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OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
feeding the Flock
AMP* Mrs. Thomas: I have fine
.tired of chickens, they are pretty, but
1 don't aet eggs like I ought to, it
seems, for the attention I give them,
i. think I’ve made the mistake of
feeding too much corn during the
, fall months instead of buying other
things to mix with it. What I use
for our table are fat and fine —just
never tasted any better.
For the past few weeks I've fed
them about equal amount of corn
and oats and equal parts shorts and
corn meal. I was late about getting
’ bats and rye sowed and it is not plen
tiful yet for them.
Do they get too fat to lay? Would
you advise cutting down feed, eepec
cfally corn? Their combs are red and
they look like they ought to be lay
ing, but get just one or two eegs a
day. Have about forty hens and pul
lets, the pullets were early hatched
* and are about grown in size. I'm
so anxious to get them started to lay
ing. I keep the poultry houses rea
sonably clean, spray with creosote
dip, give sulphur and salts about as
you suggest in your talks.
Will surely appreciate suggestions
from you. Thanking you in ad
vance, • Respectfully,
MRS. A. G.
Enjoy all your talks in Journal so
much.
Answer —Last October I bought
five bushels of-seed oats (notice that
I bought seed oats). They are a lit
tle higher priced, but they are not
so full of chaff. I got a hundred
pounds of wheat bran, two sacks of
5 scratch, one of mash, twenty-five
pounds of meat scraps, ten pounds
of crushed oyster shell, and later
got $5 worth of sorghum seed. I
am sure that my flour do not aver
age a peck of corn a month, and
only corn meal when I give them
a mash that has sulphur or a tonic
in it. The corn meal is good to mix
the medicine with, and then dampen
it all. Really cold days I some
times parch corn, put some rinds
and trimmings from the can that
holds the meat scraps, but if you
have ever parched corn you will re
member that a gallon goes a long
Way, by putting the rancid meat In
while it is parching it gets thor
oughly mixed, and makes a good
stimulating meal for a cold night.
* just as the family likes a treat on
such occasions. For about ten days
I put a zinc bucket holding at least
ten quarts half full of oats, I poured
luke warm w’ater on them and set
them in the sunshine. That night
I -set it in the kitchen and see that
all the oats are under water, add the
bast of the dish water if your pigs
dpn’t need it worse. Then about
i noon I get it stiff with bran, and
give it to the whole flock. It will
make the youngsters grow and set
the hens to laying. I feed the
scratch in deep leaves, and see that
they really scratch for their living
But I have the living there for
them to get when they do scratch.
See the difference?
. I have a box. large and shallow,
in every pen, and once a day I put
at least a gallon of bran and as
mpch mash in there, you remember
that they get bran with the oats,
and they get a handful of the meat |
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
" Growing Cotton Under Weevil fon
ditions
, S. H. 8., Shreveport, I '.,
writes: I have jjust read an ar
ticle about your experience with
100 farmers planting an acre of
■’cotton and note the wonderful
results from the forty already
reported. I am setting out a
pecan orchard and am raising
some cotton on this same farm,
which contains a little over 100
acres. I would like to have in
structions similar to those given
the farmers in question.
It is gratifying to know that you
are impressed with the possibility
of growing profi* -bl© crops of cot
ton under conditions of boll weevil
infestation provided intelligent
methods of practice are instituted
and followed. In the past, cotton
has been, produced largely by main
strength and awkwardness. It is a
plant that has always made wonder
ful response to indifferent treat
rrient. Some sort of a crop could
be gathered <n almost any type of
sgil, even when the soil wasJjadly
' prepared, poorly fertilized,,.4fnd the
crop improperly harvested. Those
happy-go-lucky days are passed for
ever. Providence has ordered a new
dispensation in the cotton belt. We
can still grow cotton on a profitable
basis, but we must now mix brains
with the soil and use every other in
telligent procedure involved in the
production of this crop. Those who
recognize this fact and proceed ac
cordingly will continue to grow cot
ton on an acceptable basis. Those
who do not follow these suggestions
will be ruthlessly swept aside.
The inability of the negro to com
prehend and utilize the new facts
relative to conditions under which
cotton can now be raised profitably 1
accounts in a measure for the mi
gration which has taken place in re
*cent years. Education, therefore, is
the great desideratum in producing
cotton under boll weevil conditions
We know infinitely more about how
to control the boll weevil than is
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Into a pint bottle, put 2 1 /, ounces
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ypu can use clarified molasses, honey,
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EitherCfray, the full pint saves about
two»thirds of the money usually
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j gives you a more positive, effective
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You can feel this take hold instantly,
soothing and healing the membranes
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THE ATLANTA TKI-WeEKLY JOURNAL
scraps mixed with the bran in the
oats, sometimes with the other mix
ture. You can tell from the drop
pings what your flock needs, if you
pay as much attention to them as
you should. They are like children,
and we stand in the position of prov
idence to them or you need not ex
pect eggs.
