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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-01

while his sixty-five year old wife looks ike
his mother.
Women also mature in mind much earlier
than men do. Indeed there is something OF
the Peter Pan in every man that keeps him
boy in heart as long he lives while women
are born grown up. .....
Thus it happens that the very qualities
the sophistication, the knowledge OF the
world, the eXperience-that attract young
man to woman older than himself IS the
rock upon which they wreck their happiness
if they marry. For the woman has the I'M
conscious arrogance of age. She feels that
her judgment is ripper than her husbands, and
that she has a right to boss things, and be
the head of the house, and that is no mans
idea of happy home. He wants to run the
show himself, and resents being put in the
small boy attitude Of having to mind mama.
F., Naturally, there are exceptions to all rules
There have been men who have married Wom-
en- much older than themselve., and lived
happily ever after. Their affection was great
enough to bridge the gap Of years, and to
blind their eyes to the fact that their wives
were old, and fat, and grizzled while they
were still young and handsome. w..
Such men are as rare as hens teeth. Most
men want wife who can be a playfelloW as
well as he1pmeet. A woman who is good
locker a woman whom they are proud to in
troduce to their friends. They want some
body to dance with them, not somebody with
whom they have to sit hudd1ed over the fire
while she nurses her rheumatism, and if they
have only an old lady swathed in red flannel
at home, they are mighty apt to let their gaze
wander towards something fresh and fair on
the outside. ,.......- -..,.-.. . .,-,.- .~-...
Clinching objection against a mans mar
rying woman older than himself is that such
man is the foreordained victim Of his wife S
frantic Jealousy. He may be chaste as ice
and pure as snow. Ee may be as discreet as
Caesar demanded his wife should be. ~ He
may be so blind that he never looks a. skirt,
and doesn't know whether his own stenogra-
pher is eighteen, or eighty. Still shall his
wife be green eyed, and make his life tor
ment to him by her suspicious
This is inevitable because the woman knows
her own limitations, and is forever contrast
ing herself with every pretty, fresh young
girl she Sees She knows that youth calls to
youth, and she pictures her husband longing
for the companionship of those who belong to
his own time of life. ........ ....-
Therefore, son, do not marry woman old
er than yourself. Marry girl who will look
up to you, instead Of woman whose age you
will be bound to respect. Marry a woman five
or ten years younger than yourself and then
you will always be the same age.
Copyright 1922, by the Wheeler syndi-
cate, Incl
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caught hers her lips trembled and she rose
hastily to leave the room.
"why, honey" he exclaimed. Don't take
it that way. I did not mean to hurt your
feelings. 1t was not your fault. dropped
to sleep thinking how sweet your voice was.
1t was the story. 1t was simply stupid"
She wheeled and left the room hurriedly.
AS she passed out she dropped the magazine
on the top Of the piano.
'"Now, I've done it, he said regretfully.
what the dickens was she reading, any
way?"
He walked over to the piano, opened the
magazine, famed over the leaves and then
whistled long and low.
Gosh he exclaimed in wonder "she's
dom it too
Between the leaves Of the magazine were
the sheets of the manuscript of the short
story she had been reading aloud to him. They
were in her own prim handwriting He
placed them back carefully and stepped away
on his tip toes as one leaves the cradle Of a
sleeping child.
tCopyright, 1922, by 21st Century Press,
Inc
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WHETHER men are fed up on flappers
wv with nothing on their minds but their
bobbed hair and no serious aim in
life except to keep their handmade complex
ions on straight, and are reacting instructive
~ towards the more sensible type OF woman
l do not know.
But, at any rate, there seems t. be a mania
just at present among men for marrying Wom-
EN- older than themselves Every day. we
read in the papers accounts OF elderly widows
who have led lads young enough to be their
grandsons to the altar, and my own mail is
full Of letters from anxious chaps who ask
my opinion as to the adyisability Of espousing
ladies much their seniors in years.
can only say to all such foolhardy adj
venturers, don't do it, son, don't do it. Don't
do it for your own sake, don't do it for the
womans sake. Marriage is full enough OF
dangers and difficulties without injecting into
it the endless conflict between youth and age.
