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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
By DOROTHY DIX

woman's house is a woman ain
the way" This will seem incredi-
BILE to mothers. They will say,
my Mary and my Freddie will al
ways want their mother. They
will never md me in the way.
will always have a warm seat
by the fire in my children's
homes"
This may be true enough Of
ones own children, but there Is
Mary's husband. and Freddie's
wife to take into consideration,
and the son-in-law and the
daughter-in-law have yet to be
born who receive a mother-in-
law into their houses without
feeling that they are giving a liv-
ing understudy OF martyrdom,
nobly borne.
II Mary's husband and Fred
dies wife are pin-feathered saints
they try to do their duty by their
mother-in-law but 1t is duty and
not pleasure. and in her heart the
mother-in-law knows that she's
de trop.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Made to Feel They Are
One Too Many in
the Home.

1t is a beautiful charity, for
there are no tragedies in the world
more poignant than the fate Of
those old women who are forced
TO eat the bitter bread OF depend
ence. and to live in the homes Of
others where they are made to
feel that they are one too many.
Sometimes It is an old mother
who has given her best years to
shaving and toiling for her chill
dren, but who finds herself an UNI
welcome guest In her sons and
daughters homes. Sometimes it
is an old maid sister who has sac
rihced her youth, and her ro-
nance, and her own chances In
life in order TO give younger
brothers and sisters better oppor-
tunities than she could have, who
is farmed out among those for
whom she has done 80 much, and
who regard themselves as martyrs
for having to take" Jane for so
many months a year. Sometimes
It is a forlorn old cousin. or a
widowed aunt. childless, penniless.
TO whom, for very shame sake, an
unwilling door has been grudging-
ly opened.
Always these women who must
live in other peoples homes know
they are not wanted. They see
themselves sighted, patronlzed.
put upon. In many cases they
realize that they are perpetual
source of dlscord in the family,
and that their presence is fiercely
resented by some relative in law.
There is no anguish of hurt love
and bruised pride that they Go not
SJtksr these pgVE feglQga oId
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
People Should AL Get
Together and Drag
Facts to Light.

Fifth, the creation Of sense Of
personal responsibility on the part
of physicians and pharmacists for
this condition Of affairs.
Sixth. law making illegal sale
Of drugs a States prison offensA
Seventh, the present laws re-
garding labelling enforced and eI.
tended.
Eighth, the present trade in all
patent and proprietary medicines
containing habit-foFming drugs
to be discontinued and absolutely
prohibited by Federal laws.
Ninth, the annulllng Of the
licenses of those doctors and
druggists who are known to bs
addicts and the periodical exam
ination Of all medical men and
pharmacists by Federal officers
to ascertain their continued free
dom from such addictions.
Tenth, passing upon all advsr-
t1sements relating to drug and
drink cures by a Federal bureau,
And, eleventh, the suppression
Of alcoholism.
Il believe enough people could
be got together in every city
town and village Of this country
through the school, the church,
the grange, the labor unions, to
fight this thing and to drag II out
into the light, where ventilation
and publicity would do their work
in arousing nationwide hostility
to an evil which places us ethical
ly and physically below such
countries as Germany, Holland
Italy and Spain, where there are
lawsj and, be It said, the laws are
effective. What the Chinese have
been doing, are doing, we can do
too"
Read this book, and talk about
1t; and think and talk and work
to help overcome this evil in our
midst.
II you have been spared any
personal acquaintance with tho
drug habit, knsel down and thank
God. whose strength has sur
rounded you: and II you have
formed this habit In ever SO
slight a degree, kneel and ask
Gods help and guidance 70 over
come Il.
No matter how you may Do
troubled with sleeplessness, or
headaches. avoid the seemingly
innocent quieting powder. Put no
faith in any physician who pre-
scribes such things for You
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

Even the German admiral ad.
mits Dewey was no advocate Of
watchful waiting.
Having never been to the West
Indies on honeymoon, Miss LII
liam Russell has taken he- hus-
band there.
Or. Lowell says the snow 4,
melting on Mars. Hope the Mars
astron hers soon will be saving
the same thing about the earth.
Jerse~ City trolley cars now
have steps but fifteen inches high
Aw, what's the use OF wasting
money on silk ones when cotton
VIII now do just as well.
Sir Thomas Upton is confident
OF lifting the cup-cablegram
from Bombay. The further Sir
Thomas gets away from the
Aur'r.ca's cup the Surer he is OF
littipg ~
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
And Sorrow Is Turned
Into Joy Before
Him.

