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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
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BY THORNTON ~. BURGESS

Happy Jacks Summer Home
Who builds on weak foundations
Up trouble for his future days.
Mrs. Happy Jack.
Happy Jack Squirrel often has two
homes, one for winter and one for
summer. His winter home is in a
hollow in a tree. His summer home
is outside. This year it was in big
beech tree. He and Mrs. Happy Jack
built it together. That tree was the
choice of Mrs. Happy Jack. Happy
Jack himself had chosen another
tree, but when he found that Mrs.
Happy Jack ha9 set her mind on
that particular beech tree he wisely
said nothing more about his choice,
and went to work to help her build
the new nome.
1--WE must have a good solid foun-
dation," said Mrs. Happy Jack as
she brought a stout, dead stick and
carefully placed it in crotch in
the upper part of the tree.
Certainly" replied Happy Jack,
hurrying off to get another stick.
He was back with it in a few min
utes, and before he had finished
placing it to his liking Mrs. Happy
Jack arrived with another.
"A house is only as good as it's
foundation" decided Mrs. Happy
Jack as she worked to fix those
sticks exactly to suit her. This
isn't like our winter home inside a
tree. There We don't care how hard
the wind blows. But out here it is
different. We have got to make this
platform of sticks so solid that no
matter how hard the wind blows it
will not loosen"
Happy Jack agreed, and for a
while cheerfully brought sticks. But
by and by he grew tired. He wanted
to get to work on the walls of the
new house Don't you think, my
dear" said he, that this platform
is quite good enough?'
Mrs. Happy Jack went all over it
very carefully. Then she shook her
head. NO" said she, 1T isn't good
enough. 1t won't be good enough
until it rs as good as we can make
it. To my way of thinking nothing
can be too good, especially in a new
home. Now. don't be cross and dom
be lazy, but bring some more
sticks"
Happy Jack sighed. Good
| enough is good enough" said he
stubbornly, but he obediently went
| for more sticks.
Mrs. Happy Jack hardly took time
to eat She was so interested in the
building of that new home that she
could think of nothing else. At last
the platform of sticks, which was
the foundation, satisfied her. She
tested it very. carefully in every way
that she could think of.
II think it will do" said he. "And
! tomorrow we will begin on the
walls"
So the next day she and Happy
Jack began cutting and bringing
I twigs on which grew little punches
Of leaves. These were for the walls.
My, how they did work. Mrs. Happy
| Jack was as fussy about the placing
of these as she had been about the
foundation platform Each one had
to be placed just so. When Happy
Jacks work didn't suit her she did
it over again
SO the new house grew until it
looked like A great mass of sticks
and leaves. The roof was carefully
rounded over, and so made that
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Makes a Family Supply |
of Cough Remedy
Really better than ready-made |
cough syrups, and saves about So. r
Easily and quickly prepared.

