Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-21
The Country Home
BY MRS. W. Ell. FELTON,
A Country Girls Counsel to the City
Girls


A dear little country girl who is
also a "shut-in" because of long ill
ness and major surgical operations
has forwarded to me letter con-
tanning brave words that 1 am now
seeking to recommit to those coun-
trv girls who read The Country
Home Column.
Saws the writer: "The city to the
| unframed country girl is like a can
die to the moth. If once they are
attracted, the flame will scorch
them for it seems they cannot leave
| off until they are helplessly lost.
'"This young girl sees the beau
| tiful clothes worn by the gay young
! girls and their handsome, well-dres-
ed beaux, enjoying the theater and
dance halls and they seem to have
| wonderful times behind the bright,
white. lights. She Graves these
pleasures with all her heart, and too
often pursues them until her wings
are Singed.
Then she tries to rise again, but
she finds she cannot. Immediately
she is scorned by her own sex.
There is no pardon for her. At
last, she either goes back to her
! mother or she goes the pace to ruin
with the others who are like her.
ct do not intend to say that all
country girls who flock to the city
Weld to such temptation, but the
time has come to warn them against
the temptations of the big ely. EV-
ery dav we read of things of this
sort. They are entirely too fire.
quent. Too many homes are thus
grief-stricken.
"These gay amusements are apt to
blind your love for home. A farm
er's wife requires six days of toll
every week, and the women, young
and old. must do their part it there
is either progress or prosperity. Fa-
theirs and mothers are doing their
best to provide for their children
but there is nothing of the gay world
| in these plain, Woodworking homes,
and youth Graves excitement, and
! the lure of the city is strong. But
! this warning is for the girl who
risks the danger and ventures into
risky places, where the tempted can
ply his trade. Beware of beguiling
words and false PROMISES"
There was never a time in the his
| tory of our own country when there
was greater exposure to the erring
girl who has played the moth around
the candle. The country is filled with
movie theaters, whose publicity di-
rectors are in rapid search for girls
with pretty faces to "star" in film
pictures. They pay high for such
as they desire; and the lure OF the
city's white lights is strong. These
girls have money to throw away,
and they travel in style. They grow
delirious with eXcitement-and the
| danger is great. They dance on a
| precipice! 1t is said that there is
more money passed around in the
movie picture Industry than ans
other big corporation in the United
States. 1t is riding gaily at high
| tide.
And the newspapers of this week
are crowded to overlooking with d
story of a murder and the gay, Jeal
GUS girls who loved an attractive
movie director-more than the law
allowed.
The wages Of sin is death" and
sin seems able to penetrate into eV
cry sort of business or occupation
| in the known world.
So long as poor human beings are
Iwhat they are-full of passion as
well as jealousy-the way to ruin
is a broad thoroughfare and many
walk therein. This warming to the
country girl is timely. Her little
boat Of life should keep near the
| shore-in safe waters-with obedi
ence to the counsel of their elders.
! There are thousands Of girls who
do walk safely in the straight and
narrow way, but, alas! there are far
too many who are swallowed up in
temptuous seas of vice and misery
This young correspondent in a sick
room has pied her case very well
in her timely warning to her coun
try sisters.
If she had lived in a city she
| might with equal force repeat the
warming to gay girls who are out
first and foremost for a good time"
as they see it.