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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Gown Your Home" Convention


A convocation-or assembly,
big gathering Of interested people, is
scheduled to come off in a very few
weeks. to be held in the audito-
rum of the city of Atlanta, to dis
cuss this problem.
The subject of this convocation is
t. be q free for-all discussion, as to
whether it is the best thing for the
Individual to own the house that
shelters him Tor herr or is it more
economical and more satisfactory
to pay so much for the shelter, per
month or per annum, and let the
other fellow build the house, and pay
taxes on the property, and take the
worry as a. part of what the owner
GETS out of the investment.
In We olden time-very few peo-
pie in Georgia lived in rented
houses, among the Well-to-do
classes. But times change, and
men with them. >"Renting houses"
in big cities are the demand of the
hour. A friend of mine, living In
Atlanta, bought very neat nome IN
the suburbs about three years ago.
He remarked to me last week that
between 300 and 400 houses had
been erected in that immediate To-
cality since he bought the aforesaid
property, and they are as quickly
filled by renters as they are rapidly
built by the contractors and build
erS who own them.
They are modern structures, sup
piled with water, gas and electricity
and rented to salaried people who
get their money monthly and quar-
terly and they are loud in praise of
the convenience and comfort they
obtain with these rented homes of
superior quality. The landlord or the
agent has the worry and he charges
a plenty for the endurance of many
and varied troubles.
In small towns there. is a distinc-
ton and a difference. OF course,
there are exceptions, but the people
who have money prefer to own, and
generally to supervise the construc-
ton of their own homes. The de-
mand for houses is not so great, and
the hindrances are many, with we'll
meaning landlords, who generally
complain of slack or neglectful
renters, the dead-beats, who are
skilled in their various maneuvers.
When this question is freely dis
cussed in small towns, the idea pre-
walls that it is practicable to own
your own residence and not own any
other building unless it is a we'll
placed stofehouse or a mandatory
which pays as it goes" and the
money thus invested gives reliable
dividends at stated intervals.
The abstract question as to what
is best for the life and character of
those who are born and reared in
their own homes or raised in rented
homes is a different question from
the money-saving part of the bust
ness of owning or renting the house
we inhabit.
A child may not adore its own
home during youth and with crav-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
BURGESS
BEDTIME
STORIES
Polly Chuck Appears
Who satisfies his appetite
Is apt to find the whole world right.
JOHNNY CHUCK.


The good news that already green
grass was to be found so filled
Johnny Chuck with happiness that
he thought of nothing and no one
else. He actually forgot Polly Chuck,
who had not yet come out. In fact,
Johnny had not once thought of her
since going to sleep weeks and weeks
before. When he had awakened and
finally crept out to his doorstep he
had had no thought of any one, but
himself.
So he actually was startled when
he heard a noise just behind him. He
had forgotten that there was any
one else in that house of his. He
turned quickly suspecting an enemy
His lips were drawn back showing
his teeth, for he was ready to fight.
What he saw was a sleepy looking
face just at the entrance of his home.
It was the face of Polly Chuck. She
kept blinking her eyes, for they were
not yet used to the sunlight
"Welcome, my dear" said Johnny
Chuck. 1T is high time you were
up and out"
Now Polly Chuck felt exactly as
Johnny Chuck had felt when he first
awakened. Her temper was quite as
bad as his had been. She didn't say
a word. She simply looked cross and
out of sorts. Johnny understood.
Already there is green grass"
cried Johnny.
Polly Chuck found her tongue. 81
don't believe it," said she.
"It is true" cried Johnny eager
ly. at is true, for I've had somen'
''I don't believe it," snapped Polly
Chuck again. II never yet have
found green grass when I first came
out in the spring"
But you will this timer Cried
Johnny. I'll show you where it is.
We must have slept longer than
usual this year"
Polly Chuck didn't say anything.
She crept out of that doorway and
roughly pushed Johnny Chuck aside
Johnny didn't like it. He almost lost
his temper. He even started toward
her to push her. If he had done so
there would have been a quarrel and
a fight, which of course would have
been very dreadful. But suddenly
he remembered how he had felt when
he first came out. So he kept his
temper, and sat up and grinned.
Polly Chuck didn't grin back. In
fact, it made her crosser than ever
to see Johnny Chuck grin. She be-
gan to humble and grumble to her.
self just as he had done. Suddenly
Johnny Chuck turned and waddled
on. Straight back to that place
where he had found the green grass
Johnny Chuck waddled. He waddled
because, you know, he was so fat.
Polly Chuck watched. him, 1t was
only short distance away. and she
could see him very plainly. He was
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

