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THE NORTH GEORGIAN
VOL. XX VIII.
Home Circle Column.
Pleasant Evening Reveries —A Column Dedi
cated to Tired Mothers as They Join the
Home Circle at Evening Tide.
IF ONLY
The inner side of every cloud
Is bright and shining ;
I therefore turn tny clouds about
And always wear them inside out
To show the lining.
If you can’t have what you liKe, like what you have. But
that’s just what the majority of us don’t do. Instead of res
olutely making up our minds to like what we have, our lives
are one continual lament that we can’t have wha.t we like —
or think we should like. Distance lends enchantment to the
view, sometimes. It is wonderful into what discontented
grumblers we can degenerate to, once let ourselves go, and
forget to look for the silver linings of our lives. It’s the hard
est thing in the world to cure oneself of the habit, once it
has got a hold of one.
And the worst of it is that people who grumble not only
make themselves utterly miserable, but are extremely un
pleasant to live with, and make things miserable for other
people, too.
The husband of the “if only” woman is the man to be
sincerely pitied. Her children, likewise, are in need of help.
Fancy bright youth compelled to spend its days with a moth
er who is always lamenting the fact that she hasn’t and can’t
have what she likes! It they don’t grow up to be pessimists
it certainly isn’t her fault; and imagine what please it would
give you to return to such a home. My dear friends, if your’e
itt-the of yo'ir silver lining, in side, d'.-n** <e.up
your minds “turn your clouds about.” That silver lining
would be so much more inspiring, so much more cheerful,
to live with, than the cloud side you so persistently turn to
the world.
No. Make up your mind that whatever you have done in
the past you will in the future wear your clouds “inside out,
and show the silver lining.” We all have clouds, but that
is no reason why we should draw the attention of the world
to them. It is the brave, cheerful soldiers who inspire the
others. So if you can’t get what you like, determine to like
what you have, or at all events, to make the best of it and go
on your way bravety, without complaining.
Give the children work as well as play. An idle person is
neither a benefit nor an ornament. Let the children learn
music. It is a great charm in a family, and that, in connec
tion with books and instructive games, will make better chil
dren and make them like to stay at home.
It is when the sun has gone down that the home influences
become actual and potent. In opening the tender buds of
young characters, the light from the hearthstone is far more
efficient than the sunlight, The distinctive characteristics of
the home life are manifested most strongly when the labors
of fhe day are ended and the family gather round the fireside
for the evening. One hour of evening homelife is worth a
month of the ordinary daily experience.
Let the parents, the father as well as the mother, impress
upon their young daughters, whether they are in the country
school house or college, that the true woman’s sphere is in
the home, and the great business and educational world that
have thrown wide open the doors for woman does not detract
one iota from the importance of her sphere.
Kindness makes sunshine wherever it goes; it is the real
law of life; the link that connects earth with heaven. Would
you live in remembrance of others after you are gone? Write
your name on the tablets of their hearts by acts of kindness
and love,
OTTMMINCf, (tA JUNE l 1917.
THE FOOD QUESTION. |
Atlanta, Ga , May 22, 1917.
‘'Every nerve must be strained,
and every hour of time used, to
produce and conserve every
pound of food supply in this hour
of the Nation’s need,’’ said Pres
ident H- G. Hastingf oftheGeor-j
gia Chamber of Commerce upon
his return from Washington last
week, where he went for a con
ference with Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture Vrooman and oth
er officials of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
“The food supply of the U.S.”
said Mr. Hastings, “considering
our own people alone, is almost
below the danger line. Further
hundreds of millions of dollars
worth are going to be needed for
export to Europe, to feed the
men on the battle line in France
and Belgium, who are fighting
our battles and who must be sup
plied with food from America.
The South is the only section of
this country that but any chance
to materially increase the food
supply of the nation, and the
cotton belt in general are so sit
uated as to be able to plant some
thing almost every month in the
year, and this must be done.
“There must be no “laying
by” time in the sense of stop
ping work, either this or next
year, or the year after the war
ends, It is no exaggeration to
say that the usual practice of
food importation in the South,
amounting last year to $600,000,-
000..00 worth of.,food and grain
stuffs from Wth in oru/est.
is one of the gre 2
. , . atest sources ot
anx,ety to the Govcrnment at
Washington, fo, they haye fu| ,
knowledge of ti . ~ ,
e fact that as a
matter of pure ...
. . military necessi
ty, these impo' ~ , f ,
. , tations of food
cannot be allow*, . 0 ..
. ~ u ,. and to come South
next Fall, Wir , „ .
* -u n ‘ter and Spring,
for they will all , ~ .. .
~ t j ,• i oe needed to feed
the Industrial r . .. .
„ . , . opulation in the
East and for e. t . . ~
, ... . cportation to the
battle lines in , r, ,
France and Bel
gium. 1
“The effort. , , . nc , a
. tirade to increase
the acreage in' fooJ this
Spring, is goo, b cannot
stop at this pc’ . ~ .
, int in the work,
inere must be . „~,
, . , a, .. a persistant, sus
tained effort t , . • r
c , , .. oward continued
food productic „
. , n for many years
to come, and . „
0 ~ . every one in the
South must re .. ,
.. alize fully this sit
uation.
