The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-11-02


The country parties have now begun
and we think that heart that does not
rasnond TO the songs they sing and games
+ba,, NAV needs doctoring, and such folks
oro the most to be pitied of all the
world You ought TO have been with me
ana Brown night before last and have
toasted on the delights Of genuine Old
time play Long before we arrived al
the house we could hear the songs d
ringing and the feet as they tramped the
floor. Just how young people can make
such songs Jingle and the patter of their
feat to lose all harshness and sounds
with rlee one must attend to understand.
"Choose YOU a partner and come along III,
Choose YOU a partner and come along in,
Choose YOU a partner and come along In,
Till early in the morning
ANYWAY. merry time is had at all
these parties and a sweet memory viii
linger of them through all our years
OF course, we had a good lunch spread
about midnight and these lunches are not
the smallest part Of all the delights. The
old kitchen where we went to eat this
lunch on this occasion smacked 50 much
of before the war that a food OF happy
memories came upon the spice of the meal.
The old fireplace reached nearly across
one end of the kitchen and an Old pot
rack still hangs there just as they used
ia hang before the days when stoves
were seldom known, and ! know that
it is no delusion to think that bread Is
4 of thaGp frgrlares
and custards and pies and sweetmeata
are all better A big logheap fire blazed
TO cheer the room and they chunked in
the ughtwood just as they used to DO
and we came away thinking Of happy
things and forgot the mass meeting that
was being arranged to let the peopls
show their Indignation at the manage
ment OF our county affairs. Let US hope
that we will have more Of such happy
casions and less of such gatherings "a
gather like cloud and embitter tha
minds of the youthful countryman 10
think that everything is corrupt and
against the farmers and their interest
there is much in the Impressions that
we make upon young folks for good or
for bad.
AS for me and Brown we have long
since learned that 1t IS better to rub
your wrinkles from the brows OF old and
young and beguiIe all hearts Of sorrow
than to be forever wrangling over poll
ties or specializing on things that We
know invites hard feelings and opposition
between neighbors. / had rather visit one
of these country parties and watch the
yOung folks there than TO attend all the
mass meetings that could ever gather
1t is our opinion that about three-fourtbs
Of the trouble we have is borrowedft is
much better to look for the good and
escape all the bad that we possibly can
One item for good that we learned by
talking to the young folks a the party
was that girls have almost entirely quit
riding bicycles along our country road
ana to country gatherings The thing
has dawned upon US in this neck Of the
woods that girls who rode bicycles
seldom marry. This is a fact the young
folks tell me. If you will keep an ac-
count of all the marriages Of this winter
you will find that a monstrous small per
cent Of them are bicycle riders Either
the boys don't banker after bicycle eills
or bicycle girls loose all taste for marry
ing As this unhappy state Of AFFAIR."
has come to be known We will have les
bicycle riding and moro marrying ana
this, | think, is a matter to rejoice over
There can be no moro delightful thing
than to get out among these country nao
PIE and 1t is my notion that there could
be found no more instructive thing FER
even our statesmen. The towns win take
care Of themselves In their own wa
country people have no desire to intru3s
uheir opinions upon these towns, but
weakness that seems to possess nearly
every town man is that they know moro
ABOUT farming and Of how farmers should
I'VE and do than the farmers themselves
\ bright country editor told me last week
that he had discovered that every man
on earth knew better how to run his ns
per than he did himself The same ap-
plies TO farming in a marked degree
Every town fellow that ever knew
knows moro about farming than me aha
Brown both put together-or think tho.
know
The truth is there is much thought a-d
Skii and experience needed on a fsrs
and especially are these ACCOMPLISHMENT
necessary to get the sweet delights th7t
come from church associations ana han
py country gatherings.
Me and Brown have both decided A.
indulge in but little advice. bnt There Is
one thlng that every one does know. ard
that is that farming is the foundation Tor
al prosperity and every one Of us shoula
90 Whatever We can to help upon thnea
ines Cheerfuncss and the eDoourag,-
nhent Of these innocent and happy gath
eflngs IS one way To help acricaltura
conditions. We should all understand th
force Of the saying that we must lsugh
ourselves 10 have the world laugh wila
us Thousands Of young people toda
hold d distastc for country life because
of SO little effort to get the sweet d.
lshtS that are hid in the associations ~
happy winter parties
II takes men of considerable energy to
work up tirst-class mass meeting. espc
cially meeting where the Indignation Of
a community can he made To appear
me truth is that if such energy was used
IN getting up gatherings of a happier
trend 1t would be much better for ail
and would help to make the young folks
Sau sned with country conditions II has
pe'h great mistake and a blight as well
'hal our young folks have heard SO much
IN disparagement of country life A great
part OF the dissatisfaction that we see
caused by desire Of these energetic
mass meeting originators to get the office
mat the other fellow holds In our
county here where we know that people
may be happy if they will there has 81
up such a wrangle between those who
now hold the Offices and those who de-
sire to set these offices. that it looks as
u they Will make q case of the "IIi
kenny cats out of the thing We Thought