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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29

our first mother was turned out of Eden
God gave her dress as a consolation price
and it still works. AS long as there are chif-
ions, and hair dressers, no woman need ever
be hard on the eyes, or lack the means to at
tract the masculine gaze.
Only the trained eye of the artist-and
praise Heaven few men are artists who can
distinguish between woman who is beau
tifully dressed, and one who is beautiful
herself. nor can many men distinguish Le-
tween a hand made complexion and the
real thing. So any girl can soon get the
reputation Of being good locker, of the
sort that a man is proud to be seen about
with if she will take enough pains with
her personal appearance.
My second piece of advice to the wall flow
er is to learn how to dance superlatively we'll.
These are the days hen it is better to have
nimble heels than to have the beauty Of
Venus, and the wit Of Aspasia. And whrn it
profiteth a maiden not, If she has every
other charm on earth to be heavy on her
feet.
No girl who is really wonderful dancer
ever lacks for partners. Therefore if you
lack lure in other u avs, spend your money
and your time with some good dancing
teacher until you are ar expert in all OF the
latest toddles, and wiggles, and shakes, anu
shimmies, so shall you have Co cut your
dances up into mincemeat instead Of staring
forlornly at blank program.
The third piece of advice that would give
the wall flower is to acquire adaptibility.
Learn how to be Jane-of-all-trades so that
you can fill in wherever you happen to be.
Learn how to play a good game of golf and
a good game of bridge. Learn enough music
to be able to play accomplishments for peo-
pie who think they know how to sing, and
to jazz for those who want to dance The
girl who can help other people to a good
time is always in demand, and always popu-
lar.
My fourth piece of advice to the waIlflower
is to cultivate good nature. Be good
sport. Be easy to get along with. Be jolly
and cheerful.
A man has to be actually in love with a
woman before he is willing to take the
trouble to entertain her, and he fights shy
Of the girl who expects him to make the
conversational running, but he likes the So
ciety of the girl who will entertain him. All
men are Grand Pashas at heart, and want
women to dance before them, and divert
them with Scherade stories.
And my fifth piece Of advice to the wall
flower is, never let d man find out that you
are wall flower. The only rose that man
ever wants is the one that he thinks all the
other men are breaking their necks to pluck.
copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29

There arc times when think that what
the world needs more than anything else is
social Luther Burbank who can change a
wall flower into the sort of rosebud that a
man instinctively plucks. and pins on his
breast,
At any rate, there isn't day in the year
when don't get from one to dozen letters
from girls asking how they can make them
selves attractive to men, and secure the
masculine attention that is necessary to
their having a good time.
81 am pretty. I dress we'll. My mother
entertains for me. I cannot see in what way
am inferior to the girls that men flock
around wall these disconsolate ones, "yet
no man ever comes to our house unless he
is specifically invited there. When l go to
party, no man ever dances with me unless
my hostess makes him, and when he does
he looks like lamb being lead to the
slaughter. Why am I what is popularly
called lemon'?" And is there any cure for
'1emon-ness?"
Why some women attract men, while
others repulse them is a mystery that no
one has ever been able to solve. It isn't the
matter Of beauty, nor brains, nor any Of the
standardized virtues that you can put your
finger on, and say, Acquire this or do
that" and you will appeal to men.
For we all know living pictures that are
left hanging upon the home walls, and home
ly ladies who have had three husbands al
ready, and still have a waiting list. We
know vivacious girls who never have beau,
and tongue tied ones that men swarm around
like bees around a honey pot. We know
viragos whose husbands worship them, and
household angels who are deserted wives.
And so it goes, and the masculine fancy
bloweth where it listeth, and no woman
knows which way to set her sails to catch it.
For a woman to be really attractive to
men-to be the kind Of girl that men run
after-she has to be born that way. Nature
must have endowed her with come-hither
look in her eye to which every son Of Adam
instinctively responds, but even when this
has been denied maiden, there are a num-
Der of things which she can do to camou-
flage her lack Of attractions for the opposite
sex, and to prevent herself from having to
sit among the charerones at parties and
acquire face ache trying to look as If she
liked it..
There is one thing about men for which
women have to be grateful to a merciful
providence, and that is that they are
not analytical about women. Their at
titude is the Doctor Fell one. They either
like you or they don't like you, but the rea-
son why they cannot tell, and they never
seek to find out. That is why a girl who
lacks real attraction for men can put over
a side line of make believe attraction if she
is clever and energetic enough to do it.
So my advice to any girl who wants to
move herself out of the wall flower class Is,
first, to learn how to doll herself up When
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
WHEN TO EAT CANDY