Not once in a thousand times do the boy hus-
band, and the mature wife succeed in being
anything but figures Of fun to the public, and
a tragedy to themselves.
Of course, we like to say that the heart
keeps no calendar, and no count Of time, and
that lovers eyes see only the youth and
beauty of Woman's soul and spirit, and take
no heed Of the years that have registered on
her body. We also like to say that we are
only as old as we feel, and that nothing is so
stupid as counting ones age by time.
AL Ol Wu1Cu 1S IOI. age Is d I6II1Uly
definite thing, and no matter how we carnou-
flage it to others, or lie about it to ourselves,
there is not one of us who does not know that
when we are forty we no more feel, or think,
as we did at twenty than we look twenty at
forty.
More than this, there is democracy of age
that establishes sort Of freemasonry among
those who live in certain time zones. Only
those who have had approximately the same
number of birthdays know the password, and
can give the high sign, that makes them free
of the lodge, and all of the especial pleasures
and perquisites that pertain to it, whether it
be youth, or middle age or old age.
That is why the marriage of May and De-
cember almost never brings happiness. They
are different seasons Of the year that cannot
be fused in one.
- It is especially unfortunate for man to
marry a woman Older than himself, for as
the years go by, the disparity in age increases
at frightful ratio because women age so
much more rapidly. than men do. A woman
of thirty-five, for instance, who has kept her
figure, and who understands the arts of the
toilette, may not seem such terribly insult
able match for the man of twenty-five, but
the man Of forty-five is still boy, while the
woman of .fifty-five is an elderly lady, and the
man at fifty-five is just in the rhine of life,
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Millions for a Cat

~ ATS, whose remarkable powers Of null
tip1ying and replenishing the earth
will sometimes drive the over-kitten-
ed householder to dark and desperate
thoughts may yet make fortunes for patient
danes: In Moscow cats are selling at twenty
million rubles each. Dick Wilmington and
the faithful tabby to whom he owed his lord
rnayorship of London never SO much as
dreamed Of twenty million rubles.
Bolshevism brought divers woes upon Rus
STA, but none worse than the virtual extinc-
ton of cats where they are most needed.
"During the last lean years. writes travel
er in that country, when there was not
enough food for humans; the cats died, while
mice and rats flourished unmolested in the
closed warehouses; Now, with business re-
giving, the warehouses are being unsealed,
and the result is a plague of rodents in many
homes. Send US TODD and CATS cry the Mos
cow housekeepers."
If persons having cats for sale can secure
adequate guarantees Of the rubles redemp-
ton they may well proceed with alacrity. 1t
should be said, however, that this coin, for
merly of gold and worth about fifty-one cents
in United States money, is now debased to
paper. A back-fence cat may not be valued
very highly in a land where that species is
superintendent, but even it's hide is worth
more than a paper ruble. 1t would seem,
then, that the part Of prudence is to await
developn ents
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Andrew, are you doing anything in par
ticular?" asked Imogene. She had entered
the room with magazine in her hand. One
OF her fingers was between the pages to mark
her place.
eyes, indeed" said Andrew, ri was won
dering whether it was wiser for me to bet on
the election and lose or lay off the bets and
let my candidate win and then pass the next
few years feeling sorry over the money l
might have won. What do you want?"
"You do not have to move and began
Imogene.
cts a bet," said Andrew. eff it is some
thing I can do and lie right here on the
couch sign articles Of agreement"
at is magazine story want you to lis
ten to- she said. 81 want to read it aloud
I'd you and have you tell me what you think
of it,
Shoot" replied her husband. GAS lit
erary critic I have Henry James up against
the ropes with his hands in the air and Kip
ling on the floor with the referee counting
him OUT
She seated herself comfortably and be-
gan the story. Imogene read really we'll and
he listened carefully through a rather tire
some preface and then when she got into the
story proper he began picking at frayed
place on his cuff. Then hangnail on one OF
his fingers began to interest him and he
~
clip it with and thought of asking his wife
to wait. until he went for them, but decided
it would be impoite. Then he found he could
reach one of the curtain tassels with the toe
of his slipper, so he Tipped it to one side and
began to count how many swings it made be-
fore it settled down to where it was before.
