Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-02
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. II. FELTON,
JUST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO


Country Home column came to the
front at the beginning. l was invited by
Hon. Hoke Smith, the owner Cat that time) >,
to assume charge of it. OF all the people
who were in charge of The Semi-Weekly
when it began, am as l am told, the only
survivor in the office today
Mr.. John Brice, treasurer, in charge
of the finances of the big daily Atlanta Jour
nal, and he remains in the same position to-
day
How many changes there have BEEN How
many people closely associated with The
Sem-W Weekly The Tri-Weekly and the big
daily Atlanta Journal have come along and
gone to their reward in the other world?
/ going towards seventy years old my
self, and | am nearly ninety at this time.
Marvellous, even to myself, is the fact that
my aged fingers at seventy years old are
still active and still willing to do duty at
the same old Standard now approaching
ninety years.
Hardly day passes that | do not get a
letter Cor a visitor) that tells me, 1--WE been
reading after you many long years." Some
far-off kin made a detour of seventy-ive
miles last week to shake my hand, on
trip from South Carolina to Alabama, and
they told me they read The Semi-Weekly,
perhaps fifteen years ago twenty-five years
is quarter of a century, and quarter of
century counts large in ones lifetime. My
bosses on The Tri-Weekly Journal are excep-
to notice. If they love me as I love them,
we might go through another quarter of
century hand in hand
WHAT ABOUT MARS?
T TRIED to get good look at Mars the
! other night, but [ had telescope, and
~ [ returned to the house none the wiser
and disappointed.
| could see it red and bright, and that
was about all L knew or could find out by
myself, When [ was studying astronomy in
my school and college days it was delightful
to go out in an open place and gaze at the
stars with capable and enthusiastic precep
tor to point them out, by name.
But recall more often the enthusiasm of
Rev Dr. Alexander Means, professor of
chemistry at Emory college, and when folks
were unkind enough to say he had gone
crazy on electricity. He was all of fifty years
ahead of his time He saw visions and
dreamed dreams that have become amazing
realities in our own experience. 1t all
so fine to this cultured Christian gentleman
to prophesy to what electricity would do
for the world. Returning to Mars. I am
wondering if this torrd summer heat has
been caused by getting too near and there
fore too familiar with a red-hot planet
which will not come back to see us for an
other two hundred years.
The earth has just one moon. Mars has
two, according to the scientists. Maybe Mars
is twice the size of the earth If Mars
keeps it's proper distance We may like it
better Chose who are here to welcome it
pect we can all wish it good luck, and
safe journey to the places where it really
belongs.
ARE ALL SUICIDES CRAZY?
= is we'll known that the love of life is
| the strongest emotion in animals and
human kind. 1t is the natural instinct
put there to keep the living from destroying
1ife-untiI they naturally die. -
But we see strong men, with verything |
to live for, deliberately kill themselves. !
There are such examples in every daily news
paper printed in this country. We all know
it to be a fact that men will Kill themselves
with no apparent cause for such conduct.
We do know that delicate women will take
poison, will hang themselves by a rope from
the ceiling above, in the most illogical way
Imaginable.
It is a natural instinct to kill other people. !
We train our sons to kill in the army, but
why should a man or woman get pistol or
gun and shoot themselves to such death?
Are they crazy? For one [ so believe.
CITY WOMEN AND COUNTRY WOME
q ONE time in years past and gone, there
was a movement organized to appro-
pirate $4,000 from the state treasury
to improve rural conditions and to send
qualified persons into the country places to
enlighten country women on their duties to !
society. 1t was before the days of woman
suffrage in Georgia, and this money was
never appropriated, to my knowledge, but
Hon Thomas E. Watson was editing a
weekly newspaper and he wrote the follow
ing, which is certainly worth the reading:
CThis clipping has been reprinted in the
Lincolnton newspaper known as the Lincoln
Journal)