Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-25

went in a good home some days ago,
Ehere the wife and mother was getting
dinner. and her face was as red a
beet. the heat being tremendous in her
little kitchen and hot stove / remark
ed upon the red cheeks and said to her:
You must be good to yourself. for your
children need their mother more than
they need lot OF hot cooked food"
knew she could get no help, because
cook ladies' forsake their occupation
during cotton hOeing time. but the good
woman should have cooked her dinner
while she was getting her breakfast on
A broiling hot summer day.
One of the thriftiest managers /
ever knew. and who had TO do her own
work. told me she always rose at 3
o'clock on the hot mornings on wash
days. her clothes being put 10 soak the
night before. and the wood piled around
the pot. just ready TO heat the water.
She believed in boiling, or at least
scaldfng. all underwear in hot weather,
% that she was ready TO put them 20
boil before she started breakfast. and
On that day she cooked enough at break
fast time to do all day for dinner and
supper. She boiled beans and potatoes,
made a big pie of sO7ae sort, cooked
biscuit and corn bread. and cooked
enough 10 do plentfully until supper
time She got her clothes out by s
o'clock and then rested after the house
was Strengthened out She was so
bright and CHEEKY. took life so gently
that she was always a pleasing person
20 think about. especially when
thought about the whining ones who
we're always in a stew to get their house
Eork completed during the week. Her
children helped with all their little
strength. and after crops were laid by
the good man OF the house helped his
life right Loyalty.
n vas a stirring time until the clothes
~fre burg out on the line, but * was
Ea-.-cu ePrier % rush and hurry in the
cold OF the morning than when the
sun was in the meridian. and there is so
much comfort in getting over the things
that must be done. without extra heat
Or temper. Where there are children
large enough 10 wash and cook and es-
pecially 10 iron clothes the mother GER
tainly should spare herself all she can.
Why should not Zig strong boys do any
sort OF work that mother feels obliged
20 do2 If she can rub dirty garments
on the washboard. he can do the same
and a chap who refuses 10 do il should
Be made 70 do IL, I once knew OF a It.
year-old lad who wouldn't chop stove
wood until after dark so afraid was he
that somebody would see him. II was not
surprising 20 see his mother splitting
up planks and gathering chips in the day
time TO cook dinner because the great
Dig cub was nIled with laziness and false
pride
A girl who allows her mother 70 stand
over the ironing beard after getting
breakfast and dinner 10 nix white
dresses for the girl TO array herself in
should be at least willing 10 iron plain
clothes and put the house in order Ii is
FacatiOn time now and mothers ought
70 be good 10 themselves. and make the
young and able ones relieve her of some
y the household burdens that kept her
In strain during the school term.
But what / took for my text was the
utilization Of the early morning hours
tor the strenuous work OF the hot day and
while do as our preachers often do. ram
ole away from my text into other fields
u thought I would remind ovcr-worked
mothers that daylight comes very soon in
June. July and August and much can
oe done before the sun gets over ones
head