Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-20

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marriage question. Yet after he came and was
50 determined upon marring some one. lThat
is the way of a widower). She decided she
would be kind to him, and carried him to meet
some OF her girl friends. That certainly was
kind in her. doubt IL any other girl in her
So the other girl was more favorably I'M
pressed and decided to marry him. It was not
disposition of the girl. / think IL very wrong
of the mother TO accuse her Of influencing her
daughter and saying hard things about her.
The girl made her own decision; her mother
| is as much accountable for IL as any one, or
more so, ! should say. But since the girl Is
happily married, or she seems to be, and
certainly is more content than at home, why
should people be so concerned about it2 But
| people viii talk" and this hasty occurrence
caused much town talk"
letter on her calmness and thoughtfulhess
throughout the whole afafr. do not think
are others who Will agree with me. would
not worry any more about Ii. Her conscience
Is clear; she really did a good deed, Tor the
girl is happy. and the man owes her many
Perhaps there will be other opportunities to
display loyalt to ones friends when another
widower comes to town on such a hast errand;
for there are still other girls to be introduced
BarnesviiIe Ca. EULA LEE.
AFTER A vEsPER SERVICE
Dear Household: Sunday afternoon went
TO Young Women's Christian association yes
per service. l thought OF you, and knew that
most probably you were IN one, ana then tne
many girls who would like TO know about them.
Every association, suppose, has Sunday art
ernOon services. and Il suen nice - Pis ac'
quainted with nice people. Every now and
then we read Of girls coming to srief because
they have made unwise acquaintances. II would
| indeed be wolf in sleeps clothing" If one
came TO grief because of those met IN
| Y. ". c. A. vesper service.
] want to confess right here that won
dered what would happen In a vesper service,
so I am going to tell what happened In this
one. The leader had such a nice program pre-
pared. song was sung. then a saik ABOUT about
brated lady; then ten minutes tax ABOUT
Mrs Doremus; a duet; then the story Of the
sPearl Brooch" another song a prayer and
short talk about the first mission; another
song and the Mizpah benediction.
After that the social hour with iced tea
and waters. Everybody was 50 cordial, ! felt
as If l knew some of the girls real well, and
some of the ladies' were just like the folks
at home.
The missionary jubilee coming 50 soon made
/ the association have missions for their topic.
Since / left my quiet country home and have
been among strangers. I see how selfish 1t is
to stand off and let strangers 80 severely alone.
I In the country, OBJ where / lived they were
| stared at but Il neger entered my mind to
go up and introduce myself. Surrounded as |
was by friends 1t never occurred to me that
there was any real value in CHEEKY word
from a stranger or to a stranger. Now L
know that better than almost anything else
is hearty handshake and cheerful word to the
girl who is away from home.
DO you remember the bit Of verse Mrs. Sang
ster has:
at Isn't the thing you do. dear;
It's the thing you've left undone
Which gives you bit of heartache
At the setting OF the sum-
Life is hard for most any one thought
country people got the worst Of IT, but now
know they are more sheltered. but the best
we can do for the world is to help and cheer
the one right in our path.
some one may think l am homesick, so
won't write any more. Sincerely
LABOR SAVING
Dear Household: 1t has been long time
since you have given Chat ON labor
savers. so am going to put in few words.
Mo-. l shall not promise to make my words
few: this is too important a subject l am de-
lighted every time / hear Of woman with
fIreless cooker, an alcohol stove or any or
the house cleaning appliances.
There are men-and women, / am ashamed
10 coufess-who say that such and such things
were good enough for their fathers and moth
ers. hence are good enough for them. know
a man who bought his wife stove and 1t set
in the barn until Of the girls got her
mother off on a visit and put 1t up and USED
IL That mother pouted and started to take IL
down, but her husband sided with the girl and
up IL stayed.
I know girl whose cousin visited her and
saw what struggle the washing was and
when she went home ordered washing ma
chine 1t nearly split the family, but now they
cannot see how they ever got along without IL;
''AIollie" they named II for the girl who had
courage enough 10 send 1t to them. 5ihq
AS long as so many Of the labor savers
had to be run by gas or gasoline the women
in small towns and in the country could not take
hol can be obtained there is not so much ex-
cuse 1 know that the price Is inexcusably
high but it's cheaper than flesh and blood
ana that is what It saves.
One OF the things that has proven boon
TO me is a churn that Is nothing but a bucket
set on a spring and hung from another spring.
All you have TO do is to put your cream IN,
shut it and start Il to bouncing Up and
down it goes, with slight pressure OF your
finger How / loathed the old-fashtoned dasher
and ehurn and even more so the glass Jar
that sometimes served In it's place. When
was child and my turn came to ehurn used
to get sick and only be sorry that l was not
sick enough to die.
| Looking back on those days, 1 sometimes
/ think that II was not ell Imagination; that the
/ lifting of my arms might have caused IL.
/ Only I am sorry TO say, the Illness Invariably
came as soon as was told TO begin. MY
4 mother was a wise woman; she never let my
/ illness interfere with the churning, and as
! lived through many hundred Cummings, l afn
1 here TO prove that the illness couldn't have
/ been as serious as / thought. just the same,
| / am glad to see these new churns