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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 postofftce at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1371 Subscription Puce—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall. $5.00 a year Payable In advance. Efefa,.- ... How Does YOUR Mind Work W hen You Read? $» r r The Answer to That Question Tells You How Much Good Your Reading Does You. Some men worry because they can not REMEMBER what llicy read. Very fool'sh worry li is not REMEMBERING things read that makes an abler man. The important question is: 'What and 1I<)W do yon Till NK as you read? Read ing to llm mind is like eat ing to the hotlt You can iml REMEMBER the beefsteak of week before last and that dots not matter. What matters is DIGESTION, the mak ing of good, new blood as tln result of eat ing Ihe meat. When your mind eats a book, it is not remembering lhe book that niatler.-, hut the making of good, m u thoughts: the increase of mental power Many nun overeat meiitalli as well as physically. To swallow dow n a lot of books for the mere sal<<'of swidlowing is ;is foolish as swallowing down ; 10l of food with the idea that it will make you stronger Onlx what you DIGEST adds io your strength, whether it he BOOKS digested in the brain, or MEAT digested in lhe stom ach. You should eat slowly with the mind as well as with the teeth. You should THINK YOIR WAY TIIROI’GII A BOOK. as you ehew your way through a steak. 11 is noi r hat tin OTHER man. lhe author, thought and wrote that is important l<> you II is what he MAKES \Ol think as you read him. The falling apple, according to the legend, made Newton think of tin law of gr.ix ilal ion The dancing lid of the tea kettle made another think of the steam engine. ■ Reading that a humble Dutch optician had made a glass that brought objects nearer made Galileo think of the telescope in all eases the thinking was followed b.x ACTION of great value to humanity Very likelx Newton soon forgot that apple, and Galileo prob ably could not have'u-vmembered after a year or txvo just HOW lie happened to think of the telescope. Bui it is not the REMEMBER ING that counts. So do not worry because you read a book and do not remember it. You might forg’d every word of it and still be a much abler man for having read il. Let us take today, and perhaps at other times, some well known short pasages of good writers, and see what thought they develop. Eor instance: (live us. give us. flic man who sliTfcs at his work! He will do more in the same time—lie will do it better he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he inarches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness; altogether past calculation its power- of endurance. Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous -a spirit all sunshine. graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright ’(ilyle. There are a few strong lines from Carlyle. You may not remember those lines tomorrow. What of it? The question is. What thoughts, if any. do Carlyle's words stir up in YOI R OWN MIND? Do you accept the statement as il is made, saying 1o yourself. *' Very fine, indeed.' or do you think it over and question its sound ness. or confirm it xvith your own thought .’ / Does it occur to you that it is all very well to say. "Give us the man who sings at his work. ” but it is first necessary to get the employer to give work at which a man CAN sing? Stoking in the hold of a ship, under terrific heat, or working in the hell hole of a sugar refinery, is not work conducive to song. A man with a sick wife and half-fed children may do hard and honest xvork. hut he will do il without singing. Singing is a fine thing, but the kind of xvork that LETS a man sing is finer and SCARCE. The old kings knew, and modern rulers know, the value of music —that is why they send soldiers but to murder each other ith the hand playing’ Some day they will have the hand playing for men that do hon est and useful work the baud will play for tired men digging irri gation ditches to conquer deserts and Io men digging drainage ditches to compter marshes, instead of playing only to men march ing out Io kill. In that day. when the music, the honors, lhe uniforms and medals are given to those that work, and not merely to those that kill and rule there will he no lack of cheerful men singing at their wdrk. and dyspeptic (’arlyle. looking down, or up. at the world he left dismal and morose, will see a very different earth and a differ ent race- for there is not a man hut WOl LD sing at his work if