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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

sion, and racing about wild to see
the carriages stop and allow the roy
alties to go into some consecrated
pdace, to get married where the COM
mon run of folks are not allowed to
buy a seat and rest awhile to see
it properly done.
In 1918 a cry went all over Eu.
xo2e, to America-"Send an army
10 keep Kaiser William from over.
tuning our thrones and taking
away all our jewels and gold,''-Q
am obliged to confess-the World
War was a grim sort of program, to
make the world safe for "Democ-
racy.D
The very rich-in America-are
feted and admired and gazed at, in
much the same way, and when one
of them dies-the papers are cram
med full of all that occurred in sick
room, etc.
In the days of Samuel, the proph-
ct, we find the Hebrews actually got
tired of their own selected rulers
and begged to be given king.
What did they want him for?
Samuel told them what the kings
would do to them--how their chill
dren would be serfs and directed to
wait on the household OF royalty
like common slaves, etc. but the
gang was so obsessed with admira-
ton, for pomp and display-that
they demanded king-and they
got HMM the person of King Saul.
Nothing in ancient or modern his
tory has been recorded which more
aptly illustrated the modern wor-
ship of royalty and the alteration of
wealth than Samuel's plain talk to
the Israelites, who demanded King
no matter what king might do
to them-in tyranny and with
slavery. -..'
1t it a proper time to ask a ques-
ton, that has Nbeen in my mind for
a long time, namely: Are we Amer
leans getting ready to demand a
king to rule over us, and who will
demand the major part of all we
now try to own, despite the enor-
nous taxation heaped upon us?"
1t is a commentary on feebleness
and ignorance of our own people
that we find in their. toadying to
royal men and women. and trading
off their own children for titled
husband.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME @aMs@

very backbone of se1f-respect. The
woman with money in the bank can
demand decent treatment from her
husband, while the woman without
a penny of her own is forced to put
up with whatever treatment is &C.
corded her.
OF course, q man of the highest
type, a man who is noble and
chivalrous, will not be influenced in
his attitude to his wife by few
dollars. But there is no denying that
the general run of husbands have
the same awe and respect for their
wives money as they have for all
other money. The hand that holds
the pocketbook rules the roost the
world over, and the woman who has
a financial stake in the domestic
firm has much more voice in decid-
ing things than has the woman who
has only a working interest in it.
We Americans smile very scorn-
fully when we are told that in con-
tinental Europe that no girl can get
a husband unless she has a dowry.
We say, thank goodness we don't
have to give a chrome with our
daughters to get them married; men
are glad enough to get them as they
are without any bonus thrown in.
The theory that girls face is
her fortune is a pretty and poetical
fancy, but unfortunately it is not
always the enc that is legal tender
for rent, and food, and raiment.
And, alas, the great majority of
women would not assess at two cents
on the dollar if you computed their
riches by their looks.
Therefore, unless parents are very
certain that they have bestowed
upon their girl baby a face that
launches a thousand ships and
catches a millionaire, they are in
duty bound to provide her with a
little start in life.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
I1HEGUIDEPoST
j by
j Henry van Dyke
The Great Pledge
@Io23 REPUBLIC SYkD

n
10, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the. world.
Matthew $3.50.
A s long as God lives and our
~ souls live, so long does
this pledge stand.
1t is true, we cannot always
feel this presence. But We can
always know that it is there,
always think of it, so long as
thought endures, always rest
upon it forever and forever; and
the reason why this promise is
given is that we may hold fast
to this truth.
There may be a moment in
the very depth of sorrow and
anguish when the presence. is
hidden from us. But it is not
because God is absent. 1t is be-
cause we are stunned, uncon-
scious.
1t is like passing through g.
surgical operation. You stretch
out your hand to your friend:
Don't leave me, don't forsake
me-" Then a moment of dark
ness, a blank--and the first
thing you see is the face of love
again.
SO the angel of Gods face
stands by us, bends upon us,
and we may know that He will
be there even when all else
fails.
Our friends die, our possessions
take wings and fly away, our
honors fade. our strength fails,
but beside every Wondering
ruin and every open grave, in
the fading light of every SUM-
set, in the gathering gloom of
every twilight, there is one
sweet mighty voice that says:
II will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee. In all thy afflic-
tions will be with thee, and
the angel of My face shall save
thee. '-"/
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
G|RLs! LEMONS
BLEACH OUT TAN
AND FRECKLEs

