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DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
Visit Your In-Laws Before Marriage
if You Want to Get a Line on the
Kind of Wife or Husband You’re
Getting—A Man Is Usually
His Father Over Again and
a Woman Makes the Sort
of a Wife Her Mother
Was
IF I were a young man or woman
contemplating matrimony, I
would go and pay a visit to my
intended’s family before I took the
fatal journey to the altar.
■ ■Bel ♦.♦S'
j
If I were a
man I would
pay particmar
attention to how
my prospective
mother - in - law
ran her house.
I should ob
serve whether
she did it in an
efficient and
business - like
way; whether
things were dons,
promptly;
whether there
was an atmos-
phere of thrift
and good management about the
place; what sort of meals she served;
or if everything was sloppy and
slovenly and helterskelter, with
nothing done on time; with badly
cooked food on the table, and a gen
eral air of waste and shiftlessness
pervading the home.
Also, I should give my fiancee’s
mother the once over very parefully
and try to size up the type of
woman she was.
I should observe whether she was
BKne and sensible, whether she was
whether she was cheer
fill and good-natured, and one who
made the best of life, or whether
she was neurotic and hysterical and
whiney, and complaining and high
tempered and irritable, and whether
she had “nerves” that she used as a
bludgeon to get all she wanted out
of the family.
Especially should I try to find out
what my future wife’s mother
thought was the whole duty of a
wife—whether it was to be a help
meet to a man, or to get all the
money .she could out of him to spend
on her back.
Above all, I should pay particular
attention to how the girl’s mother
treated her husband she
was tender and affectionate to him.
and appreciative of all he did for
her; whether she took especial pains
to give him the little things he liked
to eat, or whether she ignored and
neglected him, and let him see that
she regarded him as nothing but a
domestic contrivance for paying the
bills.
If I were a girl, I should take note
of the attitude of my fiance’s father
toward his home. I should observe
whether everybody brightened up
and/looked expectant at the sound
of his key in the lock of an evening,
or whether a wet blanket seemed to
descend upon his wife and children;
whether he was cheerful and pleas
ant or grouchy and sullen; whether
he was a knocker or a glad
hander; whether the members of his
household adored him or feared him;
whether he entered into every plan,
and was eager for everybody to en
joy themselves, or whether he was
a conscientious objector who took
the pleasure out of everything by
finding fault with it; whether he
jaa Th» Progressist Farmer December 15,192 J
Yield in pound* es
H Fertilize)’ for Delta Soils
HEREWITH is given a table show- ” M
ing the results of a fertiliser expert- g g 122
ment on Delta land in Mississippi Coun- 5 E
KS ty, Arkansas. T consider this the best s o tS g * ~ &’g S “’o SiS
t" (ert ili ze r experi- &.z 2 oJ’3o
. 1 ~ ~ 4«7 2oj 184 874
ment I ever con- 2 400 «5 276 280 971
ducted, since the soil 3 m •••• too 425 233 308 866
~ 4 300 SO 463 250 33211045
ts more uniform titan 5 300.,.. 200 441 244 3201005
commonly found 200 50 100 424 213 252 889
where work of this 8 ’joo’ioo'.J 557 323 244 1124
kind is beimr done. too /••• 300 416 279 240 935
Kina is ceing aonc. w IQO 50 200 542 N 0 1120 4
Various combtna- n too 100 100, 561 313 3441126
tions oi fertilizing ; J""”'. 497 245 252’994
materials were used u '/.■ A'.'.'.'. 535 255 3601150 ;
MB. BAST frv and 15 ■••• 50 300 650 332 2,41276 __ W
in order to try ana 16 100 200 787 338 306 1431 ,Jp
find the best mixture to use in order to 17 .... iso 100 775 427 3001502 <
get the most profitable yields of cotton on •••; 200 " ; 617 320 26t 1201
the Lee Wilson plantation. The field 20 iso 779 354 2101343
On was planted with Express cotton seed tool’’.' too 7$ 748 229
® pr . i , 1 . 25 ; Every sixth plot was left un- 24 L. I 1 1001 it2.S' j 34
Wrb fertilized as a. check. 25 , 560 i iso -19411134
No ono can fail to note the uniformly w „., d lmtion ot the sced
W raul S Obl -T ■ ? ? . t,?I "lay, hot Hid not impair their
h, rogen. Especally n th., rutiw.ee 2m
J”Va • 0 s ° w . • pounds nitrate, and 100 pounds phos- ■
be superior to the sulphate of ammonia. . . t p
W Two hundred pounds alone of nitrate ’ hs « : O’-nds mtra e and 100 pounds
applied to plot No. 18 showed an in- m “' m, ' r . '?’< ."''">B“
■Sff t r-,1 and potash are the most deficient ele- v-?
■d creased yield of 573 pounds. _ mcnts o{ p|ant (o<jd fn soJ| where
It is interesting to note how me nitro- experiments were conducted, and al!
