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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE 0. THOMAS

rain. Corn is tasseling and that
means the ears will not be as heavy
as they would be if we had a better
season.
b. w. Snow, writing in the Farm
Journal, says that in his experience
covering Forty years, he has never
seen season equally as untaNor-
able. so we must expect TO pay
more for western corn if we don
raise enough for our own stock. And
we must not forget that the bank
ers are not going to lend money to
farmers who fail to raise their feed
and forage. Even now there is time
to plant crops that will feed things
this winter. and | do hope that some
of the idle fields will rest(O that
way. Hogs and cattle marketed
partly fed will have to be sacrificed,
and it is a shame for that to happen
after so much has been done up to
date.
so let's put down the checker
boards even when you are beating,
and right now resolve to turn over
a new leaf and see that the stock
are fattened Plant something in
the garden, and get those potatoes
planted if YOU have to plant on
shares with a neighbor.
Thrift does not mean all work.
and planning ahead for the man on
the farm there should not be an
empty can, nor should the cans be
touched for the table until there is
nothing green to be gathered. |
know people who had cans filled in
June and have used them already.
In looking over some pictures for
the school to use in making posters
| found a cover of an old Country
Gentleman showing a baby's first
haircut. The golden curls were
shoWered all about, and pinned to it
were theS oversees. J. am sorry that
[ cannot reproduce the picture.
THE FIRST HAIRCUT
Jimmys had a haircut!
How the folks all stare,
It's so short you see his. skin d.
Showing through his hair.
'Twasn't what he had before,
Cut all round a bowl;
1t was in that barber store
BY the candy pole.
Jimmy's had a haircut!
We were there to see,
Looking through the windowpanes-
All the boys with me.
He was worried there alone,
Trying hard to grin,
On kind of great big throne,
Wrapped up to his chin.
Jimmy's had a haircut.
Course it scared him some.
All those shears an cups of things
Sort of struck him dumb.
Jimmy's mother saved a curl
She felt bad ! know,
That he wasn't born a girl,
And could let them grow
Jimmy's had haircut
My! 1t made him proud.
Walking out while all of us
Followed in a crowd.
He got pretty rich that day
Fore he went to bed,
He made ev'ry fellow pay
Just to smell his head.
Burgess Johnson, in Youths Com
paniOn.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
Recluse, Thought Poor,
Leaves $4,000 In
Bank and Strong Box

ST. LOUIS, Aus. 2S-For thirty
years Mrs. Caroline Frank, 81, blind
the latter years of herlife, lived alone
and almost as a reculse in the bor
derland of the downtown hupsiness
section.
Tuesday she was found dead in
bed. Police found a bank book
showing deposits of Sl7,550.S2, dia
monds and jewelry valued at $S,500,
aud other indications Of wealth, al,
though the woman had lived in semi,
poverty,
To-day. Henry 4. STROBE, a cousin
of Gillette, Ark, told authorities
Mrs. Frank was the widow of a
wealthy importer of Birmingham,
Ma, from whom she separated about
thirty-tive years ago. Later there
was a property settlement. he said.
He did NOT know whether Mrs.
Frank received additional property
on Franks death half dozen years
ago.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

Lengthening the Life of Fence Posts
r. r. r., Quitman, Ga,
writes: l wish to know if there
Is satisfactory method of pre-
serving fence posts on the farm.
Our original fat pine posts are
no longer to be had and the sec
ond growth pine and gum sap
lings last only about eight or
nine months in this climate
Treated posts are too expensive
to buy. | need about 5000 posts
and have plenty of the material
if | can find a way of treating
it SO it will last longer.
The life of pine posts may be
greatly prolonged by treating them
with coal tar. The process is com
paratively simple. Cut the posts
during the winter and peel them
Immediately. Be careful to remove
all traces of the inner bark. An axe
may be used for the coarse work and
a drawing knife for the finish of
the job, The posts should be sea
soned by piling them SO as to al
low free circulation Of the air.
This is most important part of
the process. They should be sea-
soned for not less than thirty days
or more than three months. Much
depends upon weather conditions
In treating the posts, proceed as
follows:
Build a three-sided, brick fire
place. Set over this boiler made
of galvanized iron. This tank should
be 4 inches high and , II inches
in diameter. You may, of course.
use a tank of a different shape or
size if YOU desire. Build a fire
under the fire-boX which should be
so constructed as to protect the
bottom of the tank. In this way,
the tar is kept hot and boiling. Do
not allow it to boil over. To pre-
vent this, one must watch the fire
carefully. Place the posts in the
tank butts down and boil for one
hour. Rake out the fire and let
the tank cool for an hour. The
posts may then be taken from the
tank and the tops painted with hot
tar. Pile the posts and let dry for
a fortnight. Untreated pine posts
will rot off in less than a year.
Treated sap pine posts will last
anywhere from five to twenty years.
1t will cost YOU anywhere from five
TO ten cents to treat a post.
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WHAT THE PICTURES SAID

