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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-12
The Bu1,Oark of Thrift
response.

WY HY was 1t that the recent period Of
M depression brought less suffering
and fewer demands upon social
service agencies than would have been the
case decade ago. and fewer than were ex-
pected by those who knew how wide-reaching
The answer may be found, largely, in the
growth OF the savings habit, which Americans
began to acquire with more than ordinary
earnestness about the time the World War
broke out and which they pursued with high
enthusiasm in the days of thrift stamps and
Liberty bonds. Under the stimulus Of those
years thousands of persons became system
attic savers, who formerly had given scarce
thought to the opportunities, the advantages
and the del lights oflaying up, if not for the
proverbial rainy day, at least for the salts
faction of owning bank book or bond
The longer they tried the more they liked
the process. 1t took on the zest of an adj
venture. It led to overwhelming possibili-
ties and encouragements.
So 1t was that when wages were high, dol
lar upon dollar went into the bulwark that.
was to protect many a man and many a fami-
ly against want during the hard times des-
tined to come. Numbers there were. II ia
true, who trod the primrose path with never
an eye to the future, spending to the limit of
their income and beyond, gratifying every ap-
petite and whim, counting 1t useless hard
ship to save when money rolled in regular
and plentiful streams. These were among the
callers for help during the depression. period:
they and those dependent upon them suffer-
ed most acutely.
Employment now is virtually normal again
and times are waxing prosperous Ru+ 9th
er days OF stress and trial are certain to come.
unless the future be wholly different from
the past Wise and happy are they who in
sure against that contingency. Writing from
the heart Of a great Industrial district the
Cleveland Plain Dealer admonishes: .save
little. Be depositor and investor. Make
the acquaintance OF bank teller and call
on MIN regularly after every pay dav Tot
the experiences of recent seasons teach Tho
ioily OF financial unpreparedness. And the
next time depression hits the country ho o,o
OF those who live off their savings NOT zee
society," Good counsel, this, for all Amer
ica' ana better for none than for Georgians.
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OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