Children like candy not only because it Is
sweet but also because their natures demand
lots of food--and candy is food, though
greatly concentrated one. Children usually
will eat lot more candy than their stomach
and digestive apparatus can take care Of
properly. Hence, children should be given
candy sparingly
Women of sedentary habits are usually the
great candy eaters, and they are just the
ones that should leave sweets alone BUSH
ness women, who use UP great deal OF en-.
ergy in their active daily life, might safely
indulge in moderately large amounts OF
candy without any harm.
When we eat candy we are taking in food
at fearful rate. chocolate caramel or
square inch of fudge contains almost 100
calories or food units.
People whose lives are more or less mae.
tive do not require nearly as many food units
to keep them fit as people who do hard man
ual labor all day and use up their body tis-
sues at a high rate.
Ten chocolate caramels during the day are
Just the same as an extra meal. A person
who eats that amount should skip meal to
give the stomach chance to catch up.
If you eat candy instead of the third meal
you are taking your food in too concentrated
a form and it is irritating to the stomach.
Candy furthermore does not contain vita-
mines and minerals, which are essential TO
good health.
If you must eat candy, the best time to
eat it is at the end of a meal when the stom-
ach contains other food, but even then 1t
should be followed by fruit, so that the harm
full effect of the candy on the teeth may be
decreased. To be healthy it is we'll to take
your candy or your sugar in moderation and
we'll diluted.-By DR.. r. H. Bishop.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
PORTRAIT of a React;o,,aru

o apter description of the Honorable
Henry Cabot Lodge, titular Republic
can leader in the Senate, has been
written than that by deservedly famous
Republican journal in a great Republican
state of the West. Says the Des Moines Reg
ister:
Senator Lodge held a position of great in
fluence in our foreign relations. He was able
10 balk and hamper and hamstring the very
things he had himself in other days, and days
not so very remote, urged upon the country.
The worst thing that can happen to the Re-
publican party for the future is to keep SEN
ator Lodge in place of influence, or where
he will seem to have influence. He is dis
credited, disgruntled, mean spirited, lack
ward looking, cynical old man. His day of
usefulness was over long ago. he ever had
o day of real usefulness in public life The
story of his public career is going to be told
In mighty few words when the history of
American progress is finally written"
This is the view of keen observer I'M
swayed by partisan enmity but impelled to
candor by instructive love of truth Liberal
and fair minds, regardless of political camps,
can held no defense for hopeless reaction
aries.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
THE WRESTLING MARRIOTT

The traveller in the high mountains Of the
along the trail, by loud and shrill call from
the loose rock piles. sounding much like a
short whistle of a boy when he whistles with
two fingers in the mouth.
To determine the direction Of the sound or
it's distance away is very difficult. One
stands with attentive ears and searching eyes
for the object making the sudden call.
The keen observer may see the whistling
marmot on a projecting rock, perhaps in
conspicuous place, but in color and form the
animal blends with surroundings in mar
velously protective manner.
Only as the animal moves from it's exposed
position may one, be sure of its location and
size. In alarm it may dash for protection un-
der the great rock pile, which Is its home
The alpine marmots, extending from the
mountains of Europe across Siberia and CEN
trail ASIA through Alaska British Columbia
and the United States, have similar habits.
They are timid, inoffensive and harmless
creatures, living high up in the snowy reg
ions, where the summer is short and the win
ter long Should they appreciate beautiful
scenery theirs must be pleasant and joyous
life.
Being true rodents they live on the roots
and plants near their rocky home In suns
mer they carry quantities Of hay into large
round burrow beneath the rock pile, with
which they line the sleeping place of the
long winter. Ten or a dozen animals, pack
ed closely together for warmth, sleep the
deep sleep Of Information until the following
late spring.-Prof. M. J. E-rod, Chair OF
Biology, University of Montana.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
MODESTY THAT KILLS
By H. Addington Bruce