TO ME
not long ago the Progressive
Farnaey had picture of two men
playing checkers. 1t was an enttc-
Ing picture, and / showed it to The
Farmer. He sits in the shade of a
big oak every day, and his comment
was that it's all right if the other
fellow was beating, but if worktime
came when ,he was getting the
games it would be hard to quit.
There used to be a time when all
the men on the farm thought lay
by time meant just such games
} with two or three watermelons twice
day. Now with haying to be done
and sorghum TO be ground, with
July blowing to fix the ground for
winter cover crops, and the hay to
be brought in, then baled, it is not
oftener than once a week that there
IS day to actually loaf And it is
good plan too, for the diversified
crop means there is more probability
/ OF the farmers getting more than
Z Just enough to make a hard living.
{ l heard q man say that he worked
.tor certain merchant as long as
his children were the size to be made
to work cotton but when they re-
belled and said they would help with
cows, hogs and corn and he must
fix it so that they could go to school,
he found that they had more sense
than he did. Now he draws a check
with the best of them, and is not
OBJ ed to take off his hat and
p credit from anyone. Working
he things that can be bought
from None store, on time, and know
ing that at the end of the year there
twill be nothing to put away for a
rainy day, is discouraging, to say
the least of it.
1 hope that the farmers of the
south will decide, more and more, on
diversified farming, and see that by
August there is a prospect Of feed
and forage for the stock. And right
here | want to say that when many
OF US get TO the place where our
record will be shown us we will be
, surprised at the black marks made
because we failed to water our
stock. l heard a woman say that
the reason her stock kept in such
good order was, not that they got
more or even as much feed as her
richer neighbor, but because every
time that they got thirsty they came
to, the fence and asked her for a
drink and she got it for them. She
draws it out of we'll, and not a
man in dozen would do it.
Cool water is not luxury, really
1t is a necessity, and it hurts me to
think of the dumb creatures that
ssuffer for a drop to cool their pant
ing threats. God looks in pity down,
He even counts the sparrOws as they
fall, then what about the suffering
stock on your farm?
I saw in recent list of statistics
that eighty-five per cent of the corn
raised in the south is used on the
farm. i am inclined to believe that
it is a bit more than that on the
average farm. But this year let us
hope that there will be a surplus,
for the corn belt is expecting to have
a short crop.
The farmer on this place looked at
the sky early this morning and is
hoping that the red sky will give us
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
Forest Trees for Lawn Beautifica
1 ton

Forest Trees for Lawn Beautifica-
ton
H. S. W., Commerce, Ga,
writes: l wish to set cut some
hickory, dogwood, white oak, and
laurel oak for shade. Some six
or eight weeks ago I selected
bunchy top specimens and cut
the tops and limbs back, expect g.
ing to transplont in December
for shade Will that be the best
plan, or should [ have waited
until transplanting?
There is no objection to trimming
trees at almost any season of the
year. Presumably, you trimmed the
young trees about which you write
with the idea of frightening the
trunks and causing them to branch
out higher up from the ground so as
not to obStruct the view Your pro-
cedure in this regard was all right.
because it will tend to make the trees
develop more top during the present
season of growth. The dogwood is
an undergrowing tree, as it were,
and does best when it is shaded by
other and larger trees. No doubt
you have observed its habits of
growth in the woodlands surround
ing Commerce.
I frequently trim the shade trees
on my own lawn about this season of
the year. | do this at this time for
two reasons: First of all, |. can re-
lpovM the branches that obstruct the
vi@ l also trim my trees at about
ShS3 time they have reached their
maximum growth for the season.
Cutting them late in the summer
gives me the advantage of the shade
they afford to my grass during the
early spring and summer months.
When trees are transplanted, it is
we'll to head the tops back very
closely and to take up as large a
root system as possible. Where one
is planting shade trees on the lawn,
it is desirable to make extra large
holes and plant the trees with great
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
Clergyman Director OF
BoUrgeS Observatory Finds
Atmosphere Too Light and
Rare in Newest ObSerVa-
tons

