Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
Christmas Suggestions

December has arrived once more
and all of us have begun to plan for
| Christmas, many will plan and plan
| until about the week before Christ
mas and then frantically rush
| things through. Others will be well
| can sit in ease and see others rush,
or play neighborly part and help
| the frantic ones.
1t is surprising how much can be
accomplished by one with skilful
| fingers. Aprons, underwear, crochet
and tatting are always appreciated
One year L made six dainty embrod-
cry aprons, the sort with three deep
| pockets across the front, and after
| my friends recovered from the sur
prise caused by the statement that
had made them they were certain
ly appreciated.
There are so many simple and at
tractive patterns in the papers and
magazines and the long evenings will
be the time for such work. L take
| little thirty-five cent magazine
shat has supplied many of US with
splendid ideas.
And that reminds me that a sub
scription to some paper or maya
zine is a splendid way to remember
your friends The Semi-Weekly. a
| magazine, the one 1 spoke Of or a
more expensive one, only costs a
dollar and is invaluable where there
are children. There may have been
| time when one paper in a home
was plenty, but it must have been
when only one was printed in a state
But the idea of the county paper be-
| ing the only one taken in this age is
| absurd.
A man says he must take the
county paper to keep up so he must
| but one good WOman's magazine is
| quite as much necessity for the
family. Then of course, the Semi
| Weekly is a necessity, for all of us
want to know what is the most i'm
| portant world news.
Aunt Julia said the right thing
when She suggested that you give
your mother some dainty trifle that
GU know she wants, but that she
would not thing of buying for her
| self.
| There is where the subscription to
a magazine comes in nicely. A great
many women would enjoy a maya
zine, even six months subscription,
but they see so many other places
to put their money. Do you re-
member the story Of the little boy
| teacher was trying to get to see
through" fractions?
She said: Suppose there were
seven in your family and just one
pie, how many pieces would your
mother cut?" Six" responded the
boy. ooh. no." she said, hoping TO
| teach him that his part would be one
seventh of the whole.
Eyes, ma'am, my mother wouldn't
want bite out of that pie
That is the way with most of the
mothers, and for that very reason we
should see that they receive other
than necessary things on birthdays
and Christmas days.
Once I gave my mother five dol
| lars, and I told her that she must
| spend it for something she would
not buy with her own money. She
kept it a month thinking over va
| rious plans to spend it, and at last
| put every cent of it into flower pots.
| Such a time as she had taking her
| geraniums and ferns out of boxes
and reporting them. And, oh, the
pleasure that array of new flower
| pots was to her. None of US would
| have thought of buying that pres
| ent.
There are some of your friends to
whom you might send a nice jar of
fruit or some jelly, or a dozen
eggs and receive the heartiest sort
of thanks. Some of you have friends
| that you cannot leave off your list,
you do not want to do. but you are
off
Look over your pantry shelves, or
among your flocks and send some
thing Of that sort. Remember that
the heart of the giver must be rep
resented or the gift is a mockery.
And right now look about you
and see where and how the widow
and orphan will spend Christmas. In
as much as We do unto the needy
We serve the One whose natal day
we celebrate and the orphan children
are very dear to Jesus, for God es-
reciallv calls himself "Father of the
fatherlesS."
How to detect an American lady:
By her Eskimo furs.
By her Swiss watch.
By her Russian boots.
BY her Japanese servants.
By her French heels.
BY her Spanish fan.
By her Irish lace.
BY her italian earrings.
BY her Hawaiian ukelele.
By her English accent
To every child having a hundred
frecllles or more. a Rockford, Ill,
movie house is offering free matt
nee ticket for a. performance of
,'F'reckles,' a characterization of Gene
Stratton-Porter's novel.