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EDITORIAL, PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1879. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail. »5.00 a year. Payable in advance. It Is Not at All Difficult to Understand the Existence of a Real Trinity •err The Trinities of Various Religions Are Far Above Our Heads, and We Have No Right To Discuss Them. But Have You Ever Thought About the Trinity of Beethoven, the Grand Piano and Paderewski? "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.”—l John v:7. This quotation is sent to us by ;i iTatkr who apparently has lost his faith in religious teachings, and expresses the belief—set forth in a thick pamphlet that any teaching as to a religious 'I rin ity is an impossibility, an absurdity which should not be imposed upon the human mind It is well occasionally to remind human beings that things which to them SEEM impossible are not impossible, and that state ments which we believe to be the creations of imagination and scheming are often expressions of profound truth. We do not propose here, or in any other' department of this newspaper, to criticise or discuss religious teachings. A newspaper should have little or nothing to do with religion -except to admire it and reverence it. But we wish to tell the incredulous friend who sends us this particular quotation that there is nothing in it which need arouse skepticism or contempt. As an example and proof of the fact that a Trinity may' be R».\L. and that three separate tilings MAY find expression through voices, ami that all three of them may be one. we ask our friend to imagine the following conditions: You are silling in a room with the door closed. In the adjoin ing room there is a sound, the playing of a Beethoven sonata. Tou bear the music. If you had never seen a piano, and knew nothing of music, you would not believe that in that room there were three separate and distinct forces, giving expression simul taneously to one thought, one sound. You would not believe if it were said to you : “ In that room there are three that bear record of the greatness of musical genius—the piano, the artist and the dead composer and those three are one." That is a paraphrase of the text which is sent to us, and yet we can show you that in that room where you liftir the music it is per feetly possible to have the three distinct persons bearing record to the greatness of music, and to have those throe ONE. In that room there is a grand piano. In front of the piano sits Paderewski playing. And on the piano there is a book containing one of the Beethoven sonatas. The genius that created the piano died long ago. The over whelming genius that wrote the Beethoven sonata died long ago. Paderewski is the only' living one in the Trinity. He sits there and plays. Yet you hear the three voices; they all bear record to the greatness of music. AND THESE THREE ARE ONE. If you should take away the piano, there would be no music. If you should take away Paderewski, leaving the piano and the score, there would still be no music. If you take away the text by Beethoven, still there would be no music. The piano, the player and the music of the dead com poser are necessary, they arc all separate, and y et all three are ONE. There, kind friends, you ha e proof of the fact that the Trinity speaking through three voices, all saying the same words, all three necessary to expression, are in reality one. The Women’s Part in the x Election At the’coming election next November women will vote for president to the number of nearly a million ami a half. The six states in which women will east a presidential vote arc Colorado. California. Idaho. I (ah. Washington and Wyom mg. All of these states in the past have been regarded as Re publican states But what have the two Republican parties to oiler the women this year" Both Mr. Roosevelt ami Mr Taft have been lukewarm on the subject of woman's suffrage And any overtures made by them at this time toward enfranchised women will naturally he discounted by the women who have borne the burden and heat of the long struggle. Campaign eonversi<Mr> nri convincing I'lnis Mr. Roose velt's sudden shift on this subject is sure to be scrutinized with suspicion. A lit lie while ago he said in an Outlook article that votes for women should be postponed until it is shown that most of the women want to vote. Now he seizes the hands oi suffra gists in Chicago and exclaims: "Ladies. I am glad to see you. I'm strong for woman's suffrage." 'Mr. Taft's kindness toward the suffragists is nine-tenths resignation. In five or six states that have not yet achieved woman's suffrage on a presidenrisi scale the issm is to be settled at the coming election. These states are Oregon. Kansas. Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and possibly New Hampshire. All of these sttltes also may be reckoned ✓>« habitually Republican. ft is evident that the women of Hu 1 country have an ex traordinary stake in the coming election. It should he evident also that they are likely to look mJ to the Republican party, but to the Democratic party f<>r ungrudging and whole hearted support of their cause. If the Baltimore convention shall present a candidate who h;m stood up for the women like a man whose conviction of right is sober ami seasoned and not extemporaneous lu* will have an excellent chance to win some states out ot the R< publican column by the votes ami iuHm-n f the mothers and daughters of men. The Atlanta Georgian WHEN WATER IS WET By HAL COFFMAN. f WILLIAM -"hOVJ \ DO Yow PICF-. ’ Jp SO HOCH oirt 1 Me ALL iMi > Mr Hg * - i $ j - • f UiLJ?' . / voaw frexF rff* - - U ■ ' ‘ ‘"I 'Tiffs - 'A . ■ _ -c,. ... N .rajr-ff 'Tgs V // ~ , A , iv 1 ?