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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

be old and soft.
Before the baby is entirely I'M
dressed, wash his head and scalp
gently with a very little soap, be-
ing careful not to get it in his eyes,
and rinsing the soap off well.
After the head is washed, remove
the clothes, and later with soapy
cloth the entire body. Then set the
baby in the tub, holding him with the
left hand and arm and sponging his
body with the right hand. Remove
the baby from the bath and wrap
him in the towel, patting the skin
gently to dry it.
A little very fine talcum powder
should be used i'll the folds and
creases of the skin. Many mothers
use far too much, thus clogging the
pores of the skin. Do not apply
powder until the skin is we'll dried
In summer, the only dress the baby
needs is the diaper and a thin slip
For mothers who cannot easily
obtain the bran for the prickly heat
bran baths for summer there are
two other simple baths, cooling and
healing to inflamed skins, which may
be used for babies suffering with
heat rash.
The starch bath IS cooling and is
made by dissolVing one cupful OF
ordinary laundry starch in one gal
Ion of water, and using as directed
| for the bran bath. Another cooling
| bath is the soda bath, made by
dissolving two tablespoonfuls OF
| plain baking soda in a cupful OF
| water, and adding it to one gallon
of the warm bath water
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

nothing better and more soothing
than the bran bath.
For this fill a salt bag or muslin
bag with ordinary bran. put the
filed bag into warm water, and soak
and squeeze the bag until the water
becomes milky. Put the baby into
the bath for five or ten minutes,
dashing the water gently over his
whole body, and dry him gently with
a soft towel, and without rinsing
off the bran. Use no soap. Just have
the baby's skin gently with the milky
water. The bran bath may be re-
peated daily as long as the skin is
inf1amed.
The ordinary daily bath. is usually
given the baby in mid-morning, after
the bowels have moved, and before
the mid-morning feeding.
Battle the baby in a comfortably
warm room, being sure he is pro-
tected from drafts. Use a small in
fant's bathtub for babies under a
year old. Test the water with the
point of the elbow. When it feels
neither hot nor cold to the elbow
it is right for the baby's skin. Never
add hot water to the tub after the
baby is put in. Never leave a young
baby alone in the tub. Watch and
hold him constantly. Before begin
ming to undresS the baby for his
bath gather all the materials need
ed. A mild soap, soft towels, powder.
the clean clothes, the rubber apron
for the mother, the tub, water, etc,
should be placed in easy reach. Soft
cheeSeclOth is excellent to use in
washing the baby. The towels should
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
DEAR MAPGERY
BY MARGARET WILDE
lContlnuea from l4ass isNu~ !

IN kIa5S issue
digest it, goat style, all's we'll. Don
fetched me in a new outlay of dime
tablets (paper ones), last night and
I'm prescribing same for your TAX
ing. Your letters In return will show
me how goes before and after taking,
and il I'm presuming too far to treat
you thusly. go. .nCl.
some days l suffer eX,romg pain,
but L IauSn my way along III uut54
my pad DAYS, and always IOOn 1VI-
ward to Doris evening VISIT. I've
Just read Michael q 1aGlUrAn; nurse
lOund II Tor me, ana L now Lken
myself to little Lily. I'M Lilly ana
Don brings ME poetry piece eacn
evening, Wnicn is the least, litIlesl
ming my children have sald or done
mats entirely cute and original dur
vacation, Marge; in a hospital;
that's the idea, and I'm living up to
it. Mrs. Mays told Don how Donny
begged for some cooking apples to
eat raw. She refused, explaining
they'd make him sick and otherwise
oids, Nothing. daunted, Denny
pleaded on, adding, Don't matter ii
it does make me sick, my daddyl
give me castor oil an I'd be all
right; That Kid bets on daddy to
pull him through. I've just learned
ne had Group the other night and
Don had DR.. Wilkins down to dose
him. Don nor DR.. told M. but L
found it out nevertheless. Donny
drenched himself with the yard hose
at Mrs. Mays and took cold He's
born water duck and plunges in mud
holes or turns faucets on full blast
and gets soaked every opportunity!
When we first moved to outskirts
near young irrigation ditch we
heard yell, and ran to find Donny
floundering in the water ditch; it
struck him to his shoulders, but he
Just had to take his plunge and get
covered in the muddy stuff He often
begs to remain here with me; says
they'd let him sleep with me. They
look at me SO funny like, as if
they're not quite sure whether I'll
do to touch or not. They pinch my
arms ever so gently to make sure
I'm real flesh and blood, and tip
around the room and move from one
place to another until [ get the
jumps, which makes me miserable
after they're gone away. To think
a mother would let her own
children weary her nerves like that!
Marge. do you suppose I've not got
the mother heart? If l had would
l get the jumps like that?
(To Be Continued.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
MARY MEREDITH'S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME

there is nothing that cheers a
sick soldier up like mail from
home. Write him long, cheerful,
newsy letters-not gloomy and
depressing ones-and in this way
help him to get well SO that he
will come back to you sooner.
Above all, don't doubt him just
because he is unable u write
more often, and don't scold him
about it, 1t is quite all right for
you to visit his folks, and your
own.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
AUNT JULIA :
/ : I ! TER BOX


SO many letters last week commencing the the
ha teel word of appreciation is fit.
VI course has been possible
else
your interest only continues
but generous, willing
My mind is working interesting OF
year. and as as have it we'll developed will
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA
Sany letters have come asking for reliable preventative
Tor wilt IN tomatoes My reply is write the College Agricul
tvs mere will receive the best to be
want to thank the following
fVonne Lille Flowers Belle
in good time, lovely.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

cousin from the dear old state of Georgia
What have you cousins been doing* | have
been choppng cotton and working in the
to the Canning club 1 do for one. Well, as
I am stranger 1 will describe myself, so
here l GO blue eyes, fair complexion dark
hair, feet 212 inches tall, weigh lou
pounds. l will leave my age for You to
guess. II is between eleven and fourteen.
Who has my birthday, May. Aren't you
cousins glad the war is over. 1 am. Well,
1 guess 1 had better go for I see Aunt Jul
liza coming with the broom. Your new niece
and cousin, BELLE TOLBERT..
Rome, Ga, Route No. g.
p. Sind inclosed 10 cents for French
baby. Will try to answer all letters and
cards received.
My Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will
you cousins move over and give me seat
by Aunt Julia? Cousins, don't you all
feel proud of Aunt Julia? 1 certainly do,
l think she is doing fine work. Guess you
all are wondering how 1 look, so will try
and tell You. Please don't giggle. l have
light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, height
feet and 4 inches, weight 104 pounds
Will leave my age for you to guess-it is
between - and IT. The one that guesses
my age 1 will send them my picture.
Would be glad to correspond with any of
the cousins, let your letters and cards
BESSIE MARSH.
SandersvilIe, Ga, Route A.
z. S.-Please print this, Aunt Julia, if it
is worth printing. N. B. NJ.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Win you
admit Georgia girl into your happy band
of boys and girls Well, as l am new
cousin, I will describe myself and go: Light
hair brown eyes, dark complexion, weight
81 pounds, feet Z inches high Will let
YOU cousins guess my age. 1t is between
and IA. If any of YOU cousins want to
write me, let the letters and cards fly
Will answer all received. Your niece and
cousin, NERLIE SUT'TON
Glenwood. Ga. r. F. ID. ;, Box Il.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
French Dressing.

One-fourth teaspoon salt, one
eighth teaspoon 2=aEer; table,
spoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon vine
gar.
Put all the ingredients in a clean
bottle and shake we'll This dressing
may be used with lettuce, or it may
be used to season other salads before
putting on thicker dressing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Rhubarb Gelatine Pudding

Two tablespoons gelatine, = cup
cold water, 2 cups rhubarb Juice. /
cup boiling water, l cup sugar, y
teaspoon lemon extract.
Make rhubarb juice by cooking
four cups of diced rhubarb with one
cup Of sugar until tender; then
strain off the juice Soak the gelatine
in cold water five minutes and dis
solve in boiling water. Add sugar
and stir until dissolved then add
rhubarb juice. Strain into a mold
first dipped in cold water and chill.
This amount will make six average
servings.
This recipe is particularly useful
as means of using the juice when
a dish requiring only the pulp of the
rhubarb is made. Ii desired it may
be served with diced fruit.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

