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VOL XM NO. 35
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, APRIL, 14 1904
TERMS fl A YEAR CASH
At the Grand Stand next Wednesday the people will watch the candidates as they conne in.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
HEALTH SUGGESTIONS.
Proper Diet.
Letter No. 8. of a series of 20.
Copyrighted 1901 by Christine Merrick.
• As a nation we have newer learned,
that aa« ounce of a prevention is
worth a pound of mire. \Vo forge
gaily ahead, doing what pleases us
•and tail to awake to the fact of our
folly until we reach a point where
we have to go to work to repair
•injuries.
It would lie a great comfort ll
those who. takt^a deep and peburisr
.joy in saying “I told you so,” could
feel that this sort of blunder was
•confined to men. But women hold
a prominent place lit the. ranks of
those who possess a capability for
recklessness and a faith in remedies.
Several causes have joined to pro
duce this state of affairs.
In the first place' women are too
busy. They always cut out more
than they can accomplish and go on
{he i rine : pie that there are at least
twenty-seven hours in ever/ day. If
•their.work Were purely selfish ono
•could ojuderau them unreservedly.
But as a rule a big share of it is
done for others. Had the ordinary
woman a sense of proportion sho
i mould see that somm.imes she does
future for those about her when she
•does loss, so to speak. In other
words, if she would spare herself
•.a little there would bo a l kclihouil
ithat she would be able to stand for
more in her family and social life.
But this is something that is hard
for her to learn.
A woman almost always means
well. If she didn't there would be
morohance for her. She might ho
converted from the error of her ways.
But her ways are so good that there
•seems no ground for criticism. Yet
•even while she justifies herself in
her course of overwork she feels that
■something is wrong, somewhere.
I heard one woman voiee the opinion
of many not very long ago.
“I have so much to fill my bands,”
■she said. “I work all day and have
comparatively little time to bo With
the children. And when the active
employments are out of the way
and I want to give myself Lo my
family there is nothing left worth
; giving. ”
There is the trouble. The woman
breaks herself down by over exertion
in some good object. She does not'
take time to preserve her nealth
She wears her nerves to what is
.popularly known as a “frazzle,” and
■she takes medicine to build herself
•up-
On the grotiud of “live and lot
live” her altitude and action might
|7be justified. For wbat would be
• come o( quacks and patent medicines
it were not for the women? Men
'patronize these, too, but after all,
the women, with their generous
confidence that there is a panacea
for evely evil under the sun, are the
best patrons of proprietary remedies.
have said that women lack a sense
£ proportion. In nothing do they
"display this more than in the faith
that they can labor for years to
make them selves physical wrecks
and then restore themselves to
health and strength., by a few bottles
of some well advertised heal-all. If
they could onoo have it borne in
upon them that “earth bears no
balsam for mistakes,” that it takes
longer to climb up hill than it does
to run down and that it is castor to lords of creation, at any rate, is duo to be sticking spurs into the side of
keep well than to get well they to the idea cherished bv most of
would have made a long stride them that the food that agrees with
towards health and happiness. them must he unpleasant, and UnT
Of course it might not be so
interesting! There are still plenty
of women who “en joy poor health,”
If they did not have something the
matter with them, what would there j furnish
bo to talk about? Thoy would have
lost one of they unst absorbing
topics (d Conversation. Moreover,
they would miss the delight we all
know in being worse off than our
neighbors. Every one who has
read “The Mill on lire Floss” recalls
the pride Mrs 1 Pullet lull in tho
amount of physic she had taken, a
pride whioh her htlnband shared.
“Pullet keeps all my physio
bottles,” said Mrs. Pullet. lie
won’t have one sold. He says it's
nothing but right folks should sec
’em when I'm gone. They fill two
of the long store-room shelves
already. The pill boxes are jt« the
closet in my room,—butt there’s
nothing to show for the p;Ih-K if it
isn’t the bills.”
that which tliev love is pretty sure
to be considered bad for them by
the odvooalos of rational diet.
There is just anough truth in this to
t' cm with a" ground for
tlfbir couiplaint. It.sliotild be the
work of (he honHekee.por to provide
a variety on her table and if she
feels that, for tho sake of peace in
tho family sho must furnish some
unwholesome articles, to sandwich
these in between o.thor items which
will make less strain Upon tho
gastric powers. It can be done, but
it takes time and trouble.
It has bocouio a truism that wo
are a nation of dyspeptics. Glide in
your stomach like that
When it comes to tho question be
tween sticking in spurs in tho first
plaqo or applying remedies to cure
the harm the spurs havo done, one iB
hard put to it to decide which is tho
greater folly.