If you combined the curative prop
critics of every known ready made"
cough remedy. you probably could
not get as much real curative power
as there is in this simple home made
cough syrup, which is easily prepared
IN a few minutes.
Get from any druggist 2h ounces
of Pinex, pour it into a pint bottle
and fill the bottle with syrup, using
either plain graduated sugar syrup,
clarified molasses, honey, or corr
syrup. as desired. The result is
full pint of really better cough syrup
than YOU could buy readymade for
three times the money. Tastes pleas
ant and never spoils.
This Pinex and Syrup preparation
gets right at the cause Of a cough and
gives almost immediate relief. tt
loOsens the phlegm, stops the nasty
throat tickle and heals the sore, irri-
tated membranes so gently and easily
Shat it is really astonishing.
A days use will usually overcome
she ordinary cough and for bronchitis,
Group. hoarseness and bronchial asth-
ma, there is nothing better.
PlneX is a most valuable concen-
trated compound of genuine Norway
pine extract, and has been used for
generations to break severe coughs.
l., 10 avoid disappointment. ask your
druggist for "2a ounces of Pinex"
with full directions, and don't accept
anything else. Guaranteed TO give
absolute satisfaction or money
promptly refunded. The Pinex Co.,
TT. Wayne, Ind.
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Suppose That Marriage Contracts
Were Renewable After a Certain
Space of Time and That Time
Was Nearly Up-WOuld Your.
Wife or Husband Want to
Renew the Partnership?
Ask Yourself Honestly
you ever ask yourself II you
give satisfaction as husband
or as a wife? DO you ever
wonder if your husband or wife
would pick you out as life com
panion if he or she had a second
choice?
Could you give a good reference II
you were looking for another mat
rimonial job?
Every married man and woman
is acutely aware of how far the
poor, weak, laundering creatures
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Compound and what it had done for
other women and gave tia trial. be-
gan to eat better and could sleep, and
consider it a wonderful medicine. /
recommend it to my friends and will
never be without it, Mrs. M. OHLEN,
3640 S. Marshfeld Ave-, Chicago, Ill.
It is such letters as these that tesr
tify to the value of Lydia p. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. This WOO
man speaks from the fullness of her
heart. She describes as correctly as
she can her condition, first the symp-
toms that bothered her the most. and
later the disappearance of those
symptoms. It is sincere expression
of gratitude.
For nearly fifty years Lydia e,
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
been so praised by women.
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during storms the water would run
Off III
Inside it was lined with moss.
And when at last it was finished it
was as comfortable and fine a. sum-
mer home as ever pair of Squirrels
built.
There" said Mrs. Happy Jack as
she brought the last bit of moss and
tucked it into place, Now we can
live in consCIt the rest of the sum-
mer!'
Copyright, 1928, by T. w. Burgessj
The next story: "RedtaIl this
Hawk Becomes Interested"
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they married
are from the
angels and he
7 o e s t h e y
thought t h e y
We're espOusing e.
There is moth
ing like domes-
ITCHY for turn
ing the spot
lights on the
faults of those
with whom we
live, and there
is not a hus-
band Or wife
who could not
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Rome, Ca, to Unveil
Memorial Statue
On Armistice Day

ROME, Ga, Oct. 1.-Major Gen.
eral David Shanks, commanding gen,
eraI of the fourth corps area, has
accepted an invitation to be in Romn
on armistice day to assist in the cere-
monies incident to the unwilling of q
memorial to Charles Graves, known
hero" of the American armies in the
World war.
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COULD HARDLY
DO Her WORK
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Made Her Eat, Sleep
and Feel Better Every. Way
Chicago, H. Twas weak and rum
down and in such nervous condition

tndb1cOuld hardly
do my work. | waa
tired all the time,
and dizzy, and
could not sleep
and had no appe-
tite. l tried differ
ent medicines for
years, bus they
did not hei9 me.
Then I read in
the papers about
Lydia E. Pink
hams VeOetahla
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Drops Dead Shouting
8" Will Live to Be 1907

AUBURN, Ill, Oct. Tim fifty
three years old today and I feel now
I will live to be 100" shouted Mike
BOkOtie, and then dropped over
dead.
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write to and we will assure you an an
swer. II we are admitted this time we will
come again in the future. So bv-by.
CORA M'ELVEEN.
INEZ M'EI.NEEN
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Hey there. Aunt Julia and cousins! Here
I am again for a chat. l visited the Letter
Box once before and [ got letters from seven
states Don't you cousins think Aunt Julia
a grand woman? | surely do. | read Dor
othv Dix's talk and the continued stories,
and think them all fine. How many Of yoa
boys and girls are striving to get start in
the business world: / am. Now, cousins,
let your letters come TO
GEORGE GLENN.
Delmar, Ala.
2. S.-Inclosed fin da dime for the baby.
am seventeen years old
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CMIss) BLNCHE GREENE.
Ellerhn Y q Rnnfa