IN
Something else occurred. Father
even father-Wrote me a letter.!
And, it opened mine eyes. And,
felt awful bad after taking" And
noon, but I wasn't reveling in green
trees and blooming roses in Janu-
airy, as had been my custom, but
was going around, head bent, a hope
less air of detection accompanying
me. Lyn saw me. That night she
said, Il saw you in town. You
never spoke to me- nor seemed to see
me-" q never saw anybody, 1 think
Ell was kindly blue" You
looked like something was wrong.
What is it?" Then L told her. SO
Lyn helped me to help myself into
was awful-that walk-to the tune
Of "Old fogy; you're only an old
fogy-old fogy-old fogy." But, I
lost old fogy on that walk, and I'll
never find it again unless l return
to Spratts. where I'll bump into EN-
on all sides. Only I'll never be one
any more! And, l hope nobody ever
knows L used to be one.
Don comes each evening for our
hour together. It's a beautiful hour
Marge, and we talk and plan for our
future, It's just like getting en-
gagged all over again. He's not for
gotten how to make love. In fact,
he's better up on it than ever. Prac-
tice makes perfect. 1 can imagine,
had l died, what a perfect edition
he'd been for Mrs, Second. As IT
is, I've decided I'll be Mrs. First
and Mrs. Second: Poor man.
Margery, 1 wish you'd gotten a
square deal, but the system back
there was too much for your syss-
tenn. You were too western in spirit
ever to become a Georgia slave, or
Spratts slave, rather. You were too
fine for that sort of thing, Macherie.
Write instanter. Love, DEANE.
Aug. 18th, 10.
Dear Margery: I'm using you as
u sort of catch all for my mental
wanderings. I'm alone for hours at
a time and have got to talk to some
body, and I chose you for the un,
fortunate listener to my varied and
oftentimes Elusive mental thoughts,
so you're the goat Marge, and If
you can chew up all this paper and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Rhubarb Ravarian Cream

Two-thirds tablespoon graduated
Selatine, tablespoons cold water, IL
cup sugar, p teaspoon lemon juice,
l cup cream, whipped, 1 cup rhubarb
pulp made by boiling, until tender, 4
cups of rhubarb with l to cups
sugar. according to taste.
Soak gelatine in cold water. Add
and soaked gelatine; chill in pan of
ice water, stirring constantly When
it begins to thicken fold in whipped
cream, mold and chill.
This recope will fill six average
sized individual molds.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Hot Weather Health for the Baby;
The Daily Bah Is Necessity
BY MRS. MAX WEST
{Child-Care Expert of U. S. Chill
dre1l's J3ureauN

Every healthy baby should have
4 daily bath.
In very hot weather he should
have two baths a day-one in the
morning and cool sponge bath be-
fore going to bed at night
When hot weather brings to babies
the plague of prickly heat there is
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
our HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED ET LIZZIE O. THOMAS


Your flag and my flag,
And how it flies today
In your land and my land
And half the world away.
Rose-red and blood-red
The stripes forever CLEAN;
Snow-White and soul-white-
The good forefathers' dream;
Skyblue and true-blue,
With stars to CLEAN Alright
The gloried guidon of the day;
A shelter through the night.
Your flag and my flag!
And oh. how much it holds
Your land and my land
Secure within it's folds!
Your heart and my heart
Beat quicker at the sight
Sun-kissed and Wind-tossed-
Red and blue and white.
The one flag-the great flag
The flag for me and YOU
Glorified all else beside
The red and white and blue.
WILBUR D. NESBIT.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

Answer wish all of you fif-
teen-year-old girls that think you
want to marry would read all of
the sad letters that are published
in this column from girls like
yourself who did not have judg-
ment enough to wait until they
were grown to marry. You are
nothing but a little girl yet,
made for mothers loving and
play and fun with some study
ing and serious thinking thrown
in. If you run away from home,
you will be sorry. Please do not
be so foolish as to throw away
your childhood and girlhood for
unhappiness and misery. Believe
me, l am right. How could
foufteen-year-o boy support
you? Where would he give you
a home?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