I have sixteen pullets and ten
cockerels in an acre. They are fed
liberally to keep them growing, and
I did not, in October, care for the
pullets to lay too early, that many
cockerels will keep the eggs from
being fertile, but I expect to sell
the cockerels soon. Am shipping
some this week. The pullets are giv
ing me six and seven eggs a day,
about half are April hatched. I
have - only started the hens whose
eggs I expect to use for hatching.
Unless one has a warm dry place
large enough for the hen not to get
restless, or a good brooder it does
not pay to begin hatching till the
very last of December. I have none
setting yet. Will begin next week.
I buy sorghum in the heads, throw
it over in a sunny place, and it
keeps the flock busy, and they get
every seed.
I think that the reason Mrs. G.
does not get any more eggs is that
her hens are too fat, and don’t get
exercise enough. I would not give
them one grain of anything, if they
can get to the green stuff, for twen
ty-four hours. Then a good feed at
night in leaves, straw, or raked in
plowed ground will get them in con
dition, then if they are on a range,
get them off in the morning with
nothing, but some distance away be
sure there is something scattered for
them to get. Put it there before
they are up or they will want to fol
low you.
Corn is too fattening for a steady
feed, and it forms the yolk of the
egg. There may have been dozens
of them in the forty hens; they did
not find the albumen ready forthem
and were absorbed by the hen and
made fat. There is corn in all mixed
feeds we buy, but the makers of the
best sorts know how to proportion
it. Plant sunflowers, peas, buck
wheat or other small grain and let
them gather some.
-I had seventy-five head, all told,
in October, and my feed bill averages
SIOO a year. I shall only keep thirty
hens, shall sell at least ten cockerels
and two-year-old, but you see, I shall
soon begin to feed baby chicks.
If you have no green stuff your
feed bill will mount higher. You
will need sprouted oats to give the
hens, or do as I’ve done, plant it in
a trench, cover with a ten-inch plank
and when it begins to sprout pull the
plank off. Don’t turn the plank
over; slip it one way about ten or
twelve inches a day. Two trenches
filled at different times will keep a
pen of ten well supplied. It is less
trouble than using a commercial
sprouter.
I buy enough feed to last several
months. We live away from town
and the wagon seldom goes in. I
try to get peas, sorghum and the
green'stuff early, so as to have plen
ty of the right things to start them
laying and keep the new feathers.
now being put into practice on the
average farm. The considerations
to which attention must now be di
rected incluue the selection of well
drained soils that dry out rather
early so as to help in hastening the
maturity of the crop. Early, stand
ard strains of cotton paust now be
planted. Two stalks should be left
a foot apart in the drill row. The
closer spacing of cotton in the rows
is both essential and desirable. Lib
eral fertilization must be followed,
and rapid and continuous cultivation
must also be instituted. Finally, in
telligent poisoning with calcium arr
senate is necessary in order to con
trol weevil depredations .satisfactorily
throughout the growing season.
Feeding Beef Cattle in North Georgia
A. M. L., Nicholson, Ga.,
writes: I came here from Kan
sas to raise stock and grain. I
have a lease on a 500-acre farm.
At present I have 575 shocks of
corn that I wish to feed to cat
tle. Cattle can be bought at
sl2 to sl6 a head or two to two
and a half cents a pound that
when fattened in sixty to ninety
days will sell at four and a naif
to five cents per pound, or S3O
to $35 a head. Can yqu tell me
how to go about getting a short
loan for buying the cattle?
Your problem presents an issue
which deserves tlite sympathetic
consideration of our Georgia bank
ers. Undoubtedly, you can buy cat
tle of the character mentioned and
feed them on corn, shredded stover,
cottonseed meal, hulls, mixed hay,
and other forms of rbughage avail
able on the farm and sell them at
a good profit. Anyone who has had
experience in buying, feeding and
handling livestock knows that when
animals are bought thin and proper
ly fed, they can be made to gain
from one and a half to two pounds
per head per day for a period of
from 60 to 90 days. A two cents mar
gin between the buying and selling
price, irrespective of the value of
the farm yard manure obtained
will represent a substantial profit
on handling these cattle.
If you have had any experience in
feeding beef cattle, you should be
able to carry this project through
to a substantial success, and I am
rather surprised therefore that you
should have experienced difficulty
in obtaining a loan for the purpose
you have in mind, provided you are
able to offer a lien on the cattle.
I regard a loan of the character
Indicated as entirely safe, and I
hope you may be able to secure the
co-operation naeded from the bank
ers of this section to put this under
taking across and so help to estab
lish a new type of animal produc
tion in this community. Certainly,
we should undertake to furnish
enough beef cattle In northeast
Georgia to supply our local markets
with all the beef they need. As you
! doubtless know, there are many lo
■ cal ebbattoirs in Georgia which are
: not functioning as completely as
; they should because enough animals
; are not supplied to keep them work-
I ing up to capacity.
Freight Rate Revision
Aim of House Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Au
thority would be granted the inter
state commerce commission, under a
resolution introduced today by Rep
resentative Hoch, of Kansas, Repub
lican member of the commerce com
mittee, to enter at once upon a
reorganization of the country’s
freight rate structure. Mr. Hoch
said his resolution was in conformity
with the recommendations of Presi
dent Coolidge in his message to con
gress.
AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Weekly Journal Readers
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
permit a Tar Heel to enter your circle? I
dearly love old A. T.-W. J., especially your
page. Let me say a-word in regard to the
letters which we write: Let us put our best
effort into these letters and strive to make
them more and more interesting and bene
ficial. For months I have greeted the ar
rival of each issue of A. T.-W. J. with a
.veil of joy, and have eagerly devoured the
contents of the cousins’ corner. Boys, don’t
object too much to the girls' use of powder
and paint. If you could see some of them
without It you would realize that it was a
blessing iu disguise, perhaps, but still a
blessing. You nr? probably wondering who
is talking in this manner. I am a lass of
twelve golden summers. I go to school
every day and am in the seventh grade. 1
go to school at Smithtown. Wouldn’t it be
nice, cousins, If we could hold a reunion
some time? But I think we would have to
have a whole state to hold it in, there are
so many of us. I want each and every one
of you cousins to write tne a long letter; all
send photos who can. I will promise to an
swer all mail received. If I see my letter
in print I will write again. Well, I’ll close
witli another handshake all around and a
wish for the success, prosperity and happi
ness of ail. Your cousin,
MARGARET HILL.
Campbell, N. C.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I wonder If
I will be admitted again. I hope so, for it
lias Heen some little while since I wrote to
the Letter Box. Auntie, please don’t think
1 am imposing on your good nature if this
is the third one I have written. If you will
print this I will not write again in a long
time. Here is a little poem which im
pressed me very much. I hope others may
like it, tbo;
'-If we knew, when walking, thoughtless,
Through the crowded, dusty way,
That some pearl of wondrous whiteness
Close beside our pathway lay,;
W« would pause when now we hasten;
We would ofteuer look around,
Lest our careless feet should trampl*
Some rare jewel in the ground.
“If we knew when forms were fainting
For the shade which we should fling;
If we knew what lips were parching
For the water we should bring,
We would haste with eager footsteps.
We would work with willing hands,
Bearing cooling cups of water.
Planting rows of shading palms.
"If we knew what feet were weary
Climbing up the hill of pain,
By the world cast out as evil —
Poor, repentant Magdallnes,
We no more would dare to scorn them
With our pbarisalc pride,
Wrapping close our robes around u«,,
Passing on the other side.
"If we knew when friends around u»
Closely press to say 'Good-by,'
Which among the lips that kiss n»
First beneath the flowers should He,
While like rain upon their faces
Fall our bitter, blinding tears,
Tender words of love eternal ,
We would whisper in their ears.”
Thanking you’ for space, cousins, write to
me, as I get very lonely sometimes. I will
try to answer all mail received. Love to all.
(MISS) LOIS SYKES.
Ivanhoe, N. C. .
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I
am knocking a second time for admittance
to the happy band of boys and girls’ box.
First I want to thank Aunt Julia for print
ing my other letter and if this one is printed
I will promise to remain silent for a long
time. Cousins, what are you all doing for
pastime these short days? As for me, I
ti nl building a house. lam goipg to have a
family of negroes on the place another year.
Well, what are we all going to do for
Thanksgiving? As for me, I guess I will
work that day, and by the way. it is al
most here. I guess it will come and go be
fore my letter is in print. Cousins, if I
were to take a subjecf it would be on
Thanksgiving. We have so much to be
thankful for. All that are living and enjoy
ing health should be thankful for that. All
that have both father and mother living
should be thankful for that. My father is
dead but my mother is still here, and I am
mightly thankful for that. One should be
thankful for Aunt Julia being so good as t >
give us a place where we can get acquainted
with each other. There are so many things
that I could mention that we should be
thankful for, but I must hasten,on-as my
letter is getting lengthy already. 1 want to
thank the many cousins for their many nice
letters that I received the other time and
rvould like to get many more this time.. Well,
cousins, I must say good night. Will an
swer all letters and cards received. With
best wishes for auntie and the cousins, I am
an old cousin. PHILBERT SHEPPARD.
Shannon, Miss., Route 2,
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Am ’wondering
it you’ll admit a new cousin into your
happy band? We take The Journal and like
it fine. Most of the cousins take a subject
but I’ll not take one as this is my first at
tempt to write to thlT Council. Auntie, I
certainly can sympathize with you in los
ing your dog, as my pretty hound pup was
killed by a car about two weeks ago. Wish
so much I could ret another one as my hus
band and I both like hunting and trapiyng.
Shall tell you some of my experience later
if I am admitted. How many of the cous
ins like flowers? I do, but haven’t veiy
many, but would be glad to exchange holly
hock, zenia and batchelor buttons seeds for
scarlet sage, snap dragon, asters or balsam
seed, or for either of the following: Chrys
anthemum or dahlias. Mrs. Janie Moore,
come again, your letter was fine. I, too,
have a flock of pure bred chickens. Mine are
Cornish game, which I enjoy feeding very
much. I’ll hasten away and not frighten
you all with a description of myself. Shall
be glad to hear from all who care to write.
