Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-21
JUNE TIME NO PLAY TIME.

June, the darling OF the year. NiAN
month that shows us the first fruits oil
early labors the tokens of a plenteouS
harvest; the place in the year that
PUSHES us onward yet gives US the sub
stance of some of the things faith plant
ed This June time is also a time to say
unto ourselves, I'VE must not be satls-
fed with what we have, we must not
pause as we near the crest of the year.
for the hill is as long from now until
the end of the year as it has been IRON
January.
These June days are hot and langour-
Gus. il is a trial to the flesh to toDe'"
the ants example and keep busy storms
food for the winter, as well as 10 eat
luscious peaches; spray the vines as wen
as gather the fruit, fight the bugs as
well as gather the vegetables, look after
the dropping chickens as well as eat
those ready to fry.
And that brings me to the practcaI
part. This is the time to thoroughly
clean your hen roosts, to scrub your
Young chickens boxes and to BURN your
old nests. Boxes are too expensive 10 nc
stroy. ! soak cob in kerosene, put II
ON a wire. set the cob on fire ana let
the flames scorch the box, or row d
nests, inside and out. Then spray
with any good stock DIP mixed halt WIN
water and little crude carboHc acia'
You can buy a pint OF the acld LOT -
cents and half a cupful to galion u
the mixed dip and water will keep Things
good smelling. .
If YOU have plenty of grapes, now is
the time to make your jelly. Use the
green grapes, cover with water, boil TIL
soft and then use the water as you
would any other fruit juice Sugar is
too scarce for us to make stiff jelly.
we will take 1t for granted that all OF
us can make jelly that Will sLaha
alone" so this year make a sood thlck
syrup instead o. your usual Jeliy. IL
will be enjoyed just as much ana you
are a Stacker if you are making Jelly
cakes or any other sort, when the world
is begging for wheat to save the lives
of people across the ocean.
Don't tell me what you've done Tor
Thrift Stamps, War Savings stamps or
Liberty Bonds, if you are stlA satlSIy-
ing the animal by loading your table
with wheat flour dainties. Don't tell me
that you raised your flour and It's your
own. Annanias and Sapphlrd o"heu
their lands until they tried to fool the
church. THE earth is the Lords and
the fullness thereof" and the women
children and soldiers of the lands be-
yond the seas are Gods as mucn as
Won are So divide or pack up your
things and move. Don't run around anu
talk a lot about the poor and ask peo-
pie to contribute to this or that unless
YOU, too, are doing all that you can.
Not merely as much as you ask OF
others. but more if God has enlarged
YOUR resources 1t makes me sick to
hear people talk about what is theirs
Nothing is ours if a starving creature
needs it, our president has asked us
to buy only things necessary-not things
we want but things we need. The letter
TODAY on how the country women are
taking their children to the field Is
worth reading. She is right about doing
for ourselves, but l happen to know that
il is sometimes better to hire nurse
and to do things more helpFul TO the
cause than to stay at home and do the
labor that can be done by the one who
must work or steal. There is not any
law to send these people to the field
nor to guarantee their fitness for field
work, and the Farmer says he doesn't
want that sort chopping up his cotton.
[ gently reminded him that ne cut up
my verbenas three times 40 succession,
and never has learned to distinguish
them from young ragweeds. The poor
we will always have with us and we
must see that they have work to make
an honest living. If l vnould try TO
make my living in the field thered be
a doctors bill. / know others who
can't stay indoors.
| vowed / couldn't do it. but our bis
cuits once a day have liberal amount
of meal in them. l make the meal into
a batter, put in the salt, soda and but
termilk Just as If l were making bread,
in fact / save a good big spoonful of
the batter that is made for The Farm
er's hoecake, and work it into my bis
cult dough. I'll not say they are as
good as all wheat, but l can eat them,
and l can't eat cornbread for break
fast. | often make my dinner off OF
vegetables, using potatoes for bread
But. if the wheat crop demands it, l
shall give up my morning biscuit
There are some people who. if they
should die tomorrow, would find wheat
and starved Belgians between them and
their entrance into the pearly gates.
Can all the vegetables you have, and
if YOU have a surplus there will be wild
ows and orphans to divide with. Pro-
visions are high. and the widow some