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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-08

When one crop proves a failure. We
hope for better things the next sea-
son.
But it seems like to the cotton
farmer there is not much room for
nope. II his crop is a sorry one he
does not get much money even at a
good price, and if he makes a good
crop the price is run down so he
cannot realize much. l suppose he
ought to hope that sorry crop and
low price won't come together again
soon as it did to some of us in
1911.
The cold weather is hard on the
housekeepers who have to cook for
their families. 1t is a good plan to
fix everything just ready for the
stove, that you intend to have for
breakfast while you are getting din
ner the day before. I have often
thought these cold days while the
milk is SO splashy, of a lady who
came to my house during an associa-
ton one time. She showed me how
to fold newspaper the long way
and pin it around the top of the
churn to catch the milk that splashed
out. [ had never thought of that
before and that little item of knowl-
edge has been worth a great deal to
me in the way Of convenience. The
lady was Mrs. Holloway, of Glenn,
Georgia. She has since died, but the
help she gave me about churning
lives on and [ hope some other house
keeper will try it.
S. T. P. has not been so frequent
a visitor to "our Page" as [ sup
posed she would have been from her
last letter. l wish the sisters would
all come on and talk. Shall we let
the girls learn to dance? I love to
see girls dance, and I know they
enjoy the motion. What do the
Sisters think of it?
L. T. RUSSELL.
German, Tex.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-08
BIRDS ARE HUNGRY. TOO.
German, Tex.

The Audubon societies in all parts
OF the North remind the people that
the winter is very hard on the birds
that do not go South and appeal is
made for little extra pains to give
them food since the extreme cold
may occasion as great loss of bird
life this season as it has in some
severe ones in the past.
Respect for birds, and apprecia-
ton of them, grows as people gain an
understanding of the service per-
formed by them in the warfare on
insect life, the great pest of man. If
it were not for the birds the earth
would be eaten up in short order vet
this has been known so short a time
that it is within very few years that
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-08
Oyster Sauce.

One pint of oysters; half lemon,
juice only; two tablespoonful Of
butter; one tablespoonful of -four,
mixed with cold water; one teacup-
full of milk or cream; cayenne and
nutmeg to TASTE
Stew the oysters in their own
liquor five minutes, and add the
cream; when this boils, strain the
liquor and return to the saucepan;
thicken with the -four, stir we'll, then
auu the butter and salt, and season
to taste; boil one minute, add the
lemon juice, stir we'll, and dish.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-08
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- -e-o-e-~-e
dark ages would over-power the peo-
pie.
Happily, an element of the practi-
cal has been injected into the curri-
culum of our schools without elini-
mating those studies which encourage
mental refinement and an apprecia-
ton Of other phases of life not exclu-
sively material
Now, to the point. The best col
leges can be opened to poor girls if
they will curb their native pride and
the club women, who are house keep
ers, will prove their altruism. True,
many clubs maintain scholarships
covering tuition only and loan funds
which leave financial indebtedness
upon the young graduate. Not all
girls are called to earn money in the
school room, office, or shop. Many
have place in the manifold activi-
ties Of home.
/ knew an ambitious country girl
whose widowed mother was strained
to keep an elder sister in the Athens
Normal. To the younger daughter,
she could supply only books and the
plainest clothing. I applied to the
president of college in our town
for her free tuition. It was readily
granted. Perhaps, he surmised that
her conscientious earnestness would
be an inspiration to the class.
To cover her board in my home,
it was her duty to prepare a simple
morning and evening meal; to do the
rough-dried ironing and to superin-
tend my three children if I went out
in the afternoon This did not inter-
fere with her school or religious
duties and left some time for social
pleasure. It was managed so adroitly
that school mates and neighbors sup
posed she was my boarder. One
term qualified her to teach success
fully six years until her marriage.
No doubt, her life is sweetened
and broadened by the college associa-
tions Of even one year. If had paid
her tuition, I would still have gained
for the most trifling negro demands
wages in addition to board and time
Off
Why can't Student Cooperation
League on such q basis be organized
in every school community? Of
course, the student should exercise,
besides capacity, good humor and
good sense, and the mistress of the
house, with the qualities of a true
lady would appreciate the distinction
between her student helper" and a
white servant.
This means to an end could also
be opened to boys. I know one
whose father had owed a hundred
slaves but when he attended dental
college, was thankful to tend the fur
mace and milk COWS for his land
lady.
Even then, his board was supple
mented by produce from his modest
country home. He now commands a
lucrative practice. L.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-08
Conducted by
AGNES WATSON LEE

