Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-24
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O THOMAS
Home Happiness

DulDS 10 DlOOLu I'll 10 IIlldS. IL nOL
you should get busy. There is no
flower that returns more sweetness
and beauty for the time spent on
it, Get matured bulbs, put five or
six in a glass dish about three
inches deep, and put in enough
pebbles to hold them in their
places. Fill the dish with water,
any open shallow dish, and set i'll
the dark until the roots begin. Put
in the light after that and watch
them grow. l have ofte nhad thin
ice to form over mine, but that does
not hurt the blooms. Planted now,
you should have blooms for Christ
mas. Watch the water, and renew
as often as necessary. l. sometimes
use tipid water SO as to hasten the
bloom. The prettiest L ever had
came from bulbs that Mrs. Kegg
sent me. She is a Wigard among
flowers of all sorts.
1t is hard to have flowers and
chickens, so / put my flowers in
the garden, and in boxes that L can
keep in the house. This place was
not laid off at the beginning for
chickens in any great numbers, and
all sorts of plans have to be de-
vised to have places for youngsters
baby chicks, special matings and
the culls that are to be used grad
ually or kept for general purpose
fowl. That means not much place
for Violets or petunias except III
the garden, and from now on the
garden will be turned over to them
to keep down bugs, cut worms and
other destructive pests.
This is the time of year that
try keeper on their metal. Help is
hard to get in town or country.
The children must be in time for
school and all of us know that one
can be too tired physically to use
their mental powers. SO let's all of
us try to eliminate the things that
are not essential. Nobody knows
better than I do how hard it is
not to be able to keep things like
they used to be when there were
helpers and modern conveniences,
but there is a page in a year book
than can help all of us. Here it is:
This habit of doing ones best
enters into the very marrow of
ones heart and character; it effects
ones bearing, ones possession.
1.-The sense of efficiency, of being
master Of ones craft, of being equal
to any emergency, the conscious
ness of possessing the ability to
do with superiority whatever one
undertakes, will give soul satisfac-
ton which a half-hearted, slipshod
worker never knows"
But do not get the idea that
frills and furbelows" at the ex-
pense of nerves and of a mind that
can see the beauty of the sunrise
or moonlight, or haze on the noun
tains is "sense of efficiency"
Appreciates the Letters
Dear Mrs. Thomas and Household:
Enclosed is a recipe for canning
pumpkin, for the lady from Leary.
Ca 1 realize that pumpkin is very
hard to keep canned; [ am. so glad
the Household readers are writing
again, for I like to see the letters
in The Journal.
am a Florida reader. Some of the
farmers here are making syrup up
this week. Corn has been in the
crib since September. Mrs. Kegg,
1 grew some of the sugar through
gourds this year and [ think they
make good containers in the kitchen
for holding rice, sugar. coffee and
salt. They would be pretty for hang
ing baskets to grow ferns. or other
flowers that require hanging UP.
Mrs Thomas, I am glad you went
to the fair.
am like one of those farm wives
you wrote about last week, very sell
dom ever get away from home. When
was a girl I attended many fairs
at Atlanta and enjoyed them. Now
/ have four children and to take a
trip with four children would be very
trying to me.
Let's see more letters frSm the
readers.
FLORIDA LADY.
Pumpkin Chips
Cut ripe pumpkin into one inch
strips, peel and cut out the soft part
next to the seed.
Then chip into thin squares. Let
stand in salt water over night, drain
and boil in weak alum water twenty
minutes. Then soak in fresh water
twenty-four hours. Drain and pack
in white sugar, three quarters of a
pound to pound of pumpkin. Slice
lemon into each half gallon when
adding the sugar. Let it stand until
sugar is dissolved, then boil with
the lemon in it until the pumpkin is
clear. Place in jars and seal. This
retains the natural color and is very
nice.