Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-28
A Good Letter


/ have been a reader Of your page for many
wars sne have always enjoyed It, Your chats
are always good. and l am so glad 10 see you
irving 20 impress upon girls who want 10 WORK
or have to work for a living the necessity OF
making effort to he thorough In Whatever
they wish to do. ! know good many girls
who want To get away from home 10 try TO
get some position 70 help themselves. They are
conscious OF the fact that they are not really
capable OF filling sny position that pays ana
they have rot the energy ambition 10 study
at home TO fit themselves for such positions.
Yet most any girl these days can, II she wants
TO be something more tran a drudge. ! Ilhi
these days is that they can't he told now 10
10 snythng. They know better than Older pep
ME do, II you will only listen TO them talk.
Girls Of twenty think their mothers who are
past middle life know very little compared to
Them and their friends. 1t Is nothing unusual
ers. ''ch. ma, do hush. that is so oId-fasn-
iOned.'' when 1t is not a point in fashion, but
one of good taste.
who can control his boys after they are six
teen. II is nothing unusual TO hear the father
say, "Oh, he thinks he is man now; ne
don't Fey any attention 10 anything 1 say; n"
is no help. bat burden won't listen 10 his
mother either; nearly drives her crazy Well,
always think the parents are 10 blame Tor
not starting right and keeping firm win. And
l. hate 10 say II, hut | blame the father
mostly.
But. on tire other hand, ! have known moths
crs 10 hide their boys chewing smoking and
other bsP'hsbits from the father. Instead u
appealing to his letter nature 10 help her save
their boys from these bad habits, FOR the curse
81 our country today is that you can harlly
find a boy who does not chew ana smoke, and,
sal say. drink, too.
Mothers. keep your boys and girls children
Just rs long as you can. II you keep
them around YCu IL will save you many heart
aches. ! the mother OF a number or boys
and girls, several are grown, ana not one ever
goes off from home without saying. Mamma,
! want 60 60 to see So-and-So. can ] gOE II
there are reasons why I don't think they ought
n so. ] tell them 20, and try to get them 20
rec II in the same light l do. II they 60. they
always ask, when must I come backg'' Ara
when ia Is time for them 20 be at home they
are ere. I could lot close my eyes in sleep
81 night III I did net know where my ooys
were. MT eldest children are girls, tut l nave
boys large their father. / try TO study
- children 50 as TO find out the best way
20 control them The training Of children is a
great responsibility ana two children can
b controlled alike.
II always annoys me To hear people who
have TO children tell those with a house fun
% little ones how &c raise them. And 1 have
also notified that those who talk most abIut
''kow 60 control and raise them" do not control
theirs at I'll have house full, yet l eouldn I
tell any me else how 70 raise them. l never
othe. for do feel 50 Incapable or raising
tnem. But I am 50 thankful 10 our Heavenly
Father that they are all bright, healthy
children. And there is not a day that passes
my head that ! do not ask for divine
assistance that I may make noble and
women 81 tEtm. and as each one passes along
tnroGgh life that the world may be better for
their living IN it. VIM anyone want to aeac
again fram CkIIICg