Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-06

TWENTY TINES \ DAY.
Twenty times a day. dear,
Twenty times DAY.
Your mother thinks about YOU,
AT school. or else at play
She's busy in the kitchens.
or she's busy mp the stair,
But like q song her heart within
Her love for you is there.
There's just a little thing. dear,
She wishes you would do.
81 -hist--r. us a secret
NOW mind. I tell you;
Twenty times a day. dear.
And more. I've heard YOU say.
I'm coming i'm a minute
when you should at once obey.
at once. as soldiers instant.
At the motion Of command;
At once. as sailors seeing
The captains warning hand
You could make the mother hppy
By minding in this way.
twenty times a day. dca,
Twenty times a day
Selected.
The habit of obdedience TO parents is
me OF the finest methods Of discipline
IN the formation Of character. II not only
keeps order in the family. but 1t pro-
notes patience in conduct II is true
The child viii feel resentful and cannot
always understand the why and where
fore. but the obedience. like patience.
EtIl have its perfect work as the years
roll on. and the young mother Will recall
tho many times that her parents were
wiser than she herself could have been
when her mind is exercised in regard
70 she management o fher own Offspring
AZ she had not learned the lessons OF
discipline in her youth
In my. old age I watch young children
very closely as to what they do and
cay in the presence OF their elders. The
iack OF reverence for age has 70 be
a hesetting sin. The child that is given its
own way has either to be pulled back
wards into harness BY hard ticks or it
Is already starting downwards 10 the end
% a distressing career. and il is fool
tsh mother who does not enforce her
own commands to her young children.
Better IL is TO say nothing than TO
give an order and see herself wilfully
dis0heyed by the child Her love is still
there. but the child's respect for her has
ahated and Ike a balky horse every time
che orders and the child refuses the more
disagreeable il is and the child's bad
habit is strengthened
Bad children occasionally turn out TO
be good men and women. but the chances
are that disobedient children will make
violent and ungOvernable grOwn-ups.
or all the nice things that child may
DO as 20 manners and petty sayings.
nothing ever viii beat the obedient child
that shows delight in obeyiuE- their moth
er- There are all sorts OF obedience. rang
Ing downward from the wiling-hearter
child 20 the one that must have a beat
tng 20 make II mind but the tot that
minds nobody IS a veritable nuisance
FOLLOwINGTHE FASHIONS.
Anybody who has money enough can
olindly follow the fashions Anybody
who has so little sense can spend their
money Tor new style dresses and hats
when they need that money TO provide
neat undertakes and some necessaries.
besides newest STYLES. IL takes taste and
Judgment 20 adopt styles to themselves,
and TO make them both Individual at
iractive and economical There are
Foung women who think Of nothing su-
nerior 10 their outside adornment. but a
great many who have money to waste,
5r who waste II. are stiII wearing ugly
hats and ugly dresses. because they have
neither Individual taste nor judgment to
find the cOlOrs and styles which suit
their own faces and figures.
do not advise any person 20 wear
clothes cut Of date enough to be con-
spicuous. hut there are very few nice
cid things which cannot be remOdeIed
into something sufficiently neat in style
70 PASS muster
Very conspicuous clothes always look
fashy. m matter how gorgeous the
adornment. Clothes can be elegant. yet
g.
the extreme OF fashion can be extremely
ugly and unbecoming TO the wearer
The girls OF limited income. and they are
the great majority. should keep ii in
mind that the PRINCIPLES OF good dressing
always mean suitability o. the wearer's
face and figure and especially TO her
scenty purse. on which she must lean
Very strongly I had rather wear sim
pie sailor hat everywhere than to bug
: broad. heavy-I0oking hat that viii nat
uraily be discussed for its unsuitable
ness and its ugliness. and maybe its ex-
trava giant price % the wearer.
Ohlcc girls are often estimated ~ their
style in dress. II they are poor. il IS
good policy As well as good finance TO
dress as simply as possible. II they
uave good salaries they should still dress
pisinly-during office hours When I so
into a large department store and am
Naitsd on by girl pulled and powdered.
whO is continually fiuhing her hair and
pushing down her belt. I know what she
10 there for. merely 70 get money to buy
fine clothes.
II girl has herself fixed IN neatly
and can give her attention to the Gus
toner rather than her own hxturcs I
1an understand her good sense and can
predict her success
But u is the lille girls and women
who work the greatest mischief by ~-4.r
example About 4 O'Clock on a summer
afternoon they begin TO come out the
front doors. and swarm on the town
streets merely 20 show their new STYLE
in clothes They toll not. neither do they
spin but they can parade on high
french heels ard move each leg with
emphasis. as We discover by their shapes
IN skin tight skirts
on. said Puck. what fools we NOR
tails he
TIE DANCERS OF ELEC-RIcrTY.
To handle live wires Oh poles has long
been shown TO be mere than dangerous.