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SIXTH <PAGE
I HE SUNNY SOUTH.
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In Woman's Realm of Thought and Home
^Edited_by_Mrs Mary E gfyg<i^————1^—
^ With the Household
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THE STROLLERS.
IWe took the road in early spring
To seek our fortuns and our bliss.
The birds flew by on tuneful wing.
The breeze was gentie as a kiss;
And of the river, freshet-fed.
Swift flashing in the springtide sun
Would soften to a silver thread
Beneath the moon when day was done,
done.
And those we met were free and kind
And gave to us with generous hand,
No strolling players ere, could find
A kinder folk in any land;
And Hal would play C?.e violin
While I would sing my heart away.
And then beneath our tarpaulin
We'd lie and dream 'till break o’ day.
But now the sun beats fiercely down
Upon my bowed ana aching head,
As In my worn and soiled gown
Prom door to door I ueg my bread;
My voice Is dead, no ».iore 'Hal plays,
in hopeless silence on we go,
Xo more for us the sweet spring days
Beside the river’s silver How.
There'll come a time when only one
Shall fare along the stony way.
JTor one—life's dreary stunt all done,
The heat and burden of the day—
Will snugly fit a pauper's grave
By callous charity bestowed.
The other—grim misfortune's slave—
A dwindling speck upon the^oad.
MARY LilrON MILLER.
Trenton, S. C.
With Correspondents.
W. A. Hughes asks, "Who invented
the multiplication table?'' It mas for a
long time supposed that the system of
rotation, a*> it is called, originated with
the Arabians in the ninth century’, but
it is now believed to have been known
to the Hindoos of India as far back ns
the fifth century. By them it was
claimed to be of supernatural origin.
Correspondent, of Hubbard, Tex.—
CMizpa'h is of Hebrew derivation, and
means, may God match between us un
til we meet again.
L. W. Greene.—Women in Washington
city occupy civil service positions in the
pension bureau, the treasury, the mint,
the library and. a number of other de
partments.
M. H. C. says: I have a very old coin
end would like to know its value. Can
B ou direct roe to a reliable coin dealer?
The most trustworthy dealer in coins
whom 1 have known has an office 'n
the United Charities building, on . ourth
avenue. New York city. His name es
capes my memory at this moment, but
a letter addressed, Dealer in Coins,
United Charities building. Fourty ave
nue, New York city mould probably
reach him.
L. M. T. says: I read in The New
York Ooserver the following state
ment: "Nearly all ministers now
•bellevp in a modified form of evolution."
1 would like to know what is meant by
a 'modified form of evolution." It
means a form that ackno'w ledges the
origin Of life to be the direct fiat of
God and not result of fortuitous eu-qum-
stances and combinations. The difference
in the beliefs as regards the origin of
Jffe constitutes th e line of separation
between the out and o*it atheistic evo
lutionist and the one who believes that
ail matter evolved slowly through vast
periods of time, but that this islow
growth was God's plan o'f creation, and
that the seed—tne germ of life—was im
planted by Him—in the beginning, and
was the cause of the growth or evolu
tion of all tilings, 'inis form of evolu
tion is accepted by many ministers an i
strictly religious persons. Recently in
Atlanta the theory of evolution was dis
cussed by the association of Presbyte
rian ministers. The question was: "is
it possible to be a Presbyterian minis
ter and at the tame time an evolution
ist?” Rev. Herbert Mack, D. D, pastor
of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
of Atlanta, was of the opinion that it
was entirely possible to be a thelstic
evolutionist and at the same time a
consistent Presbyterian minister. He
said; I am in full harmony with the
e-ientifle idea o'f evolution—development
and growth—this being but an outline of
the great plan God has used in crea
tion."
Rev. Lynn Walker, of the tVest End
Atlanta church, said he could not ac
cept the evolution tiaairy in its rad
ical form. "Of course," he said, "no
one now aday^ believes in the old idea
most of us had when children that tne
world was created in six days. I be
lieve in th e slow growth o
through vast periods of tit
origin of life L hold to have been toe
immediate gift of God. ft e ministeis
may admit that nia'n s origin was in a
small lump o'? jelly, but tne real ques
tion, and the one that causes a vast
difference of opinion is was the life
which started the result of fortuitous
circumstances, or was it the result oi
a direct liat ot God? i cannot believe
that all animal matter came as the re
sult of life thus started, and at the
same time believe in the immortality o.
the soul. Why should one part of that
life be mad e Immortal and that of the
beasts not immortal?”
Nearly all the. .piominent ministers of
the association concurred in the opin-
le world
time, but me
io:i of Dr. Waiker—believing in the slow
growth o.' the world—but in the direct
divine gift of life.
Can any of our Household readers te'I
"A Farmer’s Wife” how to get rid ' f
spiders? She has moved into a house
that is covered with them inside on-1
out.
Daisy asks: "Pleas,, tell me what
kind of education is requl.-ite as a prep
aration 'for a course in short hand.” A
knowledge of grammar, spelling
punctuation will be found indispensa
ble. It is well also to know something
of the abbreviations common in 'business
letters and to practice the art of ex
pressing yourself concisely and clearly
on paper
Dickson Shelton. The address of the
secretary oi the Amateur Journalist-'
Association is James .Larkin Pearson.
Moravian Fails.
Annie Aldrich, did you discover that I
had made a mistake in replying to your
question ns to th» authorship of the
poem beginning—
"I remember. I remember.
The house wlier P *l was born.”
I knew T bad given me wrong an
swer the morning after the manuscript
was sent, but it was loo lat e to correct
it. as the “forms" were on the press.
1 remembered that it was not Alice
Carey who wrote the pretty, simple
verses so 'familiar to us all—though she
is the writer of a very similar poem.