With love to all vour new niece and cousin,
(Mrs.) E. A. COVINGTON.
Fayetteville, N. C.,” R. F. D. 7.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a little North Carolina girl into your
happy circle for the first time? Mother
subscribed for The Journal a short time
ago, and I think it a nice paper, espe
cially the Letter Box. Aunt Julia is a
dear for allowing us a page in the paper
to express our thoughts on such topics as
may interest us. Cousins, how many of
you like flowers? I do, for one. My fa
vorites are lilies and roses. There is not
a more beautiful or purer flower than
the lily. You cousins from Florida, write
me or the paper one. I love to get letters
from the land of flowers. I have often
longed to visit that state, but don’t sup
pose I ever will. Cousins, have ydu any
beautiful scenery around yon? North Caro
lina has much that is worth mentioning,
but it would take too much space, so I will
not write it this time. My age is between
twelve and eighteen. Thanking Auntie for
the space I have taken, I would be glad
to get a letter from some of you nice
cousins it you care to write. With love to
all. MISS MYRTTE AUSTIN.
Norwood, N. C.. Route 1, Box 76.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you please accept
a Florida girl into your happy hand of boys
and girls? I have been a reader of the
dear old Journal for a year. Don't you
cousins think it is nice of Aunt Julia to
give us room in the paper to make friends?
As this is my first time, I won’t take a
subject. I will only say I have blue eyes
and fair complexion, and I would like to get
letters from all states, and I will answer
them with pleasure. I had better close my
letter or I will break Aunt Julia’s rules.
Let the letters come from all states. A
new cousin,
(MISS) RUBY DIAMOND.
Cantonment, Fla., Route A, Box 64.
Dear Aunt Julia: It has been so long
since I was admitted into your happy circle
that I hope you will be good and let me in
again. It has’been four long years since
my last letter, I guess you cousins have
forgotten me. but I have not forgotten Aunt
Julia and the cousins. There is one cousin
I wish to hear from. We corresponded for
a long time. She did not anewer my last
letter. I wish that If any of her friends
or relaitves reads this, or herself, they
would write me. Her name and address
was Hilda Smith, Waycross. Ga. Wonder
if any of you cousins remember Diantha
Marshall’s letter, that was printed nearly
four years ago. I received several nice let
ters from the cousins, and wish to thank
them all, and hope they will write me again.
■Mrs. G. C. Martin, my husband was a sol
dier, and went overseas, too.. He was a
blacksmith, and nearly lost his life once,
when his shop was destroyed by a shell.
His health is bad and has been ever since
be came back from Frame. Cousins, I have
.been married three years, and have the
little baby girl, named Arri Adell
Virginia. She is twenty mouths old. Cons
uls. I’ll take the subject, "An Orphan
Child.” My heart's desire Is never to be
guilty of mistreating an orphan child. .Inst
think of the poor, helpless little kids, when
they lose their parents they have lost their
best friend on this earth. If they are
adopted by good people, and treated as good
as they could be, there is a difference.
They will not love nnd be loved the same
as one of their own. I know by myself.
I could not love my baby an better than I
do. but I could not love someone else's
cliild as I do mine. The mother love is not
there, still they could be good and love it
all they can. Never be rude and unkind
to an orphan child. I have a cousin who
adopted two children once. I would hate
to leave my baby and know that someone
would be mean and mistreat it. I know
children are naughty and have to be pun
ished some times. I have to punish my
baby some times, she is so meddlesome,
but it hurts me as bad as it does her. I
love her so. but children will have to be
punished for their naughtiness, but I have
more heart to punish my own. than some
other little child. »n, cousin*. nev»r b® un
kind to ». little orphan child. My grand-
mother was an orphan, and I have heard
her tell of hardships and sorrows she had
in her childhood. You soldiers and sailors
write more. I like do read your letters.
Aunt Julia, I think you are a grand and
noble woman, you are doing so much good
for little Inez, that if I had to leave my
baby I would want to leave her in as good
hands as yours. Inclosed, 10 cents for Inez.
An old cousin,
MRS. DOCK M. HIERS.
Hosjard, Fla.
Hello, Everybody: I hope there’s room
for one more Georgia girl. What are you
rousing doing these autumn days? I have
been sewing this morning, am through pick
ing cotton; It was not a very big -job as
the boll-weevils were kind enough to help
me some. Well, what <!-' the cousins do for
pastime? Reading is my favorite pastime,
and I hare read several good books. My
favorite books are "The Ileart of the Des
ert," "Shepnerd of the Hills.” “When a
Man’s a Man,” "Freckles,” and several oth
ers. Am also very fond of Zane Grey’s
books. I have read five or six of them and
they are hard to beat. I love music, al
though I can’t play any, but I am very fond
nt it just the same. I also like pretty flow
ers. We have some very beautiful "mums”
now, they are my favorites. I also love vio
lets and roses. I surely have some pretty
cannas. I have pale yellow, dark yellow,
pink, white, red, bronze leaf and salmon
pink. I also have the dark red dahlias.
