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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIX.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1914.
NO. 24
Our Second Spring Tailoring Opening
WILL BE HELD HERE
'Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Qaturday,
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March 18 March 19 March 20 March 21
At which time will be displayed a full line of
SCHLOSS BROS. & no.’s
BALTIMORE and NEW YORK
fine Custom-Tailoring wcfrolens, in charge of their skilled
Designers and Cutters
who will come prepared to show the New Styles for Spring and
Summer, and take your measure for any goods desired.
The new season’s line includes hundreds of exclusive pat
terns not obtainable elsewhere, and many foreign importations.
We invite you to call and see them. No obligation to purchase.
This Semi-Annual Visit of the Schloss Custom-Tailoring
Representative offers, we believe, the best opportunity for men
to obtain high-class made-to-measure Clothes at moderate cost.
Those who were measured for suits at our first opening will
please call and try them on.
P. F. CUTTINO & COMPANY
J. T. SWINT
i nnm’T PUT cheap -
1 III 111 1 lless before
1 UUI1 1 quality.
Make promises I can’t ful
fill.
Pretend to sell goods for
less than cost.
Reduce the price on certain
articles and try to make it up
by overcharging on others.
Claim to be the one and
only decent grocery store in
existence.
I nfl SELL only relia-
1 UU ble goods.
■ uv K ee p nl y stock
fresh and clean.
Buy as cheap and sell as
low as anyone honestly can.
Fill all orders promptly.
Claim to be the "original
fishman” of Newnan, and will
have full supply of fish, oys- .
ters and celery every Friday
and Saturday in season.
The trading public evidently appreciates the above facts,
as I sold over $250 worth of goods for cash on Saturday, the
28th ult., besides charging 14 pages on the day book.
J. T.
SWINT
The Grocer
Telephones54
DOWN IN GEORGIA.
The whi*ppoorwilIa are culling
Down in Georgia:
Country ham is broiling
Down in Georgia;
I smell the goobers parching;
I see the cattle marching
Under honeysuckles arching,
Down In Georgia.
The moon shines brighter
Down in Georgia;
Dogwood blooms are whiter
Down in Georgia;
Birds sing the livelong day:
Farmers rake the new-mown hay;
Not a hen has failed to lay,
Down in Georgia.
Want to see the streams and creeks
Down in Georgia;
Pretty girls with rosy cheeks.
Down in Georgia;
So, farewell lads; I bid you adieu;
Latchstring hanging out to you
In land of plenty, sparkling dew,
Down in Georgia. - [Duke Rosa.
WEARING MOURNING.
S. PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
Fire Association, of Philadelphia
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York
American Surety Co., of New York
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
14 1-2 Greerwille st., Ouer H. C. GlouerCo.
Dorothy Dix, in Atlanta Georgian.
A little 18-year-old working girl
writes me a pathetic letter in regard to
the etiquette of mourning attire.
She aays that her father died a month
ago, and ehe scraped together every
penny she could spare and bought a
black frock for the funeral. Now the
weather is beginning to grow cool, and
she wants to know if she can wear her
good last winter’s suit and jacket and
hat if she will sew a band of black
around the arm of the coat. She says
her friends tell her it would be highly
improper, and that she must have an
entire outfit of black clothes.
The poor little girl is greatly troubled,
because she doesn’t want to do any
thing that would seem to be wanting in
respect to her father’s memory, nor
does she want to lay herself open to the
criticism of her friends, and yet she
doesn’t see where she’B got the money
to buy all this regalia of woe.
If this little girl will take my advice
she won’t put on one stitch of mourn
ing, but go right along wearing her ev
ery-day clothes. Mourning is in the
heart, not in the black garments that
we hang upon our backs, and if the
dear dead can look back upon us and
take account of what we do, be sure
that it can add no joy to their heaven
to see us swathed in crepe that mikes
us sick, or burdened with debt for rew
black clothes that we cannot afford.
This girl had a loving, unselfish
father, who tried his best to take care
of her. Does she not know that he
would far rather that she put the
money that a mourning outfit costa in
good food to nourish her, and keep
her well and strong, than for her to go
half starved in order to pay for gar
ments publicly to proclaim her loss?
And inasmuch as it can do the dead
no good .for us to clothe ourselves in
sombre garments, and as it intensifies
the sorrows of the living, why should
we be bound by the opinion of fools in
such matters? Why should we even
listen to their chatter, or be affected
by it?
The heart that mourns has no need
of a black uniform to advertise its
bereavement, and when the livery of
grief is worn by those who rejoice,
rather than sorrow, it becomes a sacri
lege, a mockery of death itself. Yet
we see women dreeaed in the deepest
black whose actions belie their clothes,
whose faces belong to the comic opera
chorus rather than the funeral proces
sion, and who justify the theory that
the grief is safest that breaks out
the most profusely in billows of crepe,
and that many a widow wears a weep
ing veil to hide her joy at being free
again.
It is one of the tragedies of death
that we meet it neither with the faith
of Christians nor the common sense of
philosophy. Whether we believe that
the beloved ones that have passed
on have gone to Elysium or- into
Nirvana, we know that they arc, at
least, at peace and at rest, and better
off than they were in this hard and
cruel world. Theirs is the gain, ours is]
the loss, but instead of trying to miti
gate our natural sorrow we seem to
think that there is merit in making it
as hard as possible. We are like the
Eastern fanatics that keep their wounds
green by turning the knife in them.