A woman has written from
facts a most remarkable novel IN
which this national menace is
terribly and truthfully depicted.
The book OF Job gives the title
to this novel in the following quo
tation on the fly leaf:
"Canst thou draw out Leviathan
with a hook? Upon the earth
there is not one like him. He is
king over all the children OF pride.
When he raiseth himself up, the
mighty are afraid. In his neck
remaineth strength, and sorrow is
turned into Joy before him"
It is because OF this last sem
tence, perhaps, that the dread
drug can be most likened to
Leviathan. since so many sad
souls and troubled hearts and suf-
fering bodies find temporary Joy
in the merciless grasp OF the
drug.
But God and all His hosts Of
Ministering Angels must come to
the rescue Of one who seeks such
Joy, or the end is misery. shame
and despair.
The author has painted in vivid
colors the terrible fight made by a
brave soul to overcome the drug
habit after 1t had been contracted
and after repeated efforts and
failures to abandon 1t, and she
ends her great book with her hero
cured and in perfect health and
the father of robust children.
The author makes this charge:
Opium. laudanum, morphia,
etc, is not the tragedy of the
underworld. nor of the lap-dog
world. 1t is the tragedy of the
working world-of doctors, writ
ers, lecturers, scientists, teach
ers, students-both men and
women"
Then she adds:
IT'S a national problem that
can not be settled by sending one
man or even many te jail. res d
monster that has crawled up out
OF the dark on the American peo-
'ple. What are we going to do
about it, What are tina doctors
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
The Drug Habit
"American Society, from the
Underworld to the Unem-
ployed Rich, Has Its | Hun
reds Of Thousands of Drug
Devotees.
Bv Ella Wheeler Wilcox

7HEN you begin talking
w about the opium habit Of
the Chinese people do you
know who started them on this
long lane which has so few turn
tnRs lard those turnings always
downward)?
Those pagan people" were
forced into the opium TRAFFIC by
the most orthodox of Christian
nations, the British.
Opium brings England $780,
100000 a year.
At one time q Parliamentary
commission was appointed to In
vestigate the effect of opium on
the Chinese race. and the British
official in charge OF the matter
swore roundly that 1t was no
more harmful than ''twiddling :
ones thumbs"
This in face of the awful evils
which result from the drug. To
such depths viii a desire for
financial profit drag Christians.
1t has been said that eleven men
out Of every ten" smoke opium in
China. And this habit can be
traced directly to Great Britain.
America is honeycombed with
opium dtns. And American So
ciety, from the underworld to the
unemployed rich, has its hundreds
of thousands of drug devotees.
Ask the messenger boys Of any
of our large cities what they
know about 1t. These boys are
the 60 betweens who bring the
drugs to the unfortunate victims
OF the habit in dens of vice and
in palatial homes, oftentimes
where the regular employees Of
the house would not permit the
poison to enter in any regular
manner. But the messenger boy
can always enter. Just as the
physician can always enter.
In the days Of our Pilgrim
fathers and their successors there
was no such thing as a drug
menace. It seemed to enter
America during the Civil War.
And since then 1t has grown, until
it is q colossal evil, aided and
abetted by a large percentage Of
physicians and helped by drug
gists and virtually ignored by the
church and society.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Mothers of Grown ups
Should Look to De-
pendence,

