Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-11
The Country Home
KIPLINa's GREAT POEM
BY MRS. w. III. FELTON,

about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it
on you;
If you can trust yourself when all
men doubt you,
But make allowance for their
doubling too:
If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in
lies,
Or being hated don't give way to
hating,
talk too wise;
If you can dream-and not make
dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make
thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and
Disaster
And treat those two imposters Just
the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth
you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap
for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your
life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with
worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your
winnings
And risk it on one turn Of pitch
And lose, and start again at your
beginnings
And never breathe word about
your loss:
If you can force your heart and
nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they
are gone,
And so hold on when there is moth
Exce 1pg II the 'o Win which says to
them: HOLD ON"
If you can talk with crowds and
keep your virtue,
Or walk with k1ngs-nor lose the
common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can
hurt you,
If ali men count with you, but
none too much:
IF Won can fiji the unforgiving min
With sixty seconds worth of dis
Yours is the Earth and everything
AndWW i is more-you'l be a
~ RUDYARD KIPLING.
A Few Good Things to Keep In
Mind
When you take down the stove
pipes, and set your heater or stove
kerosene oil and go over the metaI
carefully. That will keep the stove
and the pipes from rust1ng.
By neglecting to do this round
a few days ago that four Jolnts OIL
NV heater pipe had become rotten
with rust and had to go to the trash
pile.
Fish NAV be scaled much easier
nv first dropping them into boiling
water for a minute. But for the la.
hor of cleaning fish and the lack Of
ice in rural districts the country
people would use great quantities OF
fish food in this time of high cost
of living. .--.--
When 1 was young girl my
mother required me to occupy part
of my Saturday leisure in ironing
NV white dresses and aprons, and
especially my much trimmed white
pa1italettes. She said it made me
more careful as to the. number that
went to wash on Monday mornings.
1 learned that a bit OF sperm eena,,
would make the ironing much cas-
Ter and more satisfactory. .. The fiat
irons did not stick and the ironed
clothes had somewhat OF glossy
finish when they were thus prepared:
Some people now use little salt
and some add little gum arabic to
the boiling starch. In my early ex-
perience with ironing I made extern
tensive preparation for my Saturday
ironing.
Our small colored house boy sat
on the back steps and went back and
forth to the kitchen fire, where my
half-dozen irons were heating to
bring them (and carry the cool ones
back) at my bidding. chose the
back hall for GOODNESS, had an excel
lent ironing board and by. noon
time 1 not only had my individual
ironing over and done with, but all
that my small sister needed along
the same line.
MY dear old Black Nanny, who
did the washing, would praise my
work and tell me, GO long little
dresses and pantalettes, whenever you
wants to. You jes has a good feeling
for your black NANNY, who jes loves
to see you the, incest dressed child
in dis country"
I was nevertheless very glad to
get my Saturday stunt all over, and
could devote the rest Of the day to
practicing my music, or going out TO
call on the other girls at their homes,
or doing what pleased me most--get
until it was too dark to see the print
without candle light.
My black nanny put a little tur-
pentine in the boiling wash-pot to
take all the "dinge" out, especially
if the cloth looked yellow from lying
too long in trunks and chests. Bo-
rax will do the same thing nowadays,
and the careful wearers of fine lin
gerie, especially beautiful shirt
waists, can add a little Of this an
cient experience to their complete
satisfaction.
When your jewe1ry looks little
"dingy," put one teaspoonfu1 of am
wash 1t carefully. It is surprising
how 1t will make silver and gold
All Of this may be fully under
stood by the great majority Of our
readers. It is written especially for
those who are not so well acquainted