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Now Let Council Show Its
Capability
Under the new charter of Atlanta, responsibilit,' for the
streets of the city is squarely upon the council.
That is as it should be.
The people of Atlanta are not supremely concerned with
the manner and methods through which satisfactory and serx
iceable streets are to be acquired THIA ARE SI I’REMEL'i
CONCERNED WITH THE AC\>ITSITIOX <»!•' SATISEAC
TORY AND SERVICEABLE STREETS
The superintendent of construction is a mere incident to
the progress of Atlanta. So long as the citv continues Io secure
a competent, watchful, honest man for that position the people
will inquire very slightly into the length of lune lie has been a
practical engineer.
The dutv that is pressing, AND EROM WHICH I HE I’IJC
PLE MUST NOT SHRINK, is the duty of electing men to the
council who will see that the street work of Atlanta not only is
constantly kepi up, but that it gets results.
Results are what the people want—RESULTS ALONE have
concerned The Atlanta Georgian in its frank insistence that
Atlanta's streets be made such streets as Atlanta pays for and is
entitled to. BUT WHICH ATLANTA IN THE PAST HAS NOT
HAD
The people are now charged with the primary and para
mount duty of electing a council that will do the square- IHE
HONEST AND EAlß—thing by Atlanta.
If the people do that, the remainder of the proposition is
easy of solution, and the outcome approximately certain.
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Melancholy and Quick
Lunch
According to Professor .lung, 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 melancholy nearly anything. Bring back 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 Io cook for
himself.
The trouble with most of us is that we sit down Io a meal
as we go to the dentist's chair. The hour, comes for eating and
we eat; the process is regarded as an evil to be ended as
quickly as possible. We do not think or care what we are eat
ing; we talk incessantly, we swallow without ehewing 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:
"(Mean 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 docent 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
dares that the present styles are astounding lie thinks, how
ever, that American women do not wear modern clotlus 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 franklv
immoral. ’’
In Omaha the Women's Club will visit ail 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
he requested to put on more modest attire.
Women should regard this growing agitation a.s a eomplt
ment. In no country are they so looked up to by husbands,
fathers, brothers and sweetheart' 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. Sim e
women pride themselves upon their advance in all the mental
as well as physical attributes, why should tiny recklessly throw
away one of their chief charms - modesty ’’
It is a question demanding their consideration.
The Atlanta Georgian
A Mystery of the Far East
7he 11 "onderful Description of a Snake Charmer in Nigeria
It 'ho Handles Deadly Reptiles With Freedom
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Ready to Strike.
By CAPT. D. H. MAC DONELL.
1 'l' Sokoto, in Northern Nigeria,
r-\ there lives a man named Da-
(lali, who is a "snake charm
er” in the true sense of tin wo.-d.
This man is a naturalist who, it
would seem, has the power of
catching and handling poison
snakes and scorpions without fear
of danger.
Dadati wns well known to the
Europeans at Sokoto; but it was
believed that the snakes he han
dled had been tamed or drugged.
This man got into trouble and was
put in jail. After lie hud been in
prison more than a month, the
British Resident went to him and
asked if lie could catch and handle
a snake if he were taken to any
place which tile Resident should
choose Dadati agreed to do this,
and was taken under guard to a
swamp at some little distance from
tile station, where snakes were to
lie found. After some scared) and
digging a black cobra w is driven
out of its hole. Dadati sprang to
it. seized It in his hand and brought
it to tlte Resident. It is not possi
ble that lliis 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 lie called
upon to do such a thing.
A Wonderful Feat.
Some little time aft rward Daflali
brought a large black cobra, over
flee feet long, to the compound of
tile writer This snake he handled
with the utmost freedom, teasing it
until the reptile got angry and sat
up hissing, spreading out its hood,
while tlie native servants kept a
most respectful distance. (See
photograph. >
Dadati then (probably for tlie
benefit of the native servants)
dared the white man to pick up
tlie cobra. I called my native sol
dier servant and told him to load
Woman and the Economic Problem
I T is the fashion witli certain
w riters nowadays to call'every
woman who does not earn her
living outside of tlie home, "a para
site."
