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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For May 18, 1924 —Israel and the Assyrian Crisis —
2 Kings 18, 19. Isa. 36, 37.
BY DR. MARION McH. HULL
, Gohlen Text: “God is our refuge
and strength, A very present help
i in trouble.’’ Psa.
; Judah went from bad to worse.
Joash, we learned last week, lapsed
into idolatry when Jehoiada ,the aid
j priest, died. Amaziah, his son,
turned their hearts back to God a
I bit. Uzziah, his son. brought Judah
to the peak of her prosperity since
Solomon’s time; but Uzziah forgot
I God and died, smitten of leprosy.
Jothan succeeded his father —a good,
but very weak king. And his son,
j Ahaz. was more wicked than any
king the southern kingdom has ever
had.
r | Hezekiah followed him. He had
grown up under the ministry of
Isaiah and did much to stem .he
I tide of evil that seemed well nigh
about to sweep Judah into oblivion.
Much was accomplished by him;
I and his example of piety and faith
in God was a good tonic for the
people who had been led into neg
lect of God and open idolatry by his
very wicked father.
i While these things were going on
in the kingdom of Judah, Egypt, to
the south and. Assyria to the east
: and north of them were in’ political
turmoil. Assyria was the dominant
1 political power of the world. She
j (had designs on every nation within
her readh. Sennacherib, her king,
V had an overweening desire to be
emperor of the world, and began
Bio push his conquests now toward
'[Egypt. Syria and her towns were
; taiken, the northern cities were tak
' en, and he camped against and
I took even many of the walled cities
lof Judah, which Hezekiah had
! strengthened. He was on his way
! to Egypt, but he must also have
Jerusalem; for it might be embar-
I rassing for him to have them come
[ against his rear just as he needed
' all of his forces to advance on
i Egypt. So he sent his commanding
general, the Rabskehab, with two
other high officers and a great ar-
I my to lay seige to Jerusalem and
take it.
' The Ra.bshekah's tactics were to
l bulldoze the people. He thought
; that by frightening them, the job
I would be easy; he could take the
i city without a fight and without
-losing any.of his men. He was
I rather honest in this, too, for the
| army of Assyria had had successes
enough to give them a finely devel-
• oped case of the swell-head. The
iking of Hamath, the king of Arpad,
the king of the city of Sepharvahn,
iof Hena and Ivah had all surren
i dered to him; why should not the
'king of Judah also? They had all
i trusted in their tribal gods, and yet
.they had been delivered into the
1 hands of the king of Assyria; why
I should the tribal God of the He
-1 brews (as they supposed Jehovah
•to be) prove any different from the
i rest.
: So the Rabskekah and the Rabsa
rl ris and the Tartan came to the wall
[ of Jerusalem and demanded its sur
. render. Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah
I the priest, Shebna, the secretary of
i the state, and Joah, / the son of
Asaph, the recorder, came out to
I meet these Assyrian officers and to
receive their demands.
J These demands, as indicated, were
'most boastful. Briefly they said
.this: What does your king mean by
i [ refusing to pay his taxes (for he
I had previously paid tribute); is he
(foolish enough to think he is strong
enough to resist the Assyrian army?
i Is he equally foolish enough to trust
jin receiving help from Egypt, a brok
en reed? Is he silly enough to trust
|in his God, Jehovah, whose high
(places he has thrown down, insist
ing on everyone coming to Jerusa
lem to worship? Why, if your king
would give me pledges, I will give
! him 2,000 horses if he could put rid
jers on them, but I am sure that he
!can't even do that, and how then
'could he even hope to turn away
Just one brigade of my master’s vic
jtorious army? And further, do you
think •hat we have come here of our
(own account? Os course not! Jeho
ivah, your God, said, Go up and de
stroy it.
| Boastful, insolent, blasphemous!
,The Hebrew officers replied to these
'officers: “Speak to us in your lan
iguage, for we understand it, and not
,in the Hebrew language, for the, peo
ple may hear thy boasting.” But this
(only made them the more insolent.
In a loud voice he cried out to the
people, warning them against trust
ling Hezekiah or listening to him
when he would assure them by say
ing, The Lord will deliver us. Who
|ia Jehovah, what can Ite do when
these other gods have failed?