BOURGES, France, Aug. 26.-(By
the Associated Press)-The air Of
Mars is altogether too light and too
rare to support such animal life as
we have on the earth, the Rev.
Thomas Moreux director of the
Bourges Observatory, declares in re-
porting on observations of the planet
he made on Saturday through his
telescope of 1928 diameters
Conditions for his observations
were fairly good, he said, and his
view was better than any attained
during the recent observations by
British astronomers. 1t also was
apparently more satisfactory than
the reported observations of other
French astronomers wfO had been
watching the planet during the pc
riod of it's relative nearness to the
earth.
Haze Near Planet
The clergyman asserted that his
vision Of Mars on Saturday was
'marvelous'' but added that climatic
conditions on the planet produced &
haze which obscured many we'll
known Typographical features, al
though in general permitting good
sight of the planets outline as it al
ready had been reported by previous
observers.
What the eye can affirm as a re.
suit of the observations, the astron"
omer continued. sis that the layer of
air surrounding Mars is highly rari-
fled, and that it could not support
highly organized animal life such
as dogs or even mice.
"If there are animals there, there
must be a very low state of life.
The vegetation there must resemble
our moss and lichen."
Mars Weather Bad
The weather on Mars, he said
where spring now is at its height, is
as bad as that on earth. and Mar
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

ore | was confined and finished the
ottle while | was in bed. Igot up
ceiling fine and have taken care of the
wins alone ever since. | recommend
he Vegetable Compound highly and
rill sing its praises in the future. -
Mrs. IDA GERBITZ, Nyocena, Wis
1t is remarkable how many cases
avebeenreported similar to this one.
fany mothers are left in weakened
nd rundown condition after child
.irth, and for such mothers the care
f the baby is well-nigh impossible
lot only is it hard for the mother, but
he child itself will indirectly suffer.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
ound is an excellent tonic for the
nother both before and after child
irth. It is prepared from medicinal
DOTS and herbs. and can be taken
i safety by nursing mothers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

nus band. Dur
ing all the years
that we were to-
gether ] worked
harder than any
galley s | a V e,
c o o k i n 8 and
washing, a n d
c | e a n i n g, ana
Sc win g, "a n q
m e n d i n &, to
make a comfort
able home for
him and my
children. -Four
children came,
but l never had
any help with
I hem. r. V e n
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

whitener softener and beautifier.
Massage this sweetly fragrant lem.
on bleach into the face. neck. arms
and hands. 1t can not irritate. Fla.
nous stage beauties use it to bring
that clear, youthful skin and rosy.
white complexion; also as d freckie,
sunburn and tan -ach. You must
mix this remarkable lotion yourself.
1t can not be ought ready to use
because it acts best Immediately
after it is prepared.
Advertisement
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
EARTH-LIKE ANIMAL LIFE
IS IMPOSSIBLE ON MARS,
DECLARES FRENCH SAVANT

tians, if they exist. will have the
same summer which the inhabitants
Of the earth have endured this year.
He added that he wanted to cor
rect some erroneous comments on
the probable temperature there for
atmospheric conditions, declaring:
Although the therm ometer on
Mars might register about five de-
grees above zero Fahrenheit in the
shade, yet. fully exposed to the sun,
it probably would show something
like s. to 70 degrees above zero and
would be favorable to vegetation
which drew it's moisture only from
the atmosphere
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
FARM EDUCATION
BY DIR. ANDREW M. SOULE

care. Cut off all broken and bruised
roots and spread them out as uni
fOrmly as possible. Infiltrating
earth between the roots and firming
it about them after the hole Is filled
is an important matter. Generous
watering after setting out the trees
is desirable. ] would not transplant
trees of the character about which
YOU inquire before December in our
latitude
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

