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7HE SUNNY SOUTH.
FEBRUARY 17, 1906.
Talks on Timely Topics.
THE POPULAR NOVEL.
. HE critical and supercultur-
ed section of humanity de
cries the popular novel.
For the masses—the Phil
istines—to run after a nov
el, proclaims, they declare,
that it is "poor art,” and
unworthy of being read.
When a story, on which
they have set the hall
mark of their approval is
bought by the people at
large, it is “purely
through curiosity to find
out what they (the critics) have seen
to it to make such a fuss about.”
The truth is, that these literary ora
cles have not done even sparse justice
to the novels that the masses enjoy.
Usually they condemn these without hav
ing read them; or they measure them
by their class standards-look at them
through lenses colored by prejudice or
rendered shortsighted through lack of
the sympathetic Imagination that would
enable them to put themselves in the
place of others.
No novel can be popular unless it has
the power to Interest. The novelist who
pleases tho publio must have his -finger
on its pulse, and understand its needs
and capabilities, or be could not hit its
11 3s no smsU1 Sift to be able
to do this. A writer, to do it, must nos-
•ess Intuition, sympathy and the inde
finable quality we call magnetism
It la true that the larger a writer's
audience, the less cultured its taste is
apt to be. But how is the taste of the
masses to be cultivated except by giving
them books they will rend? a huge
class of opr human community are iust
beginning to enjoy .books. Give them
those they will read and like, and they
wlll soon call for something better. The
first steps in any development are always
simple and crude.
it does not argue crude taste, how-
t0 5 a ’° more lor slicing incident,
sentiment find- emotion, with a spice or
sensation^a live story, , n Xact-than lor
the dreary twaddle of some alleged high
cla^s novels that profess to dissect 1110-
, * and analyze character. The ponu-
ior novelist, who appeals to the army
mo ri.rr™ 50- ™ army that ls
1..°^ 8:00(1 for human nature's
lifs wn tr , ~; 3 a ri ° ht to c]alm that
his work in lus own field is as good art
as the work of writers whose taste, or
whose narrower sympathies and pcrcep-
lions iead them to make novels for a
smaller circle. The wide world is open
to the story-teller, and life has infinite
uiversitiea.
whifh t0 i the m ° r0 important question,
which class of novels does more good?
there can be n 0 doubt that it is the
popular novel. It is not only most widely
read, but it. is read by the kind of per-
ffft * S i° ^ eel and renllze 'What they
icad, who^ook oa a novel, not coldly
as a work of art, but as a picture of file
But. what if tho life the novo] represents
is bad; the lessons it teaches demoraliz
ing? Fortunately, this is rarely true of
the popular novel. Nearly always at is
clean. Its heroines are pure and unself
ish, its heroes manly and earnest, us
motif on the side of virtue, which gets
he better of vice. The moral standards
■; upil1 Ic!s aro nearly always higher than
those of average real life.
J he erotic and vulgar story does not
belong m the ranks of the popular novel,
it appeals to a class not nearly as large
as pessimists would have us believe And
even coarse and sensual persons do not
U.te their mental food to be filth. A little
of it goes a long ways, even with them.
The domestic novels—the "fireside con
cerns." as tlie critics call them—give us
good and lovely women and men worthy
of them. If there is a villain, he is
usually of a mild type, and lie comes to
grief. Love and marriage are shown in
a healthy, wholesome light, and the gross,
passions and temptations are depicted
as dangrrous and disgusting.
Novels are the sermons of the age. A
favorite novelist exerts a deeper and
vlider influence than any living clergy--
'man—an influence subtle^ pervasive, and
lasting in its effect upon character, it
enlightens sentiment and gives it an in
telligent direction; the healthy novel be
ing a perfect school as to wliat is to be
avoided. It cultivates the Imagination—
iliut divine quality which has saved many
a man and woman from sin—by enabling
them to conceive and feel the conse
quences of yielding to a temptation; and
it elevates the ideals of uncultivated per-'
sims by setting before them illustrations
of kindness, unselfishness and refine
ment. M. E. B.
You are right and the story teller was
wrong. However, story tollers are al
lowed to take liberties with history.
Herod had his beautifu! young wife,
Mariamne, put to death in the sixteenth
year of his reign. He ruled Judea for
37 years, so it was not until 21 years
after Mariamne’s queenly head was laid
low that the birth of Christ and the
slaying of the Bethlehem children took
place.
