The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-02-11
" Company Manners, and the Home
Folks.


the continued growth of divorce. If one reads
the court records of day, one is struck with
the Stiffness of the pleas, In some cases, on
which divorce petitions are based, and again
one wonders at the brutality displayed by the
women, no less than the men, in their rela-
tons with each other, and which are aired in
the divorce court.
We are all more or less familiar with the
people who keep the best of everything "for
company" This doesn't only include the
food, the table service and the room in which
the company is to be entertained, but it means
also the manners of the entire family
If the company is distinguished, or infu-
entail, or important, the whole family is
coached in advance as to how to act, what to
say, what not to say, and generally made to
realize the every day, ordinary manner Of
treating each other gin the family" is not up
to the standard required by the outsider, and
everyone is miserable while the company
says.
haven't you all in mind families in which
this state Of affairs exists? Maybe it is in
your own, and if so, then take look at your
SELF at your manner Of treating and greeting
Your own family, and make change. Make
believe they are company" for a while. and
see what the result will be.
If the young married man, who has been
while he was counting the girl who afterward
married him. knew just what shock it was
to her the first time she saw him without his
collar, with soiled vest, and with two or
three days growth of stubble on his chin,
maybe he would not be so amazed at her de-
termination to 90 back to home and mother,
after month or two of such slovenliness.
If the young wife had been the daintiest,
neatest, trimmest figure whenever her young
man took her out, or spent the evening with
her, could realize how he felt the first time he
saw her with her hair screWd into an English
walnut on the top of her head or with
foppy cap to cover the untidy locks, and
EimOna Or loose dressing sack, or an untdv
dress on, she would not wondel at his 'going
out to see a man" or going to spend the even
ing at his club, or doing any of the dozen
things man does, to escape spending any
more time than he can help, with an untidy,
complaining creature, who saves all her woes
and worries to pour into his tired ears
This same young man would feel ashamed
for a week if any of the young women he
knew, came upon him in the trim which he
thinks good enough for home, and this same
young woman would throw fit, if she was
caught in the untidy manner she lets her
husband see her in, by any of the young men
who used to call and see her.
We are becoming a nation of make believes.
The great middle class, which is the back
bone of every nation, is becoming class of
imitators; it is this class Of people that has
called into being all the near-silk, the near
diamonds, the near-silver that floods the
counters of every department store, and that
are not often worth the paper and Irvine it
takes to bring them home
The spending of SO much money and effort
to make an impression on people who are not
worth two thoughts; the sacrifices individual
members of family exact from the family
entire, to make believe, would be funny, if it