Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-28
BE UNSELFISH.

Since l wrote to you about Farmers
Bulletin 955, L am sure that I've had
forty people write to me for d copy /
have one, and use it nearly every week,
and feel sure you will use the one you
get from Washington. Not one of the
requests had stamp for return postage,
or l would have sent the request to the
proper place. Send to United States De-
partment of Agriculture Washington
u. G., and ask for Farmers Bulletin 800
l am sorry you will be delayed, but
please remember that when 1 recon-
mend a Farmers Bulletin that the Unit
ed States department of agriculture is
the place to get it. You do not nave 10
send postage to them. And while you
are sending for. No. $50, ask for Farmers
Bulletin 927, it is on Farm Home Con-
yeniences. Farmers Bulletin 6O| the
Farm Kitchen as a Workshop. FARMERS
Bulletin IA is about Homemade Fire
less Cookers. Farmers Bulletin a. Fly
Traps and Their Use.
l wish / had the power to put one OF
each of these books in every country
home, and then see TO it that the wife
had the money needed to set the con-
venience.
1t makes my blood boil to hear men
Dragging about their new machines, now
many acres a day they cover and what
the machine cost them, when right at
that minute / know the wife is pulling
water out of a well or going to neigh
boris for it, when the poorest could put
| i'm a pump and save that much. See
woman with folded hands and pulseless
heart and before God that man ask what
! +Ia wOnld
hard work and long hours. The doctor
| cells the truth as much as he dares
when he gives fever, cold or the usual
| every day causes of death, but the wom-
| ans vitality was lowered by overwork.
You may have forgotten it, but a Few
! years ago l travelled over consider
able part of this county talking to the
country people about their homes and
| their work. l ams glad to know that
| some of the women are still being bene-
flied by what 1 said then, so don't get
the idea ia your heads that this meek o
| the woods" is the only place know
when il comes to conditions
There are women working in the helds
| today who must go home and get
hot supper, as well as the hot dinner,
| because her man just can't eat colo
| bread" ! must say that the northern
men are more reasonable; they want
! hot potatoes Let the women stay II
the fields and send the men home JUST
one week and see if their tastes do not
| change.
! great many of the women can blame
| nobody but themselves. | do not. ad-
vocate selfishneSs, but one must look at
/ life from a sensible standpoint. Choose
what is best for everybody, not what
pleases just one. | heard the excuse
| given that a certain woman loved to 90
| things for her husband. That is true OF
the most of US, but is ii sensible to
work oneself in the grave or into nerV-
Gus wreck? Better to live on less and
we are being taught by our present ca
| lamity that we really can live more SIM
! ply and be well.
The chicken and egg money is sup
posed to be the wIfes spending money,
but I am told that there are some wives
who have to send things, to sell, by
other men. What money their husbands
get their hands on is not for the wife.
But there are lots of good men and it's
up to all of us to do the very best we
can and be as unseliish as we can.
God rules the world. and in the end
Il we do our best He will see that things
get adjusted Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE o. THOMAS.
TuScumbia. Ala.