STRAWBERRIES
Those who have strawberries arc
now reaping the benefits, gathering
the fruit and sraaking the lips over
them worse than a pair of lovers
under the mistletoe.' We spent
Sunday night in tho country, had
strawberries for supper and break
fast and brought some home iu a
shoe box. The strawberry is tho
first fruit that ripens, beginning in
a w’hlloone hears some happy man
or woman boast of an unimpaired' through April and until May
digestion. But that same fortnnatol f°' v 10ws across a garden will supply
person is likely to take advantage of a family with ail the berries they
snob luck and do all s'ovta of rash J uau 1,80 during tho season,
things. The truth is seldom j Besides serving tho berries raw
appreciated tba, the person who wiu > ‘'.ream and sugar, they aro
| begins by feeling he can.eat every- 8 00< ^ for perserves, jam, jolly, wine
March, or when the whippoorwills
anil bats begin to hollo, and lust publishM in pur cojfnty papotfj and
MEMORIAM
Resolutions of Harmony Baptist
Church-
Death has again invaded our
ranks and claimed ono of our
members as his victim. W. G. Gunn
who was for somo years a deacon
and as we can not say no to his
mandates, wo must submissively
say the will of tho Lord bo dine.
* Therefore bo it resolved,
1, That m the death of our
brother we havo lost a good member
and deacon.
2, That the church and commu
nity have lost a faithful friend. •
3, That wo extend our prayoisan-.l
sympathies to tho wife, children and
afilioted mother, that tho will of
tho Lord be douo.
.4, That these resolutions lie
J he American hqsbamj |u»y not genora1Iy on(1s by |10t Sffi cordial, vinegar,shortcakes, shofftort
nulto so i*W 0Cnt L1h| able lo eat anything. i ' ja-ud cauninig. Every garden should
■A! a copy bo fuimisncd to tho bereaved
family and spread on our minutes
in memory of him.
By order of church in oonforonoc.
.1ERRY CLEMONJS,
CIIAS- C. GRAHAM
% M. KELLY,
April, 10,1004, Committee.
** Mr.
Wita .
be quite so .
wife's physic record
Pullet* but there are plenty of
women who openly or unavowodly,
tbl'o to eat auyt
• • , bi j d l)( , ata rt e ,,| have a strawberry bed.
/U least, lot tne o—. 1 : ^
right and an attempt tthtdg to supply J HONEYBEES
him with a tolerably good Htorniteh. * V
Mr. MACK FLOYD DEAD
Rev. J. M. Kelly reports a good
meeting at llarmouy Sunday
Ho
l • i .. , . mm vviui it-luiuiuij; Y ifOOCl nlOilKtvJ}. i . . . . * 'm a
cheiiBli tbo same modest pride as t°|„ ... .«• * "’u’ca that make nreaohca ttaoveevery h«coik\Sunday
j- , »ii kvemfhe can cat almost anvthinoG The oratw . ”; , . . J
their doctors and druggists’ bills. . .. . J , ' -mng Mr Mack Floyd was buried a
' Apart from this class arc women
who are so busy at their various
avocations that thoy do not take
proper care of tliomselvesr. “I
uever'kiiow I am tired until I break
in two in tho middle,” I bear'd a
woman say once. There are many
like her. When the “breaking in
two? comes, it is naturul that the
victim should turn lo what pallia
tives she can find and endeavour to
repair damages by drugs.
N ot for a moment would I criticise
the physioiau or belittle the advan
tages of medieines. But it is much
better to keep well in the first in
stance, or if one is run down, by
natural common sense methods than
lo make one's stomach a goueral
deposit for drugs of sorts.
Such common sense ways are not
far to seek. In fact, they are .so
dose at hand, so every day, that
sometimes something nasty taken
out of a bottle they aie contemned
on that very account. The patient
feels as Naaroan did. If some hard
thing were required, it would be
done, but diet, exorcise, correct
clothing seem futile, useless things..
A doctor, a prescription, appeal far
more lo the imagination
Bat let us consider the common
place remedies;' The question of
diet should be studied by every
woman, both for her own sake and
for that of her children. The
mother of a family should know
that there are certain foods that
build up bone and muscle, others
that make flesh, still others that
liiay mease the palate but do little
beside', .'lie should learn wbat
these aye iml give serious thought
as to how to combine them to win
the best results for her family.
Sho should know that food may be
wholesome atid yet appetizing, that
food which tastes good is more easily
digested than that which does not
tempt the appetite. If she will
bca'- all this in mind sne will grow
to feel that her profession as a house
keeper, which she may have thought
of as a small thing, is in reality a
very important affair.
Much of the prejudice against
wholesome food, in the minds of the
foolish to let him do-it. He is i after
using up tho powers ‘of stomach j sw
tb
which should stand by him in later
life. If bo makes drafts on his
principal now he will have none to
fall back npon when he is older.