Hello, Everybody: Just another silent
reader asking admittance into this happf
band of boys and girls. This is my first
attempt, and l do hope Aunt Julia will be
so Kind as to print it Like most of the
other cousins, ]. too. am from the farm.
So You cousins see I have plenty to do. 1t
has been raining here every day for two
weeks and is still raining. ] wonder what
the cousins do for pastime' I have been
going to singing schools this summer and Of
euorse. enjoyed them. I. too, an a great
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No man marries to get that kind
of wife, and every one of these
ladies would be out husband-hunt-
ing if matrimony was a time con
tract instead of life job.
What sort of "character," as they
say at employment agencies. would
your present husband or wife give
you, Mr.. Man and Mrs. Woman? 1t
is a salutary problem to ponder.
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Golden Text: "In thee shall all the
families of the earth be blessed" Gen.
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FREE! sEVEN-PIECE SHAVING SET
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Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: As this
is my first letter TO the Letter Box" will
try not to take up very much space Won
der how many Of your cousins are going
TO school: ], for one am, and am in the
ninth grade. My age ia between fifteen and
eighteen. How many guess it? Who
has my birthday, September \: How many
of You like to play croquet? | sure do. We
play every afternoon after school. have
already taken up more space than | eN-
pected. Will close, saying that | would
like 10 receive card or letter from every
cousin from all states. Love to all. from
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Hello Aunt Julia and Cousins: I wish
yon all were here with me. I'm sitting
mere in the yard under a large scuppernong
vine. My the grapes ripe. too. We
have five large vines. Come. cousins and
help me enjoy them. ! live on farm. but
60 IN the city often. Come again. viii
liam Barney Lovett. your letter was fine.
| would like 10 see you. School at Ellerhs
starts September TO- | am senior there
this year. We have splendid school. Boys
and girls, write me. l will answer all, and
send my photo to the writing first Love.
TO all.
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Happy Jacks Summer Home
Who builds on weak foundations
lays
Up trouble for his future days.
Mrs. Happy Jack.
Evening star., 1923-05-06
SLIM BROCADED FROCK, TRIMMED WITH LARGE
SIDE OF CREPE DE CHINE.

than shawls. Two or three times
after the directoire period they were
revived-iu fact, they@ never went
quite out of fashion. Wide. indeed.
vas the gulf that lay between any
original Egyptian sentiment and the
shawl as it was primly worn. let us
say, by Queen Victoria, or our own
grandmothers OF civil war days. But
1t was Napoleon in Egypt, as yet un-
forgetful of the clothes-loving Jo-
sephine. who started this far-reach-
ing vogue.
II any OF the many. many clothes
inspirations that have come as a re-
suit of Lord Carnarvon's conquests
on the Nile-different but possibly no
less heroic than those of the little
COrsican-haVe an effect remotely
comparable with that Of those two
shawls received by Josephine CEN
tury and quarter ago. then surely
the present Egyptian vogue will be
something not lightly to be dis
missed.
The fact that not one of the Egyp-
tian evening frocks You see seems
Evening star., 1923-05-06

Egyptian campaign the last year of
the eighteenth century. THE victory
Of Napoleon at the pyramids" says
one French writer. inspired the
style Messidor'--was the real begin
ming OF the empire style: the return
from Egypt of the wife OF Napoleon
Ill brought the mode of the burnous
women yearned TO wear these drap-
cries of chaliic ornamented with silk
tassels."
=
THE first two ShawlS to appear in
i Europe, it is said. were sent from
Egypt by Gen. Ronaparte, who made
d gift Of them to Josephine. and it
is not hard to imagine the excite
ment Of certain women Jealous to i'm
itate the wife of the Conqueror of
the pyramids. and Of the very small
number Of shawls that could then be
secured.
1t would be hard to find one article
of women's apparel that had a more
important or lasting influence on
women's dress during the first sew
enty-five years of the last century
Evening star., 1923-05-06
GRAY CREPE DE CHINE EVENING GOWN TRIMMED WITH
FLOUNCES OF CRAY LACE LACE SCARF TO MATCH

model. have been offered for even
Ing froCkS. and some of them have
been used with excellent effect
SO We are surely not limited in our
choice of trimmings.
The line between evening fabrics
and fabrics suitable for afternoon
frocks is with difficulty drawn these
days. For some of the more informal
evening gowns one even sees printed
silks and chiffous. which certainly
would not have been regarded as
adaptable to evening gowns six
months ago. Sometimes the outline
design of the print is picked out in
small beads
wide variety in silhoueItes awaits
you. From Egyptian inspira tion. Of
course. comes the skirt draped up
ward at the front--likewise the lotus
flower fare at the side Of the skirt
Second empire bouffancy persists, and
is ali excellent design for tue white
organdie frock that will recommend
itself especially a. the days wax
warm. The years around 1880 are
given credit for the hustle. but ones
ina gination needs considerable
stretching to see a, close reSemblan nee
Evening star., 1923-05-06


