Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-29
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O THOMAS
The True and the False

1t is good to be able to revisit
the scenes of ones childhood and
meet friends and acquaintance that
visits made to Florida in late years
have been hurried, and filled with
anxiety for our mother, but she
has recuperated wonderfully since
her last illness and L spent last
week in the country with dear
cousin and her family. We talked
over old times. I became acquainted
with her newest baby, the daintiest
little lady, healthy specimen
weighing eighteen pounds; and you
will say that does well for a lady
of less than years growth when
tell wou that she weighed just
three pounds upon her first appear
ance on this mundane sphere.
1t was a typical summer visit,
there were wild grapes in the woods,
haws not yet ripe, crystal water
gushing and gurgIing through the
woods tempting. the children into
wading, and furnishing splendid
power for the wheels cut by skillful
Whittlers. There were hogs of all
sizes and ages, although flu took
off quantities last year. There
cause he, was the opposite of the
famous elephant This pig was the
smallest of fourteen and had been
hurt in one eye. Mildred and
washed it's eyes with salt and warm
water, put it in a coop in the yard
and began to see how much we
could change it's appearance. [ be-
lieve in giving the under dog and
the tiniest pig a chance; to do so
may cause extra work, but it pays
in more than just the dollars and
cents. 1t teaches children to con-
slider the welfare of the afflicted
and makes them more interested in
the home and it's belongings.
L went to place several years
ago where the man in the family
was very much interested in chick
ems. There was small coop in one
corner of the yard in which he had
put three nice pullets and .roos-
telegram called him away from
home, he asked his wife to see
that they were fed, and when [ look
ed in that house 1 saw four punches
OF feathers Lord have mercy"
she exclaimed; Joe asked me to
thought of them one time" They
were too poor to be offensive, for
they had starved, Three weeks was
long time, 1 thought, for any
her yard and not look into it. The
eye of the Master fattens the flock,
is a true saying, if the master is the
sort of man that cares, but there is
not much to be saved in a home
where one partner pulls all the
has to save and some times it is the
husband. Blessed is the home
where confidence and love are foun-
dation stones. Mutual sympathy and
mutual loyalty mean more than ease
or luxury. There is no home life
where there is one partner forever
fau1t-finding or picking flaws in the
WAYS of the other one.
This visit into several homes has
confirmed my belief in the theory
that children (some children are
vtill trained in the nurture and. the
admonition of the Lord. and as they
leave the home and try their wings
in other places they show up very
much superior to the hit or miss
crowd that have no memories of whal
problems come to them. I've seen
girls reading their Bibles and say
ing their prayers just before putting
out the light and I said to myself,
these are the sort that have saved
the world from kaiserism, and there
ture and admonition Of Christian
parents to offset the way that some
Ut the fashions are tending
saw a girl with stockings so
thin that the stripes looked like they
were shadows. When she left us the
critical one said that the economical
way to do would be to get water
colors and paint stockings or socks
on the skin. There would not be
much difference in warmth and Ger
tainly the pocketbook would be heav-
Ter. 1t is fashionable to stencil
clothes and curtains, so l won't be
surprised at any innovation. how
ever, as the ultra-faShionab pride
themselves on spending money, the
stencilled substitute for hosiery NAV
not meet with their approval. A
certain class tried to make the en-
tire absence of hosiery fashionable,
but some first-class hotels Greatly
frst-class) put up signs telling that
only the ladies wearing hosier|
would be admitted. l think that the
Jewel consistency may also be worn
by those hotel keepers and let them
demand that the body be really
clothed with more than snow appers
on many a would-be fashion leader.
But don't get the idea that. I arr
expecting the world to go to pieces
because there are some foolish moth
ers fostering the vanity of their