Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-04
The Country Home
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
BY MRS. w. III. FELTON,

Our modern newspapers have gen.
full page set apart for advice and
sympathy with lovers and discon-
tented married people. Forty or
fifty years ago there was nothing of
the sort elaborated in the daily or
weekly prints.
But in my reading of Charles Dick
ems [ find he at one time became
much enthuSed on the subject of
young couples. He wrote out twelve
elaborate articles, which were headed
as follows:
'"The Young Couple" "The Formal
Couple" The Loving Couple" THE
Contradictory Couple" THE Couple
Who Dote Upon Their Children"
THE Cool Couple" The Plausible
5e Nice If fe copIe Tou 1o
pie Who Coddle Themselves" and
The Old Couple"
And his conclusion, which is an ar
ticle which sums up or reviews the
entire subject. The most of us have
met with, or lived with, some of
these couples, or maybe we have only
travelled with them as strangers and
watched their methods or their mo-
tions on steam cars or street cars, or
if it was a long time ago, in old
fashioned stage coaches.
We might suppose that his loving
couple came nearest to blissful mat
rimony, but our supposition would
he described were only man and
wife who made their infelicity ap-
parent in the first degree. Thus Dick
ems begins his descriptions: There
cannot be a better practical illustra-
ton on the wise saw and ancient
80 In to- "a
of a good thing, when presented as
loving couple; but there is a time for
all things, and the couple who are
always in a loving state before COM
pany are well-nigh intolerable."
You have seen couples of that va
riety, if you have been keen OBJ
server, and Mr.. Dickens flags them.
Music for Memorial Day
A North Carolina correspondent
wishes to know what sort of musi-
cal numbers are most. appropriate
for Memorial day services and ap-
peals to the Country Home Editor
for suitable selections. The North
Carolina letter came this forenoon,
and the exercises for the memorial
services were even then in progress
(today, April 26). [ have been call
ed upon to deliver quite number
Of such Memorial addresses in past
years, and the band always played
Dixie and '"Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground" and other war tunes
of the early i60's. The religious
exercises are generally opened or
" "Hmerica'' E:.star spangled Banner
is generally heard also. In country
places, with exercises at country
churches, the religious exercises gem
orally are most prominent. Some
times the graveyardS are a scene of
general decoration. Families assem-
BILE, hear the addressess eat fine
picnic dinner, and then go over the
graveyard with flowers and lay the
blossoms on the graves of their an
cestorS.
This is a. beautiful custom when
ever it is used, and if the dead are
able to look down, they would doubt
less be gratified at such filial at
Taiking on the subject of boom
towns, Rev. Sam Jones once salo
there was one city that was never
affected by booms or SPECTATORS.
and it grows apace, IN flush times
and hard times, namely the ceme-
teries. Those who settle down. new
err moved away, and that was one
Mace that all could go and live with
the rest without envy or social
As a rule the people do not give
proper attentions to the graves OF
their dead. They forget. The grass
springs up and the marble stones
are blackened by age. e,
The custom of carrying flowers to
The graves of our dear ones, should
never be discouraged. 1t is a small
tribute to pay to those who loved
us and always helps the one who
does it. -