' One of the fiinest things in the
-whole story developed here. "But
the people held their peace, and an
swered him not a -word, for the
r kkipg’a commandment was, saying,
*BAhswer him not.” Their remarkable
JpAmposure, fine discipline and splen
did self-control was a fine tribute
tn their loyalty to their king and
their God.
Thje Hebrew officers then brought
the message of the Assyrian offi
cers to Hezekiah; and when he heard
it, realizing the seriousness of the
situation, the weakness of his whole
■ rmy in comparison with the
strength of the enemy’s and the
imminent danger to his people and
his kingdom, he covered himself
► with sackcloth and went into the
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THE ATLANTA TRLWEEKLT JOURNAL
house of the Lord. Hezekiah was
not so foolish as to fail to appreciate
the need of help, or to blindly trust
to fate or to Providence to work out
some deliverance. But he had
learned where to go for help; he had
met difficulties before and had them
I solved in the place of prayer.
He sent word to Isaiah concerning
hie present difficulty. He had grown
up as a boy under the ministry of
Isaiah. He know that Isaiah knew
Jehovah; and it was fro~' Jehovah
that he expected help and wisdom
for the crisis. In his message to
Isaiah he speaks to him of the Lord
"thy” God and of their bla 1 nheming
against Him. And Isaiah's God,
who was also Hezekiah's, sent him
a comforting message through His
servant, the prophet. Read it. in 2
Kings 19:6, 7. That "Thus saith the
Lord” came to pass to the verj’ let
ter!
A Prayer and Its Answer
The Rabshekah learned that Sen
nacherib had engaged Lebnah in a
battle and had left Lachish. Hear
ing th- the king of Ethiopia was ad
vancing against them and realizing
that all forces were needed in that
direction at the present, he sent a
letter back to Hezekiah more blas
phemous, more boastful, and more
insolent, than his personal message
had been and demanding his surren
der.
Hezekiah received the letter and
read it. Then he went to his accus
tomed place of prayer—(lt is a
mighty good thing to have an ac
customed place of prayer)—and
spread the letter before the Lord as
if for Him to read it. In this way
he put the matter of his need before
his God. Then he prayed. Notice in
that prayer in 2 Kings 19:15-19 that
he recognized God's Person —Jeho-
ovah; God’s Covenant —God of Israel;
God's mercy—which dwellest be
tween the cherubim (they were just
over the mercy-seat and sprinkled
with blood); God’s power—the creator
and ruler of Jhe universe; God’s
honor at stalp; God's unity—the
"alone” God. all these others that
have been unable to stand before
the king of Assyria were nothing
but works of men’s hands; God’s
glory—save us that all the earth
may know that Thou art the Lord
God, even Thou Only!
Os course that prayer was an
swered! Such a prayer can never
fail an answer. Many of the prayers
today lack the elements necessary to
success and go no higher than the
upper lip of the prayer! But prayer
that ha.- the elements of Hezekiah’s
reaches the heart of God in the high
est heavens and finds immediate re
sponse. Sometimes it comes to pass
“that night” as in the case of Hez
ekiah and Sennacherib; sometimes
the outworking of the answer takes
a bit longer time, hut one day with
the Lord is as a thousand years and
a thousand years as cne day. The
answer is started immediately; the
actual outworking may be apparently
delayed because of the obstacles to
be overcome either in you who pray
or in the one for whom you are pray
ing.
Isaiah brought to Hezekiah God’s
answer to his prayer. In his mes
sage, conveying to Hezekiah God’s
words, there is found an interesting
sidelight on human history. In
verses 23 and 24 (2 Kings 19) the
personal pronoun “I” is the king of
Assyria recounting ali his successes.
In v. 25 the “I” is Jehovah and show s
that Sennacherib’s successes were by
Jehovah’s permission only in carry
ing out His plans. In verse 28 the
“I” is still Jehovah, and Sennacherib
learned whose was the power.
In verse 29 Jehovah turns from
addressing Assyria to speak comfort
ing words to Judah, and the “I” in
verse 34 gives the reason for it —not
Juldah’s, but for His own name's
sake that had been, blasphemed and
for David’s, to whom He had sworn
with an oath!
