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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27

have submitted evidence that the Greeks
balanced on five toes, throwing the weight
toward the outside. So the controversy re-
mains unsettled.
English Expert Against Toe
A British anthropologist, F. Wood Jones,
seems to believe like the British woman
that man has little use for the outer toes.
He says that usually it is but a poor
thing; it's nail is ill-developed, and at
times no nail is present 1t is particularly
liable to that circulatory disturbance which
manifests itself in chilblains, and not I'M
commonly it seems in a poor state Of
nutrition. Most people possess but little
power of movement in 1t and it's skeleton
shows that it's atrophie condition has af-
fected the bones and joints, for the last
two phalanges are often fused together,
making it short Of a joint compared
with the rest of the toes Very common
ly it's axis is not straight, and the toe is
bumped up and also bent laterally.
All of this the anthropologist says,
might careless1y be laid to the result OF
wearing shoes He believes that shoes are
not mainly responsible. He points out
that in barefooted races the stump fifth
toe is not unusual. His conclusion is that
man is trusting to his first digit and that
all the others are undergoing process OF
comparative atrophy; that man is tendlng
towards the development of foot which
is unique, foot IN Wnlch tne nfSI ulsi1
is the dominant and in the end perhaps
the sole surviving member.
The British student of feet does not
seem to have gone into the health side
of the matter He is reporting tendency.
ANYWAY anybody who wants to nave a
few toes amputated can get variety Oh
opinions and advice. Some doctors will
saw that in the long run the loss OF the
little toe would be as inconvenient as the
loss of the little finger. Others cheerfully
think that the operation is merely hurry
ing along a job that nature Is going TO
do anyhow in few million years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
Growing Poor Gracefully

she has to give faithful, intelligent enthusiastic
service. And she does, and she succeeds, and
wins out as little Miss PretenSe never does
We admire the working woman who has the
good taste, and the good sense, and the good
judgment to dress like working woman in plain,
sensible, durable clothes instead of trying to
understudy the costumes of Mrs. AStorbilt, and
wear near silks, and phoney pearls, and dyed
cat furS.
The worst of poverty is not being poor, but
in pretending that you are rich 1t is trying
to keep up appearance that wears one to skin
and bones and takes all the joy out of life.
1t is living in better house than you can
afford, and having rent days hang like the
sword of DamocleS over your head. 1t is
scrimping on butter and sugar for months to
give pink tea for over-fed people. 1t is the
agonized turning, and twisting, and making
over old clothes so that they will masquerade
as new, that makes the chief horror of poverty.
1t is the trying to, keep up with better-off peo-
pie that turns the poor into anarchists -
If one has the courage to cut away from all
the shabby genteel business, one finds that
the bogie of poverty is "a ghost that has fled
before the face of courage. HomeSpun is really
more comfortable than broadcloth. Good health
waits on plain food, and not on champagne and
terrapin. Many man and woman have found
the happiness in cottage that they never
knew in palace, and no one can know how
kind, and tender the human heart beats until
one has been poor and had poor neighbors.
So would say that the way to grow poor
gracefully is to accept the situation, to frankly
admit that one has little money, and to live
according to ones limited means, and above
all not to try to hold on to ones old position
in society, and become hanger-on of the
rich.
Losing ones money is the acid test of friend
ship But no one is really the worse for hav-
ing it applied. Those who loved us for our
selves alone will draw closer to us in our mis-
fortune Those who merely loved our dinners,
and our automobiles, and theater tickets are a
small loss to us and we need weep no tears
over their going The thing we are most apt
to lose with our money is our grip upon our
selves, and if we can keep that, and keep our
selves brave and cheerful we can snap our fin
gers at poverty.
The only really poor people are those who
are poor in spirit, who lack the Courage to
meet the viciSsitudes Of life; who have no
laughter in their souls, no philosophy, no
magic that enables them to get the most hap
piness out of simple things And these desti-
tute ones are clothed in silk and satin just
as often as they are in calico.
Copyright, 1922.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
LET YOURSELF SWEAT

