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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
From the Long Leaf Pine

Dear Miss Thomes-For long time I have
been intending TO write again, but have been
the Chat about your visit to the woods
When you said, We felt as refreshed as il
We had visited the beautiful scenery OF North
Cs rolii.a," could wait no longer. l am
true North Carol!nian.
Heress to the Land Of the Long Leaf Pine,
The summer Land, where the sun doth shine;
Where the weak grow strong and the strong
Here's to Down Home" the Old North
State"
There is nothing more refreshing than TO
take stroll in the woods or spring morn
ing. l have never been able to express my
self a lover Of Mature. No words Of mine
seem capable; no artist can picture it as 1t
really is.
When TIE elm's coat gets brown and rusty,
1t soon changes for one. We must do
likewise; Have it fresh and pure and rec
to- by doing this each year we Will keep
getting one that is purer and better, until at
last 1t shall be whittier than snow.
Especially should our boys and girls think
of this. God would have us be pure men AMI
women. And do we not want to carry out
His wishes; We want the demand. Give us
manly men and 'womanly women. y carried
out. Every persons is a sower of seed On
the field of life and especially are the bright
days Of youth, the seed time. Every thought
every word, every principle, every act Is
seed whose good or evil fruit will be the bliss
or barrier Of ones after life Do not grieve
because the other field was not well kept. II
ask Him, Heavenly Father will help
to be better to the next one.
Bishop Strange, who is in the eastern do
cese of North Carolina, once said: Il do not
reprove my men for what they have done, but
tell them what to do in the future.
What has become of Mrs. Everett? She
must have had a pleasant trip or she would
have been home before this It may be that
she is still busy with her baking. Some OF
the Householders will have to Investigate and
tell what it is she spends so much time
baking.
escaped the waste basket before, but
feel like the foundation on which / stand now
is sandy. l remind myself very much OF
kinky-headed cid woman that once heard OF.
she almost as broad as she was long,
and trying to make her exit through a
narrow doorway. Naturally, she progressed
slowly. who came along about that
time and saw her struggling, said: "Aunty,
why don't you turn Sideways The reply
Huh there amt no side to me-
with best wishes for the Household and
Miss Thomas. 1 am
A COUNTRY. LASSIE.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
No Place Like Georgia

Dear Household. have Just finished readins
the letters OF the Household and a. always
refreshes me to read them. I wish I could
say something that would do you as much good
as you have done me.
Has anyone missed me? I fear not. have
crossed the Rockies twice since visited yoL
have seen many lovely parts Of the western
country, but old Georgia suits best. l am
one OF The happy farmers wives. dear lit
tie home is nestled among the mountains of
north Georgia. 1 have just been for a stroll
in the woods. Miss Thomas. I wish you could
have gone with me, such loads Of flowers as
we would have gathered. honeysuckles. violets.
lsdy's slipper. buebells and almost any Other
kind Of wild flowers you could mention ana
we have beautiful roses blooming in yRru
AS l look out at the greAn trees waving ana
nodding in the balmy air and listen to the
birds singing II seems that all nature is re.
Joicing and giving thanks TO the good God that
created all things.
How thankful. we that are blessed with
health and strength to rise from our beds IL
the morning and go about our duties, ought
to be when there are 50 many that will have
TO lie in bed all through these lovely days. 1
wish I could do something TO brighten the
lives OF every one OF them.
The Flower Letters were all fine. They
60 in my scrap book. I dearly love flowers
and am always glad to get any information
that line.
CaroIyne. came again and tell us more about
your happy home. I love TO hear from the
happy country women that are blessed with
good husbands. I have OF the best liv-
ing. Always kind and jolly. just like happy
boy, he never touches liquor nor swears and Is
always willing 10 nelp me 90 any tnlng.
He always Stops the pigs and milks the
COWS when II is bad weather. but the rest OF
the time I do II. for. having children, my
life is not a very busy one and have plenty
OF time. I do all OF my house work. tend the
garden and my flowers. I always find pler\
to do. for I dearly love TO work. 1 don I
believe a lazy person can be happy. II al
ways tries my patience to a right lazy
person loafing around, gossiping about thel
neighboTs. When such a person comes around
talking about my friends they don't get any
satisfaction out OF that line for my
friends precious TO me gold and 1
viii defend them any time. About the mean.
est thing a person can do is TO blight the
character OF a person.
Sisters. do yoI know that Eartsh1rn ammonia
will stop the toothache? Saturate a piece of
cotton and lay IL on the tooth and the pain
will stop instantly.
keep the weevils cut Of my seed beans Dy
scalding them. Have a pot kettle Of boil
ing water. put the beans in a flour sack ana
dip them in the boiling water just long enough
TO heat them. take out and spread out and
dry and YOU will not be troubled with bug
gy'' beans and they will come up just the
same.
a bushel OF love for every one Of you
Platt. Ca. WILD VIOLET.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04

