The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10

Mary, Happiness, Rollins. Mrs. J. K.
Jones, Eva Plamondon and Manila
D,WeyH OF course there are many
good writer's but these names suggest
themselves to me as nine Of the best
from whom we have not heard for
several months. Now I wish to hear
from these and other early members Of
our circle.
R1sh Kamimbe's letter was most ex
cellent. Let's improve every Oppor,
tuuity to forward the cause OF educa
tion-"keep everIastingly at it" and
o n or later we shall have n birth
Carolina in a proper and worthy posi-
ton in the educational column. What
Ruth says of the children OF the cotton
factories deserves special attention.
L9t's have compulsory education.
Old Bachelor t slls Of unhappy mar
riages here in modern times, but the
remedy he proposes is worse than the
disease, The world has made some
progresg since the days Of the B 9njam
ties and the f6c5 that our system OF
finding helpmeets is still imperfect
affords no reason for returning to the
old discarded system which obtained
in the early days of the world. I
should like to know, too, how Old
Bachelor knows that there were no IN
happy marriages in the days OF
BeDi antics or the Jamestown colony.
He must indeed be an ancient bRche
lori
I guess Ellen is having some fun at
the expense Of Jul Circle. She an
nounced that she would be an "Old
Maid of Eighteen" but a few months
longer, and straightway our members
are congratulating her upon prospects
of double blessedness. My opinion is
that she will soon be an ''old maid of
nineteen" Am I correct, E!lenG
Perhaps our old bachelor and old
maid friends have failed to write be-
cause they have been too busy pre-
pairing to obey that First Great Com
mand OF which I wrote in my last letter.
I ratter pride myself upon this Bibli-
cal discovery. It is indeed strange that
people have be9n reading the Bible for
centuries without discovering that old
bachelors and old maids are constantly
disobeying the la Wi OF the Bible. Yet
it ia plain enough-there among the
Rrst verses of Genesis the statement
from God himself, "It is not good for
man to be alone" which as I explained
virtually takes on the form Of a com
mand, therefore being Gods first great
command. But while all this is true,
[ am opposed to having a fellows kin
folks select his best girl for him, or to
the idea of having him select n with
out previous acquaintance al Rex tells
US about.
And just here let me say, as one of
the boyp, that I heartily approve Aunt
Jennie's opinion Of the boy or girl who
can talk nothing except sentimental
nonsense" O. course love talk is all
right in it's place but it is too sacred a
matter to be made the subject of small
talk and everyday jasting. Under
such circumstan ces it becomes disgust
ing. And I believe, with Aunt Jennie,
that bothboys and girls are to blame for
this evil and that if on9 were to take
the initiative in bringing about a re-
formation it would meet the approval
of alI-except the silly ones not q lali-
i9d for talking on sensible subject.
But some one has sRgely said that the
best way for one to begin to reform
the world is to get himself all right,
and even if this reform cannot become
world wide why not readers Of Social
Chat adopt and push it9 Suppose we
try. With best wishes for The Pro
gressive Farmer and the Chat.
CARELESS TOM