Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-12
Here's Hoping

Dear Household; good sized country school
away from home will keep one from becoming
lonesome and cut off good portion OF ones
reading If the lessons to be taught are planned
and prepared they should be. Such conditions
prevent my reading the Household as closely
as formerly.
Miss Noble T. does not know me, she says,
but tells us that she is as regular at table
the bell rings Miss Noble, l am sun try,
ing to teach in my native county, Pauiding, and
have some of your relatives in my school, but
you would probably remember me better were 1
to tell you that my name reminds one OF the
''cold Saturday or the temperature OF the
place Cook and Perry pretend to have reached
Perhaps you have long since forgotten making
little Ratchet book-mark for each Of your
table mates at the State Normal school, Febru-
airy p, 1904, on which you wrote.
while this Ratchet serves to keep your place
in your book,
Don't forget your table-mates, the waiter, or
the cook;
Let it remind you when we're scattered far
away,
OF the friends who spent with you this happy
holiday"
When In a reminiscent mood, few subjects
afford more of pleasure and less OF pain than
those concerning ones school days Thinking
of the forgotten lessons, faithful teachers, and
school friends better and truer friends one sell
dom, II ever. meets-these are so,ne OF the
evening reverles of who appreciates TX Mar
vel's d. G. Mtchell) ''Reveries OF a Bach
elor.''
J. C. Weeks, l enjoyed your letter about the
teacher. Few public servants receive less pay
and blame, do more good and are lees
appreciated. Truly theirs is a work OF love and
their greater pay the love Of innocent children
and tAe consciousness that comes to one who
has done his duty. l am sorry for one who
has never had a truly good and loving teacher.
never had teacher did not love. Those who
fortunate enough to have the late Miss
Susie Newton for their teacher know what a
good teacher is. OF course, there are thou
sands OF others, but can not conceive of a bet
ter. purer, itruer. and nobler teacher than she
who made teaching her life WORK. There is
no estimating the influence of such a devoted
Christian womans life and / am glad to have
been able to start movement, with the help
of others, which caused a handsome picture
of one of the teachers whom love best to deco
rate the wall of the history room Of the scnool
she loved so well.
Say. Weeks have you forgotten the old JEFF
fersonian debating society and the tongue bat
ties we used to have there? They were in
tensely Interesting and developins, and the boy
who fails to take advantage OF the oppOrtuni-
ties debating society offers makes serious
mistake.
How many teachers of the Household observed
Georgia day, using the excellent pamphlet pre-
pared by Miss Rutherford and furnished by
Hon. j. NJ. Pound? Surely there is not school
in the state that could not take our Georgia
material and, with a few days WORK, prepare
exercises which would arouse patriotic emotions
in the breast of any loyal sOutherner. sucn
exercises will kindle spark which will glow
when even the text. books are forgotten.
How many believe that by one continued, con-
centrated, mighty effort the part of every
woman and girl cigarettes, coca-cola and
whisky could be stamped out of our beloved
land?
friend sent me DIR. Henry VanDyke s
Christmas wish which is so exquisitely beautifuI
that l close with IT, thinking some one may
see it here for the first time:
ST thinking of you because II is Christ
mas, and I wish you happiness. And tomor-
row because 1t is the day after Christmas
shall still wish you happiness, and so on clear
through the year. / may not be able TO tell
you about it every day, because i may be far
away; or because both of us may be very busy
or perhaps can not afford TO pay the postage
on so many letters, or find the time TO write
them. But that makes no difference. The
thought and the wish will be there just the
same. Whatever joy success comes to you
will make me glad. Without pretense, and In
plain words. goodwill to you is what / mean
in the spirit of Christmas"
JIM.