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Speech and Thought Make Our Lives Everything I hat We Do Is Accomplished tn Time BY THOUGHT. Thinking Is Your Only Real Power; Time Is Your Real Property—and There Is Little of It. Copyright. 1913. . We human beings ceased to be animals and became MEN when we first used thought in place of brute strength. At some distant day in our development the animal that preceded us here made up its feeble mind that there was some thing better than strength, teeth and claws, and began to use its little brain. This animal, our ancestor, the so-called pithecanthropos, or monkey man, observed the saber toothed tiger ripping open the stomach of a monster three times its size, watched the mammoth ploughing through swamps, crushing down trees, observed the great reptiles and all other proofs of brute force, and, without realizing it, this ancestor said vaguely to himself: I can't compete when it comes to teeth and claws, weight and bulk. I am a feeble thing in this jumble of power and bat tie. I must THINK the way out.” And so our real human life began. Our ancestor with a forehead one-quarter of an inch high, a jaw that stuck out as far as the jaw of a gorilla, with teeth bigger than any of those of any bulldog, and with long arms dropping below the knees, that could crush a man of to-day with ease—this old ancestor of ours decided that he would get out of the battle for supremacy of muscle and teeth and see what could be done with the brain AND WITH THINKING. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Ill Temper If Allowed to Progress in Chil dren, Its Effect Is Felt in Later Generations to Destroy Often the Happiness of Many Homes. All of this leads to the thinking man, sitting on the ash barrel in the picture at the top of this page. He is a descendant of all the thinkers of three hundred t^yusand years past. He comes in an unbroken line from the old half monkey, half thinking creature that discovered the possibility of con quering animals stronger than himself. And this thinker on the ash barrel in poverty, in anxiety, in remorse, is unfortunately the’ type of many of those—more than half, probably—who represent the so-called civilization and marvels of achievement.” This picture is a copy, simply made, of Rodin s great statue, Le Penseur.” In his statue of thought Rodin shows the man of power seated on the rock solving his problems by thought. In the picture that we print on this page the artist shows the man of sorrow and of weakness, pitifully trying to use for his betterment and for his defense the power which has been man’s only weapon. Readers, whether you be old or young, realize NOW that your salvation, your hope, your chances in life, are all in the thinking power hidden away in your head. How much will you use that power of thought? How long are you going to wait to use it efficiently? To what extent can you make thought, recently acquired by men, control the animal forces and passions that date back mil lions of years to our earliest ancestors of the days when this earth was young? Are you going to use your power, your health, your clear mind, and your will NOW to solve vour problems and protect yourself, and be a benefit to the human race, or are you to wait, end waste, and wonder, and delay, until it is too late, as with this man? . Housewives and the Art of Housekeeping By GARRETT P SERVISS. HE reign of the good house J keeper is only just begin ning. Every month sees some now invention that helps to diminish the slavery of house work. Housekeeping has for ages been *in art. and. as with all arts, its practitioner? range in their abilities from mediocrity through fair talent up to positive genius. Now housekeeping is becoming a science, and science has this advantage over art—that it tends to equalize abilities by bringing results through mechanical and automatic methods which any body tan employ. The French Kitchen. For a plain male citizen, who know? little about the secrets of the kitchen, it is a wonderful rev elation to read the articles in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAG AZINE and to 1 ok at the devices there shown which relate to this fast-growing science. Almost everything about a house can now be done with half the ex penditure of labor and time formerly equii.-d. To be without ilrs knowledge and these inven tions if not merely to 1*- behind the times, hut is to live harder. The kitchen is the stomach of the house, and upon the way.in which it performs its functions, the welfare of the whole ‘estab lishment depends. My attention has just been called to.a model French kitchen. All the world has long :coked up to France as the ideal home of culinary art, and it is evident that she does not in tend to be lefr behind in the mod ern transformation- of this art into a science. The kitchen has also been called “the theater of the French housewife,” and this theater it-' becoming really a fascinating place with its display of electri cal ranges, .scientific lamps, auto mat! grinders, mills and churns. Pasteur filters, coffee makers, tee i ream freezers, devices for easily getting rid of waste