Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-06
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bread, were bathed, then nighties put
on. the bedroom windows shaded. and
| these young ones were no trouble after
wards. Then she had time to sit on
her veranda or make a neighborly can
or talk with the older members OF the
family, in peace and Quiet.
Domestic washing should be finished
| by Thursday in the week. then the
darning and mending and all garments
! separated to their place
One of the finest women I ever knew
told me she never begun more sewine
than she could complete in the week
| We all know how a house can be clut-
tered with unfinished garments scatter
ed along on chairs, or trunks ana
boxes
1t would surprise one to know how
much easier house work can be mate.
when determination is held to. to get
everything in shape for well-ordered
Sunday.
These things cannot come by chance
They must be planned for and worked
| up to for success. t-.N---
/ 1 believe we would also prevent a
lot Of idle gossipping talk If this horne
serving plan should be adhered to. And
children should be taught early to do
their part and then be compelled to
|
If 1 might say word to the husband
also, 1 would remark that he might
| do good deal of housework on demand
and not hurt his strength or his piety
| by helping his wife, instead of leaving
her the burden to bear, and the bag to
| hold"
| HUMAN LIFE is VERY CHEAP.
| l have just been reading of the des-
truction of the French warship Liberte,
where several hundreds of the soldiers
and marines went to a sudden and awful
death almost within moment of time.
Riding in peaceful waters an explosion
somewhere in the battleship ignited
mass of dynamite and those who were
not blown to fragments or into the air
went down in the deep water, along with
| the wrecked man-of-war.
If that was a rare incident, we might
content ourselves with saying: Those
people will be more cautious next time"
But it is not rare occurrence. Not a
single issue of daily paper comes out
without some story of what appears to
be inexcusable negligence or defective
machinery; where human life pays the
| toll. My late experience with a wrecked
railroad train causes me to feel abiding
interest in such disasters
Only a few days ago a loaded trolley
car, crowded with churchgoers, in the
| heart of Atlanta went to smash, and
manned nearly every passenger.
/ believe we will be obliged to have
| some vigorous legislation and have a well
defined speed limit established, to pro-
tect the transportation of human beings.
| There is such a craze for fast going
that people are eager to get on fast
| trains, or drive fast automobiles, or race
| horses, or airships, or ships on the ocean
| The racing spirit is so strong that they
will seek these record-breakers in pref
| erence to more moderate trips. No rail-
| road train should be allowed to run more
than forty miles an hour, and any auto
machine which dashes by other travellers
at neck-breaking speed should be called
down and promptly fined. Thirty years
ago 1 rode the fast train from New
| York to Philadelphia. We covered ninety
odd miles in ninety odd minutes and 1t
was supposed we averaged a mile min
ute.
! 1 could not have endured many hours
of that terrible strain in succession. l
was glad enough to leave the fast train,
for a slower-gaited one. But 1 have, in
later days, been on several trains where
| the schedule time was made up by such
| furious dashes: but I have never failed
| to understand the awful danger II such
| trains should run into an open switch or
| encounter a broken rail- If the Southern
train in which many of us were lately
battered up, had been going at so miles
an hour, the most OF us would have been
laid away in the cemetery a few days
| later, 1. e., what of US that could be
gathered up from the bottom of that ra-
vine to be laid away in the grave or
coffined
Speed is a good enough thing. when con-
sistent with safety, but speed with dan
ger, should be prohibited by strenuous
| legislation.
People should be Nhindered from killing
themselves by these wild rushes. Peo-
pie cannot buy poison unless under strin-
gent regulations, and those who are
ready to risk their lives on ''mile-a-min-
ute" trains should not be allowed to
take the risk. on the same principle.
Forty years ago 1t required two nights
and a day to reach Washington city
/ from Gainesville, now they make 1t
to New York in one day, including a sin
| gle night.
To do this there must be no delay
and in the darkness of the night the en-
| gineer of a fast train must not rest his
mind or brain one instant, in storm or
shade, darkness or daylight, If he would
carry those passengers safely.
| 1t Is too fast-it means too much risk
and too much danger. 1t is too much
responsibility and human life is regarded
| too cheap.
/