Imogene's voice droned on unsteady and
he thought how nice twas to have wife
with such sweet soothing voice when the
voices of SO many women were strident and
wash womanish. He closed his eyes to listen
better. She was certainly nice wife to read
to him like this. Slowly but surely he lost
consciousness and one hand which was folded
across his chest slipped and fell it's length.
The jerk wakened him and he assumed a
wel-feigned interest but he was too late.
"You want to Sleep" she said accusingly.
"'Fraid I did doze off, Puddin' Pie" he
said samefaced1y go ahead, l will listen
now"
She did not reply and he looked up at her
gazing at him pathetically. When his eyes
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-01
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PROGRESS BY MONKEYING
By DR.. Frank Crane

We probably are descended from the mon
keys. At any rate, most Of our progress is
made by the process we call monkeying.
That is, we get on by curiosity, and by max
ing all sorts of experiments, and not by think
ing things out logically and carrying forth a
certain program. -
For instance, in the time of Henry II, of
England sailors when caught in fog or dark
ness used to touch needle with bit Of mag
netic iron, and found that it would whirl
around and point north. Upon this experiment
is based the compass, and modern commerce.
Along in the thirteenth century people got
to nonkeying with bits of curved glass and
found out that objects seen through them were
magnifed. From this nlonkeying have come
our microscopes, telescopes, spectroScopeS, and
cameras and vast deal of information con-
corning the universe.
Somebody not so very long ago, when
inonkeying with certain chemicals, discovered,
perhaps to his sorrow, that they exploded.
From this came gunpowder, and an alteration
in the warfare of the world D..
Some lazy man, seeking way to save work
as copyist, invented movable type. Whence
comes printing, the extension of education and
civilization.
boy was monkeying with tea kettle and
found that the steam pushed up the lid when
the spout was stopped, Hence the steam en-
CINE, and new era in the transportation of the
world. Hence huge factories, overgrown cities,
iiionstrous industrialism and piled-up capital,
labor organizations sovietS, national debts, and
so on. All because boy monkeyed with a
tea kettle. ..s......-.
The monkeyers have even produced new sub
stances, as we'll as new methods. They have
played with the molecules and atoms and
forces, and out of their monkeying in the
laboratory has come our ability to make dyes
out of coal FAR, and perfumes and flayoring
extracts out of the same black, sticky refuse.
Out of the curious experiments of the labor
atory at any time may come some discovery
that may devastate the earth, or change the en-
tire conditions of the dispute between labor
and capital; or some new force from the atom
that shall relegate the steam engine and the
gas engine to the scrap heap. ...
The world is getting on. But nobody knows
how it's getting on nor where it's going to.
We are curious children playing with giant
forces. We are rapidly altering all human
relations and changing the conditions of hui
man existence. But we are doing it mostly
by curiosity and experiment. Science, of
course, plays its part and knowledge has its
function. But the most important people are
those who try things to see what will happen.
This is an age Of research. And research is
at least one-haf monkeying
copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)
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"A Good Natured Man, But
THE troubles Of the good-natured man
who is deficient in iron and unfortu-

T HE troubles OF the goou-ndtureu Hon
who is deficient in iron and unfortu-
nate in friends continue to multiply
for President Harding. He may not fairly be
held responsible for the errors and delln-
uuencies Of the Attorney General, but they
nevertheless are a burden to his administra-
ton and if condoned will become also an
inescapable charge. He might not have been
held responsible for the action of the Secre-
tary Of the Interior in leasing to subsidiaries
of the oil trust certain aforementioned
oil fields which were being reserved for the
navy, but the President saw fit to indorse
that dubious transaction. Moreover, he is
represented as favoring the transfer of the
forestry bureau, now in the Department OF
Agriculture, to the Department Of the In
erior, notwithstanding that Secretary Fall,
Of the latter, is widely regarded as an indif-
ferent friend if not a virtual foe Of con-
servation.
Further, it is recalled that Senator New
berry, for whose election slush funds poured
so prodigally that even cankered politicians
were ashamed, was a boon friend OF Mr..
