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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
FAMOUS WOMEN-By Frederic j. Haskir

1t is commentary on the critical faculty of
America that other writer's of more popular
style have been mentioned more frequently
than these.
Few Actresses Proposed
Only few actresses have been proposed:
Mrs. Fiske, Julia Marlowe, Ethel Barrymore,
Maude Adams and Mary Pickford. Geraldine
Farrar is the only opera star so far suggested
and Ruth st. Denis the only dancer. The
names of Violet Oakley, Cecilia Beaux and
Jessie Wilcox Smith are put forth as women
artists Of note.
Other nationally known women proposed
include Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Woodrow Will
son, Jane Adams, Ida Tarbell Julia La
throp, and Molla Mallory.
member of the league comments on the
fact that no American beauty has been in
Guided in the lists so far. "If this were O
century ago, or even SO years ago." she said,
1--WE should surely have received the name
Of some reigning toast, famous for nothing
but her wit and beauty. I do not believe
that women are less clever or attractive now,
but they are DOING so many things that
these qualities are no longer accepted as re-
markable unless put to service"
The league is not going to make up it's
final list hastily. 1t is studying carefully
months before the Chilean senorita is adj
vised officially as to the American women
that Chile might emulate.
The Woman's Universal Alliance has just
started on its quest in search OF the world s
Is greatest women. Like the League Of
Women Voters, the alliance is going slowly
in making it's important decision. Eventual
1y a distinguished hand-picked committee
will select the rs subjects for statues in the
Womens Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, in order
to get a slant on public sentiment, the al
lance is holding a contest with prizes Of
fered for the best lists.
officers of the alliance ale not competing,
but Mrs. c. G. Calhoun, president Of the Or
ganization, has given out list 'of her ia
vorite heroines which include Mary, the
mother of Jesus; Ruth, Cleopatra, Joan or
Arc, Jenny Lind, Mary Ball, the mother Of
Washington, and Queen Elizabeth.
Each name in a list submitted for this
contest must be accompanied by a descrip-
ton of the character in rs or more words.
We are told further that the contestant must
be over 16 years old; that men as we'll as
women may try for the prize, and that the
contest closes August 1.
Evidently if you have a neglected heroine,
living or dead, now is the time to strike a
blow for her right to fame. Only remember,
if she is dead, she will have to compete with
Helen of Troy, Joan Of Arc, Pocahontas, and
all the rest of the worlds accepted heroines.
r size IS living measure her up to the samples
of modern American fame mentioned in this
story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-Signs of Age

so the old. There is something in age
that brings out the autocrat and the tyrant
in us as a hot poultice brings out the
measles.
When a woman begins to tell everybody
what they should eat and how many hours
they should sleep, and what they should
wear, and to feel that she is generally
called upon to regulate the universe, she
Is getting old, no matter if she looks six
teen, and can dance from dark to daylight.
The real reason that men desert their old
wives is not because their faces have grown
old and ugly, but because they've got
tyrannical old souls, that make life with
them unendurable
Another sure sign of age is when woman
begins to knock all young women. When
you hear woman criticising the way the
girls dress and dance and chase down the
boys, and see her hold up her hands in hor-
ror because young people Joyride, and go to
theaters and cabarets, you may know that
what ails the poor thing is age There are
women who grow green-eyed and crazy with
jealousy every time they see beautiful
young face, and think of the admiration a
young girl excites, and the love that is made
to her, and realize that that chapter Of their
own lives is ended.
It is sure sign of age in woman if she
is catty about girls, and if she is full of
scandalous gossip about young people. For
it is only age that makes us believe that our
own was the golden age Of virtue, and that
humanity was any different in one genera
ton from what it is in another.
It's sign of age when a woman's inter-
ests begin to narrow down to her own family,
and her conversation becomes a monologue
about her children and her household When
a woman finds herself telling what John
said and John did, and how impudent' the
cook was, and how many beaux her daugh-
ters have, and what the captain of the foot
ball team said to Freddie, she had better
watch her step, for she is on the down
grade.
Heaven knows why egotism should be the
hall mark Of old age, but it is. AS long as
we are young, we are interested in the world
at large, and want to hear about other peo-
pie, but when we grow old we are so self
conferred we care for nothing that does not
pertain to ourselves.
The final test of age is the inability to
change ones point of view, or to accept new
ideas. AS long as we can change and grow,
are young, but the minute we become
set in our prejudices and opinions, we are
old.
Therefore, the woman who wishes to keep
young, must keep an open mind. She must
keep herself perpetually interested. She
must avoid becoming arbitrary and egotistic.
In word, she must look out for wrinkles
in her character, rather than those on her
face, and be more afraid of telling hoary
stories, than having gray hair. For age
shows in the soul quicker than it does in
the body.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
The Russian Plot