Don't be afraid to sweat during hot
weather. Nature intended you to, in order
to regulate the temperature OF your body
and eliminate certain waste materials.
A man of average stature has about Is
square feet of skin with 2,301,248 sweat
glands, each sweat gland coil when UNI
raveled being 1-16-inch long, so that
mans sweat-excreting tubes placed end to
end would measure two and one-third miles.
The chief purpose of sweating is to reg
ulate the temperature of the body, though
it also serves as sub-sewerage system for
the disposal of poisonous waste matter
within the body which is not taken care of
by the kidneys. When the sweat glands
are not functioning properly, there is a
greater strain on the kidneys, a rise in body
temperature to fever heat and less re-
sistance to disease. Likewise, when the
bowels are not working properly, the sweat
glands are called upon to do overtime
work, and sickness may result.
To keep the sweat glands working well
take plenty Of baths Warm baths are es-
pecially good to keep the pores open and
the sweat glands working. One must be
careful, however, after warm baths, to avoid
catching cold.
Light, loose clothing should be worn in
hot weather so as to give the sweat glands
full play in throwing off waste matter
Drink lot of water. In warm weather
it is almost impossible to drink too much
water. Ten or twelve glasses a day are
not too many. The water should be cool
but not iced, and some of it should be
taken with the meals, though not to wash
down half-chewed food.-By Dr. r. H.
Bishop
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SMILE A WHILE

Don't rob yourself by calling other peo-
pie hard names.
The first lesson in charity is to give away
things you don't need.
Few men can resist the temptation to
swallow undeserved praise.
Cynics and pessimists have hard row to
hoe in this contrary old world.
Fewer axes would be ground if the grind
ers had to turn the crank.
Wise worms never crawl out until after
the wise birds have breakfasted.
The honest grocer buys and sells by the
same scale. There are no two weights about
it.
Don't jaw back unless you want the 9th
err fellow to know that you are as big fool
as he is.
man is usualls- embarrassed when he
proposes marriage to a woman-either fl
nancially or otherwise.
Men may come and men may 50, but a
mans mother-in-law usually takes off her
things and makes herself at home.
The common belief that it is difficult for
rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven
prevents few men from trying to get rich.
Hard water is that wrich contains con-
sidera ole quantities OF lime in solution.
Rosa Bonheur was great French painter
of animals (1822-1S99).
Plato was a great Greek philosopher who
lived from 429 B. G. to SAT B. c.
Sun-dried bricks were the material used
in building by the ancient Sumeriians along
the lower Euphrates about 5000 years ago
The houses were plain and rectangular.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27

Y lGHWAY construction IN the 0ouCn as
II a whole, according to Director Gen
eral Rountree, of the United States
Good Roads Association, is going forward
at pace that should inspire Georgia TIC re-
newed enthusiasm in her own realm OF this
great undertaking. Throughout South Caro-
lima, says he in an interview with The Jour-
nal, touching his recent tour OF that State,
civic bodies are cordially cooperating in
plans for the construction of the Bankhead
highway from Washington, d. c., to San
Diego, California, and for the general ad-
yancement of the good roads cause.
For the completion of that particular prof.
ect more than fifty million dollars has al
ready been procured. Every State through
which it is to pass is literally supporting it,
while the Federal Government sees its i'm
portance to national service and national de-
tense in the fact that ninety per cent of the
proposed route is used extensively by rural
mail carriers and that along it were situated
twcnty-four of the major army environments.
The Bankhead highway, when completed,
will extend three thousand six hundred and
ninety miles, traversing Georgia territory, as
well as that OF other Southern Common
wealths and opening fruitful opportunities
for those prepared to develop them.
This is but one amid many fresh reminders
of the exceeding Importance of Georgia's
continuing her construction OF a State high
way system that will compare favorably with
those elsewhere, and that will leave none of
her districts counties unserved. Neglect
ing this, she will lose her due part of the
energy and enterprise and capital which are
certain to flow Southwark along the great
national roads OF the years ahead, and at
the same time will fail in making the most
of her own talents and resources.
But the development of her State high
way system cannot go forward without the
aid of bond issue; it is doubtful, indeed,
that she can even retain her right to share
in Federal aid except by bond issue that
will enable her to match the Government
funds. With these urgent needs in view the
joint Roads committee of the House and Sem
ate has agreed upon and reported a set of
bills which,, though not all that might have
been desired, are nevertheless sound, pro-
gressive, and adequate for the situation in
its more imperative aspects. Friends of
good roads and of the vital interests they
involve should see to it that these measures
are enacted.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
HEALTH HUNTERS
Bv H. Addington Bruce