Mix the juice of two lemons with
three ounces of Orchard White,
which any druggist will supply for
few cents, shake we'll in a bottle,
and you have a whole quarter-pint
of the most wonderful freckle and
tan cream, and complexion beauti-
fier.
Massage this sweetly fragrant
lemon cream into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see
how freckles and blemshes natu-
rally bleach right out and how youth
FULLY clear, soft and rosy-white the
skin becomes advertisements
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Gained in Every Way

Buffalo, N. Y.-'Ihad some female
troubles that just run my health
down so that lost my appetite and
felt miserable all the time. I could
not lift anything heavy, and a little
extra work some days would put me
in bed. A friend had told me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and gained in everyway. could
eat better and felt stronger. / had
found nothing before this that did me
so much good. Mrs. J. GRACE, 291
Volt Avenue. Buffalo, N. Y.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

VXTHEN your little girl is born,
wv start laying up her dowry
II you are rich, settle stocks
and bonds on her. If you are poor
open little savings bank account
in her name or take out some insur
ance for her. 1t will not cost you
much-just a few dollars a year.
But If you will keep adding regular.
ly to the nest egg, by the time your
little girl is twenty, you will have
Matched out a nice little brood OF
dollars for her.
If the money that is spent fool.
ishly on child was saved for it.
there would be enough for every
girl and boy to have a good educa
ton or start in life.
When she is grown, It won't make
any difference to your daughter
whether she was pulled around in
a cheap little go-cart or rode grand
ly in an imported English perambu
lator. 1t won't matter to her wheth
er she played with a rag doll or a
French bisque doll with real hair
1t won't matter to her whether she
wore knitted hood, or a tandem
broidered chiffon bonnet. But the
money that all of these things and
thousand other foolish and I'M
necessary extravagances cost will
mean a lot to her.
If the money that may be spent
on flummeries that she will not
even remember is saved for her, it
will mean that she will be able to
go to college if she wants an edu
cation. 1t will mean that she will be
able to undertake some little enter
prise of her own if she wants to &C
into business. 1t will mean that she
will have little Independent in.
come of her own il she marries. II
her parents die and she is left alone
in the world, it will mean that she
will not be homeless, and shelter.
less, and exposed to the temptations
of those poor unfortunates who are
driven into selling their souls tc
keep their bodies alive.
Why. if the money that children
waste in pennies and nickels was
saved for them, every one of them
would have a stake in life when il
was twenty-one years old.
It is curious how little RESPONSE
bility parents seem to feel about pro
viding for their children's future
and especially about providing fol-
their girls. Yet a woman without
some money is the most pitiful and
helpless creature on earth, and how
any father and mother can calmly
contemplate this fate for their. owr
daughters passes comprehension.
OF course, the parents salve their
consciences by thinking that their
girls will marry, and that their hus
bands will provide for them, which
may or may not happen in these
days when wedding bells do not in
variably ring for every girl, and
when husbands are as likely as not
to be broken reeds on which tt
lean.
But even when a girl does marry
it is a handicap to her to go empty
handed to her husband. have never
known a woman who was entirely
dependent upon her husband, nc
matter how generous and open-hand
ed he was, who did not feel thai
there was something degrading
something that hurt her pride, in
the fact that she had nothing of hel
own. Nor can one wonder at this
point of view.
Financial independence is the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
Dear Folks:

Dear Folks:
Today has been one of those
dripping, rainy days; you know the
kind, a gust of wind and a down.
pour of rain for a while, then drip,
drip from the caves of the house.
When I first awoke I wondered
how I was to get through the tasks
I had set for myself. Well, I didn't.
1t was too dark to do much sewing,
but it proved a wonderful day to
Straighten out laces, threads, hooks
and eyes, etc, that I will need in
my sewing the next few weeks. IT
is really encourag ing to see how
much is in the house that can &C
tually be used, and my rainy day,
spent in going through put aside
boxes will prove very profitable, for
it means a saving in the things !
thought I HAD to buy.
Try this plan the next "murky"
day.
Cordially,
AUNT JULIA.
Thelma Glosson, Rt. No. /, Nun
ford, Ala.
HAS lOSG Lfl6 dUuESSS VI girl VIII
wanted Jolly Sally Pendleton. -
Thelma las this book, with a few
of the leaves missing. Write to her
if you still wish the book.
Mabel A. Ransom:
You gave only your route and
box number, not your town, and
the address was not readable in the
postmark. If you will send the ad
dress We will try to get a copy OF
"a Perfect Day" printed for you.
Mary:
Capital letters should be used in
beginning propsr names and always
at the beginning of a sentence. Alb
breWiations are not good form in
social letters.
Mrs. Iona Mize, Jefferson, Ga.
/ have been unable to find just the
program 1 want for your Mothers
day exercises. This suggestion l am
going to pass along to you. We had
Mothers Day in our Sunday school
class. We opened with a short
prayer. Then the name of the
mother of each.member of the class
was called and the daughter came
forward and placed a flower in
basket, w men our CLASS was ONOL
/ we took the basket to dear old
lady who is a shut-in.
Mrs. j. L., Midtown, Ga.
Wish I could see your yard.
could better help you plan your
flower beds. I do not like a lawn toe
much cut up. Rather put your
flowers as borders to your walks
and massed against your house, il
not too shady. A smashing bed ir
the middle of a large yard is good
Use your tallest flowers always az
backgrounds. You have a nice col
lection, and do not ruin the effect Of
them by too much separation of
variety. Better to have a great
clump of the same kind in one
place.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

diIyIIlkLlR nSdVy
| without having a
] backache. / tried
| different things.
Then / saw Lydia
| E. Pinkham' Veg.
| etable Compound
| advertised in the
newspapers and
| began taking it as
| the dire C lions
| said. / feel very
| good now and can
4 10 oil r,nxy VxyorL r
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

We have the song, I'm Forever Blowing
Bubbles" .,t
have lost, their address, so II any OF you
want it, just drop us your address ana we
will send it to you.
We will not describe ourselves the first
time, and will leave our age for you TO
guess 1t is between IL and 16-oniy six
days. difference in our ages.
Who has our birthday-the 2Sd and 2Sth
of August? We will be glad to hear from
all of You Cousins who wish to write, and
will try to answer all letter received.
With love and best wishes to all of you
Cousins, from two new Cousins, .,
MARY LEE SUTTON.
FLORA MAE JORDAN.
Center, Ala, Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a lonely North Carolina girl in to
your happy band? We do not take The
Journal but l get it from friend OF mine
sure do enjoy reading it, especially the
vember It? My age is II. l go to school
and like it fine Am in the eighth and
ninth grades. How many of you like to
go to school? I will not take up our
time Hope to hear from all you Cousins.
VIII answer all letters received.
EMMA JOHNSON.
Dunn, N. c., r. 3. Box As.
Hello! Hello! Aunt Julia and Cousins:
Here comes three little Georgia girls want
ing admittance to YOUR happy band of boys
and girls. We have long been reading the
cousins letters, and we certainly enjoy
them. What do you cousins do for pastime?
We ride horseback, play basketball and go
to school. Who can guess our agesf- They
are between twelve and seventeen. Any
body who wants to write to jolly crowd
just let your letters fly to,
FANNIE MAE AND SARAH KERCE
ANNIE MAE HUTCHINSON.
Rome, Ga, Route g.
Dear Cousins; Here 1 come again after
at least four years absence. l have gained
some very dear pen friends through the
Letter Box. 1 am sophomore in hi'' this
year. attend school at the Nashville
of eleven grades, and there is an attend
ance of over 900 pupils. We have thirteen
teachers, including the music and expression
teachers. We high school girls and boys
take gymnastics and the boys also drill. l
really enjoy taking gym" 1 think it's
real sport. In fact I think every school
should engage in physical training, as it
will make all boys and girls much healthier
and stronger than they really are. l am a
great lover of music, flowers and reading.
We have a piano aTS Victrola, but l do
put most of my time on my studies. We
play all kinds of athletic games at school,
such as tennis, volleyball. basketball. foot
ball and baseball. l really enjoy them. /
am blonde. 'sweet SIXTEEN have bobbed
hair. l wish to get letters from different
states. Cousins, if l have a weakness"
its for receiving and answering letters. SO.
here, you all may be of an answer
to your letter il you write.
MISS LEOLA AKINs.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
Winter Things