mothers 60 out to work, and thou
sands of mothers are now, working
who have not had to do so in the
past. -'.',
Take, for instance. a day nursery
which I visited this week. 1t Is in
the heart OF fashionable Berlin and
it looks after forty-f1ve children
whose mothers work all day long for
about 2 cents per hour. The children
bring the prescribed food for their
noon meal with them to the nursery
and it is cooked by. the nurses. Each
child has q paper or cloth bag and
twoscore such bags were hanging
to hooks in the hall of the nursery
over the hats and cloakS when came
in. They were empty. for the little
ones had just had their dinner and
were sleeping. / was shown one bag
which had not been used. It con-
tanned a few potatoes and an apple
and this was what made the meal
Evening star., 1923-05-06

The apples and potatoes are cooked
together and the children often have
no other food The little ones were
sleeping, and the nurse warned us
to move quietly as she gently opened
the door Of a room perhaps twenty
feet square. 1t was filled with boys
and girls OF two to eight years Of
age, lying on the floor. side by side,
in rows. They wore patched clothing
and looked neat, but only few had
undergarments. although it was win
ter. The nurse picked up one boy
and took him out into the hall. He
seemed to be about four years of age,
but he told me he was eight, going
on nine. He was a nice little fellow,
but he looked wan and worn. He
is a type OF many of the children in
the German primary schools of to-
day.
X * X
a FTER leaving the day nursery
"A visited one of the best of the
public schools of Charlottenburg a
fashionable quarter of the German
capital. The school is surrounded by
magnificent homes and fine apartment
buildings. It was built just before
the war and it accommodates more
than 900 pupils. having a playground
OF about half an acre. At the time
of it's construction the people were
rich. and It has the most up-to-date
of all school machinery and is the last
word in advanced public school work.
I went through room after room with
the principal and in mono did fnd
the children looking well fed. Many
Of them were two-thirds the size of
our boys and girls of the same grades
in the United States. saw child
after child who had great Jumps in
Its neck and other evidences of tuber-
culosis. and my heart fell as I passed
through certain rooms whore the
children as a class veto weak men-
tally and had to have educational
methods much under their ago on that
account. Some OF these children are
cared for by the Quakers. who are do
ing great dsal of good.
talked with some OF the little ones
as to what they had to eat at their
homes, finding only one in a class of
100 who was accustomed to what an
American child would think a square
meal. This little girl said she had
had that morning four pieces Of rye
bread with margarine and two pieces
Of liver sausage and also some choco-
late. It seemed to me 1 could see
tho other children lick their lips as
she talked, and when I asked what
her father did she said he kept a
grocery store and made much money.
A striking incident was my visit to
the cooking school, where twenty as
nice-1ooking girls of ten or twelve
as any we have at home were learn
ing the culinary art by preparing a
dinner for themselves. I was told
that the days on which they had cook
ing lessons were the star days Of the
week. as It was then only that they
could be sure of square meal
Evening star., 1923-05-06
Babies Now Grow Number Surpass French Record

There were a number of fine gas
ranges in the room and the cooking
utensils. bought before the war, were
excellent.
And what do you think they were
cooking? Each girl had the same
things for her meal. They consisted
Of few cabbage leaves, some raw
potatoes just peeled and a tablespoon
full of margarine and lard. This is the
usual days ration and it is cooked in
a stew. The teacher told me, how
ever, that they had that morning. for
the first time, some meat to add to
the meal. They had a whole pound
for these twenty live. active. twelve
year-old girls, and this was to be
distributed throughout the class so a
little could be mixed with the pota-
toes and cabbage. 1t would be less
than a mouthfu1 of meat for each girl,
but it would flavor the dish.
r VISITED this school with my lady
i interpreter and Frau DR.. Eollhals,
Evening star., 1923-05-06

