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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 postofTlce at Atlanta, under act of March 3,18 TS Subscription Price—Delivered by earl ier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5 00 a year. Payab’e in advance. Melancholy and Quick Lunch Accordinj? to Professor Juns?, one of the country’s best known authorities on gastronomies, the question of when, how and what to eat is one of the most serious problems confronting the nation. “The health and happiness of our men and women.“ he says, “rest on the abolition of the quick lunch counter: for as a result of improper food, improperly eaten, comes melancholy, and after meloncholy nearly anything. Bring hack the good old home cooking; let a wife's love for her husband be borne out by her cooking. - ' Says Meredith: “Civilized man can not live without cooks.” Professor Jung recommends that every man learn to cook for himself. * The trouble with most of ns is that we sit down to a meal M we go to the dentist’s chair. The hour comes for eating and we eat ; the process is regarded as an evil to he ended as quickly as possible. We do not think or care what we are eat ing; we talk incessantly, we swallow without chewing and we get up with an air of a martyr as though we would say, “There, that's done.” Professor Jung’s recipe for conquering the problem is worth noting: “Assume a pleasant frame of mind before eating; think cheerful and happy thoughts before each mouthful, for. as Pro fessor Pavlow says, the beginning of digestion is a psychic im pulse. “Don’t talk too much; forget everything except that you are going to eat and intend to enjoy it.” Then you will emerge smiling—not a prey to indigestion and the blues. , Crusade Against the Hobble Throughout the West the hobble skirt has come in for gen eral condemnation. Ministers and club women unite in calling it immodest. The Civic League of Chicago voices its protest in the fol lowing resolution sent to the chief of police: “Clean men constantly condemn by word and act men who speak to girls and women or treat them in such manner as they’ would not tolerate from any man toward their own sister, sweet heart. wife, or mother. “Men and women alike insist upon a decent standard of dress among girls and women becoming, charming, but not sug gestive. and insist that no girl or woman who is a true, thought ful lady' will dress suggestively.” “Year by year and month by mouth.” says Miss Baleomb, president of the league, “the garb of women has been growing shorter and tighter.” Bishop Dowling of the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, de clares that the present styles are astounding. He thinks, how ever. that American women do not wear modern clothes to be immodest, but to follow the dictates of fashion. “Women’s gowns.” he declares, “grow more immodest every year because they are designed in a country which is frankly immoral.” In Omaha the Women's <lnh will visit all dressmakers to urge them to discourage the making of tight gowns. Merchants will be asked not to sell objectionable dresses, and women who wear clothes which make them objects of marked attention will be requested to put on more modest attire. Women should regard this growing agitation as a compli ment. In no country are they so looked up to by husbands, fathers, brothers and sweethearts as here. It is unfortunate that they’ should do anything to forfeit this respect which once lost is hard to regain. Yet the tight skirt is bringing about this very result. Since women pride themselves upon their advance in all the mental as well as physical attributes, why should they recklessly throw away one of their chief charms- -modesty ? It is a question demanding their consideration. i ~ Latent Powersof the Schools Last October the Social Center Association of America was organized at a national convention held at Madison under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin. Governor Wilson was the principal national figure on that occasion. On the 23d of next October the second annual convention of the association is appointed to be held at the University' of Kansas, with_a special rally at the great convention hall in Kansas City, Missouri. This movement is trying to help the American people to realize greater dividends on its enormous investment in public schools. Its leaders insist that the public school system of the United States is the nation's partnership or incorporation of the arts and sciences—its inheritance of all the powers of the mind, derived from many ages of history in many lands These powers of the mind consist of all the inventions and discoveries of the past, all the good ways of doing things that have been handed down to our time and country from the world at large and from the generations •that are gone. Most of the wealth of the I nited States has been produced through the application of this heritage of common knowledge to the bare lands of this continent. The land has, for the most part, passed out of the immediate control of the commonwealth But the vast, the inexhaustible powers of knowledge are still a part of the public domain. This domain is ruled over by the public school house. It seems to be the mission of the Social (’enter Association of America to awaken the people to a fuller knowledge of these latent powers. The Atlanta Georgian WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1912. © ® A Mystery of the Far East © © The Wonderful Description of a Snake Charmer in Nigeria Who Handles Deadly Reptiles With Freedom __ s r JfF XJ s x< 