A folding chest of heavy paper
chemically treated to make it moth
and insect proof is an excellent ar
rangement for putting away the win
ter blankets. When not in use it
can be folded flat like an accordion.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
Silk for Sport FroCks

Artificial silk tubing which has
striking designs in bright colors is
admirably adapted to sport trocks.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
z more WOMEN
join. The ARMY
OfThose Who aveB eenRe stored
to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Milwaukee, Wis. ~ hadabad pain
in my left side and / could not lift
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

recommend the Vegetable Compound
to all my friends, and you can use my
testimonial letter. - Mrs. HATTIE
WARzoN, $40 Garden St., Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
THE QUESTION BOX
FOR EVERYBODY
Rules

Rules
1. All questions must have full
names and addresses signed. If it
is desired that names do not appear
in the paper, add your initials or
some chosen name in addition to
your full name.
2. All questions must be written
on ONE SIDE of the paper only.
3. No legal or medical advice can
be given, either in the Question Box
or by personal letter.
4. All letters requiring personal
reply MUST inclose stamped, self-ad.
dressed envelope.
S. Letters for the Question Box
MUST NOT be included in letters for
Aunt Julia's Letter Box. The CUES.
lions must be sent separately and
must be addressed to Aunt Julia s
Question Box, The Atlanta Tri-Week-
ly Journal, Atlanta. Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
BY DOROTHY DIX

Parents should plan for their daugh-
ters' financial independence rather
than count on their matrimonial
achievements.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
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 zoe
words.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08
(MRO E. p. BURRELL.
Gadsden, Ala, r. F. D. 2.

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
comes two jolly girls from the good old
state of Alabama. We don't think there
has been letter in the Council Box from
this part Of the state, so wish to enter
your happy band Of boys and girls.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

Hello, there, Auntie and Cousins: May
1 come in and get acquainted with some of
you jolly people? ] have been a silent
reader of the wonderful Letter Box for a
long time and just couldn't resist the
temptation TO write any longer. live
about five miles east of Gadsden, on Coosa
river. in place called Lonesome Bend; but
by rights it has the wrong name, il is far
from being a lonesome place. We have
amusement to keep fellows mind EN-.
pioyed. will not describe myself, but il
anybody cares TO know Just write to me
and III send you photo of myself. |
VIII be 20 years. old the 18th of April.
Have ! twin? If so, come over and we
will have a big birthday dinner. believe
in fellow saving lots of fun and making
the best out of this old life he can, so il
ANYBODY cares to hear from this part of
dear ole Alabama, just write to me and
III III tel you all about it. Will answer
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
comes Montana girl asking for admit
tance. 1 think your band is very happy
band
have rot seen any letters from the state
OF Montana yet; although l look every time
the paper comes. | surely do enjoy reading
the Letter Box. / think Aunt Julia is a
real nice lady, don't you?
/ am twelve years young. and have one
brother and one dear little sister, four
years of age. Ny birthday is November IL
l will not describe myself this time.
Now, all of you Cousins write to me. I'll
answer all. A New Cousin,
(MISS) MARGARET MINER
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

Dear Aunt Julia: 1 have just been hand
ed a TriWeekly Journal, and think it is
the first copy l ever saw, but anyway, the
donor said "Write your Aunt Julia and
have her to Introduce you to the Cousins
you will find them the jolliest lot of young
folks you ever saw
1 am just II years Of age. ] attend school
aven ne + 7 nIswl at tho tbaeter am the
pianist. We hive an orchestra, mostly COM
posed of young people.
/ live just one mile from the city limits,
and am very fond of reading. l would
enjoy hearing from some of the young
folks near my age, especially from the
southern states.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-24
RAIDS BREAK UP INTERNATIoN,
AL CONTEMPLATING RING;
600 ARRESTED.
COUNTERFEITERS HELD
RECENT KILLINGS IN EASTERN
CITIES is LAID TO PLoTTERS
UNDER ARREST.