Ren increased the yie.ds' at first and fertilizers used should run high in these
gEpgi second pickings. important elements. *• ’vl
The fertilizer was all applied by hand a mattcr o( facti nitrate nf , soda
ojO directly on the beds before planting, ex- gave i argest i ncr ease per acre and
cept plot 24, which received 200 pounds most profitable returns. It seems,
of nitrate of soda as a side dressing, therc f orc> that Delta planters are justi-
May 29. The increased yield is not so fie(J jn us - ng exc | usivcly .
great as when applied before planting, However, we must recognize the -fact - !
and shows that the earlier application is { | Aat t j, cse arc t |, c rcsu |t s o f on | y one
b elter ‘ year and it is possible that in j’ears to
--...|8 The outstanding feature of the com- come the residual effect of these appli
binations is that mixtures of nitrate of cations may give entirely different re
■■ soda and kainit, which contains potash, suits. We also recognize the fact that
J gave better results than did the same these data are not applicable to all con*
proportion of nitrate and acid phosphate. ditions. and they are published so that
Four hundred pounds of kainit alone those who are farming similar soil may
gave a better iricrease than did the same study them and draw their own con-
amount of acid phosphate. The elusions.* s
Ask your own Farm Paper.
Ask your County Agent.
Ask your Experiment Station.
Ask your successful neighbor.
Ask anybody who knows how to grow
■ COTTON ■
under weevil conditions. The answer witi be about the same thing
Plant Selected Early Varieties
Plant Early and Use
■ NITRATE OF SODA I
200 pounds to the acre
at planting time, or half at planting time and half when chopping out.
Read my Free Bulletins on Cotton and other crops. If you are not receiving them and want
them, send me your name and address and to identify this advertisement add the number 6007.
DR. WHIXIAM S. MYERS, Director. Chilean Nitrate Commincc, 25 Madison Avenue, New York A %
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
was liberal and generous or stingy
i I was liberal and generous or stingy.
In particular, I should regard, as
the French say, the attitude of my
intended's father toward his wife. I
should observe whether he treated
her as a ladylove or as a servant
whom he did not have to pay, and
who could not give notice and quit;
whether he showed her the little at
-1 tentions that women love, or never
[ noticed her any more than he did the
• kitchen stove; whether he was ten
■ ‘ dei' and* affectionate to her, or told
land indifferent; whether he gave her
I pretty clothes and took her to places
■of amusement, oi' seemed to think
that just being married to him was
all the amusement that any woman
wanted; whether he gave her a regu
lar allowance, or she had to cork
screw every penny out of -him.
Ond I should very especially note
i whether prospective mother-in-law
i looked happy and young, and glad
■ she was married, or wore the patient
expression of an early Christian mar
tyr who has suffered and been strong.
For, having made these observa-
I tions, I would not need to be a Sher
! lock Holmes to deduce that my home
■ would be likely to be just the kind
■ of home I was visiting in. and the
husband or wife I was getting would
. be most likely to be the counterpart
; | of my intended’s father or mother.
; For nine times out of ten a man
I makes the kind of a husband his
father is, and the woman makes the
| kind of a wife her mother isf
A girl who has been brodght up
|by a mother who is lazy and idle
I and a poor manager, is almost in
variably the same sort of house
! keeper because she has been taught
no habits of industry and order. She
is a bad cook because she doesn’t
; j know what good cooking is.
I A girl who has been reared in ex
’ i travagance, and taught to get every
. | thing she can out of her father, will
have no pity on her husband's pock
' etbook.
A girl whose mother has cultivated
selfishness in her, and who has been
; reared to believe that she had a
divine right to the best of every
thing, makes the kind of a wife who
either enslaves her husband or ends
in the divorce courts.
A man who has seen his mother
treated as a drudge will almost sure
ly treat his wife the same way. If
he has heard his father speak to his
mother as he would not to any other
woman on earth, he also will con
sider politeness wasted on his wife.
But if he has seen his mother treat
ed as a queen, if he has seen that
his mother called out all of his
' father's chivalry, his attitude toward
j his wife will likewise be that of a
I knight to his lady.
Os course, occasionally, there Is
I the exception that proves the rule,
land a girl is so revolted at the kind
I of a house her mother kept, and the
sort of a wife she is, that she be
comes the perfect wife, and a bey
1 resents his father’s treatment of his
mother so bitterly that he showers
his own wife with tenderness.
But nine times out of ten in a
man’s or a girl’s own home you can
find the dope that will put you wise
to the kind of husband and wife they
will make.
(Copyright, 1924.)
Smith Is Present
LONDON.—Paging “Mr. Smith”
is a tough job in England or Scot
land. In the two countries there
are just 518,000 Smiths, or one for
every 70 persons.
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
A Promising Truck Crop
The severe freezes of January de
stroyed a good deal of truck. The
lands are now vacant and therefore
in an unproductive state. Much of
this land was carefully prepared and
well fertilized. Why should we not
plant it to Irish potatoes'’ This is
one of the best crops we can grow
in our state for many purposes. We
consume infinitely more potatoes
than we produce. If the crop is
properly handled, a good part of it
need not necessarily be shipped out
of the state. By planting it at dif
ferent dates in the several climatic
areas of the state, we can have a
succession of potatoes coming onto
the market throughout the year.
