The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 22, 1910, Page 43, Image 7

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in arrangement and comfort. Better
than all. the chief "objector” is
fast becoming reconciled to the new
regime.
flow One Woman CSot a Bathroom.
There are possibilities for lmprove
nien In the old style, poorly arranged
houses of other days. Not long ago a
bright, progressive little woman, the
mother of a numerous flock, appeal
ed to me to help her solve the prob
lem of a bathroom. She said she had
no hope of a water supply, but she
w ,s beginning to feel that the ' kitch
en." aside from the Inconvenience,
was hardly the place for the daily
bathing performance. It developed
in the course of conversation that
this house, like many other country
hou««’S. had a largo back porch; and
the willing and capable man of this
house arrange,! without any appreci
able outlay of time or money, to close
It one end of the porch, which could
be devoted to a bathroom, where at
least bathing equipment could be
stored and privacy Insured.
I have hinted only at two reforms
which, to my mind, would do a very
great deal toward making the coun
try home a more desirable place In
which to live First, attention to the
possibilities of a more conveniently
t.rrangcd kitchen, and, second, a re
arranged space in the house which
could be used as a bathroom. If
some of our home* are perfect In
these two respect*, let u* be duly
thankful and move on to higher
thing*; If not, then let us Include
one. nr bo!h. of then reforms In our
'resolve*.”
tk\rti tiik oiii.imnv now to
|h» THIN OH.
It Will Add t«» Tltrlr ItapptOfM ax
Well a* to Tt»rlr t •cfulneww—-Chil
dren Are Kagrr lo He Helpful.
Knowing how to do anything I*
the *ecret of *ucc«*M. There are »o
many tired mother* In the home* to
day dreaming of tho time when their
daughter* and *on* will be grown
up and help them, not realitlng that
now l* the time to be teaching the
children how to work, and giving
them every opportunity to learn —
•'ll* ouraglug them In the belief that
they are r**rnllal to the happiness of
the home while they are little In
stead of making them feel that they
are in the way and can do nothing
l-et them do all they have the
strength and will to do. Maybe they
will break the dlahe* In the learning
how. maybe the bread they make the
Amt time will not be perfect; maybe
the rice will be scorched. but thl* I*
the orlce wo nav In letting the child
learn how. Hlch l* our reward In
the happiness It gives to the children
themselves. How well we all re
tnembi-r the Joy It gave the flrat time
It dawned Upon us In childhood that
there was something we could do!
There Is much being said about
the keeping of the boys and girls on
the farm. Why are they so eager to
gel away? I believe one of the
reasons Is that they have not been
made to feel that they were needed
there.
\n Incident In one of our
Institute meetings illustrates the
mistake that mothers make along
this line. A Indy came to me after
my talk to mothers and said she
Htood by the death bed of one of her
friends, and her friend said: “Oh, I
have made such a mistake with my
children. I knew the time would
c uno when they would have to work.
h" I have spared them all 1 could by
doing tho work myself. Since 1 have
been lying In this bed l have seen
that my children know how to do
nothing. I thought 1 was being kind
tu them, but I have mude them help
less because 1 have not taught them
how to work.”
It requires patience and much pre
cious time to teach the children any
thing, but It is the only source to
independence. The introduction of
domestic science and agriculture in
our public schools will do much, but
the foundation must be laid in the
homes. Children always take nat
urally to all kinds of work if we be
gin to teach them early enough. The
trouble has been that the mother In
waiting for them to get "big enough”
to begin has lost the most precious
time that can ever come In the lives
of her children. Meantime they have
learned much that was objectional
and formed habits they would never
have known, had Bhe led them gently
and wisely Into lives of service.
M HS. SUE V. HOLLO WELL.
DKSTHOYKHS OF BOVS.
Why Cigarette Smoking Hurts the
Boy Who Hoe* It.
To tell you that cigarette smoking
Is bad for you would he foolish. In
the first place, that’s preaching, and
I don’t believe in preaching. In the
second place, every boy knows that
the cigarette Is bad for him. So I am
going to explain, as well as I can
in a few words, why the cigarette is
bad for you.
