had known that lonesome feeling. j rest I want to know, if you don t agr--
As l’ar as 1 knew, I was the sole readet with me that It. is noi bad a hit if
AT THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA
Seattle, the Paris of America
Hear Householders: "Won’t vou tell mi,
something about SeattleT’ our dear ma- 1
r asks me. But. to say something that
has not been said before—in more elo
quent words—ah, there’s the rub; for
iruly the charms, shadows, joys and sor
rows of this magic Mecca of the world’s
millions have been many times Immortal
ized m song and story.
J have visited this famous sea port
seven times within tlie past three years,
cud each time I find some new interes
Since the famous Klondike gold discov
eries of a decade ago possibly no city
on tht globe has figured in the world’s
eye more than Seattle. The gateway to
Alaska, the Orient and
our new posses-
eions. as well as the most important
point of the Pacifl
It has more of the intellectual in it. !
Friendship between man and woman is ,
often truer and more unselfish than be- ■
tween woman and woman, and more com
plete than that between man and man. I j
in this composite story—information as
to housekeeping, child training', enter
tainments, soelal matters, gardening,
forming, the necessity for deliberation in
choosing a life partner, tlie evil of secret
marriage, etc. But, dear friends, try to
be concise. Pack away as much meat
In a nutshell as you can. This will be
good literary exercise, important
shipping point of the Pacific coast
cept San Francisco, she stands as one
of the typical cities of destiny, not alone
of the growing west, but of all America.
in 1830 tlie t’nlted States census ac
credited her with a trifle more than 42,-
000 souls; 1890 saw those figures dou
bled, and today she boasts of a popu
lation more t ban 70,000 larger than
Memphis, the Mississippi valley metropo
lis of magical growth. With her mam
moth salmon fisheries—the most exten-
■ - - , , ■ r thnnffht I si ' ,K 0,1 th ‘‘ slube— her unsurpassed go t-
and the number being limited. I thought g raphical Iocat lon and her ideal cli
that
told
pretty soon. I’ll call on Samoth for
magic rabbit’s foot Mrs. Roddey
about ’way hack in 1900.
Last summer, when Patience Mor-
rkmnt announced the Mockingbird (Till,
ready for membership, I wanted to join
admit that the task of putting such
friendship on a true and pure basts is
delicate, and that the woman must he j
gifted with rare tact and discretion.
Friendship must he founded on some- i
thing. There can be no friendship with- j
out trust and confidence; and no oonfl-
tIris day. when the (very necessary) mot
to of all publications is "Boil it down.”
bird” and hur-
before nli the
The president of the Mocking Bird Club,
Mrs- Julia Carman Taft, asks that tlie thought
friends of the MocYlng Bird Magazine 1 then tlie
send their contributions for the present
of the proverbial "early
ried to put in my bid
vacancies were filled.
I consumed a whole, day writing a
letter, the eloquent rhetoric of which I
ould
dence without integrity. Then how can ! Mr Percy Tuggle, of Newnan, Ga..
you set a limit, as to sex? She - 11 Ieave her Arkansas home very
There is no time in a man’s life when
his Impulses are so near heaven and his
actions truer, than when some gentle,
pure woman, battling with life unpro
ure me a seat. And
imp of the perverse caused
direct that letter to Greenville.
S. C., instead of Greenville, Ala. I was
felicitating myself on belonging to a
soon for a summer sojourn in Carolina,
and will have no definite post office for a
while. Bite will delight her many Sunny-
South admirers with a visit to the House-
marry him 'for better or worse.’ on her j feeted, forced -by’misfortune to~'wfn”’her | ho ! d - I,, m , ust . T^ 6 t Vif friend for
miperflcial. uninstructed impressions of t bread, looks up' to him in hts strength ! a heaut ‘ f ul. dainty little gift,
him. It Is the universal cant, of all | ailc j asks his friendship and guidance l
the novels she has fed upon that for’her over some rough untried part of life’s!
to inquire about his Proapeets—or pr\ i pathway. Though he may he world-hard-I
into his past life—is Ignoble. Nn : she I ened seldom if Is that'he fails to re-
must marry guRhvnerly for love;’ provided j spond nobly.
it is a legal marriage, the more frantic \yo have many instances of grand wom-
and sacrificial her behavior is. the more . on w ], 0 have sustained and Inspired men's
she is admired. And the state has not| bost efforts. Balzac and Madame Bar-
the elementary common sense to look up rand, Charles Ready and Raima Bevmour
Ihe man’s record foe her. or report In any ar „ examples of frank sustaining friend- ! dress‘ V ‘Fditnr Snnn'v'KnnriV ” OonVi'itot
fashion on his health I ship-perfect comradeship without the ! Atlanta ™ S The' SunTvSo,
innnr P/xnl thn lol-tnr ho 1 „ . . . .