N N OBESITY almost always is a virtue highly
M to be extoled. But there are crcum
stances under which modesty is blame
worthy rather than admirable. Indeed, at time:
modesty is so completely out of place that tc
adhere to it may be to sacrifice ones life.
| Typical of what too frequently happens in the
case of the ultra-modest is the tragic experience
Of certain middle-aged woman.
| For some time she had had disquieting symp
| toms indicative of an abdominal trouble Max
| ing light of these, she undertook to treat then
| by dieting and Standardization. When they per
sisted she spoke of them to a physician, who
| was also personal friend.
"You had better come to the office" he told
her, sand let me examine you"
She went to his office, but when she discov-
cred what a thorough medical examination
ment she would not let the physician proceed
He tried to argue the matter with her. but she
was obdurate.
Thinking that her reluctance might be due 10
the fact that he knew her we'll personally, he
suggested that she visit some other medical
man to whom she was unknown. And he gave
her the names of several, any one of whom, he
assured her, was competent to make diagnosis
after examining her.
She went to none of them Ultra-modesty
held her back. For a year she continued her
self-treatment. Then, her symptoms in the
meanwhile becoming progressively more Sc
we're, she returned to the physician she had
first consulted.
- Now it was discovered that she was afflicted
with large internal growth. A surgeons
services was Invoked. Opening the abdomen
he shook his head.
otis too late he announced. "This growth
has reached an noperable stage. There is moth
ing can do"
Only little longer and the unfortunate
woman was dead, literally victim of ultra
modesty And it would be difficult to. estimate
the number of other women who similarly have
persisted from a false deicacy that has impeled
them to suffer in secret when tormented by
some malady that imperatively calls for an
early diagnosis.
Certainly the number must be sadly great
tragically great. For every physician has en-
countered the ultra-modeSt, to complicate his
work needfessly and to increase the difficulties
of their cure.
To make extensive physical examinations is
as much part of medical technique as to in
Spect tongues, feel pulses, or take temperatures.
Medical men so look upon it. Most assuredly
they do not regard it as anything extraordinary,
anything shocking.
And it were we'll indeed if all their patients
could be persuaded to look at medical examina-
tionS from the physicians point of view.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
The Lost Leadersh;b
= HERE is admirable franknesg in

- HERE is admirable frankness in the
way leading Republican journals are
discussing their party's present
plight. That it has fumbled and failed at
important tasks they do not deny. That
the tariff should have been let alone, and
the soldiers bonus handled differently or
not at all, they in notable instances concede.
rather than voices, that attempt blanket
defense. But the greater papers, the dis
corning ones, and the ones whom their
party will have to thank in the larger reck-
oning, are facing the facts
Particularly interesting is a recent utter
ance of the Boston TRANSCRIPT, touching the
deficiency, which, in its judgment, is gray-
est of ALL Leadership, it declares, is the
need supreme, and therein "the party sys-
tenn has played us false" For: ''To manip-
ulate its vast and intricate arose great de-
mand for expert mechanicians, and these
have evolved in rich profusion. Bat in a
crisis like the present mechanicians will not
serve our purpose The real need is a Man,
who by the example Of his own courage,
vigor, certainty and steadfastless will draw
out the highest qualities of the people;
whose resolute sense of duty will brush OPP
portunism aside; whose sympathy and
truthfulness will stir the heart and hold fast
the conscience Of the nation. Leadership of
this sort we have lacked"
Few contrasts in American history are
so striking as that between the last two
lackadaisical years OF our national life, and
the eight years of sinewy, high-hearted, con-
structive forward-le~ding that went before.
From mood that was always virile and
ofttimes heroic came lapse into fruitless
inertia. From it's course of full-sailed pur-
pose and starry enterprise the ship of state
turned Of a sudden to the Idoldrums, where
she tarries still. 1t was not to be expected
nor indeed desired that the stressful spirit
which governed from 1913 to 1921 should
continue unrelaxed, for nations like perso s
need times of repose. But certainly it was
not desirable that leadership should pass
almost completely from the stage!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
BY DR.. Frank Crane
ARTICLE L..

