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Facts and Fancies for the Fireside THOMAS JEFFERSON’S TEN RULES. Not All New, But All of Them Wise. (New York American.) Many wise sayings, speeches and letters have come down to us from the man who wrote the Declaration of In dependence, and who really believed what the Declaration of Independence says. Out of these writings of Jefferson ten rules have been collected. They are worthy the attention and thought of all our readers. They are short. Here they are: 1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can to do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have earned it. 4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap. 5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We seldom repent of eating too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened. 9. Take things always by the smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. Your Husband’s Friends. (From Hearst’s N. Y. Journal.) A man who has business friends must entertain them somehow. If he can entertain them pleasantly at home, so much the better for him and for you and for everybody concerned. One never knows when a business friend’s help may “come in useful.” Many a wife has helped to make or mar her husband’s business career. Even though she knows nothing of his affairs, and he is disinclined to take her into his confidence regard ing them, she may do much to mold his business future without stepping outside her own home sphere. A wife can often make her social gifts contribute largely to the much, desired end, and in this way can often give her husband assistance which is simply invaluable to him. Especial ly should she be prepared to entertain his business friends. Do not, therefore, discourage your husband from bringing home his busi ness friends, even though you do not JOHN A. STEWART COKE s DAVJS STEWART & DAVIS a» Life, Accident, Casualty and Surety Insurance 504-5-6 PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, .... ATLANTA. GEORGIA MANAGERS: THE MARYLAND LIFE INSURANCE CO., of Baltimore; THE GENERAL ACCIDENT, of Perth. Scotland- THE METROPOLITAN SURETY CO., of New York. Live Agents in Georgia cities and towns can increase their writing capacity and earnings by communicating with us Special Inducements Offered First-Class Men WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. find much pleasure in their society. They may not interest you at all; they may not be quite the class of people with whom you have been ac customed to mix; for it by no means follows that the man who can bestow on your husband a remunerative agen • cy is much of a social acquisition. Are You Sweet, or Are You Sour? Each one of us in our daily life must be one of two things, either sweet or sour, and. occasionally it is well for us to stop and ask ourselves, To which class do we belong? The fret and hurry of hard work, the endeavor to keep up bravely when bearing a too heavy burden, the of ten unmerited harsh judgments of those dear to us —all combine perhaps at times to place us in the catego ry of “sour,” but none should remain in that state for a long period. To diffuse sweetness is particularly a woman’s privilege. To knock off the blunt edges, to smooth down the rough corners, are little duties that a sweet nature takes as her particular charge. The few words of kindly peace and good fellowship, the knitting to gether the broken links in friendship or love, and, above all, the sinking of self into the serving of others, mark the “sweet” woman! She never sees the evil, but seeks to find the redeem ing trait which she is certain is in every person. In her sweetness she can make ex cuses for failures, for unkind words, for undone deeds, until those who had Nothing good to say feel humbled and ashamed of their unkind remarks. Do you know a “sweet” woman? Are you such a one, or do you belong to the “sour” variety? No one is so quick to imitate as a young child; therefore any woman who is constantly in the presence of chil dren should endeavor to let “sweet ness of nature” penetrate her actions, words and thoughts, or she may mar what might have been a noble char acter. And to the lover, what a happiness is his when he finds a “sweet” wo man! It means everything; it tells him that he has found one who will make a little spot on this earth a true haven of rest, glorified by her sweet presence. So, if our natures have grown “sour,” let us try to change them, that we may be known as the “sweet” type of woman. The Girl With a Grievance. Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have sur vived, But what torments of pain you endure From the evils that never arrived. One comes across so many girls nowadays with a grievance—some times with a dozen of them. And it seems such a pity to waste time in such a cheery, delightful old world as this by being miserable and dis contented. One charming girl, for instance, might be the happiest, most sunshiny little person in the world, but she is always worrying about the few things she hasn’t, and never once thinks of counting up all the delight ful things she has. Os course, unpleasantnesses happen to her, as they do to all other mortals. But she isn’t sensible enough to swal low the bitter pills of life without making a fuss. It’s surprising how beautifully they slip down if you take them that way. The girl with a grievance very of ten turns all the best, happiest and nicest circumstances of her life to frets and complaints. When one girl compares her condi tion with that of another girl she is too apt to think only of what the other girl has, not whether she enjoys it The two are very different. As a rule, the girl with a grievance is a girl who thinks mostly about having “a good time.” She sets too much store on trivial little pleasures, and forgets that happi ness very often plays hide-and-seek with us when we pursue it too eagerly. But it often comes to us of its own accord, when we are not thinking about or seeking it. MACKAY’S STATUE. A bronze statue of John W. Mackay is to be unveiled at Reno, Nev., in Sep tember when the Mackay School of Mines at the Nevada State University is dedicated. The statue represents Mr. Mackay in miner’s clothes. A WASHINGTON SCION. A great-great-grandson of George Washington's brother Samuel, Captain Mervyn C. Buckey, is now on duty as an army engineer in Puget Sound. He is believed to be the only representa tive of the Washington family now in the army or navy. WHO IS MOLLY CODDLE? (W. J. L., in The New York World.) Pray, who is Molly Coddle, Whom the President dislikes, And at whose harmless weakness He so vigorously strikes? Is she kin to Mamie Taylor, That maiden of renown Who is known and somewhat courted At every bar in town? Is she kin to Helen Blazes, Another lassie who » Has got a reputation That is warm enough for two? Is she any kin to Kitty- Kitty What’s-her-other-name, Who always gets the rake-off in the great American game? Is she kin to Sara Toga, Who’s an angel without wings, A most attractive spinster Os fifty-seven springs? Is she any kin to Sallie, Sweet Sallie Lun, you know, Who always takes th® bakery At every cakewalk show? i - Is she any kin to Charlotte, Charlotte Russ, the fluffy maid, Who is in desert places Appetizingly displayed? J I ’--y 4 I Is She any kin to Hittie, The maid who knocks to win, The belle of the solar plexus, Th® lovely Hittie Maginn? No? So? Then who is Mollie Coddle, Os so much college fame? Is she Miss Nancy Harvard Under another name? UNRIGHT. (The Baltimore American.) Boston has been deprived of her rights. That $4,000,000 bean trust was organized out in Cleveland. JERSEY JUSTICE. (The Philadelphia Public Ledger.) A negro who attacked a New Jersey girl one day was In the penitentiary serving a life sentence the next. There is no doubt this beats lynching. PAGE ELEVEN