Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-07
The Country Home
" BY MIS-. w. Ell. FELTON,
vacation Days for the Boys and
Girls


Our little city is to finish up the
school term on tomorrow night with
! commencement exercises Tor the nj
teen graduates, who will. be given
their high school diplomas at the
close of the other exercises of the
evening.
Those who will return to the school
n early September are to be told
tomorrow whether they will ascend
to another grade or whether they
must peg along In the same ola
room with the same teacher and per-
haps the same old books, which they
have been carrying back and forth to
the school houses for nine long
months, and with another coming
nine months if the same old trand-
will. -,
have public schools anywhere in the
United States. We, of course, had
schools and school teachers, and the
parents paid the teachers and the
parents bought the books. and it
was very fortunate child who
could be spared from home work TO
go to school at all
AS a result, many young mer
could only go to school a few months
in the year. 1 knew some smart
men who were wont to say Il never
had but six months schooling in all
my life"
/ knew one, very intimately, who
onlv had three months in the school
room. He was taught to read and
write at home, and devoted the three
months to arithmetic. You may be
we'll assured he knew what was in
the book when he got through with
it. He was a master as to figures.
He made fall scholar Sin arithmetic.
After l went through my schools
and finally brought home diploma
! from a Woman's college, he TOOK
great delight in giving me examples
, to work out, in my well-tralned way
because l too, was was fond of fig
he could get there o. K. when he
never handled an Algebra or geome-
try in all his own young days.
AS l see the school cniloren of to-
day-beginning at six years and go
ing along every year TO sixteen
with so little interest in what they
have been studying over, and too
often, only prepared to be some
storekeeper's bundle-boy, L wonder
If there will ever be very many cap
able experts in the educatlonal flelas
the rule nowadays-and much and
still more teaching will come along,
as now planned for; but the masses
are getting more real knowledge
| from the newspapers than they are
! deriving from millions of school
books concerning current events ana
! what is going on. But [ started out
| to tell how glad the school children
| really are that they will not be oblig-
| ed to go to school next Week-nor
! until next September.
Their plans are many as to what
| they want to do in this interval, Dut
! you may set it down, the old school
| books or what the teachers are DO
| ing does not interest one in fifty OF
| these carefree youngsters who are
| Just tired and sick of getting les
sons and of being lectured in the
school room, and also at home about
| lessons. That is their side of what
vacation means OF them. 1t STANDS
| for sleeping late in the morning,
and of going to see baseball and the
| movies every possible chance Inc
| other side Of this vacation business
| who are trying to keep the young
| ones at home, or at some sort OF
| work, or out of some sort of mis-
| chief, and these homefolks who have
| been helping the pupils to get thelL
| school lessons for nine months ana
getting them started every schoo! day
| with lunch and gentle remlndeiI,
! that they better not" get kept IN
or get a whipping by the teacher
are also glad of let-up in their
arduous tasks.
AS 1 see it, both parents and pu
pills are glad of a rest. Nine months
has been a long, long time, count
ing days and weeks, even with holl-
days enough to get occasional! rest
spells in the interim. 1t 1t lasteu
twelve months there would come q
revolt. Perhaps five months would
give as good results in lessons, dill
gently kept up to the standard. But
good-by until next September.
oh, the Hot weather!
March was as balmy as May, and
April started out the same way, put
concluded to Finger in the lap OF
Then April decided to hand down
her tickle ways to May. but May de-
cided to go a brand-new way, make
for the year 1921 (like fresh Paris
fashion is made for tickle girls ana ana
silly women women oo a ne" style lof '"e
SO Old Sol said. "Ill see, what May
has in mind. I'll watch her tricks,
and 1 will shine so bright that she
can't hide her face in clouds and
stormy weather"
heavens, and put on his hot July
countenance, and we have had the
hottest May I've known for fltty
years.
the corn roots went down deep, seek
ing moisture in the soil, and up-to
date field crops are doing fairly well,
except that the boil weevil is strug-
Cling to do us lot of damage-to
the crops.
But when it is cold. or when 1t IS
hot, "the Lord is in His heaven, and
all will be right with the world"
The farmers have had difficult
year to make a crop-on financial
basis-but alps we'll that turns out
If we love mercy, deal justly and
walk humbly with our God. His
word has passed that He will send
the showers and the sunshine-and
then shall be seed for the sower,
and bread for the hungry.