1. • Es) -= ;; IL -W ’i* ... Rr*° Ready to Strike. By CAPT. D. H. MAC DONELL. AT Sokoto, in Northern Nigeria, there lives a man named Da dali, who is a “snake charm er" in the true sense of the word. This man is a naturalist who, it would seem, has the power of catching and handling poison snakes and scorpions without fear of danger. Dadali was well known to the Europeans at Sokoto; but it was believed that the snakes he han dled had been tamed or drugged. This tnan got into trouble and was put In Jail. After he had been in prison more than a month, the British Resident went to him and asked if he could catch and handle a snake if he were taken to any place which the Resident should choose. Dadali agreed to do this, and was taken under guard to a swamp at some little distance from the station, where snakes were to be found. After some search and digging a black cobra was driven out of its hole. Dadali sprang to it. s< ized it in his hand ami brought it to the Resldeiyt. It is not possi ble that this man. who had been more than a month in prison, could have arranged to recapture a tame snake in such a place, and without having the knowledge be forehand that he would be called upon to do such a thing A Wonderful Feat. Some little time afterward Dadali brought a large black cobra, over five feet long, to the compound of the writer. This snake he handled with the utmost freedom, teaming it until the reptile got angry and sat up hissing, spreading out its hood, while the native servants kept a most respectful distance. (See photograph.) Dadali then (probably for the benefit of the native servants) dared the white man to pick up the cobra. 1 called my native sol dier servant and told him to lo id Woman and the Economic Problem I T is ths fashion with certain writers nowadays to call every woman who does not earn her living outside of the home, "a para site." This term of reproach is even be ing applied to the wife and mother who cooks and scrubs and sews and mends and baby tends, and who works eighteen hours out of the 24 at the never-ceasing labor of making a home and rearing a fam ily. To the lay mind it would seem that if anybody on the face of the earth earns her hoard and keep, and is not a dependent, but a self supporting member of society, it Is such a woman. This appears, however, tn he an erroneous view of the matter and the poor domestic drudge who works herself to death in her own home is being denounced in scath ing term- as a parasite, a despic able leech who lives on her hus band. and pei mils herself to lie supported by him it is a bromide to say that the welfare of humanity rests upon the stability of the home, and that the woman who brings up noble sons ami daughters has made the most precious gift possible to the world. It can do nothing but harm to teach this woman that he: work is not worth while, that It is without dignity, and that she who is only wife and mother is a figure of con tempt. The majority of women are only too much of that opinion already. And in that attitude lies the great tragedy of the average woman's life. Iler pork of making a home, of making a man's happiness and comfort, of rearing children, has never been recognized as the great est work to which any human be ing may turn a hand, as the great est career that am ambition might pursue, or even as ju-t a plain trade that was worth paying for When this snapshop was taken it was hissing, its tongue darting in and out and its hood dis ended. . i V wWi ’■■ Tire picture above shows Dadali and a small cobra. Although very small this cobra was no less deadly than the big one shown in the other pictures. his carbine, and said In the na tive tongue; "I am going to pick up that snake. If it bites me, shoot that man," Indicating Dadali. The snake charmer was then asked if he still wished the cobra to be touched, upon which lie laughed and said: Handling the Snake. ‘‘Pick the snake up>—if you do not fear." 1 then picked up the cobra, taking hold about the mid dle of its body. Tile creature kept quite still while it was being lift ed, writhing its head gently in the air. while tiie snake charmer kept in front of it. It is probable that thisi man was capable of exerting some kind of mesmeric power over snakes and possibly something in his sense of touch enabled him to handle thejp without their wishing to hurt him. I have seen him take four or five poison snakes out of the pocket of his robe, holding the wriggling hand ful as if they had been a bundle of sticks, while the bite of any one of the snakes that he held meant death In something under half an hour. Tiie photographs were taken by myself at a distance of about six feet from the snake, after it had been made angry. In one it w ill be seen that tiie cobra has its mouth just open and is in tiie act of striking. With regard to this. Professor Boulenger writes: “The snake is, no doubt, Naia nigricollis, a com mon species in Nigeria, of which I have on two occasions received ex amples from Sokoto, It Is known as Bv DOROTHY DIN Wo actually sneak of the woman who is engaged in this tremendous labor as being “supported” by her husband. We regard her as a de pendent. and she has no financial status. She draws no wage for her services, and even the government census report refuses to enroll her among those women who are en gaged in "gainful occupations." No wonder the indiscriminating and those without a sense of hu mor call her a parasite! No won der that she even looks upon her self as one! With their growing freedom in other matters it becomes more and more humiliating to wives to be forced to