Therefore, every woman who is
approaching the age at which her
children are likely to marry and
leave her. should begin preparing
herself to make her own living in
some way If she is poor, and, in
any case, she should resolve that
come what will, she will live her
independent life. apart from her
children, visiting them, and hav-
ing them with her. but having her
separate interests. and separate
life, for in that way, and that way
alone, can she keep herself from
the sad lot OF being a woman who
10 In the way"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

enough, as so many mothers do,
to give everything she has got to
her children on the supposition
that she'll be perfectly happy and
need nothing living about with
them.
Children are human and in
laws are doubly human, and the
minute they have done mother
cut Of her property they forget
the obligation, and consider her a
burden. Between mother with her
own money and able to mako
presents. and mother who has to
be taken care Of. is the difference
between q welcome guest and the
woman in the way.
There is no way to keep your
children Gutiful and attentive
equal to having them have a wary
eye on your will.
And I would equally urge the
woman who. is in business not to
give up her Job because her pro-
spective son-in-law invites her to
come and live with him. Ante
nuptial and post-nuptial senti-
ments in a man are seldom the
same, and experience shows that
the only possible way to keep the
peace with in-laws is not to live
under the same roof with them.
Every mother who goes to live in
her sons or daughters house
jeopardizes the peace and happi-
ness of that home.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Ask for Guidance and
Never Doubt but 1t
Will Come.

II you are in the grasp OF thi'
monster. do not despair Resolve
to be cured.
Reduce the quantity every o'y
a little, and when you ha'o
reached the limit of your Strength
in this reform, seek the aid 0,
some trustworthy specialist anu
place yourself under treatment,
Call to the invisible helpers ~
come to your aid. Ask for gu'y
ance and never doubt that II WIZ
be given. And never rest or CIV
I'D the battle until you win a.
John Dean won, in this reH''' -
able book. q
Read the book; It will help '0'
r. ace tha waA
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

going TO do about II, the F.d.r,
authorities. pubiio-spiritsd ma,
and women, public opinion, IN,
pressr
IT is a national problem. and
watching boundaries, KuaYon,
ports. making occasional raid.
can accomplish but little to ks.U
back the evil; medical men up,..
ed. an aroused public opinion. IN.
work Ofwomsn, the press I SUD
pose, could do everything. Hsr
are some suggestions for the con.
troll of the evil:
First the passing Of strict
laws which will allow habit.
forming drugs to be sold only On
a physicians prescription.
Second, a law that WIN max,
1t impossible for a prescription to
be refiIled except through a doc.
tors order.
Third. education Of the public
through the schools, colleges and
churches OF the country.
Fourth. Federal and Stat.
Eanatoria for drug addicts and al.
coholica
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

fly as to a temple of refuge until
they creep into that last home
that holds out It's welcoming arms
to us all.
The building Of this home, where
the specific purpose is to be a
shelter for the women who are Tin
the way" should be more than a
mere sanctuary for dependent old
women. 1t should bring home to
all women who are approaching
middle life a warning Of the fate
that may lie in store for them
unless they begin at once to take
steps to protect themselves
against Il.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

women who are in the way of the
young. and happy, and selfish.
God rest the soul of the woman
who has remembered their sorrow.
and whose money will build a
home to which some Of them may
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
She Often Leads Way
to the Divorce
Courts.

And IL Mary's husband and
Freddie's wife are just common,
ordinary human beings, the
mother-in-law is not only the
woman in the way. but the wom-
an who leads the way only too
often for her son or daughter to
the divorce court
OF course, II a woman is old,
and sick. and poor, there is fire.
quently no way in which she can
prevent herself from becoming
dependent, and being forced to
live with those who do not want
her. but there are many other
cases in which a woman brings
this cruel fate needlessly down
upon her own head.
II / could say one word more
earnest than any other to a
middle-aged woman. who has a
little home and a little property
OF her own. 1t would be to hang
on to her pocketbook to the last
S2S0. u lifa and nat 10 hs fOollsh
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Mother-in -Law Always
Taken In with
Martyrdom."

1t is a harsh and cruel thing TO
say, but it is truth that we do
well to face. and that Is. that
every ,wemsa who lives IN aRathaE.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Old Women Who Are In the Way"
GreatHearted Woman Starts New Charity That Of Providing
Home for Aged Dependent I-Iaws and Relatives.

a GREAT HEARTED woman,
n who has recently died, has
willed all Of her fortune to
build a home for poor women
whose existence is made wretched
by having to live with relatives
who do not want them and who
find them '1n the way"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
Chase Auto After
Running Man Down

