Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-30

| That the study of home problems may
be made of no less cultural value than
the study of history or literature ond
of much more immediate value.
| took the creed I've quoted from the
American School of Home Economics
and l want you to cut 1t out and paste
on a stiff piece of cardboard and hang
it where you can memorize it by. read
Ting it every day, and applying 1t to the
daily routine.
/ Right living means keeping mind and
body clean. Personal cleanliness leads
to self respect, and one cannot really
have that with mind filled with impure
| thoughts Envy, malice and all unchar-
| itableness muddy the depths of the mind.
! Poverty is no disgrace unless it is the
result of laziness, or whisky. Home
making is a haphazard affoir in some
houses, there is not much to call out
the best in the children when husband
and wife SCRAP" tell stories and steal
from each other The child is taking
notes and life is spoiled by the conclu-
| sions reached
The census taker asks what 'busi-
| ness" the woman he is questioning fol-
! lows. None, I live at home" so often
| is the mothers answer. True, she does
live at home, or in house that might
be made home, and she has the oppor-
| tunity that angels have not-that OF
| shaping the destiny of souls. Her chill
| dren are going into the world to help I'LL
| the places of honor and helpfulness or
| be a menace to civilization. How are
your children being trained? Remem-
| Der, you canIot talk one way and live
another. All of you know men and
women who would almost rather lose
their right hand than to let the world
| know them as they are at home. They
| are not fooling God, nor their own chill
| dren. SLOUGH around all the week and
send the children to Sunday school when
the spirit moves them and those chic
-dren will be a. shade worse than the
| parents are unless a beneficent provi-,
| dence throws some stronger, better IN
i fluence over them pc
Are you "everlastingly'' sick? Don't
| be the doctors main dependence. See
what makes you sick. The first cause
may be that the sins of the fathers are
| putting your teeth on edge, or the
| strong constitution nature gave you may
| have been ruined by the stuff you were
| given before you were a year old. But
| that is all the more reason why you
should take every item of your daily
| life and see what effect it has on yeur
health. You may sneer at the idea, but
| 1 knew family that were literally bled
| to deaths door by midnight marauders
on their neglected beds. se.
| The mother was a mere skeleton and
| got so weak that the Associated Char
tiles asked their trained nurse to look
| after her as the girls and boy worked
| out 1 never saw anything to equal
| that furniture, and since then my eyes
| have been opened to other cases
that's carelessness or laziness. Some
mothers do not know how to combine
| food so as to nourish the body; piled-up
| dishes do not always mean healthful
| food; it may mean one sort of intern
| perance. 1 saw dinner once that
| had potatoes cooked two ways, rice and
| biscuits, butter and fried ham. That
was not a healthful combination Too
much starch, a poor sort of meat to
furnish real nourishment and needing
more mineral
Women, by putting their hearts lin
their work, have saved the wheat, meat
and sugar for the boys across the seas.
Let's put our hearts in the problem OF
training the little ones that will take
the places of the ones that are gone.
The Farmer and I were talking about
some children in a reform school and
some needing just such discipline. Its
too much trouble for some people to
live I'D to that standard" was his reply
when 1t was suggested that home was
the place for good training. All, there's
the pity of it. Too much trouble to
train up child in the nurture and adj
monition of the Lord.
Better that sort of trouble while they
are young and can be started right than
to see them suffer for their lack or
training later. 1t has been problem
that I've helped many poor mother
and father solve in after years What
are you doing for yours? g.. b..
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE o. THOMAS.
TuScumbia, Ala f