The author iff "I remember etc.,” was
Thomas Hood, the famous English wit
and journalist, though his fame rests
not on his witty and satirical writings,
•or his brilliant newspaper editorials, but
on the poems, few in number, out im
mortal—which he wrote after disease
had laid him upon a bed from whicli
he never rose during the seven remaining
years o'f his life. Flis verso up to the
time of his affliction had made no im
pression on the public, but "he learned
jin suffering what he taught in song.”
j His trial brought him insight into the
| woes of humanity, and he wrote those
[undying poems. “The Bridge of
Sighs,” “Tile Song of the Shirt" and
“The Laborers' Song.” He was born in
England in 1789 and died in 1845.
M. E. B.
EVOLUTION AND ANCESTRY.
There is a gulf between man and the
inferior animals which no amount if
sophistry (alias science) can ever
bridge. There is more than a missing
link. A chain of a' thousand links,
forged from the gold of rhetoric and
embellished with the diamonds of wit,
can never connect man and a monkey with
ties of eonsanguninity
Man differs from animals in the 'powee
of speech. The parrot merely imitates
certain sounds without any idea of their
meaning. No pa'srot ever originated an
intelligent sentence. Animals of the
highest order of intelligence cannot lie
taught speech. Th e man who spent
years among iwild monkeys trying t-j
learn their language and converse with
them, should have spent those years
teaching qr»! monke— to speak a single
sentence in plain English.
Again, man differs from animals *n
certain mei/ial faculties. Man has rea
son. judgment, memory and imagina
tion. Beasts have instinct and memory.
Some animals seem to possess certain
reasoning powers, but not one has a
'vestige of 'intagination. Animals never
invent. They cannot originate a single
idea. Man alone progresses. The bird
of today builds its nest after the same
pattern followed by its tribe 6.000 years
ago.
The bear, the eagle, the serpent, have
not improved one whit in fifty centuries.
Domestic animals are improved only
under the .ceaseless guidance of huina i
intelligence. Withdraw the guiding in
telligence of man and the highest order
of domestic animals would soon rovert
to the original type.
Man must either progress or retro
grade. In fact, from the earliest dawn
of history, lie has been doing- both. All
the history of man is a perpetual see
saw. In nearly every age there have
been savages and civilized men; the salv
ages become civilized, the cvilized be
come savages.
Yes, John Mason, your ancestors, and
mine, may have been barbarous wor
shippers of Odin a few centuries ago,
but a few centuries earlier, their ances
tors may have been enlightened wor
shippers o'f tile true God
Again, man differs from all inferior
beings in his spiritual nature. Man litis
a soul; ii e is immortal. It would 'be su
perfluous to consume space proving the
immortality of the soul; as well waste
words proving the existence of the air
we breathe. Tf man "evoluted” from :t
beast, where did lie gets his soul? A
creature either has an immortal spirit,
or it lias none. You cannot say the
soul “evoluted,” too. It would be ex
tremely absurd to say that the soul of
man Skis a' million ages developing, and
a thousand centuries becoming immortal.
Say. John, do you think your ancestor,
who lived about half way between the
original tadpole and yourself, had about
half a soul? And a few thousand years
farther back, did they have a quarter
of a soul? If that long-tailed monkey
who squatted upon the lower branches of
your ancestral tree had a piece of a
soul, and you should meet that poor lit
tle piece of a soul in the future land c.'f
spirits, wouldn't you be sorter ashamed
to walk up -and -say “howdy, grandpa?”
No. There was a definite hour in
which the first man, possessing an im
mortal spirit, walked this earth, or else
man is yet. a beast, and perishes ut
terly in death. I am neither proud no-
| ashamed of - my own particular ances
tors but I am proud of the human
race, its progress and eternal destiny.
MOONSHINER.
who sent ,
son, get rich. Do it honestly if yout can
but get rich.” The young man or woman
who would secure work on a metropoli n
11 wspaper should get experience. I
Ail Communications to This Department Should Be Addressed to MRS. MARY E. BRYAN, Clarkston, Ga., Inquiries and I she will probably succeed m be _
miserable for a rcjumcni oi v*uhui o
Letters Requiring Answers by Mail Must Be Accompanied by Postage. fore stR cess comes, but the editors are
used to -it and never harbor a grudge on
girl and before she was twenty was hold
ing a -responsible position with a My
paper. Sim was about to be transferred
to Chicago when a fellow laborer in the
journalistic field induced her to try
hand at taking care of a flat. t “■
be a long, hard drop from the editorial
sanctum to four rooms and a bath, o it
although the change was made five years
ago, she doesn't seem to regret R- .
The best thing for the aspiring journal
ist to do is to get experience.
iM- U'f 1 ° tv e» v t '-‘ u . Tvor*r»n*
adapt the advice of the proud paren-
hiis son out into the world. M>
Chat With Householders.
HE awful calamity In Cali
fornia has had a depress
ing effect on our entire
nation. It lias clouded the
brightness and beauty of
the opening spring, yet it
has been productive of
good. It -has opened me
twin tains of sympat hy in
every breast; it has shown j horizontal position.’
what a united people we
are, notwithstanding small
differences in sentiment
and opinion, and it has re
minded the other proud, rich cities of
our land of the solemn warning, voiced
by Kipling in his great poem-message
to the English nation in the exultant
hour of the queen's jubilee—“Lest,, We
some of you would send me a a good de
scriptive article with pictures for illus
tration to give variety to the Household
number. Have you not something of this
kind, dear Grandpa and Missus, In your
studio portfolios?
Will W. Gunter, whose poems and
sketches in The Louisville Courier-Jour
nal found many admirers, ihas sent us
a number of short poems, for which we
will gladly make room. Mr. Gunter is
anot'her shut-in, who is now on his feet
] once more. 'It is a delightful but queer
I sensa.tion,” he writes, "for me—a tall
j chap over 6 feet in height—to be walk-
i ing about after being seven years in a
Forget"—a poeim which was built on an
other and far older warning. "Lei him
who thinketh -he standeth, take heed lest
lie fall.”