We need cheer and whatever bright
ness possible brought into our lives
then more than at Bny other time, and
yet we pull down the blinds of our win
dows and shut out the sunshine; we silence
music, and we garb ourselves in black
that makes every casual glance at our
dress stab u3 anew with our sorrow.
All physicians bear testimony to the
unhealthfulness of wearing mourning.
Every nerologist will tell you that for
a delicate and nervous woman, in the
throes of a great grief, to smother her
self in crepe is to endanger not only her
life but her reason, and that many
woman owes her being a mental and
physical wreck to her mourning. Yet
so great is the power of fashion and
convention that only women of the
greatest independence of character dare
to defy the edict that dyes them in
black for a prescribed number of msnths
after a death in their families.
The heaviest burden of this senseless
custom falls, however, on the poor.
The rich can at least afford to throw
away all their old clothes and buy new
black ones when they sufTer a bereave
ment. The poor cannot.
To many a poor family a death means
not only the grief of losing one they
love, but being plunged into financial
ruin by the necessity they feel to have
a display funeral, and to purchase |
mourning wardrobes. Dresses and hats
and warm coats, not now, but with |
months of good wear in them, must be
cast aside, and new black ones pur-1
chased in order to comply with an
idiotic convention.
To pay for these black clothes means
that every legitimate expense must be
cut down. There must be lens food, leBB
fire, less light; old people must be de
nied comforts, little children deprived
of the things they need. A hard-
worked man or woman must work still
harder. Young boys and girlH must be
taken from school and sent out to earn
a few more cents a day to help the
family pay off the debts for their
mourning.
Is it not pitiful? Is is not grotesque?
Is it not time that people began to ubo
a little sense in the matter, and re
fuse to be bound by a heathenish su
perstition that compels them to wear a
certain kind of garment, whether they
can afford it or not, in order to pro
claim to the passerby the moBt sacred
secret of their hearts?
Away with the mourning garb! Each
heart knoweth its own bitterness and
its loss, and clothes have nothing to do
with the measure of its grief.
A Mother’s Creed.
Unltafinn Calendar.
I believe in tho eternal importance of
the borne as the fundamental of society.
I believe in tho immeasurable possi
bilities of every boy and girl.
1 believe in the imagination, the trust,
the hopes, and tho idealB which dwell
in the hearts of all children.
I believe in. the beauties of nature,
of art, of books and of friendship.
I believe In the satisfaction of duty
well done.
I believe in the lit'le homely joys of
everyday life.
I believe in the goodness of the great
design which lies behind our complex
world.
I believe in the safety and peace
which surrounds us all through the
over-brooding love of God.
I believe in the will of God as the
one and only law of human life in all
its relations.
1 believe in training my children to
be faithful children of God and disciples
of J chub Christ.
Chronic Stomach Trouble Cured.
There is nothing more discouraging
than a chronic disorder of tho stomach.
Is it not surprising that many suffer for
years with such an ailment when a per
manent cure is within their reach and
may be had for a trifle? “Ahout one
year ago,” say P. H. Beck, of Wake-
lee, Mich., ”1 bought a package of
Chamberlain’s Tablets, and since using
them I have felt perfectly well. I had
previously used any number of differ
ent medicines, but none of them were
of any lasting benefit.” For sale by
all dealers.
We Have Faith in This Stomach
Remedy.
A woman customer said to us the
other day, “You ought to tell everyone
in town about Itexall Dyspepsia Tablets.
I would myself if I could.” That set
us to thinking. So many people have
UBed them and have so enthusiastically
sounded their praises both to us and
their friends, that we had an idea you
all knew about them. But, in the
chance that some of you who suffer
from indigestion, heartburn, dyspepsia,
or some other complaint, don’t know
about them—we are writing this.
They contain Bismuth and Pepsin,
two of the greatest digestive aids known
to medical science. They soothe and
comfort the stomach, promote the se
cretion of gaHlric juice, help to quickly
“You are very beautiful,” said a
young man to his sweetheart.
“Ah, well," she answered, "beauty,
you know, is only skin deep.”
“Well,” he replied, “that’s deep
I'm no cannibal.”
he rei
enough for me.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAX ATI VE BKOMO Quinine. It atop* the
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
DruvaUu refund money if ft faila to cure.
K. W. CUOVK'S signature on each box. 23a
digest the food and convert it into rich,
red blood, and improve the action of
the bowels. We believe them to be the
boBt remedy made for indigestion and
dyspepsia. We certainly tyouldn’t of
fer them to you entirely at our risk un
less we felt sure they would do you a
lot of good. If Itexall Dyspepsia Tab
lets do not relieve your indigestion,
check heartburn, and make it possible
for you to eat what you like whenever
you like, come back and get your mon
ey.
Sold only at the more than 7,000 Rex-
all Stores, and in this town only at our
Btore. Three sizes, 25c. t 50c. and $1.
John R. Cates Drug Co. Bnd Stanley-
Johnson Co., Newnan, Ga.
A woman knows her new hat isn’t
becoming to her because her dearest
enemy tells her it is.
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