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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
The Amusement Question

to places of amusement in the
evening rather than the after
noon. Scat Any woman who
takes that attitude is inspired not
by love, but by the spirit of do
mestio tyranny. She's determined
to make an unwilling man go
with her Just to show that she
can triumph over him.
However, compromise Is a good
thing in matrimony, as 1t Is else
where in the world, and 1t has al
ways seemed to me that it would
be a good way to settle this
question for the wife to demand
and receive a cooks privilege of
an evening off every week. 1t
wouldn't hurt a man either in
health or pocket to give his wife
one little treat a week, and 1t
would freshen and brighten her
up amazingly, and keep her from
nagging him the balance of the
time,
AS Thursday is the maids day
out. so let Saturday night be sa-
cred with husbands to the enter
tanning OF their wives. On that
evening let them take their wives
to the theater, or to a restau-
rant for dinner, or a friends for
bit of a party. It would break
the deadly grind of domesticity
for the women and rob them of
their cause of complaint.
For, after all, marriage is no
picnic to woman, and just being
married to man isn't all the
amusement she requires. Nor is
it exciting to spend all your even
ings sitting up looking at a man
who Is as dumb as an oyster and
as unrespensive as a clam,
Matrimony needs some sort of
outside amusement to cheer 1t
along. for both men and women
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Harvesting a New Niagara
By EDWIN MARKHAM.
FR. FLOYD DELL, under the
Nk title Women as World

FR. FLOYD DELL, under the
Nk title Women as World
Builders" sends out
through Forbes & Co, OF Chicago,
some six or seven studies of the
present leaders Of the feminist
movement. Mr.. Dell gives us this
rather poignant argument for
woman suffrage:
Can anyone doubt the erect
which the mergence Of women
into politics will have. eventually,
on politics? Eventually, for Gin
spite of their boosted independ-
ence) the decorous example OF
men will rule them at first. But
when they have become used to
politics--well, we shall find that
we have harnessed an unruly Nj
agara!
In women as voters we shall
have an element impatient OF re-
straint, straining at the rules Of
procedure, cynical Of excuses for
inaction: not always, by any
means. on the side of progress;
making every mistake possible TO
ignorance and self-conceit, but
Transforming our politics from A
vicious end to an efficient means
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

DRoBABLY there is no other
one thing over which there
is more friction in the av
erage family than there is over
the amusement question.
The man who has been hard at
work all day meeting new people,
seeking new faces, adjusting his
mind to continually changing in
dividuals and points of view,
comes home tired He wants to
be quiet and rest Generally he
is so nerve worn that he doesn't
even want to talk or to be talked
to. 1t seems to him that no other
amusement in the world is quite
so delightful as Just to browse
over pipe and paper in silence.
Wants q Chance.
The woman who has been hard
at work all day in the home IS
also weary when night comes,
Out neT WOTk mas DteH ItlOIlplOHy
personified. She has done over
and over again tasks that have
become purely mechanical
through constant repetition.
There's nothing In sweeping
floor or washing dishes, or sew
ing up n seam, or darning stock
ings to exercise the mind and
keep it alert. During the entire
day she has possibly not seen a
fresh face or had a single per-
son with whom to exchange an
intelligent thought.
So, when her days work is over
she Graves something new and
different something with the
thrill OF excitement or interest in
1t. She wants to visit. to go to
the theater. to at least take a
walk on the street and see the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Letters From the Readers of The Georgian

read, and coming as 1t does from
a distinguished son of the South
1t has no doubt produced a pro
found impression for good. Il
should be printed in pamphlet
form for general distribution.
The negro sees more and more
that self help is the best help,
and is moving with renewed en-
ergy in that direction; still in his
struggles for a higher and better
life and material advancement
he needs the sympathy and en-
enlargement of the white people
among whom he lives; and 1
thank God for the numerous eW-
dences that they, more and more,
realize the duty of according such
assistance.
Again thanking you for myself
and friends for your great edi-
torial and wishing you a long
prosperous life of continued use
fulness to mankind, l am,
Very respectfully,
DANIEL s. BRANDON (of Ala
Pension Office.
Washington, D. G..
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