Some time ago wrote for The Red Cross
Magazine definition of Democracy. 1t has
been republished in other periodicals, but l
wish to 60 over the question again, and give
the ideas wider circulation through the news
papers. l have rewritten the whole matter
| The first essential to clear thinking is defini-
ton.
There are ten sections to this definition, each
somewhat distinct and yet all interdependent.
AS the scientist cannot deal with germ in
diligently until he has 'fsolated' it, that is,
| separated it and got it away from all other
germs and other matter so that he can see
| just exactly what it u.s. so we must isolate any
idea in order to think clearly about it.
The definition is as follows:
Democracy is "a Force ~ of Opinion ~
and of Feeling (4) operating within the People
(5) enabling the Majority of them co. to Get
what they Want % by means of Organization
| (S) and to make these gains secure by Laws.
| (9) for it is only by making its own Mistakes
| that nation can (1o) achieve its destiny,
which is to Grow.
And, first of all, Democracy is a Force. That
| is the kind OF thing it is. To understand a
thing we must first find out that group of
| things to which it belongs.
| 1t is because it is Force that we do not un-
derstand it.
We don't understand any force in the world.
We use forces. They are essential to life, but
we don't understand them. -
Electricity is force, so is gravitation, so is
life, SO is love, and so is conscience.
These forces are absolutely essential to ex-
istence. We could not live a day or an hour
without them. All education consists in learn
ing how to use them.
But what any one of them really is we have
not the slightest notion.
Democracy is the force in nation which
makes it develop, just as there is some mystic
rious principle in the acorn which makes it be-
come an oak.
1t is different from all the forms of Govern
ment that have preceded it, because its object
is not to make perefct machine of the State,
but to develop the people that compose the
State.
Democracy is not Socialism. 1t is not the
same kind of thing that Socialism is. You can
tell that by looking at the two words. Democ-
racy is "cracy'' meaning power, and Social
ism is an "Sm'' meaning system.
Democracy might conceivably be Socialis-
tic. 1t might even have an hereditary King.
For it is not so much a form of Government
as it is a principle of Government.
In fine, mankind is a social organism, and
Democracy is that life principle within it by rea-
son of which it grows toward perfection.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Cranc)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

A lady was entertaining soL.c friends at
small afternoon tea party. Her irrepressble
little daughter behaved faultlessly until the
party was nearly over.
One particular guest had not ceased to
arouse the childs curiosity.
Finally, she walked twice very slowly
round the guests chair.
well, dear, what is it?" the guest asked
curiously.
"Mummie said you were two-faced," re-
Piled the child, $50 was just trying to find
your other face"
II thought asked you to stop at Sheri-
dan Square?" said demonstrating WON.
an to the conductor
Sorry, madam, but I can't remember
where every one wants to get off," said the
harassed individual
"The old tale" the woman replied icily.
the very feathers in her hat quivering with
Indignation. Perhaps you'll stop the car
now"
Having almost squashed one meek little
man in her efforts to leave the car she
reached the exit.
"And how do you think I can get off
here?" she demanded of the conductor
pointing to puddle just beneath the step.
L don't know, madam. You must de-
eide that yourself" he answered upper
turbed. "But do know that we can't wait
here until that puddle dries up
Speaking Of the marriage laws at
meeting presided over by an arohdeacon in
England, curate remarked that it was not
generally known that man could not mar.
ry his widows cousin
Widows sister, you mean" corrected the
president.
NO." replied the youthful cleric "I
mean widows cousin"
The archGeacon was on his feet in an in
slant. His law. must not be challenged by
a. curate.
II tell you,'' he rejoined that a man may
marry his widows cousin, but not his Wild
oW's sister. You must really allow me to
know"
But" persisted the curate, chow can
man do anything in the way of marrying
when his wife is a widow"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
SMILE A WHILE