the law forbade killing small birds
whose mission in life is to be beauti-
full and to eat insects.
The societies will not appeal in
vain to the good people of the coun-
try in behalf of the birds.-Buffalo
IN. Y.) News.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-08

arts are taught; the other, liter
airy school in which the practice of
those arts furnish means of mainte-
nance.
Both are amply supplied the
Southern negro. The first steps
toward an education on his part is a
lively desire to make his head do the
work Of his hands. The colleges
endowed by Northern philanthropy
are stepping stones to that end.
To the energetic white boys and
girls, not fearing but loving the
labor nearest at hand, yet realizing
that Science has made it easier and
more profitable, the State agricul-
tural schools offer a splendid oppor-
tunity, provided they are able to pay
living expenses while there.
There are now in many country
homes, young people, who through
Intelligent training and application
are proficient in household, dairy,
poultry, and farm work, yet they
yearn for that peculiar culture
obtained in our higher educational
institutions. Often, the return for
the labor Of their parents is suffi-
and not for the satisfaction of men
tai and spiritual desires. Alas for
ambition when they have out-grown
the little neighborhood school
The federated club women pro-
claim their interest in the better
ment OF farm homes and seek to
tighten the burden of it's women
folks by travelling libraries and by
urging state appropriation for a
lecture on household economies to
accompany the annual AGRICULTURAL
train.
The mothers burden is consider
ably 1ghtened when her daughter
has an educational opportunity as
she is assured that only a man of
worth and dignity can attract that
daughter. The uncOuth, cOnceited
galloot, with perhaps a flask in his
pocket, will have to hitch his horse
on Sundays at the rack of a maiden
more anxious and unsophisticated.
Unfortunately, many social work
ers rate all country people with the
class that flock to the cotton
mills and with he ignorant snuff dip
pers that peddIe berries at mountain
1SoO1 10. 1HSy WOulQ elevate their
lives by training their children in
model schools in which are empha-
sized raffia work, basketry, clay
modelling, flower culture and fancy
cookery.
They would be amazed at the prac-
tical cleanliness and healthful cook
cry in the average rural home. How
ever, to be proficient in the use of the
needle, shears, and rolling pin is not
the sum and acme of woman's exist
ence.
In Kansas, they are waging war
on the fool graduates" that know
more of the geography of Kamchatka
than Of their own township. But
people do not always remain in their
immediate township or social class,
hence the notifying and ridiculous
mistakes Of the new rich in the funny
column.
Some faddists preach that each
individuals education should fit him
for usefulness in the station in which
Providence placed him. True Gull
ture adorns every environment. If
it comes to pass that the acquisition
of liberal education is limited to
certain class, a demagogism more
blighting than the priest craft of the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-08

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PAGE TWO

All communications for this page
should be addressed directly to Mrs.
Agnes Watson Lee, Thomson, Ga.
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14

soap on washday, Mary will never say word
Every mother knows what lot of fun
the baby gets out of crawling about the
floor and making its tiny self Just as dirty
as little pig.
But every mother has looked with
alarm at the array of baby clothes to be
washed on Monday morning.
And every one has seen with despair
how the delicate little garments are cooked
to pieces In the destructive washboiler.
But all that was before the Fels-NaDtha
waSh~way became known.
The Fels-Naptha way means that
bab y's soiled clothes are cleansed quicklvin
cool or lukewarm water without the roast
ing fire, summer or .winter-without the
seethlng suds, without the terrific back
breaking rub, rub, rub.
What's the result? Why
Fuel saved Temper saved
Time saved Fabric saved
Insist on the red and green wrapper,
and follow the printed directions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14
By MABEL HERBERT TURNER