- \ varrmi. 'Ax- ’ \ —• ~ J. / _ DOROTHY DIX WRITES OF What the Ideal Husband Is---and Is Not By DOROTHY DIX. ' rr-xHE young lad.\ artist, who is : soon lo be married in Bos- ton, to the godson of tire poet Longfellow, has laid down the following rules for the ideal hus band: He must not smoke. He must not drink intoxicating liquors. IE must not eat meat. No doubt to all young maidens these qualifications for the perfect ' husband will seem just too lovely and poetic and romantic for any thing. but every married, woman with a personal acquaintance of the peculiarities of husbands will rend of the bride’s demand with shrieks of derisive laughter, and hope that, for her own sake, sire won't get them Good Food the Key. For the ideal Uusbahd k.- not a pa e. under-nourished grweiis fed ascetic, but "a regular man.” as Blanche Ring sings, who has red Mood, and plenty of it. and a hank ering after the flesh pots Delicate women, with no appe tites, arc wont to scorn the mas culine love of the pleasures of the table, but it doos'Jt take a wife long to discover that her best ally in the matrimonial game is the gas range, and that a well cooked din ner will do more to keep a man in the strait and narrow path than all of the Ten Commandments Beauty may pall upon a man. but not good eating. He may w eary of the wit of'even the most bril liant of women, but never of her superexcell "nt sauces. He max grow indifferent, too, and perhaps desert, tile wife who has a thou sand virtues and only one soup, but he will be faithful until death to the w ife who has the one vjrtue of making a thousand soups. Wfse women know till- and act a. ■ dingh They ire aware that the man who knows that he will get p dinner- at home more to his taste than lie could find in any lobster palace is pretty stire to come toddling straight to his own mahogany of ar, evening instead of going to some restaurant, and that tire lady across the table stands a good chance gs being Friend Wife instead of Totty t'ough Drop of the second row of the chorus M.-.o trie sagacious married lad> c. wh e to rhe ffc-ct that there is FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1912. nothing that discourages a man from putting on his hat 'and wan dering forth from his own fireside of an evening like being so stuffed w ith good food that the only pleas ure that really beckons is an arm ehair and slippers. It is tire in stinct bf all gorged animals to stay rmt. and this applies to man as well as to boa constrictors. These idiosyncrasies of the m<t.-- culine temperament deliver the man who likes to eat bound and helpless in <* tis wife’s hands. His appetite is an instrument upon which she may play as upon a harp of a. thousand strings. Not so may she do. however, if she has the ill luck to marrj a man who docs not live to cat. biit merely eats to live. Everything tastes alike to him because his pallet is as uneducated as that of the ignoramus who can not distinguish ragtime from grand opera, or who thinks a limerick as good leading as Shakespeare. Eat ing is a,business with such a man. not an exquisite joy. and there is no more sentiment connected wit II it than there is to the performance of any other colorless daily task. He: e. then, is where the w ife of the man who doesn't like to oat loses out. she lack- the moans of making herself ig necessity to her husband that her sister possesses who is married to an epicure. If all he wants is handful of herbs and nuts the green grocer can sup ply them as well as she. If all that he asks pf bread is that.it be nour ishing, any bakery can till the void. Between him and his wife there can be none of that peculiarly ten der tie that comes of the husband being dependent upon his wife for his physical comfort. Wliat Cements the Marriage. The filling- ih>a.layer cake is the cement that.hag-held many a mar riage together, and when a man goes about bragging that his wife is the best cook in the communitj it is a j-ert iftcate of domestic felfei t> that you could draw money on at the bank. A- to the Boston bride's th ce specific demands in the idea! hus band. that lie most not eat meat, he must not smoke, he must not drink intoxicating liquors, much along the line of experience may be said as opposed to tiiat of theory. There Is no objection, of eou s,. to the vegetarian husband beyond the one that no man who really likes to eat is ever a vegetarian. Only those who believe in plain living and high thinking ever be come enamored of the Nebuchad nezzar cult. There is nothing to lire the fancy in a plate'of carrots and bean-, nothing to thrill the imagination in a head of cabbage, nothing to draw the wanderer home in a dish of potatoes. Nor can any one picture a happy family sitting down to a hilarious dinner of spinach, and arising