VYc have several dear members of our
Household living in California. Lucy Gray
and Emma Riddlesinger, do let us hear
from you. We are anxious to know
whether that terrible disaster affected| deserted us?
you personally. Lucy Gray, you have
not yet fulfilled your -half promise to
write about .Point Luna, the .headquar
ters of theosophy, and of Madame Tins
ley, the head of the theosophical school
and settlement there.
Concerning the proposed voting for fa
vorites there are now a number of voices
ill negative. Among these Julia Coman
Tail, Italy Hemperly, Mattie Howard ana
M'izpah. They tear that an election
would prove to he like the golden apple
of discord, w.iiicu broee up tne harmony
in the celestial circle on Mount Olympus.
They emphasize the Household's spirit
of lraternax equality and dread to nave
it marred. Bachelor Preacher, Parado
and many others lavor tne election.
Replies to Ready pour m from every
quarter, some very bngnt ana witty, but
none hitter, because it is tell tnat Red
dy's "crow,” though a liule exultant and
vainglorious, was intended in a PicK-
wicician sense only.
Caroline Gem's deliciously funny story
last week, "Elam and the Household
Girl,” mutt be taken just as pure fun,
of course. I am sure dear Annice, J.Hough
she belongs to the order ot' sensitive
plants, laughed over the preposterous pic
ture of her dainty self perched oil tne
gate arch and setting her dogs on her
unlucky "unknown” with the striped um-
ibrei.ta.
We have a contribution today from our
other Gem, formerly Jewel, of Mississippi,
wno is atways interesting.
J. O. G. T., dear girl, l rejoice with
you t.na.t the shackles of disease have
tailen from you and that you are no
more a shut-in, though intensely sympa
thizing with your less fortunate oroth-
ers and sisters. Rebecca Whitfield has
an earnest little poem prayer in this is
sue. Also she asks the Household read
ers to send her Arbuekie coffee signatures
and tags of the Early Bird and the
Schnapps tobacco. 'It -will be a great
favor,” she writes, "and later I will tell
you what I want with them." 1 am send
ing Mattie Beverage today $6 for her
church. One dollar is the gilt of Mrs.
V. T. Gill, of Normandy, S. C.; the other
$5 comes from Mrs. A. C. Wells, of
Fitzpatrick, Ala., who collected it among
her friends. Tills money is to melp build
the little country church which Mattie
Beverage, a girl shut-in, 16 years old,
so earnestly desires to have near enough
for her to attend service in 'her roller
chair. Her address is Dabney, Ark., and
1 would prefer that the generous friends
j who are helping her should send their
donations directly to -her and that she
acknowledge tihem through the House
hold, giving the donors' names, but not
specifying the amount given by each,
only letting its know the sum total of the
collections. Fifty dollars was the amount
she thought would he needed, as her
father would give the ground for the
church and the neighbors would help put
'it up.
Dear Tom I/ockihart, there are very
many anxious inquiries about you. Do
Fit your friends hear how you are. How
Miss Mary Thomason has sent me a
story which will interest all of you who
admired that genial, cultivated, hospitable
gentleman of t.he old school, who wrote
for us over t.he signature of Cupid. It
is tihe true story of why Cupid has never
married. J thank Miss Thomason for
the story and will be glad to publish it.
Broken Harp String. Aunt Sara, Pas
sion Flower. Mississippian of Silver City,
Jim Dumps. Saphire. Bumble Bee. R. O.
Leh Cah and Iainely Nurse, there are
letters for you and inquiries as to your
addresses. Please let me hear from you.
Many other things demand notice, but 1
have chatted already too long. With love,
M. E. B.
G. W., your -reply to the northern mem
ber will appeal next week. Dear Ma
nana, Trueheart and Flneta, have you
air fairly sizzle with Indian clubs, - this” account,
handling them like they were clothes | j t mus t be borne in mind that for a
pins. But Alas! | woman the problem of living in New
My wife is still a believer in physical I York is a very serious one. Room rent
culture and no doubt would practice it I i s very hip'll and the tips, without -which
if I didn't get up at 4 o'clock, make | cne cann ot hope to get any service in
fires, dress the children, milk and churn | a decent restaurant, are in thernseij.es
before breakfast and keep out of the » a sa d drain upon a light purse. J he
■ * Young Women's Christian
does all it can to look after the P Y
cal as well as the moral taUires_of such
women as come under Hr
the
THE TOILER’S SONG.
I toil from mom till the sun sinks low..
My task is hard and grinding, oh!
But lightening each -care that may chance
to stray
Across my path in the toilsome day.
Is the welcome thought of the loving
cheer—
Of the smile and the kiss of one so dear
Who waits for me at home.
What though the sun shines scorching
hot
And adds to the toil of my weary lot—
Tbo' r reap on life's field no fair renown.
No proud king wears a more priceless
crown.
No rarer .gift ever came from above
Than the evening welcome, the rest and*/
love
That waits f»r me at home.
ALBflRT IRVING MASON.
Louisville, Ga.
way the rest of the day.
Now what do you think of that, happy
Householders? T don’t mean that my wife
has ever assaulted me with the rolling
pin or sought to assassinate me with a
stick of stove wood, or anything of that
kind, for such little physical culture ex
ercise as these I have always managedl
to escape by being "Johnnie on the spot”
when she said so.
Beware of female physical culture. IT*
dangerous. The young lady -who constant
ly hankers after an opportunity to jiu-
jitsu somebody -ought to be turned out
into the old maid pasture, there to jtu-
jituate as much ag she pleases.
Commend me to the maidenly meek
maiden—the timid coy maiden.. the
maiden modest in her eve-ry demeanor.
They are the old-fashioned maidens. They
are the kind t-o swing to. They are .the
best mothers, the sweetest companions
and by far the safest wives. They are
the w-lmen who rule-the world, as a mat
ter of fact, 4>r other all they are the
strongest creatures God has ever made.