THE vague news from Moscow that
Lenine has been granted ga six
months leave from official duties
provokes all manner Of interesting conject-
ure. Is "six months leave softened para
phrase of what one of Shakespeares villains
means when, with assassin sword in hand
he speaks of putting king ''to the perpet-
ual Wink?"
Days and days have waned since more
than casual tidings have issued from the
Kremlin, that sphinx of walls am towers sit
ting gray upon a hill in the heart of the age
old capital of the Rcmanoffs. Behind those
walls, for more than two years, Lenine has
dwelt in the silent palace, once the home of
cars. "Those who have seen him there,
writes correspondent, report that he has
scorned the trappings of power so prevalent
in the old regime. He has dressed simply
and lived simply. But when it comes to
military show, Lenine has been guarded more
carefully than were he Romanoffs. Those
who have obtained Interviews with the Rus
sian autocrat have passed between files OF
soldiers as fully armed as was ever the case
in the days of royalty precaution not i'll
advised, the traditions of the Cuntry and
temper of the times being considered.
But something more dramatic, though less
to be desired, than death may have befallen
the dictator of the Bolsheviki. What if he
has been seized by his cook and doorkeeper
and other once trusted friends and flung
into dungeon dee0 within the Kremlin
shadows at the behest of some secret, pow
erful group of consplrators whose identity
and designs are for the time being with
h.ld? The world 10 not yet too old and
sophisticated for melodrama Of this thrilling
sort; and stranger thin ofttir have hap
pened in history, which is ever more roman
tic than the movies.
Orders from the Moscow palace now are
issued in the name of Stain, Rykoff, and
Kameneff-all of which sounds, to a west
ern ear, suspiciously like Stealth, Rakeoff
and Camouflage. But where-and this is the
crucial question-where are Trotzky and his
whiskers? 1t may that we shall have to
wait six months for tho untanglng Of the
Russian plot. Or W may be overwhelmed
with surprises before tomorrow
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
THE REWARD OF CARE
By H. Addington Bruce

MOT long ago there died an old lady with
! " whom l had been acquainted for many
years. She had been afflicted with a
disease of the heart long before my acquaintance
with her began And was reliably informed
that she had been delicate from childhood.
She waS indeed, one of the most fragile-look-
ing old ladies l have known, one of whom it
might truly be said that she looked as though a
zephyr would have blown her away. Yet she
lived until past eighty, surviving all but one of
her brothers and sisters.
| That she thus held fast to life despite the
| handicap of poor health was due chiefly to two
thingS-the care taken of her by relatives and the
care she took of herself as consequence of ap-
preciating her limitations. She was too sensible
to repine and worry over these, and also she
was too sensible to defy them.
She led a thoroughly, well-regulated life,
placid and quiet, yet useful. Until the last few
| years she busted herself in housework. But
always she avoided overexertion, always she
avoided the needless emotional tumults which
SO many seem to find unavoidable
| AS a reward of this care she lived on and on,
negating the predictions of more than one
| physician. Nor is her case by any means unique
Among your own acquaintance must be some
who, despite poor health perhaps extending back
| to youth, have through care won for themselves
great length of days.
And on the opposite, you must also be able
to call to mind acquaintances who, though be-
ginning life with an uncommon stock Of vigor
and energy, have gradually or suddenly broken
down, perhaps died, before they were fairly into
middle age.
Scrutnize the life histories Of such unfor-
tunates and again and again you will find that
they were conSpicuouSly careless with regard to
the conservation of their health
They were so strong, they felt so well, that
they assumed health was matter to which they
need not give thought. Also they aSsumed-at
least they behaved as though they did-that they
could put any tax they chose on their bodily
powers without experiencing i'll effects
Necessarily, inevitably, their carelessnesS was
punished. Always careessneSs with regard to
health is punished in some way. 1t is punished,
moreover even though it be due, not to rcck-
lesSnesS, but to ignorance of the laws of right
living and their particular applications to one'S
SELF
Nature is judge who never accepts igno-
rance as plea of conformation. She lays down
certain principles to be observed by the wise
and the ignorant alike The latter'S cry is 81
did not know" avails nothing when nature sits
in judgment.
Which is fact it were we'll for all of us to
bear in remembrance those who are exception
ally endowed with a robust constitution no less
than those who reSrettuly are aware that they
are not nearly so robust as most people.
copyright, 1922, by The Associated Newspa
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
The Return Of the Buffalo