The village constable was exceedingly
kind; but even the kindest man becomes
stern sometimes, and one day he had to lock
up three tramps.
An hour or two afterward the local ]. p
met him hurrying down the main street, and
said:
where are you hurrying, constable?"
"Oh," exclaimed the kind-hearted one
chose three tramps I've locked up want to
play whist, so I've come out to look for a
fourth"
"My wife is the most methodical woman
you ever saw" boosted a man on the train
"She never lets things get behind. I've been
married ten years, and she has never disap-
pointed me. She always puts things in their
proper places, and you know just where to
find what you want. For instance, l went to
my handkerchief drawer this morning before
daylight and took out handkerchief and put
it in M pocket before starting out. 1 know
just as we'll as I know my own name that
that handkerchief is without ..oles, and that
it has my initials worked in silk in one
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respect. Ii she has to bride man with
kisses, and by submitting to familiarities to
come to see her, he can stay away. She will
have none of him. She is intelligent. She
reads and thinks, and her interests are as
wide and catholic as the world. She is eff
cient. She can do anything from sailing q
boat and running an automobile, to cooking
dinner, and making her own clothes, and hold
ing down good job in business office.
She has good manners. She is kind to little
children, and courteous to old people, and she
is the sort of a girl that you like to have
about
Beauties, and wits, and fascinators are all
very well, If they are nice along with it, but
if man wants wife of whom he will never
tire, and who will be pleasant to live with,
let him PASS up the vamp and look for the
girl who Is nice.
AS wife, the nice woman is the Prize in
- matrimonial lottery. She may not scin-
tillate particularly in the parlor, but she keeps
the hearthstone warm.
She doesn't pose as a prosecuted slave be-
cause she has to keep house instead of being
a movie star She knows good home is thee
best thing that ever happened to a woman
and she blesses the day that gave her hers,
and shows her appreciation to her husband by
making him happy and comfortable.
She has sense enough to know that hus-
band is neither tyrant nor demi-god, and
and is satisfied with him. She doesn't try
to be all-in-all to her husband nor to monop-
olize his every thought and interest, but he
wonders how he ever got along without her.
In society, the woman who is nice is sincere.
We know where to gut her, and where we are
going to find her. She doesn't fall on your
neck one day, and give you frozen glare the
next.
She doesn't feel it necessary to her posi-
ton in the world to pose, or to draw her
skirts away from her shabby sister in the
street, and the poor creature who is trying
to sell books or needles, something that no
body ever wants is never turned away with an
insulting message from her door.
Perhaps the nice woman never makes cpl
grams that burn like acid where they touch
Perhaps she never tells witty stories that pep
pie repeat, but she never forgts to say the
kindly little things, the word of praise and en-.
couragement that is like wine to a tagging
soul, or to express the sympathy that Is like
balm to a hurt heart.
There are many adjectiyes higher sounding
than mice" but it takes so much tact, kindli.
ness, and good hard sense to live up to it that
the best of us might be satisfied to have that
simple encomium passed upon us.
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corner"
And the boastful n an put his hand ir his
pocket and pulled out - and unfolded - az
white nightcap, with long strings dangling
from it!
A farmer was explaining to his children
the mysteries Of bird migration. He told
how the swallows and martins leave us in
the autumn for warmer climates
Does the robin go away, too?" asked his
eight-year-old daughter.
mo" answered her father. "He gets
himself new red waistcoat and stays"
"Oh, daddy, does he really wear staysP"
asked the little girl in surprise
Mrs. Goodbody always spoke to poor men
In the streets and did her best to help them.
And how long," she said to one of them,
were you prise ner?"
Seven years, ma am, he answered
But the war didn't last seven years." said
ing cid lady in establishment
Ali" said the tramp. But who was talk
ing about the war?
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wonder why the most scathing criticism you
can offer on woman is to call her "nice?"
You might accuse her of half the crimes on
the calendar, and deal her less deadly blow
than just to call her mice, little woman %
There is something snappy and pepry about a
lady bigamist that piques your curiosity about
her; murderess Is always more or less of a
romantic figure; even a shoplifter has some
thing about her that intrigues our fancy, and
as for the really scandalous woman, there
isn't one of them from Delilah to Peggy
Joyce in whom we haven't an unGying in
terest.
But nobody breaks his neck to meet the
woman who is described as being mice" The
adjective kills her, sight unseen, for you sit
her down as one Of the people who have no
more thrills to them than boiled dinner.
Good and wholesome, and nourishing, but
nothing about her that tickles the palate, and
makes you want a second helping of her
society
A girl is even more damned by the faint
praise of being called mice" than a
woman is Once let a girl be branded as a
nice girl, and she has qualified for the wall
flower class. Everybody knows her as the
type Of girl that a mans mother picks out
for his wife, and that he never picks. out
for himself
Yet, although we use the term mice" as an
epithet Of disdain, and lump into it all that
is colorless, and flavorless, and commonplace
in human nature, still, when all is said, the
incest person in the world is a nice woman.
More than that, nieeness is the one quality
that will stand the wear and tear Of daily
life and that outlasts all of the spectacular
charms and destinations that allure us for the
moment. And stranger still, the very quality
we decry as the one we want in our own wom-
ankind. We want our wives to be nice wom-
en-. We want our daughters to be nice girls.
1t is true that the nice girl does not know
how to catch the masculine eye She doesn't
bob her hair, and wear bloomers, and knick-
ers. She doesn't roll her stockings to show
her bare legs to the public. She doesn't paint
and powder in public She never becomes an
expert shimmier, and fodder, nor acquire a
line of jazzy conversation that keeps the lis
tener wondering what she going to say
next.
But she is always exquisitely clean and
neat She never wears dirty finery, and
there is a freshness of springtime always
about her. She likes pretty clothes, and
dresses well, but she isn't dress mad. She
isn't one of the girls whose brains are cut on
the bias and friled in the middle.
She likes fun, but it must be decent fun.
She likes men, but she isn't willing to buy
their attentions at the price Of her own self
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MY FAVORlTE STORIES
BY IRWIN COBB