go to their husbands and ask. like beggars, for every penny they spend. Every woman with her own pocketbook tills the woman with no pocketbook with an envy that turns her thoughts toward the outside world. The wife knows that she labors harder than the business or professional woman, and that her services are better worth paying for. and she rebels at the injustice that makes her a dependent, sub ject to the whims of her husband. It does not take any prophet to foresee that the job of wife has got to have a pay envelope attached to it hereafter, or else women will fol low the advice of those who tell them to put their children in creches, or some other kind of in stitution designed for incubating human chicks, and that they will go away from home and follow some pursuit that will furnish them with at least enough money to preserve their own self-respect This would be a most unfortunate state of affairs, since the consensus of experience shows that no scien tific care of children can take the (dace of mothering, and also that women succeed best in the occupa tions that belong to them by reason of their sex the ‘spitting snake’ of West Africa, being in the habit of ejecting pois on through its fangs, often at a Considerable distance. In his work on Liberia. Sir Harry Johnston has the following remarks on this much dreaded reptile: "Naia nigricollis is not infre quently seen in native villages, which it visits on account of the rats and other vermin that form Its food. The snakes frequent the Getting Angry. thatch more especially, and do not generally interfere with human be ings unless first attacked. Even then, instead of striking with their fangs, they seem to prefer to eject the venom by compression of the muscles of the poison gland, so that . . . The natives say that the snakes aim at the eyes, and that if the venom enters the eye it causes a very severe inflam mation. but nothing worse.- “‘One fact is certain (from my own observation,) that fhese Afri can cobras are very slow to strike with their fangs. I have once or tw ice trodden on one, and the snake his rapidly' withdrawn to a safe distance, and then adopted its at titude of menace. Are Unwilling to Bite. “The fact that some cobras are unwilling to bite is corrobated by- Mr. H. M. Ridley. Writing on the Malay cobra know n as Naia sputa trix, he observes that ‘When an noyed, thte cobra sits up in the well konwn manner and makes a very curious snorting noise, holding its mouth open in tiie form of a circle and every now and then spitting its saliva (read shooting its pois on I at its opponent. It never at tempts to bite, but spits witli great accuracy, at a distance of feight feet.’ “ As the man Dadali is a natural ist. he is probably w'ell acquaint ed with the behavior of the Sokoto cobra. Many of tiie most poisonous snakes, tiie Indian grait, for In stance. can only be induced to bite by inflicting actual pain on them as when stepped upon, for instance. It is folly to talk of any woman snaking a real home, and being a real mother in the fullest sense of the term, and following a career, or carry ing on a successful business at the same time. No woman has the health or the strength to do both, to say nothing of the impossibility of giving all of one's time, and thoughts, and aspirations, and hopes to two divergent things at the same time. No hired housekeeper, however competent, no trained nurse, how - ever skillful, no governess, how ever faithful, can rake the place of a w ife and mother in the household, or give to a home just that brood ing atmosphere of love and tender ness that a home must have to be a success. It takes the one woman in all the world to whom the house is the be-all and the end-all of life to make the real home. This is woman's ancient occupa tion. the one she was ordained to by nature, and in following which she finds not only her greatest happi ness. but her greatest profit, for few women can support themselves as comfortably as they live in their husband's home. But tile bread of independence is sweet, and the cakes and ale of de pendence bitter, and henceforth the domestic woman's position in the family must be recognized as that of one of the partners in the firm, not as a hanger-on. who takes what stray coins are thrown her way. and is expected to be grateful for being supported. In a word, wife and mother is going to strike for her own. She is tired of being called a parasite when she works harder than any body else in the family. But if she ever gives up the cook stove and the cradle for the desk and the typewriter, it—'will be be ta us< men have driven her to it. THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on The Indifference of Most People To ward Cruelty to ♦ Animals Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright. 1912. by Arnerican-Journal-Examiner. ITTILLIAM G. SPRAGUE, of V V the American Humane as sociation. offered a prize for the best essay on “Humane Education." It was won by Mrs. Hugo Krause, of Louisville. Ky. Speaking of the indifference of well born and well educated peo ple toward lesser creatures. Mrs. Krause says: “Here are some of the forms this indifference assumes. The cru elties of commercial greed and av arice. such as killing the animal parent and leaving the young to die of starvation and exposure. Ten thousand seals die annually of starvation because their moth ers are killed in the breeding sea son.’ — David Starr Jordan in Maf ka and Kotik. Depriving the par ent of its young and leaving the parent to be consumed with the agony of grief over its loss. ‘When a mother loses her child her heart gives a cry like the cry of a wild beast; when a wild beast loses its young' it gives a cry like that of a human mother.’