stomach at peace with itself
and all the world.
Many a case of nervous break
down that comes to man just
as he has success almost in hand
is wholly and entirely due to his
wifes mania for society. She's
rushed her husband from enter
tainment to entertainment when
he should have been resting and
recuperating at home, and he
simply collapses under the dou-
BILE strain of work and pleasure.
A Wrong View.
So the woman whose love for
her husband does not make her
willing to stay quietly at home
with him of evenings should be
prompted to do so by her inter-
est. If she wants to conserve his
energies and strength and in
crease his money earning power
and hurry him on the way to sue
cess, let her encourage him in
sticking to his own fireside at
nights instead of hunting up
amusement on the outside.
There is no reason why any
woman in these days OF innu-
merable women's clubs. of hen
luncheons, of bridge whist par
ties, of matinees, of afternoon
tango teas, who can't get all the
diversion that she is entitled to
have in the daytime. She does
not need evening parties to sus-
tain her spirits, in the cases
where her husband doesn't want
to go out after dinner.
OF course, many women, with
virtuous air, say that they
don't enjoy things so much unless
their husbands are along, and
that therefore they prefer to go
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Garrett F. Serviss
Writes on @
The Worlds Gold
If the Entire World Were All
Suddenly Called Upon to
Pay Its Debt in Gold 1t
Couldn't Do 1t, He Says. -: =.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS

TR. L. DE LAUNAY, profess
lNl sor in the School of Mines
and in the School of Roads
and Bridges, Paris, is one Of the
worlds greatest authorities on
the subject of gold. He has not,
believe, acquired any notable
quantity of gold for himself, but
he has accumulated an enormous
amount of information about gold.
l have reason to think that If a
gold mine were offered to him.
he would decline the gift, on the
ground that the care of 1t would
take too much valuable time.
Yet the time that he would
grudge to the work of getting gold
out of the earth he has willingly
devoted to the less patiently prof
table occupation of watching tho
gold that others dig, in order to
see what is done with it, and
what finally becomes Of It. Most
people have very little compre-
hension of this devotion to knowl-
edge, and no sympathy with 1t,
but everybody is. nevertheless,
interested in Its results. and /
venture to spread out some of
these results here, as I have gath
cred them from recent publica-
lions Of Mr.. De Laumay.
Perhaps only a mind of GER
tain grain can really regard
knowledge as better than pelf, but
all will confess that the next most
pleasing thing to possessing a
great deal of gold ones self Is
knowing what others who do pos
sess 1t do with 1t, and what the
chances are that, as time goes
on, the world will have more or
less of 1t to be distributed among
its inhabitants.
Known Facts.
We all know that as the popu-
lation of the earth increases, and
the different peoples composing
1t adopt more and more a COM
mon manner of life, which for
many of them means more luxu-
rious ways of living, the demand
for gold (the universal standard
of valued continually grows great
er. But many may be surprised
to learn that outside of the Trans
vaal the production of the gold
mines is falling off so that as Mr.
De Launay puts it 1.-The entire
world is becoming more and moro
dependent upon that little aurif-
erous gold producing) corner of
it, the Witwatersrand"
Mr.. De Launay shows that the
fact that the gold deposits Of the
world are being exhausted with
out new ones being discovered in
sufficient number to keep up the
rate of supply has been obscured
by the immense productiveness of
South African mines which serv-
ed to mask the relative failure of
those in other parts of the world.
Thus the annual production be-
came four and a half times as
great in 1910 as 1t had been in
1890, but 1t was the Witwaters-
rand which was chiefly RESPONSE
BILE for tho increased total. In
1912 that favored spot of the
earth produced almost 40 per
cent of the nearly $500,000,000
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
STARS AND STRIPES

