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NEWNAN HERALD NEWNAN, FIHDAY, MAH. 12. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN AIIVANCK. Shall a Girl Work to Support Her Lazy Brothers ? Dorothy Dix, in Atlnntn Georgian. Among my acquaintances is a splen did young woman who holds a responsi ble position in a big business house. She receives a good salary, enough to enable her to dress well and indulge herself in many luxuries, hut she iH al ways poorly clad, scrimps on her lunch and car-fare, and has got the reputation among her co-workers who observe how she looks at a nickel before she lets it it go as being little short of a miser. The girl secs the contemptuous glances with which her associates re gard her parsimony, and they stab her. like so many knives, for she is in real ity the most generous soul alive. She would like to be free-handed. Also, being a woman, and young and good- looking, she would like to have pretty clothes, and go to the places of nmuse- ment whose doors she never enters be cause sho can't afford jto spend a cent an self-indulgence. And the reason why? The girl's mother, wilhout perhaps realising what a crime she is commit ting, is deliberately making her daugh ter a slave to support three lazy broth ers. And many other mothers are do ing the same thing. In this particular home not a dollar comeB into it that is not earned by the girl. She pays the,rent, and for the lights, the heat and the food. The mother has no income and furnishes nothing, yet she persists in thinking of the home, and says that "while I have a roof over my head my boys shall have a place to stay," Every morning (he girl gets up early und goes to work, leaving her three able-bodied brothers calmly snoring, se- euro that when they choose to arise, along toward noun, mother will have some special dainty prepared for them. And mother thinks that thm is ull right. She makes u thousand excuses for their idleness, and considers that her (laugh ter is very mean und hard-hearted when she objects to supporting a bunch of idlers and would like some of the money that shu earns to spend upon herself. And the girl is helpless because she wants to take care of her mother, and shu can’t lake cure of mother without supporting her good-for-nothing sons. Of cuurBo, this girl, und every olher woman who supports u strong and healthy mun, is an easy mark that the tool-killer will ussuredly get some line day. She getB neither thanks nor ha’ pence, for the mun who deliberately sits down und lets a woman take cure of him iB invariably a yelluw cur that bites the build that feeds him. Therefore, I would advise this young woman and everyone confronted with the aume problem to Bimply shut their doors on their touting brothers, und force them to go to work. In that way they will not only rid themselves of a burden that they ure under no obliga tion to bear, but will do the one thing that is possible to make a self-respect ing and decent man out of an idler. Laziness is a disease that requires heroic remedies to cure, and the best antidote for it ever devised is simply to chuck a man out into the world where he must either work or starve. Hunger has done more to ullay that tired feel ing with which so many men are born than any other one thing in the world. As long as a loafer knows that he’s got u warm place to sit, a good bed to sleep in and three square meals a day to eat, he isn't going to wear himself out looking for wink, and lie's going to be mighty particular about the sort of job be takes. Hut if he knows that only his own labor stands between him and want, he'll get right down to the real pursuit of a job, and in work he'll find the independence that makes him a man. The case of this girl who is forced by her mother to support her three litzy brothers is not an isolated one. 1 have known many other such ones myself, and I get hundrt ds of letters from working girls telling exactly the same story and making the same complaint. They love their mothers, they feel a high sense of duty and desire to divide their earnings with their parents, but they feel it a hatdehip that they have to support brothers far more able to work than they are. These girls are right. It is most cruelly unjust that their mothersahou d rob them of their hard-earned wages to give the money to lulling and often drunken sons, and the girls should have the courage to rebel und refuse to sub mit to such treatment. The one who earns the money that supports a home is in law the head of it, and the girl who pays the bills has a right to say woo shall live in that home und eat the food that she buys. Certainly no ais- “I Don’t Feel Good” Thni is wbai a lot of people tell us. Usually Lb cir bow els oi ily need deal is lug. will do the trick and make you feel fine. We know this positively. Take one tonight. Sold only by us, 10 cents. John R. Cates Drug Co. ter is under any obligation to slave her self to death to buy whiskey and cigar ettes for an idle man, even though he is mother's darling and mother thinks that she ought to. It is a strange peversity of mother lovo that makes a woman wil'ing to sacrifice her daughters to her sons, but that appears to be the way that nature built a mother's heart. When a girl goes to work mother thinks that she should turn over her pay envelope to her, and that she should help with the housework when she is at home, but she never dreams of her son turning over his pay envelope to her or doing the dishes after supper, and if he even pays his board ahe goes about bragging about what a good boy he is. But becauae mother is willing to sup port her loafing son is no reason why Sister Susie should, and if Sister Susie has an inch of backbone Bhe won't do it. Style of the Exposed Breast. Dr. W. Ii. Crumpton. In Mountain (Ala.) Home. I do not know its technical name. I have understood it was all the go of evenings in "the best society;" but it has of late come out of its hiding and boldly flaunts itself on the streets. Where on earth did it come from? Have the mothers ceased to advise their daughters? Have the fathers no au thority in their homes? Why don’t the editors ridicule it as they did the nar row, slit shirt? They called that, im modest. What do they call this? Why don’t the doctors intervene to save