.mate,
bids fair tto outstrip ’Frisco in many
points. Add to these advantages tne
world-famed uget sound country, which
is even superior to our Louisiana delta,
in tiiat it is productive of almost every
fruit and vegetable, and you have a vei-
itable El Dorado for the homeseeki”
And that restless nomadic type is bom
to rind the goal of his dreams, too, for
he is flocking this way in alarming prj-
sold out by sucii a jolly "Auctioned
Here’s to Faye—to jolly Faye,
She's a captain, she’s a dear—
As bright as a sunshiny day:
A splendid auctioneer!
Sold out! Well, it's
11 right, girls
SUNSHINE J')i:
of the articles coming from my pen; no
one seemed to realize my presence on
the stage.
I Upon reading the last "Sunny,” how
| ever, my lonesomeness was converted
into delighted surprise when i found that
I bad not only been noticed, but even
complimented by Noe! Leon. It goes company
without saying that I eonsid.-r Noel nad SOOd comp.au>.
I..pon a very able and sensible writer. !
-d hereby extend the right hand of 1>1-j „ Did r do Hght In marryin g a good maj
I also wish to say. with ihe Intention of! for his money?” asks Marie Edina. :
increasing the pleasure of Smiling Jonas, j answer, no; you married I rom a pi •
that- .after reading his letter, 1 searched i selfish motive. You craved leisure
through my file f|f papers until I found the opportunity to enjoy muse- and
his picture, and take this importunity of I -fh ese y OU received, together with ' • a i • -
assuring him that at least one of thej t hj n g the heart could crave; ' but vj :
sisters has discover*.! that his features) did the man reC eive? Where did s
benefit come in? It seems to me it w L
of a distinctly classic cut. and that
his countenance is of a. highly intellectual
order; and that sh» will hereafter never
fail to read anything appearing over his
signature.
Now then. SmiHng .Tones is supposed to
smile on, and feel as pleased, with the
world as , CAMILLA.
most one-sided partnership. He ha,
right to your best love, and as well,
esteem. You did him a wrong and
consciousness of this, it stems to
would make you unliapy. And who::
glamor of wealth wears off you will
restless and long for the affection o:
voting, ardent lover whom you discar
real club, and perhaps being appointed j portions—alarming, because the streets
Our "Grass Widow’’ Is also ahout to
take a trip away from the town (where
she is much esteemed) for the benefit of
her mother’s health. She asks the Indul
gence of her correspondent
"But suppose her married (by *vmo b*T>- shadow of dishonor. Read the letter- he-
Mrs. Coffee, your sketch of the Mussel
Shoals industry will he acceptable to the
Sunny South, I think—particularly if ac
companied by photographic views. Ad-
Ion
South
treasurer or something, and immediately
1 i be,gap to strut. When T learned—
! later—thal m.v letter should have been
j sent to Alabama, my feelings are easier
| Imagined than described. The letter
: made the trip nil right, and came home
! to roost. After noting well the irony
of Its contents, I burned U as incens 7
1 to effort wasted, opportunity lost.
