Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-29

Take time TO speak a loving word
Where loving words are seldom heard;
And 81 viii Iinger in the mind.
And gather others OF its kind,
TIN loving words viii echo where
Erstwhfle the heart was poor and bare;
And somewhere on thy heavenward
track
Their music will come echoing back
And flood thy sould with melody,
such Is Loves imOmrtality"
II seems 20 me that the months have
flown fast since last Thanksgiving dayl
Zach day has had the full quota Of
hours, and IL seemed 70 me as each
one passed that put It TO some good
use: but when I look over the past
year ] think that a month must have
slipped out for the end OF the year
has truly slipped Up on me" When i
was q child some OF my playmates had
their birthdays Ia the spring and early
summer; mine comes IN December, and
the year for them had two joyous
events. / thought IL shame that 1
could not transfer mine to April or
Nay and have parties without an in
frinEemsnt on Christmas festivities.
Now i would put OF Christmas a month
OF 50 IL it were possible have never
given Christmas present because some
one gave me one. swapping presents"
never did appeal 20 me. but have often
thought that II had little more time
I might do better for the friends
suppose a would be just the same, how
ever II the year had fourteen months
We were talking about the planets
and a friend who is "everlas tingly'
hard up financially said she would ike
20 live in Venus IL she could get a
years credit there. for the years up
there appear 70 be ten times as long
as ours, n one could judge BY its revo-
lutions
.Oh, no" exclaimed q girl who counts
on yearly raise in her salary, i have
too many months 20 dig away as IL IS
without ten years waiting" Another.
whose home is away from Atlanta and
who counts on her two weeks vacation
laughed and said IL would be nice TO
have ten vacations IN one year. but she
thought she would keep right on in
this same old world. think that the
three decided that If nothing else would
suit Edith they would see what could
be done about a trip up there and let
her make a personal investigation. She
then declared that she was not brave
enough TO venture into foreign coun-
try with no knowledge OF the language
and would try 20 get along here where
the custom Is TO pay every month or
70 without That brought them back
10 THANKSGIVING and the things to be
especially grateful for. comparisons with,
this season and the first Thanksgiving.
Then the people whose lives were IN
danger from Indians as well as famine
and pestilence faced their hardships as
bravely as the heroes and heroines
nov do.
Theirs were lives OF self-denial and
physical bravery that We are not called
on 70 endure said Josephine
but there are heroes and heroines
now who would count for as much as
they did" Edith interrupted Il know
that they were courageous, but the
most OF them couldn't help themselves.
They did not have any alternative.
There was no store full OF good things
and a chance to get credit until their
ships came IN I've no doubt the women
were as scary as some OF US now are,
but the men knew OF the lurking red
skin. and felt like IL was bad thing
TO be a target themselves I've an idea
the men in the family let the protection
OF their women folks be a mighty me
excuse 70 stay at home after the shad-
ows fell know one little woman
whose husband chases the dollar all day
and works on his books C7)untf 10 or
IL every night She hears every crealS
OF the steps. and the rats sound like
people DON'T 5ou think that she would
enjoy living where her husband would
have 70 be at home by 81
They decided that the 177s heroines
were TO be accounted fine. but there are
plenty today and one OF their causes for
rejoicing is the fact that they live in
this century
Rachel hadn't said a word She has
been married ten months and has new
home. chickens and garden With
sublime impertinence." as Edith, the
plain-spoken. informed her later. she
told the girls that she was the only one
with any real blessings. She wanted
them to eat dinner with her and prom