Mariamne looked with horror upon
Herod because be had caused her
father—King Antigonous and her grand
father, Hyrcnnus—a high priest and a
gentle, noble old man—to be executed
in order that he (Herod) might feel
more secure on the throne he had
usuruped from Antigonus, the father of
Mariamne. For the same reason Herod
had caused Mariamne's only brother—
the .beautiful boy high priest—Aristo-
bulus, only 17 years old. to be drowned
in a pleasure lake .at Jericho.
' It is no wonder that Mariamne, whom
llerod had forced to marry him. should
feci repelled against the destroyer of
her race. Herod did not kill the queen
with his own hand as the story repre
sents. Mad with jealously and rage, he
gave her the mockery of a trial by the
Sanhedrin, that always rendered judg
ment according to the tyrant’s wishes.
The historian. Josephus, tells us that
"Mariamne went to her death with un
shaken firmness of mind, without even
< hanging the color of her face, thereby
showing the nobility of her descent anil
tlie dignity of her character."
Sh-' left two splendid young sons.
Whom 1heir unnatural father put to
death in the first bloom of their man
hood because he feared they might try
to unseat him from the throne ho had
taken from their grandfather. He had
! his sister’s husband, Joseph, also So-
i hemus, executed on suspicion and with-
! out a trial, also the mother of Marl-
I anine and the young sons of Baba—
soJe remaining kindred of the rightful
king. I.ater on. he had hundreds of
persons put to death—some of them, of
his own family, for "hearkening con-
sentingly" to a prediction that his reign
and his posterity would soon cease.
All these atrocities—and one still
greater—he committed without sanction
from Rome or any reference to Roman
authority save In the case of his two
sons.
This being stated explicitly in the his
tory of Josephus, it is remarkable that
Elbert Hubbard in his recent “Life of
Jesus," entitled "The Man of Sorrows.”
should discredit the gospel account of
the slaying of the Bethlehem infants
oil the ground that, "Tho Romans were
sticklers for law and neither Herod nor
any other Roman governor ever gave an
order t.o kill children. But Herod was
not a Roman, he was an Indumean, and
tnough nominally under Roman super
vision. he, did as he pleased according
to Josephus, who says "Now, after
lla<1 i 111 * 1° death the young sons
or Baba. There was none at all left of
the kindred of Hyrcnnus. The kingdom
iwas entirely i n Herod’s own power and
there was no one remaining of such'
dignity as could put a stop to what he
did against the law’s.”
The crowning apt of Herod’s atrocity,
■was the burning alive of 40 hoys and
young men of the first families in Je- I
rusalem. together with their teachers— I
one of these, a high priest. ..ecause t lie t
students had -- -
With the Household
All Communications to This Department Should Be Addressed to MRS. MARY E BRYAN, Clsrkston, 0a. Inquiries and
Requiring Answers by (Mail Must la Accompanied by Postage.
Chat With Householders.
1IE advertisers laid in am
bush for the Valentine is
sue, and at the last mo
ment they came down
"like a wolf on the fold,"
and ousted Cupid from a
number of ills positions.
Several Valentine poems
and sketches were thu3
left out. Business before
sentiment is the order in
this utilitarian age. and I
suppose one must bow to it.
Today is a real Valen-
The blue sky ls mottled w. to
soft clouds, the sun beams euehantingly,
the narcissus buds are bursting their
sheaths and the crows and Jaybirds are
filling the air with springlike notes. The
human heart thrills in sympathy with
nature—our dear mother. It is good to
be alive.
Our sisters farther south are busy gar
dening and planting flower sc^ds. No
work i3 sweeter and more cheering.
Don’t forget the morning glories and
tine day.
A girl," gasped Mrs. B. feebly. "And i and- sign it. Have I left out any, IMotber
is. n blue-eyed?” V[ e b?
ti niu ' • s ‘ l Hige, wishing to put [ have a good many of my favorites
tne evil day off. "you know you can’t picked out—and I believe they would be
ten anything scarcely about a baby’s elected, too. But some I would have to
e 'Y| S ’ ) V , , ri * ts young." decide on yet; for 'instance, there are
*? . In'ld tlie little writhing, winking, three nature writers in our Household
blinking object nip to the light, while his
wife Watched in breathless anxiety.
’Lordy!” lie exclaimed, "they’re blue!
They’re blue!"
s ' Ne.son, chief nurse on this i,c- | get them to write often along tho special
llad an . ld< ‘ a there, were more lines in which we Intended to run them
J J i .'I 11 details to attend to, so she as candidates. This would bring out the
whom 1 would fi’nB it hard to choose be
tween. And that reminds ine of another
point: the only way we could “elec-
tionef r for our favorites would be to
Sel « Z - d toe little one brusquely.