Harding's and that two of the men indicted
with NeWberry were appointed by the Presi-
dent to high Federal Offices in Michigan. 1t
Is hardly to be supposed that the president
acted upon his own judgment and initiative
in Issuing orders which struck at the, basic
principles and the very life of the civil serv-
Ice system as it had been patiently built up
BY his predecessors for quarter OF a cen
trry or more. But the results are none the
less unfortunate, and the country can but
feei that the President instead OF yielding
to ill counsel in matters so grave should
have rebuked it, g. -,s,t
Good nature, which ofttimes makes princes
Of paupers, is GOLDEN asset to men in au.
thority if it be balanced by energy. Of
thought and will; but when it takes the form
of easy-going compliance and is dedicated
to no high and constructive purpose, it causes
d world of trouble not alone for him who in
dtilges it but also for those whose affairs are
in his trust.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-01
Worldwide Price Cams

A SIGNIFICANT trend of the times ap-
N pears in the upward turn Of prices,
which is not confined to America,
but is well-nigh worldwide. For several
months past this development has been more
or less marked, and has been witnessed to
not only by statistics from foreign countries,
but also by the records Of our own import
trade. Touching these the National City
Bank Of New York presents highly inter-
esting summary Of figures from the Federal
Department of Commerce which show that
fifty Of the seventy-five classes of commodi-
ties imported were Of higher valuation in
March Of this year than in the months i'm
mediately preceding; and subsequent reports
run in this same direction. Thus: Raw cot
ton imported in March, 1922, averaged 26.3
cents per pound against 24.9c in February,
1922, and 24.7c in January. Unbleached cot
ton cloth averaged 2O.6c per yard in March
against 1850 in January, and is in fact a
higher average than In any month, since
March of last year. Coffee imported in
March averaged .4c per pound against Il &c
in February, 1922, and IL. in December,
1921; cattle hides averaged in the March,
1922, imports 14-2c per, pound against 1890
in February, 1922, and 12c, per pound in
December, 1921, while goatskins imported in
March, 1922, averaged 40.5c. per pound
against CSC in February. India rubber i'm
ports in March of the current year averaged
Tile per pound against 15c in January, 1922,
and 14.3c in December Of last year. Raw
sugar imported in March averaged slightly
more than &c per pound against slightly
less than &c in January and February, and
clothing wool averaged 21.4c per pound in
March, 1922, against 1880 in February, 1922,
and 14.2c in October Of last year" ,,.
ri %hno aP oNn
omen in that they show turn of the tide
from that industrial and commercial depres-
sion Of which low prices were ofttimes a
symptom. In some instances, it is true, the
decline was an altogether wholesome reac-
ton against the profiteer, or natural proc
ess of readjustment to peace conditions fol-
lowing the wars fever. But in others, as in
agricultural values, the fall Of prices to
levels unapproached since 1914 was fraught
with grievous effects upon producing inter
ests and upon business. The upward trend
now manifest is therefore distinctly hearten-
ing.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-01
The Curse of Hurry

a PHILOSOPHIC chef it was who said,
n "The curse of American cooking is
the cry, Rush this order, please"
Not only curse Of cooking, but also of
eating of reading, of thinking. and of living
turks in that ubiquitous RUSH. 'Is not
broth made of water and kale and a bit of
beef?" asks one of Barrie's Tillyloss immor-
tails. "Aye, ave." comes the answer, "but
it's no broth till it boils.'' The raw stuff
OF existence may be snatched up pell-mell,
but the SAVIOR and substance of life come
only to those who tarry while the pot sim
mers. Whether or no this was in Milton s
mind when he wrote, 'They also serve who
only stand and watt it is certain that scorn
Of this seasoning virtue is paid for in half
baked theories and wretched productions,
as well as in i'll humor and indigestion. A
pity it is that Americans now will not learn
from that great and genial light Of their
early history, Benjamin Franklin, who was
never in a hurry, but always on time, who
did in a day more abiding work than most
of us do in a twelvemonth; who was the
soul of generosity as we'll as Of thrift, and
who left us no better legacy than these
three words of wisdom: Haste makes
waste
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-01
Progress IN the Air
. HE buzz of the man-bee aloft has be-
come SO frequent and so rasping in

T HE buzz of the man-bee aloft has be-
come so frequent and so rasping in
= parts of Europe that the Internation-
al Air Traffic Association has issued a de-
cree requiring all aeroplane motors to be
equipped with mufflers. The same authori-
ties are discussing with a committee of the
League Of Nations the matter of simplifying
customhouse formalities with a view to ia
cilitating air travel from one country to
another. They have also brought to the no.