Would like to exchange flowers with so.me
cousins, would like to get some ferns. I
iam between fifteen and twenty-five. Who
van guess? Your new cousin,
(Miss) LEOLA WESTBROOK.
Gafdesvllle, Ga,, Route 1,
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I come
from the dear old state of North Carolina. I
have been a reader of The Journal for some
time, and like it fine. I guess most of the
cousins are going to school now. How many
of you cousins like to read? I surely do.
Who has my birthday, March 12? My age
is between eighteen and twenty-three. I
will leave it for you to.guess. Have I a
twin? If so, please write to me. I will not
describe myself this time. If any of you
want to know how I look, just write me. I
have been wanting to write, but didn’t have
the courage. Now, cousins, here is what
helped me to decide to write: When a
cousin wrote and, in asking others to write
them, they always said, “Cousins, please
write me.” They didn't say, if there was a
silent reader, you may write, too. If they
had, I would have written. I surely do love
to get good letters, so all you cousin* and
readers write to me. I must be going be
fore I break Aunt. Julia's rules. Hoping
Aunt Julia will print this, and will try to
write a more interesting letter.
(MISS) NANNIE STILWELL.
Gonnelly Springs, N. C., Rt. 1, Box 104.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
a girl from the dear old state of North Car
olina, knocking at your door for admittance
into your happy band of boys *nd girls. I
have been reading the Letter Box for a long
time, and surely do like it. I live on a
farm with my father, brother and sister.
My mother is dead. I will not describe my
self this time; will only say I am a bru
nette, age fourteen and In the tenth grade.
I am going to ask a favor of yon cousins:
Will some one send me the recipe for a
“kiss cake?” I will return the favor in
any w4y I ran. Well, cousins. I will bid
you adieu and run away. Ail you boys and
girls write to me and please send, photos.
I will answer all letters or cards. A new
cousin,
(MISS) PMATIDGE SEWEL.
Middletown, N. C.
Dear Auntie: Here I come again. Oh,
say, cousins, will you please move over and
let me have a seat by auntie? As I have
written before, I will not describe myself.
I was in Georgia when 1 wrote before, but
am now in the rugged Rocky mountains of
Wyoming. Oil. auntie, I wish you and all
the cousins could come and spend Christmas
with me. As all of the cousins have some
certain subject, I guess I will tell you
about "My Home." Auntie, it is most
beautiful out here in the snowy mountains.
I wish I could send you all the views when
everything is covered witli snow. We have
been having warm weather and there isn't
any snow, for it lias melted. Listen,
cousins, what are you all going to do Christ
mas? For myself I don't know just yet
what I will do, for everything out here is
so strange to me I do not yet understand any
of the people. But, auntie, I don't get lone
some. I get a good many letters from my
friends back in Georgia. Daddy said we
could go back to Georgia next winter to
spend our vacation. I live on a farm of
610 acres of land. Daddy said when lie
could sell his land we would go back to
Georgia to make it our home. I hear all the
cousins and auntie saying, "If she doesn't
leave I will run her out in the snow and
cold.” I will write again and tell you
how beautiful Wyoming is in the spring.
Cousins, will you all please write me? Your
old cousin,
(MISS) RUTH SMITH.
Marshall, Wyo.
My Dearest Aunt Julia nnd Cousins: Will
you please open the door for an old South
Carolina cousins to come into your circle?
As this is my first attempt to write, I am
a little bashful. I have been taking The
Journal for a short time arnl I must say it
is a great pleasure to read t\ie nice interest
ing letters in Aunt Julia’s council. I live
on tlie farm and enjoy farm life fine. I go
to a nice country school. I an sixteen years
old and I am in the tentli grade. I enjoy
going to school. Who lias my birth lay,
June 21? Cousins, what do yo t do for pas
time? I like to read good btoks and do
housework. I would like to yet a letter
from every cousin. So, who will be the
first to write? I will answer nil letters
received, and if you can please send me
your photos.
(MISS) MARY LOUISE REYNOLDS.
Switzer, S, C.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes another
Georgia girl to join your happy band Oof
boys and girls. My father has been taking
'Die Journal for quite a while, and I enjoy
reading the letters from all the cousins from
different states. I, like most of the cous
ins, live on a farm and like farm life fine,
am a great lover of flowers and music. Have
a good selection of box flowers for japonica
or a red jestischia. You cousins need not
run for I'm not going to tell you how I
look this time. My age is between sixteen
and twenty-two.- Guess I will say good-by.
Hope Aunt Julia will print this. Wishing
all a merry Christmas and a happy New
Year. Your new cousin.
MISS GENIA WARREN.
Jesup, Ga., Route A, Box 12.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have been
a silent reader of the Letter Box a long
time, without courage to write, but could
not resist the temptation any longer. Most
of the cousins live in the country. I do,
too, although I do not live on a farm. I
am a lover of the country.
“I love the flowers and trees,
Humming birds and honey bees.”