Affection
| Z HAVE u letter from u woman
who is engaged to be married
to Il widower. He is splendid
man, and she is very much in love
with him, and he is de--oted to
| her, and everything is as happy as
the traditional wedding bells except
! of the mans first wife.
| She says that when she thinks
! that he has loved another woman
and married her. and that she her
| self is a second choice and that the
love she is getting is warmed-over
affection, so to speak, she sees
green, and she wants to know what
think about it.
Pooh! I think a woman is going
out of her way to borrow trouble
who is Jealous r of her husband S
first wife. Give me a dead rival
instead of a live one any time! The
woman to be jealous of is not the
poor lady lying under a ton of
marble in the cemetery. It's the
vamp who is up and doing and
camping on the trail of cookbook
ing ! married men with money to
spend.
Silly and illogical as it is, my
correspondents trouble is very
common one. Most women who
marry widowers suffer from an in
growing case of jealousy of their
husbands first wives. But for
that matter, every woman who loves
a man is jealous of his past in
why wives are jealous of their hus-
bands mothers and of their hus-
bands old friends.
Women are jealous of their hus-
bands first wives because they are
obsessed by a mania for being the
first woman to be loved by the
man they love. This is an insane
desire, unless they are willing to
take a male infant out of kinder
garten and bring him up by hand
in an Eveless Eden.
Every woman with grain OF
sense in her head knows perfectly
we'll that in every mans life there
is a procession of women and d
succession of loves that begins ir
the high school and ends when he
gets the right one. The lucky
place in this line is at the top and
not the bottom, and, as a matter OF
fact, 1t doesn't make bit or dHfer-
ence to woman who was a mans
first love so that she is his last.
Probably a second love is not as
romantic as a first love. Undoubt
eddy, middle age is less given to pal
pitatiion and thrills and chills an6
fever than youth. Possibly it's woo
ing has fewer pyrotechnics in it, for
alas. there is but one springtime in
a life; it is permitted us to see the
world wrapped in illusions but sin
gle time.
But the sober, second love often is
as much stronger than the boys ro
mantle love as the man is stronger
than the boy. The boys love is a
thing of cobwebs, of dreams and fan
cies, of mist and moonshine, that
lperishes at the first strain of reality
or that weaves itself around the next
pretty face. But the mature mans
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
GIRLS! LEMONS
BEAUT|FY AND
WRITTEN SKIN

Mix the juice of two lemons with
three ounces of Orchard Whites
which any druggist will supply for
a few cents, shake we'll in q bottle
and you have a whole quarter pint
of the most wonderful skin soften
er and complexion beautifier. Mas.
sage this sweetly fragrant lemon
cream into the face, neck, arms and
hands, then shortly note the youth
full beauty softness and Wilderness
of your skin,
Famous stage beauties use tAta
harmless lemon cream to bring that
velvety, clear, resy-white complex
ion, also as freckle, sunburn, and
tan bleach because it doesn't irritate.
Advertisements
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

fully good now. I do every thing that
comes along, and we all take your
medicine as a tonic when we don't
feel just so. am thankful for what
the Vegetable Compound mas done
for my health and for my family. -
Mrs. MARY SAIECHECK, GA 28th St.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Letters like these testify to the
value of the, Vegetable Compound
These women speak from the fuIlness
of their hearts. They describe as cor
rectly as they can their conditions.
First, those symptoms that affected
+F".' mo- t---.t--~uusiy: and LAIR
the disappearanceof those symptoms
They are sincere expressions of GRAFT.
tude: For nearly fifty years lydia q
Pinkham Vegetable Compound has
been SO praised by women.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

eating something. There was no
doubt about it, he was eating some
thing. Polly Chuck watched a few
minutes. Then slowly, for she was
still stiff from her long sleep, she
waddled over to join him. There was
green grass there. Johnny stopped
nibbling it and sat up. You see, he
really wasn't hungry. Anyway, there
was very little of that green grass,
and he wanted Polly Chuck to have
a taste of it.
Polly nibbled a few short blades.
She glanced sidewise at Johnny
Chuck. She edged up beside him.
Isn't spring beautiful" said Polly
Chuck.
Johnny Chuck agreed that it was.
Then side by side they went back
to their doorstep and began to make
plans for new home.s
Copyright, 1923, by T w. Burgess.l
The next story: 1.-THE Chucks Do
Some Looking Around"
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Woman Killed, Four Hurt
When Auto .0Verturns

