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. j3r Andrew M. Soule
TKr AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS
OF A DECAEE
Georgia has made splendid prog
ress along agricultural lines during
the last decade. It has been impossi
ble to obtain as yet the percentage
of our rural and urban populations.
As there was a loss in the popula
tion of forty-five counties, it would
appear that our rural population has
not increased as rapidly as in the
previous ten-year period. The in
crease in the population of the
state as a whole is 19 per cent as
compared with 17.7 per cent for the
last decade. This is a gratifying re
sult because a large number of ne
groes are known to have gone north
during the war. In the previous
census period there was an increase
of 43.2 per cent in urban population
and an increase of 12.5 per cent in
rural population. Georgia’s present
population is approximately 2,900,-
000. I am inclined to think that the
figures will show at least 2,100,000
of our citizens still live in the open
country. This would allow for an
increase in the urban population ot
around 260,000.
The numner of farms in the state
at the present time is 310,737. This
represents an increase of b.B per
cent. There was nothing like as
large an increase in the number or
farms in the last decade as m -th®
period from 1900 to 1910. Still,
it is gratifying to find that our farms
increased in number by a PP rO ? I .
Iv 20,000 at a period in our history
when a very considerable percentage
of our men were engaged either in
the business of fighting, preparing to
be soldiers or in industries connect
ed with our war program. The “g
--ures would indicate that there
been more diversification in Georgia
than was, witnessed in the °„
decade, that some of our farm op
erations were conducted on a smaller
acreage basis than in the previous
d< ln d !he gross production of grains
we made good progress and did our
full <diare toward sustaining our
part of the population of the United
States. In 1900 our gross acreage
in corn wheat and oats was 4,429.303
’acres The yield of three crops
was 46,130,703 bushels. In 1920, w®
devoted 5,600,000 acres to the culti
vation of these three crops and har
vested 83.210,000 bushels of grain
This represents a gain during .the
last twenty years of 80 per cent in
grain production, or an increase over
the yield of 1907 of 27.5 per cent.
Both of these gains were markedl and
show that grain growing is receiv
ing more and more attention
our people. This is as it should be,
for two very definite reasons. In
the first place, we can only expand
ou? animal industries through an in
creased cultivation of grain crops.
In the second place, we should rais e
all the grain we need for the nutri
tion of our own people and our farm
animals. To do this we must not
nnly increase acreage yields, out tne
total output as well. +V , D __
The figures show also that there
were 4 973,000 head of farm animals
on our plantations in 1920 In 1900,
we possessed only 2.653.036 animals.
The percentage of gain in live stock
over a period of twenty years was,
therefore, 87. per cent. Our in
crease since 1907 along this line hw
been 82 per cent. These figures would
indicate that the greatest develop
ment of our animal industries has
taken place in the last ten to thir
teen years. This is good evidence
to my mind of the fine influence on
the development and progress of our
agriculture which the educational
work originated and promoted
through the agency of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture has ex
ercised. ~
In the matter of corn cultivation,
we have made commendable progress
since 1900. At that time, we devoted
3.411,953 acres to this crop. The
yield was 34.119.530 bushels. In 1920
we cultivated 4,220.000 acres of corn
with a yield of 69.890.000 bushels.
This represents an increment over
1900 of 104 per cent and a gam
over 1907 of 21.4 per cent. The acre
age increase since 1910 has been ap
proximately 9 per cent. It was, of
course, much larger for the twenty
year period dating from 1900 to
1920.
In the case of oats, our gain over
1900 was 54 per cent and for the
period beginning with 1907 115 per
cent. Last year we devoted 040,000
acres to the oat crop and harvested
10,800,000 bushels. This represents an
acreage enlargement of 8 per cent
over 1907. .