New York, Feb. For half mile
after it had run down and injured a
man. an automobile sped up Madison
avenue early today, amid hail OIL
bullets from fixed post policemen, pa
trolmen and private watchmen. FER
sons living in private dwellings ana
fashionable apartment houses in Mad
ison avenue, between Goth list streets'
were aroused by the roar OF the en-
CINE of the big racing machine and by
the fusillade of shots.
Wallace w. Malley, p, son OF
we'll to- do New Haven merchant, was
arrested when Patrolman Crowley, IN
another fast machine, touring car
which he Communicated at 59th street
overhauled the runaway car at list
street. and forced it to the curb.
In the machine were Harry BiJou,
son of Supreme Court Justise Nathan
Biiou. and Robert Esselstein, who gave
his address as No. 1870 Broadway.
Malley was charged with felonious
assault in running dawn a pedestrian,
John Mahoney, 80, a mason, with no
home After the car struck Mahoney
at 6Oth street and Madison avenue,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

they were nearly swept off their feet
by draft as they opened the front
door. The two upper stories were then
in flames. Soon after two alarms were
sounded 16 streams were playing on
the fire.
Three men, Frank Lewis. William
MacFarland and William Fitzpatrick,
who were sleeping on the third floor
at the time, escaped by descending the
front fire escape Fireman William
Hogan was severely cut on the right
wrist by broken glass and was taken
to the hospital.
Mr.. Shea said last night that the
factory was rushed with work at the
hight of its busy season. 1t employ
ed 200 hands, mostly women, and had
1000 dozen straw hats ready to be
shipped Monday. The output of the
factory equaled IFS dozen straw hats
a day, and there was 10000 pieces OF
straw braid in stock
On the stock and machinery value
Mr.. Shea set his loss at $4,000, or
which $4,000 was covered by insur-
ance. The building was a three-story
frame structure, with $4,000 feet OF
floor space. 1t was owned by simon
F O'Connell and valued at $4,000.
The adjacent police station and large
electric lighting plant were only saVed
bv the heroic work of the firemen
Spontaneous combustion is given as
the cause. The fire is believed to have
started in the storeroom on the sec
ond floor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

The curt refusal of the self-styled
leaders of the Third party movement
in this State to treat with the regular
Republican organization in the inter-
ests of presenting united front
front against the free trade party, is
meeting with sharp condemnation
among the plain voters who are suf
fering from the effects of the 1912 di-
vision When all the evidence is pre-
scented to the court of public opinion,
the verdict of the people will be with
the men who honestly sought to make
certain an end to minority rule at
Washington. The experience of the
Republican State committee in treat
ing with the Third party workers in
this State. makes the experience of
the Maryland Republicans particular
ly interesting.
at will be recalled that at the Pres
idential election of 1912 Mr. Roosevelt
received about $4,000 votes in Mary
land and Mr.. Taft about $4,000 says
John B. Hanna, chairman of the
Maryland Republican state committee.
1T was deemed essential to tie well
fare of the state, as well as the part of
wisdom by those who agreed upon so
many essentials, to seek an honorable
basis of reunion.
ITO this end, |, as chairman of the
state committee. appointed a commit
tee Of Is of the most prominent Repub-
licans in the state who had supported
Mr.. Taft, and Col. Darlington, who
was chairman of the Progressive par
| CT, INIT Of
former Republicans who had support
| ed Mr.. Roosevelt and the Progressive
| candidates. We held numerous con-
| ferences early last year and finally the
| full committee of 80 agreed upon a
platform This was submitted to a
mass convention held in the city of
Baltimore in August last year and
unanimously adopted. 1t was later in
corporated verbatim as the platform
| of the Republican party of this state
at the state convention held in Balti-
more Sept. Is, 1918.
I'VE did not get the full benefit of
the work which was so thoroughly
done because a local issue was in
| jected into the campaign but our can
didate for United States senator re-
! CelNeQ f3VVU votes, WHile FOIIuef oeH-
| ator George L. Wellington, the candi-
| date of that element of the Progressive
! party which declined to amalgamate,
received only 1000 votes This is very
significant In view of the fact that
Former United States Attorney Cen
eral Bonaparte and some other men
who had been very prominent and
influential in Republican politics in
| Maryland supported Mr.. Wellington
on the regular Progressive ticket.
II Since the election there are many
u evidences that the good work so aus
piciousiy begun last year is being con-
| tinued. In December last dinner was
held at Cumberland in Allegany
county, participated in by those who
We're seeking to promote the welfare of
the Republican party, to the number
of 300-something that has never be-
fore happened in that section. In
/ Washington county, where the Roose-
vent sentiment was very strong, the
new Republican state central commit
tee was made up of three former Pro
gressives and three regular Republi-
cans.
An effort is being made to begin a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
Sober Men MayHave.
Delirium Tremens.