his work would LET him sing. And it is NOT true that "efforts to be permanently useful must be permanently joyous." for the slaves that built the perma „ nently useful roads (ENDER THE LASH in old days were not “joyous." and the mothers that have borne great and permanently useful men in agony and in poverty xvere not "uniformly joyous." By all means “Givg us. oh, give us, the man who sings at his work. But also, and first of all. give us. oh. give us, a civilization in which work shall mean happiness, and the desire Io sing. blf you want to do something useful to your own mind, rewrite |m\\ that sax ing of Carlyle's, changing it to read according to your The Atlanta Georgian Things That Keep Us Awake HOW TO PAY THE RENT. « Wil ’•"w -« t ■ i ■■ ■ "Y 1 I I' • w LX-< i iw-f .W YfcOtzf..'l DI » ■ i .wti & aS * i „Y Iv -"A Uk « A " A ,) A ■ *'WT-'A'Jfc'.v \ ' ■ V i ... , _ —; Her Ideal By DO ROTHY DI A’ m MAN who si' s h<' Is 40 jours •' Z*. Well off in tills world’s goods, wiltes me that he desires to marry, and he wisiies a wife that will come tip to till' following specifications: "She must be a woman who will wear her. hair short, ami a hat something like a man that is. a plain, simple hat that she can keep on her head without spiking it or, with hat pins She .must wear a coal, waistcoat. plain shirt wai -t. also with collar and tie like a man's. There must be no llummer.v about her dress. "She must be able to sing a song, tell a good story, and play a good game of cards. "She must be able to make allow ances for my weaknesses, and neither criticise me nor try to make me over according to her taste. "She must do tile marketing, and be able to manage the home suc cessfully. but neo. try to inter fere in mj oftiee or business. "She must leave religion and pol itics on the back porch when 1 am at home. 1 don’t care what she be lieves, so long as she doesn't in trude her opinions upon the." Good Working Model. What do you think of that as a working model for a wife.' Pretty i good. I think: and the man w.ho gets that sor; of a good-fellow wit • linn be short on a few romantic thrills, but the one best bet is that bo w ill be long oft comfort an I happiness line of the g at roubles in married life comes from the fact that men are more concerned in picking out lady loves than they are in choosing chums w hen thej- go a wooing. Then when the time comes —as it invariably does—when the women are no longer lade- loves, but just plain wives. they have nothing upon which to fall back. No man can go through life hold ing his wife's hand, or writing son nets to he eyebrows or sighing at her feet and telling her she is the most wonderful and beautiful ,- title on earth He’s bound to come down to earth, wher< people ■ it three square meals a da\ and talk about ordinary topics Then things TUESDAY. DECEMBER 3. I!H2 ! are in a bad ease if it happens. ’ as It only too often does happen, that husband and wife have noth ing on earth in common exc pt the gossamer surface attractions tha f drew them together. Mutual Tastes. Il doesn't take long for matri mony to tear romance to rags and tatters, and rub off the gilding tlia' made an o dinary woman .look an angel to a man, and a ommon piace man appear a hero in a girl's 1 ■s. Thon unless they have the same tastes in a thousand different little things, and the same interests in the big ones, they are bound to Jiiwn in each Others faces, and when people begin to yawn across the hearthstone Cupid packs up his grip and departs. The real cause of divorce is not the big sins of which moralists prate. It's ennui. The affinity and the charmer could never get their work in on a home unless boredom fust opened the door to them. Therefore the man is wise who takes into consideration, fust of all. a woman's congeniality to him. anil her ability to entertain him, in choosing his mate. He's build ing his domestic happiness on a sure foundation, for the charms lie banks on are not ephemeral, nor are they thl> ones of which a man tires. Beauty fades, youth passes, cute and kittenish ways become mere evidence of imbecility as the J ears go by. but the w oman who can sing a good song and tell a good -tore has within herself the ■ mrc" of perpetual fascination. Wives’ Patron Saint. She can keep a man Interested and entertained, and that is the secret of keeping a man nailed to his ow n fireside. Women put their faith in beauty, but let it be not forgotten that it was not the good lookers of the harem, hut the lady with the glib tongue, who was en abled to save her own neck, and keep her lord