The potato is one of our most easily
cultivated vegetables. It is certainly
one of the most wholesome. It has
a range which adapts it for cultiva
tion in all parts of this section of
the south. It is a’ comparatively
hardy plant, and, given a decent
chance, will make a fairly good crop
even under relatively adverse con
ditions.
If everyone in Georgia were to
undertake to plant Irish potatoes, it
would be a misfortune. Certainly,
we would swamp the local market,
whereas our crop would not be
ready for shipment to northern
markets except at a time when it
would likely meet with severe com
petition from other sections. Yet,
of course there are areas in this
state lying along the coast where
we can develop the potato and have
it ready for shipment just behind
the Florida crop, and, when this can
be accomplished, the market will be
found relatively bare and the price
which growers may hope to obtain
should prove remunerative.
It is important in planting this
crop to consider all these factors
and to so adjust the handling, man
agement and distribution of the po
tato crop as to insure a profit to the
landowner. While we might over-do
the cultivation of potatoes in a com
mercial way, there is not much like
lihood of the average landowner
growing more than he needs for his
family’s use. As a matter of fact,
there are thousands of homes in our
state, both rural and urban, where
potatoes could be added to the
dietary with a high degree of satis
faction. They arfe not used now be
cause the cost of buying them is
prohibitive. Moreover, a great many
people are under the impressipn that
the crop will not> do well in the
southeastern states, and particularly
|in Georgia. This idea has been
developed by the fact that many
people plant the tubers so late in
the season that the yields are great
ly curtailed by the hot weather
which sets in before the crop can
be properly matured.
We are growing about 1,500,000
bushels of Irish potatoes a year in
Georgia. We ought to harvest at
least 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 bushels.
As a matter of fact, there is a local
market for a crop of this size if it
could be properly distributed and
made available throughout the year.
There is not a farm in the state
that could not use ten bushels of
Irish potatoes acceptably. This, of
itself, would call for the production
of 3.000,000 bushels. The 250,000
families living in our towns and
cities each needs ten bushels. Cer
tainly, wo can afford to grow and
ship out of our state 2,000,000 or 3,-
000.000 bushels of potatoes.
In our strictly trucking section,
they should go north during April
• and May. In the mountainous sec-
tions of Georgia, they should he
planting the crop about that season.
Harvesting may then be done in
that section during the cool weather
of late summer or early autumn.
The crop can then be stored and
kept and as needed.
In the mountainous sections, they
have the advantage of being able to
mature a crop in say July and Au
gust which can be shipped south
before northern potatoes ‘begin to
move. During the summer months,
the gulf coast area in Florida, for
instance, will be hare of Irish pota
toes. The production of a strictly
commercial crop of 3,000.000 bushels
a year in Georgia can easily be made
therefore into a profitable enter
prise.
Here is another one of those spe
cialized crops that is not difficult
to raise, that the boll weevil cannot
destroy, that will add several million
dollars a year to our coffers and
which we can certainly grow and
distribute to advantage. I- have al
ways felt that the Irish potato was
a crop of great undeveloped poten
tialities in Georgia. A neglected
sort of gold mine, and so I am •writ
ing this article in the hope of arous
ing greater attention and interest
in its cultivation. Os course, there
are many who will rise up and say
that they have tried it, and it has
been a failure. The first efforts to
send a wireless message would not
have been accounted a success. The
first efforts to develop electricity
in a usable way failed, and so it
goes through all the great category
of human effort. The fact that a
lot of people have stupidly mis
managed their business and reaped
misfortune where rewards should
have been won has no significance
to me. I have observed what a few
people have done with the Irish
potato crop, and I know from ex
perience some other things which
can be accomplished. The fact that
I was raised n a farm where
crop was intensively cultivated on
a commercial basis for many years
has also given me an rtisight into its
utilization that I think justifies me
in outlining the situation set forth
above in an endeavor to emphasize
the value and importance whlchf this
crop may be made to our people
when rationally managed.
In this connection, let me say that
more failures to produce a satisfac
tory crop of Irish potatoes have
arisen from planting at the wrong
season than- from all other causes
put together. I know this to he
an absolute fact. In our relatively
warm, southern climate, our people
have been accustomed to think that
crops will only grow satisfactorily
and develop properly in hot weath
er. Its habitat extends from the tip
of Florida to the frigid regions of
the north. It is grown so near to
the Arctic circle that it is planted
and developed on land which has
merely thawed out on top, but which
is frozen solid at a point beginning
eighteen inches to three feet be
low the surface of the ground. The
Irish potato is a cool-climate crop,
and our successful cultivation of it
in this section of •he United States
rests primarily on our planting it
at that season of the year which will
enable it to develop and mature
when the ground is relatively cool.