~ Re Of the most pathetic Of all figures is
the chronic health hunter. From
~ place to place he-or ehe-wanders in
search Of the health that has been lost; or,
deeming one place particularly helpful, re-
turns to it from time to time as invalidism
once more asserts itself.
And the pity of it is that while travel for
health is really indispensable fo- some, there
are many health hunters who, if they but ex-
ercised ordinary prudence and common sense,
would be under no necessity of health hunt
ing. Many, in fact are like the man of whom
Musgrove tells.
This man was overheard chatting with a
companion in a train bound from London to
Buxton. He was making, it appeared, ole Of
numerous trips to Buxton for his health.
1.-THE place does me no end of good,'' he ex-
patiated "It braces me up wonderfully.
Whenever my health breaks, as it does every
once in so often, I get it back by a visit to
Buxton"
"What kind of treatment are you given
there?" his companion asked. "Do you drink
the waters, or take he baths, or what?"
cob, no, nothing of that Sort" was the in
valid's response. Il simply get UP early, go
to bed early, and eat plain iood."
'But couldn't you do the same thing at
home just well?"
To this LAST question, Musgrove says, there
was no answer. Let us hope, though, that
the question sank in, did the good it should
have done, and saved this perpetual health
hunter the time, expense and inconvenience
of future journeys to Buxton.
Certainly, too, there are numerous other
health hunters if only they would likewise
adopt the course, when at home, of getting
up early, going to bed early, and eating rlain
food.
At home, however, they insist on having a
"good time''-which in their case means late
hours and rich foods. Or, what is equally
foolish, they perhaps insis: on driving them
selves at top speed day afte' day, obsessed
by a passion for fame-winning or money-mak-
ing. Their health hunting is the penalty
they are called upon to pay.
Then, usually, they pity themselves, instead
of blaming themselves as they should. If they
are out of health-and they Enthusiastically
are-it is chiefly, perhaps wholly, their own
fault
Besides which, no matter how zealous1y the
then hunt health, they can never truly find
it-certainly can naver make it their lasting
possession--uniess they mend their ways in
the intervals between their health hunting.
For health, as somebody has said, is not a
matter of good fortune so much as Of merit.
Or, in the words Of another:
''Health is the most admirable manifesto
ton Of right living"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
USE, THE CURE OF ABUSE
By DR.. Frank Crane

The best cure for the abuse of anything is
the intelligent use Of it.
This applies to the movies.
1t does not take J. nickeTs worth Of gray
matter to find all kinds of fault with the
pictures shown in thu playhouse, But find
ing fault helps nobody, except that it gives
an outlet to the critical disposition of the
Pathfinder.
Mrs. Bella M. Better, who is connected
with a business school and is a worker in a
Sunday School in New York City, was con-
fronted with the problem involved in the
children's patronage of the movies. She had
a constructive idea. she went to the m SVlng
picture house nearest her and suggested that
they give performance for children on Sat
urday mornings, the program to consist of
carefully selected, entertaining features suit
able for young people. The moving picture
people heartily gave their cooperation to
the proposal.
The experiment has worked out we'll.
Parents are glad to have some innocent place
OF amusement where their children can go
Saturday mornings Their little ones are
not kept up late at evening shows
The National Board Of Review of Motion
Pictures commends the idea. 1t calls at
tention to the fact that the Neighborhocd
Motion Picture Theaters are rather we'll de-
velooed in many cities in the country, such
as Albany, Cleveland, Providence, Atlanta,
Salt Lake City, Omaha, and others.
The managers of the finest theaters In
these communities at least once a week,
through community committees, take charge
Of putting on special young peoples enter
tainments of suitable films.
The Corresponding Secretly of the Ma
t4onaI Board said: ga year ago many people
thought that the ~-ay to get satisfactory pic
lures for young people was thl ough censor
ship. Farseeing PEG lie knew this idea to be
fallacious. From the mass of pictures re-
viewed by the National Board selections have
been made suitable for children. These
Iie&o i1oh RI a m
other interested organizations through the
country"
This is better program than censorship
because it is constructive. 1t is much hard
err to find out what do than 70 find fault
with what has been done. Yet the true way
to Improvement is through doing and not
through repression.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

