Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-10
The Country Home
A Personal Word
BY MRS. W. III. FELTON,

since the SONSII4OE VI NSOISld Was
generous enough to tender your
Country Home scribe an appoint
ment to a seat in the senate Of the
United States, think it will inter-
est the general reader if I tell you
about the letters and kilograms that
have been delivered within my
house for the past So hours. (The
phone has been on continual ring
also) From Seattle, Washington
state, to Wilmington, Del,
from the upper part of New York
state, to Dallas, Texas-the messages
have been coming. The largest pa
pers in New York city land Boston
and Chicago have sent in their calls
to Gainesville, Ga.
Washington city sent in six mes
sages today (Oct. a, and Georgia
stations have been kept busy bring
ing or receiving the small yellow
missions from citizens within the
limits Of the state. The photogra-
piers have camped in my Veranda-
and the movie picture makers are
taking in my aged face, and it is
more bewildering than anything else
at present writing, because the pic
lures do not flatter me. Since I be-
gan this short article have had spe-
cial delivery letters, several tele-
grams and three or four phone calls
to answer. If the really big people
in public service are generally over
whelmed, as I have been, with con-
CALCULATIONS, they must live in stir
all the time. One wire message said
"Hurrah!!' I want to hang my hat
on the horns Of the new moon. I am
just so happy over it..
Now the old lady must get ready
to get in bed. Let me also return
thanks for such genuine enthusiasm!
The Near Conclusion of Famous
Story
Perhaps you will call 1t an In
famous story after you read what
will here be written.
A learned professor (of law, as
remember), in a distinguished uni
versitty in the state Of Indiana, was
deemed worthy of his position and
his salary up to a few months ago.
He lived with his wife and three
children, near the university-two
little girls and a baby boy less than
a year old.
For some unexplained reason, his
wife went into court and swore out
a warrant against a merchant-tailor
living nearby, charging him with
being the father Of this baby boy.
The case came to trial.
This university professor sat in the
court room before judge and jury
and heard this woman uncover her
shame and blacken the future Of
those little daughters, and to all in
tents and purposes he was assisting
the woman to collect money out of
this merchandise his share of the
damages.
After the case went to the jury he
and she waited together for the Ver-
dict, which ended in mot guilty."
Now the professor declares he will
take the disgraced woman to her
mothers home which is more than
with her-for he will not live with
her.
The woman is disgrace to her
sex of course. The man is more
than a disgrace to his sex, because
he had the liberty to carry the worn-
an to her unhappy mother and drop
her there (for the mother to sup
port-her daughter and grandchii-
dren)-without heaping further dis
grace on those moor little innocent
children.
To my mind he is really the most
Objectionable person in this tragedy.
If the deserted woman becomes a
pariah in the neighborhood Of her
mothers home( which is more than
likely, think the people who are
thrown with the professor will do
well to shun his company. Also, if
the me~o''0 nt-tailor had been pro-
nounced guilty by the jury, this
man, this strange sort of husband
and father should have been given
some sort Of singing rebuke by the
court; but as the tailor was pro-
nounced mot guilty." and the pro-
fessor cannot claim or collect money
damages, the mother-in-law must
give shelter to her unhappy daugh-
ter and be burdened down with the
care Of the three injured children
while the professor pursues his call
ing as teacher Of law.
I would not fancy the professor as
a tutor for any sort of students, if
I had children in the university to be
taught.
It creates some sort Of sympathy
for the misguided woman who was
under his control-and if she is ''off
in her mind" we may indulge in any
sort Of violent indignation against
the professor.