Of the buffalo, or, to speak properly,
y the bison, as I. picturesque symbol of
the American past, preservable only on the
back of the five-cent piece, comes DR.. T. s..
Palmer, OF the United States Biological Sur
vey, announcing that the species is more than
five times as numerous as twenty years ago.
Even the dodo and the dinosaur might have
been saved from extinction, could science
have had a say!
Of the innumerable bison that once rCam-
ed the West in laundering herds and gave
color to romance, as well a. robes to COM
merce, there survived in the year 1902 only
about a thousand seven hundred and fifty.
1t was then that Congress appropriated fiji
teen thousand liars fo4 conserving them,
but with little idence in the venture. To-
day the posterity of that small remnant
numbers above ten thousand These are dis
tributed in CanaGa and the United States
those on this side Of 'e border having hap
Ply homes in Yellowstone Park, Montana
Bison Range, Wichita Preserve. and Wind
Cave; while the members of one herd, we are
told, calmly chew their cuds in the Zoo
logical park at Washington where their an
ceStorS were first seen in the East by white
men in 1872"
Divers questions touching the life history
and habits of the buffalo are being studied by
the Biological Survey, but as yet are I'M
answered. How old does it become? When
does it begin to breed, and when cease?
7 "The Metnusaien of the Species" the scien.
lists report, sis said to be thirty-one years
DID," this one being in Paris. 1.-THE oldest
in the Government herds are a venerable
cow, now twenty-four years oil, and 'Kalis
pei Chef, the leader of the Montana herd
now twenty years old 1t is of peculiarly
interesting record that in at least one in
stance a buffalo COW bred in her twenty
sixth year.
May not Georgia look forward to having
herds of bison, as we'll as elk, in her fores
reserves?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

The clerk was showing customer some para
soils.
AS he picked up one from the lot on the
counter he struck an attitude of admiration and
holding it up to the light, said, "Now isn't il
lovely? Look at the silk Observe the quality
the finish, the general effect! Feel it. Pass
your hand over It'll No nonsense about that
paraSol is there?"
"No," said the customer. THAT'S my old
one. l Just laid it there"
1t was her birthday, but he had hurried off
to business with the usual duty-peck at her
up-turned face and she was left to worry the
day through, oppressed by the thought that his
once ardent love was waning.
When he returned at night, wished her many
"happy returnS,' gave her a full sized hug and
placed tiny package in her hand, she knew
she had wronged him. He was still the same
generous-hearted Romeo who had wooed and
won her
"And l thought you had forgotten al about
it, Harold" she cooed as she unwrapped the
package
Then b1ack-edged expression took front
seat on her features.
"Pipe cleanerS!" she gaSped.
eyes, pet" he said. 81 knew they would
please you. You never did like me to use
your hatpns."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
Dav;d's Little Sister"
. HE first woman nominee for the
United States Senate is Democrat.
So, too, is the second.

