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Help For the Women Who
Need Help
When the restricted district of Atlanta was abolished a few
weeks ago the keeper of one of the houses which had been
closed went to the executive committee of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement and handed them twenty-five hundred dollars
to be used in the work of rescuing and reforming women. The
Men and Religion Forward Movement had made the campaign
which resulted in the closing of the houses. The woman was,
therefore, giving her money, practically her all, to the very
agency that had broken up her business. The act was one of
the most unexpected things that could have happened, and
.showed a change of heart complete and penitential.
To use the words of the woman herself, she desired her gift
used to found and maintain a “Martha’s Home.” ft was for
this purpose accepted by the 'Men and Religion Forward Move
ment, which has gone earnestly to work to raise the remainder
of the sum necessary for the efficient carrying out of this work.
When the men who had waged this campaign saw that the
restricted district had been abolished and “the houses in our
midst "’ closed, they realized that their work had just begun, for
if this evil should he scattered over the city, as frequently oc
'urs after such action, the result would only be to confirm the
idea that tolerated segregation is the only practical way to treat
this world-old problem, and the houses would soon be reopened.
It was their fluty to assist, any woman who could be induced to
quit the life she had been leading and reform to an honest, use
ful. normal life.
They went about this work and have cared for 118 of
these women ami girls. Os these 51 were sent to their former
homes. 22 were placed in positions where they can support them
selves. 20 were received ami are being kept in private homes,
and others have been disposed of as circumstances seemed to jus
tify and require. Os all only two have lapsed into their former
mode of life, according to statements made by leaders of the
movement.
The majority of the cases now being handled by the agen
cies of this organization are .-omen who, after warning, have
been arrested and are committed on probation. It is intended
that the “Martha's Home’’ be used for these, but it will be open
to all who come.
For the present the gift of $2,500 referred to. will be kept
intact, and only' the income from it used. It is, therefore, nec
essary io raise at once $5,000 to be used for rent, equipment, cloth
ing and other expenses. Subscriptions to this fund will be taken
at tin' morning service next Sunday, December 1. in all of the
churches of Atlanta. In each ease the plans for the use ojf the
noney and the character of the work will be outlined by the
oast or or other speaker.
The work is classified into these grades, and it is necessary
to have three institutions. These are the Harriet Hawkes Home
for young girls on the brink, but not yet quite over; the Mar
tha’s Home for those committed by the courts on probation, or
for any woman, no matter what her past, who may wish to
come; and a third for the incorrigible, who can now only be sent
with negro women to the county convict camps, where they are
in charge of male guards. It is impossible io mingle these three
classes, as all would sink to the level of the lowest .
The present Florence Home is for babies. It is undesirably
located in a negro district. Three thousand dollars is needed to
remove this establishment to the Florence Crittenton Home,
where there are seven or more acres, and building a permanent
house for the work. Two thousand dollars is necessary to put
Jn good condition the Florence Crittenton Home, which is prin
cipally for maternity cases. Last year 90 women passed through
it. Subscriptions will also be taken Sunday for these two insti
tutions.
The money subscribed for these three causes will be expend
ed under the direction of the Men and Religion Forward
Movement. The work will be directly under the supervision of
a committee of experienced and capable women.
The merit of this work is in no sense measured by’ the wis
dom or unwisdom of segregation or the present policy toward
the problem of the social evil in Atlanta. The work is needed
everywhere, and is to some extent done everywhere. It should
be better done in Atlanta, and will be better done if citizens will
respond to this cause as they usually do to causes that Tire
worthy, uplifting, helpful and meritorious.
This work extends help to. those in need of help, to those
can not lake a step upward without help, but who with
help are in many cases saved from a life the most unhappy, the
most miserable, the most unfortunate of any class of human be
ings in the face of the earth.
Lightning and Forest Fires
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According to an exhaustive investigation, embracing a five-year
period and an examination of trees scattered over 200.000,000 acres,
the I nited States forest service has been able to throw a good deal
of light on the origin of forest tires.
It explodes the old theory that lightning never strikes twice in
the same place by showing that it often hits the same tree seven
and eight times.
Less common in the Far West than in the East, lightning is
most frequent in Florida ami Illinois. The tree is really an efficient
lightning rod. and the popular supposition that most of the persons
A killed by lightning have met death while under trees is disproved
More than half of sue! occur in the open and less than one-
quarter under t rees.
j. In.summmg up. the forest geographer says that trees are the
and the yellow pin., th., one which
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ANEW nation lias had its birth,
and if is is not stifled in its
cradle by the crowd of its
would-be nurses, not one of whom
lias any very friendly’ feeling to
ward the infafit prodigy, it will
grow up to take an important place
in “the concert of European pow
ers.” There are several of those
nurses who could not be trusted
alone with this vigorous Bulgar child.
They would gladly drop poison in its
milk bottle or smother it in the dark
with a pillow. Fortunately for the
Ipt’ant, Its birth lias not been an ob
scure one, and too many eyes are
watching it to make child-murder
safe in this case.
With every possibility that this
new nation will be a lasting one.
the question becomes of universal
interest. "What blood” runs in its
veins, and what is its inheritance?”