Do not allow him to. indulge in
gnddle cakes and green fruit and
pickles and similiar deadly dainties
If ho has never had them he will
not miss thorn and the fact that he
would enjoy them should move you
no more than does his plea to be
allowed to consume unripe fruit.
-In either case ho must pay a
penalty. Yet the mother tries to
spare him the anguish which will
oomefrom green apples and, cheer
fully permits him to suffer that
which follows other, unwholesome
articles of die f .
There are sundry conditions which
should regulate the provision of
food a mother makes for her house
hold. The man., woman or child
who takes active outdoor exercise
can digest a food that would lie
heavily upon the stomach of the
person who leads a sedentary life.
This distinction should be borne in
mind when planning tho day’s
meals. The member of the family
who will ongage .in vigorous bodily
work, outdoors or indoors, will need
something more substantial to oat
than those who are to be seated at a
desk or typewriter or sewing
machine. The latter should eat
more lightly and their food should
be selected from among those articles
that give nour shment without over
taxing the powers of’digestion.
We all know persons who think it
a simple matter to eat indigestible
’food and then take tablets of pepsin
or something else lo assist the over
worked stomach. I heard a young
girl who came of a line ot dyspeptics
asserting triumphantly ,one day
that she could eat almost anything
without subsequent discomfort if
she only put enough red pepper on
it.
“My child,” said an elderly man
who heard her, “that may answer
when it is absolutely necessary as
grow older, but you arc too ybhng
T -’-mony last Friday. lie was 81
/firming more freely and earlier j ola ° nC 8, j tllel8 . ul ^
an usual. They seOm to be not so Dooly :l J ', lg a ;J* 1 f “\
spiteful as usual, and there is some of J 0 Baptist ^ Iuuer ^
pleasure iu handling them if you WJW preaahed , )y his fT J
like the business.
My way ot hiving bees is simple*
and others may profit . by the
experience: I never rattle a bell
or make any noise for them while
they are swarming.- The old style
of making a racket to settle them is
! ouly a custom, and I have never
seen wherein it did any good.
When they have settled, I place the
gum on tho ground close to the spot
where they will fall, tilt the gum to
leave about an iuch space' under tho
side next to the bees when they fall.
Then, without sprinkling, without
smoking or anything, I strike tho
limb above them, if they arc on a
limb, hard enough lo jar them loose.
They fall to the grouu 1 iu a wad
aud will not scalier on the way, and
yery little after they come to the
earth. By the time they scatter,
you can be far away if you wish.
The bees will in most cases crawl
into the gum andare no more troudle.
I have not had a single swarm to go
back to the limb. If they cluster
outside, rake them, down with a
board to the mouth of the gum.
1 had a swarm to pitch fully 10
feet from the ground in an oak. I
had to move a limb below them to
give a clear passage to the ground.
I eat the gum on the ground, tilted
it back to give them an inch or more
for entrance. Theu I_ struck the
liinb with p pole, and the bees fell
in a wad to the ground the entire
sixteen feet and scattered oyer a
yard of ground like a lump of mud.
But they went into the gum without
delay and without coaxing. The
fall killed probably 100 out of the
supposed 2.0,000, or about a match
box full; They are less -trouble
this way and I have not lost a
swarm.
Holly, Friday at noon.- Tjjef
Masons took ohargo of the - body
after the church service and buried!
it in form at the order IliS, wife,
to whom he has been married about
00 years, yet lives, a saintly woman
with the evening shades of life
drawing around her.
\ientry’s show at Cordele Friday
had some posters iu Vienna saying
the show will be “here,” which
was missleading.
The primary will be over before
another issue of this paper appears,
and our next will give the result of
the vote. The Progress has tried to
bo perfectly fair and impartial
toward all candidate, showiug no
Apodal favors aud denying no rights.
No communication has appeared in
this paper advocating a particular
candidate without tho real name of
the author being published with the
article. Several have been turned
down and the pay declined beeanse
the writer was not willing for his
name to go through the press.
The Progress expects to live on and
on, and has tried to retain the good
will and friendship of all. Here’s
good wishes and congratulations for
themon.who will win next Wednes
day.
The Sugar Cane Convention in
Jacksonville May 4, 5 and 0 will be
good thing and will impart
information to the farmers well
worth the learning. Tho fare for
the round trip will be $0.00. TLe
delegates from Dooly as named by
the goyenor, are, J. S. Pate, and
J. M.. Davis of Cordele, Alex
MoSwain and K. M- Patterson of
Arabi F. J- Lewis of Vienna and
W. O. Sanders of Pinehurst.
. There w.ijl bo a decoration atthe
Cemetery at Mt. Olive church on
Tuesday.i .tbe W** 1 .- of- this, month,
next /i’uesday week. Let a good
crowd attend and carry dinner and
implements for working the grounds
around the resting place of the dear
ones who are gone.
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