The climatic conditions of the win
ter in some parts or Georgia are
about equal to those of the sum
mer season in far northern latti
tudes.
Whenever we learn, therefore,
that the Irish potato must be plant
ed about thirty to fifty days ear
lier than the average farmer thinks
wise, necessary, or desirable, we
will have taken the greatest step
forward in regard to the successful
cultivation of this crop.
How should we proceed under the
conditions outlines to plant and
handle this crop in order to reap
the best returns therefrom? In
many sections of our state, certain
ly in all the territory of the Pied
mont and coastal plains region,
most of the land intended for Irish
potatoes should be prepared in the
fall. If the ground is broken and
properly fined, and the furrows laid
off in December, then planting may
bea ccomplished late in that month
in the southern part of Georgia, or
during January and February in
the Piedmont plain. When this is
not done and a wet season comes
the ground cannot be prepared or
planted very often until it is too
late. So, we frequently find people
planting Irish potatoes in the
Piedmont section up even until the
first of April when they should
have been put into the ground not
later than the middle of February.
The same undesirable variation in
dates of planting may be witnessed
in all sections of the southern conu
tries. But planting Irish potatoes
sets in the soil -when it is cold and
frosts are occurring, maybe every
two or three days, Is not in the least
objectionable.
Irish potatoes should, as a rule,
be planted in three-foot rows. Cut
the seed, leaving two eyes to the
piece. Drop these pieces eighteen
inches apart in the drill and cover
to a depth of six or eight inches.
When the potatoes begin to sprout,
knock off the tops of the rows with
a plank or any other convenient im
plement.
This crop should be liberally fer
tilized. The minimum application
on most of our soils should be 300-
pounds of a 10-4-5 on sandy lands
and a 9-3.5-4 on our clay soils.
Where large crops are desired, 1,000
pounds of this mixture will not be
too much to use. Two-thirds or three
fourths of it may be put under the
drill row. It is important to mix
the manure with the subsoil by
means of a bull tongue. The part
reserved may be used as a side ap
plication distributed along side the
drill row during the early stages of
the growth of the crop. One or two
side applications may be made. The
second may consist of 100 pounds of
nitrate of soda. The use of this ele
ment will prove most profitable on
the sandy lands of the coastal plains
area.
When the potatoes are out of the
ground, they should be cultivated
lightly and frequently. Keep a dust
mulsion in evidence at all times.
Fight the bugs from the very be
ginning. You may use Faris Green
for this purpose. It may be put on
in the form of a dry dust or as a
spray. Proper spraying will protect
the crop against the bugs. If the
early crop is threatened with blight,
you must protect it by spraying
also. As the season advances, throw
earth toward the potatoes. Keep
them well covered at all times, and
let the crop alone until it has prop
erly matured. It is a mistake to
leave the potatoes in the land too
long. It is also a mistake to dig
them while the skin is soft and
therefore easily abraded.
In the case of the small farm
home, the potau->es may he dug
when mature and stored in any dark,
cool place under the house. They
can be kept in good condition for
food if properly looked after from
two to four months after harvesting.
I have kept them in excellent condi
tion for six months. Where the
crop is grown on a large scale and
the market is not satisfactory, it
may b° stored and kept for from
AUNT JULIA'S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Weekly Journal Readers
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
"Help for the Helpless—Kindness to
All Dumb Things”
Rules
No unsigned letter printed.
No letter written on both sides of
paper printed.
All letter not to exceed 150 to 200 |
words.
Dearest Cousins: I've come to visit yon
again. I came once before and received
many letters, and, if I did not answer all,
every one was appreciated. There have
been quite a few changes with me since 1
wrote last. I’m not at home now, hut qul e
a distance away. I left homo in September
and came to school here, and can say it Is
a grand place, and the memories of school
life here will always be sweet to me. I
think education is the greatest thing for
any boy or girl. If you fit yourself out
witli a good education, then you won’t have
such a hard time through life. Some may
say, “Oh, I’m too poor; I can never go to
school.” But you can if you will only say,
“I will go.” Then no one can stop you
If you open wide the door no man can shut
it. Get an education while you are young.
Don't say, when you get old, that you might
have been rich if you had an education. The
saddest words ever spoken are the might
have beens. You do not have to be rich to
get an education. I’m working some of my
way myself, and I’m not ashamed of it.
No, I'm rather proud of it, for I mean to
get an education some way, and if any of
you wish to get an education J advise you to
come to dear old A. and M.*, for it is the
greatest place ever. I’m a regular book
worm, and love music and flowers very
much, nnd I especially love to cook and
sew. Wo girls take cooking nnd sewing
here at school. I wonder how many would
like to write to me. Don't get the idea,
now, that I'm an old maid. The ones who
read my other letter will remember me with
brown eyes, bronze-brown curly hair, a
ready smile and a very good humor. I nm
looking for lots of letters. Best wishes and
love. An old cousin,
(HISS) VERA TINCH.
