Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-28
OUR HOUSEHOLD.
CONDUCTED By LIZZIE O THOMAS
THANKSGIVING REFLECTIONS


Another Thanksgiving day will
have passed into eternity ere you
read these lines, and l am wondering
how many Of you really stopped
long enough to count your blessings
and (more importantly divide with a
less fortunate neighbor. Don't get
into the idea of swapping things.
No blessing comes to one for that
sort of giving. Pass along a portion
of e blessing to one VIII has not so
mu as you possess. That is not
oharity-it is brotherly kindness.
l read a story of a man who sent
a fat turkey to a shoemaker. That
made the shoemaker send the chick
en- he had bought to a widow. She
wanted to divide her blessing, and
gave her pumpkin pie to the washer
woman, Biddy.
And oh, sure" said BIddy, Its
the queen of all pies;
Just to look at its yellow face glad
dens my eyes;
Now It's my turn, 1 think, and a
sweet gi1gercake
For the motherless Ftnnigen chill
dren I'll bake"
Then the Finnigan children were
SO proud of their.cake that they car
ried q slice TO little lame Jack, who
had nothing nice" The poor little
lame boy divided with the birds, and
they In turn twittered and thanked
them all.
There are plenty of people who
will say that the shoemaker, or at
IN u,iI r.
that much ahead" If he or she had
kept what they had as well as their
present. But we often cut off the
supply by being stingy or selfish.
Right now the whole of these United
States is In q turmoil, and none can
say what the senate or congress is
going to do. Our blessings will be
lost and the sacrifices of the past
four years turned to a definite evil
IL we forget that the men who
wrote our treaty had the good Of the
world at heart and did not let self
tsh motives prompt them. The Amer
lean people have played a splendid
part in the worlds uplift, and the
men who are now in the limelight
do not measure up to the people that
they represent.
w e nave our AndnkSSlSIlg GuIhSS'
and would have our sugar II that
selfish streak somewhere did not
hold II back. We have given lavish
ly, and God has blessed us, but right
now, when the crisis, the real crisis,
Is on US, the men who should up
hold our president are pulling him
down. Like spoiled children they
seem to say, 81 helped to make that
pie; 1t shall not be used that way
There was some likely presidential
timber in congress when the SQUAD
BILE began, but that set has killed
itself. Instead of growing they have
shriveled up, and the country tr-
respective of party has become dis
gusted. They will never be able to
explain to the satisfaction of their
constituents why they have acted SO
But we will leave that subject for
the voters to settle and say little
about the weather.
October had so much rain that the
cotton in this section did not get out
of the fields. So much of it was in
rotten hollis that farmers have gath
cred the crop in the bolls and are
picking 1t out sitting around their
fires. l saw a lot of it being picked
that way, and the pickers tell me
that they are burning quantities OF
boil weevils. l wonder If 1t will
not, or will it, lessen that plague
next year? The price, right here, fol
picking in the field is So a hundred
and the farmers are hauling ii to the
| homes of some and paying them s.
a hundred to pick 1t out of the gath
cred bolls.
1t looks like most any one could
make money at that price, but sugar
is selling at 25 cents a pound, anG
it will not take long to eat VI
| profits.
This year I raised the incest lot
| of Bourbon Red turkeys that I've
ever had, and the dogs are cleaning
them up. We have the best dog law
that I've heard about, and l do hope
that next year there will be NJ
| worthless dogs to roam over the
| fields. l raised every one l haC
| Matched except two drowned In but
termilk, and then to lose them one
a week since September has beer
annoying to say the least of it.
1 have sold a gobbler and two
hens to replace Narragansetts thai
| have been tested not far from here
and were not satisfactory. The
Thanksgiving bird, as the turkey has
been named, has not been raised ir
| such quantities this year, and tr
many a home a nice fat hen will
be the substitute. And even if there
is no fowl TO grace the board, all OF
us can give hearty thanks that we
are living and doing as we'll as we
are. All of US haze our trials, but
all OF US have our joys. and We must
not let the clouds darken our menta
| outlook.