Times are bett~r and boiler shops are
opening Jazz musicians can go back to their
trade.
There isn't any vacation in the school of
experience.
People go to the movies to forget every
thing and some even forget not to talk
Very few woman haters are men; very few
men haters are women
There is shortage ofoptimists. Don't
shoot any.
When two fishermen meet, the recording
angel writes shorthand.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin Cobb

The Rev. Father F. P. Joyce, lately a
chaplain in the regular army but now re-
tired, as result of having been gassed in
service overseas with the A, e. F., stands
sponsor for this one:
During the great fire in San Francisco
mounted orderly from the Preside was
riding along Mission street at smart
trot A woman ran out OF house waving
her apron at him.
''Oh, Mister Soldier! Mister Soldier!"
she called, Where can ! get some milk
for our baby?"
Without drawing rein the cavalryman
saluted as he answered:
II don't know, ma'am; this animal I'm
ridin is horse
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
IN IMPORTANT THIRTY Per Cent

A LITTLE less than thirty per cent of
N the population of the United States,
Census Bureau announces. is now liv-
ing on farms, as compared with eighty-seven
per cent hundred years ago. Against this
report for the country as whole stands that
for Georgia, whose population is about sew
enty-five per cent rural. Even here how
ever, the trend is cityward, as is witnessed
by the fact that in the census of 1910 the
rural jewellers composed nearly eighty per
cent of the total.
1t has long been the fashion to lament the
drift away from farms: and certainly there
has come sad awakening to numbers who
exchanged the wholesome simplicities and
freedoms OF the countryside for life of un-
fruitful tension amid smoke and din. But
there are more sides to the situation than
one, If smaller proportion of the nations
workers are now on farms, it Is true also
that the few of today are far more product
i've than the many of a century or half CEN
fury ago. An economist writing in the New.
York Times well observes: I'm the early
days an entire family on the farm produced
little if any more than enough for its own
subsistence. Now one family produces suf-
ficient for three families and perhaps even
more. The other two, or three are free to
get fuel for ALL to care for the sick as doc
tors Or nurses; to see that justice is done
among all: to furnish information, to teach,
to preach, to study. to carry on scien-
tific research, to bring art in all it's
forms to the enrichment and adornment of
life" Assuredly the release of so much hui
man energy, through discovery and inven-
ton, for divers services other than farming
is not undesirable when farming itself con-
tinues and even increases in productiveness.
But if thirty per cent of the population is
sustaining seventy per cent in the fundamen-
tally important matter of agriculture, how es-
sential and right IL Is that the labors of the
thirty per cent be duly rewarded and their
vital interests conserved! Reformers have
been concerned too much for those who leave
the farm and too little for those who remain
there, providing bread and meat and raiment
for the rest of us. The chief emphasis should
be upon better schools, better highways, bet
ter sanitation, better houses and more of hui
man happiness for those who go forth to
seed-time and harvest and thus hold the
frontiers of our civilization.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
THE OLD GARDENER SAYS

Larkspur and some other perennials can
often be induced to flower most of the sum-
mer If the fadig stalks are cut close to the
ground. Use bone meal rather than animal
manares foI fertilizing your larkspurs il
they are not making strong growth and be
sure to remove any unhealthy leaves These
drop to the ground under the plants. In the
fall serape away an inch of soil for about
foot around the larkspurs and substitute pure
sand Then they will go through the win
ter much better than usual.