enthralled while she unwound the thousand and one ad ventures of the Arabian Nights. Believe me. the spellbinder. Sche •z.erad . i- the one woman above al) others who should be the patron saint and exemplar of wives. At tir'-i blush it would seem '.hat " it would be easy enough for my correspondent to find a wife who could meet his requirements, but alas! to find a woman who can in deed sing a good song, and tell a story, and play a good game of cards, and who can take a man as he is without trying to make him over, is like starting forth to search for a needle in a haystack! Women possess all virtues but comrade ship. They can be anything but pals. They can love a man well enough to die for him, but not enough to let him go his own way. There is nothing thajt women complain of so much as that their husbands do not like to take them out. and it never occurs to these left-at-home ladies that the fault Is their own. It is the truth, however, that the average • wife is such a wet blanket on any festive occa sion that after her husband has had her enact the role of the spoil sport for him a few times he decides to henceforth take his pleasure excur sions alone. An Illustration. • lust as an illustration of how lit tle a woman understands how to chum, w itch the next couple who invite von to go automobiling with them, and listen to the wife’s criti cism of tier husband's driving, to her objections to the route lie takes, or the speed he is making. She is one perpetual knock that mi st make him want to drive in a ditch and break her neck. Or watch them at the theater, where wife fusses because the seats are where they ire instead of some where else, or holds him responsible for the plav. or spoils the most thrilling by wondering if they put out the ent. and if the baby is uncovered. Or observe them .it a restaurant, where she takes the flavor out of the viands by count ing up the t ost, and telling hubby how bad everything he likes is for his digestion. Doubtless my correspondent has tale n note of some of these wives, which is whj' he puts good fellow ship first op the list of the qualities he demands in a wife. Ami lie's right. Tile man who marries a w'oman who can ehum with him will never h:m med of the serv ices of a divorce lawyer. Thomas Tapper Writes on I Working For ‘ the Boss h Health Is Capital. | Sickness Is Ex- | i pense. Anyone ' Igr \\ hols \V ork in g < > For Pay Capital- ‘j ’ izes His Skill and Health About | Equally. i ; By THOMAS TAPPER. s 1 ■ HEALTH is capital. Sickness is expense. ? Anvone who is working for < pay capitalizes his skill and Ins s health about equally. He does busi- ’ ness with both. A man who earns twenty dollars ; a week lias an annual income of J one thousand dollars. This is all the money that twentx thousand ■’ dollars can earn, safely invested at , 5 per cent. Hence the earner of twenty dol- > lot's per xveek is a corporation cap- ? italized at twenty thousand dollars . \ and paying a regular weekly divl- IJend of twenty dollars. The assets of this business may ; be grouped about like this: s 1. Knowing how to do the > work SIO,OOO i 2. Health 10.000 Total $20,000 These two factors arc very elose s ly related, for the healthy man without skill can earn little money: and the skillful man without health j can earn tittle or t Now. ever so many people earn > money and save some of it; but { very few earn health and save il. < But as health is the basis of the 3 ability to work. It is better worth saving than money is. Whatever condition of health one is in, is tlie result of habit, to a large extent. i Good Habits Help. 7 ' Good habits not only keep us well today and allow us to increase skill, 'but they actually put health in the bank for us. wltere it draws a high rate of interest and accumulates. Bad Habits are like the white ants of the tropical countries. Tltcy find their way into root, trunk, branch, stem and every fiber. They work unseen and eat the heart out of everything they touch. Then, one day, the wind blows and down fhlls the tree which look ed so sturdy and strong outside, but which for a long time had been concealing the trouble it had Inside. 11. 