Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-30
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,
EXTRAVAGANZA IN DRESS AMI
AUTOMOBILES

with shoes anywhere from five to
twenty dollars, and everything else
IN proportion, 1T looks like we should
try TO be economical as to Spending
money on such things, but the stores
are packed full Of these expensive
things and the folks buy the highest
priced, with the excuse that the,
cheap ones don't look good, and the
high-priced should be the cheapest
in the end.
Granting that the high-priced
should be the best, which does not
always happen, we are wondering
why somebody does not rise up to
say: Try to put a little of the
money In savings bank for a RAINY
day" The merchants understand
the people they deal with. Thew are
In the market, to sell, not to preach
economy In the prevailing hvste-
ria that is affecting state and ma
tlonal affairs, where tax money is
hung around like the "sower went
forth to SOW" in the days of our
forefathers, and the seed went f1ytne
In the air, before it fell to the
ground. Our people are not looking
out for the reaction that Is bound
10 come one of these days. It has
never failed to come, and history is
all the time repeating itself.
And the craze for automobiles ia
marvel. Our. people will buy them
Colored people, without a foot of
farm Iand-tenants-hir hands. are
crazy for an auto car. The prices
ooes not hinder at all. They will
purchase on instruments and buv
new tlres and pay for repairs, like
tne people did in old Noah's time
(oefore the f1ood)-spent money and
made merry, without a thought Of
the morrow
The people seem to be walking on
stills, with such amazing extrav-
agance, for things they can do with.
out, and do as well as thew have
done for past decade, as to gettine.
around the country.
sunday is automobile day. The
preachers hold forth to empty
penches, and the joy-riders are put-
Ing on h1gh-gear and flying over
the roads, just to be going ia ST
and nothing else.
a Difficult Season for Far1uars.
A good many farmers are soma
what discouraged because of the con-
tlnuous rainy weather which has pre-
vailed during 1920 through January.
FEBRUARY and SO far in March. There
are sections of country in the United
states where blowing can go on right
AFTER a heavy downfall of rain. but
not IN the section where I live, If
our farmers pillow the land wet. we
Will get clods to deal with all the
year-something like the clay in a
o11ckyard. But I remember one year
along In the early COS, when our
til the Sth day Of April.
1t looked pretty much like we
could not make a crop because we
couldn't get the cotton seed in the
ground early enough to make a crop.
We had some hired hands, and we
were feeding others, or supplying
them from the stores, by liberal or
ders to the merchants, and for which
we were bound to secure the pay
ment. They sat by good fire and
looked out at the falling rain. It
was happy go-lucky time for the
hired folks, but it was time of anx-
iety and waiting for the landlord
and owner
Ihe ground was not any too dry,
when the plows got started on the
8th Of April. There was no time to
break the soil and prepare for a we'll
ordered years crop. We ran a mid
die furrow, slapped down the fer
tilizer, and put the cotton seed in as
quickly as possible. Then we plant
ed some corn, and afterwards we
broke up the land between the new
rows, where the cotton was coming
out Of the ground.
Providence smiles on the farmers.
We had sufficient rain to keep the
stuff growing, but not enough to
stop work. Then we had a late fall,
and nearly every boil on the cotton
stalk materialized into a handful of
seed cotton. The price, as I remem-
Der, was around eight and ten cents
pound, but we got enough money
out of the crop to pay taxes and the
brig supply accounts at the stores.