Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-12
CHAT.

Somewhere I came across these words
and I pass them on 10 the busy people
prno think that they never have time foE
anything except the hours OF toll that
stern old Duty has allotted them: How
many OF the signal successes OF life have
grown out Of the treasured fragments OF
time. May you gather UP these broken
fragments. CLEAN the precious dust, those
raspings and parings OF precious duration
those leavings OF days and remnants
OF hours which so many are sweeping
into the vast waste OF existence
Perhaps. II you be a miser OF moments,
II you be frugal and hoard up the half
hours and unexpected holidays. your
careful gieanings may exc you a long
and useful life. and you may die. al
last. richer in existence than multitudes
whose time Is all their own
Our Saviour gathered up the fragments,
and Il Is a lesson that all children should
he taught This does not simply mean
that there shou-- be no waste OF food,
but waste OF time and Of influence.
Though ! must say that IL IS a sin 70
waste food. sometimes II makes me
heartsick to see people with not cent
In the bank throwing away their nickels
or the equivalent In cold food and hall
worn clothes. Laziness. ignorance and in
difference are three strong agents fol
poverty and crime.
NY work sometimes takes me into the
poorest sections OF the city. and I must
confess that I see more actual waste
there than in the richer homeG have
known wives and mothers who had 70
pinch and plan TO get bread and meat
for i've out OF a very meagre amount
brought In by her children or husband
SIT In laziness until the last minute and
then dash" into the kitchen and cook
the food in the plainest and quickest sort
OF way. Perhaps she would send to the
store for bread and a can OF meat. and
when the meal was over she would have
half loaf Of bread cut up and left on
the table BY the next meal it would
be stale and then she would throw IT
away. Half a loaf OF bread is not
much" you say. No. but did you ever
know a poor housekeeper who stopped al
one-half a loaf in the garbage can? IT
two days there will be bread enough for
a meal
Certainly the family could not eat Il
as il was. but every nousekeeper should
have a bread box, tin can will do. and
when the left overs are suficient they
may be made into milk toast, or dipped
in . beaten egg and fried. or dried and
used in soalloped dishes. Such things
make change and save money in doc
tors bills. for the ''fniclxy'' appetite leads
10 medicine or loss OF work.
suppose IL is truly a case OF bread
and meat Then take the white meat, side
meat. or bacon. as you happen to call
81. dip II in corn meal IN -four batter
OF II the crumbs you have dried and
fry Il.
There are fragments that count In more
ways than one. There are plenty Of
young people who are driven from home
because the mother is too lazy to use
the fragments OF her time In a way bene-
ncial 70 herself and her family. I know
women who sit in idleness and brood
over bad luck, and the days WREN their
money was plentiful. when their daugh-
tiers are out in the world from early till
late. and have to buy ready made clothes
as well as supply the home with their
scanty earnings Those fragments OF time
would have made the clothes as well as
left the mind OF the repiner above the
had luck she brought on herself.
I know girls who can pass in any