How that prophecj’’ was answered
that night! By some sudden catas
trophe from God 185,000 of the Assyr
ian army dided in a night and the
remnant went back home by a dif
ferent route. At Ninevah, the king
was slain by his own sons. God’s
words were fulfilled to the very
letter.
Yes, when we have an accustomed
place for prayer, like Hezekiah;
when in time of trouble, like him, we
go there and spread the matter be
fore Jehovah and plead with Him on
covenant, grounds and for Hist own
glory, the answer is sure to come.
Sometimes we do not recognize it at
once, but It is there just the same.
In this connection the following
words of a. saint, of God's will be an
appropriate illustration:
Much that perplexes us in our
Christian - experience is the answer
to our prayers.
We pray for patience and God
sends tribulation; for tribulation
worketh patience. Rom. 5:3-5.
We pray for submission and God
sends suffering; so rwe learn obedi
ence by the things we suffer.
Heh. 5:8.
We pray for unselfishness and
God gives us opportunities to sacri
fice ourselves by thinking on the
things of others, and by laying down
our lives for the brethren. Phil.
2-4. Matt. 27-42, I John 3:16.
We pray for victory and the
things of the world swoop down upon
us in a storm of temptation; for this
is the victory that overcoineth the
world, even our faith. I John 5:4.
V 4 e pray for strength and humil
ity and some messenger of Satan tor
ments us until we lie in the dust
crying for its removal. II Cor. 12:7.
IV e pray for union with Jesus and
God severs natural ties, and lets our
best friends misunderstand us and
seem indifferent to us: and calls on
us to walk "alone.” Isa. 51:2, 63:3.
IV e pray for love and God sends
peculiar suffering and puts us with
apparently unlovely people, and lets
them say things which rasp the
nerves and lacerate the heart for
love suffereth long and is kind,’love
is not impolite, love is not provoked,
love beareth all things, believeth,
hopeth, endureth; love never faileth.
I Cor. 13:4-8.
IV e pray for likenesses to Jesus
and the answer is, “I have chosen
thee in the furnace of affliction. Can
thine heart endure or can thy hands
be strong? Are ye able?” Isa. 48:10.
Ezk. 22:14. Matt. 20:22. And in the
furnace. He melts us into some
thing of His own tenderness and
gentleness and teaches us how to
bear one another's burdens and how
to live to make intercession for the
sick and the sorrowful. Gal. 6:2.
Heb. 7:25. Eph. 6:18.
But this is only the transitory
side. There is an everlasting recom
pense of praise and honor and glory
at the revealing of Jesus Christ. 1
Pet. 1:17. For the momentary light
ness of our tribulation, in a man
ner more and more excelling. is
working out for us an age-abiding
weight and glory; so long as we are
not looking out for the visible
things but for the invisible; for the
invisible things are for a season:
whereas the invisibles are age-abid
ing. 11 Cor. 4:17, IS.
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AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
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Rules
No unsigned letter printed.
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paper printed.
All tetter not to exceed 150 to 200
words.
Dear Children:
I had so many requests for
Easter poems, and some, 1 am
sorry to say, reached me too
lote for me to be of any
service to you. This reminds me
that. I have long wanted to talk
with you about the way your let-
ters were addressed. If you are
writing to the LETTER BOX, just
address letters to me, the LETTER
BOX. If you have a question to
be answered through the paper, ad
dress me, the QUESTION BOX. If
you have a question you wish an
swered personally, inclose a stamp
ed, addressed envelope and address
to the QUESTION BOX and on the
lower left-hand corner of your en
velope write PERSONAL.
You can easily realize that my
mail is very heavy and if you will
follow the above instructions, we
will both profit.
The letter that leads today is
from Christine Williams and she
has sent us one of the most beauti
ful Easter poems I have ever read.
Please cut this out for your scrap
book, you may -want it next Easter.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Feeling
just a bit lonely? 1 thought there might be
a vacant corner among the jolly cousins
for a boy down in Mississippi. 1 have been
a reader of The Journal for some time, and
always enjoy reaoing the many good let
ters that appear in the Letter Box. I will
not take a subject so as to leave space
for a more sifted writer. I live on a
farm and must say 1 prefer farm life to
any other, as there are so many pleas
ures to be had there that nre not found
in any other life. I am twenty summer*
young. Who has my birthday. August .19.’
