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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 las Ashw< ———— ivr„ ,HOM THE HIGHEST GRADE DUBW • -IH 12 MINUTES. COOK 8001 I Tent MFG.CG. OMAHA. Han Moxarom F&cionj in fli EHMEO 'iMHBIMH sr DAISY FLY KILLER KK*? NO- 22