A. and M. School, Barnesville, Ga.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Auntie, I thank
you for printing my other letter. So please
print this, as I want the cousins to take
this as a personal letter, as it seems to me
that it is impossible for me to answer ail
the nice and kind letters I received. I re
ceived as high as eighteen a day, and they
still keep coming. My letter was published
December 27 and this is January 18. Cousins,
I would have written to Aunt Juia sooner,
but I began answering and in a few days
I had to take our tobacco to market and
was gone a few days. We sold nt the
Planters’ warehouse, Knoxville, Tenn, My
brother has four trucks, which he uses in
hauling soft drinks. He took our tobacco in a
two-ton truck. It is fifty-four miles to
Knoxville. We packed one night and left
at 4 o'clock a. m., took breakfast at Lenoir
City. We reached the warehouse at 9:30
a. m. Would have made it sooner, but had
a puncture. We almost froze before we
could build a fire. We crossed the Ten
nessee river at London. Tobacco didn't sell
as good as it did last year. We received
$20.50 per hundred, which was more than
the average. Cousins, I shall try and tell
you how 1 look, as so many asked for a de
scription: Am 5 feet 6 inches tall, weigh
135 pounds, light hair, fair complexion and
have blue eyes and wear heavy, dark framed
spectacles. I shall appreciate letters from
anyone who cares to write. A true cousin,
TOM W. THOMPSON.
Madisonville, Tenn., Route 1.
Kind Aunt Julia and Cousins: It has
been quite a while since I visited you all,
so having just read the dear old Journal
thought I would ask admittance for just a
few moments' cli’at. Hope I am welcome.
I am a school girl of sixteen. I study the
eighth grade and sure do like it. I think
I have the best teacher ever, his name is
Mr. S. J. Derrick. I will be so glad when
spring comes. I can plant my flower seed.
I am going to try and have some pretty
flowers tbis year. Know most of you like
them, not any better than I do. though.
I will now discontinue, hoping to hear from
just oodles of the cousins. A little cousin,
MISS EVA MARTIN.
Gaston, S. C., Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia: I am a little South
Carolina girl and have a birthday the 29th.
I thought I would write all my little I
cousins that have a birthday on the ‘’9th. .
I live on a farm, on Broad river, close to '
the Rabose dam. I surely enjoy farm life, j
I have two brothers and one little sister at ,
home. Y'ou cousins come up this summer
and we will go fishing on Broad river.
Won’t you cousins all write me that have
birthdays on the 29th?
Thirty days have September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February, which alone
Has twenty-eight, but one day more
We add to it one year in four.
MISS BEATRICE RENO.
Gaffney, S. C., Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a Tennessee girl into your happy
band of hoys and girls? I have written to
• lie Letter Box once before, but wasn't ad
mitted. T hope I will be this time. My
brother has been taking The Journal for
nearly two years and I have been reading
the Letter Box, and I enjoy reading it. I
go to school almost every day. j live on a
farm of 115 acres. I like farming just fine.
Will some of you cousins do me a favor by
sending me the following songs: “An All-
Seeing Eye” and “Oh, Mother, How I Miss
Iler?” I will return any favor possible. I
will leave my age for you all to guess. I
am between ten and eighteen years. Who
is my twin? April 9. I have one sister
and five brothers. I nm thankful to say I
am still blessed with father and mother. It
is snowinj? hero today and T can’t go tn
Sunday school, and J am so lonesome. Al] •
you cousins write tn m. A now cousin,
(MISS) JENNIE B. CROFT.
Moshinn, Tenn.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: This day is I
the first that I have ever read the letters 1
of your department, so you can Imagine
how quickly I becamo interested. I was
almost astonished to that young people
the age of the cousins were such efficient
writers. I think it well worth mv while
to join the friendly circle, providing I will
be admitted. Yes. I, as many other cousins,
am attending school, and I’m in the second
year of high school. I’m fond of almost
any kind of journalism, and I admire a
jolly bunch of correspondents. I shall not
go very much into details describing my
seif, hut i noticed that description adds
interest to the letters of the cousins, so
here goes: I'm about half way between six
teen and twenty; my size is about the
average of boys my age; have dark hair,
dark blue eyes and a very light complexion.
Will appreciate letters nnd photos from all
you handsome cousins near my age. A new
nephew and cousin,.
J. CARL COLE.
Tellico Plains, Tenn.
Dear Aunt Julia .vid Cousins: I hare often !
thought of writing tn the Letter Box, bur
haven't done it. We have been taking The
Journal ever since I can remember, and I
enjoy very much rending the letters of the
cousins, flow many of you cousins go to
school? I go to Laurens High school, and
I am in the ninth grade. I live in the
country, about eight miles from Laurens,
s - •'• I like country life fine. I am sis
teen years old: my birthdav is Octtolmr 22
How many have my birthday? I like to
rend good hooks nnd I am very fond of
music. 1 guess I liad bettor describe mv
self and go, as tn.v letter is getting long and
I hope to see it in print. I have dark
brown eves and black, curlv hair, I baw
hobbed hair, too, and I wouldn't have it
long, as jt Is so much trouble to keep fixed
up. 1 have a fair complexion. I will close,
hoping tn see tics in print and to receiw
letters from some of you cousins. a new
(MISS) FRANCES FINLEY.