the 'lives of the girls? Have they concluded it is good for their health? If so, why not recommend it to the married women and to the men? 1 can see why the preachers are si lent. Some of the dear girls are in the congregation, caught with the goods on them. Besides, the mammas and papas of the girls are there and might take the preacher's remarks n9 personal. The preacher can preach about "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it, ” but that refers to the boys only, you know. He might quote without comment -better to read without lift ing his eyes from the book: "That wo men adorn themselves in modest ap parel, with shame-facedness and sobrie ty, ' ’ but he dare not say more. When the style first appeared it was in the summer, and some bulieved it was for comfort; but we are nowin the second winter, and the exposure is greater, "The men like it, ” one says. 1 would iiute to believe that was the reason for the style. Yes, some men do like it —bad men, lustful men. Gen tlemen are surprised. Good men are shucked and grieved. Maybe an old man will be excused for raising his voice against it, even though the chances nrc it will not be heeded. This is the way much of his preaching all through his life has been treated; but, ull the sums, he will keep up the preaching, and will do so to the end. God bless our girls, and save them from the snares set for them. Sleep a Medicine. The cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for food. Not that it is more important, but it is often harder to obtain. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or wo men, otherwise equal, the one who sleeps best will be the most moral, healthy, and efficient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness and uneasiness. It will restore to vigor an | overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It will cure a headache. It will cure a broken spirit. It will cure sorrow. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous and other maladies that sleep will cure. The cure of sleeplessness tequires a good clean bed, sufficient exercise to produce weariness, pleasant occupation, good air and not too warm a room, a clean conscience and avoidance of stimulants and narcotics. For those who are overworked, haggard and nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we recommend the adoption of such habits as will produce Bleep; otherwise, life will be short, and what there is of it Badly imperfect. There is an old proverb, “home is home, be it ever so homely,” but home should not be made any more homely than necessity requires. The family fireside should be associated, in the minds of the young people, not only with stern requirements of duty, but with a sense of pleasure. It is not enough to drill our sons with a se vere discipline, >n all the formalities of rigid virtue. They should be taught not only how to keep straight, but how to bend, since it is not in the power of nature to undergo a perpetual tension. Provision must be, made at home for relaxation as well as work, for pleas ure as well as duty. If such provision is not made there, it will be, as it is too often, sought elsewhere. Best Treatment for Constipation. “My daughter used Chamberlain’s Tablets for constipation with good re sults, and I can recommend them high ly," writes Paul B. Babin, Brushly, La. For sale by all dealers. IIJYou Want to Be Loved. Christian World. Don't contradict people, even if you're sure you are right. Don't be inquisitive about the airairs of evon your most intimate friend. Don’t underrate anything because you d m’t possess it. Don't believe that everybody else is happier than you. Don't conclude Hint you never had uny opportunities in life. Don't believe all the evils you hear. Don’t repost gossip, even if it does interest a crowd. Don't jt-er ut anybody’s religious be liefs. Learn to hide your aches and pains tinder a pleasant stiule. Few care whether you have an earache, headache or rheumatism. Learn to attend to your own business —a very important point. Do not try to he anything else but a gentleman or a gentlewoman; und that means one who has consideration for the whole world, and whose world is governed by the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would he done by.” Ixive makes the world go round, but revenge tries to tquare it. For the Stomach and Liver. I. N. Stuart, West Webster, N. Y., writes: “I have used Chamberlain’s Tablets for disorders of the stomach and liver off and on for the past five years and it affords me pleasure to state that I have found them to he just as represented. They are mild in their action and the results have been satis factory. I value them highly.” For sale by ail dealers. Biddlecomb was holding his son in earnest converse. “My boy,” he said, "I am filled with anxiety when I think that you will soon make choice of a wife.” "I have not done se yet, father," the young man replied. "What sort of a wife would you suggest?” The older man looked around cautious ly- "My son," he said, "if your father’s advice is worth anything to you, let me urge you to seek for a woman who hasn’t the independence, the positive ness, the general characteristics of your mother. ” He was interrupted at that moment by a light footfall and realized that his beloved helpmeet had entered the room. "No, my son,” he continued, "do not hope to find another woman like your mother. Such para gons are rarely, if ever, duplicated." No mother should allow her home to be merely a hoarding-house where the members of the family eat and sleep, while she voluntarily, year after year, consents to be nothing more than chief cook and maid of all work. Rather let home he a dwelling-place where time out of school and business hours may be spent profitably. So-called friends are plentiful—as long as your money holds out. A Tip to the Old-Timer. Gainonvillc News. Once in a while, when we feel strong enough and patient enough to go out soliciting advertising from some of our friends and neighbors who seldom break into print, we Bre handed something like this: "Now, tell me. what is the use of spending money for advertising? I have been here for years, and everybody in the country knows what I sell.” True, brother, there still exist a few isolated specimens of the