I shall lie glad to hear fioni any of yon
who care to write and will assure you an
answer. Would be glad to exchange photos.
As brevity is the rule, I will be going. 1
am your new cousin,
REMUS PALMER.
Morton, Miss.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you admit three
country girls into your coxy circle? We
every one go to school at the same place
and sve have jolly times together. Pearl
is sixteen years old. Ora Lee is fifteen
years old. I ant very mtteh like nty cousin,
Pearl. Dorothy is fifteen. Cousins, you
must write us. We are always glad to
read letters from our cousins. We are every
one club girls and enjoy meeting our
demonstration woman at the school. Me
have the second week in June for our en
campni nt We are all happy, fo' it is al
most here Cousins, write ns separately.
We don’t, all stay in the same home. We
are going to see who receives the most
mail. Everybody write us. Your cousin;,
(MISS) PEARL WHITE.
(MISS) OKA LEE WHITE.
(MISS) DOROTHY WARD.
Vineland, N. C.
My Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
1 am for a short chnt with my Auntie and
cousins this fine rainy afternoon. 1 am
like the poet: "it isn’t raining rain to
me. it is raining daffodils.” I love the
rain in summer time. 1 love it most, just
after the showers have passed over, when
all is quiet ami bright. The sun shines
out and exposes the beauty of the earth.
The rain shines on the trees, flowers and
grass like diamonds, and everything goes
to growing and breathing new life. The
birds go to singing and chirping their gay
est and it makes you realize that this
world is worth your time anyway. Most
folks take rain as a very sad Occasion. Os
course, sometimes we plan good times out
in the woods somewhere, and if it happens
to rain we can't do as we had planned. It
takes rain as well as sunshine to make this
earth beautiful. It has been so long since
1 made a visit that 1 see just lots of new,
bright, smiling faces in the circle, and to be
sure they are the kind we want and, of
course, 1 want to meet them all. Auntie
and cousins, too, suppose you all are very
busy now as spring has just opened up.
and as a general rule that is a very busy
time with us all. Auntie and cousins,. if
I was to write on any special subject it
would be “Housekeeping.” That is my
m<)st interesting subject now, as I have
just married. Many women think that
housekeeping is a very light and easy work.
They are mistaken. It is very difficult
work if you don’t know how. When I mar
ried. four months ago. I was absolutely
"green" on my work. I was Inexperienced,
and I took thousands of steps that wire
unnecessary, ami could hare saved if I had
ktown how. Rut the greatest trouble was
I never had any responsibility on myself.
Depended on someone else for my comfort
and happiness. I tell you mothers, all,
whether your daughter has to work or not,
Teach her how to, if for no other reason
than to teach her to depend on herself.
Don't wait until they are too old to begin.
"I’is better then than never. I have two
little step-children, and they are nn bright
er, smarter children in town. They are
only four and five years of age, and they
have duties to attend each day. There are
lots of little things they can do that will
be good for them and will teach them to
depend on themselves. I ant doing my
housework with a great deal less labor than
before and really enjoy doing it. I have
the best husband on earth, to my notion,
and we are a happy family. And ali oth
ers can he jt they only try. My letter is
too lengthy now, so will stop. All of you
know mo ns Estelle Morris, but since I
wrote last, hare married. All of you folks
write me. Txire.
ESTELLE MORRIS THOMAS.
(MRS.) ESTELLE MORRIS THOMAS. /
Douglas, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a little South Carolina girl into your
happy band of boys and girs? 1 am nine
years old and am in the fourth grade. I
have brown hair, dark blue eyes, fair com
plexion. a little stout and wear glasses.
I have been sick with the measles for about
a week, but am nearly well again now. I
haven't started to school yet. We are be
ginning to practice for commencement now
at school. I am glad to say my mother
and father are both living, but my mother
is sick. I have one sister ten years of age
in the fifth grade. My sister and I are
both about the same size, and dress alike,
my sister is nineteen months older than my
self. I am the baby child. How many
of you cousins go to school? I do, and like
it fine. How many of yon cousins like
music? I certainly do. I have been taking
music lessons but ant not now because I
couldn't go to school and take music, too.