Their helplessness is their strength, and
they are man’s only real inspiration.
When yo-ur abominable physical culture
foolishness takes possession of a woman
they dwindle down in their ambitions to
the equal of the prize fighter and they
make a man feel like 20 cents, when their
real mission in life is to make a man feel
like a $10 bill every day of his life.
DR. BOTTS.
that
<*.=. „„ influence, but
seeretar v”of”tli'e Brooklyn branch says
t one of the greatest needs of the
city is more hotels for working women,
where cheap and wholesome meals w
he served. “At present, she says
“most of the places where cheap board
is furnished mean semi-starvation, s- 1-
cide or ruin for many girls forced to me
in them. When I confront the problem
T am amazed that all girls who haye to
battle with these conditions are no.t lost.
Tne influence surrounding a newspaper
woman are not always of the best, even
after one has made a -position for her
self. and the question of bread and but
ter has been relegated to the rear. Many
of them acquire habits ratiher more bo
hemian than would meet the approval or
the staid country’ people, and in this re
spect they dou-btless hear a strong resem
blance to the men of the profession, bit-
taking them all In all, men and women
together, it would be difficult to find a
more pleasant body of people than the
representatives, both male and female,
of the metropolitan prt'M. ^ 0 r T0 N.
THE WAY ’TWAS WRITTEN.
A poet, sat with thoughtful brow;
His cash bad run quite low.
His wife’s fair face was dark with clouds.
Soon tearful rain would flow,
the inspiration comes;
I*k hashes off a sonnet.
Then sighs, relieved, "Thank Fate, ’twill
buy
Mv wife a new spring bonnet."
HARRY M
DEAN.
A QUEER DINNER IN CALIFOR
NIA—A HOME IN SEATTLE.
California is a beautiful state—some
portions ot it—and lueie are numbers ot
cultured and good people living in it, bat
in some parts of the state the social cle
ment is a queer and unpleasant mixture, j ___ _„
Let me tell y ou of the company in wnicfi ! WOMEN INCOMPARABLE A KL
my husband and I ate our last Christmas i PLY TO MAN—MERE MAN.
aiiiner. i “Man excels woman’’—in physical
We were on our way to that lives! and „ t th , go doPS the mule,
fascinating seaport town Seattle, in . 8 . ... .
Washington, but on our way to San Fran- j “Li mental power. Are we to 1 -
cisco our train was wrecked near the lit
tle town. Caliiento, ana we were detained
Let this *‘1900’* Gravity
Washing Machine do
your Washing Free.
An unseen power,'called Gravity, helps run th!»
washinsr machine.
13v harnessing this power, we moKo it work f -
von.You mari tlie washer bv hand, then Gravity-
power takeSliold and does the hardest part,
i And It makes this machine turn almost as easy ai
j a hicrcle wheel does.
) gravity, you know, is what makes a store roll
i down bill. ., , . , ,
i This machine has just been invented and w* rail
i It tie *‘1900” Gravity Washer.
1 There are slats on the inside bottom of the ♦ k.
; These slats act as paddies, to swing the wat**r :n
i the same direction you revolve the tub.
I You throw the soiled clothes into the tub -lr«r
! Then you throw enough water over the clothes to
; float them.
, Next you put the heavy wooden cover on top »?: ,«*
I clothes to anchor them, and to press them d w .
; This cover has slats on its lower side to p-rip ;h«
clothes and hold them from turning around when
| the tub turns. _ _ , , ,
Now we are all ready for Quick and easy washir r.
You grasp the upright handle on th M m ie < f
j tub and, with it, you revolve the tub one-th rd w.i
! round, then gravity pulls it the other wav re !
i The machine must have a little help from y -it
every swing, but Gravity-power does practically a'.l
the hard work. . , ,,
You can sit in a rocking chair and do all 1 nat • *
washer requires of you. A child can run it ea- \j
full of clothes. , * *
When you revolve the tub the clothes dor.' * rr. ~.
But the water moves like a mill race thr- ’
cloth*
TTuTpaddles on the tub bottom drive the
water THROUGH and through the clothes
IN THE CYCLONE'S PATH.
Dear Airs. Bryan and Household
Friends: I am a little hoy, not yet 12
year. I live in Meridian—thr to\ys in | building—very uninviting in the surround-
Mississippi that was devastated liy a jjngs. Dinner was not ready and we were
cyclone last March. It was awiul to - asked by the fat landlady to "step into
see the power of that mighty wind, to j the parlor and wait." Stining our hungry
see houses thrown down and swept impatience we waited during a long drawn
away in a second, buildings crushed and out half-hour. Finally dinner was an-
twisted int-i all sorts of shapes. I had i nounced and we tiled int 0 the dining
there for twelve hours. Fortunately, no
one was seriously hurt.
We were as hungry as bears and some
one directed us to the "best Hotel' —
about half a mile distant. W e walked
there as quickly as possible and found
tliis "best" hostelry to be a shackled old
| courage of woman prevents the physical
courage of man from making him a
brute.
“In poetical and musical conception.” If
we grant this, we must add: No stream
can rise above i-ts source, and there never
was a truly great poetical or musical pro
duction that was not inspired by ’woman.
“In oratorical and reasoning powers.'
Granted: But woman arrives at correct
| conclusions by tlie swifter, surer method.
| She simply knows, can neither be led
] astray by a labyrinth of words, nor Ue-
I eeived by false premises
"In logic, and systematic thinking. Who
j wrote our text-books " Men and women,
j If fewer of these charnel houses of dc-
| parted vanity are traceable to women,
- - . , .. , they have so much less to answer for at
shoot pretty well. Last year I made I as sole leather and we vainly tried to | tbe judgment day.
some monev by helping tlie carpenters I ‘t w ith me dullest ot case knives. ,.j u knowing of government.” The two
build houses, and I saved fifteen dollars. -1 ordered mince pie and they gave me 1
an uncle, whose house was overthrown
while the family were in it. They were
partly buried under the ruins, but they
escaped being seriously hurt. Peopl-
were very kind. Those who suffered in
juries, were helped by the more fortu
nate. Two hundred houses were wreck
ed J saw tlie bodies of a. lady and her
little girl, who had been killed by a two-
story house falling upon them. It was
a terrible sight. 1 shall neve'- fo-.-gpi 't.