This term of reproach is even be
ing applied to the wife and mother
who cooks and scrubs anil 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 lhe face of the
earth earns her board and keep,
and is not a dependent, but a self
supporting member of society, it is
such a woman.
Tins appears, however, to be an
erroneous view of tlie matter and
the poor domestic drudge who
works herself to d< ath in her ow n
home is being denounced in scath
ing terms n» a parasite, a despic
able leech who lives on tier hus
band. and permits herself to be
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 gif', possible to the world.
It can do nothing but harm to
teach this woman that her work is
not worth while; that it is without
dignity, am: 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.
Xml in that attitude lies the great
tragedy of the averag woman's
life Her work of making a home,
of making a man's happiness and
comfort, of rearing children, has
neve- been recognized as the great
est work to wbid'i any human be
ing may turn a hand, as the great
est career that any ambition might
pursue, or even as ju-t a plain
trade tlt.rt was worth paving for.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1912.
The picture Wli
above shows
small cobra. If •
Although very W
small this cobra
was no less ,
deadly than the Q rL-
big one shown j
in the other
pictures. Getting Angry.
his carbine, and said in rhe na
tive tongue; "I ant going to pick
up that snake If it bites me. shoot
that man." indicating Dadali. The
snake charmer was then asked if
lie still wished the eobt a to be
touched, upon which he laughed
ami said:
Handling the Snake.
“Pick the snake tij) —if you <lo
not fear.'' I then picked up the
cnlira. taking hold about lhe mid
dle of its body. The creature kept
<iuite still while it was being lift
ed writhing its head gently in the
air. while the snake charmer kept,
in front of it. It is probable that
this man was capable of exerting
some kind of mesmeric power over
snakes, and possibly something in
his sense of touch enabled him Jlo
handle them 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.
The photographs w. re taken by
myself ala distance of about six
feet from the snake, after it had
been made angry. In one it will be
seen that the cobra lias its mouth
just open and is in the act of
striking.
With regard to this. Professor
Boulenger writes: “The snake is,
no doubt. Naia nigricollis, a com
mon species in Nigeria, of w hich I
have on two occasions received ex
amples from Sokoto, it is known as
By DOKOTLIY DLN
We actually speak of the woman
who is engaged in this tremendous
labor as being "supported" by her
husband. We regai d her as a de
pendent, and she has no financial
status. She draw sno 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 indiseriminating
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 w ith 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
servicesale belter worth paying
for ami 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, ami that they will go
way from home and follow some
pursuit that will furnish them with
nt 1e <st enougik mom y to preserve
their own self-respect.
This would be a most unfortunate
state of attairs. since the consensus
of i xperience shows that no scien
tific tare of children can take the
plate of mothering, and also that
women succeetl best in the occupa
tions that belong to them by reason
, of lheil Sex. I
tlie ‘spitting snake’ of West Africa,
being in the habit of ejecting pois
on through its fangs, often at a
considerable distance. In his work
■ ti Liberia, Sir Harry Johnston lias
toe following remarks on this much
dreaded reptile;
“ ‘Naia nigricollis is not infre
quently seen in native villages,
which it visits on account of the
tats and other vermin that form
its food. The snakes frequent tlie
When this
snapshot was
taken the cobra
was hissing, its
tengue darting
in and. out and
its hood dis
tended.
thatch more especially, and do not.
generally interfere with human be
ings unless first attacked. Even
then, instead of striking witli
their fangs, they seem to prefer to
eject the venom by compression of
the muscles of the poison gland,
so that . . . this serpent bears
tlie nickname of "spitting snake”
. . . The natives say that tlie
snake aims at the eyes, and that if
tlie venotn enters the eye it
causes a very severe inflammation,
but nothing worse.
"'One fact is certain (from my
own observation), that these Afri
can cobras are very slow to strike
with their fangs. I have once or
twice 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.
