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Happy Happenings.
Farmers are up making good
use of the dry w eather, but rain
is beginning to be needed.
Mrs. Jane Banks and her daugh
ter, from Bolinbroke, visited Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Stanfield Sunday;
and also Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dorsey
visited them.
The wheat thresher is making
its rounds in this section.
I know a girl who managed to
enjoy doing housework, and she
had to do it, too. Every other
girl of her acquaintance hated to
dust and scrub and.to make beds,
wash dishes, and tidy hall closets.
But this girl seemed not t njy to
have resigned herself gracefully
to doing these things, but to get
actual fun out of them as well.
And when a number of girls she
knew were complaining of their
housewdrk task and asking her if
she didn’t hate them, too, she said
shyly: “No, because I have a
game to play.”
“A game?” they echoed.
“Yes,” she answered blushing
confusedly.
“I made it up for myself when I
have sweeping to do, I pretend
that I am a noted beauty and belle,
and that I am doing it to preserve
my figure. Some of them do it
for just that reason, I’ve read. I
pretend that I am taking it for
gymnastic exercise; so I open the
windows wide and begin to sweep
rythmically—singing or humming
to myself to keep the strokes in
time. I count strokes, too. You’ve
no idea what a difference it makes.
Scrubbing is hard, hot work. 1
pretend that I’m doing so that I’ll
perspire freely—for perspiration
is one of the greatest beautifiers
for the skin, and to develop my
neck and chest; and when I dust I
make believe that I own a great
deal of priceless bric-a-brac that I
can’t trust servants to handle. I
make up stories about the old, fa
miliar things we have, and pretend
what famous people they used to
belong to.”
“What do you do for dish wash
ing?” they cried, “and for peeling
potatoes, and for making beds, and
for darning stockings?”
“I have games for them all,” she
admitted.
“When I wash dishes I pre
tend”—she blushed and hesitated
—“well, if you must know,” she
laughed, “I pretend that they’re
my lovely wedding presents, and
that I wash them because I
wouldn’t have anything happen to
one of them for the world. I pre
tend what a pretty little house
gown I have, an-old-rose cash
mere, very simply and sweetly
made with a sheer of swiss apron
over it and my gingham apron
over that. And when I make beds
I play that 1 am teaching bedmak
ing in a kindergarten school,
showing the class just ho v it
should be done, and telling them
in my lecture as I work, how one
can know a housekeeper by the
way she makes a bed. And when
I peel potatoes I have several
things I think of. One is that
fairy tale of the prince who loved
three equally beautiful sisters and
couldn’t decide which of them to
wed. So he asked his god moth
er’s advice, and she told him to go
to see them and take with him a
cheese and observe how they cut
it. He did, and one cut the rind
off wastefully, another pared it
so close and thin that it was easy
to see she was as parsimonious as
the first was prodigal; but the
third did it just right—neither too
st n-ily nor to carelessly. So, of
course, he married her. I pretend
that I am a poor but lovely kind of
girl —a sort of Cinderella and that
a wonderful prince is looking for
a wife and all the girls are trying
to impress and please him, but
that he has said he cannot judge
the girl by her parlor manners.
So he is going around in disguise
of a poor man searching garbage
cans to see how each girl pares
potatoes, ajid when he sees my
parings he is coming in to ask
about me and to fall in love with
me.”
It’s a lovely game, and an easy
way to get house work done with
out grumbling and fretting about
it.”
Miss Susie Stanfield and her two
little sisters, Ula and Jewel, and
her little neice, Bennie Maud Dor
sey, spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
Mitchell.
Misses Lillian Stanfield and
Maud Banks made a business trip
to Griffin Wednesday.
Mr, and Mrs. W. T. Stanfield
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
John Doisey Sunday.
Misses Lela Callaway and Annie
Wynn, of Lovejoy, were the
guests of Miss Ida Callaway and
Miss Lillian Stanfield Sunday.
Well, as news is scarce, I' will
ring off. Pearl.
MONEY —If you need money at
5 per cent, to pay off a mortgage,
buy a home, or for any purpose,
write us.