With three big league baseball
games going, how is the country
to find any time for business next
summer?
As for grape juice, the people
who have been drinking 1t can at
least say that they didn't know
they were loaded.
Mayor of Paterson, \. j., says
women are not the intellectual
equals of men. lie may be wrong,
but he's certainly game.
II Congress decides to build no
more battleships for this country
our idle shipyards might be en-
ployed building them for Japan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

worth of gold that was added to
the worlds resources in that wear
while at the same time the total
production of the worlds other
mines fell to s300,OOO,OOO, which
was SIG 100000 less than in 1909
This state of affairs, Mr. De-
Launay AYERS, Is becoming mora
strained every year, because
neither in the United States, nor
Australia, nor Canada are enough
new discoveries made to compen-
safe for the gradual exhaustion Of
the old ones. The face Of the
world has been nearly overrun by
the gold seekers, and, except per-
haps on the Antarctic continent
there is not much space left in
which to look for It. 1t fees be-
fore civilization, or rather civili-
cation ticks 1t up like a prairie
fire, destroying what 1t can not
replace. Gold" says Mr.. De-
Launay, significantly, has al
ways come from the frontiers of
civilization, and before long civ
ilization will have spread every
where"
Interesting Items.
can not here enter into Mr..
DeLaunay's discussion of the con-
nection between abundance Of
gold and high cost of living, or Of
the peculiar reasons why at the
present time, when the world Is
threatened with a falling off in
the gold supply, prices should
continue to soar, for all that
would demand an article by itself.
But there are one or two other
facts which he brings out that are
well worth knowing and storing
away in the memory.
For instance, It is very inter-
esting to be told what proportion
of the total annual supply Of gold
Is turned aside from the money
vaults of the great nations, and
used up in the arts Of decora-
ton and personal display, for
jewelry, watches, etc. This ac-
cording to Mr.. DeLaunay,
amounts to from 25 to 80 per
cent, or something more than
one-quarter of the whole. AS
luxurious tastes spread, the pro-
portion becomes larger, In an
other article, some time ago, !
quoted what a well-known stat
istician said of the annual dis
appearance of gold in India, which
swallows up many millions that
are never seen in the form Of
money.
Another fact interesting to
know is that the ratio Of the
quantity Of gold held as money to
the paper money credits Of the
world tends to grow smaller,
Frem 1902 to 1912 the total stock
of gold money increased by about
s2.s00000,0O0. while the amount
of bank notes, etc, increased
$1,000, 100000. Thus, If the entire
world were suddenly called upon
to pay its debt in gold. it couldn't
do it, which simply shows that
the real wealth of the world-in
its lands and all that they pro-
duce-is far greater than all It's
gold is capable Of representing.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

The Filipinos must be bitterly
disappointed in Francis Burton
Harrison. He led them to expect
they would be fighting Japan. 70
preserve their Independence De
fore the first Of the year,
Singular that President WI
sons success In putting out tina J..
fire at Mississippi City does no-
stimulate him to try his proves
on the Mexican conflagrauon.
Great establishment amoit-
Viennese as Austrian archduhs
pushes baby carriage. W mai 90
they expect that he'd let the
duchess do it?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
PRAISE FOR EDITORIAL.

Editor The Georgian:
I want to thank you for the
editorial of December 20, THE
South and the Negro" 1t justi-
fies what colored people in the
South have always commended
that you are honest and that you
have never played to the gall
leries in what you have had to
say on the race question. This
editorial will go a long way in
the solution of our problems in
the South. It will give courage to
thoughtful colored men and white
men alike. Gratefully yours,
]. B. WATSON.
New York, n. Y.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
FROM NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Editor The Georgian;
have read your splendid edi-
torial of December 20, and write
to thank you for 1t.
It is the ablest, the best and
most courageous article touching
the race problem that l have
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Curing Wood.

Wood has contagious diseases! A stick of wood in a lumber yard may be sick and infect other timbers, which later may develop the disease when they are supporting weights in a new building. Some of the diseases are SO contagious that in a building they will jump several feet across masonry or brick to some stick of healthy wood. Cures were recently discussed by the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers.
 Most of the diseases are varieties of dry rot caused by a fungus, and most of the varieties of dry rot fungus can not stand heat much over 100 degrees so the most likely cure Is to close a building up tight, If any beams are in- fected, and heat 1t up to 120 or 140 de grees. Even this is not always sue cessful, for ends of beams are buried in the outer brick walls and the heat may not reach them.-Saturday Eve ming Post.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Says Ants Do Not Cooperate.