I have a Daisy air rifle now -I can
room.
There, what sight, think you, met our
astonished eyes? There were negroes, da
goes, swarthy Mexicans and drunken men
—all cursing ro beat *-Ue band. Well, we
didn't know whether to sit down and eat
or to go away and fast, ‘but it was eat
there or nownere, and hunger carried the
day. 1 ordered soup and received a plate
of greasy water with a bit of lat meat
floating in it. There was a Christmas
turkey, but the aged gobbler was as tough
i love outdoor work and sports, but
study and read. too. I enjoy reading
The Sunny South and The Constitution.
They are fine papers. Also 1 delight in
trying to draw. I send you some of my
drawings. What do you think of them?
Have 1 got any right ideas of Uncle
Sam's soldier boys, and of the "heatheTi
Chinese?”
Your admiring friend.
EDWIN LEON WHEELER.
The above letter was written by a son
of Mr. George Wheeler. o-t Meridian.
pie made of dried apples. And to think
that tlie seasoning of this repast was
course language profusely interspersed
with oaths in Spanish and dago Italian.
How vexed 1 was and how i wished 1
could step over into Dixie—in my uear
Louisiana home and eat some of the nice
juicy turkey mother cooked.
We went outside as soon as possible and
watched the wreckers clearing the track
of the two cars and tender that had been
thrown flat, llow long and lonely seemed
tnat Christmas day! We pulled away
from the little town at 9 that night and
greatest rulers of one of the earth's two
greatest nations were women.
“Who wrote the emancipations, decla
rations. etc.?” The writer 'of the great
"emancipation” referred to. said repeated
ly, "All that I am, all -that I hope to be. 1
owe to my mother.” The writer of the
-world famous declaration consulted his
wife in every detail -of his life work.
Certainly.
iurpoi Wild njuui Ctih': anu i aoiun», t t-
twonty frarxnentR. or five laree tHui-sheets
washed at one time with thin 1900 ' ‘Gravity’ ’ W, -
A child can do this In six to twenty minute- \ ■■■
Th!s Is what we SAY, now how do we PROVF. *
We rend any reliable person our 1900 “Grav:: ■
Washer free of charge, on a full month’s trial, «•:
we even pay th* freight out of our own pocke*^
No cash deposit is a»ked ( no notes, no contract,
no security.
You may n«e the washer four weeks at our ex
pen«e. If you find it won’t wash as many clothe
FOUR hours as you can wash by hand In EIGH'I
hours, you send it back to the railway station. -
that’s all.
But, If, from a month’s actual use, you are con
▼incetl it saves HALF the time in washing, doe* w*
work better, and does it twice as easily as it could i *
done by hand, you keep the machine.
Then you mall us 50 cents a week till it is paid f ' \
Remember that50cents Is part of nviat the m i
chine saves you every week on your own, or on t
washer-woman’s labor. We Intend that the V '*■
“Gravity” Washer shall pay for Itself and thus c>-r
you nothing.
You don’t risk a cent from first to last, and you
don’ t buy It until you have had a fu?I month’s trial.
\ve have sold approaching half million 4 T9wj”
Washers on a month’s free trial and l j -only trouble
we’ve had has been to h*»op up with oar dors.
Could Wf afford to pay freight on .ousands of
thesema*'tunes every month, If we did cot positive:*
•KNOW they would do all we claim for them? Ca;
you afford to be without a machine that will do y
washing In HALF THE TIME, with half the wear
and tear of the washboard, when you can hav« ih.A
‘In money making ability.’ ......
Tlie aforesaid mule is also a great wealth < machine for a month’s free trial, and let ItPAY FOh
producer, but lias a mighty poor concep-i ITSELF? This offer may be withdrawn at any tlm
ti on of soul values. That the eoarser • 14 overcrowds our factory,
and more ponderous intellect of man
should produce wealth is very fitting. Xo
■one thinks of doing- embroidery work with
a darning needle, or painting a master
piece with a whitewash brush.
Cousin Reddy says that he could “go
i on indefinitely.” Not remarkable. Ten-
Write us TODAY, while th» offer is still open,ar
while you think of It. The postage stamp is r!I vo-
rl*k. Write personally on this offer, viz.
R. F. Btebor. General Manager of “1900” Washer
Company. 5327 Henry St., Binghamton, N. Y
or 355 Yonge St.. Toronto, Canada.
Miss., one. of the Household's most loyal ; arrived in busy, bustling ’Frisco jat.JO
friends—a bright writer of stories, also j next morning, in time to get on board tne
a printer and a kind husband and father, steamer Unatilla, bound for Seattle.