Mountville, S. C., Route 1.
storage houses or in other dark and
relatively cool warehouse buildings.
There is a period in Georgia of about
thirty days when there is likelv to
be a surfeit of Irish potatoes on the
market. After that. It is bare. If
the potato crop is so managed' and
handled as to have it ready for dis
tribution to the consuming public
at a time when the supply is not
will b» profitable procedure to fol
low. This is not a difficult thing
to do.
As to varieties, the Irish Cobbler
and the Bliss seem to be standard
sorts for cultivation in Georgia. They
not only yield well, but produce
tubers of fine quality and they keep
in good condition for a long time
when stored.
• Let us recognize the great im
portance and service which the [
Irish potato crop n iv be made to
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1924.
Denr Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a lonesome girl from Arkansas?
How are you nil enjoying this beautiful
weather? I surely do like pretty weather.
I Jived in Alabama eleven years, and think
it Is the best state in th Union. We moved
to Arkansas In November, and don't you
see I haven’t got acquainted with many
people around here. I get pretty lonesome
sometimes. How would all of you cousins
like to live in Arkansas? It hasn’t snowed
here this winter. If you cousins want to
know about me and this country just send
your letters and cards. I will close, hoping
to hoar from all. Promising nn answer to
till letters and cards received, a new cousin,
(MISS) RUBY THOMPSON.
Foreman, Ark.
Dearest Aunt Julia anff Cousins: Will
you let two Georgia girls join your happy
band? We live on a farm, and like farm
life fine. We will describe ourselves: I,
Gertie, am fifteen years old. I, Meda Belle,
have written before, and thank Aunt Julia
for printing my letter. If wo were to take
a subject. It would be “Others.” Here is
a piece of poetry we would like for you to
print about “Others:”
Lord, help me to live from day to day
In such a forgotten way
That, even when I kneel to pray.
My prayer shall be for—others.
Help me In all the work I do
To ever be sincere and true,
And know that all I'd do for yon
Must needs be done for—others.
Let “self” be crucified and slain
And buried deep; and all in vain
May efforts be to rise again,
Unless to live so
And when my work on earth is done,
And my new work in heaven's begun,
May I forget the crown I’ve won
While thinking still of—others.
Others, Lord, yes. others 1
Let this my motto be;
Help me to live for others,
That I may live like Thee.
Let your cards and letters come to ns,
and please write separately.
(MISS) GERTIE HUDGINS.
Pendergrass. Ga., Route 2.
, (MISS) MEDA BELLE M'GAUGHEY.
Gainesville, Ga., Route 8.
Dear Friends: I will now take the great
est pleasure of writing just a few lines. 1
will be glad if the cousins who read this
letter will spend just a few moments and
write me a few lines. It will be a “big
cheer” to get a letter from the dear old
U. S. A. I hope these few lines find all
of you having the very best of times, as I
know I would if I were back in the dear
old U. S. A. I am in the Hawaiian Islands,
and have been over here fourteen months.
Believe me, these islands are certainly
worth seeing, and I surely think It would
bo worth anyone’s time and money to visit
tliis place. It is called the Paradise of the
Pacific. I have traveled quite a bit, and
I have never seen a plac equal to the
Hawaiian Islands. I am a fair type, good
natured and free hearted. Well, cousins, I
am asking you to please send a snapshot of
yourself and I will do the same. 1 will be
looking for an answer real, real soon. Just
a lonely soldier. I am nineteen years old.
PRIVATE J. T. CUMMINGS.
Headquarters First Bn., 6.3 d F. A., Scho
field Barracks, Honolulu, Hawaiia Terri
tory.
Dear Aunt Julia: Knock! knock! Will you
please admit a little Georgia girl into your
happy band of boys and girls? Move over,
cousins. I want a seat right by Aunt
Julia. How is every little thing with all of
you ? Fine and dandy, I trust. I hardly
know how to begin my first letter to you in
the new year (1924), for this is tho time
for new thoughts and new resolutions. It
is a time for laying old things aside and
planning for new; but we must (in making
our resolutions) be careful that these are
right. I can hardly realize that the first
month is nearly gone. How swiftly time
passes! Perhaps some of you are wondering
what kind of a looking kiddie I am, so here
goes: I am of'fair complexion, with a few
freckles; dark brown hair and eyes. I will
he seventeen the 26th of February. Have
I a twin? If so, please write to me. I’d
like to correspond witli every cousin, as I
am very fond of letter writing. Auntie, I
am a school girl, with just lots of hard
books to study. I go to school at Model
High, near Rome. Ga., and like mv school
fine. My teacher is the sweetest -woman
ever. She is Miss Annie Vance Watters.