30, loo, Is Lu0 SSCOlu'
Mrs. Peter Olesen, whom the forward
looking of Minnesota have chosen as their
leader against the Goliaths of reactionism,
was asked if she aspired to be another David.
80 no!'' she laughed back, "only Dav1ds
little sister," The most useful traits OF man
are good humor and courage. The most use
full traits of woman are good humor and
charm. "Davids little sister" appears to
possess all three. No doubt she will make
the summer and early autumn exceedingly
uncomfortable for her Republican opponent,
Senator Frank kellogg, the nature of whose
alliances and attitudes may be inferred from
the fact that he was defender if not indeed
supporter of Newberry. Will she assail
the Senator, man-fashion, with a mighty
two-edged sword of wrath? Not at all. With
smooth pebbles of irony and truth she will
pelt him; and though a giant may with
stand all manner of denunciation, he can
hardly survive ridicule when it comes as the
barb of facts. They say that Mrs. Olesen,
some four years ago, won a State convention
of hard-shelled politicians to Endorsement OF
woman suffrage as plank in the party plat
form, notwithstanding that when she began
talking they were virtually a unit against
her. Most persons, given the opportunity
talk themselves to defeat. May the tactful
leader of Minnesota's Democracy sustain her
winning record in the November elections!
And so be it in Wisconsin, where Mrs. Ben
Hooper was nominated this week to oppose
that tiresome piece of pompadoured loquaci-
ty Robert Marion La Toilette. Surely, even
Republicans to the manner born will vote for
her if they have compassion for their COM
monWealth and country or regard for their
own repute people of good sense.
Two women in the United States Senate,
and both Democrats, might go far to redeem
that body of its august dizziness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
Where Our Bread Is Buttered
EADERS Of the Georgia Creamery Mems
Association point out the astonishing


Association point out the astonishing
fact that of all the butter consumed
In this State not more than two per cent is
a native product.
If there were no resources, no endeayors,
and no prospects for dairying industries in
Georgia, we could afford to forget that nine
ty-eight out of every hundred pounds Of but
ter sold within our borders come from afar.
But wit, the time ripe for developments that,
IL duly sustained, will add millions to our
prosperity, the matter is one to which no
man having a stake in the common veal can
remain indifferent. Dairying will go far to
solve some of the States most troublous eco
nomic roblems, if it is supported in these, its
pioneer days of enterprise. In many coun-
ty it will fill the gap which the boil weevil
has cut, and will make diversified agricul-
ture a profitable investment as we'll as a
logical theory. 1t will bring into use divers
natural resources and, eventuallyy,' thou
sands of acres of land which now are I'M
productive. 1t will provide steady incomes,
and hence steady trade, for communities
which hitherto have depended upon a sin
gle crop and single seasons importing of
cash for the business of the entire twelve
month.
But all this is contingent upon popular sup
port of the creameries which are laying the
industrys foundations in commerce and to
which the producing farmers look for their
market. UNLESS Georgia people buy Georgia
butter" says President thinner, of the Cream
cry Association. I'VE cannot continue to pay
present prices. The industry is in it's infan-
cy; it should be given every encouragement.
Georgia can be made one Of the best dairy
ing States in America. Georgia butter Is in
every way equal to imported butter" These
are not appeals of mere self-interest, but of
generous concern for the commemorative up
building and prosperity Let Goorgians re-
member, then, on which side ter bread is
buttered.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01

