Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-20
&C. NJ. MACINTOSH.


some OF you might like to hear more
of that famous woman and the first
money collected by q woman for foreign
missions If am not mistaken IL was
in 1S0a that her husband. Boston mer-
chant, entertained number OF cele-
brated ministers. At the table they dis
cussed affairs clerical in this country
and abroad. In those days no man sat
down 20 his dinner. II he had any social
standing. without having wine on the Ia
BILE. OF course, Mr.. Doremus table had
wine and every one drank It. Mrs Do
remus was interested In what the men
were talking about and once when the
glasses were refIled she said:
II believe that IL every man would
put away a penny for the Lords use
every time he oiled his wineglass there
would be plenty Of money 10 send help
20 the heathens-"
LarghingIy Mr. Doremus laid penny
on the table and each man followed his
example. But when they arose each
one picked up his penny TO put 1t into
his own pocket again
mo-" said Mrs Doremus, putting her
hand over her husbands penny, this is
mine 20 use for the Lord"
Within a year she had collected, In
pennies. Just s.. 500 and spent IL in for
efgn missions. or course, she did not
get IL from men who drank their wines.
but she asked nobody for more than one
cent This shows you what may be done
IL one tries. Too few OF Us realize the
Importance Of small things Sixty sec
onds make a minute. but how few OF
rs spend those seconds as we would If
we considered them as precious as dia-
monds.
The pennies are given 10 the children
or are careIessly spent when so much
good could be done with them.
met a girl from Pennsylvania last
week she said that she left cold wealth
er there. that the day before she left
her home she took a long walk through
the woods. gathered chestnuts and walk
ed over a carpet OF crimson. golden and
brown leaves. That the summer was
beautiful and the Christmas berry al
most ready to De counted on
Another girl spoke then: II think I've
had the very contrariest OF times and
seasons this year. ! went north for my
vacation and found even the Catskill
mountains hot. one city was 104 I'm the
shade and We never have It like that.
Here / come home and the weather man
tells us that this is the hottest Sep
tember the south has had in 10 years,
and we hear Of ice and frost, polor coats
and flrs in the very places visited
Next time don't run away" laughed
the girl from Pennsylvania. See II to a
hnish.''
Il saw the finish OF my vacation was
the reply and q longer stay would have
been the finish Of me. or my Job. which
amounts to the same thing"
Down here there seems 20 be no real
change. Your trees grow brown or
lose their leaves so gradually, one scarce
" knows when TO go TO the woods TO
md the autumn leaves. do your" Ques-
toned the girl from Pennsylvania
And some of you viii be surprised to
know that FIVE girls could not tell one
thing about autumn leaves or which trees
turned first. 1t has been long time
since ] have spent an autumn in F1ori-
da. so this time / shall take those girls
and roam the woods at least once a
month until we learn something about
these glorious days that proceeds the
melancholy ones"
Do you remember what II. w. Beecher
wrote OF October2
Orchard of the year. Bend thy
boughs TO the earth. redolent OF glowing
fruit. Ripened seeds shake in their
pods. Apples drop in the stillest hours.
Leaves begin TO let go when no wind Is
out and swing in long waverings to the
earth, which they touch without sound.
and lie looking up. TN winds rake them
and heap them in fence corners When
the gales come through the trees, the
yellow leaves trail. Ike sparks at night
behind the flying engine The woods