it. Before had taken one bottle /
was better, and now am completely
cured LENA V. HENRY, Route No.
8, Adrian. GA.
Why will women take chances with
an operation or drag out a sickly,
half-heaTted existence, missing three
fourths of the JOY Of living, when they
can find health in Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable COmpound2
For thirty years il has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
has cured thousands of women who
have been troubled with such all
ments as displacements, Inflammation,
liberation, fibroid tumOrs, irregulari-
ties. periodic pains, backache, indiges-
ton, and nervous prOstration.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia T.. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound viii help you,
write TO Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass, for advice, Your letter
will be absolutely CONFIDENTIAL
and the advice free.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
CHA

In accordance with Mrs. Felton's re-
ruest I am going to tell you little about
ere Young Women's Christian assOcia-
fion. But first must tell you that Mrs.
Feiton's visit was such a pleasure as is
not often given US. You would think that
We would see each other frequently but
both OF US are such busy women that our
friends and kinsmen see very little OF US.
Only last week a friend told me that L
could be in Japan and treat her better
than / do now. You know we must be
about our Fathers business
The Young Woman's Christian associa-
ton has a fourfold purpose II is TO help
ire suiritual. intellectual Dcial and ply
sscal development To help the young wo-
men become well developed women, not 10
have them strong in body and weak In
other fundamentals. nor the opposite. To
that effect we have a restaurant where
well cooked wholesome food can be
bought at almost cost We have gym
nasium where the body may be exercis-
ed and any malformatiOn corrected. We
have a rest room where the girls who are
down town can WOO 'balmy sleep, tired
natures sweet restorer.' for fifteen min
utes or as long as they choose We have
q reading room where those waiting for
friends or passing their noon time can
read. play the piano or talk to friends.
that accommodates twenty-eight girls.
They pay from three dollars and fifty
cents a week to FIVE dollars q week board
and are expected TO be subject to ali
the rules they would have In a well or
dered home
Besides these. we have an employment
bureau. and get boarding places for tran
sients- Only yesterday lady from Tex
as. belonging TO the association in Hous-
Z knv- a
good dentist. a good boarding place and
gave her the privilege of our tennis court.
Pretty soon one OF the ladies here will
20 to California She Will take a card
from this association and the Los An
Reles secretary viii find her a nice room
and make things pleasant for her. Last
summer two girls wanted to 90 to New
and we gave them a card that admitted
them TO the Margaret Louisa home.
AS I said the restaurant simply pays
its expenses, the reading room. rest room,
office and lavatory depend on the one
dollar membership fees. and the contribu-
tfons. There are plenty OF people the
world over who get all they can for moth
ing. and the Young Women's Christian
association hasn't as many members as
Il might have: but we do not bar them
: out Girls who feel like they can't pay
for their lunches are invited to bring
what they please from home and use our
stables. chairs and rest room as freely as
those able TO pay We try 10 make all
feel welcome and whenever we see a girl
IN trouble we try TO help her. Some times
It's only the word in season. sometimes
the cup OF cold water and at other
times more substantial aid.
regret that I have missed some Of my
callers. but there are all sorts OF things
20 keep me out OF the office before twelve
O'Clock. and the best way TO find me is
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
Where Snow Still fingers