substances, porcelain sink-: as white and clean as Alpine snow, scouring ma-* chines, filters, convenient cup boards. and all the glittering ar ray of nickel, silver, copper, aluminum, bronze and granite- ware utensils that till the room with bright reflections Not to Visit, But to Help. One of the grejU charms of a l\*eiich kitchen it? that the mis- tre-s i> 1: oqu-niiy be seen 1 there, not mor \ as a visitor, but as a helper and director. She in spires her servants by her pres ence, and by her advice. She does not pretend to Hve in another world than theirs. They know that she understands their busi ness as well as they do them selves, and even better. She can take 1 their place if necessary. This is as true of the rich as of the relatively poor. • The economy of the French people has long been world-fa mous. and nowhere is it more brilliantly displayed than in the kitchen. A French family, as has often been said, could live, and live well, upon the waste of many American families. And the ex ercise of this economy—this art of getting all the good out of things —fascinates ttibse who practise it. It has the* charm of all applied knowledge. They not only get all that is gQod—they make the good better. I know many a little country inn in France where, for three or four francs, wine includ ed (a franc is worth 20 cents), one can have a really better meal than can be had in Atlanta for i two or three dollar?. And yet meats, and similar things, cost about as much in ; Franc* a« They do here. The se- i i let .ies in economical manage ment and good cooking. It is no wonder that a first-rate French cook can command in New' York a salary' of $5,000, or even more. And if he, or she. retains on this side of the Atlantic the economi cal skill learned at home, more than half the salary is raved to the employer. To Learn Economy. One thing to be noticed in the French kitchen is that there is usually no false economy in the choice of apparatus. Everything is of the best, or at least good and substantial. The kitchen, in its way, is as well furnished as the parlor. You may be sure that this* spells economy in the end. for if it did not it would not be found in France. I have often been surprised on entering a house in France, which, in America, might be taken as the. abode of people in very humble circumstances, to find a far larger and better- stocked kitchen than many rather pretentious houses possess here, accompanied by a culinary skill in its mistress which would earn her a large salary on this side of the ocean. No doubt ne snail iearn this •n onomica: wisdom in good time— and the sooner the better. I SHOULD WORRY By WEX JONES I T used to be Jolly to chatter with Polly On fashion and frivol and froth of the day; ' But now It’s sheer folly talking to Polly, For she puts "I should worry” to all that she'll say. “I should worry like an onion” (Here she laughs, she feels so tickled), ‘‘I shduld worry like an onion And discover that I'm pickled. I should worry like a saw” (How that “worry” gets me Tiled!), “I should worry like a saw Till my teeth have all been filed.” You hear all the flappers, tongues going like clappers, Bandy about this ridiculous phrase; Prue, Polly and Lizzie will jabber you dizzy, Twisting it round in its different ways; m, “I should worry seven day* And become a little weak.” “I should worry,” "I should worry,” Every time they speak. “I should worry like a fish And get the hook.” “I should worry like a gumdrop And go North with old Doc Cook.” T should worry,” “I should worry”— Phrase that sets me in a flurry. Phrase that sets my goat a-scurry— »>h. well. I should en:rv. THE HOME PAPER EDITORIAL PAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Even’ Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Ehst Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. Entered second-claws matter at post office at Atlanta, under act of March 3,1873 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5 00 a year. Payable in Advance. The Thinker You can imagine how the thinking process started. It was hardly real thought at first, just a kind of intelligent impulse. Our ancestor sat up in a tree rubbing his nose and looking at the saber-toothed tiger that couldn’t climb. He saw the shining teeth, six inches long perhaps, and he didn't like the looks of them. Later, when the tiger was gone, he climbed down and picked up a sharp flint, ten inches long, heavier, sharper and harder than the tiger’s tooth. He held this in his hand, struck his brother with it, killed the brother, and felt highly satisfied with his intellectual accom plishment. He had discovered that a tooth made of stone, held at the end of an arm four l’eet long, could do as much damage as the tooth of a tiger. So he fastened his sharp flint to the end of a piece of wood, ! sat in the tree, stabbed the tiger in the back as he passed, broke his backbone, ate his flesh, took the teeth to make implements and,ornaments for himself—and so began the thinking human race. Written For The A.tlanta Georgian - By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1913, by Star Company. brought up under the same con ditions, and to-day