'P HERE ‘is Just one way to avoid 1 falling in a heap like an ant riddled tree. Don't contract bad habits. -And there is Just one way to stand so firmly and to be so strong that the winds of heaven can not destroy you. Contract good habits. This contracting of good habits . —— The Last of Blackbeard By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. Blackbeard. the most noted -J* of the pirates of the Spanish Main, ended his career and ids life 194 years ago. Blackbeard, whose real name was Teach, had his main rendezvous in the Baha mas, but often came into the sounds of North Carolina for ref uge. or for the hiding of his spoils. The ravages of tile "Sea Wolves.” of whom Blackbeard was the most terrible, became so alarming that the king of England dispatched Captain Wooden Rogers, the man who saved Alexander Selkirk from his desert island, to break up their nest in the southern seas. Rogers was successful in capturing many of them, but Blackbeard eluded hitn and turned to his favorite refuge in the Carolina sounds. But it was impossible for the arch-pirate to remain idle and he was soon upon the high seas again, looking for plunder. Fortune fa vored him, and in August of the year indicated above he captured a rich French merchantman, which he robbed and burned, taking his treasure into Bath. The news of the pirate's arrival was sent to Governor Spottswood. of Virginia, who determined upon Blackbeard's capture. Obtaining two small vessels and fitting them out secretly with mon supplied from an English warship that chanced to he in the neighborhood, Spotta- THE HOME PAPER '!• is an example of the waiting game. And tlie waiting game is the hard est game in tlie world to beat Now. the good habits that Keei> health top-notched are so-few and simple that every one can culti vate and practice them. Let us begin tonight when work is done and xve go home to supper It is the very best of good habits to be absolutely clean when we sit down to the table to oat. It p.'.'. - to eat enough, but not more th; n enough, and to eat It in such cheerful frame of mind that every body else becomes ' heerfiil just from being.wilh us. That is son .- I limes a difficult habit to prai tli 1 but it is a great herilth-bringor. | Try it. i Improving the Mind. If tlie evening hours ar. fre», they may be made to pax - in hea'l i and skill. (You remember th : health and skill are w orth T. n Thousand Dollars eaeh per annti'o. to a Twenty Dollars a week mai > Let them improve the mind o'- <■ tertain it. or both. Almost any man or woman can learn enough in the evenings of two or three ywn or so to double skill-capitalization. (That means Iforty Dollars a wr . instead of Twenty.) The next thing is sleep. N.-iitirc demands about so much of "h . n every 24 hours, and must have it. See that nature gets i’. She wi'i pay a big return. To go to be, clean and sleep enough to rest ti • body thoroughly for another da; s work is actually putting health im - I the bank to be draxvn out in the future. Many people of ' good | hearts and bad judgment tempt u j to sit up until 2a. m.. and so re | duce our capitalized value for the next day by one-halfr To a work ingman that costs too much. He can not afford it. When we get up in the morning, it will pay to forget utterly the old rule: To live the day as if it were your last. Let us get up with the conviction that this is the first. The slate * wiped clean. Get a fresh sta Keep the body Just as clean as pos sible. Eat food cheerfully. I’-i --good cheer around to everybody else, and remember that we hat a large area of lung space tha: should be kept actlx'e by deep breathing. There is nothing cqmpTex about good habits. They are the best "pull" we have with the Boss and A the l?ay Envelope. 4 wood sent them, tinder the com ntand of Lieutenant Maynard, look for Blackboard's vessel, t! Adventure, which they discovered, on November 23, near Ocracoke in let. not far from Roanoke island. in maneuvering, the Adventu < v.as stranded, and as Maynan ■ vessel approached the pirate pour, into it a murderous fire that swept off many of its crew. But undaunt ed, Maynard, ordering his men be low, steered straight for the Ad venture, and ns the vessels close.. Blackbeard and his crew sprati upon the deck of the Virginian and witli desperate courage attempt' to capture her. But Maynard's men were as desperate as the board ers, knowing as they did that sur render meant death, and. rushing up from below, they met the pirates in a hand-to-hand encounter, and after a hard struggle succeeded in overpowering them. The Adventure carried eight can non, and of the crew of eighteen men. nine, including Blackheat himself, were killed outright, at ■ nine, some of them mortally wounded, were taken prisoners. <»f tlie Virginians and Californian t xelve were killed and twenty-tv wounded. But it uaa the last of Blackbea and forever afterward the settle, along the < 'arolina sounds had ' ■ more occasion to fear the king of tin- sea-robbers.