A WOMAN correspondent asks me if can
~ tell her how to grow poor gracefully.
4 n No. Some wag said long ago that it
was no disgrace to be poor, but that it was
darned announcement and uncomfortable. Moth
ing can alter that fact Nothing can keep us
from craving the luxurieS that money buys, or
for yearning for the ease of mind and body
that only the rich possess
There is way, however, to draw the bitter
est sting out of poverty, and that is by &C
cepting it frankly, and openly, and not pretend
ing that you are better off than you are There
is grace and dignity IN the attitude Of the UNI
aShamedly poor, just as there is something
pitiful and contemplate in the pose of the
shabby genteel.
The man in overalls, with his pick over his
shoulder and his dinner bucket in his hand,
doing an honest days digging for an honest
days pay is splendid and heroic figure, but
the man in a shabby coat that is frayed at the
seams, who would rather sponge for living
on his relatives than do any work than a
white-collared job, is creature so poor and
1udicrous that we despise him while we laugh at
him.
Likewise, we all honor the woman who, when
she is poor and needs to go to work, becomes
frankly a working woman. If she takes board
erS she does not call them paying guests, and
affront your intelligence by telling you that
If she is a clerk in store she does not insist
upon being called a saleslady instead of a
saleswoman. If she is a stenographer or a
bookkeeper she does not pretend to be a
blaise society girl, who grew weary of balls
and parties and who pounds a typewriter, or
manpulates a cash register eight hours day
for fun.
No. The woman we respect and admire, and
help is the poor woman who needs money, and
who goes out into the world to earn it for
herself instead Of trying TO graft it off of
someone else. When she takes boarderS she
doesn't loll around in the parlor as if she
were millionaire hostess giving a dinner
party. She is out in the kitchen seeing that
her patrons get the food and the service they
are paying for, and she not only makes money
but she wins the respect and affection of all
who come under her roof because she is really
honest If she works in store or office she
doesn't bore her employer, or those she serves
by Dragging about how arstocratic she is, nor
what her grandfather used to have, nor pre-
tending that she is working for a lark
She is working for money. She is thankful
to have job, and she not only means to hold
it down, but to climb up to better one and a
bigger pay envelope, and to do what she knows
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
A Notable GEORGIA Industry

M UGH Importance attaches to the an
MI nouncement that Lee county
farmstead, some fifteen miles
northeast Of Albany, has been selected by the
United States bureau of plant industry as
base for far-reaching experimentation in
pecan growing. 1t was through an amend
ment offered by Senator William j. Harris
to the agricultural appropriation bill and
with the aid of Congressman Frank Park
that the establishment of q station for re-
search and experiment in this industry was
authorized; and Georgia, as the leading pro-
Queer of pecans was the foregone choice
OF available sites.
Remarkable as has been the growth of this
branch of orcharding in the last decade or
so, it's development in the years ahead gives
promise of results far richer. Already it
pours a large and steady stream into the
States prosperity. Between the year 1908
and 1918 it increased from an output of
about one hundred and thirty thousand
pounds to approximately three million. In
the former year there were fewer than five
thousand bearing trees in the entire Com
monwealth; today that number stands null
tiplied many times, and new groves are con-
tinually planted. Moreover, the science and
art of pecan culture have grown apace so
that there are now fifty approved varieties of
the trees and clearly established principles
for making them profitable Able observers
believe, however. that merely the beginning
OF the industry has yet been witnessed. Be-
cause of its Incompatible flavor and food
value, the pecan is ever gaining in popular
tty both in America and in Europe. There
is no likelihood, for many decade to come,
Of the supply's exceeding the demand.
Hence the keen and wide-reaching interest
in the forthcoming experiments under direc-
ton of scientists from the Government bu-
reau of plant industry. Tests will be made in
grating, in propagation, in the development
OF new varieties, in combating diseases and
parasites and in evolving a tree which, as
some specialists believe, can be brought to
bear within four years. rare and valuable
distinction it is to Georgia to be the center
of this important work.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
Bv Roe Fulkerson