"Tlte 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. the cobra, sits up in the well
konwn manner and makes a very
curious snorting noise, holding its
jnouth open in the form of a circle
and every now and then spitting
its saliva (read shooting its pois
on) at its opponent. It never at
tempts to bite, but spits with great
accuracy, at a distance of eight
feet.' ”
As the man Dadali ia a natural
ist, he is probably well acquaint
ed with the behavior of the Sokoto
cobra. Many of the most poisonous
snakes, the 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
making a real home, and being a
real mother in the fullest sense of
the term, and following a career, or
carrying on a successful business at
tlie same time. No woman has tlie
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 Iti red housekeeper, however
conipetent. no trained nurse, how
ever skillful, no governess, how
ever faithful, can take the place of
a wife 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 teal home.
This is woman’s ancient occupa
tion. tlte one she was ordained to by
nature, and in following which she
finds not only her greatest happi
ness, hut her greatest pro'fit, for
few wenne'n can support themselves
as comfortably aS they live in (heir
husband’s home.
But llie bread of independence is
sweet, and tlte 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 a.- 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 shc> 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
cause 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 Ainerican-Journal-Examiner
XT JILLIAN G. SPRAGUE, of
%■' \ the American Humane as
sociation, offered a prize
for the best essay on "Humane
Education.”
It \*as 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
par'iit 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 ahd 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 the 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 lie, and keeping them thus 2S
hours w ithout 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.
Tiie 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 when 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.
'J'he cruelties' practiced in con
nection with the exhibition of trick
animals. Lions beaten 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
tlie ancient days of bloody sacri
fices, nor of the middle ages of
dark and secret crimes, but of the
open. progressive, moral nine
teenth and twentieth centuries
For all this. Sirs. Krause thinks,
with every intelligent and kind
hearted being, that the remedy lies
with the mothers and teachers.
She 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
he foi med to educate mothers how
to educate their children.
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And added to all this that:
Humane education should ho ,
part of the curriculum of the reg.
ular school course
First—Because of its vaiu» in
racial evolution, national progress
and individual development. a?
set forth in the preceding para
graphs.
Reasons For Teaching
Humanity in Schools.
Second —Because this would he
the best means of extending hu
mane education to ALL CLASSES
of children, irrespective of creed,
class, nationality, etc.
Third— Because human educa
tion. when taught pedagogicabv
and correctly, is so closely related
and corelated to the other course,
essential to the curriculum that its
omission mars the presentation ..f
the former.
Nature study, civics and ethics
'Y P no corelated with humane erlu.
cation that to omit the latter is to
mar the presentation of the for
mer.
f ourth—Because educators a «
generally advance guards in re
form measures, and are, therefore,
the most easily approached and
convinced by argument for ft=
tablishment.
Until humane education is so
regularly constituted a part of the
public school course in a commu
nity, those interested in its pro
motion should classify the city or
community into districts with the
various schools as nuclei.
A place of meeting should h*
selected in each district. Thess
places might be a room in the pub
lic library, Y. M. C. A. building,
the school house, a church, private
home, hired hall, etc.
The children of the school or
schools which are the centers f
the districts should be invited to
come to the respective meeting
places and the officials of the
schools be urged to co-operate in
the work of their district.
Each gro|tp of children should
be under the guide of a volunteer
worker in this great cau Ana
all the groups khould be under the
leadership of one general leader
in order to promote harmony and
a systematized unification of tli®
work.
After organizing on the same gen
eral parliamentary plan through
out tlie several districts, the work
should be carried out by following
a prepared outline, also uniform in
the main features throughout the
districts.
Meantime, here is an excellent
thing for every mother to do who
wants her child to grow into use
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 birds
suitable to interest a child. She
must inclose a stamped and ad
dressed envelope, and then st'*
must be willing to read this liter
ature and to give a little lim°
I daily talking with her children
about It.
This society is organizing many
thousands of school children and
other young people into classes
for bird study, and aids in man'
other ways educational work along
the lines of bird study.
It publishes and distribute’
thousands of illustrations of Norm
American birds, accompanied I'l
leaflets containing in popular form
a resume of the latest known fact’
regarding the feeding habits and
general activities of the birds de
scribed
It will show the mother how o
be a factor for helping to make
the world better in generations
come.
Be sure to send stamped envelop"-