NEW ORLEANS, La, April O.
Mrs. Fred A. Ayres was killed a~1
four other persons wee cut and
bruised when an automobile in
which they were returning from
Lutcher, La, to New Orleans, ran
into a ditch and overturned near
Gramercy, La, Sunday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

L was alllng and
|couldbarely do my
house work and
washing I was so
rundown, jus t
from having one,
child. / took a lot
of medicines and
had doctors. Then
I gave them all up
and took Lydia E. !
Pinkham's Vege-t
table Compound
anI fao1
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS

Help for the HeIpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"
Rules
No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides Of
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
WOMAN'S HEALTH
RESTORED
She Claims Lydia E. Pinkham''s
Vegetable Compound Did kAfter
Everything Else Failed {!

Milwaukee, Wis. -"I feel that I
ought to let youknow about my case.
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The Tri-Weekly Journal
and McCaLI's Magazine for a
full year only $1.25. Remii
now.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW M. SOULE

! ing for change, but the record
shows that many of the tenderesl
memories of human beings in man
hood and middle age are inseperablJ
connected with the homes that were
theirs in the lifetime of their par
ents. The association with those who
lived near and who appreciated thC
same horne feeling strengthens this
/ attachment and is more lasting.
It is q refined and wholesome at
tachment. There is also an indie
pendence of ownership which grows
with it's growth and strengthens
with it's strength which is difficult
to describe, but easily understood
by people who look back to then
own early homes as the dearest spot
on earth to them. Great masters in
finance who are able to call them
selves lti-millionaires incline tc
getting back and owning the ole
homesteads and building veritable
palaces on the soil which thei1
young feet had trodden in humble
childhood.
Be Farmer-When You Farm
In my part of the county, we
have some good, strong land to pro
duCe cotton and corn, and any in
duStriOus person can make a decent
living if he devotes his attention to
the farm business and sticks to the
job. But we have also mining plants,
where labor gets daily pay for the
miner and a great many of our
iaboring classes undertake to be
A ! 4kno inn
they try to make a crop as farmers.
1t is a very risky business, to say
the least. AS rule it makes a
complete failure for the farm, and
bad weather, or drop in wages,
will put the miner in a bad fix in
the final outcome.
1t is a full mans job to make a
good crop on his land and he must
stick to it from January to Deem
Der, and there is never day in the
year that he cannot find something
to do that adds to comfort and to
good returns for his work. There
are poultry assets, most remunera-
tive. There is milk and butter, that
is in prompt demand. There is a
potato crop to live on, if not salable
as to ready money.
/ A thrifty farmer can put in good
time when the land is too wet to
pillow; and when it is pouring rain.
He can work under shelter in his
barn, while the miner must wait
until the weather clears up, and loaf
while he is idle.
It has been said that boil weevil
will drive out the cheap tenant sys-
;aI, 70 Twin o.
from the land by blowing and cult
waiting a few months in the spring
and then gather crops awhile in the
fall of the year, and then quit and
move off, neglecting the blowing in
the fall and always attempting to
pick up an outside job, while neglect
ing the proper cultivation of the land
lords crop. If this change comes
by way of the boil weevil, then some
thing strangely good has arrived.
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and girls? We take The Journal AMI
always enjoy reading the Letter Box.
go to school at Mccall school. L am In
the seventh grade. Miss Jessie Barker is
principal of the school and she is my
teacher. We have four teachers. My birth
day comes May goth. / am between ten
and fourteen years of age. l live IN the
country, en- a farm, and like it fine. ]
wouldn't exchange with any city girls and
boys. / have a new Ford and have just as
good a time riding about as any city girls
and boys. Hurry up, boys and girls 0:
Alabama, and write to the Letter Box. !
will appreciate letters from tne boys AM anu
girls of every state in the Union, and hc2e
to get your pictures. All of you boys and
girls write to me if you just want an an-
swer. From your new cousin r.cvsoN
Brewton, Ala, Route b, Box 152.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: May
enter your happy band of boys and girls
] have written once before, but failed to
see it in print, so L guess l broke Aunt
Julia's rules.
going to school now, like myself. live
three miles from the Claude Mccall Con-
solidated school. We have four teachers.
Miss Jessie Barker is the principal. We
all like her fine. Our School VIII De out
in three weeks.
Like most of the other boys and girls,
I live in the country, on a farm, aud
wouldn't exchange with any in the city.
AlaDanllanS lets SHOW IIe OIHSIS we
can put our state ahead of all the others
in the Letter Box. 1 believe Georgia is
the leading state, although l saw four
letters from Alabama in the paper today.
Dad takes The Journal and ! think its
the dearest paper ever published. I've
been a silent reader of the Letter Box
Do you an like to read good books?
I do, but don't find time to read much.
I like Zane Grey's, Mary Robert Rine-
harris and Dixon's books best, but I like
lot of others.
Girls. it will soon be time to plant
surely will. for I do enjoy working with
flowers. I am sure every girl does.
Who has my birthday, July p? Have
I n twin? If so. let me near from you.
To the one who guesses my age correctly
I will send my picture. 1t is between
10 and 10.
VIII appreciate letters from every state
in the Union. All you boys and girls
home and country, just write me. Please
send picture also.
All of you write to a jolly Alabama
girl, if you want an answer.
Your new cousin.
LEILA BELL CARNLEY.
Brewton, Ala, r. B. 49,.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will You
admit another Florida girl into your Jolly
band of girls and boys? I have been
reader ct the Letter Box for some time and
preaching day, and we had two fine ser
mons. I live one mile from the Methodist
church. Oh! we are planting cane now.
I help dad in the field some. We have
three acres set out in Strawberries. My,
that says work, and more work. How many
of you cousins like to do fancy work?
do. Will leave my age for you to guess.
It is between 10 and %. Who has my
birthday, July 10? All who want to write
to a jolly girl let your mail come to your
new cousins,
OLIVIA GRAHAM.
Atmore, Ala. Rt A, Box "a.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
BY DOROTHY DIX