I(ATOw. you'd better 60 down ana
get everything packed mp to-
night You won't have any /
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14
The Sweetest Music in the World-For Him.
q q The Gates of Silence"
BY Meta SnnminG Author of "HnShed Up

returned home few hours ago and was
very tired. SAKE sent in his card, on
which he had penciled a few words.
Betty had not been in the Croft many
hours, having only left the Chantrey, at
Kenilworth, that morning. There had
been strange happenings at that lonely
house set in a cleft of the downs, hap
penings that had left her tired in mind
and body. She was weary, too, with
apprehension as to what the future might
hold for the man and woman she had
left behind her-the blind man raving in
delirium now, who was being nursed by
the wife he had repudiated, and whom he
would never again see
She had been thankful to find that her
father had not yet returned from the Con-
tinent-and now, for Paul Saxe's card to
be sent in! She glanced at the pencilled
words
Il am more than sorry to disturb you,
SAKE had scrubbed, but l am afraid
must ask you to see me-" The girl felt
as though a hand of ice had been laid
on her heart. Had some harm come to
Jack? That was her first thought
Tell Mr.. SAKE | shall be with him
presently" she said
Paul SAKE, waiting in the pleasant
drawing room of the Croft, found the
waiting more than usually tedious He
did not relish the task before him After
leaving his office he had driven down to
Westminster and found Jex now returned.
The news the man had given him had
been more disquieting than the telegram,
which had been oddly delayed in its de
livery lex had given rather an ugly
account of Sir George Lumsden's last
hours. The man had died by his own
hands. it seemed; there were ugly for
malites-there might be inquiries Paul
SAKE felt as though Fate, with a giant
hand, had broken those fine-spun fla
ments Of his webs in an utterly wanton
destruction
Then Betty came She looked wan and
harassad, and, to do the man justice,
his heart smote him that he must harass
her more lie looked at her anXiously
and solictously. If this life Of strain con-
tnued much longer she would lose her
looks. she belonged TO that fine grained
type which shows the ravages Of grief too
clearly
Miss Betty Even as he took her hand
and spoke her name the girl had an APP
prehension Of some evil She shrank
away from him. looking at him with fur
lively searching eyes
What is it-has anything happened
on, I see it in your face, Tell me Don't
try 20 make things easy for me"
Your father he began, and he could
hear her give a short, quick breath OF
relief lie knew what thar relief be
tokened She thought he had come &c
speak OF her lover of the man IN prison
His face darkened
Almost as though she were ashamed of
0 81
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14
TODAY s INSTALLMENT.


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'pr,lso '"e leIesl am amos, Slowly
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n.y., ,,'S' '."u'' 'l.'l mas ans
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mia the ol5 i5ia, n,sb e., 3,a,,, ot.,,
tion n the rnattera
Inst for r,on,or, the +bo,-,, eas,,oa
through saves MIND tbat Tev ,,erba,s
had sert tho rans f., this odd n,,,,Ito
way OUT or sheer malice. tie sometimes
hdu nus aouulS on JeA. suppose the cur
ShouId TURN ana Try TO blle.
~ 'he IhouEhj sound ESCAPED from
raul SAKE Ilps mat sounding In his
own ears Drought MN upright He raised
his head and looked about the room with
bright furuce eyes His nerveless cow
bright furtive eyes. His nerveloss cow
over him that he should have suffered that
spasm Of sick fear
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14
Little Bobbie S Pa
By William T. Kirk