I am in the ninth grade. Auntie. I think
every g’irl and boy should strive for an ed
j ucation. 1 think there is nothing greater
I than a good education. I have five big
I brothers. They are all darlings to me. And
i I have a good father and mother. I live
on a farm of 237 acres, and think it’s grand
ito live in the country. These rainy days
make me shiftless and want to sit around
the fire, so you see writing suits me ex
actly; but, since my time is limited, I’ll
have to bring this little missive to a close.
Thanking auntie for being so kind as 'o
print my letter, I tm hoping to hear from
every cousin. Adieu!
(MISS) ROSE HOLLAND.
Adairsville, Ga., R. F. D. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a lonely Georgia boy into your happy
circle? As I haven’t seen a letter from this
section of the state I thought I would
write. I, like many others, live in the coun
try and like it just fine. I live about one
mile from the Choope river, whicli is the
line between Johnson and Washington coun
ties. I live about thirteen miles from the
county seat of Washington and about eight
miles from the county seat of Johnson. I
wish some of you cousins could have been
with me on my visit to my uncle’s. He
lives four miles below Alamo, which is
about seventy-five miles from here. We
went through the country in our old “fliv
ver” and surely had a nice time. To our
own surprise and pleasure, we didn’t have
any trouble at all, which is very uncom
mon on a trip that long with an old Ford.
Aunt Julia, please print this as it is my
first.attempt to write, and besides, there are
I not many boys that write. All you cousins
I write and I will assure yon an answer. My
r age is between sixteen and twenty. Sin-
I cerely, a new cousin.
LAURIE HATHAWAY.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
’ please admit a Georgia boy into your happy
band of hoys and girls? As some of the
other cousins have been taking up subjects
I will take as mine, books. Books are true
levelers. They give to all who faithfully
nse them the spiritual society in the pres
ence of the best and greatest of our race.
In the best books great men talk to us, give
us their most precious thoughts and poor
their ~ouls into ours. The love of nooks
requires neither justification, apology ncr
defense. When I consider what some books
have done for the wor.d, and what they are
doing, n w they keep up our hopes, awaken
now courage and faith, soothe pain, give
an ideal ife to those whose hours are cold
and hard, bind together distant ages and
foreign lands, create new werids of beiitty
nnd bring dow ntruth frpm heaven. J give
eternal blessings for tills gift and thank
God for books. I will leave my age for
I you all to guess. It is betwee twelve and
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Dear Mrs. Thomas:
“I am expecting a hundred day
old chickens in ten days, please tell
me all about raising them, what to
feed them on, and the treatment of
them.”
This letter gives a wide scope for
remarks, and I am going to say, in
the first place, that nobody should
start with 100 day olds, if it is not
an old subject with them, and they
have never operated an incubator
or a brooder. The little babies need
as much heat as they had in the
box. They should be taken out of
the box that they came in with ten
der hands that are not. cold. They
should be in a room that is as warm
as your own little baby would need
if absolutely naked. They should
have a drink of fresh buttermilk,
unless you have some good starting
feed. The starting feeds all have
buttermilk in the right proportion,
and if you use any starting feed,
tepid water is what they should
have to drink. A baby chick can
get too hot as well as too cold, and
that will affect their bowels. I
sometimes put ten drops of any good
liniment that you are in the habit of
taking for indigestion, ten drops to
half a pint of water. It is not
enough to more than taste, but it
keeps the chicks in good, condition.
Dry feed is what they need. If I
do not have many I cook enough egg
bread when I am making it for din
twenty. To the cne that guesses my age
correctly I will ser.d them my photo. Please
rend photos If yot! have them. I guess ’
had better go before 1 break the rules. A
new cousin,
CLAUDE E. NICHOLS.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have
been wondering if you would mind my com
ing in for a little while to disturb you in
•he midst of Christmas and New Years’ let
ters from the cousins? I know that you
must be flooded with letters just after the
holidays. But I am hoping through the
kind indulgence of our denr Aunt Julia that
I may be given just a little room in the
midst of so many happy girls and boys. For
a long time I have been thinking of writing
once more to the Letter Box, but I have
been like “Ben” —putting it off. I wrote
a letter In September, 1917, when some of
you were little girls and boys. Now. don’t
you think I have been putting it off long
enough? The last time I wrote you I was
going to school. Since then I have finish
ed school, and have been teaching for the
past two years. I taught Latin and mathe
matics in high school last year, and am
now teaching Latin and romance languages
in a military school in Kentucky. I like
teaching very well, but, my! one must have
the most patience. I get awfully discour
aged sometimes, when I see boys wasting
away their time and opportunities to ac
quire an education—opportunities that I did
not enjoy. I worked most of my own way
through school, not that I had to, but that
I thereby could better appreciate the oppor
tunities that I did enjoy. I find in teach
ing that girls are more apt students than
boys are. I am glad to see that girls are
taking part more and more as time goes by,
in work and pursuits in which heretofore
men have held undisputed sway, and are
making good in them. They no longer de
pend on marriage as about the only reason
for their existence. While I think that
marriage was meant by Him who establish
ed it to be the chief goal of all normal
men and women as a means of hapoinets,
for I think that the chief end of man is
happiness, yet I am glad to see the modern
girl face and meet cheerfully the most ex
acting demands of our advancing (?) com
plicated civilization. So much Is being
said about the present-day “flapper.” Some
think she is innately bad. But the flapper
is endeavoring ta adjust herself to meet the
remarkable changes wrought in the fabric of
our economic, moral and intellectual life,
since the World war. just as the people of
the south overwhelmed in the lost cause at
tempted to adjust themselves to the changed
conditions in the dark days of the period of
reconstruction. I am sure that she wii*
come to herself amidst the conflicts of the
hour, and advance triumphantly by the high
er promptings of her better self. Cousins,
I really did not intend to take up so much
of your valuable time in my vain imagina
tions and optimistic outlook for our future.