Why BE Jealous of the First Wife?
WidOwers Give Steady. Mature Love
to Wife No. Mot just BOyish
Affection
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41lAChpOloI ~ y.
Hello, Aunt Julia and cousins too! Just
a line this beautiful spring morning to see
If any of YOU cousins remember me, as 1t
has been about two years since 1 wrote to
the Letter Box. l often think what
grand lady Aunt Julia is, and wish so much
that we had more Aunt Juias all over the
world. Just think how/wonderful it would
be to have her in alfour sunday schools
My! / just know each boy and girl would
take more interest in their class. How
many of you love- flowers? l do. and
would like to exchange cuttings with some
of the cousins. L will not describe myself,
only say l twenty years old and Will
answer all letters received and exchange
photos, A dime for the baby. Lovingly
yours, \ CORA PREVAIT.
Old Hundred, N. c.. Route 1.
Dear Auntie and All the Cousins: Here
comes an old cousin from Alabama.
guess some of you remember me, but it
has been almost two years since L wrote
and | received a lot of interesting
letters from different states and cousins,
which all were appreciated very much.
] am like most of the cousins. live on a
farm. 1t has been raining here about
week and it is raining today and am
very lonely, as l cannot get out and go
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins VIII you
If Alabama into your band of happy boys
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

Jacob i.~ed II years in Egypt and
then died, Joseph being Sc years old
at that time. When Joseph learned
that his father was very i'll. he took
his two sons, Manasseh and Ephriam,
born in Egypt, of high parentage to
his father for a patriarchal blessing.
These boys might have been the best
that Egypt afforded, but Joseph had
higher regard for the spiritual
blessings that Egypt afforded. There
fore his choice for them was the
spiritual. 1t probably seemed fool
The Washington times., 1923-01-25
BAD BLOOD
FALLACY
BY Brice Belden, M. D..