want to sing. He was only doing it to
please Pa.
l will sing the sextette from Lushy,
sed Mister Doyle.
But Pa insisted that Mister Doyle
shud sing the Moth & the Flame, so
he started:
The moth & the fame played a game
one day,
The game of woman's heart.
The moth that played was a maid, thay
sed,
& the flame was a bad mans art
& the moth newer knew, as it flew so
close,
That the light was the light of shame,
& it duttered away just in time, so
thay say,
That's the tale of the Moth & the
Flame.
Isent that impressive song? sed Pa
1t certinglv is, sed Ma Ma was try
ing to be nice.
Now, sed Pa, wud YOU like to hear
Mister Doyle sing sumthing else?
| wud not. sed Ma.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14
3 3

Il won't beat about the bush, Miss
Berry he said. Your father is dead"
The dusk was falling-the cruel, early
gray dusk of a January afternoon, when
Betty Lumsden slipped down the drive
of the Croft. In all that lonely house be
hind her there was no one TO say her no,
to question her comings or goings, and
yet as she went she felt like a fugitive
She was 1ying-frOm what? She hardly
knew. From the vague terror that Paul
SaXes news had left behind it. SO far
she had shed no tears for her father;
there was grief for him in her heart,
dumb, fearless grief-not so much because
he was dead, but because of what he had
become-of what had led up to that death.
Still. he had been her father, and they
had loved one another dearly. In the old
days, the days before Ediths marriage.
they had been very happy family-and
at least he had been her protector
Her protector! As she ran she STUN
bled and nearly fell. Heaven knew how
badly she stood in need of a protector
how desolate she was, Paul SAKE had
limited at unuttera BILE things, but she did
not need his hlnts-her imagination had
been quick to leap to the position in which
she would find herself as the daughter
of a disCredited suicide who had left her
no heritage save shame and the harvest
of his debts
That could have been faced, she told
herself. But SAKE had limited at other
things. AS she listened to him she
seemed to feel herself caught in a net
that was being pegged down on every
side of her by relentless fingers. He had
spoken, with the utmost deicacy-she
conceded so much to him-of his desire
to aid and save her. of how he wished
her TO look upon him in the light of an
elder brother until such time as her af-
fairs had Strengthened themselves. or
until her brother-in-law was a BILE to offer
her home 1t was that touch which
have known it SO well. the true state of
the relations between herself and her
family and Anthony Darlington.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14

n A brought up a friend of his to the
house last mite. His friend was
swell looking man, his naim was
Bernie Doyle.
Wife, sed Pa, want you TO meet my
friend Mister Doyle. He is a infiuen-
shall member of the Entertainers club,
sed Pa. Mister Doyle, shake hands
with my wife
| am pleased to meet you, sed Ma to
Mister Doyle. I am glad to know that
my husband is being entertained.
Mister Doyle is a CRATE singer, sed
Pa.
You doant say so, sed Ma.
If you think you know sumthing.
about singers you will readjust yure
idees wen you hear Mister Doyle sing
The Moth & the Flame
| am all ears, sed Ma. ] am used to
being all ears anyway, so I mite as well
hear Mister Doyle MARBLE He must be
prtty good if he is the leading spirit
in the Entertainers club.
So then Mister Doyle got up e got
reddy to sing. / felt kind of sorry for
him beekaus l knew that he dident
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14
Wonderful Treatment For
Corns, Callouses and
All Sore Feet
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Millions OF people who endure daily
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14