I will be in the second grade In music. 1
have been reading the Letter Box for some
time and like it fine. Who all will write
me? I’lonse write me cards. I live in
Kirksey. S. C. I must stop. Your new
little cousin.
(MISS) MARY BMJIA RAMBO.
Kirksey, S. C., April 10, 1924.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will
you please open the door, and let another
Georgia girl in for a little chat? Move
over cousins and give me a seat by Aunt
Julia. What do you cousins do for pastime?
In summer I go in bathing for there is a
creek right near. Who has my birthday?
It. is June 14? Have 1 a twin? if so, please
write to me. My age is between 14 and 18
years. Who will be the lucky gnesser?
Aunt Julia, here is a poem which I think
is good, and I hope you cousins will agree
with me:
AN EASTER VISION
Whene’er I hear the Easter bells
Ring out their carols gay.
The craves from all the hills and dells
Dissolve from sight away.
1 see the mighty planet left.
Without a marble stone.
To tell of death, or one bereft,
Who com®, to weep alone.
Dear hands, long folded to their rest.
Return to touch my own,
And voices memory has blessed
In each familiar tone.
Speak as in other days to me;
While on the springtime's breath
Is borne to every land and sea
The news: “There is no death!”
The first one that writes tn tn® will re
ceive a photo, so let your cards and letters
come Io
(MISS) CHRISTINE WILLIAMS.
Rhine. Ga.. R. F. D. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please ad
mit another boy from the dear old state
"f North Carolina into your happy band <’(
boys and girls. As I have never been
before, just thought I'd drop in for a short
while. If you’ll give me a seat beside some
good-looking little school teacher or nurse.
If either should happen to see this please
write me. will you? Some of the cousins
write real good letters. And it any of my
\1 friends see this I would be very glad
> hear from them. I guess most of the
■-sins’ school is out by now. I don't go
» « hool now. but when I did I had some
very good times. Some of my last boy
friends now sleep la Flanders Field, oh.
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in the paper, add your initial - ! or
some chosen name in adition to your
full name.
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or by personal letter.
4. All letters requiring personal re
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Dear Folks: In our Letter Box
today I have called attention to the
best way to address letters to our
departments. Please read this, it
will help you to get answers quicker.
Another thing I want to say to
.you today is that I cannot publish
names of firms or stores in our de
partment. If you wish this informa
tion, just send a stamped, addressed
envelope and I'll send you a list of
such stores or firms as you may
desire.
Cordially yours,
AUNT JULIA.
Ella: Only the names of places,
persons and other proper nouns
should be written with a capital.
Yes, sentences should always begin
with capitals. Your sentence that
you ask to be corrected should have
been "I am from C — in the state of
South Carolina,” instead of, “i Am
from c— in the State of s. c. Al
ways write out your words, as
“South Carolina.” only in business
letters and on envelopes may abbre
viations he used, and it is better to
write fully In these instances.
Miss Gladys Corbin, Cullasaja, N.
C.: Wants "Aunt Minerva, and Wil
liam Green Hill.” Will pay postage,
better write first.
June Bride: Powder blue Is one of
the newest colors and should, be
most becoming to you as your eyes
are blue. For a girl of medium
means I think an extravagant, trous
seau is most foolish. If you are not
going to be married in white, I
would suggest a powder blue crepe
de chine; now, on the first thought,
you’ll think that an expensive dress.
It need not be. You can get a suf
ficient quantity of good crepe de
chine for your dress fpr not mote
than ten dollars; you will want some
nice lace for your collar, say about
another dollar or dollar and a half,
for less than fifteen dollars you
have your wedding dress; for that
matter you can say for less than
twelve dollars. Your hat can be of
the same shade of blue straw, with
flowers not too strong in color as
trimming. If you want more detail
and samples,, please send me a
stamped envelope for a personal re
ply.
Mrs. G. K.: In naming a baby
girl, you must bear in mind that
some day she will be a grown girl
and may have some very individual
ideas about her name, for this rea
son I would suggest that a girl be
given a name that she will be like
ly when she is big enough
to think about such matters. I am
going to give you some of my favor
ites and while they are not odd, I
believe you’ll agree with me that
they are sweet and quaint: Barbara,
Dorothy. Elizabeth, Ann, Nancy,
, Betty, Jane, and of course, Mary.