M. Cornetz. a practised observer of insect life, asserts that ants know nothing of cooperation in their social life. In proof he cites an experiment which any one can repeat. Offer an ant a piece of cheese shaped like . shuttle; it seizes the tip. turns t about and starts dragging it in the d. rection of it's nest. Other ants arrive and seize the cheese by it's sides. It continues to advance. but more slowly There Is no united effort; each ant is trying to turn the crumb of cheese around. If we chase on the ants on the right the cheese will turn to the right, for the other ants are pushing it. Chase of those on the left and \ turns to the left for the same reason Chase off the one that Is pulling 1t and 1t stands still, for the ants on each sloe counteract each other.
 M. Cornetz holds this proof that each ant is acting for himself alone.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
DINNER IN FRANCE
Princess 4assan Tells of a Meal and It's Service iH the Land of
 True EpIcu-es.

A tynical French dinuer-uot a7 exceptional one, mark you but such dinner as a small tradesmaus fam fly would haye-is ncomparably su. perior to the plain roast dinner
 There would be. 'rst of all. a few reishes according 10 the season of the year. Radishes. ice cold, sardiues, olives, caviar Just a little of each with which 10 awaken the appetite. then the soup to excite gently the liquids of tie throat and stomach then a little entree-usually bit of fish with its appropriate vegetable. or a handful of vegetables favored with meat sauce Then, and not till then, does the chief course appear.
 It may be a roast, or game, or chicken, or chops but in no case will 1t be anything which Is not in har- mony with the previous courses and It will be eaten in moderation, for the edge of the diners appetite will have been dulled by the lighter foods which have preceded 1t. With 1t comes the salad-varied throughout the year by all the possible changes of the sea son, and never never by any posst- bility will 1t be such dreadful green hybrid as the romaine, strawberry and green pepper thing After the salad there will be fruit or mellow cheese, and then coffee. It will take two hours to eat such dinner, but It will take only half what the typical American dinner costs to pay for it. and there will be no indigestion aft erward, no matter of what the din. ner is omposed--Princess Hassan in an Interview by Louise Rice in the Delineator
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
GIVE THIS A LITTLE THOUGHT
Joke, But Perhaps You Will Have To Look for 1t.

This is not an American joke. Ths reader is solemnly warned that il is of German extraction. Germans as everybody knows. like their 1ests broad and brutal. The victim of this one was Cousin Hugo.
 It seems Cousin Hugo made night of 1t and got home as the small hours began to cease to be so small. AS he climbed the stairs he stumbled Gin spite of the most elaborate care) and rolled down into the hall below. The consequence, for Cousin Hugo s not 50 young as he used to be, was brok en collarbone and a strained back Ahead even of the milkman, then came the family doctor, an estimable old gentleman. and administered soothing words while he encased the patient in plaster.
 T know, my dear sir," he said, "tha' It hurts like the deuce, but it Is not 8 bit dangerous. All the same you'll have to stay in bed for while. Yov got @ nasty fall. How did it happen Was 1t dark?"
 Tt was not, doctor" replied Cousin Hugo with some asperity. "It wal light"
 But perhaps you are not beer drinker.-New York Evening Post.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
China "CaIIed" Livingstone.

It is not generally known that Ltv' ingstone originally had the intention of devoting himself to the work of "a pioneer of Christianity in China" Il was as such that he offered himself to the London Missionary society in 1887, but when he had received his diploma from the faculty of physicians and surgeons in 1S40, he found China closed to him, as Great Britain was then at war with the country. It was hIs meeting with Moffat, who had re gently returned from South Africa that led his steps to the Dark Cont nent
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
4a4atY lR Edandahlp,

An intimate friendship is at once . sa1eguard in recreation and social enjoyment, for man thinks twice be. fore he plunsss into surroundings which he knows his best friend would condemn. It is . stimulus. because in work or business. or oven play. . man Goes not willingly lag behind while the friend Is forging ahead. In common endeavors for good causes. religious or social or political. friend. ship is . powerful indocement to self forgetting activity.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
euntina Thoroughly Tested