Here I am, coming to you for al
vice. I am a girl of 10. and am
in love with a boy aged q. have
been going with him over year,
but he thinks more of me than any
other girl. but I can't tell But |
am sure l care more for him than
do for any other boy, He is very
bashfui. DO you think that is the
reason why he doesn't come oftener?
He doesn't go with other girls much:
Do you think he cares for me
Should a girl go with boy if he
should break a date with her? Is ii
any harm for boy to wink at a
girl? If a boy ] know waves at mt,
should 1 wave back at him? Wha
should a girl say when a boy says
he loves her? Is it any harm to sit
in the buggy awhile after return
ing from parties, or preaching? j.
it any harm for boy to hold "
girls hand?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
THE GRASS WHOEVER

am a girl, aged fifteen, and am
in love with a boy fourteen. He
waves at me and throws kisses at
me. We are engaged to get married.
Are we too young or not? What
kind of dress should my wedding
dress be? We are going to run
away. Ny home folk don't know it.
Please give me advice.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

eaten with meat), three-fourths cup
stewed and strained tomatoes.
Cook fat until well Drowned and
add remaining ingredients, Serve hot
with three cups cooked greens. This
amount will make eight average
sized servings.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Pennsylvania Greens

Three slices bacon cut fine. two
eggs, one-fourth cup mild vinegar.
Fry bacon. Beat eggs, add vinegar,
salt and pepper, and stir into the
bacon fat. Cook until slightly thick.
Cook greens until tender and drain.
Pour sauce over them just before
servinc and serve hot.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Rice Timba1es with Sauce Of Greens
and Cheese

One-haIf cup rice one quart boiling
water, one teaspoon salt.
until water is clear. Add slowly to
boiling water so that boiling is not
checked Boil thirty minutes or until
soft. Drain and let dry, then pdacIe9
lightly in slightly creased small
molds. Let stand in hot water ten
minutes. Serve with the following
Three-fourths cup milk, hot, two
tablespoons flour, stored until
smooth in one-fourth cup milk, two
tablespoons cheese, one-half teaspoon
SAL few grains cayenne.
Cook fifteen minutes in double
boiler and add one-fourth cup cooked
and finely chopped greens.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

l am a young man twenty-s1X
years of age, and am coming to you
for a bit of advice. l am a grass
widower. 1 and my wife have been
separated seven years. l am in love
with a girl about nineteen years old.
What would you do? 1 want your
advice. L and my wife have one lit
tie girl. Which do you think would
be right-for me to keep it or let
her keep her? There is a girl about
sixteen that is trying to come in
between me and this other girl, and
want you to tell me how to get
rid Of her.
THE GRASS WHOEVER.
Answer-Personally, / do not
think divorced persons should
marry again, but it is legally
permissible; and, if you are sure
that you can make a success of
your second marriage you have
the right to go ahead and marry
again. 1 certainly think the lit
tie girl should go to her mother.
For three reasons: The mother
for her until now; a girl child
needs the loving care of her own
mother; and thirdly, the step
mother would never love her and
tgeat her as we'll as her own
Mother would. Besides all this,
the mother would be heartbroken
to lose her. If you marry again,
you will have other children to
love. Why not let the mother
have this one?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Rhubarb Tapioca

One-half cup pearl tpaioca,
cups water IL teaspoon salt, 2 cups
sWeetened rhubarb sauce, / teaspoon
vanilla.
Soak tapioca in water until soft.
Put in double boiler and cook until
clear, aiding more water if neces-
sary. Then add salt and rhubarb
sauce When cool. flavor with vanilla.
Chill and serve with cream.
Rhubarb Betty
Wash tender rhubarb stalks and
cut in pieces about an inch long. Use
l z2 cups cut rhubarb to l cup bread
crumbs. If the crumbs are very dry
moisten slightly with water. Grease
baking dish and put layer of crumbs
sprinkled with cinnamon or nutmeg,
then a layer of rhubarb and 3 or 4
tablespoons of corn syrup, together
it'll the same amount of SUI ar. Dot
with butter. Repeat until dish is full
covering the top with buttered bread
crumbs. Bake for twenty minutes
d brown on top. This may be
served hot with or without sauce.
Green's with Grown Tomato Sauce
Three tablespoons butter or other
fat, one-half teaspoon mustard few
grains cayenne, one teaspoon lemon
juice, one and One-half teaspoons
highly seasoned sauce (sold to be
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Stuffed Peppers