An American actor with reputation for
vita reputation, by the way, which is de-
served-went to luncheon given by famous
actress to several members of her supporting
company. Among the guests of honor was an
English leading man, who rather fancied
himself-and showed it. He monopolized the
conversation, speaking copiously and feelingly
himself, his personality and his merits.
From his place across the table the Amer.
lean eyed him with a rapidly enhancing dis
favor. At length he turned to the man sit
ting next him on the right
Our British friend over there is by way of
being regular ass isn't he?" he asked in a
whisper.
"Oh, I'd hardly go so far as to say that, -
answered his neighbor.
"Well, he'll do, won't he, till one comes p"
said the American.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-12
Our Poorly Mabbed Country

IT. HE National Research Council rightly
urges that the Government expedite
as much as possible the country's top
ographical survey and mapping While Eu-
ropean nations, all save the more backward,
long have had comprehensive maps of this
kind, hardly more than third of he United
States has been mapped fully and accurately,
our progress in this important matter being
much behind that of the leading South Amer
lean republics
The interests of travel, industry and
agriculture as well as of science ana national
defense call for prompt action Commenting
on the relief map made by the United States
Geological Survey, which shows by contour
lines the shapes and elevations of land and
water features and also indicates railroads.
highways and buildings, Science Service re-
marks: Motorists claim that this is the
only perfect map. 1t shows every hill, valley,
stream, bend in the road, every house, and
with one of these charts, the road engineer
may save days of work and thousands of
dollars worth of preliminary investigation.
No geologist determine what is under
the surface without map showing the con-
dguration of the surface on which to plot
the outcrops of the subsurface formations 81
Such maps are Of valuable aid to the far
mer in retaining ct lands and in designing
drainage systems For efficient forestry ad-
their military uses: 1.-THE advantages for
coast and field artillery and for aviation
would be many times the cost of the complete
survey, which amounts only to the price OF
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Adventure

My dreams sometimes
Sing on thousand lacquered bells,
Music with tiny pendulums of silver =.
Rich names Of Orient make sound on them
With languid assonance.
II
My dreams sometimes
Are mastS pointed to thin blackness,
Writing scrips Of silhoutted phrase
On seven seas
They etch vermillion and gold clouds
With proud calligraphy of Eastern ports and
places.
have stopped counting how often
I sat in my cubicle of lath and plaster,
Hearing my dreams sing
Watching my dreams write
Magic of Samarang and Labuan,
Cadence of Shiraz and Sumtra,
OF Ispahan and Mangalore,
And loneliness of sylables.
OF Randarabban.
ALEXANDER JAWS.
At Muskogee, Okla, an inmate of the Old
Folks Home-an old lady eighty-one years
old-was discovered making wine.
The authorities very properly turned her
out of the institution.
One can but admire the 1eniecy of the au-
thorities.
1t must have been temptation to them
to shoot or hang her; but, if SO, they re-
strained themselves.
The reformers should examine every old
folks home in America at ONE.
There may be dozens and scores and even
hundreds of men and women in their eight
les and nineties who, If they don't make
wine, want to make wine, or think wine-mak-
ing no harm.
They should all be flung, destitute, into
the streets.
Either this great moral country or 1t
Is not.
The open violation Of the Constitution of
the United States on the vessels of the Ship
ping Board is avowedly in the interests of
Trade; and it is for the convenience Of the
well-to-do who can afford transatlantic
travel, and nothing should be done about it.
But these old men and women are meek
and friendless, and should be handled with
the utmost severity.
Aun Prudence Hecklebury says she thanks
heaven that the bathing season is about over.
For men and women, no matter what sort of
bathing suits they may wear, to use the
same ocean practically as bath tub, as you
might say never has seemed right nor proper
to her Because, even if there is a lot of it,
it is the same water, isn't It?
homa, lis.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-12
DON MARQUIS COLUMN