tice of the International Postal Union the
fact that while mail transport by air is not
possible all the year long, regular mail serv-
ice can be maintained from April to Sep
tember.''
These bits of new all bear witness to
the growing Importance of aviation in the
worlds work. No longer a mere marvel or
toy, the aeroplane is doing service in com
merce and is commanding the attention of
lawmakers as we'll as of manufacturers and
business men. Strangely enough, this is not
so marked in America the birth land Of sue
cessful human flight, as in the Old World
Legislation governing air traffic and setting
forth the rights and responsibilities of air
plane industries has made nothing like the
progress in this country that it has across
the Atlantic. Nor has the United States
Government, since the war, given due en-
enlargement to aviation; administrative de-
partments have been eager to do so, but an
unimaginative Congress has not seen fit to
cooperate. In one particular, it should be
said; however, we have forged forward de-
spite these obstacles, and that is in aerial
mail service. Across the continents breadth
letters go daily speeding by air while the
feasibility of such service between the States
and Alaska has been demonstrated by army
filters.
Aerial traffic will not develop as swiftly
as rapt prophets were predicting some years
ago when the pioneer achievements of this
sort struck wonder through the world. But
al wi hct
ly is hardly to be doubted from what already
has come to pass.
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CAN A MAN DIVIDE His LOVE
By Helen Rowland

At last, love has been reduced to rnathe-
matical proposition.
Hurrah!
It can be measured out Just like the por-
lions at Strawberry notwithstanding to
DR.. David Forsyth, eminent scientist and
psycho-analyst of London.
A man, SO the Doctor says, cannot be
can be only HALF in love with one woman.
and fifty per cent in love with the other.
How annoying!
Then, Solomon was only one-seven.
hundredth in love with Pharaoh's Daughter,
after all! (But, that wasn't what he TOLD
herD -
And Henry VIII was never more than SS
and 13 per cent in love with any woman;I
since he was always in love with himself, his
wife, and his prospective wife,-and one or
two others on the side.
But, why is the Doctor SURE that a man
can divide his heart up so exactly-just like
cutting the cubes in plate of fudge?
1t would be most embarrassing, for In
stance, if the head of an Oriental harem had
to measure out his kisses in equal portions, as
Mother does the porridge among the children.
Why MUST man be so perfectly IMPAIR
FIAL! Love isn't soviet!
Why couldn't mar. be ninety-nine per cent
in love with his wife, and just one per cent
in love with the woman he happened to be
talking to?
(Most men are-rnost Of the time.)
Or might he not be seventy-six per cent in
love with himself-and two per cent in love
with each of dozen women?
Or eight per cent in love with his wife
and twenty per cent in love with his stenog-
rapher?
Or vice versa?
Most American men are ten per cent in
love with their wives, and ninety per cent in
love with their work or their business office.
Or twenty per cent in love with their wives
and eight per cent in love with their golf
Besides, many a is one-hundred per
cent in love with a girl before he marries
her-and only one and one-half per cent in
love with her, forever afterward
1t all depends on WHAT you call Glove"
Evidently DR.. Forsyth, has gotten love all
mixed up with infatuation; dalliance, sex-at-
traction. and all that sort of thing
But LOVE is something infinitely higher,
deeper, finer and more absorbing Love is
something that cannot be broken up into lit
tie bits and passed around like wedding cake.
Love is as lofty as solid, and as imrdovable
as mountain. And once love or mountain,
has been disintegrated, it ISN'T love-or a
mOuntain-any more.
A man can love only ONE woman at time
He may think he has heart enough to love
more than one-but he ought to have brains
enough not to try it!
.(Gepyright 1922, by Helen Rewland)