Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
CHIAPTER XLIII.

presented / Mrs. Lew. Gray with
most wonderful outfit of dainty,
short clothes, for her baby. 1 saw
! it christened, and she was very
happy. ..;. .....as..t - -.. .r -
She meant to have the baby wear
coarse, red flannels all summer. IL
is the prevailing custom for BABIES
| to swelter and suffer in ttannelst uni u
after they teethe. Teething time IS
| the bugbear of a baby's life IN TINS
| section. Generally, it is led mos
anything it wants and can smack us
lips over. from the time 1t can
smack. Results: indigestion ana Sc
rious complaints and oftentlmes
death as a follow-up. But death Is
laid to the Lord, or, possibly some"
| one says, It's judgment sent y"
| 'em!' It's never the parents OF the
| child who claims that; they blame 1t
I on the Lord instead of pickles aho
pie and cake, which really started
| the trouble. -,
I had unique experience While al
| Mrs. Devlnes. ...
A poor family lives on their place
The mother toiled hard in the helds,
| leaving the baby under the care OF
small brother. The baby enjoyed
reaches and different fruits. Also, 1t
was being fed from bottle. When
| flies fell into it's milk, they were re-
moved. and the milk fed just the
same. The bottles soured; nobody
| knew how serions a thing comes
from not sterilizing. Indeed, steri! !,
1 izing is foreign word. In due
| course of events baby was seriously
i'll. DR.. Steele had charge OF the
case. "Cholera-infantum he said
| when I met him coming away Then
! he told me there was no possible
| chance to save the child in that stage
| CT the disease. Furthermore, de de-
! clared so long as idiotic parents
would persist in feeding babies il
was good enough for them to follow
them to the cemetery. %.
"Heartless man" said. Hc
laughed. you've been around War
rem too much: your sympathies are
with him, see and he left.
The mother. Mrs. Smith, seemed
Glazed and sort of numb from worry
Snd anxiety. The baby looked terri
bly,. 1t would retain no nourlshment.
It was the pitifuIlest thing, the con
dition it was in.
What is that round it's neck?" /
ventured.
"Oh. that's hogs teeth she said.
| 'What?'' I held my breath.
Hogs teeth. Mrs. Jones said pu5
the hogs wisdom teeth on string
and tie round it's neck; helps it
reethin'. That other string had some
Wood-lice on it, but they've fell off
row, That blue strings got mole
foot on it. We Just done everythin :
they told us to doZ-doin' all we can
do to get it we'll again. I know what
started it at first 1 was busy in the
field and soaked its soiled clothes il
water before 1 washed 'eln out--so
busy--that causes summer COM
plant, you know"
No; L certainly didn't know.
I stood there a moment. then
stared out doors, across sun-kissed
field where pines waved their
branches, making slow, dreamy
music. But I wasn't seeing them.
Inc flash my mind went back to
Sunday night when I'd gone to
church in town and heard the min
lister begging for money; they want
ed forty millions Immediately.
Over across the seas we must seTl
aid-we must send-across- thef-
seas. /. looked again at the tragic
scene before. 4e. The mother was
anXiously bending over her babe
that was burdened down with heath
en- superstitions, relics of Indian
days, or of some long-forgotten age
hogs wisdom teeth Oh, Lord!
Then, unnoticed, I slipped from
the room, and alone, from cor
ner of the porch, unseen by eyes of
man, but sensing the spirit of Ken
meth, the poet, sensing him terribly,
l held forth my hands and whisper
| ed, This is the unknown--.he I'M
worked field!' I felt a spirit of eN-
altation, freedom, hope for the flu
ture!
Out there the pines sighed and
waved on. | turned and again en-
tered the cabin. A wonans pierre
ing scream rent the air.
The baby was dead!
On another occasion 7 visited a
sick baby. DR.. Steele had the case.
1 was walking back to Mrs. Devine's
when he overlook me, asking me to
ride. 1 accepted. 1 detected a faint
odor of drink He asked me why I
evaded him. L denied the accusa-
| ton. Then he proposed to me. l
was genuinely surprised.
He even told me he'd studied the
situation over pretty thoroughly;
| that I'd make a physician suitable
wife insomuch that l was a good
mixer, showed no signs of the green
monster, and added other f1atteriaT
sentences.
I told him I had no Intentions Of
over marrying again. But [ did not
| tell him that | had no desire to be
| the wife of a doctor who refused to
minister to the poor, oftentimes, or
one pretext or another. I couldn't
see myself answering the phone, eX-
cusfng him from his duty by declar-
ing Hes sick; can't GOMEZ" Ties
| not in No. 7 didn't care to prod
| and push and shove him along to-
ward the performance Of his duties
[ simply didn't want the job.
Through my agent I sold the min
eral interest, but not the surface
of my land. 1t brought. me a goodIy
sum. and L approached Mr.. Strong
in regard to his 20-acre farm.
had a friend out west who had the
ready money. Some one wanted a
southern farm. so my agent negoti-
ated that piece of business TO my ut
most satisfaction. Even Clarke
Warren doesn't know that I own it..
Nobody worries over strangers tout
west" They're too far away to be
Of much interest or to create undue
excitement. Happily, my agents d
: trustworthy friend of my family.
Philips mother and my stepmoth-
/ ~ both have remarked and seem
clirite content. They have riches.
Once DR.. Warren expressed wish
to me-he'd love to live to see a
sanitarium for the poor, to be built