The cultivation of wheat in Geor
gia has fallen off very materially
since 1900. This, from my point of
view, is a misfortune. In the year in
dicated we cultivated 550,674 acres
of wheat. The yield was 5,001,130
bushels. In 1907, the area devoted
to this crop wds 297,000 acres with
a corresponding depreciation in the
total yield. In 1910 the acreage de
voted to wheat was 141.000 acres, In
1920 240,000 acres. Even then the
yield was 2,520,000 bushels, or only
half of what it was in 1900. The in
crease of 1920 as compared with 1910
no doubt reflects some effort to meet
the war requirements of the country
for wheat. Just the same, it is dis
-1 couraging to think that a crop so es
i sential to the nutrition of our own
i people and to mankind at large
would have been so generally neg
i lected. Facing the facts as they are,
! we find that wheat production in
i Georgia has decreased since 1900 by
j practically 98 per cent. I am sure
I the consumption of white bread has
increased materially during that pe
riod. I am firmly convinced that it is
the duty and the privilege of the
people of Georgia to grow all the
wheat needed for home consumption.
There is no excuse for our failure in
this direction. We have the land in
abundance and we can raise any
where from fifteen to forty bushels
of wheat per acre and make the crop
at a season of the year when the
land upon which it is grown is ordi
narily idle. Surely these figures will
startle us out of our self-complacen
cy an<j make us take a more active
and definite interest in the cultiva
tion of this essential crop. I am sure
that we could well afford to devote
a million acres of land in Georgia
to the cultivation of wheat. If 500,-
000 acres were planted under careful
management with selected seed and
properly fertilized we could easily
raise all the wheat needed at least
for the nutrition of our own people.
This would represent a long and
creditable step in advance along the
right road. ,
Our progress in cotton cultivation
has varied a good deal during the
last twenty years. There has been
a steady increase in acreage. in
1900 we planted 3,550,760 acres to
cotton. In 1920, we devoted 5,494,00)
acres to this crop. In 1910, we Pick
ed more cotton from a half million
acres less land than we planted ip
1920. Favorable seasonal conditions,
of course, exercised a considerable
influence on the yield of that crop.
The figures show that we increased
cotton produtcion by 39 per cent over
1900 and by 12 per cent over 1907.
In the last twelve years the acreage
expanded by 15 per cent. It ap
pears that we have made no real
progress in cotton cultivation if we
measure the results by the yield
per acre. This would not indicate
a healthy state of affairs. To any
thoughtful student of existing con
ditions, it is self-evident that we
should be raising more cotton In
1920 on a million acres less land
than we actually gathered. The
thought of the cotton farmer seems
to be increased acreage rather than
increased yield. Enough attention
and consideration is not devoted to
the thorough and proper preparation
of the soil, to the selection of su
perior carietles, to the planting of
those strains of cotton which yield
the best character of fiber and to
the more practicable and scientific
use of commercial fertilizers. We
are still planting diseased cotton
seed in our fields, thereby encourag
ing the reaping of diminishing
harvests. The figures show the re
sults of the indifference we have
exhibited along the lines indicated.
It is evident that the time has ar
rived for a change in practice, and
in none of the fields of agricultural
activity is there need or greater im
portance for the inauguration of a
new policy than in cotton cultiva
tion.
The peanut crop has come on the
stage in so far as Georgia is con
cerned primarily within a decade. In
1910, we devoted 160,317 acres to
this crop. In 1920, peanuts were
cultivated on 202,000 acres of land.
The increase in yield over 1910 is
96 per cent. The gain in the south
for the ten year period was 91 per
cent and for the United States 93
per cent. We more than held our
own, therefore, in peanut production.
There are no reliable figures avail
able relative to the yield of velvet
beans prior to 1920. At that time
this crop was planted on 390,000
acres of land. It was seeded chief
ly in association with corn. The
yield appears to have been about 1,-
860,000 bushels. It adds another im
portant grain fed to the list of the
crops which can be successfully and
profitably cultivated in Georgia.
We have made great progress
along agricultural lines, and we have
reason to congratulate ourselves on
the record of our state. We should
feel encouraged over the results ob
tained, and yet there is a word of
warning which I feel should be ut
tered at this time. If we sit down
and reflect upon the figures set
forth, we will find that the increase
in production which has been ob
served is based primarily on a con
stant addition to the acreage of
land we cultivate. What is wrong?