Dear Miss Thonas-Hoping the readers Of
our Household will be glad to hear from Maine
again, 1 am taking this Easter eve to write a
few lines about our winter. We have had a
very cold winter with lots and lots Of snow
lots We could have spared you southern people
Just as well as not. Our little village has
never been so filled up with snow as this
winter. IL has been piled up so around soma
Of the houses that one could not see out
Of the windows until the drifts were shoveled
off. and deep cuts have had to be shoveled out
TO the street. There has been about six feet
OF snow on a level l think II seems to go
away very slowly. A good. steady, warm
rain Is needed TO melt the snow. for Il does
not look IL would get wheeling before
July. have been rereading the letters In
the Household. / CO not believe in or uphold
card playing. smoking, drinking swearing
for any one. and much more is the sin fo= one
who calls himself Christian.
/ was much interested in Grace Guffin's let
ter on influence in April Journal I think
her letter was very nice. every word OF II true.
I think il we had more good. true girls so
had more that would live 50 that their lives
would shed out the right influence.
How glad I shall be when the snow Is gone.
for have not been out OF doors since Il came
would say, really truly shut-in. How /
would like to see and talk with some OF the
but as cannot 1 should be delighted to ex-
change post cards even letters with some
OF the sisters Of the Household.
Here Il is. the middle Of May. I was delayed
in getting my letter started, so will tell you
about the rainstOrm. II commenced to rain
Tuesday night and It has rained steadily AMI
IS still raining this Thursday noon. Tie
snow has gone wonderfully in the last few
days; the green grass is beginning 20 show
quite a bit in the dooryards. and wheels are
beginning TO be seen on the street I'm place OF
the sleighs. Well, I guess the readers OF
the Household will not care TO hear any more
from dear old Maine, and I hardly dare hope
this poorly written letter viii find its way into
the HOUSEHOLD columns. So 1 VIII close, with
best wishes for dear Miss Thomas and the
Household.
MRS. HATTIE CROSBY.
Strong. Hafne. BOX l25
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
Musings While the Fire Burned

Dear Miss Thomas-WOn't YOU please give
me room enough to get few words in side
wise? I've been the outside for a long
while; afraid to ask admittance. but here I
am at last. with broad grip on my flee. I
am always glad when get my paper. and
when I get through reading the letters from
the Householders 1t seems inst like I'm COM
PEELED to get In a few words. enjoy reading
RowRan's and ODars letters Wonder what's
become Of thern7
Miss Thomas. I would like TO shake hands
with YOU. L lust know 1 would dearly love
ynu
Mrs. Daniels. nv sister sent you a post
card and also wrote YOU letter. She is a
dear. good. sweet little sister too. 1 don't
think I could live without her
Today has been my busy dav have secured
the floors. starched tie clothes. made the fire,
and my irons are heating ready to go to work
And what will nv reward beI clean floor
and nice. well c@ne-up clothes and the salts
faction OF knowing / did not slight my wore.
Sitting at the window. l can gaze out and
view some Of the beautiful world. Up above
is the blue sky. with white. fleecy clouds
floating bY. and IN the distance 1 can see
my neighbor plowinR The china-berry trees
that surround my home are gently stirred by
the cool. soft breeze and the birds sweetiy
singing their happv
Well 1 guess nv irons hot by this time,
I'll skiddoo. and give NV place to some
body else. Hoping this will escape, 1 can
come again. I'll bid YOU all adieu
POLLY.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
A SONG OF CHEER

As you Journey keep on smiling;
II you ind the climbing bad
And your heart Is sorely troubled,
Think OF pleasures you have had;
Though Mfe's road Is hard TO travel.
There's much 10y along the way
Just have patience. keep on smiling.
Make good cheer along the way.
KNOW there's Just as much OF sunshine
As we get OF storm and rain.
Ana there's more OF loves rich treasure
Than we have OF tears and pain;
There's a wealth OF joys rare sweetness
In this checkered life Of ours
Tnourh the sharp thornE often wound Us
Keep on looking for the flowers
When discourREsment o'ertakes you.
And thick clouds obscure the view.
Pluck M courage to be cheerful
Make the world smile back AZ you;
rsnr tn hill and vale resounding
Bring you back the glad refraini
Keep the merry echoes ringing.
Hope viii bless your heart again.
MARGARET SCOTT HALL
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04

