Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-21

it requires a good deal of the same vir-
tues to get along in matrimony, but If
you have confidence in each other and
each is willing to do their part, then
there is no need for divorce.
Men and women are very much alike,
and both are selfish and inclined to look
at their own side in the contract, when
there is need for forbearance and patti
ence world without end.
1 think there is surfeit of sensational
stuff printed that is not good for young
dissatisfied married folks They are not
contented at home, perhaps they wouldn't
be contented anywhere, but they read
silly stories about "afinities," until they
sometimes get up to take very dangerous
risks Matrimony is a very serious bust
ness and welded misery is a long sight
worse than single blessedness.
But there is a slackness now prevailing
and craze for divorces that is playing
havoc with modern family relations /
agree with my correspondence takes
real, actual love to make matrimony
comfortable
WATCH YOUR HORSES.
1 was grieved to see the notice of DR..
Howard Keys death in today's paper,
because I have known his fathers FAM
fly many, many years, and 1 deeply
sympathize with the aged bishop in this
bereavement. 1t seems that DR.. Key
and his wife were driving along, with
out a thought of danger when their
pony took sudden fright and in whirling
around threw them out. DR.. Key died
Immediately and his wife is in a criti-
cal condition
You must never feel too safe, even
with gentle horse I have known old
buggy horses to take fright and do a
whole lot of mischief. and it is won
der that more people are not killed by
tricky nags.
1t is one of the crosses of my adj
vancing years that 1 cannot feel easier
with horses and automobiles. 1 drive
a very shabby looking old pony, and
am positively afraid to make the change
to younger and brisker animal. And
yet my old Dolly cut up scandolously
when automobiles first began to infest
this part of the country. And in giving
this warning about horses, do not forget
that horses like people, sometimes suf-
fer from defective eyesight, and see
"buggoos," when there is nothing to
scare them. 1 have been driving and
riding horseback all my life, and 1 am
still ready to say, it is not well to
trust a horse with a slack rein or de-
fective harness.
1 have no doubt but DIR. Key and HIS
wife were much surprised at their pony's
fright, but it was too late, alas! to rem
edy the evil for them.
BRINGING BACK LIQUOR.
1 may be mistaken, and would be
glad to know 1 was mistaken, but am
inclined to believe that there is a gen.
eral move along the line to put aside
state prohibition and return to local OPP
ton and the sale of intoxicants under
license Somehow or other, can feel
this rather than see 1t; but my intui-
lions are leaning that way.
Alabama has taken steps leading up
to this result, and I notice that Senator
Bailey, of Texas, has declared himself.
am not surprised now, at anything
Mr.. Bailey might do or say, but seri-
Gus responsibility rests upon any prom
inent man, who will break down the
barriers that have done so much for
young men and boys during the last
decade.
Those of us who remember the open
saloons-when decent women were
afraid to pass that way-and when
drunken men were continually seen on
the street-are naturally afraid to have
the state go backwards on this line.
That Bible description of the poor lost
soul, that took in seven devils, where
one had been cast out, will fit our con-
dition under such a state of renewal of
licenses.
There is danger with liquor selling.
tt is bad of course where the jug trade
is disgusting the law abiding citizens
of our country, but the restraint is yet
wholesome and we do not see on the
streets what we saw some years ago.
Tt is just that much better, with state
wide prohibition, and it will be just
that much worse with the license sys-
tenn. We all know what liquor drinking
does in a family-how it soaks up the
money. robs the wife of her comfort and
happiness, how it brings misery and
poverty TO the childrenl If there is
single good thing about the use of in
ltoxicating drinks fail to see.
Wake up to the dangers of the stu
alton, friends, and readers OF the Semi
Weekly Journal! We are doing we'll
and doing we'll is hard to beat!
/ feel, it in my bones that there viii
be a movement in the direction of
license against state wide prohibition L
hope the good Lord will avert the dis
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