! The effect was disastrous, but I had
j recovered sufficiently to plan other lite-
. . . . ,<• . . | *,“uoo vu iimujiivu. IM <U I LUt; Icllvlo BP-
V? accident) to n Cerent sound. Mkablo| 1ween Thn ^ k< . rar nnd Brookfield
wan. who is never going to be move thani arld Mrs, Proctor
modostly prosperous, and who. in these | measure up platonic love or friend.
rary stunts, when Faye gave my pride
another jolt by rounding up three of
my collaborators and myself, and selling
us by wholesale in that impromptu auc
tion of hero. Unsalable individually, you
see, but collectively, perhaps. YVhy
Faye! I read a whole chapter between
the lines, hut I didn’t get mad one hi
days of economic uncertainty, may get is1lip to standards like these not to =otno
into low water, what reason is there for WPa k. vain woman who is willing to'bar-
her to rejoice in a large family in-, t e r frank esteem for the love of con-
etead of regarding it as a disaster to he q n esf.
i. Tx,VP ,° f ! How dearly women pay for their small
children? Well, this will lead her to he vanity, which forever lose, for them a
anxious to have only one or two. These j perfect friendship that would brighten
She may hope to enjoy, educate, nourish | this ^rld and lavs its pure hands on
a.nd brinsf up properly. There is no o.nor 1 ^] ie nex ; t
veward or inducement, at all I want to ask come questions. Does
••Or. the other hand, think of the dis- woman give to wrman real friendslilp-
eourngements. While the mother toils in in the highest acceptance of the word 7
a restricted, anxious home, she sees will woman sacrifice comfort and pleas!
through he r half-cleaned window (one urP . as freedv for a woman friend a*, for
can’t do everything) the childless wives | a man friend? Will woman as unhesitat-
having a glorious time, going bicycling ; i n glv stretch out her hand to help the | would suggest". :
wi,h their husbands, visit.ng gaily ; woman hack to the standard of morality found to delight b
dressed with all his superfluous income, | ns to the man 7 to aengnt o
talking about their ’rights.’ j And now to the women of th
"When the children are old enough t
help her drudge, the state, without s
word of thanks to her. takes them awat
from her and sends them to school. 11
pays for such special articles when illus
trated
Mrs. Lottie Dew—an earnest, enterpris- , , ,, , . . ,, ,, ,
lng country teacher, desires to establish 1 rat , h p or en -^ ye ' 1 thp no ' elty of
in her school a library of such books a S !^' sp f «? others saw me. So much for
will be at once instructive in a simple | the streak of optimism in my make-up
way, .and entertaining. Site wishes to ! There Is something rise, and ! fear I
inspire in her pupils and patrons a taste i flrrl Putting my head in the noose. Some
for reading, and asks that we give her j Ihe otherwise admirable sketches
at once a list of suitable books. "Some- ' which our Family write end so sadly
thing that will both interest and lead to , sometimes tragically that they almost
higher things.” she says. "This is a ! (five me the blues,
thickly settled community, many promls-
Renlm.
Tf you had to he tried before our civil
| courts for a misdemeanor or a crime,
which would you prefer, a jury composed
or of women *
the husband grows tired of supporting Perhaps I am staring long enough for
his prolific family and deserts them, or a stranger. I hope to come again and
If he is simply unlucky and gets ou * of to fie a hie to recall Tennesseean whose
work or takes to drink, the state, if it talk about soelal caste was full of in-
help* her nt all. does so in a spirit oflterest. T bail from Indian Terrltorv where
stern ingratitude, subjecting her to a ; they sn.v vou can buy clear bine ritv
•charity’ fraught with more humiliations When T'co'me again T will tell V o U what
and indignities than fall -to the lot of the ; T know of the land grafter and these
most dissolute woman. YY'hen the hus- i "ii'ttle brown people of the earth.”
hand of a childless woman gdcs wrong. I MISS °AR\
•he can get employment and .shift for i Indian Territory.
If I am ever a successful writer, ray
stories, every one. shall have a cheerful
ending, and It seems to me that a casual
glance at the medicine advertlsemeofs
in the papers of today would convert
any one to my way of thinking.
T.omaeita. 1 didn’t give you my view
on the marriage question, did I? You
came near "fixing'- me for that frlenllv
pointer on cooking. A case of “Love's
labor lost.” pure and simple. Now I am
going to make yon sorry (?). Looks like
though, you mierht make -a little garden
report and—. Oh! goodness! (hat made
me think. T have to get to the potato
patch this minute, bug hunting.
ST,IP.
