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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.