They campaigned on the farms and in the
big manufacturing plants. They got up
parade three miles long. Thousands of
Sunday school children were in line. The
babies of half a dozen prominent women
were swung in their cribs on floats drawn
by fiower-decked horses. Placards on
these wagons read: "Vote against the sa-
loon in the interest of future genera
tons"
One we'll known young woman posed in
a cartoon on a cart. She wore a ragged
skirt, her sleeves were uprolled and she
bent over a wash tub and rubbed clothes.
A big sign on the side of this cart read:
eff the husband gives his pay to the sa-
loonist the wife must win bread for the
family
A party of young men drove a water
cart In the parade and bore a banner in
scribed, Get aboard
This was the spectacular side Of thu
campaign. But the dry leaders claim
their victory was won from cool argu-
ment of the broad issues:
They denied that prohibition was in vio-
lation of constitutional rights. A man is
promised life, liberty and pursuit of hap
pines. Whisky, they said, made for
death, bondage and the pursuit Of I'M
happiness" The state controls the sale
of other poisons. why not alcohol? 1t is
the proper function of the state to legis-
late for the moral as well as the physical
bettermen of the people. Majority rule
is the keystone of the republic and the
question was to be decided by the ma
jority.
If putting the saloons out of business
was to drive some citizens to other places,
let them go. Other and better people will
come in. II property values are depreci-
ated we can stand it. Temperance, how
ever, will appreciate values. Money that
has been squandered over the bar will go
into legitimate channels.
Whisky they said, makes poverty, and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
Wins Uncle Sans Lottery
But BQIkS at M1tYif7lOny'S

GREGORY, S. Done lottery at q
time is enough, thank you
And with that Miss May Melser, pretty
school teacher, turned her back on the
army of suitors which attacked her when
it became known that she had drawn No.
l in Uncle Sans big land lottery of Trip
county homesteads.
Miss Melser walked up April 1 with
slip No l, and took her PICK Of TIE
thousands Of choice quarter-sections of
land the government had raffied off. When
she picked out the choicest bit of land
in the whole county. the 5000 other win
ners cheered their appreciation.
Then the husband aspirants fell upon
her. They came on foot, on horseback
and on train. They pestered her morn
ing, noon and night. Several woke her
UP in the middle of the night to press
their suit. But all got the same answer:
zone lottery at time is enough, thank
YOU"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04

before married. for which am very thank
full
don't believe in being divorced, nor seps
rating and then going back together. Every
body tells me never to go TO him any mora
Being as young as / am, l. of course, feel
somewhat cramped to he with the young PEG
pie. Some Of you good writer's give me some
good advice. / can get IL here at home, hut
want to know other peoples minds on 1t. IA
this escapes the waste basket ! will come
again. With love TO Miss Thomas and all
the Householders. 1 am your now friend.
ANNA v. TAYLOR.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
THREE TA.AINMEN
KILLED IN WRECK

PITTSBURG, Pa, June 2.-Three train
men were killed. when freight engine.
running light, crashed into freight train
at Mars. Pa, near here, on the Pitts
burg and western branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio.
The dead:
A. w. FOWLER, engineer, Gallery, Pa.
F. L. CARNESKI, fireman, Bakertown,
Pa.
EDGAR GUTHRIE, brakeman, Gallery.
Pa.
The accident was due to a dense fog
that prevailed early today throughout
the vicinity.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04

Georgia. Ny health has much improved com
pared 10 what II has been, and l hope that l
may yet be able to care for my loved ones.
My heart goes out In sympathy to those af-
flicted, only we shut-ins know how II is.
All that care TO remember me will be much
appreciated and answered as far as my strength
viii admit. with many good wishes to all,
am your shut-in friend,
MRS. d. f. JACKSON.
Juliette. Ca, Route /, Box Z.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
Decorated Dishes
Harner'a pa Ear

ttarDerS Bazaar.
Ices and creams look most attractive when
put into individual glasses. with perhaps a
cherry or a bit Of eandied mint a straw
berry on TOP: but n homemade cream which
is turned directly from the cylindrical freezer
on to the dish NAV have a few split lady
fingers pressed around the edge and a handful
Of cherries and citron leaves arranged on top
when at once II becomes quite an elaborate
dessert. Fresh strawberries arranged with
their leaves around a plain brick of cream
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04

than a minute at q
time. My doctor
said an operation
was the only
chance i had, and
Threaded it almost
as much as death.
One day L was
reading how other
women had been
cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
and decided TO try
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
PENNSYLVANIA TOWN
SWEPT BY FLAMES