-—Victor Hugo in ’93.’’ The horrors of the Western plains during the snow season — so forcibly brought to public at tention by tile action of the Amer ican Humane association, in pro curing photographs by a special agent sent out for investigation. Crowding cattle when transport ing them in such away they can not He, and keeping them thus 28 hours without rest, food or water. The cruelty of trap and spring pole. when the death of the dumb victim comes after hours, some times days. of suffering from broken limbs, lacerated flesh and the agony of fever and thirst caused by these, not to mention all the terror and fright endured. Woman’s Vanity Causes Much Useless Slaughter. The vanity which leads to all this trapping and hunting, the adorning of the body with the heads, claws, tails and skins of the little furry brothers, the decking forth with the beautiful plumage of the kin of wood and glen. The cruelty of sport w hen inno cent and beautiful creatures like deer, moose, wild song bird and fish are sacrificed to the human delight in slaughter and bloodshed. Rut sacrificed to a still greater degree when wounded and left to die slowly of wounds and starva tion. The cruelties practiced in con nection with the exhibition of trick animals. Lions beater) over the head with clubs till the blood flows from nose and ears; horses, dogs and cats whipped unmercifully in being taught: elephants urged by the jerk of an iron hook inserted in the ear. The neglect, indifference, igno rance and cruelty of which domestic animals are the victims. And the crowd of cruelties per petrated by man, the unmention able secret crimes of the vivisec tor’s laboratory. These are the practices, not of the ancient days of bloody sacri fices, nor of the middle ages of dark and secret ciimes, but of the open, progressive, moral nine teenth and twentieth centuries. l-’or all this. Mrs. Krause thinks, with every intelligent and kind hearted being, that the remedy lies with the mothers and teachers. Sue suggests what has been said in this paper many and many a time, that Sunday schools should teach children to love and under stand animals, and tha ministers should preach on this subject from the pulpit, and that classes should be formed to educate mothers how to • dueate their children. * B# •' I OSK23J Ana added to all this that: Humane education should h, , part of the curriculum of the reg ular school course. First—Because of its value in racial evolution, national progress and individual development, as set forth in the preceding para graphs. Reasons For Teaching Humanity in Schools. Second —Because this wou’d hr the best means of extending hu mane education to ALL CLASSES of children, irrespective of er. . ’ class, nationality, etc. Third —Because human educa tion. when taught pedagogical I v and correctly, is so closely related and corelated to the other courses essential to the curriculum that its omission mars the presentation the former. Nature study, civics and ctlii. s are so co.dated with humane edu cation that to omit the latter i . mar the presentation of the f. - mor. Fourth —Because educators a generally advance guard In rr. form measures, and arc. therefore, the most easily approached an convinced by argument for it tablishment. Until humane education Is ■<> regularly constituted a part of th” public school course in a commu nity, those interested in its p .>- motion should classify the city ... community into districts with the various schools as nuclei. A place of meeting should be selected in each district. Thes“ places might be a room in the pub lie library, Y. M. C. A. building, tiie school house, a church, private home, hired hall, etc. The children of the school or schools which arc the centets d the districts should be invited m come to the respective me. to g places and lite officials of ths schools be urged to co-operate m the work of their district. Each group of children should be under the guide-of a volunteer worker in this great cau-,-. Ami all the groups .Jio'tld I e under Hr leadership of one general lead- r m order to promote h irniony ii"i a systematized unification of Up work. After organizing on the same gen eral parliamentary plan througu out the several districts, the work should be carried out by following a prepared outline, also uniform in the main features throughout tin districts. , Meantime, here is an cxeclEt'i thing for every mother to do wlm wants tier child to grow into u • • ful. constructive and noble ma turity, and to escape destructive Ignoble and unworthy propensi ties. Literature About Birds of Interest to Children. Let her write to the Audubon Society. 1974 Broadway, New York, and ask for literature about bird suitable to interest a child. She must inclose a stamped and ad dressed envelope, and then sli must be willing to read this liter ature and to give a little tim daily talking with her . children about it. This society 1s organizing man) thousands of school children and other young people into class'- for bird study, and aids in man; other ways educational work along the lines of bird study. It publishes and dlstrlbui thousands of illustrations of N r American birds, accompanied by leaflets containing tn popular for'i a resume of the latest known fact regarding the feeding habits ' general activities of the birds de scribed. It will show the mother how be a factor for helping to nu» p the world better In generation come. Be sure to send stamped en" ■