I hope Aunt Julia will pardon my long stay,
and with a promise not to interrupt you for
a long time again, I will bid yon an affec
tionate adieu. If any of you care to cor
respond with a school teacher who spends
his time in reading French and Spanish ro
mances, and pursuing Latin poetry, let your
letters come to
(MR.) G. D. RAINEY.
Millersburg, Ky.
■I Dear Folks: Here comes another that
enjoys reading the dear old Journal. Guess
most of you are in school today. I at
tended school last year. “Hubby” Is teach
ing this year. I live in the northern part
of Alabama on a farm, and I -surely en
joy working in the garden and with my
flowers and chickens. I canned about two
hundred cans of fruit nnd vegetables last
slimmer. In hog-killing time I always <;:n
all (lie sausage, spare ribs and souse that
we can’t use while fresh. Will tell how
I can the meat. Fry it a nice brown, pack
in glass fruit jars, cover witli Dot lard
(use the gravy, too), and seal. Jt will
keep ail summer this way. Or you can put
two cupsful of lard to the can and turn
tops down, if it is going to be served
soon. I have pure bred silver laced Wyan
dotte chickens. I have been married near
ly five years and like most others, think
I have the “bestast” man in the world.
We have one little boy three years of
age. And, of course, we think him the
sweetest ever.
Husband nnd I are both nature lovers,
and are fond of all out-of-doors sport. We
have some beautiful scenery here. We have
several evergreen trees such as pine, spruce,
pine, holly, ivy and cedar. In the spring
and summer the bluffs and hillsides are
covered witli moss, wild flowers and ferns.
Sonic of the ferns stay green all winter.
I have some growing In the house now.
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day old, and use that for the first
ten days, with oat meal and hom
iny, raw, of course. Dampness is
fatal to the babies, so don’t let the
drinking vessel be the sort that they
can stand in. If you have no regu
lar chick waterer, get a pie pan and
turn a fruit jar upside down in it
and they can pct the water without
having room to play in it. The
winter ought to be nearly over, but
it seems as if it has got in the habit
of turning cold every day or so and
can’t get out of that habit. I have
a. hen hatching. We can’t see across
the yard, on account of the snow,
bo you know it is no time for little
chicks to put their heads from under
the mother. I had a well lined nest
and then put them in the smoke
house till they have started to hatch
and now 1 have them in the house.
Eggs that are worth $5 make chicks
thatt are too valuable to run any
risks. But it is not thrift for any
one to let any sort of property
ivaste, to say nothing o-f the inhu
manity of things suffering. The
Good Book says, “A merciful man re
gardeth his beast,” and that means
any living creatuc*.
There is nothing that we need not
worry about if we take God’s Blessed.
Book for our guide. “Trust in the
Lord and do good?’ means from the
highest, to the lowest duty. And if
we have not done that in the past,
let us start right now.
rclope I will send them a few cosmos
seed, colors white, pink and crimson.
Aunt Julia. I certainly enjoy your talk*.
I was twenty-one the twenty-first of July.
Have I a twin tn the world? If so pleas*
write me. I’ll hush, hoping to get let*
ters from ell the states for junior and I
got h “wee bit” lonesome at times. So.
dearest Aunt Julia, please print this a*
T want to surprise ‘’hubby" dear. Best
wishes to all.
(MRS.) ROY B. REEVE.
Double Springs, Ala., Route 3.
r. S, —Miss Arduth Ayers, of Florida, did
“Santa” get you? Haven’t heard from you
■ in ages. Hello Aunt Jack. Ara sending a
dime for the orphan. All you folks writ*
tue.
! Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon
admit a 13-year-old girl into your baud
i of cousins? I lire at McCullers, N. C., a
very small village 10 miles south of Ra
leigh, the state capital. I go to school and
i am in tlie■ eighth grade. My mother is th<»
. primary teacher. We live near the school
, building so we have very little trouble go
ing on bad days.
I would like to hear from the cousin*
and will try to answer all letter*. My
I papa takes The Journal and we all like
it fine. I trust this, my first letter, will
not find its way into the waste basket,
Gand I will see it in the columns of the
cousins in The Journal. I am your friend,
CHARLOTTE H. SMITH.
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