Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-13
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS

June. the darling of the year."
has made her appearance. May, the
month to throw off winters lingering
fingers, to cast behind us the mem
Dry of the dreary days when no sun
shown and Boreas ruled the regions
of the air, was this year a disap-
pointment. April's rains and July's
persistency were blended during
May.
The store of fuel that was getting
low in April, entirely gave out in
May, yet little fire in the living
room was essential almost every day.
Crops grew grassy, the pastures
were not the sort to make May but
ter in the quantities counted on as
an annual surplus.
The farmers in this section of the
country are wishing they could be in
two places at once. Cotton has never
been chopped out, corn has not been
thinned. weeds are covering every
thing, oats ready to cut and wheat
calling for immediate attention. The
women. those who can do so, are
going to the cotton and corn fields,
and the moving machines are sing
ing a song that browns the bees
humming and is an undertone to the
great pean Of praise that should go
up to the Giver of Every Good and
Perfect Gift.
The rains made cotton fields a
nightmare, tits true, but those rains
made the oat and wheat crops good
to look on where two months ago
there was small promise of more than
forage of a temporary sort. Rust
had started and the farmers expected
to cut lin the dough-"
This is the harvest month for this
section of our country, May has us
beaten lower down. They tell me
that the harvest season travels at
L. - - s111. nv
cry month in the year is the time
for wheat harvest somewhere. But
in our own United States June be-
gins wheat cutting, unless Georgia
and Florida have an earlier date. BY
the middle of July it has reached
southern Minnesota, northern Kansas
gets it about the twentieth of July,
and a month later the spring wheat
is begun to be harvested in north
ern Minnesota. Kansas is the banner
state for winter wheat, but North
Dakota has most spring wheat.
There are as many proverbs about
June as we heard about May. The
roses are supposed to crown June.
I'm the wind of suny June
Thrives the red rose crop;
Every day fresh blossoms blow
While the first leaves drop"
I hope that a great many of you
are going to use the directions for
making rose beads that I gave you
not long ago. Even if you should not
not care to wear them they make a
delicious" perfume for your hand
kerchief drawer. and the housekeep-
er has a lasting substitute for the
lavender bag that has to be so oft
en- renewed in the bedlinen box. And
right here, let me suggest a cracker
box, the big sort you can buy from
place for your sheets and pollow-
cases. Tack or paste a pretty cover
over it. mating from the grocer's
is nice for this, and tack a thin strip
of wood inside at each end a fourth
of the way down and make a little
tray to hold the pil1owslips. 1t beats
a trunk because it does not take UP
so much room and has no place for
anything else but bed linen. A hand
full of rose beads in there is lasting
perfume to really make sleep knit
up the ragged sleeve of care.
I am glad that some of you wrote
and thanked me for the May letter,
as so many of you called it. Those
letters encourage me to tell you some
of the June proverbs.
ga swarm in May is worth load Of
A swarm in June is worth silver
spoon"
The farmers in this section would
Indignantly deny that "a dripping
June brings all things in tune"
They would say, just now, Calm
weather in June sets corn in tune"
The Scotchman has this saying, "a
leaky May and a dry June keeps the
puir (poor) mans head abune
(above)," and [ am going to see
what this leaky May does for the
"puir' man of north Alabama.
at rI,@I
the mercury registered ninety-four
In our hall, and the old proverb says,
IF on the eighth or June it rains,
it foretells a wet harvest
To those who love the long even
ings and shorter days the passing of
June means the coming of their own
desires, but June gives US our long
seen the people sit on their lawns
and read the evening paper until
o'clock, but think or working from
sunrise to sunset in Greenwich, Eng
land. There the longest day gives
them the sun at quarter before 4
o'clock. This month is usually the
one for the magazine to call the
brides month and there are .plenty
of weddings on docket. In olden
times there was a superstition that
girl had only to Throw an egg
over another persons head this
mo!lCn ana she would see the image
of her future husband.
This is the month to memorize
this fable of Aesop's: 1.-THE ants
were busy one fine winters day dry
ing some grain that they had col
lected the previous summer A
grasshopper perish1ng with famine
begged for a little rood. Why did
you not gather food last summer"
asked the ants. I had no leisure; I
was busy singing ana enjoying the
warmth was the reply. Well said
the ants, if you were foolish enough
to sing all summer you must dance
supperless to bed in winter
Which will this summer prove you
to be, ant or grasshopper?