' es - . Lige repeated, "they ’ sure are
blue. Well, it ain’t to be surprised at,
for my Aunt Elizaioeth, on papa s side,
anil all her family were plum blue-eyed,
ami all the C haslets ever 1 k no wed were
b.ue-eyed—. mostly, except Seth's oldest
g‘U. and Betsy’s baby.”
^Iy mother had .blue eyes, " put in
Mrs. B. She disliked to give all the
50 other side of the house.
Tthe next morning a procession of five
sleepy little boys filed in on tiptoe to
see the new arrival. Mr. B. hold iter
tup tor their inspection. “See, here,” he
whispered, "it’s a .little sister this time;
something lor you to take care of and
give up to, and to see that the world
treats her right as long ais she lives.
Don t you wish you could see iier eyes?
1 hey re blue; but she’s asleep. She’s
come a long Journey, and she’s tired cn
tlie cypress vines and the dear old-fash- ; ™“ st keep things quiet today. Now,
ioned balsam apples. I love these an- * 1 ’ , aad !> 1 la ' a >' a,i >' racket among
»"al timber, . — »»’■>■> » W** L.V4 SgSJZXHT
vines—in the back yard—where they may
spread their canopy over the poultry
house, their great grecu leaves making
us think of Jonah.
How I would like to chat with you
for a long time this delicious morning,
but I must not, for I have taken up too
much space with Timely Talks and cor
respondents. I hope you will read my
answer to Carol. There are so many
fascinating new books now that, we neg
lect old Josephus, and so make little
mistakes as did Mr. Blind in liis fine
Sunny South story last week, and a»
Mr. Elbert Hubbard lias done in his
“Man of Sorrows"—a life of Christ,
which though not orthodox, pays rever
ent tribute to the matchiefes character
of Jesus—His strength and gentleness,
His Infinite compassion and stainless
purity of life and spirit—all marking i
Him as above and beyond erring man. 1
Lomaclta makes an inspiring suggestion
this week. Tell me, ail of you, wliat
you think of it.
1 had kept tlie prize love letter sent in
long ago 'by Italy for the Valentine issue.
It was left out and appears this week.
,U. E. B.
SOME NEW BOOKS.
“The House ot a Thousand Candles"
is, 1 think, one of the most interesting
of the new novels. From start to hnisn
it is replete with thrilling situations, lour
interest never lags, and it if hard to
lay the book aside until finished. We
follow tlie career of the courageous young
hero and his adventures In the mysterious
house of candles with breathless inter
est, until tlie "finis." All ends happily,
and the viliian gets his just deserts. The
among till
hands ministering
, ... Pulled down the golden
eagle which Herod had set nn in front .
the temple. This act of consummat^bru- 1 St ° ry wlU ta Plivate all who like mystery
tality was committed without the
slightest reference to Roman authority.
Herod laid his complains against tho stu-
dents hoforo a. few Jewish counsellors
who says Josephus, fearing the tyrant’s
< ruelty, if they should oppose him, su!-
lenly assented that tlie boys should be
punished, whereupon Herod immedi
ately burned them alive at the stake in
the public square at Jeriolio.
This act of savagery took place
shortly before the death of Herod and
near the very time when tlie Bethlehem
children were killed after the bir-h nr
with a big dash of sentiment thrown in.
"The Divine Fire” is mystical, intangi
ble, not readily understood, and rather
long drawn out for the modern readers,
who Bke their literature “short and
sweet,” yet, on the whole, it is a hook of
much merit. There are passages—even
chapters—which strike you as being un
necessary to the unfolument of plot or
character. In spite of all this, when
you finish the book, it is with a feeling
that something has been gained which
is more than one can say for most books
of the period. The hero, a young poet
Aftei the doctor’s visit that morning.
Lige followed him out, nervousness and
apprehension written ill over his honest
lace. He jerked a thumb toward tlie
loom and said, “Doc, I want the truth,
straight out: Can she live?"
"Why, she’ll be about in a dav or two.
toil know she always gets on well.” the
doctor replied.
"Not her. The baby; it’s the baby I
no an; she so little."
doctor suppressed a roar of laugh-
or. \\ hy, yes; she is all right. She’ll
no pulling* your wool in a fow weeks.”
AM that day the happy father walked
4to 0Wn t!ie P iazza keeping quietude
restless boys, or with his own
to tlie little pirincess
CEREUS.
LIFE’S HEROES.
