Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
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Some OF YOU. may be wondering how
you can raise the money your society
has pledged to some worthy cause; so |
am going to ten you how one of the clubs
connected with the Y. W {. \. has solved
the problem
They have had Mrs. JarIey's wax
Fvorks-you remember that Charles Dick
ems immOrtalized Mrs farley I'm 'Old Gu
riosity Shop and you may refresh your
memory by reading It again These girls
called in a few OF their men friends and
had Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter
Raleigh throwing his coat i'm the mud
puddle TO keep her feet dry. Another
was John Alden and Priscilla; others were
the Quaker Maiden" Little Red Rid
ing Hood The Old-FashiOned Sewing
Machine" "a girl darning a stOckingD
The baby was an OvergrOwn boy of II.
dressed i'm a baby's long dress, with blue
ribbons at his neck and wrists He was
in a high chair, and when he was wound
up. he cried and the nurse brought out
a bottle Of milk and put fl in his mouth.
That brought down the house. The talk
ing doll was wound up and said mama"
papa" Little Miss Muffett, sat on
tuffet and when she was wound up she
recited a little piece, all the time eating
her curd and whey. Just about the end
along dropped the spider and scared Miss
Muffet so much she stopped. and then the
curtain fell.
They had Blue Beard in the act of
killing Fstima, and hung by the hair of
their heads We're five of his other wives
This effect can. be arranged by plating
the hair and hanging il over nails and
having a sheet I'D TO the necks of the
girls. sF2
BY using your own ideas you can get
up any number OF the wax figures Re
member they are wax figures. and must
be handled on the stage in little wag
On.
There can be a lot of fun mixed in by
pretending that the arms are not work
ng right and have an oil can as large
IS you can get TO pretend TO grease the
oiuts Sometimes in the midst OF a song
Dr. recitation the wax figure runs down
and must be wound to get the second
FerSe-
The girls only charged Is cents for
scket. or two for a quarter. and sold
about 80. Every year they make the
money that they need to send delegates
% the Asheville convention. and to help
he missionary they have i'm China
Beulah Bells letter and what she has
say about individuals holding on to
heir opinions reminds me OF what Henry
: King has TO say on reverence for the
,erson, or self-respect, and 1 cannot do
letter than quote his words.
"a high friendship requires, first OF ali,
elf-reSpect, which is not eonceit nor any
Rck OF true humility; for humility is no
mder estimate of oneself or contempt
or oneself. but the grateful recognition
the Indispensable value and message OF
he other. along with ones own value
nd message. II is not only no virtue,
, mt may be a great source OF weakness
and failure that one should think too
neanly OF himself. How much seems to
OF TO be due to your How great a claim
% you yourself make on life2 How thor
ushIy are you persuaded that you are
allied to an Tmperishable work i'm the
TorId- These are the questions that de-
srmine to a large measure ones own
ftainnlents. his ability to help others.
nd his JOY in living.
mo bare altruism" he continues,
therefore can suffice Every deepening
Z the sense OF the significance of oneself
D deepening at the same time OF the
tnse OF the significance of others. also.
lvery lowering OF your own claim upon
fe Is a lowering at the same time OF
our recognition OF the claim OF others
pom you. A man must therefore be true
himself. to his own individuality to
peculiar contribution. TO the sense of
l. own calling. II he is to be at all what
ought to be to others. As one of our
erman philosophers has naively express
IL. IL two of us are exactly alike, one