Child of the Slavic Race.
It is u child of the Slavic race,
it is akin to the Russian, the Pole,
the Bohemian, and the Slovae. Its
immediate parents me Bulgar and
Serb, but precisely what name it
. will bear as it grows up remains to
be seen. Perhaps it will be chris
tened for the country in which it
is born, and be called the Balkan
Empire. That might dispose of any
Jealously between its Bulgarian
fattier and its Servian mother.
Luckily it will not have to learn
two different lanuages. The Bul
gars and Servians, and th. minor
people of the Balkan peninsula
while they have their dialects, all
speak the Slavic tongue, which is
one of tile reasons why Russia
would be the head nurse, and the
sole one. for the infant nation. If
she could. But notwithstanding
her blood relationship, even Rus
sia could not be trusted alone with
tile child. Blood is not "thicker
than water" when a great inheri
tance Is in question. Constanti
nople is a gem that tlie mightiest
monarch would be proud to wtar on
bls crown. It would be bis ebief
mark of distinction.
The Slavs hav« netv. y , . .. \,d
the first riddle in thv o.L-estra of
the nations, but they bedei, them
-elves capable of handling it.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 19K
A Melancholy Fantasy Illustrating the Old Saying
The New Nation of Europe
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
• Their origin is lost in the obscur
ity of ancient time. Ethnologists
•say that they are an offshoot of the
great Aryan race, to which we be
long. and which some aver had its
origin In Asia, while others declare
that it began in Europe. At any
rate the livst historic records of
the Slavs place them in central
and eastern Europe.
Brought the Bulgar Name.
Those branches with which we
are now particularly concerned
emerged from the southern stem
of the great Slavic family, the
Servians and the Croatians first
and the Bulgarians, who came
from a region farther east, a little
later. The Croatians became dif
ferentiated from the Serbs, and
Were gradually absorbed into Hun
gary, wliile the Serbs set up an
independent nation in the western
part of the Balkan region, and
retained their independence until
they were conquered by the invad
ing Turks in tin fourteenth cen
tury.
The Bulgars came from the out
skirts of Russia, pushed across the
Danube as early as the Sixth cen
tury. and occupied the eastern part
of tlie Balkan peninsula. In the
ninth and tenth centuries they
maintained an extensive empire,
lighting witii the Roman Byzantine
empire on the south and tlie Ser
vians on the west. In the seventh
century a body of Turks or Tar
tars from the valley of the Volga
descended upon them, and ultimate
ly blended with them. These in
vaders brought with them the Bul
gar name. As a separate unit they
were swallowed up, but the mix
ture of their blood apparently had
some effect upon the character of
the iieople who assimilated them.
The Byzantine Romans found them
to be fierce and savage enemies,
with a tendency to sensuality which
made the name Bulgar a by-word
in Constantinople before* the Turks
anie to carry off that crown of
dishonor.
During tlie centuries of their
presence in tile Balkan peninsula
lie Bulgars have experienced many
m;< i mixtures of foreign blood, but,
-•■y- Professor Niedoile. tlie etiniol-
’ ogist of the University of
“in general it may be said that the
Bulgars were always Slavs.”
' Both the Bulgars and the Serbs
are predominantly’ a dark-hued
people, although there are a few
blond complexions among them.
They are medium stature, and gen
erally vigorous constitution. They
are by choice herdsmen, farmers
and gardeners. All the world has
heard of the rose plantations of
Bulgaria, where the precious attar
of roses is distilled, and the plains
of Servia are rich with grass and
grain. From 80 to 90 per cent of
the Servians are farmers. The
Bulgarians have developed silk cul
ture on a considerable scale.
The Montenegrins are also Slavs,
closely allied to the Serbs. Inhabi
tants of a country which has won
the name of the “Black Moun
tain Land” (monte, “mountain" and
negro, “black”), they are noted for
their activity, large stature and
courage.
No Immediate Changes.
The entire population of these
countries probably dees not ex
ceed about 8,000,000. But if they
should now absorb the population
of European Turkey they would
make r, nation of perhaps 15,000,-
000 souls. Give them free access to
the sea and they might double their
liopulation and quadruple their
wealth.
There is undoubtedly an inter
mixture of the Slav element in
Greece also. But it is probable that
Greece, while willing to enter Into
alliance with the Bulgarians and
Servians, will always prefer to
maintain its national independence,
through pride in its glorious past, if
for no"other reason.
It is no’ likely that the names of
Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro
will immediately disappear from the
map of Europe, although their
Boundaries will be changed. Theie
are too many dynastic prides and
prejudices in the way to permit of
an immediate absorption of all un
der one head, but the new nation
will stand forth in spirit if not In
name, and eventually it will be
united, for in unity only is strength,
and combination is the order of the
THE HOME PAPER
DOROTHY DIX
Writes on
Matrimony
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Overworked Hus
bands and Wives
Prove
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the Stumbling
Block to the
Happiness of
Each Other.
IN frank moments we are bound
to admit that matrimony, as a
general practice, is a pretty
dreary affair, and that most hus
bands and wives, if they told the
truth, would confess to wondering
why they let themselves in for a
thing that has so many mote kicks
than ha’pence.