Three green peppers, l onion tlnely
chopped, 2 tablespoons butter, ia
blespoons flour, l cup greens finely
chopped, ga cup bread crumbs. ia
blespoons bacon finely chopped, salt
and pepper.
Cut a slice from stem end of each
ners 5 minutes. Fry bacon and on
ion 3 minutes; add flour, greens,
salt, pepper, and bread crumbs. Cool
mixture. Sprinkle peppers with
salt, fill with cooked mixture, cover
with buttered bread crumbs and bake
10 minutes. Serve hot.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Ehnharb Marnalade

1 IL cups unpeeled rhubarb.
ga cup shredded pineapple.
"a cup ground carrot.
! Ia cups sugar
l lemon.
l tespoon salt. ,.
Cook carrot in enough boiling
add shredded pineapple and rhubarb
cut in slices 1-3 inch thick and lemon
CHARTERED lengthwise and cut in thin
slices. Cook ingredients slowly;
stirring as little as possible until
thick. This recipe makes three
/ glasses marmalade.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

I am a lonely war-bride at the age
of Is. have been married 16 months.
We lived happy together TO-
sixteen months, and then he wa
called into the service, and has not
vet returned. He wrote to me often
until he was sent to the hospital, and
now he doesn't write but once a
week. [ love him dearly now, as |
did when he left, and he says in his
letters that he still loves me, better
than anyone else. Do you think he
still loves me, by not writing as Oft
en- as he did when he first went off
How often should l write to"him? |
that too often? Advise me what
could do to make him write to me
more often. I love him SO dearly
that could never be happy without
him. Is it all right for me to visit
my folks and his folks, while he is
away, or should I stay in one place?
WAR BRIDE,
Answer don't think you have
any reason to doubt your hus-
bands love. You say that he is
in the hospital. 1t is very hard
for men in military hospitals to
write as often as they would
like. 1 think you should write
to him four or five times a week
once a day is not too often,
since you love each other, and he
is your husband. Days in hos
pitfalls seem very long and blue"
to the patients-and both doctors
and nurses, as we'll as Y. NJ. c. A.
and Red Cross folks agree that
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
A lonesome Girl .

Answer: There is no way Of
being sure that the boy loves
you, unless you have enough
confidence in him to believe Ill
his sincerity. There may be
some very good reason why he
doesn't come oftener to see you.
His writing so often shows that
YOU are often in his thoughts.
IL the boy broJe the date with
YOU, and there was q very good
reason for it, you might forgive
him, and allow him another
date.
While there is no particular
harm in a boy WinkinG at girl,
there's no good in it either. The
same is true Of waving. If the
boy is passing in car, or bug
gy, and merely waves to show
that he has seen you, that is all
right.
If it is not late when you re-
turn from the party, you might
ask the boy to come in for Few
minutes instead of sitting lit
tie while in the buggy. l would
not let the boy hold my hand
That is one of the little famil-
iarities that girl should not
perm it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
4 new cousin,
MARGARET STEWART.
MAXINE TEMPLETON.
N Tr,nnel Hill Ca Route 1

Dear Aunt Julia: Hello! Here comes a
Georgia girl to join your happy band of boys
and girls. What are you cousins doing this
rainy afternoon? / have been crocheting,
and like it fine Here is ) cents for
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

Aucilla. Fla. R. f. D. ..
p. S.-Inclosed you will find nickel for
little YyOnne
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes another
The Washington times., 1919-05-02
BANCROFT THINKS ANSON
WAS BETTER THAN TYRUS

Frank Bancroft was discussing the
great players. He mentioned
Cobb as easily the best Of this gen
Grafton. But" said Banny, "remem-
Der that Cobb plays only one position
on a team and I have often wondered
how to rate him compared with .
player like Ed Williamson, who could
play every position-and play every
one Of them as they should be played
on the diamond. Williamson also
was a great batter.
ITO my way of thinking Anson was
the greatest batter that ever lived"
continued Bancroft. Remember the
season he bet $500 he wouldn't strike
out and lost the bet because he fan
ned only one time during the entire
year? What player would make that
kind of a bet now? Furthermore,
with a man on third and one out,
don't you believe Anson would hit
out either safely or drive a fly so far
the man would score? He'd do this
ninety-nine times out OF a hundred
sure. That's why I say when we heap
credit on Cobb-all of which he de-
serves-let's also remember some OF
the great players of yesteryear," con-
cludsd Bancroft