nNE still hears people speak
Of. the blood as being bad,
~ particularly in the spring
of the year. In most Of the
cases Of this sort the troubles
complained Of have nothing to
do with the blood but much to do
with violations Of the laws of
healthful living.
Whenever people have skin dis
eases of one sort or another, par
ticularly acne pimples), they are
prone to ascribe the trouble to
bad blood. When such cases are
inquired into carefully it usually
develops that bathing or exercise,
or both, have been neglected. Bad
eating habits are also frequently
to blame. The idea that some
medicine that will purify the
blood is all that is needed in such
cases is a sadly mistaken one, to
say the least.
If a person bathes only once a
week, or once every two weeks,
it would be remarkable indeed
If he did not develop some skin
irritation or infection. When the
skin is neglected in this manner
it becomes peculiarly susceptible
to infection by one Of the pus-
producing organisms known as
the staphylococcus. This germ
is usually a factor in the causa-
ton of acne (pimples), and is
also the essential factor in the
causat ton of boils.
BY simply keeping the skin of
the face clean one does very
little toward the prevention of
acne in that region. The hygiene
of the entire skin surface must
be taken care Of If one wishes to
have a fine complexion. All the
cosmetics externally and drugs.
internally will not offset the neg
lect of personal hygiene.
AS regards bad blood in the
spring, we have simply to re-
member that it is the people who
dig in for the winter, deprive
themselves Of fresh air, eat too
much and refrain from frequent
bathing who complain most In
the spring about their bad blood.
The remedy is obvious enough.
Thus another of our hoary
superstitions is revealed In its
true light
The Washington times., 1923-01-25
MANUFACTURERS HAPPY
HOW TO GIVE WITH REAL INTERPRETATION

and something of his loving, in.
telligent understanding of our de-
sires.
Gifts and thoughts alike may
be superb and yet mean very lit
tie to the recipient. The lavish
gift shows the purchasers power
of wealth, his generosity and
sometimes his thoughtfulness as
well. But the tiny offering which
is a token of thought and SYM
-pathy leaves no sense of panicky
obligation in it's wake, and ex-
presses the gentle understanding
which we all crave.
The things that touch us most
as we go through life are honest
expressions of goodwill. And
goodwill is not offering you some
thing I think you ought to have,
but it is finding out what you
yearn for and trying to help you
make. your dream come true.
Let us all remember that to
give generously is to give with
an honest regard for the taste,
the desires and the dreams of the
one we are trying to make happy
and not to endow.
The Washington times., 1923-01-25
Charm and Beauty, Magic and Intrigue
Temptation and Triumph In Man
hattan's Exotic Whirlpool

/ went to a dance. I was ter
ribly depressed. And a boy had
conceived the same sudden sort of
attachment for me that David
has conceived for you. Only
one thing saved me from making
a little idiot OF myself-not a
minister would marry us without
a license. I'm confessing a lot,
my dear. Goodnight" she ended
abruptly.
! Alone, Clancy slipped out Of
the pretty dressing-gown and got
into bed. She could not doubt
Sophie Carey's sincerity. Yet how
absurd the woman was in think
ing that she and David She
wondered. Suppose that Randall
had proposed - in one of her.
reactions from bravado to- fear.
To have a man to help her fight
her battle, to extricate her from
the predicament into which her
own frightened folly had hurried
her! Sleepily, she decided that
Sophie Carey was a wonderful
friend. Also, she decided that
Clancy Deane wasn't much of an
actress. If everyone guessed that
she was worried
Once. during the night, she
half Weakened. She thought that
she'd heard the door-bell ring
ing. But she slipped into un-
consciousness again almost at
once. But in the morning she
knew that she had not been
mistaken. For Sophie Carey woke
her up, and Clancy saw a face
that was like a blush-rose.
Miss Deane, you must wake
up and meet him before he goes"
Before who goes?" demanded
Clancy.
Sohpie Carey's face was like
fire.
don. He came last night
after all - late, and /. he isn't
going to get a divorce, because
won't let him" There was
fiery pride and touchingly soft
reimbursement in her voice. We've
made it up. It was all my fault,
anyway"
Clancy, as she bathed and
dressed, shook her head Won
deringly. Mrs. Carey's life was
almost as kaleidoscope as her
own.
She put on the gray foulard
and descended, shortly, to the
dining-room. There she met DON
aid Carey. Weak-mouthed, it's