Jimmy: If you feel shy about giv
ing your girl friend her graduation
gift in person, mail it so that It will
reach her the morning of the day
she graduates. Enclose your card,
; writing on it some friendly greeting,
for Instance, "May this be one of the
happiest of days for you.”
1 so far away, 'while some were brought back,
but these memories must from our
minds. We must forget the past and look
for a brighter future. I’ll not describe.
Guess I have already broken the rule. I am
■ just on the sunny side of twenty, with
i dark hair and fair complexion. All write.
' As ever before,
' i S. B. WORRELL.
' j Hallsboro, N. C.
' I .
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Lift the
; latch and let another girl from the dear old
I state of Alabama enter you r happy circle,
, : At. present I am away from home, going to
I school, but my home ig among the hills of
, our state. I go to Cleburne High, in the
"little town of Heflin. 1 am a sophomore in
school, and, believe me. I have to study
real hard. I take history, biology, English
i and health work. I like English and health
work best of all. In English we are study
ing “The Story of My Life,” by Helen
Keller. Don't you cousins think she is just
wonderful? I wish you cousins could visit
me this summer, for I am sure we would
- have some time, as I live near both a rivet
and a creek. Os course, you know that
would mean fishing, rowing, bathing, etc.
My favorite pastime is reading and writing,
j I have written two short stories, entitled
I “Absence Cannot Hearts Divide” and “The
1 Reward of the Faithful.” I hope to some
day be a great writer, like Gene Stratton-
Porter. I had better go before auntie says
I must. All you boys and girls write to a
new cousin,
t MISS) ANGIE RICHARDSON.
Heflin, Ala., Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Move over
: and make room for another girl from the
dear old state of Alabama. This is my first
attempt to write to the Letter Box. biit I'm
trusting Aunt Julia will be nice to me and
print it. How many of you cousins live on
a farm? I do for one, and surely enjoy this
, life, for its such fun to live where we can
i breathe the fresh air and enjoy the beauti
| ful scenes of Mother Nature. Would you
■ cousins like to know in what part of
Alabama I live? I live nine miles from tlie
I little town of Heflin, which is the county
. seat of Cleburne county. During the winter
’ I go to school at the Cleburne High. I ant
a sophomore and bare had lots of hard work
■ to do this year. Our school will be out the
last of May and, oh, how glad I’ll be! How
many of you think you have found your life
profession? I for one think that nursing is
my profession. I feel that it is ray duty to
help suffering humanity. I have blue eyes
and an olive complexion. I had most for
gotten to say I have long black hair, so you
cousins see I’m not very much in style, but
I think too much of my hair to have it
bobbed. Who has my birthday, August 26?
‘ I would like to receive letters from all von
■ girls and boys who have my birthday." I
will answer all letters received. Your new
i cousin,
(MISS) LUDA MAR RICHARDSON,
Heflin, Ala., Route 2.
Dear Auntie and All: Rap! Rap! Please
let another Alabama girl join your happy
circle. What are you cousins doing these
spring days? At present I am going to
school. Igo to Cleburne High. Am a sopho
more. I surely enjoy going to school. I
think every boy and girl should strive for
an education. How many of you Round
Mountain cousins know Miss Lula Mackey?
I went to school two ,vears to her. She
surely is sweet. I guess you will agree
with me on that. Well, Auntie, I better
be traveling. All of you cousins write me,
especially those with my birthday. Septem
ber 2. Am sixteen. I will assure you an
answer. Let the letters come to
(MISS) DULSIA CHAMPION.
: Heflin. Ala,
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DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
Von can’t Expect This Sensation-
Loving World Not to Gossip
When You Give It the Chance.
Pc'ople Judge by Appearances
and Your Actions Speak
Louder Than Words
SHE is a little bob-haired flap-!
per, with a made-up, painted
face, and she wears the fewest,
and the shortest, and the thinnest,
and the loudest clothes that money
will buy. She goes on wild parties
and comes home with a gay, laugh
ing. shrieking crowd, and wakes the
neighbors up at
3 o’clock in the
mo r n i n g, and
she considers
herself extreme
'y ill used be
cause she is talk
ed about.