1OrSuly IWlIlSWSrS
born because my
sister used it and
recommended tito
me. IwassoIcould
scarcely go about
my daily work |
was in such mis-
cry. But after be-
gan taking the sec
ond bottle | was
feeling lots better.
| took three bot
files and q half b,A
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
Lemon Juice
Whitens Skin

The only harm
less way to bleach
the SKIN hite -
TO mix the juice Of
two lemons with
three ounces Of Or.
chard White, which
any druggist will
supply for d few
cents. Shake well
in a bottle, and YOU
have d whole fuar.
ter-pint of IL most
q, n n n O r f II skin
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Oh. | hope that | will be as lucky as Bill
Snow WAS He got over 300 letters from
the cousins. would like to get letters
from some Of the cousins that live in
Texas To all the cousins that will write
me a twelve-page letter | will send them
NV photo All who can send me a photo
let your letter come to sixteen-year-old
blue-eyed girl
Cumming, Ga, Rte 4. Box lO9.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please ad-
nit another north Georgia girl into your
happy circle of boys and girls. / have writ
ten to the circle before, but was not ad-
mtted so | decided | would come again. 50
here | am. | live in the country, and ike
country life fine. | am fifteen years young,
have gray eyes. medium complexion and
light brown tbobbed) hair. What do you
cousins do for pastime: / read, write anc
work on the farm, and, of course, nave
some pleasure TOO. for | 20 to church and
Sunday school and visit my friends. All u
you cousins who care to write TO Georgia
girl just let your letters come to
(MISSD EDNA LEE KENNEDY.
Collins, Ga, Route ,.
Aunt Julia and Letter BOX Readers: I
have never attempted to write 10 the Letter
what all the readers are preparing TO 10
this pleasant Monday morning. am a
farmers daughter, so | guess you know WHAT
| will do. | live in HARRISON county, ne IT
have good crops and. also good highways, in
this section How many of YOU like music
| am an ardent music lover. like the
violin best; it gives a thrill that no other
music can, but | don't dance to its music
| am flower lover, too. The rose and the
pansy are my favoriteS. Can any of you
readers send me the words Of the songs.
Tonight Sign the Pledge and is Their
No Kiss for Me- | certainly would like
to get them. | would like to get letters
from any of the readers that care to write.
/ will not take up much space this time,
(MISS) LOYELLA BROWN.
TalIapoosa, Ca, star Route.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: VIII Won please
admit South Carolina girl into your happy
band of boys and girls ? ! will be eleven
years old October and will he in the sey-
enth grade next year. | think everyone
should strive for educa ton, for they
surely need it. My teacher Mrs. S. VI.
Mitchell, and | liked her fine. | live in
the country, three miles from town, but 20
TO town school. | have brown (bobbed)
hair, brown eyes and medium complexion.
/ guess | had better not stay long. All of
you cousins write to me, | enjoy getting
mail. | will try TO answer all mail. Your
new cousin,
NuSS) GLADYS BLACK.
Ridge Spring, 5. c., X. F. d. 3.
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Tomato Pickle

Tomato Pickle
peck of tomatoes.
/ medium size cabbage.
large onions.
doz. red peppers.
Run through a medium chopper.
Mix thoroughly with one cup o.
salt and let stand over night. Dram
the LIQUOR through a seiVe or bag,
this is not sweet pickle. ~
Eula l.:
If YOU will dye your unbleacheo
muslin the old blue you speak o.
set yCur color we'll and when dry
DO not iron you will have the crinkled
effect YOU desire. You can put the
white tufting ON this and it is very
pretty. prettier / think than the
white with the blue tufting.
Mrs. j.:
think tkat you are taking r
great risk to allow a running sore
TO continue on your little sons foot.
BETTER take him to A doctor at once.
Ann:
The story you mention is ANNE
Of Green Gables.
Jack T.:
If a boy is large for his fifteen
wears it is correct for him TO put on
iono, trousers. of course | think your
parents are the ones to decide TINS
matter.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30
Marriage Is a Pr0fit-Sharing Firm,
and the Husband Has No More
Right to Keep His Wife In Ig-
norance of Their Financial
Status Than If She Were
a Business Partner

