Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-17
Az EpuCATIoNAL PLAN.

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AN EDUCATIONAL PLAN.
Mrs. W. II. FELTON,, Cartersyille, Ga.
Dear Mrs. FELTON,: i am coming TO you
for help. I hate to take your valuable
time, but. knowing how willing you al
ways are to help anyone and the high
opinions hold OF all your views, makes
we write 1 have missed an education
having lost mother when I was young
I have craved an education so much. ano
have a sympathy for all who are unable
TO get one. / have a desire TO put plar
OF a trust fund before our country people
for the purpose of giving any boy OF
girl a higher education than they coul
obtain in the schools here. I mean any
one who wishes il. and is not able t.
pay for il now. 1 have an idea, but
don't know Just how to put IL befor'
the people. I will state the idea and ask
YOU to please outline the plan for me:
Let every county officer who desires to
be elected next fall obligate himself II
elected to give one-fourth of his salary to
this fund. and each succeeding one one
fifth for 10 or Is years, then let all who
will donate as much as they will and ask
the state school authorities or whoever
from the state il would be right to ask
to help U.S. I don't know how it runs, but
trust you win understand my idea
and give me a plan / can put before
the people. mean for the boys and
girls to be of our county and worthy
in every way. read your letters with
much pleasure and have often wished
you could live in my own county. I just
feel like we would all be uplifted by
your influence. I regret that am I'M
able to show you my appreciation OF
your life as I see IL. I will just say.
rfr~a nc
win pardon a few personal remarks,
will tell you a little of myself that You
may know better who you are befriend-
ing. l am "a years old, and have one
child, a boy of 10 years; have bad health,
doctors say have pellagra. try TO live
as sensibly as L can and am doing some
better now. Please pardon personal mem
ton, and If can ever serve you, II
will bea pleasure. Thanking you, l am,
Yours. fa x. x. X.
- SYSTEM IN DOMESTIC WORK.
Dear Mrs. FELTON,: Since reading your
letter in The Journal on the request OF
a young matron wanting to shorten do
nestle duties / have wondered IL you
think my experience and systematic
work would be of any value to young
matrons.
1 live on a farm and do all my work
except the laundry. 1 plan and system
atize my work. to do the most work in
the least possible time. In the first
place let me say, by all means, fit your
kitchen with plenty Of utensils of ali
kinds. A IS bill spent occasionally for
labor-saving devices is money well spent,
even IL you have to curtail on dress or
give up trip.
Have a place for everything and be
sure that everything is kept in its place.
Strive to be a companion to your hus-
band and a true mother to your children.
To accomplish this we cannot slave with
nerve wrecking, back breaking work from
sun TO sun.f We must spend a good por-
ton of our time reading the leading top
les OF the day. II we keep up on subjects
that are OF interest 90 our husbands and
children they will not leave home for
companionship as many are doing.
We must visit. A pleasant evening
spent with friends has in a measure lift
ed many a care, with work resumed
cheerfully, while il / had stayed at home
and worried over 'numberless buttonholes
10 be worked, the multitude Of stockings
TO be mended, / would have retired wiz
I-will-never- get-through nervousness. The
household helps we learn from the ex-
perience of others, point on child Gull
ture or a bit of interesting news CLEANED
more than repays the time we neglected
CD domestic duties.
DO your work and do it well, but plan
work and means ahead, and manage to
do several things in the time il would
take to do one il they came singly.
The first thing to do on arising each
morning, the house is to be thrown open,
cover and pillows placed on chairs, beds
thrown over footboard and left TO air.
When breakfast is over 1 clear on ia
BILE, place dishes in large dish pan, pour
hot water over them, to which has be
added a generous amount of soap OF
washing powder, another large pan is
inverted over dishes TO keep steam in
and water warm while chickens are fec
and milking done.
Then inverted pan is taken OF dishes
set dish drainer in 1t. wash dishes out
of suds, stand in drainer, pour boiling
water over them and leave them to drain
while 1 wash and scald milk and stove
vessels. put on vegetables (Which were
gather previous EVENING", roasts OF
meats that require long cooking.
Then am ready TO churn. When that
is finished, dining room swept and dust