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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
DOROTHY DIX TALKS -The Second Best Bet

affection, was put into a lump sum it would
pay off the war debt.
It is only too true that a INNS romantic
love for woman lasts only a very short
time. Passion inevitably burns itself out,
and daily life tears illusions to tatters. 1t is
also true that time inevitably takes its toll
of woman's looks, and she who was raw
ing beauty at 20 is no living picture Is or
20 years later.
Women know this, but the mistake they
have made has been in thinking that the way
to keep husband is by dangling before his
eyes the same bait with "-44cn he was caught.
This is an error from every point of view.
1t is blunder FROM the woman's side because
she no longer carries the same line of charm
in stock that first ensnared her husbands
fancy No middle-aged woman has the slim
ness, the peaches and cream complexion the
CLINT in her hair, the dewy freshness, and the
high spirits of youth, and her efforts to cam
outage them are mere caricatures of the real
thing.
And it's a mistake from the mans point of
view because the man is middle-aged himself.
He has long since ceased to take any particu
lar interest in his wife looks, and doesn't
care rap whether she's perfect SO, or a
comfortable 46. Nor does he take any interest
in the ingenue tricks that he fell for in his
salad days. He no longer thinks it cute for
her to roll her eyes and be helpless and baby
ish. He thinks she is acting like fool when
she does.
So, as plain matter of fact, the middle
aged woman who wants to held her husband
has got to cut fresh bait, and nowhere will
she find better, or such never-ending sup
ply, as in the daily newspaper for no man
ever gets tired of the woman who interests
him, who knows the things that he knows
and can talk and listen intelligently.
f Women have been slow to realize that the
greatest foe to domesticity, the real enemy to
the home is boredom Men leave home and
seek compani. ship elsewhere because their
wives h re nothing on earth to talk about ex-
cept the high CO. of butchers meat and the
babies teething and their complaints because
they have to work so hard and can't have
everything some other woman has. Children
leave home because home is the dullest spot
on earth.
But where you find bright and entertain
ing woman, woman who keeps up with the
times, woman who can keep her family
amused and interested, you invariably find
home staying household.
So read the papers, ladies, because it's
about the only thing your husbands read
and II you keep him yC" must keep his STEP
The newspaper is your best ally and the most
reliable safeguard against being deserted
wife, even If no la7 } ever passed making
non-reading of the papers a cause for divorce.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02

famous Judge said the other day that
he thought that a man should be entitled to
a divorce from a wife who did not read the
daily papers.
A Daniel, a second Daniel come to judg-
ment. Only it should work both ways and
be applicable to men as well as to women.
For what are infidelity and drunkenness, and
cruel and inhuman treatment, and the other
trivial causes for which divorces are granted,
compared to the daily torture of the COM
partnership of one who does not even read
the daily newspapers?
Think Of having to spend endless evenings
with person who does not know whether
Cox or Harding was elected president! Who
wonders why such fuss is made about the
league of nations! Who thinks Babe Ruth is
tot in an orphan asylum who has somehow
gotten her name peopler lips and who
doesn't know whether soviet Is brand Of
canned goods, or a new cure for the influ-
enZa!
Think Of not being able to look up from
your paper at breakfast and casually remark,
II see they've got new clue in that kidnap-
ing case" or, '"The detectives think that the
woman killed Elwell, after ALL" or, Say
what do you think of this? The Bullionaires
are going to get divorce Some peroxide
vamp got him like they do all of the million.
aires!?
Why half the fun of reading a newspaper
is TO READ IL IN SnaLcneS aloud TO someone
who is just as interested in the bits of news
as you are, and just as up-to-date on every
point from politics to scandal, and who
doesn't need more than half word to be put
wise to the whole situation.
That's the very essence of companionship.
We can have no chumminess with those with
whom we have to enter into long and ex-
haustfng explanations of everything in which
we are interested. Moreover it is a waste Of
words to try to explain things to people who
do not read the daily papers. They're too
dull and stupid to understand anything ex-
cept their own narrow personal interests.
The judges opinion was that any man was
entitled to divorce, no matter what the
woman's other virtues may be- from a wife
who doesn't read the newspapers. Listen to
this sisters, for these be words of wisdom
that are like unto apple, of golu in pictures
of silver.
You know that the one deadly fear that
clutches at the heart of every middle-aged
woman is that her husband will grow tired
Of her, ID that she will no longer have the
charm for him that she had when she was
young and pretty. You know that the one
cry of the woma who is getting fair, fat and
forty is that her husband has ceased to love
her. You know that If all the money that
women, who are no longer young, spend on
masseurs and obesity cures, and beauty spe-
cialists in order to retain their husbands
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
is YOUR WORK 'EASY?,
By H. Addington Bruce

