Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29

and be entertaining and bright and
chatty and wear pretty gowns and
SO on.
AS a matter of fact, no woman
alone and unaided can make a happy
home any more than she could move
a glacier. She might grin like
Chesire cat and monologue along
until her tongue wore out and be
as beautiful as a houri and look
like a fashion plate and she Wouldn
raise the domestic temperature o.
the home one degree. or diffusss
one ray of real sunshine or JOY IL
the husband was sitting up glum
and grouchy or if he was stamping
around the house finding fault with
everything.
gether to register mirth. 1t takes
two people to carry on an agree
able conversation. 1t takes two peo-
pie giving the best that is in them
of kindness, and tenderness and con-
sideration, and geniality to make a
happy home. No woman living can
pull off the stunt alone and no man
need expect to marry such miracle
performer.
One. of the reasons that women
lose interest in domestic life, and
| get slack about their cooking and
| is because so few husbands dol
team work. They never notice what
/ the wife does. They never praise
her management. They gobble down.
dinner she has spent hours i'm
cooking without so much as saying
| that the sauce was worthy Of a
chef, or the salad such work OF
art it should have been eaten on
ones knees. No wonder the womarI
gets discouraged.
If the husband would only do
! team work and show some interest,"
in his home; If he would discuss ting
best way of meeting the H. c. Of
! L., with her instead of growing
| over the bills; if he would display
some real interest in rugs and thrill
over wall paper instead of sayingI
| '"Oh, get what, you WANT don't
pep into his wife and he would
reap rich results in better dinner4
and a better managed house, fol
women dote on talking things ovet
| and a husband whom she could
make a real companion of would
| fill any wife's cup with bliss.
The place where team work
families is most needed, howeveA
and where the. lack of it is mos
disastrous is in rearing children
standing shoulder to shoulder t
| do that Observation-Disclosures, in nov
! few households do you find thu
desirable condition of affairs?
Sometimes there is practically n
father, only a man who pays tn
| bills. Father is too much engrosSeE
with business TO get acquainted wit
his children, or TO try to guild
them. or to decide anything abou
their fates. He leaves that to thei
mother, and no matter how fine
woman she is, she is incapable q
| filing the bill and being both moth
err and father to them. Childre
need a mans experience of tn
world, mans outlook, a man
| firmness, mans protection in tn
development of their characters, an
in starting them in life, otherwis
God wouldn't have bothered to max
fathers, and if they miss this the
start handicapped, as is proven 81
| the fact that so many widows Chi
| dren go wrong and amount to moth
! ing.
Sometimes a man tries to do h
| duty by his children and is balke#
by a weak silly mother who cannd
| bear to see her darlingS discipline&
Father tries to curb a boys e1N
travagance, mother scrimps TIL
money. Father tries to protect II
foolish girl from a bad man. Moth
err secretly connives at their NEE
ings because the girl weeps. Fathd
tries to teach the children obedienc
and respect for authority and SON
when they are denied anything an
connives at their disobedience an
sides with them against tn Air> fatlM
er, whom she unconsciously teachd
them is a tyrant and a brute.
| What is the result---the hoodlLm
| the hayward sons and daughter
the lazy. undisctplined, uncontrollJ
youth of the day who bring the
parents heads in sorrow to tH
| grave.
! Whenever a father and moth
disagree as to the wisdom Of son
| particular course with their chi
dren, they should do so in privatE
They should present a united fro
to the youngsters. There should
no appeal from Caesar to anothe
It is only by this kind of tea
work that family discipline can
enforced, and children successful
] reared.