b.. Il o.
" '-'7'. BUM" S''''' '''il9
ms breath, buj ne began 10 hurry
Cant / help YOU Isn't there any
thing I can do"
..ycs i,e, got o1t and LET mo have
Nv
"i'"' ''''" '"''' ~
Helen gathered up her hat ana ven
and went out into the passage 10 put
them ON She corld hear Warren
-...,.t,.., IN. .t.,,,.
luggage fe'"E' ''I" am 1t was ''''
chief steward this time.
ii think So" she faHered. and
he knocked at the stateroom.
.r r,,5,. Ito r,,or,.h,,i,-,s.. ~,
now SIT SHe ready [" pun on
The words struck terror to Helen.
but Warren threw open tho door with
p roupb.
-, .-.-,. III.
~ &'' put p'oP'' ''' az ''''.
"utandIsh houT you nave TO wait
til they get ready Here, YOU can
take this trunk"
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SUIT case with more haste than she
had ever seen him exert His hat was
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''i'''" 'S wv "''7 ~
x" IN ana heIp hlm nut reared ne
would only roar at her to keep out Of
the wav. suddenly he called.
..yy-t,or,,, t,,,, s,,.,,,-,s,r,,,o.,
why. 'SH IL '"eIe iuSiIhs III I"
find him struggling with the big roll
Of steamer rugs and coats and looking
deenerataIv about for tho ebao.letran
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"'''" w" P"' at ~ H'''"'eu'
Why, dear, | didn't see 1t, YOU UNI
rolled the rugs"
Yes and I mt il right there on ton
ne d., .,..,.,,..,..n
W ,"'' ""I"I op''
ii"Irh rilthprh up on the perrin 10
look on top of the wardrobe but only
NE preserver was there In the
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INV '''' '''5 ''s why
TOT the Statero"m mountaineering
under his breath
Here the chief steward appeared
again ~ tho do,, "Tba,,re waiting
IN ne rs,,t,tn so,,, tL,,rI I,a,,a -
,,,t .e Az, ,l,',,,,, wv - ''
wen W. - ,ho 'T''' nnt On ,,.,,bo,t me-,
W., I,,ll',S5 wa ~
ao, ,onS i'' l,a'''',t "'tI '''rE
60. 'D '''!u VS. I'S'e rs ',I' h! ne,
t1I ,"t pu,,n"S PISS, "se'S -" at us
st,t'r,, ',"u, III, iig,ei YOU @T Wv
S'",'I"oU' steward FuSntd up we put
snaWislrap on Top OF tnai WARDROBE
VIA .a, u'u you VI" WIN n
'"'IN' SIT uluh see H. Sir ana ne
o'san q nurIIed search
now 'l'E We're an searching ieIeh
! W arren' the room steward and the
! chlef steward. At any other time II
! WNonl1 nave struck Helen as irreSlsu
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14
Anty Drudge Tells Why Mary Doesn't
Object to Bis Wash.

Fater-"Jus look at the condition of the kids clothes!
Where de you suppose they pieAx up the dirt? You'll
have Mary making awful kick about the heavy
wash. Why I'll bet she has to do up dozen dresses
every week for the babies?"
Anty Drudge-M More than that, son-in-aw suppose it's
nearer two dozen But long she has Fels-Naptha
soap washday, Mary will never say a word
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aold it responsible in ! way not now

hold it responsible In q way not now
likely.
We are drifting into the habit Of
treating the president as a sort Of
prime minister. He is expected to
formulate the policy Of the admints-
tration. and to push 1t through cons
gress by messages, public speeches..
conferences with members, and the use
Of patronage. He utilities his popular
ity with the country, IL he has any, TO
force congress to do his will.
The public more or less ignores con-
gress. If the president does not sue
coed in pleasing, 1t looks forward TO
the time when 1t can supplant him
with someone else. The whole ten
dency, then, is for politics and iegisla-
ton to revolye about the White House,
rather than about congress. The
people do not hold congress to as rigid
a responsibility as 1t should be held,
nor, on the whole, as 1t would like to
be held.
Congress would like to be looked UP
to, but it feels in these days that it is
overshadowed by the executive. If 1t
stood alone before the country in two
of every three elections. what 1t had
done or failed to do would naturally be
the issue.
Congress would be better for the
concentration on it Of public attention.
The presidency would be exalted in
character, even IL a reef was taken in
its present abnormal expansion of In
fiuenee.
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