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T-‘ 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, - * 7VT ^ 1- i o tsjt l. ■“ AT, U ^c\ TVT^^^V. 'll 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. _L „ Mtohti r i