Happy Home
ing children are growing up without ac
cess to any literature, but the Bible and
the county newspaper.” A number of
you are more competent to send our
friend this list than I am. as you have
more leisure to read the newer books. I
books that I have
both young and old. Cap
tain Cook’s voyages, “Robinson Crusoe,”
"The Swiss Family Robinson.” a biogra
phy of Franklin and a simple life of
Washington, Farrer’s “Life of Christ,” in
teresting as any novel; some modern
books of travel, a physical geography
and a condensed and simplified history
of the United States. In fiction, T have
found nothing to please tlie youthful
taste so innocently well as Dickens'
"Nicholas Nickleby.” Roe’s “Barriers
Burned Away” and his amusing "In
Love with His Wife.” "Little Women,”
by J/Outse Alcott. and “Mrs. Wiggs of
the Cabbage Patch.’’
! One golden apple from the tree
‘What has become of Marion Durham?” | That in that scented garden throve;
asks two of our readers. “Is she mar- : Tts name, dear heart need 1 impart?
ried, or why has she quit writing?” Site ! The name of that fair fruit was love
is not married—it was her sister who
married, and she has lately begun to
write for the Household over a pretty,
peculiar name. Quaint, imaginative, fas
cinating sketches she writes, much in the
style of the German story writers. She i When Eve went out of Paradise.
She knew one comfort in her shame;
Thro’ all our years and tears and fears
are j
THE GOLDEN APPLE.
When Eve passed out of Paradise.
And went ro know its joys no more.
Against her breast and hope she pressed
one treasure in her bosom bore.
thronged with ambitious but moneyless
fellows seeking jobs.
Tnere can be but one objection to off
set these natural advantages—the almost
incessant rains during the winter sea
son.
Seattle is surrounded by a number cl'
towns and small cities, which are n
reality suburbs of the city proper, and
there Is easily within a radius of >00
square miles a population of 500.000 pri
sons, embracing Tacoma. Everett. Bel
lingham and the immediate suburbs, in
cluding Ballard, the “Pittsburg of ,iie
west."
My first visit here was the week before
Christmas, a few years ago. It "raine 1
pitchforks” every day, and almost ever.,
hour for that matter, but this discom
fiture was atoned for in tlie delicious
vegetables and fruits served fresh from
the gardens, and the, scent of violets an I
green grasses In every yard, while hu
manity shivered all over the land east
of the Cascades and Rockies. In the
Puget sound country there Is no winter
-all is green the year round. And here
only the citizens can never joy in the
advent of spring, for the vernal season
is perennial.
Tlie population is heterogenous, pictur
esque and peculiar, the streets being
thronged daily with transient tourists,
sightseers, gold seekers and swaggering
“jackies,” not to speak of the thou
sands of Japanese. Russians. Filipinos and
“pigtails.” Steamers arriving from for
eign ports are a common occurrence, un-
, loading their motley cargoes.
I But the moral atmosphere of Seattle—
! all, here i-s where the nation blushes
‘ while Seattle laughs and rushes on in
i her Bacchanalian dance, as though proud
of the record she is making. A citizen
remarked to me: “There is nut onfl !
Paris in America, and that Is Seattle, j
Feeling so lonely today. T determined to
try to enter the kindly and sympathetic t
Household. Living in the country, with \ for no other reason than becauw
no near neighbors or friends and sick a ! had not enough money to gn e you
great dea.l (I have been out scarcely any j beautiful things and the easy time .
for the pa~"t three months) life grows very j desired.
dull and monotonous, and the craving j j honor the woman who is willing
for sympathy and friendship stronger' marry a poor man she loves unu
than I can fell. The Household is a boon ; hjm to gain a competence by r ecu
to me. T read all the letters eagerly, and j my and management and the stimulus
I love those front the brave shut-ins—| her encouragement. I do not bf
particularly dear Anrle TV-avey. 1 felt : true “love files out of tiie wind
greatly for Lula Gibbs, while she was .n
the hospital. I wfir.h she would write to
n;e and tel! me about hospital life. My
doctor tells me that I. too. must suffer
the suspense and pain of an operation,
with weeks of confinement in a hospital.
I would be glad to have some of you
write to me ETJLALIE.
Please send me your full address on a
card- M- E. 13-
poverty comes m at the door. i:
man is unfortunate, a true wit
]y shares his crust and his cabin in ;
courages him to hope for bett* i
Tramp, you are right to scor» the g:
for flirting on the streets. Dais'
your pretty young flirt did her “unkivvx
bridegroom” up in style. She is a'vc.;.
who does not deserve to be happy.