THE SONG OF MEHITABEL
this Is the song of mehitabel
of mehitabel the alley cat
as l wrote you before boss
mehitable is believer
in the pythagorean
theory Of the transmigration
Of the soul and she claims
that formerly her spirit
was incarnated in the body
Of cleopatra
that was long time ago
and one must not be
surprised if mehitabel
has forgotten some of her
more regal manners
the song Of mehitabel
I have had my ups and downs
but wotthehell wotthehell
yesterday sceptres and crowns
fried oysters and velvet gowns
and today herd with buns
but wotthehell wotthehell
today i am queen of the slums
with alley cats for my chums
dig in the garbage heap
wotthehell wotthehell
i wake the world from sleep
as i caper and sing and leap
when i sing my wild free tune
wotthehell wotthehelI
under the blear eyed moon
am pelted with cast off shoon
but wotthehell wotthehell
do you think that would change
my present freedom to range
for castle or moated orange
wotthehell wotthehell
cage me and i go frantic
my life is so romantic
caDriciOus and cOrybantic
and m toujours gal toujours gal
know that am bound
for journey down the sound
in the midst of refuse mound
but wotthehell wotthehell
oh / should worry and fret
death and will coquette
there's a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gal toujours gal
i once was an innocent kit
wotthehell wotthehell
with a ribbon my neck to fit
and bells tied onto it
wotthehell wotthehell
but maltese cat came ~
with come hither look in his eye
and song that scared to the sky
and wotthehell wotthehell
and i followed adown the street
the pad Of his rhythmical feet
permit me again to repeat
woothehell wotthehell
my youth shall never forget
but there's nothing really regret
wotthehell wotthehell
there a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gal toujours gal
the things that had not ought to,
i do because We gotto
wotthehell wotthehell
and end with my favorite motto
tojours gal toujours gal
boss sometimes think
that our friend methitabel
is trifle too gay
archy
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sit Pays to ADVERTISE
Editor Trotter, of the Crawfordville Ad-
vocate-Democrat, evidently believes in ad-
vertising, if one may judge from the follow
ing paragraph appearing in recent issue
Of his excellent weekly newspaper:
Several of our subscribers have promised
us recently to bring some stove wood in pay
ment Of their subscriptions, but apparently
have forgotten the promise. They are re-
quested to bring it in at once, if they still
wish to take advantage of this OFFER
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Many an alleged blessing in disguise
wouldn't be blessing but for the disguise.
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Says headline: 5000 Storks Invade
Westphalian Town.
Coming from Germany, 1t sounds as If it
might be mass meeting to protest against
overwork.
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Great Thoughts by Great Thinkers
If human being intentionally begins the
disruption of the atom Nature might auto
continue it, as great conflagra-
ton extends from the beginning of -,ere
spark.-Dr. Frank Crane.
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The average man is firmly convinced that
he does II times as much for others as others
do for him.
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A man thinks that is is all right for
woman to confide in him-and all wrong for
her to confide in any other man.
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PRESS TALK IN GEORG
We ObieC

BY Jack L. Patterson
We Object.
Get the mosquitoes right now,' urges
an exchange, We don't want 'em.
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My dreams sometimes
Sing on thousand lacquered bells,
Music with tiny pendulums of silver Il.
Rich names of Orient make sound on them
With languid assonance.
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THE NICE WOMA N-Bv Dorothy Dix

CTo BE CONTINUED
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We are long way from the millennium,
but we get here and there along the way
glimpses of the delectable mountains.
Let us set down few.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-12

- HE opening of the southeastern Fair
on Thursday October the twelfth, Is
an event to which multitudes long
The McCarthy weekly news., 1922-06-10