London, Feb. s.-A new horror is in
store for really good people. They may
die of delirium tremens, though new
err touching a drop-this at last has
been decided by a London coroner's
jury.
The case was a peculiar one. A civ.
il engineer received an injury to his
elbow. by a machine in motion. The
injury was SO slight that the man
would not even knock off work. But
when in bed, during the night follow
ing, he began to rave and was sent to
a hospital. Next day he died, with
every symptom of delirium tremens,
and the coroner's jury found accord
ingly. One of the learned authorities
cited quoted from some scientific work
the unusual information that delirium
tremens sometimes occurs in perfect
ly sober persons, men and women that
never touched drop Of liquor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

Starks. Ne, Feb. Specially
come within five minutes of being
buried is the experience of James
Manter Greenleaf of Starks, who with
his wife Mary. quietly observed their
61st wedding anniversary last week.
Mr.. Greenleaf observed his saith birth
day Friday. He was born in Starks,
son of Joshua and Asenath (Sawyer)
Greenleaf who were among the early
settlers of the town and in that To-
cality his boyhood was passed. When
he was % years of age he married Miss
Mary Elizabeth Rackliffe, the cere-
mony being performed by j. g.
Brown, Esq, who, with all the wit
nesses, is now dead.
Mrs. Greenleaf, who was born Nov.
80, 1882, was a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Rackliffe of Arson, but
moved with the family to Starks when
she was but six years of age.
The Rackliffe family of whom there
were six children, were all noted for
their musical ability and for years
constituted the choir at the town
church, known throughout that vicinity
as the "Old Starks Lighthouse"
Ezekiel Rackliffe, an older brother,
owned and played the first melodeon in
that section of the country, small
box-like affair (still in existence) that
he used to take under his arm and
carry to the church every Sunday
morning and play Accomplishments to
the ringing voices of his brothers and
sisters as they sang the good old
fashioned hymns.
The sister, Mary, possessed rich
alto voice and was member of
church choir for over so years, after
her own daughters, who inherited the
musical talent of the family, had also
been members of the choir and mar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
FACE BROKE OUT
IN RED SPOTS
BIotchy All Over. Became Scaly.
Scratched Until Made Them Bleed.
Used Cuticura Soap and 0int-
ment. Face and Head Cured.

"a Gilbert st., New Britain Conn
My little boys face used to get awful red
and sometimes when I used to wash it it
would bleed. Then it got blotchy all over
and was horrid looking. His face broke
out in red spots and then became scaly. He
used to scratch them until no would mako
them bleed. Then his head started TO break
out. lie was restless at night and COM
planned Of his face being sore. His head
was all little cuts from scratching it.
So thought would send for sample
Of the Cuticura Soap and Ointment. 1
only used them for few days when there
was such q change in his looks. His face
began to get clear. When the sample was
gone got one cake Of Cuticura Soap and one
box of Cuticura Ointment. I washed his
face with the Cuticlra Soap and warm
water every night and morning and applied
the Cuticura Ointment for four weeks and
his face was cured. l got another cake Of
Cuticura Soap and one box of Cutleura 0int-
ment and was only using them for two weeks
and they made his scalp nice and clean.
His head was cured" [Signed) Mrs.
Isabelle Guenther, May &c. 1913.
For treating poor compilations, red, rough
hands, and dry thin and falling hair, Cuti-
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment have been
the worlds fayorite for more than gen.
Grafton. A single set is often sufficient. Sold
by druggists and dealers throughout the
world. Liberal sample of each mailed free
with Sop. Skin Book. Address postcard
.'Cuticura. Dept T. Boston"
Ss-Men who shave and shampoo with Gu
ticura Scan will eoa 1t be5tfor skin ~ = eralu