Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-26

I had promised to spend the night
with Louise, and when 1 met her at
/ o'clock she told me that she was going
to have a party. I know what Louise
means when she says that, IL means
/ that some one is lonely and she is going
to do something to give them pleasure.
We went to Simpkins and had fried
/ oysters instead OF going TO our usual
place for supper. then we went to
store and bought a lemon. a box Of So
cial teas and some dried figs, and went
10 her room and fixed things so that
Julia and Aline would find place to
sit. In other words, we took cushion
and spread IT over the orange box, bor-
| rowed a chair from the next room and
some extra cups, for what use has any
girl in one room with more than two
cups?
In Jacksonville there are plenty OF
houses with only one or two fireplaces
and this room Louise has is heated by
a kerosene stove. She set pan OF wa
I ter there and by the time the others
had come the water had heated and she
made tea. have taught her so, OF
course, il was delicious. Over the tea
cups we told stories and made the little
/ Australian forget how far from home
she is, and how hard IL has been tor
her to find work to do. As listened 70
one OF the girls tell OF a parrot she
lived in the house with, thought or
the one I wrote Of and decided 10 tell
you about this one.
Polly belongs to a doctor and every
morning he SAYS Good morning. Doctor;
hope you are well"
! II the doctor is busy or engrossed
the parrot repeats it and keeps saying
/ IL until in self-defense, the doctor has
to speak to him. Polly can be the
incest bird you ever saw. or the mean
est. One day a little girl was there
with her sick mother. She looked at
Polly through the window and the
mother said, go in and see Polly; she
won't hurt you" The child continued
to hesitate and Polly shook her heao
and said, Il won't hurt you; 1 won
hurt you" However, the child failed
/ to be convinced and later in the day she
heard Polly storm at man ana tell
him that if he did not get out of that
room she would break his neck. EVi-
IDENTIFY some one had threatened TO
break her neck.
| Letters from other states tell us or
cold weather, it has not been altogether
lbaImy her, but we have hadthree days
of glorious sunshine, today in summer
clothes. we have basked on a sunny
piazza. January 81, supposed TO be tue
depths of winter. we had on summer
dresses and ate ice cream on the piazza.
The weather man says more cold Is
coming. but the hooking birds, red birds
/ and laws are in all their glory. They
sing and flirt their wings and seem TO
/ do everything in their power to make
us think that spring is here, and that
/ the weather man is trying to fool US:
Pink roses are in the yard, golden yell
low ones climb the lattice at the end OF
the piazza, and the walk to the gate
,wrH n Fn
/ always here across the river the Ions
moss is swaying, the odeanders buddinS
and the orange trees will not be long
/ in opening their snowy cups OF IN
cense. Isn't it a pity that every one
cannot have at least a week in the
woods when spring comes and nature
dons her flower decked garb?
Toll on" says stern old Duty ana the
wheels keep revolving and only few
stop to see how gorgeous how fragrant
and how delightful the woods are.
friend of mine is going to let her
house represent Japan in trip around
the world. I have been busy helping
her get I'D the japanese items, and
| especially the things to eat. In doing
this / went to see japanese woman
who lives across the river. She has
been hene for several years, and when
/ went in the yard and gave the pc
culiar japanese call at the door instead
OF knocking, she came out with open
ewes. talked to her in her own
language and her eyes filled with tears
when she found that had lived In her
native city. There was so much that
we could talk about, and ii reminded me
Of those days when l was stranger IN
a strange land. She says that her faith
er still lives, but that she never eX-
pects TO see him, for her husband is in
business here. and as they have a large
family IL will take too much money
for all OF them to go.
There were three little ones playing
about her. one was at school, and one,
the only boy. is dead.
I said, You have three daughters"
mo. four" was her answer. I'm this
country four girls and no son Is not the
misfortune IT would be in Japan. Girls
are not looked upon as nuisances here
and we will raise ours over here. The
oldest girl is in school"
When I started away / said Say
onara" to the little children, and their
mother proudly said they know BY
/ by" Since then I've heard that the girl
In school cannot read oroswritetl her
parents native language. Thatd is
pity, because she may some day go
back and II Is not what we know that
bothers US. but the knowledge that is
lacking that embarrasses us. 1 feel sor-
~ for the children all over the south
whose parents say that they have lived
without an education and that their
children shall.
There has been a time when it was
almost impossible for poor children to
go to school. Distance and lack of
conveyances made the public schools
hard to reach, and many a man and
woman who now rank as a scholar won
all they know through hard study be-
fore and after work and by the light
Of a torch perhaps.
The same sort Of argument might be
used concerning the clothes Of the pres
ent day. When a woman talks that way
want to tell her that most probably
her mother wove and spun, while she
goes to the store and buys her cloth.
Yet she is no better than her mother
was. il Is merely that she lives in a
| more advanced age. Education is a
lever that lifts higher than wealth or