Georgia Loan & Investment Co.,
Tifton, Ga.
Along Route Four.
(Last Week’s Letter.)
Mr. Joe Rawds, of Jackson, is
visiting his brother, of near Mc-
Donough, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Duffey, of
Locust Grove, spent Sunday after
noon with the latter’s parents.
Mrs. Georgia Culpepper and
daughters spent Friday w r ith Mrs.
F. M. Jackson and family.
Ask Mr. David Cathey what is so
attractive down about the Gin
house.
Rev. Olin King will fill his regu
lar appointment at Turner’s Sun
day.
Misses Alma Culpepper and
Tommie Lou Morris were out rid
ing Saturday afternoon.
Messrs. Johnie Knight and Carl
Bright came through this section
Friday evening on their bicycles.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Jackson and
daughters, Misses Ora and Bertha,
were the guests of B. T. Berry
and family Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Mattie Crowell, of McDon
ough, is spending a few days with
her daughter, Mrs. Luther Up
church.
Mesdames Lizzie McGarity and
Fannie Sowell, of McDonough,
were in this community Friday
night.
Master Adiel Berry, of Locust
Grove, spent Sunday with his
cousin, Master Emmett Jackson.
“General green” is trying to
make an appearance in this com
munity.
We regret to note that Mr. John
McGarity and daughter are sick
at this writing.
LOST. —A coat, color white
gray, between Mr. Alexander’s
house and Greenwood, Sunday,
June 4th. Finder deliver to. The
Henry County Weekly and owner
will pay a reward of $2.
East r eeksville.
Hello, Mr. Editor, how are you
standing this hot weather?
We are sure needing rain down
this way. Gardens are almost
This Night Letter was received by the
McDonough Motor Car Company on the
night of May 30th.
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RECEIVED AT
Indianapolis Speedway,
May 30, 1911.
In the Great 500 Mile Memorial Day Race, Eight of the first Ten
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Cars to finish were equipped with Michelin Tires ‘‘AS USUAL.' *
Michelin.
ruined and corn is suffering, too,
but we hope to have a good rain
soon.
Mr. J. A. Lane and wife and Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Nail went to Jack
son shopping last week.
Miss Estelle Hardy was the
guest of Miss Della Carter Satur
day and Sunday.
The threshers report that wheat
is sorry this year.
Mrs. T. B. Connor was the guest
of Mrs. W. W. Nail Sunday after- j
noon.
Mrs. W. M. Hardy attended the
Mason meeting at worthville Sat
ul u ay.
Miss Laura Connor has gone to j
Indian Spring to spend awhile
with her brothers, Mr. Bob Con-;
nor.
Mr, Laurence Preston, of j
Barnesville, is the guest of his;
uncle, Mr. J. C. Jinks.
Miss Rosebud Force and broth-;
er, Asa, and Miss Mary Nail went
to see the convicts Sunday after- i
noon. Daisy ._
Application For Disetrarge.
Georgia, Henry County:
Whereas, W. C. anti W . W. Milam, Ad
ministrators of Wiley Milam, represents to
the Court iu their petition, duly tiled and
Look for this Sign on Leading Garages
#You cannot know what a good tire is
until you try a Michelin properly inflated \
IN STOCK BY Ǥ|
McDonough Motor Car Company,
MACON STREET
! entered on record, that they have fully ad
i ministered Wiley Milam’s estate:
I This is therefore tp cite all versons don
j cerned, kindred and creditors, to show
! cause, if any they can, why said adminis-
HOWARD CARMICHAEL
LEADINQ UNDERTAKER.
Complete line of Ctfcketf all stylos and prices.
Careful and polite attention given all funerals entru
sted to me.
Embalming done according to latest and most im
proved methods.
Newest and most np to date equipment.
Calls answered promptly day and night.
Phones 28 and 30.
/McDonough Ga.
i ts ator> should not be discharged fr. on : heir
I administration, and ' receive I.* t ’ere of
' Dismission on the First Monday in July,
| mil. A. G. Harris,
<5-23, 4. Ordinary.