There isn't woman in the world over
thirty years OF age who isn't on a per-
petual sti1l-hunt for signs of age in her.
self. She cannot pass a mirror without
looking in it to see if wrinkle is begin
ming to form at the corners of her eyes,
or she has acquired a tell-tale gray hair.
She cannot go by a weighing machine
without hopping on it to find out if she
is not losing her girlish figure, or drift
ing into the living skeleton class.
For age, which is a tragedy to us ALL, is
an obsessing horror to woman, and do
they fear and dread it that the greatest
compliment you pay any woman is to
tell her how young she looks
Now, women make the mistake of think
ing that the way they register age is in
faces and figures alone. Therefore, they
spend their time, and money, and efforts
on cold cream, and massage, and cosmet-
les, and dieting. 1t never occurs to them
that age Is matter of the spirit far
more than it is Of the body, and that if
they want to look young, they must keep
their souls young.
Little as they think it, it is more i'm
portant to rub out the wrinkles in their
dispositions than it is in their faces. And
there is more profit in amounting their tenn
peraments with the oil of tolerance than in
applying emoluments to their countenances.
A woman never dreams that she gives
away n6r age ny u0r aCClCuQ0 towards lll6
far more than she does by her appearance,
but she does. For just as Culver, the great
naturalist, could reconstruct any animal
from single bone, so any discerning per-
son can observe a womans talk and con-
versation for day, and tell you how old
she really u.s. no matter what camouflage
of youth she hides behind, or how many
lies she tells about her birthday.
Perhaps the first Indication that woman
gives of age is when she begins to speak
of herself and her female friends as eve
girls" AS long as girl is a girl she
never calls herself one. She says eve col
lege women" And she affects age and
sophisticaton just as the women of thirty
poses as being artless, and innocent.
Also, when a woman gets to be along in
the thirties, she begins to tell you how
young she was when she got married. She
says that she was just mere child, and
she is very particular to explain to you
what she knows about things that hap
pened ten or fifteen years ago, are remi-
niscences told her by her mother. A wom-
an never permits herself to remember any
thing that happened longer ago than year
before last until after she is sixty, and
doesn't care who knows it. When a wom-
an gets shy of dates, you've got her date.
She is somewhere in the fearful thirties,
or the roaring forties.
The next indication that woman gives
ing to live, and let live. They want to do
things their way, but are willing to let
other people have the same privilege. Not
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-01
The Leave,u of Chr;stendon,

"HERE was recently uncovered at Con-
stantinople a turkish nationalist plot
looking to the assassination of Allied
officers and the stirring up of general insur-
rection among Mohammedan troops of
Christian Powers. While the conspiracy fell
to naught it gives ground for interesting
speculation as to whct might be the state of
the world today If in the conflicts and
changes of ages past Islam instead of
Christendom had come to dominate and
direct
Eleven hundred years ago the outward
differences OF the Two would hardly have
struck a disinterested onlooker as affording
either much of claim to superiority-un-
less, indeed the brilliant promise of Arab
science impressed him. The traits of that
time are we'll sketched by a writer in the
Chicago Journal, who contrasts the murder
GUS Turk OF today with the chivalrous al
Raschid and Salddin. 'Charlemagne had
just been crowned in Rome, but the good
Haroun was reigning in Bagdad. The
Byzantine Empire had an unrivalled tradi-
ton of law and culture but this was not
marked to a casual eye; and Constantinople
was marred by an intolerance from which
the Mohammedan capital of Cordova was
comparatively free. If in the year 500 A.
D. the Moslem world had decided to make
general assault on Christendom, an OBJ
server from emma mlSnC nave reported LndL
the two combatantS were pretty equally
matched in civilization as we'll as in power
and that it matter9d little which won.''
In the perspective of these more than
eleven centuries, oWever, it is plain enough
that it mattered infinitely which won; and
that while the diffe ence between the two
may have been little, that little was all i'm
portant. In Christondom there was the
leaven of an ideal which needs must affect
profoundly the destiny of any people into
whose lives it enters and which though it
be but as a grain of mustard will yield the
greatest, the goodliest harvests of history.
Human nature DOES change if there be
brought to bear upon it and within it ener-
gies which are themselves transmitting. 1t
changes, thus, as surely as seeds of corn I'M
fold beneath the touch of sun and shower.
Man has come but a little way along the
path Of his upward hiding adventure, and
the mists whence he has Travelled still hang
in dimming shreds about. But he begins to
know something Of the light which has STIR
red and led. He begins to see that the
leaven of Christendom is the power of his
progress.