Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-11

why'd they buy baby brother
When they know I'd good deal rather
Have dog?
Kansas Farmer.
THE MODEL HUSBAND.
In an elaborate newspaper article on
this subject, l found a mans view Of
what he considered the duties of a hus-
band to his wife and family, and =
begun by saying that he walked the
baby in the night while the wife took
undisturbed sleep, and he could fix the
baby all right when the baby needed the
usual fixing; that he liked his mother
in-law and didn't fuss at her when she
was in the house and caring for tho
mother and infant after the baby's ar
rival etc. That he was willing to wash
the other childrens faces when the
mother was getting breakfast, and he
could put on their nighties while the
mother was washing supper dishes, and
was willing to let his wife go to see her
folks occasionally, when the ground was
too wet to pillow, or he was going off
to some convention or on a fishing trip
perhaps.
This was all good enough. so far as
1t went, but L thought l could read be-
tween the lines and discover that the
man and wife had learned a good deal
by experience with the crying baby and
wife that 1 ever heard relate her ex-
perience was not hard to please on such
duties, but she laid stress on the hus-
bands appreciation of herself when she
was bringing children into the worlS
and trying to do her full duty as a wife
well as a mother-in sickness and in
health, and also to be esteemed as her
husbands partner and confidant in his
business, as we'll as in bearing a lot Of
children to be reared properly.
Half the divorces that afflict modern
families grow out of the lack of appre-
citation and the withholding of conf
dence. The couple usually start off in
high glee, full of ardent affection, but
one or the other concludes he or she can
do as they please, regardless of the
others wishes. s...
Then the smash up occurs!
HOW THE FARMERS TALK.
First. labor is going to be scarce and
wages high. ... ~ n r. .t.. ..
Second. boil weevile is going to give
annoyance. even in north Georgia.
Third. so many young men will be
called to the army that many farmers
will be obliged to quit the business and
go at a one-mans job.
Fourth fertilizers are very inferior,
lacking the potash and nitrates, that
10 growing
Fifth, food control and government
embargoes will make it difficult to de-
termine how much to plant and what
sort of crops to plant to yield a good
return.
In reply to these arguments we must
recollect that high labor is offset by
high prices for farm products. If flour
is high, wheat is bringing a record
price. If cotton goods are high, cotton
is bringing also a high price. Whatever
a farmer can raise will bring high
prices and cash prices also. Irish pota-
toes are now selling on the streets at
80 cents a peck-$2 a bushel is still a
good price for Irish notatoes. They sold
higher in the spring.
l fully understand that difficulties
and uncertainties abound and give us a
lot of anxiety. Taxes are enormous and
still soaring, but we must live and can
not die until our time comes.
/ lived through the Civil war and
we lost everything we had but our land,
and l am still living and have never
been so hungry that L could not find
something to satisfy my hunger. 1t
was not so bad that it couldn't have
been worse The Civil war found me
living in the midst of plenty, with two
fine young sons that promised well. In
two months after the surrender l came
back to the old desolated home, sick
from malarial fever, penniless and had
left both the dear children in Rose Hill
cemetery in Macon. To look back at
that childless, penniless time when
had to earn my daily bread by teach
ing school. looks gloomy still, but it
might still have been worse l rejoice
that l Jared as well as 1 did. Keep up
a brave heart,
RARE COINS PoR SALE.
With unusual regularity 1 am con-
stantly appealed to to tell people where
they can dispose OF old and rare coins
to advan- Sge.
l have NJ means of knowing where 20
find purchasers, and / would suggest 10
such persons the value of an lad" In
the Semi-Weekly Journal and to those
who wish to purchase the attentive
reading OF the lad column. They price
of print paper has become so high that
newspapers are obliged to go slow on
free advertising, or of anybody, no mat
ter how important such. a person may
be in their locality.
1 had at one time in my life a little
parcel of one dollar gold pieces, that ,
held on to, until received dollar am
a quarter each, and l suppose that was