Not nil can lie born to the purple
vior nil to the .manor be horn-
By some mu.y the cottage be'peopled—
By some must the homespun be wofn.
X ° t l aI! r ‘n be rhymers and dreamers.
I he creatures of impulse ano mood,
r or some must be ‘‘drawers of water”
And some must be “hewers of wood.”
Not all can be singers and sages,
Not ail can be painters nor give
Soul-shape to the unliving marble.
It seems in its beauty to live
Not all can toe singers to listen.
Must men as a whole toe content.
For God's way 1s always the best way—
And this is the way that He meant.
But I think when the Book of the Judg
ment
The angels shall open at last
And the veil is drawn back from tne
•Future
And the seals are removed from tho
Past' .
bring
best that they could do in their par
ticular fields, for we all write better
when We know somebody is expecting it
of us. So we would give the Household
boost while we wore having our tun.
And wouldn't we watch the "election re
turns.'’ though! We wouldn’t have any
stuffed ballot boxes, either—and If any of
us forgot to sign our vote It would be
thrown out, of course.
Since so many readers of The Sunny
South are not familiar with our past
achievements, and since all of us do ni5T
keep a file, we should have to vote on
those writers alone who contribute dur
ing 1906. This limitation would make it
easier for each of us to make up his
mind. too. for we shouldn’t have such
an embarrassment of riches to choose
from.
One detail of the plan bothers me,
though, would we nave to let each voter
pick from the entire Household in any
given field (say In that of story-telling
as an example) and elect by plurality,
or would we nominate in tlie regular way
and require a .majority to elect? The for
mer method would put a great deal more
j work on tisose who counted the votes,
but I believe it would lie the only fair
and satisfactory way all round. For un
less we made a rule that the first two
receiving a second to their nomination
should be the candidates in that particu
lar field, wo should hav" to have a. pre
liminary counting of votes for nomi
nees. which would be more trouble in the
long run than the other way, and maybe
then the very one we most wanted to vote
for in that line would not bo nominated
at all. On the other hand, if we were
allowed to vote for just any one w’e
chose, and every name was reported that
got a vote, it might be very encouraging
to some of our writers who hadn't been
told before that they excelled in that
special field.
Altogether. I believe. an “election”
would be very stimulating in more ways
than one. AA'iiat do you say Household
ers, shall we have one? T am fairly ach
ing to vote for my favorites, aren’t you?
And every single one of us can afford to
spend 5 cents for that privilege, especial
ly when we remember that tt will go to
our dear shut-ins. 1 move. then, that we
have a general election in tho Household.
Will any one second my motion? Cor
dially. LOMAC1TA.
January 18, 1905.
Drop M. E. iB. a card at once if you
want ati election,.
DREAMING.
Now the moon shines on the water,
And the dew is on the rose.
But my heart’s in Alabama,
Where tlie cotton blossom grows;
And I watch the moonlight quiver
On the grasses and the dew.
And T dream amid the shadows
Of the past, and home, and you.
Now the yellow moon is gleaming
They will stand as the highest of heroes. ! -\°, w I n I,^ania’s streams-'
The battle-scarred earth who have troa 0 £k. there the skies are bluer
ip-at i ^ nc j t)le s t ars shed softer beams.
I can feci tlie south wind sighing
Through the trees so tall and dim,
sephus ti> mention.
M. E. B.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tab-
j lets. Druggists refund money if it falls
to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on
] each box. 25c.
A RHYMED MESSAGE TO THE
SUNNY SOUTH HOUSEHOLD.
Dear Household friends, may I come in
And chat with you a while?
•Methinks I see some of you grin.
While others try to smile.
Fve been among you once or twice
Or three times—maybe, more -
I tried to act extremely nice
But fear I was a bore.
You ali appear so very wise
And cultured and polite.
It seems that I can never rise
To such a noble height.
I m Just a, common country youth.
Possessed of little pride;
I know I’m awkward and uncouth
And ignorant, beside.
But if you’ll let me have a seat
Back in the corner there.
I uromise not to prop my feet
On anybody’s chair.
I’ll sit up straight and nod and smile
As pleasant as I gfin.
But won’t attempt to put on style—
I’m not a stylish man.
WITH CORRESPONDENTS.