ln very truth . modern betttsha9 aess. in modern phrasing. carry some bunting. About s15o.oo Is spent hs the United States navy for nags sAcs year. Every case of bunting costs ths government 366o: every roll coso l11.36. The bunting comes from hsel sachussttA Every piece is subJecesa to the most severe test It mus vsigh Avs pounds to evssy forty ysroa and stand the weight test oe ssveno hounds to two square inches. It ia stepped in sat water for sax hou1. md shsn sxpossd to the sua tor tn esms period of time. n afese tn1a tr,atment t continues to he bunono a dis&4neuishabls color t b 70 nenneeA AA nn9 service.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Grow shslped" ln Golf Game

zn uausual golf story comes rom Scotland. Mrs. Barnett, an American lady living at North Berwick. while playing on the oourse recently. had her game considerably interfered with by Q psssistsntly inquisitive crow. She had just made a tee shot when tho crow secured the ball. and. after flying with 1t for some distance. dropped 1t. The lady made two other shots. ana the crow, to her amusement twice re turned and lifted the ball after she had played 1t.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Wound Man Must Have Friends.

For boys and young men friendship Is prime necessity of existence. Whel a man has established himself in life and the interests of home and wife md family have absorbed him, her r, perhaps, dispense with friend ship But as long as he is young, un' mar d and unsettled, he is as de- pend | on friendship as on ar or food,
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
At Least Knew His Value.

A native. named Appu, of Kotahana, Ccylon, recently attacked his father and mother with mallet while they were asleep, and nearly killed them The excuse he subsequently gave N~5 that he was disgusted with his miserable parents for having such . low-down son"
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
MuddIcd.

The lecturer arose and said ima pressively. Every time I see youn9 man coming out of saloon, want to go right uI to that young man ana say, Turn right around. young man: you're going the wrong way. Nov York Mall
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Finally.

Mrs. Wayupp--"So they have Jus; had their first quarrel?" Mrs. Blase- Yes. After fifteen years of married life they have just discover that tEey belong to opposite cnurches "- Life.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Clash of Contraat.

'What Is that terrific noise?" ask ed thr pedestrian. "That," replied the pol. man, 'is caused by an ordinary one-cent safety pin sticking into . three million dollar baby"
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Society People Classified.

Storekeeper-"They are society people. They belong to our first ard last families" Customer-"You mean first fam.lies'?" Storekeeper-"No; first and last. First to ask credit and last to pay Pluck
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Had a Good Take"

One of the latest novels says 'He stopped a little and printed a round dozen of swift kisses on her sur prised lips" Evidently job print er.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19

United States Ranks Tenth. Tn the production of rice and coffee tho United States ranks tenth. com pared with other countries of the world
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Wants Commercial Value,

A man would think lot more of the Ten Commandments if he could deposit them in the bank.-New York Press
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
PurbiInd Mossback.

Nothing so astonishes the man of routine formulas and precedents as ,uccess attending original methods.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19

China Opening to Foreign Trade. China has GA treaty and other ports open to foreign trade.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Daily 1houuht.

Time misspent Is not lived, but list Fuller.
Newport daily independent., 1914-02-19
Earthly Punishment.

The way of the transgressor is we'll written up.-Kansas City Journal.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-11-12
MEXICO IN THROES
Of another STRIFE
CARRANZA VILLA FACTIONS
HAVE DECLARED
WAR.
FIGHTING HAS Started
Carranza Has Refused to Obey
Orders of the Recent
Convention.

IL pASO, Texas. Nov, 1l.-Wdr
IL has been declared between the
Carranza and VILLA elements of Ia,
constituencies army, according to
.advices at Juaroz tonight from Of
ficals Of the conclaye Of chieftaus at
Aguas Cahontes
preliminary battle has already
occurred at Leon, between Aguas
Nalientcs and Queretaro, it was re
ported. General Pablo Gonzales, the
Carrapza commander has moved has
forces from Quoretaro north to Siau
to meet the villa advance General
Manuel Chao, "a Villa chicttan, de-
parted today from Aguas Calicutcs
with a strong column.
A message from official sources I'm
Mexico city given out today by RAJ
lacI Muzquiz, the Carranza consul
general TO the United States said:
The first chief Is at Cordoba. A
majority OF the principal chiefs have
declared In favor Of Carranza. villa
has called on the people to take
arms. All the south and east is loyal
to the first chief"