| EFFICIENCY experts have long insisted that
| II man should train himself to do his work
~ with economy of effort Beware of false
motions, beware of wasted energy" is their cry.
Accomplish while yet outstanding your pow
| erS"
| This is sound gospel, provided it is not in
| terpreted to mean the gaining of such facility
that one works in an entirely effortless, me-
chanical way.
| For then work will no longer be the potent
factor in self-development and progress that
work always ought to be. Still worse, work
that becomes quite effortless, that becomes
ridiculously easy, may have the effect of kill
ing mans ambition to do more important
work making greater demands on him.
Everybody knows workers who are sngularly
facie in a limited way.
They are so facile that they do the tasks as
signed to them far more rapidly and far more
easily than fellow-workers do similar tasks But
their great object seems to be to do them
rapidly and easily. Functioning like machines
| and interested only in getting their work done,
they give no thought to any higher end.
| When they think about their work at all #
is to rejoice that it calls for so little exertion
Il have good thing" is their inward comment
"l'll nurse it along"
Can they nurse it along?" Is it good policy
to do so' Is it not possible that when work
becomes too easy one is in danger of graduaIIv
losing the ability to do even that work really
we'll? '
l commend to such ultra-face self-satisfied
workers a few remarks by one who has for
years been making special study of the
philosophy of business success:
mo work should be easy if done with all
ones might and main. Every job should take
it out of man. if he expendS every ounce of
his energy in doing it the very best way within
his power
"Work done with little effort is liable to
yield little result. Every job can be done ex-
cellently or indifferently. Excellence neceSsi-
tates effort-hard sustained, concentrated eff
fort
$50, if you are sleeping over your job, instead
of sweating over it overhaul yourself"
This may sound like flat contradiction of
the teachings of the efficiency experts. 1t is
not The man who made these remarks is HIM
self an efficiency expert.
And he, too would have workers adopt work
ing methods which would husband their powers
and save them from false motions-so far as
the technique of their work is concerned. But
ne would have them do this only with the view
OF making more energy available for improving
the quality of their product through thoughtful,
lnremitting study of ways and means of i'm
proving it.
That, in few words, is the real significance
OF the efficiency doctrine of economy of effort.
10 give 1t other signifcance-and especially to
regard 1t as sanctioning mental Incidence when
technical facility has been gained-is to imperil
all ones prospects in the competitive world of
work. '" "
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
A Rich Georgia O66ortun;;ty

n roTING that South Georgia produces
IN about two hundred thousand pounds
: Of wool year, the Valdosta Times re-
marks, "The yield ought to be twice as
much
At least twice as much it ought to be for
the southern and nid-state counties, and
many times as much for the mountain dis
tricts. The region best suited to sheep rails
ing, in the judgment of animal husbandry
specialists, is that north of line from Rich
mond to Muscogee counties. Yet at the time
Of the last census this half of Georgia con-
tanned only sixteen thousand three hundred
sheep, as against fifty-five thousand six hun
dred to the south Of the line. Further, the
number Of sheep in the state as whole de-
creased from on3 hundred and fifty-two
thousand six hundred in 1910 to some seven
ty-two thousand in 1890 loss of more
than fifty-two per ce4lt.
That this should be the plight of an in
dustry for which Georgia is so excellently
suited and which so abounds with opportuni-
ties for profit Is greatly to be regretted. The
sheep has been called "the animal of the
golden hoof' because Of it's continual enrich
ment of the land 1t treads and also because
OF its plenteous production of wool, to say
nothing of mutton. touching this twofold re-
turn, recent bulletin of the State College of
Agriculture points out that while the initial
investment is small, profits can be realized
within a year. Moreover, "Sheep keep the
shade on the hilltop instead of the river, thus
distributing manure OF the poorest and worst
eroded soil." The institution urges that
there be, especially in the mountain region,
marked increase in the number as well as
the size of flocks, "both with the small land
owner AMI on the vast unused areas
This good counsel, it is to be hoped, will
be taken up by Leaders alike in business and
in agriculture, and turned to substantial re-
suits. Millions of dollars of direct profit and
untold sums of indil ect but permanent value
will thus be added to the commonwealth.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02