We have failed as yet to sense and
realize the importance of intensive
cultivation. We have failed to un
derstand that there are agencies
Which we can employ whereby the
yield per acre will be substantially
increased. The extensive cultivation
of land is never as profitable as its
intensive . cultivation. What we
need to do in this direction is to
intensify production. There should
be no further extension in the acre
age of cultivated land in my judg
ment, but there should be an in
crease of from 33 to 50 per cent in
yields. This can be brought about
through the agency of seed selection,
thus eliminating the cultivation of
undesirable varieties, through the
use of only standard, pedigreed seed,
through deeper and more thorough
cultivation of the land and through
the intelligent use of fertilizers
rather than the continued applica
tion of them by mere “rule of
thumb” as has been the policy in
the past.
This, I take it, is the great les
son to be gleaned from a review of
the agricultural statistics of the
state as set forth in the figures of
the census bureau. If we heed the
facts revealed to us in such suc
cinct form, we will at the end of
another census period have imacJ»
an even greater degree of progress
and success along agricultural lines
than has been witnessed in the past.
Substitute Crops for Cotton
C. B. S„ Concord, Ga., writes:
I would like some suggestions
from you in regard to crops to
grow in place of cotton. We
have been for five or six years
trying to get up some crop to
help out the cotton but have not
been very successful on account
of.the high prices for cotton.
Our one hope of continued pros
perity in Georgia, it seems to me,
lies along the line of crop diversifi
cation. The old battle cry of “live
at home” is more important now
than it ever was. We still find that
Georgia is importing about $65,000,-
000 worth of human and animal food
stuffs which we should grow at
home. Some of our farmers have
enough meat and hay, but many of
them are still buying both of these
products from the west. If we could
keep at home the amount of money
we will send elsewhere for bread
stuffs, butter, eggs, meat, grain and
hay, we would have been compara
tively prosperous in spite of the low
price of cotton. It is true that we
have diversified much in recent years
but we have “a long way to go”
still, and so I feel that emphasiz
ing hog production is a good thing
at the present time. We can also
afford to expand our grazing areas
for cattle materially and to increase
our grain crops as well.
There should he a good garden, a
home orchard and one or more fine
rows on every farm. We can add
SSOO to the income of every Georgia
farmer in 1921 through cashing in on
these suggestions. We can also ma
terially improve the food supply of
the family both in the matter of
quantity and quality. Things of this
character appear to be so simple that
lots of people do not think them
worth while, but they represent fun
damental principles on which to
build and maintain a constructive
type of agricultural practice.
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AUNT JULIA'S
LETTER BOX
p Mr the Helpless—Kindness to All
Dumb Things”
RULES
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Dear Children:
When 1 woke this morning it was to find everything covered
with Ice. My, what a shock! And the little birds were making such
a noise, they couldn’t find their water dish. Right away, I had the
dishes, filled and we scattered grain and crumbs of bread. They
were a happv little lot after that. Try to remember our motto, and
look after the little wild things all you can during these cold days.
Lovingly, AUNT JULIA '
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins:
Here comes two little cousins to join
your happy band of boys and girls.
We live on a farm and like farm life
fine. And we would be glad for some
of you little cousins to come and visit
us this winter.
As it seems to be the rule we will de
scribe our selves. I, Lois, have light hair,
brown eyes, medium complexion, and my
age is nine years. I, Louise, have light
hair, brown eyes, medium complexion and
am seven years old.
Well we will make our letter short for
fear Mr. Waste Basket will get it. Hopnig
to hear from some of you cousins soon.
Your little neices and cousins.
LOIS
LOUISE HAKLEN,
Alamo, Ga., R. F. D. A.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
a boy from up in the mountains of West
Virginia to join your happy band of boys
and girls. How many of you cousins like
to live on a farm? I do for one.
Well I hear Mr. Waste Basket coming,
so I guess I had better describe myself
and go, fair comnlexion, brown eyes, 5 feet
and 8 inches high, weight, 125 pounds, dark
hair. Who has my birth day, the 21st day
of June? If any of you cousins want to
correspond with a West T X irß j n !. n
vour letters fly to EARL A. MOSLEY,
’ Glen White, W. Va,
Tallahassee, Fla.
