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

ment yard long against his or her
life partner without stopping to
make a new inventory.
SO much for the other fellow, but
how about yourself? Suppose, Mr..
Man, marriage was a business con-
tract, entered into for definite
space of time, and the time was
nearly up. Suppose you had found
the arrangement profitable and
agreeable, and were anxious to re-
new the contract. Do you ever
wonder if your wife would sign on
the dotted line again?
OF course, no man comes up to
young girls dreams. Granted. There
isn't any such animal but there are
certain things every woman has a
r ght to expect Of her husband.
Companionship. Consideration. Fair
play. A fifty-fifty split on the per
quisites as we'll as the penalties of
family life. How do you check up
on these things?
Do YOU think your wife would
let herself in for twenty years more
Of your society if she could help her
self? She is human, You know. and
has the usual human reactions.
When YOU come home surly and
glum, and sit up through the whole
evening in a frozen silenceN that
sends the domestic atmosphere down
below zero, or when you vent on
your wife all the temper and irrita-
bility you dare not display to your
OF oil do
that she is passing happy hour,
and thinking how perfectly delight
full it is to be assured of such CHEEKY
compromising the balance of her
life?
You've seen many a lucrative bust
ness partnership broken up because
one member of the firm was so dis
a 81 eeable that the other would not
put up with him at any price, and
believe me, Mr.. Man, the same thing
would be true of the domestic part
nership oftener than you think, il
it could be terminated at will.
1t is because men think they can't
lose them that many husbands
lover of books and have read great many,
i
Julia is dear aunt to take such interest
in the boys and girls. | think the buys
have said enough abOnt our paint and pow.
der don't You. girls? Well, as Aunt Ju-
write to 4 hrown-eyed girl between sixteen
and twenty years OF age But boys. ! will
say I use paint and powder, aud don't think
any harm il it. If Won don't 20 to the
extremes. Your niece and cousin.
(MISS) CLYDE GOODWIN.
Pelham, Ga, Route ,,
Dear Amt Julia and Cousins: viii you he
so Kind as to admit North Carolina boy
into your happy band of boys and girls?
live on the farm and like it fine. 1 have
been going to school. but our school closed
May IL. For pastime, | go fishing and
swimming. How many of you like to read?
| do for one. Zane Grey and Harold Bell
Wright are my fayOrte authors. Guess |
had better stop, as this is my first letter.
II | see this in print | will come again.
Who has my birthday, September "a? Will
close by asking all cousins to write to a
jolly North Carolina boy. My age is between
eighteen and twenty-one. VIII write to the
one who gHesseS my age correctly. Will
NGEORGE SrRAYHoRN.
Efland, n. C., Route l. Box %.
Dear Aunt Julia: ! am writing few
lines which l hope you will print for the
cOnSdPra ton of pr6nle and for tho welfare
hood and children. / do believe If this
point was we'll considered with intelligent
people the way would he clearer. ] offer
the suggestion that all states pass law
that no person who not read he allowed
to run on the public highway or on
the streets in the cities, and that no child
under sixteen years of age be allowed to
operate a car. saw two women and
child nearly killed in city Of High Point by
man that could not read the stop sign al
the crossing. The time has come when ig-
nOrance should not be excuse for acct
dents, for we all have compulsory school
law. People who not read ought not
to he allowed to run operate car. /
hope You will give this to your large rirru-
lSt;en department. 50 that the good people
Of all states can bring This much needed
law into operation. 1t will probably save
lots OF lives. The ignorant person is just
as guilty as the drunken man as car
driver. for he can't read those car warn
ings or step signals. Please use your influ-
ence and see that this gets wide circula
ton. Thanking you. l am your friNnd.
T. c. SMITH.
High Point y. c. Xd..s