Status Than II She were
IA Business Partner
TINE other day q woman said to
me:
Il loved my husband. | non
ored, respected and trusted him, and
when | found that he must die felt
as if my heart would break. But
since he has been dead | have discoV-
cred that he played a trick upon
me so low and mean that he treated
me so cruelty and unjustly, that it
fills me with impotent fury against
him and makes me hate his very
memory, and the bitterness of my
grief is that [ cannot grieve for him.
"We'were married when we were
very young and poor, and [ was glad
to do everything possible to help my
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

when my babies were born had no
assistance but half-W.tted old Wom-
an who could be hired Cheaply.
always [ practiced the most rig
ia economy because my husbands
continued cry was. Save! Save!
Save He gave me the very small
est allowance on which a family
could be meagerly fed andclothed, so
[ praCticed every makeshift of eco
Monty. | learned to save the very
water in which vegetables were boil
ed and the scrapings of pots ana
pans. and how to cook cheap cuts OF
meat, and how to turn and dye ana
make over old clothes, and retrlm
hats. and make one dollar do the
work of five.
eve always lived in a poor house
in a poor street and had poor turnl-
ture. | never thought of having
pretty clothes, or belonging to clubs,
or taking trips, or indulging myself
in any amusement. What few pleas
ures the children had were paid for
out of my hearts blood almost, be-
cause it meant that l had to pinch
the housekeeping money little clos
err and do without everything posi-
BILE myself to get the girls new
dress or keep one of the boys in
school a year longer.
But l did not complain. did
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BEFORE TWINS
WERE BORN
Mas Very Miserable. Felt Lots
Better After Taking Lydia E.
sinkham's Vegetable Compound

Wyocena, Wis. -"I took Lydia E.
oinkhams Vegetable Compound be-
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THE QUESTION BOX
FOR EN ERYBODY
Rules

/. 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 i'll addition to
your fun name.
,. All questions must be written
en- 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 re-
ply MUST inclose stamped, self-ad-
dressed envelope.
5. Letters for the Question BOX
MUST NOT be INCLUDED in letter Tor
Aunt Julia's Letter Box The quaS-
tons must be sent separately and
must be addressed tC Aunt JGha
Question Box. Tie Atlanta Trl-W eek
~ Journal Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Folks:
From your letters l gather that
YOU are an energetic crowd, even
if these days are so hot. Nearly
every letter carries request Tor
recipes.
Cordially yours,
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sale City Ga.

Dear Aunfte and Cousins ple'>s pardon
mo for writing again 80 soon. NAat are
ycU all doing these pretty summer days
I 10 most any thing that is 10 he done
ou the fg"m. Cousins. woUldn Z Won like t.
SEQ Amt JUDAS flower garden: an
c-azy rnnrt flowers NJ any kind tbiuS
home looks hare without flowers. We
sll ought TO try and have lots " flowers
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THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND RIRLS
"IIelp for the Helpless-kindness to
All Dumb Things
Rules

No unsigned letter printed.
No letter written on both slices OF
paper printed.
An letters not to exceed $50 to
200 words.
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Dear children: 1t delights me to
know that so many of you are inter
ested and asking about 1.-The Amerl-
cans Creed. - For the benefit OF
those who have asked. and for those
who are interested, | am giving it
the lead in this issue.
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ID11 W L 1 1 q
Copyright, 1920
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Lakeland. fla. r. r. Box ~.

Dear Aunt JUljd and Cousins, Here ! am
again after an srSence Of some time. GER
taiuiv did appreciate the many letters !
received snd I tried - answer sN. Through
this page l have found some very dear pen
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

Curious about men that they are
so seldom willing to deal fairly with
their wives about money They dole
out The nickels to them and the first
financial independence many wom-
an has is when she collects her hus-
bands insurance money. That's why
there are so many Teconciled
widows"
DOROTHY DIX
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-30

Dear Aunt Julia ana Cousins: I live in
two miles Of Cool Spring High school I
am little girl. eight wears of age Write
TO me. please.
MISS EDITH CROUCH.