Jan. 4. 1921.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit two little Florida girls i nto y°“ r
happy circle of girls and boys? I,
am 15 years of age, 4 feet 3 inches tall,
weigh about 80 pounds, have auburn hair,
grev eyes and fair complexion. I, Annie,
am 10 years of age, and am 3 feet and 5
inches tall, weigh about 70 pounds, have
dark hsir, blue eyes, medium
We live in the country and go to school,
and we like country life fine. As this is
our first letter we will close. Aunt Julia
pl’ease print this if it is worthy and. listen,
cousin, if you want to get an answer, just
let your letters and cards fly t?
* MIS'S ELICE WADE,
MISS ANNIE WADE.
Tallahassee, Fla. Route C, Box 144.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins:
I wonder if I may be perrnitted to enter
this jolly band. I have long been a silent
reader and have become so interested I wish
to join.
Wonder what you cousins do for pastime.
I am a farmer girl, so you see I never
get lonesome. How did all you cousins
spend Xmas? T had a jolly time. One
of my cousins spent Xmas with me. Well,
as it seems to be a rule. I will describe
myself. I have black hair, light brown
eyes, medium complexion. I am five feet
high and w'cigh 105 pounds and I am 14
years of Well, as Aunt Julia sajs
we must not write long letters, I will
close. Will try to answer all letters I re
ceive. I remain, a new niece and cousin,
(MISS) GERTRUDE COKER,
Cartersville, Ga., Route 5.
Hello Aunt Julia and Cousins'. Please open
the door, for it is raining. Move over,
cousins, for I want a seat by Luther Huff,
for I think we will match. As it seems
a rule, I will describe myself. There,
Henry Hicks, hold Luther tight, for he is
trying to get away. I< have blue eyes, fair
complexion and blonde hair; weight about
95 pounds and about five feet low. Now
I have let the cat out of the cage, and
you can laugh. My age is between 1 and
100. I can hear you saying: You silly!
But ? am not any sillier than my partner.
Oh, I beg your pardon, Mr. Huff. I hear
some one saying: Where did that girl come
from? Well, as I am a new cousin, I will
answer. I am from Aiken county. South
Carolina. Ruby Jordan, who wrote once, is
my cousin.
Well, 1 guess I had better ring off, as
this is my first attempt, and I hear Mr.
W. B. coming. Any of you care to write
to Mischief (that is what my friends all
call me) let your cards and letters fly.
Will answer all received. Just try me.
NITA HATCHER,
Aiken, S. C., R. F. D. 3, Box 41.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: I am coming
again after a long absence. Perhaps some
of you cousins remember me. What do you
cousins think of Aunt Julia? I think she
is a real good aunt. I think all of us
cousins should help Aunt Julia take care
of the orphan kid. Come on some of you
North Carolina boys and girls, for all of
the other states are getting ahead of us.
Perhaps you cousins have forgotten how I
look. Here I go: Dark hair, fair com
plexion, blue eyes, height five feet ten
inches. My age is between sixteen and
twenty-one years. If any of you cousins
want to know more about me, write me.
Your old cousin,
ROYAL DORSETT.
Thomasville, N. C., R. F. D. 3.
Hello! How’s everybody? As for myself,
I’m all right, enjoying life to the fullest
extent. Aunt Julia, please pardon me for
my familiarity, but that is just my way.
I never meet a stranger. This is my first
visit to the A. J. L. 8., so please print it
for me. I am just a jolly little schoolgirl,
seventeen years of age. Will not describe
myself this time for fear that some of you
would run off. Hey, there, Elmer Baggett
and Cliff Mitchell, come again, your let
ters were interesting. I go to school and
study the ninth grade. But there! I'm
sure no one cares to hear about that. I’m
crazy about getting letters, so all of you
boys and girls write me a cheery letter.
I’ll guarantee an answer. How did you all
spend Christinas? I had a grand time. Re
ceived some nice presents, also gave some
nice ones. How many of you like to go to
entertainments? 1 sure do. like to
ride horseback, but I do not like to work.