' Hateful, hor
rid, scratchy old
cats,” she indig
nantly exclaims,
‘taking away a
airl’s good name
with their scan
dal-m o n g e ring’
What if I do let
mJ
Im
the boys kiss me, and have petting
parties, and come home at night
about the time they are getting ur>.'
I don’t do anything really wrong.
lam a good girl. lam just as good
as their girls that they shoo up on
the roost at sundown. The things
I do look a lot worse than they arc.”
“You have said it for two, sister,’
agreed another girl. "I am private
secretary to a man who takes me
out to luncheon now and then, and
when his wife is out of town we
motor out to some nifty roadhouse
and have dinner and dance. There
is no harm in it.
“I am no vamp, engaged in the
home-wrecking business as a sid £
line, and my boss is devoted to his
lawful mate and his kids. Probably
the reason he takes me out is be
cause he knows 1 am safe, and most
of our talk is about business. But
la! la! I. haven’t got a shade of char
acter 16ft in the office. The dear,
green-eyed rag chewers, who just
dote on putting the very worst con
struction on everything, have picked
me to the bone.”
"Same here,” responded a young
married woman, "because I would
rather-jazz than walk the colic, and
prefer to take a spin with a good
looking youth in his sports car to
pushing a perambulator, and be
cause I don't consider that just be
cause you happen to be married all
of a woman's good looks and charm
need be devoted to home consump
tion, the gossips have a regular pic
nic every time my name is men
tioned. You would think I was a
female Herod who was ready to
murder her own children, and they
positively sob when they mention
my poor, deluded, duped husbnad.
"But on my hono: I am as
straight as Caesar's wife. And if I
do flirt a bit, it is purely for the
satisfaction of seeing whether 1
have still any of the bait left with
which I caught my husband. Os
course, I like fun, but I love my
babies; and as for my John. 1
wouldn’t give his little finger for a
whole regiment of the slick-haired
boys with whom I play about. Yet
all the old tabbies hold me up as an
awful example and sit around croak
ing and wondering when John will
start divorce proceedings against
me.”
"Well,” I said, “why shouldn’t
people talk about you when you
furnish them a racy subject to dis
cuss? Why shouldn’t they think the
worst of you when you give them
every right to think it? Why
should you expect others to be more
careful of your reputation than you
are yourself?
I know it is the custom to ana
thematize gossipers, and we shudder
as we say what a.terrible thing it
is that we can’t do anything without
its being discussed by our friends
and acquaintances.
"But, believe me, the only time
we object to being talked about is
when people are discussing our
weaknesses and shortcomings. As
long as they are saying how young,
and pretty, and sweet, and innocent
a girl is she doesn’t want to turn
off the phonograph. It is only when
they say that she is fast, and com
mon, and that she is beginning to
look hard and shopworn, and that
they wouldn’t want a son of theirs
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to marry her, that she wants to put
a silencer upon them.
"No business woman objects to
hearing people say that her em-1
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they whisper that she is having an ■
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"No married woman is peeved be- j
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is only when they shrug their shoul i
ders and look at her askance, and 1
she knows that her comings and i
goings furnish forth the feast for j
the Babies’ Welfare Sewing circle
that she wishes that every female
on her block had been born blind
and dumb.
"Os course, you may know that
you are innocent, but. other people
can't know that. They can only
judge by appearances, and if you
give a. lifelike and convincing ap
pearance of wrong-doing, they are
not to blame for drawing a logical
conclusion from your actions.
"The girl who looks, and dresses,
and acts like a woman of the streets
has no right to complain if men
insult her and people take her to be
what she sterns to be. Nor has the
girl who goes out with married men
just cause to he offended if gossip
credits her with leading an irregu
lar life. Nor need the giddy married
woman be astonished when other
matrons draw their skirts aside from
her mud-spattered ones.
“Every woman's good name is in
her own keeping, and if she does
not think enough of it to guard it,
she certainly can’t expect the gen
eral public to undertake the job. It
is asking a little too much of a sen
sation-loving world to cover up our
wrong-doing wltn the mantle of
silence.
“So it isn't enough just to be good.
You must look’ good and act good.
You must register virtue, as our
movie friends say. Then you won't
object to what people say about you.
You will simply lap it up. It is only
when we are afraid of what they
will say about us that we hear the
tongues of our neighbors.”