The pen and ink drawings which aceom- Afloat in a line steamer on tlie broad
pani d Edwin Eeon’s letter are quite Pacilic. That sounds well and the Pacihc
clever. You may make an artist some is a grand sight—but the ocean wus 1101 | nv ^ on tells us of another "murmurin 6
day, little friend, but you will doubtless at all pacific that day. Indeed, it was : shallow” ;hat "goes on forever.” To
find building houses better paying em- j very rough. Far as the eyes could reach | liat „urpose?
ployment. I have always thought house the white crested waves were rising and j j answering this article. I have pur
building such interesting. wholesome ; falling. dashed against our vessel j ge j v reserved the claim of man's r.lig-
work. It was the occupation of Christ. 1 and some of them rose nearly as high as 1 r ous anc f spiritual superiority until the j of the country, for it might bore you.
you remember. I know of two society j the steamers deck. last in order to treat it more fully. ! My fire has died down; I will have t
girls in New York city, who biult their | . 1 llKl long enjoy the scene, sea- 1 ..\Y bo are th e preachers of the world?” get some. coal, and as it is now midnight,
summer , "cabins” in the Adriondacil ; sickness that dreadful malady—overcame , j n t j )p sense meant, men, of course. They 1 '
mountains in very creditable style. ! me an, l 1 tottered dizzily to my stateroom - bag j. - in tbe limelight, air their vanity, and
M. E. B ; ar i^. " en ^ 10 ... , 1 receive tlie emoluments, while women do
— '' 0 arrived in Seattle at 10 o clock t he - ,-eal work. Unmarked, unassuming,
NeilTpubflihffigVmn-1 ^ p HYSICALLY CULTURED WIPE I r °° n l! ! and without desire for earthly reward.
the shade. I suppose it would go to the
moon if if was put in the sunshine.
But I am out of the line that 1 star\ t
Aid not mean to ,<r:te a geograpuy
is the late edition of your novel sellin„,
and has your now book, “Plain Talcs j
and Talks,” yet appeared?
Speaking of ‘books, our Edna Funder
burk -has a dainty volume of poems in«r !
out, issued ‘by the Neale Publishing
pany, of New York. The poems are ten
der and noble in sentiment, mostly pic-
| lures of natural scenes, though whichl she ,a woman, could handle cows so dex
I wondered when I read Annie \ alen- j a lively, interesting sight—that of the
tme Pearson s "cows I have known" how j numerous boats and various watercraft
trusly. Her latest chat in the House-
learly seen the true wife and mother
! and the reverent lover of beautv. Gifted
1 Mary Pettus Thomas, a singer, whose
versatile poems, grave, gay and imagi
native, have often been enjoyed by
Household readers, has a volume of
poems in the hands of the Neale Pub
lishing Company, whicili will appear early,
in May. A unique novel which, it j s | graduates of physical culture my soul
thought, will be a pronounced success, shudders for :he poor men, once the
Is soon .to see the light, from the peri! lord s of th> glorious old south. Maybe I
j of one of our Pacific coast contributors, j am a, t old fogy southerner, but I can-
| I believe our Mattie Howard will soon j not kelp weeping over the terrible change
have a neew book published by Mr. Neale' that is gradually coming about here in
1 ”ie south among the women.
Even in my short sad lifetime I can re-
iniing and going on thhe bay.
. , . , . fine town—full of life and vim and bust- ,
hold explains she is a graduate in physi- | a ess. And boys, there are lots of pretty [ ' *L
cal culture, which fact shocks me. 1 girls here. Do, some of you household
wife is a graduate in a physical folk, come to Seattle this summer for your
are many gray j outing, look me tip and let's shake hands
for the love of Diixe and mild lang syne.
Paul and Dan how and where are you? t
am glad you joined the I-ord's side.
women minister to the sick, feed the poor,
befriend the friendless, cheer the de-
. . spondent, concert the heathen, and bind
Hits is | up the W ounds of -the fallen in life's bat-
My
culture school. There
hairs in my he.id. And I am only 32.
Every time I read of southern women
boasting of being adepts at jiu-jitsu and
Don't forget old friends. Tf you wish to
hear more of Seattle I will write again.
MRS. D. J. OSBORNE.
2010 Western Avenue. Seattle, Wash.
If women were not sent out to "preach
the gospel unto all the world.” it was be
cause they were reserved for a nobler part
of the work of salvation. Then, we must
not forget that one of the "chosen nten”
denied Christ, .another doubted, several
slept when left to watch In His darkest
Strange
but true, that so many women persist in cling
ing to their suffering, as if it were a comfortable
ola dress* You think the pain and distress from
which you suffer, every month, is NECESSARY,
don’t you? But it’s not It is not only unnec
essary, but WRONG to allow it*
If you will take
T CARDlll
Woman’s Relief
it will prevent or relieve the pain that comes from
weakness or disease of the female organs or functions.
It will help make you strong, rosy cheeked, well and happy.
Mrs. Gertie McFarland, of Kings Mountain, N. C, writes:
"I had miscarriage, which left me in bad shape. 1 suf
fered terrible pain every month and nothing helped me
until I took Cardui. The first dose' gave relief, and
now, after taking 3 bottles, I am up, doing my work.”
At all Druggists in $1.00 Bottles
and many are hoping to see Mr. Strat-
ncr s charming short stories collected in
a volume.
-I have many letters from girls and
matrons who desire employment as house
keepers, companions and nursery gov
ernesses. I am no longer permitted to
publish these applications, as t^)is is ta
booed as "free advertising,” bu.t I am
going to mention the case of one woman,
who so earnestly desires to obtain a sit
uation where she may -have wTth .her her
two little children—9 and 7 years old.
She is now a nurse In a hospital In Mil-
ledgeville, Ga., where she is highly es
teemed, but it is against t-he rules for
her to have her children with her there
and she is boarding them out of town
and can only see them once a month.
She is afraid they are not cared for
properly and they greatly need her train
ing. She says they are quiet, well be-
-haved little ones. Every mother can un
derstand tier anxiety to have them with
-her. She is willing for their sake to
give up Iter good paying position and
take one where tlie money compensation
will he much less.
Moonshiner's letter against evolution in
this issue will he read with interest. He
says; Tf John Mason and I begin to
lire hot shot into eaoh other at any
time you needne't fear any hard feel
ings. We are old friends and understand
each other. We are both as tough as
a llhiderniis epinoceros. anil enjoy a
scrap of t.li is nature.” This facing' the I
case, we ‘Will all enjoy it, too, and per- j
'iiit them to fire away. Otto Jem’s Hub
APRIL.
When April's here the smiling sky
Earth's cry for moisture hears.
Draws o'er her face a veil and vents
Her sympathy in tears.