Carol asks: "is not the well written ,
story, ’A Feast of Retribution,’ in The | My former visits, one and all,
Sunny South last week false to history | To me were pleasures rare:
•when it represents Herod as having had | Bu J as a writer I'm so small
the ■Bethlehem infants slain prior to tlie ! *^ one that I was there.
time that he put his wife. Mariamne, to i ,
, . „ ,, , i Mother Meb will be so good
deatn. Tlie Bible iclls us that : 'p 0 recognize me now,
Christ was born and the Beth- I’ll greet you all in brotherhood—
lehem. children slain not long be- And make my little bow.
fore the death of Herod, and history. —JAMES LARKIN PEARSON
i think, tells us that Herod had a long j Moravian Falls. N C. *
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sionally dropping liis "aitches,” to the
disgust of polite society, falls in love with
one far above him socially—a baronet’s
daughter. While branding tlie man who
possesses honesty of purpose and nobili
ty of heart “not a gentleman, ' she pitied
the poet in him and "pity is akin to
love." Her wish was not to identify the
man with tlie poet, and while pronouncing
tlie man as "impossible," to play tlie part
of guiding star to tlie genius. But human
fate is larger than human purpose. Her
hand kept tlie divine fire burning bright
ly in his being. There were times—as
| there are in every writer’s life—when in
spiration seemed dead, end he could not
voice his thoughts, but when it returned
it was witli renewed brilliancy.
After es.aping marriage once or twice
with “mere woman,” he finally breaks
down the barriers and wins both liis
j goddess—tlie "one woman”—and success.
; AH his dreamships sail into the harbor ot
| golden reality. Then the goddess real
izes ’tis tlie man, and not tlie poet, she
is most interested in. Standing in the
golden light of .Love, he, the son of the
common •people, she (he daughter of a
long line of scholarly aristocrats', they
find that heredity is nothing, caste is
nothing, the past is nothing, and ’tis only
love and tlie present which counts.
"Tlie Marriage of William Ashe" is
somewhat of a disappointment, though
only in Dickon’s works is there found
such a close delineation of character.
Ladj' Kitty is a character that few writers
could depict, so full of human life is she,
so natural and real that she seems ready
to step out of the book and confront
you as flesh and Wood. Iier actions are
human, iier inimitable manner is hu
man. with a realness no other character
of fiction has. She opens her mouth to
speak, and no one knows what she will
say until it is spoken. She is a surprise
all through. Yet the book ends as do
most of Mrs. Ward’s books. The hero
ine. never understood by her husband,
runs off with some other man and finds at
last the only atonement she can make
for this dreadful mistake ls to “shuffle
off this mortal coil ”
Of Hope’s "Double Harness’’ T will not
speak. Such books leave a bad taste in
tlie mouth, and we feel that, time has
on wasted in their perusal. The books
'•at Influence you for good, that drive
■t pessimism and let in'the henling light j
; optimism, leading you to think that—
There is more good than eviljn human
ity;
Love lights more fires than hate extin
guishes.
And men grow better as the world grows
elder."
These are tlie books worth reading, and
they pay us ten fold for the time we
■ive them.
Ellen Glaccow’s books possess this
charm in a high degree. Her "Voice ot
the People” lifts one upward, and tlie
“Deliverance” is a gem. Eagerly I am j
awaiting iier “Wheel of Life," just now i
I'llO
And kept thro’ tlie darkness of midnight
The nearest to iru’h—and to God!
—ARTHUR GOODENOLGH.
HOW WE MIGHT KILL THREE
BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.
Dear Householder^: A plan lias beet;
fomenting in my brain for a week or sc,
and today i just decided I’d have to till
you all about it before I could get any
peace. 1 believe it would be lots of fun
and would give us a chance to help the
shut-ins and improve the Household at f
the same time. And since the dear old
Sunny is starting out on a new patii this
year, it behooves us to see that our
Household page keeps up with tlie pro-
ct.-sion, doesn t it?
Let’s have a real, bona fide election in
the Household every two years to select
cur most popular writers in tlie dif
ferent fields at that time—allowing 'wom
an suffrage, you know, and making only
oNe condition with which any reader
would have to comply in order to qualify
as a voter, viz. tfia.t a poll tax of 5 cents
■must have been paid in to the treasurer
previous to the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November of election year.
The fund accumulated tints could tiien be
Uivided equally by Mother Meb among
our shut-ins as a Ghristmas present from
the Household.
Of course M. E. B. wouldn’t have time
to act as treasurer, but softie memoirs
Interested in the shut-ins would favor us,
1 know. Mizpall, for instance. Not long
ago one of tlie shut-ins made this re
mark iii a letter to me: "I have some
:-xt:eroely goon friends in the Household,
but Mizpah is certainly a jewel—pearl,
diamond, and all combined." So I am
sure we would make no mistake in ask
ing Mizpah to receive tlie poll tax for us.