therefrom sustained, and comforted, and filled w ith good humor. t Vegetarians claim that living en tirely upon herbs, and refraining from meat, makes tnem mild and amiable, but this is yet to be proven, and the one best bet in matrimony is to pick out a nice, fat gentleman, with a pink skin, who looks as if b? could digest •nails, and who orders a steak a yard square when he goes to the restaurant. As for the lady’s objection to smoking, that also is the voice of ine.xp ilcnee. Nothing soothes a man like tobacco, and whatever a woman’s objection to the filthy w eed befon mart iage, it doesn’t ’ take her dong after marriage to look upon her husband’s pipe as the pipe of peace, and to draw a long sigh of contentment w hen she sees him get out the meerschaum that he is so carefully eoiorine. Siie knows, then, that he is settled for tlie evening, and all is well. Nor. does the w ise wife put tile pedal down* too hard on the drink question. To get drunk in a saloon is one thing. To have a glass of beer or wine in one’s own home is another, and it is worthy of Hie consideration of women that the most domestic and home-loving men in the world arc those who are not fort ed to chew cloves w hen they come in the immediate radius of theii wives. A Good Man to Shun. Undoubtedly the man w ho doesn't drink, who doesn’t sinpke and who doesn't eat meat must be a lovely character, but isn't he just a little bit too good for human nature’s daily food'.’ And how would a wife go about working a husband for a new dress or a lint when hi was never soothed with smoke, nor i endcred optimi.dic by a good din ner? He'd call fol a w hob nr i • y tern ~f feminine diplomacy. THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Amiability as a wo manly Virtue ---and-- Her Power to Make Others Happy Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox , Copyrights 1912, by Atnerican-Journal-Examiner. IONG ago amiability was re garded as one of the cardinal virtues of woman. Then caiae soin© witer (per haps it was I’anny Eerm who set ti e fashion of ridiculing I lie amia ble woman. She was represented as a placid, unemotional, good-hat u red crea ture, stupid and uninteresting or as a spineless type of femininity a human door-mat. Yet were I a. man the first qual ity 1 would seek in a wife would be an amiable disposition. And it would be most difficult to find. Think over all women friends and acquaintances you have, and you will be surprised to discover how few can be called amiable. Webster describes an amiable disopsition as a “lovableness.” And that is precisely w liat it is. Then is a woman of great bril liancy; her mental powers arb large, her wit scintillates, her ac,- complishments are varied: but these are not what keep her a fa vorite in every circle she enters or makes her an adorable guest In every household fortunate enough lo obtain her presence. II is her never-failing amiability and happy good cnecr which do this. Thera is another woman who has limited mentality: she has no striking qualities of mind, save kindness of heart and amiability; yet she is beloved by a large cir cle, and popular with men and women, because of the agreeable impression she leaves. Amiabil ity is like a sweet perfume: and one who possesses it need not con verse brilliantly or display varied accomplishments to please. Whatever your type may be, Umn. young lady, whether vo'u are bright or dull, pretty or' plain, young—or not so young—rich or poor, cultivate the great and beau tiful virtue of amiability. Take a happy view of life, of people, of tlie worle. Whatever occurs, accept the sit- Studying Your Husband By WINIFRED BLACK. Dear Winifred black: it would benefit many if you would explain why novelists and others underline “Study your husband." It must be a sorry love that needs to go to school after marriage. Mutual affection of the right kind concentrates appreciation, thought fulness and unselfishness. May I venture to request your approval in print? Faithfully yours, DREW DONALDSON. 210 Washington St.. Syracuse. So you are just a wee bit tired of being told to “study your hus band," are you. iprew Donaldson? Well, I don't blame you very much. I hate the whole cut and dr.icd. planned and schemed —added and subtracted —viewpoint of matri mony, anyhow. “Study yotn husband. " If you love him you won t have lo stud? him: you'll know him better than you know yourself. And if you don't love him, all the study in the world won't do a thing but make you see very fault he has and think it's twice as big a* it really is. What is there so very mysterious about/husband? He's just a man, isn't tie—a good-hearted, quick tempered, unreasonable, extrava gant fellow perhaps - but a man for all that? The very man you fell in love with at your friend's wedding, and he hasn't 'changed a bit. Have you? Arc you Just the same sweet-tempered, quick-witted, big-minded girl you were when you made him like you by admiring the other girl's frock or have you narrowed down into something so small and so narrow-minded that tlie most amiable creature in the world couldn't keep In love with you if he tried with all his might? Are you as fond of him as you used to be when you couldn't hear his voice without a thrill of delight, or do you just look