The drops plash, some on barren rock.
Which does not heeq their flow.
But others fall on earth and wake
The flowers that sleep below.
jAnon. some lofty mountain crag
member when a southern girl thought
clerking in a store imprudent—when tiie
Idea of turning stenographer in a gentle
man's private office was decidedly im-
porrier and Was not to be thought of.
while the very idea of working in a
miserable cotton mill or factory was pre
posterous. But those dear old times are
no more. Pas: and gone are tlie days
when we men looked upon the fair face , Catches fair Apr j l s veil;
of our southern girls and saw there the Draws u aside, and lo her smile
home of modesty, the nestling place of . , fl dl d d ,
innocent coy-like simplicity that was at I noooing mm ana aaie.
once sweeter Than sweet dreams and i x
soothing like the odor of roses in the
early springtime. Now they attire them
selves in men's vest, gird up their so-
called swan-like throats with a man's
collar and tie. and go forth with a busi
ness man's walk ami a business man's
set to their faces, instead of good old
southern feminaey that makes you want
to stop and quote poetry— they are curt
and almost brazen-like, and if you say
seat! to lots of them, in a Jiffy they con
tort themselves into a jiu-jitsu kind of a
twist and throw a man a somersaulting
into the middle Of next week. That job
formerly among our southern girls was
delegated to "my big brother." But the
commanding, protecting voice of "my big
brother" is heard no more, alas! in the
land. Poor dwinffling creature, lie dodges
around mostly now-adays with liis thumb
in liis mouth trying to do what his pliysi-
cal-cuIturerTsister tells him, a miserable,
frizzled out remnant of a man
SEEKING LITERARY EMPLOY
MENT IN NEW YORK—THE
TRUTH OF THE MATTER.
New York is the magnet which attracts
not only all Americans, but thousands
from scores of foreign lands, but tlie
New York which these tliousanus dream
and tlie metropolis which is found upon
arrival are far too often entirely differ
ent. Some time ago I received a letter
from a young woman who wished lo
leave ln-r Mississippi home and try her
fortune in tiie city. She wished to be
come a newspaper woman and felt that,
as New York offered tiie greatest oppor
tunities for men and women of energy
| hour, and one finally betrayed him. On
the other hand, tlie Christ child was en
trusted to tlie care of a woman, and the
faith of the women known to Christ sur
passed that of ail men in all ages.
T shall make no enumeration of women's
superiorities. They are tori well known
to need it. Enough to say that the great
est sons of earth have from time out of
mind considered it tlie zenith of earthly
achievement to merit her approbation.
Who will dare to say that they were all
wrong?
Again I say a stream cannot rise higher
than its source: the substance is greater
than the shadow; the inspiration greater
than the product.
Finally, remove from us those marks of
progress due to woman either by achieve
ment or inspiration and man will swing
back to the savage from which he
sprang. OLD VIRGINIAN.
..indfall. Ind.. M'
1 will begin warming my can of beans
If t don’t get an answer to this I will
be frantic. I am not crazy or anything
like it. I was always this way.
I am. mv dear mis.-, r-rv trulv,
B. J%f. LEE. Fict.
F. S.—I can boast or being the pret
tiest boy in this city, for I am the only
soul here.
Welton, Ariz., January 6. I9C6.
FROM A LONELY OPERATOR.
“The Handsomest Girl of Boston,” Bos- ; planted from
ton. Mass.—Dear Miss; (You are supposed | zone represented by man.
t 0 be a "Miss,” you know.) I am a lone
ly telegraph operator, working out here
in the hills, only a few trains pass at
night, and it grows so monotonous here
that 1 just have to do something to pass
the time away. Having read t” Article
in a newspaper recently, where a young
lady in Boston wrote -*o "The Handsom
est Man in Los Angeles," J tlunk it is
but right for some one to let the girl of
Boston know that there are people in
Arizona, too. I have be*»*' sorry since see-
and determination, she would prefer to j jjjg- that, newspaper that 1 was not in
* e "‘ — T ’ *“ k OS An gdes at the time, for 1 would un
doubtedly have gotten the letter, but it
WRITE US
A LETTER
describing what is wrong, freely and frankly, in strictest confidence,
and stating your age. We will send you FREE ADVICE, in plain,
sealed envelope and a valuable book called “HOME TREATMENT
OF FEMALE DISEASES.” Address: Udies' Advisory Dept.. The
Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. L 29
) UUI auuicso id uni urdi Jiir-m-
ber. The poor fellow Is much discour
aged.
! Mrs. M. W.hitewri&ht, of Maurine.
| Miss., deploes >t:he fact that so many
; trashy monthly and weekly papers from
i west, north and east r.re being circulated
■ in her neighborhood, and asks that speci-
I men numbers of The Sunny South be
' sent her for distribution. We have noti-
i tied the manager of her request and
thank her for iher interest in the paper.
i I have received several pictures of
Household members lately; some of these
I would like to save for our forthcoming
Household nunH'oer. Among these is a
half length photograph of our gifted
Leonora Randall, whose former pen name
was Dean, a graceful figure and a love
ly. intellectual face. Our readers have
greatly enjoyed her aocount of a voyage
through the great lakes and a visit to
McKenzie's island and to Niagara. I wish
make this her future dome. It is such
.lien and women as this who have made
this city what it is. but energy and de
termination count for little iiere unless
one has ability. Ability Is one of the
world for
but most
have seen
one to get
ork. It is
_ _ one to get
and were wont to roam among the woods, j some sort of work to do in the great bus-
shc with a good shotgn on her shoulder jnoss houses, but for a person who has
aiid I likewise armed. In those seraphic ] i- ev e.r done literary work of any kind
days I looked at her tall athletic figure . to come here and hope to become con-
as now and then she would take the lead | neoted with even one of the lesser publi-
swiftly through the woods to where the cations is madness, unless, perchance.
