The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
ATLANTA, GA, SEPTEMBER IS. 1888
II WonId Drive the Honsewlfe Mad

It Would Drive the Housewife Mad
When housakeeper has to get up din
ner for company, what furry she is In.
How she whrls around, killing the latest
chicken, taking down the best hams,
ransacking the pantry for the best preserves
and pickles, works in the kitchen making
cakes and bread, sends to the garden for tho
freshest vegetables, hurres to the spring
house to get out the yellow butter and the
rich milk and, at las, when she is through,
worn out and worried, fears that the dinner
won't suit the company, and that some
body viii go off complaining.
Suppose, instead of having a dozen
guests the good wife had over half mil
lion, and suppose chat she knew that the
dinner she served was the only dinner her
guests would get for week, wouldn't she
be frantie2 And suppose she gave this
dinner to half million eaters every week
Of her life? Wouldn't she turn gray in less
than month"; Well now, that is exactly
what the editor of THE CONSTITUTION has
to do every week OF his life. We send out
100000 copies of the paper There are
five people, probably, who read each paper.
This makes $50, 600 people that we have
TO provide mental dinner for every week.
Can You imagine what trouble We have
getting up bill of fare, and how, day
after day and long into the night, we
study, and write, and worry to please this
vast assemblage of frlendsP
DO you want to know how we do It?
First We picture in our mind family In
a country home. We take that family as
the type of others, and work to please
t. We consider, first, the husband
as the head of the family. His name
''husband' is from the old Anglo Saxon
''house-band," which means he who keeps
che house together. We provide for him
his politics, his farm news, his stories of the
war, and the news of the day, covering
crimes, weather, wars, accidents--every-
thing that q man ought to be interested in.
We then consider the wife and we provide
for her. A woman talks TO her every week,
and, following this good woman, a number
of women express their views in a page set
apart for them. We give her not less every
week than five or six poems, stories fash
Ions, and gossip about what her sister wo-
men are doing out In the great world. Then
We consider the grown son, or brother. and
provide for him his stories of adventure Of
frolic, of earnest endcavor Of heroism, with
such healthy and interesting love stories as
will inspire but never vitiate his honor.
Then there is the sister who reads close in
the steps of her mother and who needs but
little more romance TO make her happy.
Then there are the children, and they have
their page set apart in which they talk to
each other, read chilirens stories of adven-
ture, children's jokes and suggestions.
Then there is the old grandfather and
grandmother, and to these we give reminis-
enees, homely and earnest reading that be-
fits their age and their mellowed thoughts
and emotions.
This makes up the family, and we work
and toll and skirmish until each of these is
provided. when the Weekly has something
that viii interest each OF these, we feel sat
ished. We know that this family is dupH.
Gated million times over in the country
homes Of the south into which THE Cox
kTITuTIoN goes, and when we make A bin
OF fare that suits one family it is very ant To
be welcome TO all.
Beyond this, IL We have few columns 70
spare, We give Taimage's sermons which
suit all ages and classes-Bill Apps homelv
letters which touch all hearts. Our ME.
lures Of strange lands which open up the
wonders of the world TO young and old
as they sit by their fiTesides. our Hebt
and toothsome gossip which brings A smile
TO the face and new suggestions to the
mind.
And when 1t Is all done and finished. tho
editor stands early Monday morning and
watches il as iiscomes from the press lust
as The tired housewife takes pcen AT her
table before the company Is usherel I'm.
with prayer IN his heart that the manor
may 60 out, not only to please his frenas,
but that 1t may 10 good wherever II falls
making men, women aud children brirt,er
Snd beiter-more helpful and more hop,.
ful. Better members Of the family in
which they live, better sons and daughters
OF the south We love- better citizens of u,e
great republic that is or common glory.
better mgmbers u .ho universal brother
hood Of humanity.
Now help us to spread NCur work farther.
LEI as see by your work that gou appreciate
what We have done, for ruE Co~srlruuoN
table, unlike the Table OF the housewife,