old-fashioned merchant who ask that question, and really believe there is no answer to it. It is hard to answer. In fact, it is hard to speak at all.. A fellow feels like bringing up a 42 centimetre gun and shooting a little twentieth century gin ger into the man who asks it. Yes, Mr. Merchant, you have been here twenty years, but everybody in the country does not know what you s^ll. They know that you are here, just as they know that there is a big tree at the side of the road a mile out of town, or that somewhere in town there is a lock-up; and when they come into town they drive right by your place, just as they drive past the big tree or the cala boose, and they pull up in front of the store of the fellow who has not been here twenty years, but is doing a big ger business than you are, just because he advertises and makes good what he says in his ads. You can do that big business, too, Mr. Old-Timer, any day you get rid of the idea that because you have been here a long time everybody is thinking about you. This does not refer to one particular merchant, but to one and all of the non advertising kind. To the Housewife. Madam, if your husband is like most men he expects you to look after the health of yourself and children. Coughs and coldB are the most common of the minor ailments most likely to lead to serious diseases. A child is much more likely to contract diphtheria or scarlet fever when it has a cold. If you will inquire into the merits of the va rious remedies that are recommended for coughs and colds, you will find thit Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy stands high in the estimation of the people who use it. It is prompt and effectual, pleasant and safe to take, which are qualities especially to be desired when a medicine is intended for children. For sale by all dealers. Europe’s tallest and shortest peoples —the Norwegians and the Lapps—live side by side. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria. enriches the blood.and builds up the sys tem. A true tome. For adults and children. 50c Disordered Kidneys Cause Much Pain With pain and misery by day, sleep-disturbing blad der weakness at night, tired, nervous, run-down mtn and women every where ore find to know that Foley Kidney Pills restore health and Etrength, and the regular action of kid neys and bladder. For sale by J. F. LEE DRUG CO. UGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU SICK. DON’T STAY BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED "Dodscn's Liver Tone” Wiil Clean Your Sluggish Liver Better Than Calomel and Can Salivate. Oaloiuol rank re you sick: you lose a dayV werk. Calomel is quicksilver und it salivate*: calomel injures your liver. If you ure bilious; feel lazy, sluggish and all knocked out, if your bowels are constipated and your bead aches or stomach is sour, just take a spoonful of harmless Dodson’s Liver Tone instead of usinf; sickening, salivating calomel. Dodson's Liver 'lone is real liver medi cine. You’ll know it next morning be cause you will wake up feeling tine, your liver will Ih» working, your head ache and dizziness jrotie, your stomach will be sweet and bowel* regular. You will ftnd like working. You’ll L cheer ful; full of energy, \igur uid uiuliiioii. Your druggist or dealer sells you a f>0 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver lone under my personal guarantee that it will clean your sluggish liver better than nasty calomel; it wont make you sick and you can eat anything you want without being salivated, 'lour druggist guarantees that er.cli spoonful will start your liver, clean your bowels and straighten you up by morning or you get your money back. Children gladly take Dodson's Liver Tone because it is pleasant tasting uW doesn’t grpe or cramp or make them sick. T am soiling millions of bottles of Dodson’s Liver Tone to people who have found that 11 * is pleasant, vegetable, liver medicine ttikes the place of dangerous calomel. Huy one bottle on my sound, n liable, guarantee. Ask, your druggist about me. S Saved Girl’s Life “I want to tell you what wonderful benefit I have re- 2 ceived from the use of Thedford’s Black-Draught,” writes 2 Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky. 2 “It certainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, ® liver and stomach troubles. I firmly believe Black-Draught J saved my little girl’s life. When she had the measles, 2 they went in on her, but one good dose of Thedford’s ® Black-Draught made them break out, and she has had no ® more trouble. I shall never be without K. THEDFORD’S BLack-DraughT 2 in my home.” For constipation, indigestion, headache, dizzi ly ness, malaria, chills and fever, biliousness, and all similar £ ailments, Thedford’s Black-Draught has proved itself a safe, fi reliable, gentle and valuable remedy. 4 If you suffer from any of these complaints, try Black- • Draught It is a medicine of known merit Seventy-five 2 years of splendid success proves its value. Good for a young and old. For sale everywhere. Price 25 cents. Winter Tourist Fares VIA Southern Railway Premier Carier of the South Reduced Round Trip Fares To All Principal Points In the SOUTH SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST For information call on nearest agent or address J. C. BEAM, A, G. P. A., J. S. BLOOOSWORTH, T, P. A„ Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga. am The above picture represents a PROSPERITY COLLAR MOULDER, which uses an entirely new principle in collar-finishing;. When finished on this m achine those popular turn-down cellars can have no rough edges, and they also have extra tie space. The collars last much longer, .too. Let us show you. NEWNAN STEAM LAUNDRY PELLAGRA ■■■“►Is No Longer Incurable-4**™ For years Dr. Morton, the famous Pellagra specialist, experi mented to perfect a permanent cure for Pellagra. Finally, a short while ago, he succeeded. And since then we have cured many suf ferers, without a single failure. We guarantee to cure you permanently in your own home for $25. If we fail we will positively return yot/ir money. If allowed to continue too long, Pellagra becomes fatal, and ter rible suffering and death always follow. So don’t delay. Write us immediately for full information. The Alabama Medicine Company, OAKMAN, ALA.