h.ad a squirrel “treed” and I was ! there are friends to help drive home the
wont to exclaim: entering wedge. Every editor in the city
“Surelv sh*- is a perfect Diana.” and | receives a hundred applications for each
w T hen she used to take special delight in j vacancy, many of the applicants possess-
excelling me in marksmanship, bringing j ed of experience on the smaller papers in
the <**ulrrel down plump to the ground , provincial towns. The list is never so
"before 1 coifd even get my gun to my j i a r depleted that it is necessary to reach
shoulder I used to think she was not ! out for those who have never demon-
onlv Diana, hut Juno and Venus all com- | strated their ability to do something,
tvned 4h! those were wonderful days. Before replying to tne Mississippi 1n-
Householders—the davs when i lay a | quirer I mentioned the matter to the
worship the reot 0 f phvsical culture editor of the womans page on one of the
and offered ‘ offering to jiu-jitsu days ! largest Now York daffies. “Ten l^to
When we fished, hunted, rowed and j keep away from New York,
f roi
equal
was the
joked together, slie the more than my j advice. “There are too many newspaper
;l In »" •P”rtc 1J'T k '„°ow Ime'charming worn- MMW niV.r so-, M*lmr than 11,0
er,
is too late to bo helped. 1 suppose.
I certainly sympathize with tlie poor
little girls of Boston. It's simply dead
hard luck that they have to live old
maids, but l might exp.ain why the west
ern "bachelors" referred to in Aliss 1 -ot-
tie Marion Varehereau’s letter to the
commissioner of pension!- no not like the
idea of marrying a "Boston girl."
Y’ou see, we do not get the nice fresh
vegetables, meats and other dainties out
on the desert land that you enjoy in the
east. Our principle food consists of stale
bread and canned beans—your famous
“Boston* baked beans.” Oh. it is cer
tainly nice to have a lunch at midnight
of bread and those beans. V,'et:. I dream
of beans when I sleep in the cay. I think
of beans while taking my warns; tn fact,
I can't get beans off rcy mind; so after
having to endure "beans" in thees parts
a man would naturally fight shy of any
one from a bean coimrry.
Most of the boys out here are from
eastern cities, and would like to get back,
but It is too far to walk. Oh. this life
is simply fine, beautiful; there's nothing
that would compare with it (in your
mind.) On one side is a range of rocks
and sand as far as the eye can reach. It
never gets even uncomfortable here, tlie
WHAT WOMEN ARE LOSING.
Many persons, who have failed to real
ize their dreanu* of hajivness. grow pes
simistic and preach the evanescence or
tiie nonexistence of love, or they ridi
cule it as weak sentiment. As a result,
love is shriveling as a plant during
drought, and the better natures of people
are perishing through lack of the spirit
ual nourishment that comes from love
in all Its various forms and manifesta
tions.
Woman is so constituted that when her
experiences are such as to cloud her love-
life she suffers greater deterioration from
this and greater mental and bodily pain
than man suffers from the same cause.
In her nature love predominates, and
when this predominance is lost she loses
her sweetest and most powerful charm.
In this commercial, wealth-greedy ago
thousands of women are being shorn of
•their love nature and becoming mow
like men in their pursuits, ambitions,
thoughts, voice, walk and appearance.
This is contrary to nature. In the order
of evolution each zone has its own or-
ganiaztion, and when thse are trans
planted to other zones they degenerate.
So woman deteriorates when she is trans
planted from her oven sphere to the
She loses her
own -peculiar qualities, while gaining
some of man's least noble characteristics
Peace, good will, love—these form the
natural atmosphere of woman, but poli
tics is war, commercial is war, wealth-
getting is war. This male atmosphere
of tumult is directly opposed to the na
ture of woman and when she immerses
herself in it she perishes as woman; the
love element in her grows weak, and
loses its power to charm and influence
mim.
is saddening to observe everywhere
n Reddy's nrtiele-the only evidence ' t’K
offered—as a ease in point? soapy water run* like a torrent. This Is how it e.irr--,
"In inventive genius ” Conclusive proof away all the dirt from the clothes, In from s:.i > o-n
of ,he monumental laziness of the sex. ; ^rfoutthrough the meshes of „
"Tn physical courage:” Per imps he does i fabrics WITHOUT ANY RUBBING.-without .
—,,.<-1 n-nnv,r, in nhvaical courage but he I WEAR and TEAR from the washboard,
excel woman in physical couia„e. nut | u will wash the finest (are fabric without hreakm *
is ill turn eclipsed by the bull dog. athread, ora button, and it will wash a hearv. <i: r • -■
"In moral courage.” Libel. The moral carpet with equal easo and rapidity^ Fifte-- -
: d- terioration of human civilization,
t withstanding their proud boast of
ogress. This deterioration is the direct
the
IlOtiWi
progress. This deterioration is the direct
lesult ol. the decay of the love principle
in mankind and as 'Woman is the repre-
sentati\ e of this principle, only woman
can save the world's civilization from
utter extinction. This she can do by
firmly holding to and cultivating her own
nature—a nature rich in love, with Its
outgrowth of pity, forgiveness, faith,
and helpfulness.
The cities, overflowing with people from
the country, become fertile fields for
vice, disease and destitution. They can
be purged only -by sending their people
back to the country to breathe pure »r
and lead simple, industrious lives. So
woman who has left her native sphere
of peace, to dwell in Che male atmos
phere of tumult and strife is losing all
■those attributes that kent the social wo Id
rightly balanced. When she returns to
ber own place and allows her love na
ture to grow, she may* redeem what she
has lost and save the world through the
conserving and harmonizing power of her
love. OTTO JEM'S HUBBY.
The Texas Wonder.
Cures all Kidney, Bladder and Rheumatic
troubles; sold by all druggists, or two
months' treatment by mail for SI.00. Dr.
E. W. Hall, 2930 Olive st., St. Louis, Mo.