This is tlie way it would go. then: The
treasurer would send in every week a
list of those who had qualified that week
to vote in November: by this means each
prospective vote: in i'll knew trial ids
p-4] tax iiad been received and Mother
Meb would have Use names of oil those
whose votes would count in the contest.
Then on the Tuesday after the first
Monday we would each make out a ticket
f a- ourselves as follows:
My Household favorites for 1906:
Poet, ; story-teller, ; essayist,
: humorist, ; nature writer,
—; historian. ; biographer, ;
critic, ; writer of travels. ;
negro dialect writer. ; gossiper, ,
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and five times had lie deposited at their
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mother can. but at the same time tlier"
was a special little niche of devotion
sacred to the Mue-eyed one that came
not. She had so often mentioned this
desire when she had reasons for fresh
hope, that Lige, too. caught the infec
tion. and began to feel the disappoint
ment.
And then the sixth came. “A girl,”
said the doctor, holding forth a most
diminutive specimen of yelling 'humanity.
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Far away are voices singing
Some n!d plantation negro hymn.
There the breeze tells sweeter stories
To the grasses and the dew.
And its song drifts through my dream
ing—
Dreams of home, the past, and you;
And the moon shines softly, brightly,
And the dew is on tlie rose;
But my heart’s in Alabama,
Where ilie cotton blossom grows.
TESSA WILLINGHAM RODDEY.
FROM GEORGIA TO THE PHILIP
PINES.
As M. E. B. ami several of her large
family have invited me to enter the
Household circle, 1 will do so, though 1
am rather an amateur in writing for
publication.
.My first acquaintance with The Sunny
'South was while our troops were quar
tered at Cliickamauga Park, Ga. W e
came to these temporary quarters from
Cuba in May, 1902, and remained there
until October. 1904, when we were sent
| on a high hill overlooking the bay and the
j bamboo city of Batungas.
■ This camp, McGrath, is named after
' Captain McGrath, ->•' tne Fourth United
| States cavalry, who .van killed here in
I 1898 by the insurge! There are quar-
I ters here for eight, troops of cavalry and
a band, though only seven troops of tlie
regiment are here now. in a little while
work will be commenced on the erection
of four more sets of troop quarters, and
seveial more sets of officers’ quarters,
and in six months we expect to have
the whole of tlie Seventh United States
cavalry here. Most of the buildings are
of frame structure, though a few of them
are of bamboo and nipa, erected by the
natives.
We have been here now over six months
and nothing lias occurred to break the
monotony of camp life, except a little
overland trip of ten days, from which we
have just returned, it was only a point
30 miles soutli of here, but detachments
of troops would go out from headquar
ters daily on map making and recon-
noiterlng expeditions. Some ot' the trails
through the mountains were, indeed, very
difficult to travel over, and we were
obliged to walk most of the way and lead
our horses. Even then, with utmost
care of tlie animals, two of our troop
horses died from overexertion. We re
turned from our trip on tlie 12th instant,
and now lour of the other troops are out,
but are due to be back toefor'' Christmas,
as there is now in cold storage here,
awaiting consumption, several hundred
pounds of dressed turkey, recently ar
rived from the United States, via army
transport.
Almost all the men like this part of the
islands better than any other section of
the Philippines which they have seen, it
is certainly fine in a sanitary point ot
view, very little sickness having occurred
among the troops. There are plenty of
Americans located here, and if it did not
require such a long time to communicate
with dear ones at home, I would think
it a very desirable place.
I have four pet monkeys (or, as the
natives call them, machangs), and they
are just as cute as can be. The last ad
dition to the "family” I carried over the
trail from Lotoo, where we had been on
our march. It's only a woe "babe," but
the older ones seem to think, from the
way they tossed it about, that it was
made of rubber, and for fear they would
kill it by way of showing their affec
tions. I removed it from their cage, and
now keep it in a little cage alone, though
it cries just like a human child to get
to the others. They are awfully cute,
and I don’t know how I could get along
without some kind of pets. 1 have, a large
bamboo cage under the kitchen, and when
I have a little spare time I go down
and have a romp with them. [ have
christened them as follows, commencing
with the oldest: “Consuello," "Rosario." J
"Gloomy Gus" and the little one "Talina” j
after a little native girl at' L«.bo, Talina. i
Some time will have a photo of tlie “fam- I
lly" maiic and send to the Household. |
Now, fearrul lest I tire you. and as my !
time is rather limited, because I know !