I live in Georgia, my native state. Al
though I have lived several years in Florida,
I love Georgia. I think it is the' best state
in the Union. I love the hills of Georgia; I
long to Jive in the hills of Habersham
county. Do all the cousins like to read
poetry? I do. I think that all poets or
poetesses must have gentle dispositions to
have such beautiful thoughts. Do you all
like Sidney Lanier, our Georgia poet? I
think he wrote some of the most beautiful
poems I have ever rend. How about "The
Son gos the Chattahoochee?" I think every
girl who works should have short hair. My
age i« fourteen. I will toll you next time
how I look. All the cousins write to me.
Lovingly,
HELEN SWEARINGEN.
Clyde, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you let
a Mississippi girl, between twenty and twen
ty-three, join your happy band for a chat?
I see that most all of the girls and boys
take a subject in writing. I will do the
same. I'm not much of a writer, as you
will know when I have finished, but I would
like to say a few words in regard to “Char
acter." Good character is the making of
boys and girls. Watch your character to
keep a patch off of it. If once mended, it
always wants mending. Some people will
ask you to do some dishonorable thing to
get you to put a hole in your character.
Although the hole in yours is not so large
ns theirs, it will grow larger. Mat. 4:1,4,
"Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into
tlie wilderness to be tempted of the devil;
but He answered and said, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” As
the old saying goes, character is like a sheet
of white paper: if once blotted, there will
always be a stain. Although you may rub,
it will never come out. If anyone cares to
write, come on and I’ll answer. Your new
cousin. (MISS) MABJt BIGGS.
Raymond, Miss., It. F. D. I. f
Dear Aunt .Tulia and Cottsinsx T wonder
if you all will admit a Georgia girl in your
merry circle. Although I have written be
fore, it has been some time. I wonder
what you all are doing for pastime tonight.
As for myself, I’m sitting by the fire trying
to write. It has been raining here most all
the week and, my! my! rainy weather
surely does give me the blues. I want to
thank Aunt Julia for printing my other let
ters, and hope she will be kind enough to
keep this one out of the wastebasket. I
wonder what has become of Mae Pittman
that she doesn’t write any more. Oil, I
guess she has got married. Come on. Mae.
and write again. Well, as my letter is
growing long, I'll stop for this time and
come again. Would like to hear from some
of the cousins. With best wishes.
(MISS) GRACE WIKLE.
Clarkesville, Ga.
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
The Girl Who Is Dubious About a
Long Engagement—How Can the
Jealous Girl Keep Him in Love
With Her’?—The Lonely Wife
Who Would Like More
Affection
DEAR MISsFdIX: please tell
me whether or not I should
wait for a young man who has
to go one more year to high school
and five at college. At the best,
It would be eight or nine years be
fore he will be in a position to be
married. There is no other boy whom
I care for, and if you don’t think
it foolish to waste all my time on
this very nice young man. I should
be content to
wait.”
SHIRLEY.
7 ’ Answer; A
long engagement
\ - ia generally a
losing invest
’4Bl ** ment of time
<JK and affection for I
JgHKa the woman, Shir-
‘’WwEjyx le - v - and this is
especially true
when she en
gages herself to
MBak / ✓ a boy. This lad
al to whom you are
» .Al- engaged will be
ST a very different
person eight years hence. By that
time he will have developed from a
boy into a. man. He will have had
all the broadening experiences of
college and new associations.
Perhaps it will have changed him
so much that he will no longer love
you. Perhaps it will make him into
the kind of man who will not appeal
to you. So it seems to me a very
foolish think for you two to bind
yourselves to do something that you
may not want to do eight years from
now.
So why not just be good friends
without either one mortgaging his
or her future? If your affection
survives the eight-year test, you can
take each other for better or worse.
But if it doesn’t, you are both free
to make whatever other connections
you like.
There is nothing out of which a
woman gets as little happiness and
as many heartaches as out of a long
engagement. To begin with, it puts
her in awkward position where she
is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good
red herring—neither wife nor mar
riageable maid. She has no husband
to support .her, and protect her, and
to take her about; yet she is cut off
from the attentions of other men
and debarred from the pleasures of
those of her own age.
She spends her youth waiting for
a men who may never come back
to her, and who often does come
back and.marries her under com
pulsion after he has grown tired of
her. More than that, a long engage
ment is even more filled with mis
understanding and wrangling than
matrimony itself, because both the
man and the woman try to impose
on each other an authority they do
not possess, and the uncertainty of
their position fills them with con-
Nothing wears out romance and
tinual jealousy and suspicion*
rubs the bloom off love as does a
Jong engagemnet; and my earnest
advice to you is not to fetter your
self by one. Keep yourself free
of all entanglements. Don’t bind
yourself to any man who isn’t
ready to name the wedding day.
DOROTHY DIX.
My dear Miss Dix —I am deeply in
love with a boy, and I am insamely
jealous of him. He does not come to
see me steady, but we have regular
$5,000,000 Asked
Plant Is Planned
Veterans’ Hospitals
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—After a
conference with Dr. Hine.s of the
veterans’ bureau, Chairman Langley,
of the house public buildings com
mittee, introduced a bill today au
thorizing the expenditure of $5,000,-
000 for additional hospital facilities
for disabled war veterans. Mr.
