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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLVJ
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 19i;0.n
NO. 19.
HIGH PUCES BOYCOTTED
ON
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Have purchased W. B. Mitcham’s entire ^tock of Staple and Fancy Groceries.
These goods were bought so as to make prices that will interest everyone.
Below we give quotations on a few articles:
2-Ib. can selected Tomatoes,
7c.
Fairbanks’ Gold Dust, seven for
25c.
2-lb. can Corn,
8c.
Different kinds of Soap, seven for
25c.
3-lb. can Custard Pumpkin,
20c.
5c. packages Starch, seven for
25c.
3-lb. can Bartlett Pears,
25c.
Bread Tickets, six "for
25c.
3-lb. can Pie Peaches,
12c.
Bulk Olives, per quart,
50c.
3-lb. can Dessert Peaches,
25c.
Green Mountain Irish Potatoes, peck,
30c.
3-lb. can Red Beets,
10c.
Sweet Potatoes, peck,
23c.
3-lb. can Van Camp’s Hominy,
25c.
Mixed Tea, 3 lbs. for
$1
Grandma’s Washing Powder, seven for
25c.
Good Coffee, 8 lbs. for
$1
npODMC The price of Brooms has advanced to where people cannot sweep
DnUlllui) very much. Call and see our Brooms. Get prices on everything.
pipKI CO We have entirely too many Pickles—Sweet Pickles, Sour Pickles,
nUi\LLO and more Pickles. Prices on Pickles will certainly surprise you.
TRY PUNCH’S KARPET SWEEP—MAKES OLD CARPETS NEW.
C. P. COL
9
Phone 31
Just a Starter for I
We ask the people of Coweta and adjoining counties
to come in and make our place headquarters for this year.
We have a large store, it is filled with the best goods,
and these goods are sold at the lowest prices.
We invite'your attention to our large Grocery room,
•where you will find the largest stock of Groceries and Feed
stuff s in the city. Have just received a car-load of Syrup,
and can sell you a barrel at a low price. Prices range from
18 to 50 cents per gallon, and can be-bought by single gal
lon or 5 and 10-gallon kegs, and 25 and 50-gallon barrels.
FLOUR, FLOUR.
Five hundred barrels of Flour in the house--any kind
you want, and every sack guaranteed. It will pay you to
investigate our prices on this lot, as we have 1,000 barrels
to be shipped Feb. 1; so we must make room for this big
shipment.
We have the best horse feed known—Alfacorn. Try a
sack and be convinced.
Have in stock a complete line of Plows—any kind—
and everything that goes with a plow. Now is the time to
get a Chattanooga Plow.
Get our prices on Barbed Wire. The heaviest 4-inch
Wire at 3c. per pound. This Wire will run 15 feet to the
pound. One car-load only at this price.
H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
"Phones 58 and 342
THE MIDNIGHT OIL.
A huBh Is’over all. Tho noisy town,
Wearied of strenuous work, Is ffone to rest,
To sleep child-like on its mother’s breast;
While silence, like some huffe und somber crown,
Upon the peaceful niff lit comes broodinff down.
Anon there echoes from the nciffhborinff dark.
In answer to gay roysterers, the bark
Of honest watch doff. In a shabby Kown,
With locks unkempt, the room in disarray,
All heedless of the rapid fliffht of time,
Working; while others sleep, in broken chair
Thut mourns and creaks to his frail body’s sway.
And finjrers movinff to a merry rhyme,
The poet darns his socks—his only pair.
—[James J. O’Connell.
How Can a Wife Help Her Hus
band?
Dorothy Dlx.
One of the curious problems that the
social conditions of to-day present to a
woman is the question of how she can
best be a real helpmeet to her husband.
In former times a wife’s work was
laid out for her. The pioneer woman
helped her husband by going forth with
him to tame the wilderness. She tanned
the skins and wove the cloth for the
clothing of her family. She ground the
meal. She did the cooking and the
washing for her husband and children,
and converted into food the supplies
that her husband brought to her.
Modern conditions have changed all
of that. Woman’s work of the past
has been largely taken out of her hands.
Big factories do the labor that she once
performed, and do it better and cheap
er than she could, possibly do it her
self.
In addition, woman herself has
changed. Often she is now a highly
skilled professional, capable of earning
a good salary in the line of work in
which she has perfected herself; and so
when she marries a poor man, as she
generally does, her position offers a cu
rious and a vital economic problem for
our consideration.
Here is a woman who is in love with
a man, and who longs with her whole
heart to be a real wife, a real assis
tance to him. The impulse of service
and of helpfulness to her husband is
just as strong in her breast as it ever
was in that of her pioneer great-grand
mother. Furthermore, the man that
she has married has his own way to
make, his own fortune to carve out, and
needs the help of his wife every bit as
much as her great-grandfather did.
How, then, shall the wife best help
her husband?
Shall she continue at her work, at
which she is an expert? Or shall she
help him by going into the kitchen,
where she is nothing but an unskilled
blunderer?
If every working woman married a
millionaire no such question would arise,
but the majority of business women
who marry fall in love with men who
have their careers to make, and who
cannot afford to burden themselves
with wives who are nothing but orna
mental pieces of bric-a-brac. If these
men are to get on in the world their
wives must help, and the question is
whether they shall best help by becom
ing domestic drudges, or by continuing
the gainful occupation that they follow
ed before marriage.