good in approaching the greens and getting
down his puts, but he was extremely we'll
pleased with himself as he stood on the
fourth tee and prepared to get off another
slashing drive.
WELL" he said in all seriousness, "I
have mastered the long game, but / see
that I'll have to give little attention
now to the iron clubs!'
Needless to say, he did not thereupon
whale out another long drive. Whom
the gods Of golf love they chasten, and
that young man was duly chastened before
he learned the difference between luck
and skill in well-hit golf shot Today
the golf courses of the world are covered
with men who mourn the years they lost
the years of youths suppIeness and re-
s1l1ency, when the eyes were keen. and
When there were no such things as jump
nerves, atrophied muscles and stiffened
joints.
Future for Professionals
Second Of the reasons why the younger
generation is taking to golf is that it now
nolds out substantial rewards to those who
make profession of it. Walter Hagen
will probably make $4,000 this year as
result OF his having won the British
open championship. He and Joe Kirk
wood, the Australian champion, have
teamed up to play exhibition games and
nave practically all their time booked
for months ahead. They get a minimum
OF $500 day for these games, and while
there Is nothing about that to make Jack
dempsey give up prize fighting, it runs
INTO tidy sum in the course of year.
hrkWood is past master of trick shots
ana he and Hagen make a combination
That is hard to beat as drawing card
gene Sarazen will cash in on his Sic
cess In like degree. He is in great demand
ior exhibition games already, and in Oc
tober he and Hagen are matched in
contest for what is termed the worlds
championship that will yield a big cash
prize to the winner and be well worth
Whl!e even for the loser. AS an illus
ratlon OF how success in golf NAV he
capitalized, 1t may be noted that western.
promoter offered Bobby Jones s25.oo0 TO
play a series of exhibition games with
oarazen. OF course Bobby declined the
o11er' as he is amateur and has No
thought OF abandoning this amateur status
out at least he has the satisfaction ,of
knowing what he can do in case the mort
gage is about to be foreclosed on the old
homestead or some similar emergency
arises. e0AiO'
However, the professional does not have
to be one of the top-notchers in order to
make money. Those who stand even fairly
we'll as players and as teachers are in de-
mand and have no trouble In securing
positions that will net them from $500 to
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
JAPANESE RULES FOR WOMEN
BY DR.. Frank Crane

From 1858 to, 1848 lived Hokusai. who
seemed to be member of the Japanese
hule Makers Union, and drew I'D a list
OF thlngs that women should not do.
The precepts Of Hokusai have been rem
dered into English by Gonnoske Komai
the author of Dreams From China and
Japan
. me Following rules are selected from the
Ast. Ihese are the things to be carefully
avoided by women:
se1-assertion contrary to the laws of heav-
en-.
speaking too freely and indiscreetly tn
others Of important matters
Rldlcule even of trifles, also calumnv
and backbiting
Cher1sh1ng resentment against others on
account of your own i'll fortune.
AssocIatlng with women who have their
hearts always full Of jealousy and envy.
Making light of others through too
nlgh conceit of woman's apish cleyerness.
Becom1ng familiar with priests on the
pretext of religious conversation
ExtraVagance in money matters, and dis
content with their position.
Treating maids unfairly whether they act
we'll or ill.
Negligence Of parents-in-law
Negligence of stepchild.
Becoming too friendly with any male rel
at1ve in law, however closely related he may
be-.
Despising persons of good conduct and
loving those who flatter.
Venting upon one the anger which has
been aroused by another.
Overindulgence in pleasures-music
sightseeing and play-going.
Adjoining themselves in beautiful attire
and trappings and leaving their maids
meagrely clad and neglected.
Making due allowance for difference in
time and latitude, and remembering that
after all human nature is about the same
whether in Toxic or Chicago, one may be
able to peruse the above rules and find in
them considerable suggestiveness.
When read this articles to certain wom-
an OF great Importance she observed that
she didn't think much of it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