New York.-Wlth the international
counterfelting system wrecked by se-
cret service agents who laid it's work
ings bare here recently and with 500 to
600 persons connected with the ring in
a dozen countries under arrest, federal
authorities are prepared for a court
fight to send the counterfeiters to Jail
for the maximum term of forty-five
years.
While court evidence was being set
In order, the dragnet of the secret ser
vice was extended to most of the large
cities of the United States to catch
hundreds of passers of counterfeit
money, implicated by clews captured
In raids here. Joseph \. Palma, chief
of the special secret service squad
which for eight months tracked the
makers and distributors of spurious
money gave evidence of widespread
international ramiflcation of the plot
by announcing that fifteen persons
had been arrested in England, France.
Egypt Germany, Cuba, Austria and
the Bahamas as a result of informa-
tion furnished by the American secret
service
New York police, who began an in
| dependent investigation, professed to
find n direct connection between the
counterfeit plot and many hitherto un-
solved gang murders of the past few
years.
Several of the murders were be-
lleved to have resulted from passage
n hnOuE
| crossing in the ranks of the counter
feiters. A number of crimes, it was
said, had been committed in or near
the Broome street cafe owned by John
DirOsa, arrested as one of the gangs
large Wholesalers of counterfeits.
Palma agreed that scores of import
ant criminals were in the ranks of the
counterfeiters.
| Immigrants unfamiliar with Ameri-
can money, he said, were the easiest
victims, but the gang also hunted out
small stores kept by aged women and
stores left at times in charge of
children.
Seizure of large quantities of
counterfeit internal revenue stamps,
| physicians liquor prescription blanks
and Quebec liquor stamps in the raids
Indicated, secret service men said,
that the counterfeiters, in addition 20
making vast purchases of liquor from
international rum runners, were also
in league with Illicit manufacturers of
whisky in interstate traffic.
Some of the dies used in making
spurious specie were smuggle6 here
from Italy in large cheeses, officials
said.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-24
First Steam Warship.

The first steam war vessel was
launched 108 years ago at the shipyard
of Adam and Noah Brown in New
York, and was christened the Demolo-
Cos. This pioneer ship of the worlds
steam navies was the creation of Rob
ert Fulton, and flew the Stars and
Stripes of the infant republic. 1t was
in 1913, when the United States was
at war with Great Britain, that Full
ton suggested the building of steam
war vessel. His plans were accepted
by the Washington authorities, and in
June of 1914 the keel of the Demologos
was laid.
Designed for the purpose of wip-
ing the British navy off the sea, the
Demologos was completed too late to
accomplish that object, and her career
was brief and inglorious. After the
close of the war she was rechristened
the Robert Fulton, in honor of her In
ventor, and she became receiving
ship at the Brooklyn navy yard. In
1929 an explosion of powder in her
hold sent her to the bottom, at the
same time killing "a and wounding 10
of her crew.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-24
Nitro Blast Kills Three.

Ardmore, Okla.-Three men were
killed and two others injured in an
explosion on the Carter Oil Company
lease near billiard, eighteen miles
west of here. The explosion occurred
when the men were preparing TO shoot
the casing in an abandoned well. A
charge of nitroglycerlne being lowered
into the well exploded near the sur
face. The cause of the premature
blast has not been determined. The
injured men were taken to II hospital
in Wilson.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-24
French Soldiers Fire on eermans.

Bochum.-Two French soldiers fired
point blank into a crowd of Germans
in front of the law courts, killing one
man and severely wounding two 9th
ers. The trouble occurred while
French troops, with tanks, were en-
gagged in occupying the law courts
building and the nelghboring prison on
suspicion that certain Frenchmen had
been incarcerated as spies. Some of
the bystanders hooted the soldiers.
two of whom fired then into the
crowds.