Mother Mob says ere this, “Whew! you j
want too much room, boy," with best j
wishes for the health and happiness of all j
the Christmas Household department, he- !
lieve mo a friend of The Sunny South {
Household.
HARRY W. IvINTZ. j
Camp McGrath, Batangas. Isle de Lu
zon, Philippine Islands.
THE BABY INQUIRER.
This morning when I saw "the old
woman was making her lied." I knew
my five-year-old would want to know j
what snow is. where it comes from,
what goes with It when it melts, when |
it will snow again—in fact, more
things about snow than I could an
swer.
I wonder if ever a mother had such
questions put to her as I, along different
linos, by my little boy. I am trying to
bring up my boy so as to develop grad
ually and naturally his mental and moral
nature. I am sadly perplexed sometimes
by his questions, and his way of look
ing at things, and I would be glad and
grateful to have suggestions from the
Household friends, which may bo of
profit to both the boy and his mother.
It is not hard- to teach him that he
must bo a good boy, and love that
Savior. who loves all the little folks
and will take them to live with Him in
heaven if they are good; that when he
is naughty it grieves the Savior. I im
press all this on him frequently
good or smart spell, he will say: “Now
I've done so and so. and God loves me.”
He knows that the dead aro lifeless;
he has seen the body put into the
ground: and right here is where 1 can’t
find words to convey to ills little mind
the right idea as to death.
He says if he is put in the ground. ,
how can he get up in the sky with !
Jesus?
Now. I could talk to him of “soul" and. j
"spirit,’’ hut it would be as Sanscrit. I 1
tell him Jesus will take him to heven. !
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cuse tlie evils n another
of another can excuse my
The writer refers to
where actresses have been
parties inter sted in the cu
doubt, without fault, and
tlie punishment of the
eases mentioned, however,
the opinion that the pul
tertnin of the stage. FY>r tit s op;r;—.
Often when hojias^ had mi ^unusuaHv j pubfie ^ be Taught thaTtfe'T
thing impure connected with the st
n
too long to icome and carry everybody
to heaven.” Then he wants to know if
he shall live in heaven just like he does
here; Have his toys, play about, and
have plenty of “apple pie." and if God
will be nice to him. while some of his
sayings make me think deeply and rev
erently, others compel me to sm'Ie.
When be asks 'about things too deep
for him to comprehend. I tell him that |
as he grows older these things will be I
learer to him, and sometimes he will !
‘Well. I don't believe you know I
Fort Grant, in 1898. We were not j yourself." Should I talk to him about
iliowed to enjoy them long, however, for j these things as to an older person; or
n the following spring Uncle Sam de-i be silent about them?
•ided that we should go to his new pos- j The rearing and training of little ones !
sessions on the other side of the world. | is a great and holy thing, and how sad j
sailed for the Philippines from San j it is for children to grow up in a home
otherwise tlie good wall sul'te-p by reason
of tlieir association with the bad. i he
public cannot be blamed, for in public
opinion expressed lies the safety of ail
our institutions. The public must he
taught that purity is the rule that gov
erns all stage actions and that impurit
is a rare exception. Then, but not tilt
then, will the stage cease to be the object
of criticism.
Tlie chief feature of many stage per-
„ , . „ . formanees is the display of tlie person o'
and he says: "Maybe the wind will ‘ the actor. Sueii performances can neve
blow me to Jesus, for it would take Him I elevate the audience in front of the light-
r the “man behind.” The purification
to good modern quarters at Oglethorpe, ! clear
Ga., the best we had occupied since leav- | say:
Francisco on last May 3. and after an | devoid of good ej
uneventful voyage of eight days, we . No one knows how anxious my heart
reached Honolulu. The monotony of an j is to have rny two little boys grow to
ocean trip on the Pacific is acute. Rare- be good, lianest. worthy men, and, oh!
vessels met, save in the vicinity
of ports. We were, indeed, glad to sight
land. Just before entering the harbor
of Honolulu, we passed the transport
Logan, with tlie Thirteenth cavalry
aboard, on route to San Francisco from
Manila. As our vessel, the transport
Sherman, was to coal at Honolulu, 1 re
ceived permission to go ashore, as well
as all tlie rest of tlie boys who applied.
I was glad of the opportunity to take
in a few of the sights of the capital of
the Hawaiian islands. An electric car
line furnished me witli the transportation
necessary for sightseeing. To one un
accustomed to such scenery, a ride
through Honolulu is enchanting. Noth
ing lie sees is familiar, and everything is
luxuriant in loveliness. The aquarium is
certainly interesting, and I spent several
hours there looking at the queer and won
derful specimens of fish taken from the
mighty Pacific.