The Rev. J. A. Sharp, presid of the
Wesleyan conference of England, started his
c. -er 40 years ago in a country parish
on Say approximating $500 a year, and
he has had ctr ggle for success which, how
ever, has not impaired his sense of humor
Here is story he tells:
He was once preaching for the first time
in strange chapel. He noticed that every
member of his congregation had their eyes
fixed upon him, apps rently following him
with the greatest attention. Feeling some
what flattered, he mentioned this to his dea-
con afterward
GAS a matter of fact" was the reply, 1--WE
were looking for you to disappear"
Disappeared said Mr.. Sharp, in surprise.
What do you mean?"
well, the pulpit is absolutely rotten, and
hasn't been used for IL years.
Have you heard the latest Coue story?
man with handy legs called to see the great
practitioner of healing by suggestion.
After an examination, the doctor said:
Yes, thu can be cured. Massage them every
night, and before you go to sleep say, My
legs are getting less and less handy a hun
dred and fifty times"
Full Of hope, the men went home. That
night he carried out the massage treatment,
but he could not remember just how many
times he had to repeat the magic words. He
knew it was something and so, so, to make
sure. he recited the phrase $50 times. Next
morning he found that he was knock -kneed!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
Truth of the Texas Primary
- raacnn for Earln q Mavfields vic


tory over former Governor Ferguson
in the Democratic Senatorial primary
In Texas is not far to seek nor, once the cir
cumstances are understood, possible to mis-
take.
Mr.. Mayfield's opponent, though follow
ed by certain Qu:xotic faithfuls, seems to
have impressed the majority as one who in
any event must be beaten. AS Governor he
had been impeached, leaving record which
under even the most charitable construction
appeared woven through with incompetency;
and while his buster pleased the crowd, his
exceeding unsuitableness for the office OF
United States Senator was obvious to the
rank and file. Thus in the tecond primary,
when the candidates were thinned to two,
the chief concern of Texas Democrats was to
prevent the former Governors nomination.
For accomplishing this they had but one
means-they had to vote for Mayfeld. If
to many the choice seemed little better than
between jazz and rag-time, still they pro-
ceeded as practical philosophers and elected
the lesser evil. That Mr. Mayfield happened
to be Endorsed by the Ku KluX Khan was no
more the cause of his victory than that he
happened to be Endorsed by the Anti-Saloon
League. To what extent and to what effect
the Khan figured at all in the election ap-
pears in the fact that well-nigh every other
candidate on whom it cast it's favor was de-
feated. THAT is the real and the only sig
nificant upshot of tn organizations part in
the campaign.
To suppose that it's Influence determined
the Senatorial nomination would be to miss
the salient problem and meaning of the
Texas primary The limit of choice being as
it was, the Texas democracy could not in
reason have made a different decision, and
was no more swayed by masks than by
the helmets of the Trojans, dead and for
gotten these four thousands years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
Bio Words and Little

~ ONES a quester of the curious an
nouncing that the longest word in
English is Observation-Disclosures
But this contains only nine syllables and four
and twenty letters. In Sanskrit, he adds,
there is a word with one hundred and fifty
two syllables.
That is what Shakespeare would call
drawing out the thread of verbosity finer
than the staple of argument"-which is re-
mindful that the longest word in that in
comparable master of words is, if memory
serves us, Observation-Disclosures" But he
was laughing, mind you, when he used it.
Elsewhere he has said, There is much virtue
in If" Certainly more Of human history
has turned upon "if'' than upon all the poly
syllable monsters in the lexicon. And who
can measure the destiny that hangs upon sim
pie yes or no?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02