FLOSSIE.
VIEWS OF OUR CONFIRMED BACH
ELOR “KNIGHT.”
In answering some of the Household
er’s arguments against marriage, I wish
to say. first of all, that 1 am a bachelor-
past, present and future. The benedict's
life Is not for me. But I make no
whine about sour grape-s.
Bachelorhood has Its pleasures
miseries, and so has marriage, but I
honestly believe there are fewer thorns
and many more roses In the path of the
elors (myself included). We are f r
from tlie path o-f peace which we > it ’
to tread in mind with some good worn
11. matters not what our fat- may be
we. must hold to the high ideals, belie'
ing the best—finding tlie best- doing—' - -
ing. Let us love the good women of the
world, and our beautiful castles w
, beckon on. for “Love is Heaven, a .i
, i Heaven is ix>ve.” Amen
KNIGHT OF THE WIRE.
Arizona.
married. individual instances ma>
AN IDEAL HOME.
It has been said that an “ideal h
brought up to sustain each side of the ig Paradise regained.” I have g
argument. It’s no vm to argue as to ! some thought as to the conditions
one person’s happiness or misery. Each j make a home ideal. There must be
soul must seek and find Its own. But | feet confidence between the husband
over and above all. stands the splendid j wife. Without this complete trust ;
fact that the Creator of the universe ; can be no perfect union of feeling
made man for woman and made woman j purpose. The wife while striving d
for man! So essential is woman to man to live up to his standard, of true w
that he cannot live without her. unless anhood is not so ulinded by rive
he struggles against nature. Nature Is her husband that she has not courag
God. Therefore to assume that a living show him that morality and a pure
” • for her must mean also the a mo
an unnatural life—life apart from women | him; that she i ove llim not f.
—Is best is to slap God in the face, as j money nor his personal attraction,
it were, and say. "I know better what j for the high principles of his mane,
is good for me than He does. It Is
true that some of God’s greatest apos
tles. St. Paul for one. w°re bachelors,
but they were exceptions to the rule. '1 o
which make man the “noblest work
jGod;” that should he, by yielding
temptations that possibly confr i
I daily, forget these high principles
sink them in the mire her love woj: l
'■ die
A.'good lady from' the modest, chivalrous f or the only real happiness on this eai
southland, who had evidently become m-j Com es from living for some one els>
live and die alone unloved, perhaps. Is
too sad to contemplate. Most men who j They may both have faults, for
remain single do so just for the sake of I are perfect. Y’et by patience, for
gratifying an inordinate desire for travel ante and sympathy their faults '
and other enjoyment. And in the course j not mar , acli other s happiness
ause a lasting regret. : >'«- ars Passed they
his earth
th
of time tha
rill
I Her single theft before she left
God saw, hut He did not reprove;
And there she kept the while she wept,
The golden apple we call love!
has lost her dearly loved mother since
she came among you .and sorely misses
Go.
that best friend and companion.
Kind heaven
To have a happy home you must have children,
as they are great- happy-home-makers. If a weak
woman, you can be made strong enough to bear
healthy children, with little pain or discomfort to
yourself, by taking
Iris McKenzie, of Homer, La., asks; I
wish very much to know where I can
get a story called “Her Husband's
Ghost,” which was published serially
some years ago in The Field and Farm.
1 have eagerly watched for it in book
form, but have never seen a copy of it. ,
It has never been put into a book that window,
I know of. It is one of a number of n
els of mine bought by a New Y r ork pub
nd us all the same!
ARTHI' R GOODENOUGH.
AN INCIDENT.
Out of the shadows of mist and rain
that wrapped the quiet street in a man
tle of gray, there came slowly into view
today, as' 1 chanced to look from my
big, lumbering hearse, fol-
! lowed by a solitary closed carriage.
“A short funeral procession, was my
Usher and issued serially by him in his ; thought, as I watched it draw nea’-er.
magazine. It was copied by The Sunny ! And tit
South and (T suppose) The Field and
CARDUI
WINE
OF
A Building Tonic for Women
I Farm. I do not think it exists unless in
tlie files of some of these publications. I
have no copy of it in any form. T have
been very careless about my literary
| work.