The things that I like best are eating and
sleeping. Well, I see Aunt Julia frowning,
so guess I had better grab my tarn and
run. I’ll see you all in the “funny paper.”
So long and don’t forget to write. From
JEWELL LANCASTER.
Woodland, Miss., Route 1, Box 38.
. Christmas Eve.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: My, but I
wonder if Mr. Waste aßsket is visiting
this beautiful Christmas eve. I truly hope
he is so excited over what Santa left him
last night he will not ecen notice me
this one time, as its my first time in most
two years;, surely you will admit me once
a year any way.
I marvel what all the cousins have been
doing going to school, though Iknow at
heart all that hasn’t got married. Believe
me I sure enjoy single life hury one ’round
home that Iwas going to be a bride in
1920. but I have soled them so far and
think I’ll have to wait ’till another leap
year. Who al lare with me%
Well, guess every body is anxious to
know who I am, only listen, I am or use
to be a “tar-heel” am a “sand-lapper” now.
Ha!
What all did Santa leave you cousins
December 24th% He brought me several
things, but a wrist watch most of all.
Now who all wants to correspond with a
black-eyed blond and send me the letter
box that that this letter is found in%
I haven’t seen the letter box in so long
I am anxious to know how it is progress
ing. Just fine, though I know how could
it be otherwise w-hen we have such a dear
old Aunt at the head of it.
Now cousins, hoping some of you will
remember and clip the letter box and send
it to me every week and also write me
expecting an answer. I am your new
girl friend and cousin. Address all letters
and cards to MISS BIRDIE AYERS,
Erwin, Tenn.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
a new cousin to join your happy band of
boys nad girls. How did you all enjoy
Christmas? I had a very nice time. I
go to school every day I can. I have a fine
teacher; he does every thing he can to
please his pupils. We sure had a nice time
the last day of school, decofating our school
house for Christmas. How many of you
cousins’ birthday comes on my birthday,
Jan. 15?. I would i>e glad to have a post
card shower that day. I will answer all I
receive. I will not describe myself as no
one can tell how any one looks by descrip-
EVA BENSON,
tion. My age Is 10 years. Well as tills
is my first visit I will ring off for this
time. If I see my letter in print I will
come agin. oYur new cousin,
Dallas, Ga., Route 3. Box 38.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I wonder
if you would let an Alabama girl join
your happy band of boys and girls?
I am like most of the cousins. I live on
a farm and like it fine. I live about
one and one-half miles from Henegnr, Ala
bama, where I go to school. We have four
teachers. My teacher’s name is Mr. Claud
A. Bethune. I like him fine.
Well, as it is a rule. I describe my
self, blue eyes, medium complexion, brown
hair, thirteen years old. Who has my birth
day. August twenty-seventh?
I would like to hear from any of yon
cousins. I am vour niece and cousin,
TKESSIE HICKS.
Henegar, Ala.
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MARY MEREDITH’S ADV IC E
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME
Please give me some advice, as
this is my second time to come, but
had no letter printed. I am a girl
16 in December. I am in the sev
enth grade at school. I am very
anxious to teach school when I fin
ish my grade. My teacher says that
I can finish my grade this year. But
my parents don’t think I can. I am
very poor and want to earn my own
living. Do you think I am right?
Do you think that I will be doing
right? My parents say they will do
everything to help me, but they
don’t treat me right in other ways.
My mother don’t want me to leave
home, but just as soon as I complete
the seventh grade I am going out
and make my own living. I am not
thinking of marrying, but like young
men’s company. Can you tell me
how to attract the attention of a
very pretty and independent boy?
There are two boys going with me,
and one of them I don’t think much
of. The other one I like very well.
Every one says that both of them
love me, but I don’t care anything
for them. Please answer this in the
paper. Don’t print my name.
INEZ.
In the first place, in order to
be a school teacher, one must
have a fair education, and above
all, to know how to spell. You
need much improvement in order
to fill the bill, so start studying.