It may be .
impossible to get:
all the cans n , , . + i i
, , eeded to can the
surplus that w ... . . , .
. ~ ill be raised in the
and the old svf S “* h , th,s year ’
etables and' stem of drying .eg-.
must be res fruit P roduct,ons
must oe res The de _
partment of e ; , ,
concluded ver has -> ust
rimentsand y interesting expe
worked out b met , h °f S ave bee "
of the vegeta f which a large part
easily and tl: ble P‘ oducta canbe
taining full f oroughly dried, re
ble so preser KU ' Ol 0 ie v< a
e ~ r rvi. Announcement
of this metJ j and doubtlessbe
made by t * nepa *y nt within
the next w< I k or S o. \
“ With 1 tf he vital ne\t ty of
impressing. hriE *e
soutn , ing t 0 himself). Now John
been de(,wn to tho lilph priest, and he
the ener with J ps ’ is into t, ' l ‘ P n,ace
- J .11 ■> M 11>! 1 Vl out <1
her of Commerce for the immed
iate future in, first, promoting
and encouraging the production
of everything in the way of food
crops; and second, in encourag
ing to the fullest extent, organi
zation by the business men for
establishing marketing facilities
and the arrangement for credits
in the local trading towns, so far
that farmers can easily market
all surplus that they might have
to local agencies or assemblers,
who would buy or warehouse
what the farmer has to offer,
and prepare it properly for sale
on the general market.
The Georgia Chamber of Com
merce is co-operating with every
agency in the state and with the
United States Government in
carrying forward a sustained
movement looking to not only a
temporary increase of food stuffs
in the South, but a permanent
increase that will finally put the
South on a self-sustaining basis
in a matter of food supplies. The
result of such work will mean
keeping in the South, at least,
$600,000,000 00 per year which
now goes out of the South for
various food supplies, and which
in time of peace has been a great
drain on the South.
NEW ROUTE 2
Mr. W,L. Chadwick and fami
ly spent Saturday and Sunday
near Drew.
Mr. Stanford Pilcher, who has
been confined to his room for
i sametime, we are glacjyto say is
iirg i
able to be she Had u
Mr. Truman Ivaxer reports the
arrival of another girl at his
home.
Mr. Charlie Coffey and family,
who are on an extended visit
here, had the misfortune to lost
their home and store house in the
fire in Atlanta last week.
Several from here attended di
vine services at Coal Mountain
Sunday.
Some predict that women will
soon he running the street cars.
Here’s hoping that it won’t be
for lack of men and boys.
Like as a father pitieth his chil
dren so the Lord pitieth them
that fear him.
Mr. Editor, we enjoy reading
your editorials. Also Mentor,
David Dawdon and others.
Did you know Christ and his
apostles quoted over two hundred
and forty passages of the Old
Testament in the New Testa
ment? And yet many people
pass up the old part as a thing of
the past sure enough.
Well, I suppose everybody was
glad to see the rain. It sure will
1 help.
Guess the “junk” haulers will
\ soon get busy in the field again.
Come on, Country Boy, I’m
going.
* ROUTE 5.
Rev. Byron Couch preached an
interesting sermon at Beaver
Ruin Tuesday night.
Mr. Claude Blackstone, wife
and little daughter, of Cumming,
spent last week at Mr. Ernie
Shadburn’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hansard and
Mr. Toy Gravitt, wife and baby,
were visitors at Mrs. P. A. Sam
ples’ Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith spent
Sunday at Mr. A.M. Henderson’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Smith. Mrs.
E. F. Smith and Mrs. Peaal Clark
and children spent a short while
Thursday at Mr. Thompson Ham
bv’s.
lonie Smith visited Ruby Bruce
one evening last week.
Mr. Byron Couch, wife and two
children were visitors on route 5
part of last week.
Miss Rintie Smith spent part
of last week with Mr. and Mrs.
DeWitt Fowler.
Miss Grace Wheeler and broth
ers, Soe and Ivan, visited at Mr.
S.J. McGee’s Sunday p. ni.
Mr. Thompson Hamby and fam
il> spent Sunday with relatives
in Cumming
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Chadwick
of near Cuba, visited and latter’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Dov
er, last week.
Snooks.
BRANDYWINE.
Well, we are having plenty of
1 rain at present.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bagwell
I visited Mr. B R> Bagwell and
family Saturdky“iiYgfkt
Mr. and Mrs. Perry McFarland
visited at Rev. L. H. Burgess’s
Sunday.
Mr. S. E. Bagiev and family
visited his parent-*, Mr. and Mrs.
I. W. Bagley, Sunday.
Mr. Willie Bruc and family
visited at Mr. T. J. Morris Sun
day.
Mr. V. B. Bagiev and family
and family spent Satuiday night
at Mr. J. E. Bagwell’s.
Well, the May meetings are
over, l'he June singings will be
next. _ .
As news is scare-’ T will ••mg off
Blue Bird.
R. F. D. 3.
Mr. Ceph Pool and daughter
LawrencevilK were the
end guests of Mr. J. H. yK%
borry and family. Af a
Mr. and Mrs. New _
and little daugh f
spent Saturday
Bennett’s. J
Mr. and
spent last
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