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright, 1924)
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Florida led all states with 2.555,
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and Kentucky shipped 437,000 tons
valued at $2,387,100. and Idaho and
Wyoming made small shipments.
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Sulphate of Ammonia for I se I n
der Corn
A. M. A., Newborn, Ga.,
writes: Is sulphate of ammonia
as good as nitrate of soda for
use around corn, or is it too slow
acijing? If soda is worth S6O per
ton, what would you value the
sulphate of ammonia?
A standard grade of sulphate of
ammonia will contain approximate
ly 21 per cent of nitrogen or 420
pounds per ton. A standard grade
of nitrate of soda will contain about j
16 per cent of nitrogen or 320 pounds ]
per ton. The nitrogen contained in ;
either one of these carriers of this (
element will be found useful to ■
growing crops in Georgia. The nitro- |
■gen in nitrate of soda is presumed j
to become more quickly available ;
than that in sulphate, of ammonia.
There is not much difference, how
ever, from a practicable point of
view, as to the availability. Nitrate
of soda is more extensively used for
topdressing purposes than sulphate
of ammonia.
When nitrate of soda is worth
S6O per ton, a pound of available
nitrogen costs approximately nine
teen cents. Applying this price to
the amount of nitrogen contained
in a ton of sulphate of ammonia,
we find it will be worth about SBO
per ton. If you can buy it at the
figure indicated, or a lower price,
we think you can use it in connec
tion with most farm crops with the
same advantage that would accrue
from the use of nitrate of soda.
Varieties of Sorghum Suited for
Silage ,/
A. L. R., Milledgeville, Ga.,
writes: Please give me the name
of the best variety of sorghum
cane that, will give the largest
tonnage of silage per acre. How
should it be planted, and how
much seed should be use 1 per
acre? What is an average yield?
A number of varieties of sorghum
can be grown for the purpose you
have in mind with satisfaction and
advantage. The variety we have
found the most useful from our point
of view is the Red Head or Sumac.
This is a stocky variety, byt never
theless makes a. good development
and reaches a. height of eight, to ten
feet in favorable seasons. We plant
this crop as a rule four feet
apart. On thin land, the spac
ing should be even wider. We plant
rather thickly in the drill so as to
have the stalks stand not over four
to six inches apart. We use a gal
lon and upward of seed per acre.
We plant with a drill in which a
special plate for seeding sorghum
is inserted. We have obt'ined as
high as fifteen tons of sorghum
silage per acre. Sorghum should not
he cut for silage until the seed
heads are mature. Even then, we
allow it to wilt for a few hours be
fore cutting.
NUT GRASS
J. A. L., Swainsboro, Ga..
writes: How does nut grass af
fect crops? Is there any way to
i get rid of it?
I Nut grass, of course, affects all
■ Tops adversely. This is due to the
fact that it is a. pest which cannot
readily be eradicated. In the second
place, it is a wonderfully vigorous
! growing crop and multiplies with
i great rapidity on that account.
I Hence, it occupies the land so com-
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
pie tel y as to exclude other crops;
or, jf they are grown alongside of
it, then a good part of the food which
they might naturally expect to as
similate goes into the nut grass. It
is a. very good illustration, I think,
of the seeding of tares in a culti
vated crop.
One should struggle as insistent
ly and effectively as possiole to de
stroy this grass. The best way to
accomplish this end in so far as our
knowledge goes is through the me
dium of smother crops. We suggest
that you plant the area infested wdh
this grass to velvet beans. Ordina
rily, we would space them in wide
rows, but for the purpose you have
in mind, in checks not over five
feet apart. Probably it would be bet
ter to have the vines only two and
one-half feet apart in the drill.
The velvet bean is a soil-enriching
crop and produces a valuable grain.
It spreads and covers the land up
completely and constitutes one of
th e best smother crops we can rec
ommend for use in your section of
the state. At the end of the season,
the velvet beans may be harvested
for hay or for grain. Then the land
should be immediately planted to
hairy vetch and oats. Continue this
practice for a period of three years,
and I think you will be surprised tn
find how niuch of the nut grass you
have destroyed. We have been able
to clean up some infested areas on
our farm by following this proced
ure for a period of from three to
five years.
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