In order to make a living for
yourself, you teed education,
because you will have a better
chance to cope with “life” when
you go out to work. Your moth
er is absolutely right about your
remaining at home. Do not let
the notion of “working for your
self” lead you to do something
that will take you years to get
over. Stick at home and go to
school.
I am Mary. As sister is writing
you, I thought I would, too. I am
13, black hair, black eyes, and I
think I am very pretty, and I want
you to tell me don’t you think sister
Julie ought to let me have one of
her beaus, as she has so many, and
she tries to talk to every one if they
look like they wanted to talk to me.
She says I am too young to have
beaus. Don’t you think she ought to
let me go around with her to parties?
She won’t let me go with her. Please
give me advice.
MARY.
I know just how it is. Os
course, you do feel a wee bit
jealous of the good times sister
seems to be having. But listen,
you are just a pretty bud yet,
and when you blossom out into
a flower you will not have to
waste your sweetness and beau
ty on the desert air, for then
you, too, will have beaus a
plenty. So why not nestle down
to the stalk and sleep a little
Longer—“your beauty sleep,” we
will say. And when you are
older, good times will come to
you, and you will be happier for
waiting. I really do think you
are too young to have beaus.
Will you please give me the ad
dress of some firm that buys
hand-embroidery work on baby
clothes or tea aprons, centerpieces,
etc., and furnish material or buy
them complete. Let me hear through
your department.
BONNIE B.
Write to Davison-Paxon-Stokes
department store. 59 Whitehall
street, Atlanta, children’s de
partment. Also write to J. M.
High Co., 66 Whitehall street,
children’s department. Also
write to Woman’s Exchange,
Connally building, Whitehall
street, Atlanta, regarding hand
made embroidery. State what
you can do. Send stamped en
velope for rfeply. Later on, if you
hear nothing from these people,
write to me again and I will
see what I can do in the way
of you sell your work.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1921.
The Tri-Weekly Journal's Own Serial
The Only Thing That Counts
A Mystery Romance of Modern Bohemia
‘ By the Famous Novelet
Carolyn. Beecher
(Copyright, 1529.)
CHAFTES XXXVII
Helen westfield, as she
groped in the recesses of
her mind for comfort, felt
that life, so full of myster
ies, had succeeded in destroying her
chance for happiness so far as Lan
sing was concerned. Os her own
free will she had renounced all that
she had known of ease and friends;
had come among strangers to begin
a new life of her own making, a free
life. And she had been caught in a
maelstrom from which there was no
escape—save that of continued si
lence. She loved Lansing, now that
she acknowledged that love, with a
fierceness that frightened her. A
broken heart, a wounded soul, threw
her for a time into a tempest of de
spair.
Finaally she took a grip upon her
self.
“The world owes me something,
even happiness of a sort!” she de
clared and plunged into her work
with renewed vigor.
For some time she had worried for
fear the blackmailer would again ap
pear. She wondered, now that she
had decided she never could marry
Lansing, if she would defy him. But
—then he would undoubtedly go to
Lansing, would tell him all the mis
erable story of that visit to Sloane’s
studio; tell it, putting his own vul
gar construction upon it. No, she
could not risk it. But she could ill
afford to let the man go on bleeding
her. She would wait. If he came
again she would take Adele into her
confidence regarding the studio epi
sode. Now she almost wished she
had told Lansing and Adele immedi
ately. Had she, they would at least
have believed her, even though they
blamed her for remaining. Now,
after all this time, it would be only
her word against that of this eleva
tor man and also against his vile in
uendoes.
“Hello, Adele!” David Arens ran
after her panting for breath. "What’s
your hurry? I haven’t seen you In
an age. Come to dinner with me?”
Adele had rather dreaded dining
alone. Helen was spending the eve
ning with Mortimer Kellogg. So after
a moment’s hesitation she accepted
Aren's invitation.
“Where shall fe go?” she asked
"Will the Lafayette do?”
"Splendidly! It Is near home and
I have some work I want to do to
night.” *
“That means I musn’t expect to be
asked in?”
“I’m afraid so.”