SCRANTON, ia, June 1.-Fire is sweep
ing thetown of Dupont and heavy loss is
feared before the flames are controlled
The place has no fire-fighting apparatus
and Pittston and Avoca are hurrying en-
gires and hose wagons there.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
Yeast Cakes

I have cent cakes to all requesting them.
One letter from Airly had nothing at all In
It; not even a name. 1 hope all that received
yeast cakes had success with bread. Respt.,
Tennille, Ga. MRS. Il. b. AVANT.
p. S.-will the lady that has Easter lilies
to exchange send me her nGme
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04

TO go from then till four. or telephone me
during that time. L am always glad to
see You, and am
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-04
OPERATION
HER ONLY
!. CHANCE
Wascuredb yLydiaE Pink
hams egetable Compound

Adrian, Car suffered untold
misery from a female weakness and
disease. and / could not stand more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-08
SAYS HUBBY WOULDN'T Battle
so MRS. HENRIETTA NEWMAN
ENTERS SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
She Also Charges Cruelty and Ne
glect, Citing Bad Eggs and
Rancid Butter.

Declaring her husband to be dew
otee of the annual bath" cult, and
that. though worth $4,000. he provided
Decent pie and a box of Uneeda
biscuits for their first meal on arriving
from New York after their marriage,
Mrs Henrietta Newman has through
Attorney Leon Tobriner, filed suit for
limited divorce from Mayer B. New
man. She also charges cruelty and
neglect.
The couple were married in New York,
December 90, 1907 and lived together un-
til September 81, 1908, when. Mrs. New
man says. she was obliged to leave her
husband by reason of his extreme. re-
peated and continued cruelty and neg
lect."
Two weeks later, at the solicitation of
friends and on her husbands promise to
treat her better. she states. she returned
to him. but the reconciliation lasted only
one month. Since then. Mrs. Newman
says, she has not lived with him.
Mrs. Newman says her husband In
sisted on doing the marketing. and pro-
vided and compelled her to eat tainted
meat. eggs which were nearly rotten,
highly rancid butter, and vegetable not
more than once month" The wife de-
clares that on this food she lost twenty
four pounds in weight in ten months.
Her husbands alleged penuriousness.
she says, was carried to the extent of
permitting a fire in the kitchen only. and
required the gas to be held down to the
smallest flame.
For months. she alleges, her husband
refused to bathe and that during the
time she lived with him he took only one
bath.
Mrs. Newman charged that her hus-
band purchased q pistol and threatened
her life, and fearing bodily harm on one
occasion, about 1 o'clock in the morning,
she fed to a neighbours house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-08
Chase's.

Chase's next week strikes the bedrock
of golden polite vaudeville with a bill
comprising Laura Burt and Henry STAN
ford, Jesse Laskeys New Pianophiends.
Kid Gabriel and company. Brady and
Mahoney, Lew Hawkins. Arthur Huston,
Zinka Parma and Napoleon, the Man OF
Destiny" by the American vitagraph.
From leading support OF the late Sir
Henry Irving to polite vaudeville is the
leap made by Laura Burt and Henry
Stanford. Miss Burt succeeded Ellen
Terry in the production of Dante, and
Mr. Stanford will be remembered In the
great "Robespierre" production. In
vaudeville they are presenting The Or
der Of the Bath which Is acclaimed
dainty, delightful and altogether unique
and laughable play. with novel theme
and brilliantly witty dialogue. The sup
Elementary attraction. Jesse Lasky's New
Pianophiends, is said to be the limit In
spectacular instrumental novelties Grace
full girls. dashing youngsters, topical
songs and ensemble dancing abound in it.
Frederick Remington's wonderful art
studies of life and men Of the far west
will be produced in plastic poses by Kid
Gabriel and company. It is claimed the
great painter and illustrator supervised
the staging of the series. Lew Hawkins,
1.-The man in green: Arthur Huston, pre-
senting Roosevelt in Africa; Zinka
Parma, the celebrated foreign virtuoso.
and the motion pictures are the remain
ing numbers of the bill The advance
sale is in progress.