The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-06
BY L. A. L.

married TO the proper SOrL VI WOIudI,
the chances are very largely in favor
of his owning a comfortable home
and spending his old age in COM
fort.
If he has children, he is able to
give them the benefit Of good edu-
cation; and here's wnere the rift en-
ters the average family; if there's
a son, imbued with the average
American spirit he is ashamed of
his fathers trade and prefers some
thing else for himself. Occasionally
the spirit of an earnest, honest father
not ashamed of hard work, proud
of his calling-is transmitted to the
son: but the examples are rare, if you
will try to call them to mind.
And here is where the influence of
the woman of the house could be
most forcibly felt, If she was of the
strong calibre which makes men of
weaklings.
And here's where she oftenest falls
down. To this woman, the thought
of John being a mason like his father,
is a tragedy even greater than MAX
ing last years hat do for Susie this
year. John must be educated; he
must be given advantages" and to
this end he is sent off to school, where
he is deprived of the greatest ad-
vantage-that of home life and a
fathers care and advice
All domestic tragedies are not
aired in divorce courts; newspapers
never will publish half of The wrecked
homes, and the blame is not placeu
once out Of ten where it belongs. If
our women are extravagant-our men
are weak; if our daughters are fool
ish-our sons also are conceited; if
we are living beyond our means as a
people, the head of every family so
living is to blame.
If people demand rare things to
eat, the dealer in eatables uses every
exertion to supply the demand, and
the people eating them pay large
price.
When people demand deliberately
made VILLAS builder will build
them, put all the jig-saw carving on
them they will hold, and the people
living in them will pay high for the
gingerbread architecture.
When women demand furs of ami
mails living in far-off regions, the
furrier will get them at whatever cost
and charge accordingly.
And the MEN of the United States
are paying for all this-and course
the tariff" every time they do it.
The present tariff rs a curse to
the people of the United States, but
by modifying our mode of living we
can, in large measure, reduce the
revenues of those who put this tariff
in operation; a safe and sane plane
of living is not hard to adjust ones
self to, either as a people or as in
dividuals. The women of the old
South found no hardship too great to
make good" after the Civil War.
What a pity it is they cannot i'm
bue the young people of this genera
ton with the true, real love of home
which meant just that.
If we will become, as women, more
home-makers and home-lovers, less
posers in the lime-1lght of publicity;
stronger admirers of the true worth
in man which means manliness ana
honesty; less like babies crying for
the moon; less creatures of cOnven-
tionality; less followers of fashion"
(Which should be called by it's right
and proper name), less ashamed OF
the honest toll on which our country
was founded, we will have accom-
plished what we were put in the
world to do.
1t is time we abolished theories
and became practical; and no prao-
tica1 wOman pvar accumod tho RI oorv