“We’ll have everything on the
THE COUNTRY HOME
CONDUCTED BY MRS.W.H.FELTON
Starting the New Year Right
I dropped into a provision store
his morning in my home town—
mnting something good to eat —and
from the confusion in the store room
and the piles of various things on
the floor, I concluded the food mer
chant was moving out. I rather
hinted so much to him. “No! No!
Ma’am —we are only taking stock.’-’
I saw the clerks moving things on
the shelves and dusting them off,
and I decided that neatness and
cleanliness would prevail after the
store room was put in order. The
thrifty spring merchant was doing
the needful things that must be done
once a year, at least.
I remembered also that I had need
for such work in and around my
home, if I could secure the neces
sary assistance for that purpose
Starting the new year aright is
exactly what we all need to do, in
very many lines of progress, domes
tic and spirit, as well as commer
cial.
The big profits and high cost of
living will both affect the starting,
and there are people who. have
so nearly crazed by high prices for
land and homes that they have ac
tually sold themselves out of house
and home and are sorry enough
about their own lack of wisdom.
Friends —those of you who posses
homes in a good locality, especially
if you hdive a family of children to
raise and educate, should certainly
find out about what other foolish
people'have done, who are never sat
isfied after jumping into hasty
trades with shrewder people in
selling what you need for yburselves.
Money is a very valuable .com
modity, but money lacks a good deal
of being the best thing for you or
yours—if you are not able to bring
up your children in a community
where they can mate and associate
with the right kind of folks. If you
have sold out and are obliged to
move, I pray you, be careful to find
out what sort of people you must
have for before you buy
the second time and locate.
The security of our own country
lies in the homes of our population.
It is not an essential thing that
they shall be fine homes—lndeed the
people who own the finest homes in
America do not expect to inha.bit
them except for a few weeks in the
year. It is the people who stay m
their own homes —very often humble
homes—that compose the backbone
of the nation.
The very rich can go to Europe,
for foreign travel. They can own a
lodge in the high Adirondacks for
July and August—they can visit
Miami and St. Petersburg or beau
tiful Los Angeles in mid-winter.
They are birds of passage as a rule.
They can’t be very neighborly.
It is far otherwise with the aver
age citizen of the United States.
Home for them is a home from Jan
uary to December. You can find
them by writing to them. You can
see them by visiting them. They
know all about the section of coun
try they live in. They are a part of
it. If there is any public enterprise
on foot, these stable ones can rise
up and be counted. The most useful
person in the average community
is the one who loves his place of
residence, and whose children are
willing to live in and around the old
homestead, and share in the toils as
well as the pleasures of their na
tive place with their own kindred.
Therefore, start right, in buying
you a home, if you haven’t such a
possession and particularly if you
were tempted to sell what really
suited you because somebody envied
you and was -willing to step into
your shoes, and pay a big price for
the privilege.
I was born in the country and
have lived on a farm the greatetr part
of my long life. There is a freedom
and independence about farm life
that I have never found anywhere
else. I do not know a prettier sight
than a young farmer's home, where
his industrious wife can conduct her*
part of the business with skill ar
dexterity—where the baby ones c
frolic like little colts and calves
and enjoy the natural things that
pertain to such an existence. The
town children must be dressed up at
least once a day—and as soon as
they are large enough to see what
all the children around them are
doing, they must have a dime (it
used to be a nickel) and go down
town and spend it. It burns in their
fingers until they get relieved of it.
The country children can play all
day—get to bed early—and have no
such temptation to eat or spend
money for things that they are bet
ter off without, as a rule. This
spending habit is a very serious
thing for children.
I would send the returned soldiers
—the young ones, to a country home,
if I wanted to provide the best and
safest places for them.
There is no disguising the fact,
that we must have a great many
more farm homes than any other
sort of homes. They are the pro
ducers. The rest of the population
are consumers.
I wish our people could only stop
awhile and consider what we are
menu then. I’m m a mood when my
own company doesn’t please me in
the least. I’ll keep you eating as
iong as I can.”
Adele never had cared very much
for David Arens, except that he was
a friend of John Blackton. But sha
chatted gayly with him, glad of com
pany.