this genera- S OMETHING like one hun dred and twenty-five years I ago, a little girl was born in New England. She was pretty and bright, and her parents made much of her; and she soon be came a spoiled child in the way of disposition. She was irritable and fault finding; and these tendencies were not corrected, but excused on the ground that “Abbie was high- strung,” and “smart,” and "not like other ordinary children.'' She married, young, a man of rare sweetness of character; and with an Inexhaustible patience. He was devoted to his handsome wife, and she made him a very good consort, so far as her indus try and economy and loyalty went. But she worried him with her fault-finding and irritability. He made the great mistake of establishing his wife with his rel atives, and all her quarrelsome and irritable tendencies were, of course, aggravated. She bore him six children, and as she had never been taught any thing of the laws of prenatal in fluence, she fretted and com plained about the increasing numbers of her children, before their birth. Erred in Telling Them. And after they came into life and she grew to love them she made the great error of tell ing them how unwelcome they had been. This was especially true of the second child, who was scarcely a year younger than her older sister. This second child inherited all her mother's irritable character istics and prided herself upon be ing extremely high-spirited and capable of ‘‘answering back” with some sharp retort. She, too. was excused, and even lauded for her peculiarities. She was regarded as “out of the common” and ‘‘just like Abbie.” When she married her husband Aid not possess the amiable qual ities of her father, and, of course, discord soon prevailed. Children came Into this home, and so a second generation was reared in this unfortunate atmos phere. The grandmother lived until she reached the age of ninety-four, and with each year her disposi tion grew more unpleasant. When the daughter visited at her old home there was always bickering and scolding apd quar relling. And into these family fusses three generations were drawn. Then came a fourth generation, after the grandmother died, and this fourth generation was tion is cursed with the original uncurbed temper anti unhappy tendency to find fault of the first great-grandmother, which came down through the second grand mother and the father, and was, like a river, fed from streams run ning into it from other branches, which all became corrupted when the original stream wus ap proached. Have Wrecked Homes. Sisters have become enemies, brothers quarrel; jealousy, ill temper, gossip, back-biting and all manner of bad habits, result ing from uncontrolled temper, have destroyed homes, and in some of these homes a fifth gen eration of little children is be coming infected. And all this might have been averted, and heaven, instead of hell, been established in the homes of four generations had the first child been taught self-con trol, good-will, amiability, gentle manners, the religion of kindness and courtesy. All of these women had kind hearts toward the poor, sick and needy. They were always “good neighbors” when there was trou ble in other homes. But they never learned the strength and power which lies in silence, and they never learned the beauty of the soft answer which turneth away wrath. The two original sinners (for such uncontrolled tempers are sinful) were women of great strength of intellect and of dom inating personalities, therefore, their influence was far-reaching and powerful. In many of their descendants the unpleasant quali ties have taken the form of petty meanness and ignoble nagging toward all'those with whom they are thrown in close association. Yet the tendencies can all be traced back to the first source. Teach Them Kindness. If your child, madam or sir, shows wonderful “spirit” and is very “high strung” and brilliant with repartee in the way of the quick retort, do not laugh and applaud and think you have something to be proud of, some thing out of the ordinary. Teach your children the religion of kindness, the religion of gen tle voices, amiable manners, gen erous judgments and self-control. Make them understand early how vulgar is uncontrolled tem per and how ill-bred the sharp re joinder. Do this for their own sakes and the sakes of unborn genera tions. '■& r-fsntyji SlATTjc— Later man used explosive dynamite shells in place of sharp flints, he dwelt in skyscrapers in place of holes in the rocks, he used flying machines in place of canoes dug out of a log. BUT ALL THE TIME HE WAS A THINKING ANIMAL INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL RELYING ON STRENGTH, TEETH, MUSCLE, THICK HIDE, CLAWS. And every step that he gained in his upward climb toward control of the earth and dominion over the animals was gained by the THOUGHT that was started when he made up his mind to use the sharp flint and conquer the long white tooth. He Thinks Hard, Bitterly—But Too Late. Thought Conquers and Solves Life’s Problems, but Only When the Thought Controls the Power of the Body and the Mind. When the Power is Gone. THOUGHT COMES TOO LATE. ( SEE EDITORIALS