upon him as a good p< rson to pay your bills and that's about all? “It must be a sorry love that needs ,o go to school after mar riage." you think, little woman wliu's tired of being told to "“tudy your husband." when nobody tells your husband to >itudy you. No: I can’t agree witli you there. Life is a school, every minute of it. We begin in the kindergarten and we keep right on through the first grades, when we learn to tell the letters. How many times di.l you cry yourself to sleep, little woman, before you learned that a-h spells ab. and not the name of something great and good that was to tome to you without study? Se ond grade up. where you find out about figures'. Odd tilings, fig ures. They are so stubborn and so hofn'!e-sly matter of fa«t. Tin-.' don't c tro how prett? \ "ii are. or < how good your heart Is. What tliei want to know is bow much is two and two and if you don’t add two WT? • w nation with serenity, with a laugh: or if tears will come, smile through tlieni. Do not be critical or analytic. Have a good word for every body; see the humorous side of daily life And be tolerant, for giving and patient with people. If you are born with this ten dency, you are far more fortunate than if you had been born heir to mililons and irritable nerves. 'l'Ve irritable woman, the woman w ho is easily upset, easily wound ed. easily 'discouraged, and easily made unhappy often deceives her self that she is of a peculiarly “re fined” and “sensitive” nature and that she feels the hurls of life more keenly than coarser-fibered beings. Instead, she is merely indulging disagreeable tendencies; she is self-centered; she is narrow-mind ed: slie is jealous and envious ofttimes without the least suspicion of the fact, and she has put her own nerves on edge by a wrong process of thinking. One born with an unfortunate tendency in these directions will find the effort to cultivate amiabil ity hard. But it is woitli the labor. The woman who possesses or achieves amiabilitj gives more pleasure to the world than any mere woman of wealth, power or genius who is not amiable. There is the meliiory of one amiable woman which is going down to the third and fourth gen erations and is making every one who prides herself upon any kin ship anxious to perpetuate and emulate that ancestral quality. There is the memory of another brilliant and beautiful woman, who was distinctly unamiable, which is marring and blighting the lives of many descendants. Amiability is not only for today; it is for tomorrow and the day after and for eternity. For the habit of the mind is making eternity. Pray much, and pray ever to lie helped i<, develop atr amiable and lovable disposition. Rut strive while you pray. And work always. and two right there’s trouble for you. I'ourth Grade. Geography—How big the world is and what an aston ishing number of places there are. “bounded on the north by this” and “on the south by that." and they keep right on being bounded, too. by the same tilings, though you can't remember their names 19 save you life. Eighth Grade—Big girl now, aren't you? Hair in a braid, dress es getting longer; but the same old facts waiting for you around the new corner—only they wear differ ent clothes. Algebra now instead of the multiplication table, the his tory of England instead of the his tory of the United States. High School Sororities—College apd at last the great degree, grad uated. with honoi or without, as 'on have chosen to have It. All a school, all a school the whole of life —and marriage is just one grade in it. the hardest grade of all. some say. and some go through it without a moment of joy and trust and loving kindness. It depends so much upon the rea son you entered that particular grade and who it is that sits beside you through the term. Lessons! A dozen a du.', hard ones, too, 'some of tfieni. Lessons in patience, and trust, and for bearance. and generous forgiveness and open-hearted confidence and true-hearted love -the kind of love that grows brighter when the day is longest and when the lessons are hardest to learn. Love! Why. you didn't know what it meant when you sighed in 1 Im moonlight, you and the one w ho sits with you now through all the lessons of all the schools day in and day oi*t. You just imitated some one you'd seen on the stage or read about in a book, but now. Why, you know that mate of yours' He's foolish sometimes, just like you. and stubborn, too, just as you are. and short-sighted anti dull of comprehension—all just as vou ara and he gets tired and forgets. Dear, dear mate, who ever loved him in iiis care-free, confident youth as you lore id ln now ? How many times he has helped vou over a hard place in the da? ; how many times he has looked at you with toll ot loves comprehension when all tlie rest were blind! Your mate, yours, the one of all Hie world who will stand by you in trouble and keep faith with vou under tht weight of woe. Study him Why. you’ know his • ver? mood by heart, vou don't have to learn ii am-w But vou’re in chool just the same, and will b 9 till Time ends for you. Il • 11001 together, all the long, long i-'iih we love to call Life, yon |’ .iii'l Ihema 11 \ou lo\' ou and the "Il" lo' 'oil. Imatcg, till ■ w Long Vacation and then?— Who , ih help inn hope?