~ a camper in the far Canadian north
hear music from WSB
Radio! With that one word there is ban
ished from the history of the impossible all
the work of the Jim conjured by Aladdin
with his wonderful lamp.
In the north country, during the coming
winter, when the trails of men will have be-
come impossible and the rivers and harbors
lie gripped in the clutch of ice; when there
will be no travel and no visible means of COM
munication, some hundreds of heavy-faced
miners and prospectors and workers will for
get the vast expanse of ice and snow that
bars them from civilization, and sitting be-
fore tiny box, will listen with rapt atten-
ton to the voices in the air.
. Consider it, A package scarcely larger
than small camera; a few bits of wire and
pair of earphones and there is no longer
loneliness in the world
The voices Of the air are at your call; the
news of the worlds activities; the throbbing
music that is an inspiration and always the
voices of men and women, whether you be
within the Arctic circle or in the uttermost
reaches of the southern oceans.
Aside from the commercial value of the
radophone; aside from any value that it may
have in the cities Of the world and in their
work, there is one thing that will stand out
through all history-the Punishment of lone
illness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
BORING LOVE TO DEATH
BY HELEN ROWLAND

n TOST of the unhappy marriages in the
MI world, as have said, IRE not broken
up; they simply sag, stretch, wear or
gradually tear apart.
Very few men, or women either, have any
great big "besetting SIM; marriage would be
far simpler problem if they had.
1t is easy to decide what to do with the
husband or wife who is guilty of murder, ar
son, wife-beating, husband-poisoning, anti
Volsteadism or unfaithfulness.
But, WHAT can you do with the HALF
SINNER
The woman who constitutes herself an
eternal QUESTIONABLE, digs out her husbands
most sacred thoughts, probes his tenderest
feelings and never permits him to have
private and personal opinion on anything
The man who acts as thoug.- home were
deaf and dumb asylum, and never speaks ex-
cept to say pass the BUTTER
The lady sleuth, who steams open her hus-
bands letters and looks upon pink pepper
mint cough-drop in his pockets as an evidence
of crime ...
the ice-box to see just how much butter the
cook has been using and what became Of last
nights leftover potatoes.
The wife who elects herself her husbands
conscience" picks out his religion for his
censors his friends and his habits, and
denies him his pipe and his comforts.
The husband who appoints himself his
W1fe's sartorial judge and social mentor, &C.
lects her clothes, directs her conversation, ex-
purgates her calling list and chaperons her
manners.
The human fire-alarm, who keeps his wife
on the jump from the moment the first alarm
clock goes off until the last photograph has
gone to sleep.
The feminine mollusk who lies around like
a sacred crocodile waiting to be fed, clothed,
amused and decorated.
The "quick-trigger" husband, who goes
off like gun, withou provocation.
The storm-center wife, who deluges her
husband with tears and tantrums and res
proaches, just for excitement.
The movie-fiend, who keeps her T. B. M.
sitting through the perpetual emotion
dramas, night after night.
The golf-fiend, who makes his wife widow
before her time.
The domestic wit, who turns everything his
wife says or does into Joke; the prompt
err" who always interrupts her husbands
stories with But it doesn't go that way.
dear"
The sleepy-head who yawns through all her
evenings the prowler who patters round the
house all night; the wife who sniffles; the
husband who snores; the I-told-you-so" wife,
the bathroom hog husband, the talking ma
chine, the reformer-and the critic--on the
hearth!
Whew These are the HALF-SINNERS
that turn marriage from a life-partnership
into a lfe-sentence. Most marital love isn't
killed outright-it is just slowly BORED to
DEATH
Copyright, 1920
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very old story of Sheridan's wit, says
a London exchange, has come down through
the nineteenth century. Fox and Granville
were walking down Bond street one day
when they met Sheridan. Fox hailed him.
Hey, Sherry, we were just talking about
you, wondering whether you are most knave
or fool"
"Well, do you know" said Sheridan, TAX
ing an arm of each, "I'm little betwixt
the two