between the wasp wasted, kangaroo
silhouette Of Du Maurier and the eff
feet gained by adding a huge hustle
bow to the straight. plant. low w aist-
ed silhouette Of 1928. But call ii 1880
If you like. Perhaps it is as nearly
related TO that period as our bouffant
frocks are to the real period Of En-
press Eugene.
Prejudiced though you may be
against the popularization of the
Egyptian motif at the present time,
You cannot take true survey of the
evening clothes stretched before you
Without admitting that from the
banks of the Nile has come an inter-
esting and potent factor Of dress in
tuence. II is especially applicable to
the soft draperies of evening dress.
1t is not new-there have been frocks
of Egyptian inspiration in the collec-
tions Of evening gowns presented by
the prominent designers for a decade
or more. But the present impetus to
Egyptian motifs and design can fair
ly be compared to no similar wave Of
influence more recent than the really
tidal wave from the Nile that came
with the return Of Napoleon from his
Evening star., 1923-05-06

They are leaning their young heads against
their mothers,
And that cannot stop their tears.
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows.
The young birds are chirping in the nest,
The young fawns are playing with the
shadows.
The young nowers are blowing toward the
But the young. young children, o my brothers,
They are weeping bitterly!
They are weeping in the playtime of the
others.
In the country of the free.
, At the same time the cities and in
dividuals are doing all they can to
better these conditions in every pos
sible way. They have established day
nurseries in all Of the cities and an
immense amount of relief work goes
on. The Quakers Of the United States
have done a great deal. the German
Red Cross has its branches for chill
dren's aid, and every attempt is be-
ing made to ration the babies and
keep them alive. In the day nurseries
the children arp left while their
Evening star., 1923-05-06
The Golden Rule in Hygiene.

Improved sanitation has no appre-
ciable influence. upon the prevalence
Of smallpox, measles, scarlet fever
pneumonia or diphtheria-all of
which are respiratory infections. That
IS, the virus or germ Of the disease
is present in the moisture spray given
off from the nose and mouth when
the patient coughs. sneezes Of talks.
and the invisibly fine droplets of
moisture carrying the virus or germs
lodge upon the face, lips, nose or
mouth Of the victim exposed, unless
precautions are taken to prevent that
happening. It Is q fatal mistake,
though one which even some sani-
forums make. to imagine that respir-
atory infections are "air borne" They
are mono of them carried by or
through the air, save in the direct
manner, droplet or spray infection,
just mentioned. There is no evil
dence that any communicable disease
Is carried in the air. Even in case of
smallpox. an unvaccinated person
would be safe in the room with the
patient, provided he kept outside of
/ the range of the patients mouth
spray, which is not to exceed five
feet during ordinary conversation.
All Of the other respiratory infec-
tions Il have listed two dozen dis
ease conditions which belong in this
category are transmitted in precise
ly the same manner as diphtheria,
smallpox and scarlet fever. This in
cludes, Of course, the least alarming.
if not the least serious respiratory
infection. coryza, still Greek to those
who call It cold in the head"
All Of the childhood diseases" if
we must confess that children have
any particular need for the eruptive
fevers and whooping cough and
mumps, are respiratory infections
If people in general were educated
to acknowledge the responsibility for
the spread Of such diseases, they
would soon become as rare as
typhoid fever now Is lin enlightened
communities.
As have said repeatedly, and with
out contradiction by any health au-
thority, no one can foretell what an
alleged cold" will prove to bet
Evening star., 1923-05-06

really Egyptian" the fact that colors
lightly dubbed "Egyptian" are no
more Egyptian than they are red In
dian or African Kongo. really doesn't
set at naught the Importance of this
new influence. There were as amaz-
ing discrepancies in the interpreta-
tion of the Egyptian mode in Ma
poleon's day.
Says one French observer writing
of what he saw in the early empire
period: "To be in the mode a woman
must be shod in the Roman manner,
her headdress must be Grecian. her
collar Egyptian. while her arms must
be Turkish and the bodice of her
gown must be Spanish"