Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-10
OUR HOUSEHOLD
TNNlDI ITTEN aN lI77IE ~ TLNAAS
AIRS AND THE CONSEQUENCES

FAIRS AND THE CONSEQUENCES
Have you been to a fair this year?
If not, why not? You have probably
worked harder than you ever did in
the past, and you feel like seeking a
lodge in some vast wilderness, or
like a woman said to me, rather die
than cook another meal"
I know all about it; I do my own
| work; have to send my clothes three
miles to get them done up, and in
busy times even that Is out of tho
question for the women must b. in
the fields. But the rule of all work
and no change wears any one to a
FRAGILE. I am writing this to the
women on the farms, for the men
are sure to go to town, to meet at
the country store, to stop on the
roadside and spend at least thirty
minutes in talking about things that
are interesting them.
There are plenty of women who
| never get off their own land, or their
rented land from years end to tn ;
next moving time. They become ma
chimes, they have raised their fam
| lilies with the idea that mama
wouldn't go if she had q way pro-
| vided."
Do not wait until New Year to
make resolutions. Start now and
go to the fair. Let things go for
day or even longer, and let the
| family realize what home would be
with you permanently gone. Every
| thing wears out after O. time, and a
visit or a day at the fair is to the
visitor as much a necessity as oil for
the machinery. Did you ever hear
of sensible people never using oil
| for their wheels and other maehin-
cry? Yet some Of those people never
get out of the two-inch space that
| wheel makes.
Even the men who go to town
need the fair. Let them go there and
see what can be done on their own
places by using more common sense
and less hard shell where the brain
should be.
Farming is a beautiful, a fascinat-
ing, an uplifting occupation where
the farmer puts his mind and energy
on the job. But the way that SO
many farm, the trifiing shirkers
who think it too much trouble TO
really prepare the land, too much
trouble to have pastures and fat
stock, too much trouble to shelter
the stock and farming implements
too much trouble to have place
for storing potatoes, turnips and
cabbages, and alas, there are SO
many of this sort, make farming a
sort of drudgery that 1 would call
the punishment OF Cain, only these
foolish creatures punish themselves
and their families.
Such men do not get much, or
anything out of fair, but 1t may
help their families. The wife may
inspire the children to do better,
and nobody can live higher than
their mental pictures. Teachers will
tell you how much easier it Is to
train the minds of children that
come from homes where there are
books and magazines and an occa-
sional outing is enjoyed.
went to our little county fair,
saw a big room beautifully deco
rated and splendid display of
needle work, jellies, preserves, cakes.
breads and canned goods galore. 1t
| Is help to every woman who cans
to see the prize-winning articles, then
when the season comes again there
is on memory's WALL picture of
that jar of beautifully packed beans,
those pimento peppers, the tomatoes
that looked like thed had been peeled
for dinner and the soup mixtures.
1 liked the looks of the Durocs,
the spotted Poland Chinas, the inn
! mense beef cattle and the beautiful
ir11
the fine display of poultry. There
were several from baby chicks and
eggs I sold last spring, and, of
course, was glad to learn that every
one from my strain won a prize.
There were several pens of good
looking Reds, fine collections Of
White Leghorns and Buff Orping-
tons, some good Brahmas, Minorcas
and Rocks. The farmer living here
almost bought a pan of Bantatns.
Somebody came along and said, eff
want little birds get a canary and
the man owning the Bantams said
he liked a Bantan's song we'll
enough. There were races and side
shows and bucking broncos and all
sorts of wild west doings. There
were tractor displays and all manner
of machinery. The real exhibit of
agriculture was not as full as it has
been. What was there was good
enough, but there should be com
munity fairs and the prize winners
of those exhibits would be more up
to date, besides making a few, who
think they are the sure thing any
way, sit up and get busy.
Every one of you make an effort
to got to Atlanta to that big fair.
1t will help you in many ways. One
way will be in letting you see
whether your method and stock is
better or worse. 1t does all of us
good to compare what we have with
the best that's going.
In 1915 there were granted in the
United States $4,000 divorces, the
record being surpassed Only by