The average wife complains that
she is nothing but a domestic slave.
She spends her days in a dull round
of monotonous duties and in prac
ticing petty economies. She cooks
and sews and cleans and walks the
colic-suffering baby and binds up
cut fingers and pares and skimps
and saves, week after week, month
after month, year after year.
For reward she has the grum
bling of a husband who is never
quite pleased, who takes all of her
labor and her scerific s without
thanks or praise, a; .1 wiio doles out
the money for the necessary family
expenses with remarks about her
extravagance that blister her very
sou).
On his part t’.-<- average married
man says that lie is nothing but a
beast of burden. That he spends
his life staving to support a family
that can never have enough, and
that all that he gets out of his la
bor are the wot st clothes in the
family and the bony parts of the
chicken, and the privilege of being
bossed by a wife who makes the
czar of Russia look like a liberal
ruler.
For reward lie gets complaints
and nagging at home and the con
versation of a wife who is always
reminding him of August Perkins,
whom she might have married and
who has since made a million.
Lot of Either Is Dreary.
Also, he's fully informed concern
ing all the good clothe‘s that other
men’s wives have, and that his wife
does not have, and would like to
have.
Now, it is only too true that the
charges of both the husband and
wife are justified. Neither one has
overstated the dreariness of his or
her lot. It takes money to gild the
gingerbread of matrimony, and in a
family where the pocketbook is al
ways lean and empty married life is
stripped of all the gew-gaws and
tinsel that dazzled its victims be
fore they got a good close view
of it.
For the poor man and his wife
married life is one eternal round of
self-sacrifice and privation. Doing
housework and nursing babies IS
dull and monotonous. Doing with
out pretty clothes and amusement
and gayeties that all women crave
IS a privation. It IS hard and dis
couraging to a man to see every
dollar that he earns swallowed up
by family expenses and to know
that he can never get ahead in the
race of life because of the weight
he carries. It IS hard on a man
bitter, bitiijg bard—to know that
he must deny himself every diver
sion and that he can not even stop
and rest, because he must keep
the pot boiling on the kitchen
range.
Nothing can be done to alter the
dread situation that tens of thou
sands of married couples face every
day. but it is worth while calling
their attention to the fact tiiat the
only thing that can lighten their
burden is the spirit with which they
meet it.
It is the point of view that makes
| tilings easy or hard, and if only
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By DOROTHY DIN.
husbands ami wives could put lor ■
enough into their hearts the >
would be no further complain;
about what their hands had to do.
Every young man, when lie b -
seeches the girl lie is in love wi:
to marry him, does not think of it
being an intolerable hardship to
in v - to we k and support be
On the contrary, there is a peculiar
sweetness to him in the thought
that Ids strong right arm will star '
between tier and the World, and
that he is going to be able to sat e
her from the roughness and the
hardship that every woman mu
undergo who has to earn her ov,n
living.
Nor does tile girl in love shiv
away from matrimony because of
tlic burdens she knows that the
wife of a poor man must bear,
fills her with joy to think of mai
ing him a home with her own
hands, of saving for him. of h
ing him rise in the world.
A Cause for Unhappiness.
It is because they Ip.-e this ilh
ruinating thought and purpose tlia'
marriage becomes a failure to -o
many people. Just as long as the
mail works for his wife because be
loves her, just so long- is ills daily
toil not a drudgery, but a glorious
opportunity to prove his devotion ;
as chivalrous a manner as ev
did a knight of old.
As long as a woman Is In love
with her husband every sacrifi*. ■■
is robbed of its bitterness. She r
jofees, instead of complains, th. '
she lias the privilege of doing
something to make the life of In •
adored one softer and easier
it is because husbands an
wives put no love into what th--
do for each other that marriage b
comes the Irksome bondage that it
is. In which two unwilling parties
ete forced to extend begrudged
sacrifices and labor to each other
This being the-case, is it n -
possihle for disgruntled couples to
go bnck and get the old, rotnanti
view, which was the larger and
truer view, of married life? Can
they not breathe the breath of lit
once more into the fire of love that
has burned dowm into ashes on
their hearthstone, and put into
their work and sacrifices for each
other that spirit which alone enn
make marriage worth while?
For we get back again what we
give, and the bread we cast upon
the waters of matrimony returns
us in angel’s food. Let the wifi
show her husband that she joys in
her ability to make his home
place of peace and rest, and thn’
,she would rather be his wife ami
wear homespun than be any othi r
man's wife dressed in silks and sat
ins, and that man will not feel th.
lie is an object of public sympathy
because he has to spend his mono'
on his family instead of In a point
game.
Should Be Appreciative.
Let a man show that he st:
takes some interest in holding h
wife's rough, knotted hand and
will cheerfully work it to the boi
for him, nor will she ever utter
complaint about not being abli '
buy a $3.50 hat if she feels that i
grieves him because he can’t gi'
her a dozen $l5O ones.
It Is the spirit in which we
a thing that, makes it work or tn
and the difference between the i
plly married and the unbappib
just a question of whethe ■ 11’'
love each other enough to get t -
pleasure out of doing someth''
each for t,he other.