It will ease away all your pain, reduce inflam
mation, cure leucorrhea (whites), falling womb,
ovarian trouble, disordered menses, backache, head
ache, etc., and make childbirth natural and easy.
it.
At every drug store in $1.00 bottles.
within the hearse n
mall white casket, covered with plain
cheap cloth. 1 studied for a moment,
lost in wonder, then suddenly remem
bered.
But a few days previous a child had
been brought to the town from a distant
j city; a helpless babe whose span of lif-
A subscriber asks: What is the best covered but a few brief weeks. It was
! course to pursue when an ettitor refuses j jjl front wanton neglect—this poor waif.
! to acknowledge the receipt of a manu- • whose mother had cast it on tlie .’are
j script sent him after repeated letters of 0 y strangers—a derelict adrift on
inquiry, containing stamps, have been j Life’s cruel, changeful sea.
| mailed to him?" Appeal to the proprietor j 'py, 0 WO mart whose charity had prompt-
! of the magazine by means of a registered i krr ^rjeo jt a home for a time nad
i letter. Probably toe editor has lost or ficen unable to nurse it back t-o health,
has mislaid tTie manuscript (it is easy : lts iu nei!s . q.,,] been mercifully short,
to do this), and is searching for it. ; These facts, and more, 1 mused upon
, . . .' , . „ | as I watched tlie little casket beinv
Many Inquiries T must leave unanswer- j borne sIowlv along . ThP wind sobbed
ind moaned, the skies wept, and the rain
Try
WRITE US A LETTER
freely and frankly, in strictest confid
ence, telling us all your symptoms and
troubles. We will send free advice
(in plain sealed envelope), how to
cure them. Address: Ladies’Advisory
Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
“DUE TO CARDUI
and nothing else, is my baby girl, now
two weeks old,” writes Mrs. J. Priest,
of Webster City, Iowa. “She is a fine,
healthy babe and v/e are both doing
nicely. I am still taking Cardui, and
would not be without it in the house,
as it is a great medicine for women.”
ed. Next week will be .a story House- I
hold, in part. I have excellent stories
and letters from Lorn;
Mrs. Buckner. Fannie
Esther Mason, Fannie Tzln. Lula Gibbs.
Margaret Foster. Y'nnng Farmer, Piney
AVoods, Tom and many others.
M. E. B.
ioit-1 F I orbon « ro P fS hunsf in a veil of mist on thp open
McDonald," Mizpah, ! K iaKS sides of the lie-arse, as though to
•ti its tiny burden from
r curious a view.
How sad—how unudterably
LIFE ON A TEXAfi PRAIRIE FARM.
I am a Texas girl, not yet twenty
years old. I have a good home, on a
large prairie farm. 6 miles from nny
railroad. There are few trees, beside
the me-squite. although elm. ash and
cedar trees grow near the creeks. We
have always a pleasant breeze, and in
summer the wild flowers, birds, grass and
trees are a delight to the censes.
"Lonely?” you ask. Well, sometimes,
but each hour has Its duties and in
terests. After our morning tasks are
done_ we read until the mall Is brought.
Then comes dinner, and after the dishes
are washed and put away, we resume our
unfinished book or practice music, or sew
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Without i r ;iin—.-*ent tree.
No woman need any longrer dread the iiains
of childbirth; or remain childless. Dr. J. H.
Dye has devoted his life to relieving the sor
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pain at childbirth may he entirely banished,
and he will gladly tell you how it may be
done absolutely free of charge. Send your
name and address to Dr. J. TI. Dye, 1J6
Lewis Block, Buffalo, N. Y.. and he will send
you, postpaid, hJs wonderful book which tells
how to give birth to happy, healthy children,
absolutely without pain; also how to cure
sterility. Do not delay but write today.
curably inoculated with the climatic
germ 'said: "We have lots of go,.d peo
ple here and we have a wonderful city,
hut all believe In enjoying themselvc
All the ladles drink beer, and consul-
it no harm. Any woman, regardless t
an introduction, will join yon on the
street anv evening and drop In at the
Bismarck' for a pleasant chat—ar ’
glass of beer. By the way. have
been down to the Bismarck vet?
bv all means. It's a pleasant little re
sort; good music and plenty of attrac-
1 Tow d”? 55 that sound to our prudish
"isters 7 And the lady showed all the
refinement In her outward demeanor that
one would wish in a mother or sister.