Of course, where there are children
the question settles itself, but there
are many families in which there are
no children, and where the woman not
only pines for the occupation afforded
by her old work, but for the money that
it used to bring her.
Why, she asks herself, should she
need and want things when she has the
ability to make the money to buy them?
Why, above all, should her husband
toil to support her when she is just as
able, physically and mentally, .and as
well equipped to make a living as he is?
Why should the two of them, both work
ing and earning money, not acquire a
competence, while with only the man’s
salary they are kept on the ragged edge
of poverty, with no chance of laying up
anything for old age?
This is the problem that every work
ing woman is turning over in her own
mind. She does not want to have to de
cide between a good job and a husband.
She does not want to be a burden on her
husband. She does not, if she has spent
thousands of dollars and years of time
fitting herself for some profession,
want either to sacrifice her love nr else
give up her profitable and congenial oc
cupation to stand over a cooking stove
and a washtub. Yet see wants, with
all her soul, to help her husband—to be
a real helpmeet to him.
Abstractly, there is no reason why a
woman should not help her husband in
the way that may be easiest and most
agreeable to her. If, after marriage,
she would rather continue to be a school
teacher, a clerk or a stenographer with
pay, than a cook, she should certainly
have the privilege of doing the kind of
work that she likes best.
It is the quintessence of selfishness
for a husband to say that his wife must
help him by doing manual labor, when
she is capable of doing mental work.
The woman who marries a grocer do**s
not force him to sacrifice his good trade
and become a lawyer because she pre
fers the law, nor has the man who mar
ries a woman lawyer, doctor, or buyer
any more right to require her to give
up her lucrative trade and become a
mere cook because he prefers her to
cook.
Economically considered it is a waste
of talent and ability for a woman who
is capable of earning $50 a week to
spend her tin:o doing housework that a
a-week domestic could do equally as
well, or even better, and nothing but
senseless prejudice and foolish pride
makes us turn the woman, who is capa
ble of doing better things, into a scul
lery maid, simply because she is mar
ried.
The changes in economic conditions,
the altered status of women, the very
changed conditions of living, have
brought us to a time when we are bound
to face the fact that the woman, who
is a trained wage-earner, can often best
help her husband by continuing to earn
money, and that as long as he needs hen
help, he has no right to dictate to her
the way in which she shall assist him.
Nor, should any man feel any more
shamed in profiting by the dollars that
his wife earns than he would in eating
the food that she cooked or wearing the
clothes that she sewed or washed. In
deed, the mere fact that both are wage-
earners, both working for a common
cause, both pooling their finances, draws
a husband and wife together in that
real partnership and close community
of interests that is the strongest tie on
earth. They are comrades; they do
not stand to each other in the relation
of dependent and patron, that is always
bound to be full of bitterness.
Only man’s pride and masculine ar
rogance make him want his wife to
help .im by working out of sight, and
tho modern man has got to Bwallow a
lot of his pride in dealing with the
modem woman.
Mr. E. A. Kelley, Belvidere, III.,
writes ue: “I am an ex-engineer with
22 years active service to my credit.
About three years ago my kidneys
were affected so that I had to give up
my engine. First I was troubled with
severe, aching pain over the hips. Then
followed inflammation of the bladder,
and specks appeared before my eyes.
A sample of Foley’s Kidney Pills that j
I tried so ben- fited me that I bought j
more. I continued to take them until j
now I can safely testify they have mad** j
me a sound and w»-ll man. ’ ■-’old by
all druggists.
Mother and Sons.
Juno Calhoun in Harper’s Bazar.
Always I was conscious that I must
keep my boys close to me. I knew the
time would come when my authority
could not be enforced. Then only love
could bond them to my wishes and judg
ment. So I sought for nearness and
mutual understanding. From the first
they knew I would tell them the truth
and never refuse to answer a direct in
quiry. When they brought me the
physiological questions which are bound
to enter the life of the growing child I
answered them simply and clearly. I
made nothing common or unclean. Life
was pure and sacred, and if there was
anything they did not comprehend they
must turn to me for the clean truth, se
cure that they would get it.
It was not only seriousness we shared.
Fun of all sorts, outings, jollifications
for birthdays and holidays, vacations in
the open, all these we had together, and
I learned much of games and sports
which had been a sealed book to me
even in my youth. But a familiar Btory
it had to become to me if my boys and
I were to be truly “intimate friends.’’
While it is often impossible to pre
vent an accident, it is never impossible
to be prepared-it is not beyond any one’s
purse. Invest 25 cents in a bottle of
Chamberlain’s Liniment and you are
prepared for sprains, bruises and like
Injuries. Sold by all dealers.
Only tailors and the vulgar judge a
man by the clothes he wears. The dis
cerning judge him by the clothes his
wife wears.
HEALTH
INSURANCE
The man who Insures his Ills Is
wise for his family.
The man who' Insures his health
Is wise both for his family and
himself.
You may Insure health by guard.
Ing It. It Is worth guarding.
At t h e first attack of disease,
which generally approaches
through the LIVER and mani
fests Itself In Innumerable ways
TAICF -
WsPills
And save your health.