Promptly at 12 o'clock, on May 12 we
sailed out of the harbor of Honolulu.
But we were only three hours out on our
way to Guam, which was to our next
stop, when the ship's surgeon discovered
a case of smallpox on board in the per
son of the captain’s cabin boy, and we
were ordered back to quarantine station
at Hcnolulli. There, after much discus
sion with the medical officers at the quar
antine station and our ship’s surgeons,
it was finally decided to send the patient
and a suspect to the Honolulu hospital,
and the following day. May 13, wtTagain
steamed out of the ltaroor and reached
Guam, of the Ladrone islands, on the
morning of May 27.
AVa had no opportunity to go ashore
there, as the ship lay away out in the
harbor, and we stayed barely long enough
for freight, provisions and mail to be dis
charged from the ship. AVe were again
on our way to Manilla, but before reach
ing our destination, smallpox was again
discovered in the ship's fireman’s quar
ters, and when we arrived at Manila.
June I, no one on board was permitted
to land, the ship and all aboard being
ordered to quarantine station near Ma
nilla. There all of us, together with
all hand baggage, arms and equipments,
were put through a fumfgation process,
which consumed three days more, after
which we again steamed into Manila.
Just at the edge of the harbor at anchor
we passed three of Russia’s badly-bat
tered battle ships—the Oleg, Aurora and
the Zemstug. They had just come in
| from their little engagement In the Ko-
] rean straits.
1 Immediately after anchoring in the
harbor, the discharging of our ship's
cargo commenced, and two enormous
steam winches were busy, one on the
bow and the other on the stern of the
boat. On the evening of June 7. after all
freight, etc., for Manila was unloaded,
we steamed up to Batangas, 125 miles
' south of Manila, and came ashore on the
morning of June 8. After one and Vgjuar-
ter hours we reached our camp. Situated
! be
may I nevi
here, as in the individual, must come
from within and not from without.
Truly the world is a stage, but ever -
one is expected to perform a role in a
purer drama than that which has for it;
main feature the display of the physics;
make-up of the actor. M. H. Y.
FLOWERS AND FRUIT OF PORT
LAVACA.
Our winters here at Port Lavaca. Tex
are /cry mild, seldom is there any ’ce L
then it is no thicker than a knife blade?
! have beautiful geraniums growing out
of doors; also lilies, late palms, oranges,
lemons and bananas. \"u have grown
xamphs and teachings. I to he such a literary family that I don't
know whether you will care to hear
about tlie variety of nice vegetables we
gather from our winter garden, but I
must U'l you about the lemons’on mv
special tree. They are the l:%gest I ever
f thpm mpnunro i rvi .• t. .. .
fail to help them to be
HU LA G1BT>S.
ABOUT STAGE LIFE.
in the last issue of The Sunny Soutli
there appeared an article entitled as
above, in which the writer attempted to
answer the criticism® made against the
stage and stage people. The argument
seems to be that because there are evils
in otlier professions, tlie evils of the
stage a.re~thereby atoned for. The weak
ness of such an argument is apparent
upon its face. This has been tlie argu
ment of many a sinner who lias sought to
appease a condemning conscience. The
evils of one profession can no more ex-
saw. Some of them measure I CP/, inches
in circumference, and.*11% inches long
Monsters, were they not? I also have
tlie Ponderoso lemon, which, of cour-'e
grows very much larger. This morning
tlie sun is shining brightly, and on going
but among the plants I found two canes
just bursting open, disclosing clusters of
lovely buds of the milk and wine lilies.
If old So] continues to smile they will",
in ,a few days, be wide open and beauti
ful. With best wishes for all our widely-
scattered family. Sincerely,
MAPLE LEAF.
Port Lavaca, Tex.
Motherhood
M OTHERHOOD is the reward nature
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with this valuable medicine.
Wine of Cardui can be secured from any druggist at $1.00 a bottle
Polycarp, N. C., Jan. 11 1902
I am the mother of seven children and while in pregnancy with
firstsix suffered untold misery until theywere born. One month befor»*hl
seventh was born I began to take a bottle of Wine of Cardui which
relief after taking three doses. I used the remainder of thp’ hnttto?? e
birth of the child.and was stouter in three days after the birth thaT. T **
a month after the birth of either of the first six I am vmk M m
^ MRS. V. ELIZABETH STAFFORD
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