Langley said Dr. Hines had informed
him the amount would be sufficient
to provide needed accommodations.
10 Missing in Wreck
Os Lumber Steamer
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Dec. 17.
Ten men were missing and seven
others were reported in great peril
early today as a result of the wreck
of the lumber steamer C. A. Smith,
of Coos bay bar.
Last reports from the wreck were
that seven members of the crew
who were unable to leave the ship
under the battering of severe seas,
were clinging high up to the rig
ging while breakers poured over the
vessel in a vicious attack.
Most of the loss of life occurred
when a life boat capsized yesterday.
Hunter Sharp, Consul
Os United States at
Edinburg, Dies at 62 •
EDINBURG, Dec. 17.—Hunter I
Sharp, American consul here, died
today. He was born in Hertford
county, North Carolina, in 1861, and
entered the consulate service in 1886.
Florida Towns’ Power
Sold to Big Concern
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 17.—1 t be
came known here today the firm of
W. S. Barstow, o forty million dol
lar utility corporation of New York,
had purchased the new electric light
plant of the Cheney interests here,
together with their gas and ice
plants. Th deal also included the
purchase of the Deland, Daytona
Beach, Eustis, Leesburg and Lake
Wales, power plants. It is said De
land, Daytona Beach, Eustis and
Leesburg will be supplied with power
from the plant taken over here.
The Cheney interests sold their old
electric plant to the city of Orlando
some two years ago, erecting a new
plant to care for several rural towns
in this section with which they had
centra-tts to supply, powe*
Dr. Hardman Addresses
Clarkesville Chamber
CLARKESVILLE, Ga., Dec. 17.
Dr. L. G. Hardman, of Commerce,
addressed the Clarkesville Chamber
of Commerce at its regular monthly
dinner Friday night on the subject
“Resources, Development and Bur
dens.”
A large and enthusiastic crowd at
tended and a renewed pledge of alle
giance to Habersham county and her
interests was made.
Dr. Hardman’s speech was well re
ceived and unanimously approved
and the people of this section seem
determined to bring the county right
up to the front line m progress.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1923.
dates on Sundays and Thursdays.
We are not engaged, and he has a
perfect right to go out with other
girls, but I can’t see it. Whenever I
find out that he has a date with an
other girl I phone him and make him
break it. When I accuse him of mak
ing other dates and going out with
other girls he denies it, and tries to
make me think I am the only girl.
Should I conceal my jealousy? Do
you think he loves me because he
denies that he goes with other girls
when he really does? I am just
wrecking my life by being jealous
of him.
RED ROSE.
Answer: I should think, my dear,
that you were taking the surest way
and the shortest cut to disillusion
the young man and make him dislike
you instead of love you. For there is
no uther woman in the world so un
attractive as a jealous fury, nor is
there any other woman of whom a
man so quickly wearies.
For a little while it may flatter a •
man’s vanity to think that a woman 1
is so much in love with him that she
imagines every other woman to be,
and it may amuse him to torment
her by playing upon her fears of los
ing him. But these diversions soon
pall, and when it comes to having
to combat a green-eyed woman’s
eternal suspicions, and to being put
through nlrd-degree about every
thing he does, it gets upon the man’s
nerve and he quits.
The fact that the young man de
ceives you about his other engage
ments is no proof of love. It merely
m'-ans th..’; you .aake him lie to you
as a man always will lie to a woman
to save a scene.
The only cure for jealousy is to
cultivate conceit and common sense.
Try to conquer your inferiority com
plex, for that is what jealousy
amounts to. You would not be jealous
of other women unless you secretly
tl >ught that they were more attrac
tive than you are.
Then use a little gray matter. Rec
ognize the fact that by no possible
chance can you oe the only woman
in the world. There will always be
women,; and pretty women, and fas
cinating women, and vamp women
and the man you love will always
be exposed to their temptations.
You have to trust to luck and to
your own powers of fascination to
keep him away from other women,
or by reproaching him when he pays
attention to other women; and the
sooner you realize this, the better.
Above all, never let a man know
you are jeal. s of him. It is. an ad
mission of your own lack of charm,
and it is the surest way to alienate
him from you.
DOROTHY DIX.
Dear Miss Dix —I am married to a
man whom I love very much, and 1
have the darlingest baby, but I am
not sure whether my husband loves
me or not. He goes away every night
and leaves me all alone. I do every
thing to make him comfortable, but
he thinks that I should be able to
keep a good table and save lots of
money, and when everything doesn’t
please him he gets in a bad temper
and says cruel things to me. I would
like to be loved.
LONELY WIFE.
Answer: There are many wives
like you, poor little Lonely Wife, who
would like to be loved. But this is
your comfort —it is more blessed to
give than to receive, and those who
love are happier than those who are
loved. Not to be loved is a misfor
tune, but not to love is a tragedy.