S. L. M. No. 1414 bears South 310 35' 01" East 833.56 feet distant;
 thence North 180 54' East along the westerly line of the Camp Bird Lode 544,9 feet to Corner No. ? thereof; thence South 640 25' East along the northerly line of the Camp Bird Lode 1900 feet to corner No. 3 thereof, which is identical with Corner No. ? of the Camp Bird Extension No. Lode,
 from said Corner No. 3 of the Camp Bird Lode the common corner for Corner No. California No. 1 Lode, Corner No. l Lemon No. Lode, Corner No. ? of the Lemon Lode and Corner No. 4 of the California Lode bears S. 180 54' w. 1144.9O feet and from which Common Cor her U. s. l.. M. No, 1414 bears North 550 or 04"W. 88O.45Ft;
 thence from said Corner No. 3 of the Camp Bird Lode, identical with Cor ner No. ? of the Camp Bird Exten- sion Lode, South 640 25' East 15OO feet along the north line of the last named lode to Corner No. 8 thereof; thence S. 180 54' w. along the Easterly line of the Camp Bird Ex- ension No. 1 Lode 544.8O feet to Corner No. 4 thereof, which is Identical with Corner No. of the California No. 1 Lode and with Corner No. 2 of the California Ex- tension No. ? Lode, from said corner No. 4 of the Camp Bird Extension No. 1, the Common Corner for Cor. No. 1 of the California Extension No. 2 Lode, corner No. 1 of the Lemon No.2 Lode, Corner No. 2 of the Lemon No. l and Corner No. 4 of
The McCarthy weekly news., 1922-06-10

the California No. 1 Lode bears s.
 180 54' w., eco feet and from said Common Corner U. s. L. M. No. 1414 bears N. 600 56' Is" w. 2373.O3 feet distant and from said Common Corner the Common Cor her for Corner No. 1 of the Orange Hill Extension No. ,, corner 2 of the Orange Hill Extension No. 1, Corner No. 3 of the Lemon No. 1 and Corner No. f of the Lemon No. ? bears s. 1S0 54' w., 60O.1O feet and from which latter Common Cor ner U. s. L. M. No. l414 bears N. 470 32' O7" w., 2J48.31 feet
 thence from said Corner No. } of the California Extension No ,, Lode South 640 25' E. 1499.lO feet along the northerly line of the Calf ornia Extension No. 2 Lode to Cor ner No. 3 thereof: . thence S. 180 54' W. along the easterly line of the last named lode 6O01O feet to Corner No. f thereof. which is identical with Corner No. 2 of the Lemon No. 2 Lode and with Corner No. I of the Lemon No. 3 Lode, from which us. l.. M. No. 1414 bears N. 620 IT O8" w. 3871.33 feet distant;
 thence S. 87025' E. along the north line of the Lemon No. 3 Lode 1496.7O feet to Corner No. 2 thereof; thence S. 180 54' W. 300 ft.along the easterly end line of the Lemon No. Lode to its east center endstake, which is identical with Corner No. ? of the Copper King North Extension No. 1 Lode; thence S. p E.along the northerly side line of the last named Lode 15O6.3O feet to Corner No.3
The McCarthy weekly news., 1922-06-10

thereof, which is identical with Cor ner No.2 of the Copper King Lode; thence s. 220 33' E. along the north erly side line of the Copper King Lode 565 80 feet to Corner No. 3 there of, and further along the same sideline s. 490 13' E. 934.2O feet to Corner No. of the Copper King Lode,
 which is identical with Corner No. ? of the North Star Lode;
 thence S. 560 56' E. along the northerly sideline of the North Star Lode 1900 feet to Corner No. 3 thereof, which is identical with Cor ner No. ? of the North Star East Ex- tension No. 1 Lode; thence on the same course along the northerly side line of the last named lode 1900 feet to Corner No. 3 thereof;
 thence South 440 31' West along the endline of said lode 600 feet to Corner No. thereof;
 thence North 560 56' West along the southwesterly sideine of said lode 1900 feet to Corner No. l thereof, which is identical with Corner No. 4 of the North Star Lode, from which point U. S. L. M. No. 1414 bears North 5O0 2O' 35" West 9288.27 feet distant; thence North 560 56' West along the southwesterly sideline of the North Star Lode 1900 feet to Corner No. 1 thereof, which is ident- ical with Corner No. , of the Copp- CT King Lode,
 thence N. 490 13' West 934.2O feet along the southwestly sideline of the Copper King Lode 934.2O feet to Cor ner No. 6 thereof, from which U. s.