“When you are In Rome, you snow, she
laughingly made excuse.
And today a (loatlng paace of sm
sailed from the dock for the K.ondik.
country, laden with a cargo of forty
painted females and a lot of barrels of
hnoze to lure the gold of the miners
who have left home ties and risked their
lives for the little findings. The man-
oerpr of the accursed enterprise ran
sacked 'the coast cities—San Francisco.
Portland, Seattle and Tacoma—for th"
cream of the demi-monde! Oh. ihe shame
of our civilization!
All extract of Monte Oarlo. a com
pressed' essence of Chicago, a glimpse
of o-ny Conev Island, a chip from the
wall’ of Bahvlon. a nugget from
Klondike gold fields, a half acre
the French quarter of New
w h=r of cologne from sensuous Fa.ree.
and n cart load of garbage from wicked
London. Mix these together, add a few
thousand opium smugglers from the Ce
lestial kingdom, and a background of
ivpes of the Alaska Indian, and you ha.”
Seattle—a Sodom of northwest America,
with 10.090 saloons, gambling hells, ques
tionable resorts, varietv theaters and
dance halls. H.'s ail right for money
making purposes, hut the sages say i:
you have children to bring up keep them
in tlie provinces.
And I feel sure the majority of our
Householders will not sacrifice sentiment
in the search for gold and success—a cer
tain maxim of flic lamented Horace
Gieelev to the contrary notwithstund-
f i om
Orleans, a
in g.
Still. T am not "knocking" the golden
west. Tt is the home of inspiration, and
hope and uplift—for the peaks of heaven
and (he pits of hell are here, and we can
see them both at a glance from th’
mountain tops of adventure.
CAROL ELMORE.
Seal lie. Washington.
FAMILY AFFAIR.
"No." said the father to his wayward
son. “I can't expect you to have any
respect for me.”
“Why not” queried the youth.
"Because.” answered the o!d man
“when I think whose father I am T
can't even respect myself.”
tUd climb to a high
er plane, for the woman, fulfilling
man s ideal of womanhood, would - *
! command his iove and reverence tiiat
making some one else happy. And no j before he would forfeit her respect he
man can make another man perfectly | would rise to the heights at her side
happy. It takes a woman to bring out and thus obtain the ideal companion'll ■
the best in n. man. Men of the i enjoyed by our first parents in the car-
world let us remember that our mother j den Eden. FRANCES.
Is a woman. And out of respect and.
gratitude to her we ought never to run
down the sex.
To set a splendid example by our life
a.-i a whole. Is to my mind, success. Now,
suppose some half a dozen men were to
TO MARGARET RICHARD
(.With Violets.)
Could 1 hut clasp your hand my
saint
I’d make you feel the love I cannot
Dalnt;
resolve never to marry, and should cause | Cou]d r but Journey near, oh. friend
two or three, or a half dozen men to d
likewise. There would he a galaxy of
God’s fair women—to go down to the
grave as old maids, twisted into unlove
zon’d
It ness and “Innocuous desuetude.”
Any sort of man. if he is kind and af
fectionate, can make a woman happy,
and be happy himself. Just to know and
love some women is “a liberal educa
tion,” as one said of old. The man who
declared that 20 per cent of women
bring misery and disappointment, knows
he spoke falsely. Everybody, nearly,
marries. So there! God intends it, God
is good, God is wise.
No! No! Men, for our own sakes, let j
waft through
hidden
ns
still cling to the manly, grand idea’s j To go with message sweet
to woman that we’ve always had j pressed on the sheet.
far, so dear.
My thoughts and prayers for you.
fee! as T drew near.
Like scent of violets blue, from m\- ° ! i!l
heart to you.
Wafted they’d he as winds
the night and dew
The breath of flowers unseen,
from touch and view
Could you but see the cliff, where shad
ows play and shift.
Where in the stone so gray, there’s one
moss-beadf'd rift
In which when Spring had come, these
violets found a home.
Blooming all wiid and sweet, till found
by wandering feet
to
you.
Mv heart bleeds and breaks for all bach-
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