Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED By LIZZIE OTHOMAS

The Coming and Going of the College
Sons
Windows and doors today stand
wide,
And pouring in from every side
The summer breezes laughing go,
Waving the curtains to and fro.
An open trunk beside the bed
Displayed it's contents widely spread.
Crumpled in curious balls-dear,
dear,
What dreadful packing have we
here?
A tie rack with its gorgeous load
Upon the nearest nail bestowed;
A rod, disjointed, standing near
With fishhooks on the chiffonier;
A camera and snapshots gay
Of boys and girls on holiday.
(She has charming face, that hat!
All, me, must sons grow up so fast?)
At bedtime confidential chat,
About who stole the tuotor's hat.
Who use, or didn't use, a trot
And who made A, and who did not.
With growls about the frightful
knocks
That washerwomen give to socks.
And full descriptions-Greek to me
OF how "Our team licked U. of P"
A few short weel1s-how fast they
fly
And time will come to say good-by.
A farewell brush to hat and coat,
A lump to swallow in the throat;
Then-silence in the empty bed,
And that brief prayer-so often said:
Lord, keep my boys heart clean
and free,
And bring him safely back to me-"
All winter long his room lay still
Patient and orderly and chill;
I wiped away the unstirred dust
With little signs, as mothers must.
Each night beside the empty bed,
The little prayer, so softly said:
Lord, keep my boys heart clean
and free,
And bring him safely back to me-"
From the September number of
Farm and Home" 1 am giving you
some ideas that could be profitably
used in our southern cut-over coun.
try. The Farm and Home" is a
monthly, costing only twenty-five
cents year, and each copy is worth
that much money. This copyShas a
splendid article about eighty boys
in the Union High school Of Kern
county, California, who realize cash
on what they learn to- do in school
while they are learning it. Each
boy chooses his line and enters a
contest conducted by the Boys Ag-
ricultural club of the school. Not
one failed during last school year to
accumulate property, such as live
stock, chickens, or fruit, which he
raised at home, directed by his in
structor in agriculture. This Cali
fornia experiment that made good
could be copied in Georgia, the Caro-
linas and Alabama. Minnesota's ag-
ricultural school is teaching her dis
abled soldiers to farm while attend
ing their agricultural high school.
Out Of their government allowance
of from $50 to SITE a month they
are saving from $40 to $40 monthly
to pay for land on contract, getting
married (which entities them to a
higher compensation and building a
home while they work their land.
Forty of them are establishing poul-
try farms near Minneapolis. Forty
two Of them have founded town
called Veteranville, each soldier hav.
ing from forty to eighty acres of
Minnesota's cut-over land. They
are thoroughly testing cooperation,
for they own tractors, stump pullers
and other heavy equipment. Instead
of going back to college this winter,
instructors will be sent to them and
their lessons will be their everyday
duties and problems.
Mr.. Martin Erlwind teaches at
Martin, w. Va. His is just district
school, but he is a man with a vision
and is also teaching his pupils life's
realities. He says: II teach my pu-
pills their lessons as applied to real
life, thoroughness in. the common
branches, especial emphasis on the
three RS. teach beginners their
letters and how to spell. Pupils are
taught to write regardless of wheth-
er their movement is muscular, fore
arm or finger. often read an in
teresting story with implied moral.
And the afternoon session is opened
with real memory gems.
1--WE use many new and different
methods, such as selecting and test
ing seeds for planting, testing milk
for butter fat, study best dairy cat