"Oh. Andrew" said Imogene. ct want you
tn do something for me tomorrow. Stop in
a book store and see if you can get me
book by Theodore Dresser called The
Genius" :.
"Why, honey, you will be downtown your
self in the morning." SAID Andrew Quer4ous-
ly.
.eRut don't like to, Andrew she hesitat-
ed a moment Sumner is trying to suppress
that book"
"What?" said Andrew. interested. 'Who
is Sumner?"
"He is Anthony Comstocks successor, and
I want to get the book before it is forbidden
the mail"
"Why is he trying to suppress it?" asked
Andrew.
''Thats what Want to find out, you
goose" said his wife impatiently.
ssThere Won are" exclaimed Andrew spread
ing his hands dramatically. Here is man
you never heard of before in your lie who
writes a book that you did not know the tt
tie of until you saw it in the paper. Yet be-
cause an authority calls it wrong and an I'M
proper book you at once want to spend my
good money for it.
'I have never questioned the Bible, my
dear and never shall, yet cannot help but
believe that there are some inaccuracies IN
the account of that apple eating scanuai IN
the Garden of Eden.
envy idea of the way the devil tempted Eve
was that he told her that the apple was for
hidden, and that was all whicl was needed
to make the lady sigh for the fruit.
"There is nothing which so makes woman
want to go into place as a Keep Out sign,
and the only houses in the city she really
cares to call at are the houses to which she
is not invited.
eff had daughter and was very anxious
to have her marry some FELLOW woulu Ior.
bid her marrying that fellow, would order
him out of the house and tell her he was
bold bad man with his hair cut too short for
her to associate with him. That would settle
the Wedding. She would marry MIN sure;
"I am surprised, shocked, panied and hui.
inflated to think that you would want to
read this book just because it is naughty and
because this good man in New York was try
ing to suppress it.
what did you say was the title OF IL?
"I have forgotten now," said lmogene, cas-
ually. "I will look it UP in the paper il you
want to buy it for me-" she glanced at the
paper in her lap.
''I certainly shall not buy it for you," said
Andrew, .emphatically.
81 don't recall" said Imogene, inditfer'
"Ho, no." Andrew yawned, prodigiously
FINISHED with the paper?" he asked.
''No,' said Imogene, calmly resuming he4
reading.
She read steadily for fifteen minutes and
then arose to leave the room carrying the
paper with her.
''Let me have that if you have finished
with it," said Andrew, with well felgned
attempt to be causal. i
''There is a crochet pattern I want to cut
out first" she said, stopping at the door
Come here with that paper" exclaimed
Andrew, his eyes crinkling with laughter.
"Will you let me read the book when you
buy it?" she demanded laughing also.
'Sure, Nike" he said, cheerfully.
Copyright, 1912, by 21st Century Press, Incl
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
MY FAVORITE STORIES
Rv Irwin Cobb

Here are two compliments from widely diff
ferent sources for Yankee valor:
In 1914, r. H Davis, editor of Munseys
magazine, was visiting G.. K. Chesterton, the
English writer, at the latter's home near Lon
don. Davis was standing with his back to
the fireplace when his host entered the room.
'You astonish me, Mr.. Davis" said Chess
,terton. IT didn't know an American ever
turned his back to British fire"
In Paris column of our troops marched
under the Arc de Tri omphe in the parade in
honor 70 the French unknown soldier. At
the conclusion of the ceremony, the commands
ing officer approached Marshal Foch for in
structions.
"Do we go back, Marshal, the way we
came?" he asked. cts a one way ARCH
With smile the great Frenchman made
answer: =
"No, sir, the American army never goes
back!"
Copyright, 1920