The dinner ordered —Arens, true to
his word, had made it a most elab
orate one—he leaned over th© table
and said:
“Have you seen Blackton?”
“Seen —why no! Is he in town?”
“Yes. Staying at the Astor. I’m
surprised you haven’t seen him. You
both seemed pretty far gone at one
time.”
“It must have been he who tele
phoned.’” Adele ignored the insiuna
tion. “Mrs. Cook said some man tel
ephoned me twice yesterday. She
couldn’t remember his name.”
“Probably Blackton. He’s a fickle
sort, though, Adele. Don’t set your
maiden heart on him.”
"Don’t worry about me. David! I
can look out for myself.”
Adele’s thoughts had leaped to
Helen. Would this crniing mean
trouble for her; ought she tell her
he wae in town? The origial of the
photograph had so disturbed her.
“You bet you can!”
“I can ” Adele’s thoughts were
so far away she had forgotten what
they had been talking about.
“Can take care of yourself! See
what just the mention of Blackton
has done. Made you absolutely ob
livious of me.” Arens pretended
pique.
Adele pulled herself together. She
would think of neither Helen nor
this man whom she had cared for
and whose picture had seemed bo to
affect Helen. All through the long
dinner she laughed and chatted with
Arens talked brightly to several peo
ple they knew who joined them for a
moment or two, and then about 10
o’clock insisted he must take her
home.
“We’ve eaten everything In the
place,” she declared with a laugh. "I
feel as if I never wanted to eat
again.”
“I warned you.”
Adele said good night at the door.
Even before she removed her wraps
she took the photograph of John
Blakcson from its hiding place and
looked at It.
“I wonder —what—he—has been—
to her,” she said, a little rush of the
old tenderness coming over her. “I
Wish—l knew ”
(To Be Continued.)
obliged to have, to restore to this
country what it used to have, —
namely a contented, industrious and
simple-hearted people, who are clean
in life and God-fearing in all their
activities and ready to do as they
are done by in brotherly kindness.
OUR COUNTRY
By John G. Whittier
Our thought of thee is glad with
hope.
Dear country of our love and prayer.
Thy way is down no fatal slope
But. up to freerer sun and air.
Tried as by furnace fires, and yet.
By God’s grace, only stronger made.
In future tasks before thee set.
Thou shalt not lack the old-time aid.
Great, without seeking to be great,
By “fraud or conquest,” rich in gold.
But richer in the large estate
Os virtue, which thy chilren hold.
With peace that comes of purity
And strength, to simple justice due,
So runs our loyal dream of thee.
God of our fathers! make it true!
Oh, land of lands, to thee we give
Our love, our trust, our service, free
For thee our sons shall nobly live.
And at thy need, shall die for thee!
Beauty Hint'
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Os course, the very best nets must
be purchased, and not on© of artificial
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Fashion Notes
Eton, box and short-waisted pep
lum jackets are featured on the new
spring suits. Embroidery in match
ing and contrasting colors is seen.
Some jackets are embroidered with
gun metal beads, while others are
braid-trimmed. All the suits have
plain skirts.
Fashion Notes
In some of the silk lingerie now
shown, there is very effective cut
work, mainly done by hand. Much of
the French lingerie shows hemstitch
ing as the only trimming. Flowered
or two-colored ribbon is the favoriti
for trimming.
Novel Veil
Quite the newest thing is a veil
of embroidered net that is worn ovc;
a toque. It is .gathered together
the back of the crown and finish:-
off with a stiffly-wired bow.
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(In this series of illustrated
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important points concerning “Period
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be complete in itself.)
Type of Louis XV Chair
During the reign of Louis XV, the
furniture assumed the most varied
shapes and a variety of materials
was used. Gilded wood was used
widely, as were also many varnishes
developed in imitation of Chinese lac
quer. The tapestries used for uphol
stering these chairs were ornate,
showing vases, rocks, fountains, and
various scenes.
The chair shown is a Louis XV
armchair made about 1750 and shows
the gilded wood and rich tapestry.
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