(Copyright, 1923.)
$2,000,000 Textile
Plannt Is Planned
Near Asheville, N.C.
PAWTUCKET, R. 1., Dec. 17.
The Sayles Finishing Plant, Inc., of
Rhode Island, which has four large
mills in this vicinity, announced to
day that it would erect at once a
$2,000,000 cotton bleaching and fin
ishing plant and a modern housing
community on Swannanoa river,
four miles from Asheville, N. C.
Two Men Drowned
In Water Foot Deep
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Two
men were drowned in a foot of water
at the-Dahlgren, Va., naval torpedo
station Sunday after being overcome
by gasoline fumes.
Norman P. Vreeland, of Belleville.
N. J., became unconscious while
working in a pit, and Frank Leonard
Crain, of Galva, 111., went to his
aid. Both lost their lives.
Two Judges Appointed
WASHINGTON, Dec." 17.—Nomina
tions sent to the senate today by
President Coolidge included the
names of James J. Banks and Wil
liam C. Achi to be judges of the First
and Fifth circuits, respectively, of
Hawaii, and of Herbert P. Coats, of
New York, to be attorney general of
Porto Rico.
Doctors Wanted
To Operate
Mrs. Quillon Tells How Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Saved Her from an Operation
Muskegon, Michigan.—“ After doc
toring for eight or nine years with dis-
1 -iferent physicians
without any relief
at all, they said at
last that medicine
would not reach
my case and I
should have an
operation. I hac
heard of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vege
table Compounc
and often saw it
advertised in dis-
ferent papers
where some women had suffered just
as I did and got well and strong again
by taking the Vegetable Compound.
I decided to see what it would do for
me, and before J had finished the
fourth bottle I was much better, the
weakness stopped and the severe
pains in my sides left me. I am now
much stronger and do my own work
and work in the factory besides. I am
still taking the Vegetable Compound
and give it all the praise.” Mrs.
Nellie Quillon, 17 Morns St..
Muskegon, Mich.
Women should heed such warning
symptoms as bearing-down pains and
weakness, for they indicate some fe
male trouble, and a persistent anc
faithful use of Lydia E. Pinkham’f
Vegetable Compound will seldom fai
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A BEDTIME STORY
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS WW 1
Nanny’s Courage Fails Her
The wise will think of safety first,
And not for more adventure thirst.
—Nanny Meadow Mouse.
As soon as Mr. Gopher Snake had
disappeared, Danny and Nanny
Meadow Mouse drew a long breath.
Ugh!” exclaimed Danny. “Wasn’t
that a terrible fellow?”
Nanny shivered. "Let’s go straight
back to that man-bird,” said she.
"I’ll never leave it again. Oh, dear!
Oh, dear! I wish I were back home
on the Green Meadows.”
But Danny felt within him the
spirit of adventure. Already they
had seen three people wholly strange
to them, Gopher the Tortoise, Sala
mander the Pocket Gopher and Mr.
Gopher Snake. Danny had a feeling
that many more interesting folk lived
down there in the Sunny South, and
ffllf'. ’St,
ar /' f
“Let’s go straight back to that bird
man/’ said she
curiosity was getting the better of
caution.
“Let’s go on a little farther,” said
he.
Nanny shook her head. "Not
another step.” she replied. "We'll go
straight back to our nest in that,
great man-bird, where we know we'll
be safe.”
"We will not do anything of the
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kind,” retorted Danny. "You can go 1
if you want to, but I am not going ’
until I have seen more of this Sunny
South.” '»
Nanny knew by the way that
Danny spoke that he meant just ,
what he said.
“Please come, Danny,” she begged.
“If I go back alone I’ll worry all the
time about you.”
“Then don't go,” replied Danny
promptly. "Come along with me.”
Nanny hesitated. Then she thought
of Mr. Gopher Snake and her cour- ,
age failed her. Little cold shivers
ran all over her from the tip of her
blunt little nose to the tip of her
.funny short tail. Without another .
word she turned and started back
toward the shed in which was the
great man-bird, or airplane, which
had brought them down there. She
thought that Danny would follow.
But Danny didn’t. No, sir, Danny
didn't. Instead, he turned and start
ed off in the opposite direction. Once
more Nanny hesitated. She was
tempted to follow. Then again she
thought of Mr. Gopher Snake, and
again she shivered. She knew that
she just couldn’t go on after Danny.
She simply couldn’t do it. So she
ran straight back as fast as her
short little legs could take her. as
scared a Meadow Mouse as ever
Jived in all the Great World.
'Not until she reached the shed in
which was the great man-bird did
she so much as look behind her. The
instant she was inside that she felt
better. It seemed friendly and safe.
But she felt safer still when she had
climbed into the great man-bird and
slipped Into the little cupboard to
the dear, familiar nest. She no long
er wanted to be free and roam
around. She was entirely satisfied
to be safe. And somehow she felt
really safe there. The relief was so
great that for a time she dida’t even
lb ink of Fanny.
(Copyright. 1923, tfy T. W. Burgess)
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