Cigarette smoking Is bad because
it strikes at the very root of the life
the breathing. The more you
breathe the more you live. The big
K,.r the more active the lungs, the
stronger, healthier, more active, and
beautiful is the person. To stop
breathing is to stop the life; to re
duce the breathing capacity is to re
duce the life.
“No, thanks. No cigarettes. I have
cut them out. I am In training, you
know,” is a frequent remark among
college men. If the cigarette is bad
for the man In training, why is it
not just as bad for a man not in
training? It is—and worse. Why?
Well, in the first place, the lungs
cover an immense surface—a surface
equal to the area of the floor of a
large room; this surface is wrinkled
up, for the lungs are contained in a
small space. Through this surface
the blood pours out its poisons, and
at the same time takes in the oxygen,
which is the greatest essential of life.
Now, when you smoke a cigarette
or breathe the air in a smoky room,
the smoke enters directly into the
lungs. Smoke is in reality nothing
but a very fine charcoal dust; and
when you inhale it this dust settles
on the delicate membrane, covering
the surface of the lungs. This de
posit clogs up the surface of the
lungs, and prevents both the escape
of poison from the blood and the en
trance of the oyxgen of the air into
the blood.
Thus the cigarette smoker is at
once starved and poisoned—starved
for air and poisoned by his own
breath. Is it any wonder that he
gets pale and thin and weak mental
ly and physically? Is it any wonder
that he is a “consumptive boy”? Is
it any wonder that if he smokes to
excess he dies?
Among the better class of men and
young men cigarette smoking is dy
ing out. It isn’t "good form,” it
certainly isn’t good health. It is
silly and unclean, and the habit will,
with absolute certainty, injure the
health and shorten the life of him
who is addicted to it—American Boy.
To-day’s Relation to To-morrow.
Part of to-day belongs to to
morrow, as the seed belongs to the
shoot, as the foundation belongs to
the building. So to-day owes its best
to to-morrow, for not to do right to
day may mean ruin to-morrow. But
the reverse is not true. To-morrow
cannot ruin to-day. Time’s wheel
does not run backward. Banish, then,
foreboding and anxious forecast, and
fill to-day with faithful work, with
kindness and courage and hope; and
so you will keep to-morrow from be
ing a marplot, and make it a good
honest to-day when it comes.—Malt
ble D. Babcock.
Simkins—“What makes your nose
red, Timklns.
Tlmklns—“It glows with pride,
§ir, at not poking itself Into other
pdopl#s kuetnees."
“A pessimist,” says the Philoso
pher of Folly, “is one who, when he
has the choice of two evils, chooses
both and sticks around to wait for
more.”—Cleveland Leader.
7HE RELIGI°US CREED OF BILDAD AKERS.
• niuiad °\ke?Be rde,:g.htfUl 0f recent Southern publications is
JhkRh HlsnBook- a of rich backwoods philosophy
vocate .Lei Vr T’ N‘ Ivey’ Editor of the Christian Ad"
Ft -m it wp fak * m, V ^00ses to ^tribute to one ‘‘Bildad Akers.”
«e take the following extract:
y BE you don 't know that I have what you might call
± A. a quare noshun of relijus experunce. I don't be
whnt h ■ f* 7 ° 'S raIe reliJus experunce is made up of
* ha.1 he f*el* does at them odd times when he rastles in
praror gitsa blessin' at a meeting or anything like that.
Of cose, at them ttmes, he gits a visit from God and that
means a sight.
But my idee is that rale experunce is in deelin’ with
common everyday life, when a man tuwks with his nabor,
trades at the store, plows his mule in new groun, feels like
cuss in and don't, pats a enemy on the sholeder instid of
throwm rocks at him, gits up at three o’clock in the mornin’
to visit a sick nabor, gives money to the church when he aint
got hut mighty leetleanywhar, bein’mild and sweet tempered
on scourin’ day when things is all tore up in the house, gittin’
down from a mule on a weekday when you are all gommed up
with sweat and dust to tawk to some ornery sinner about his
mean ways, and sich.
"Mow experunce, 'cordin' to me, is belt in all them things,
and jest how you do and come out o’ them things detarmines
a man’s rate experunce. And you kin git more relijus ex
perunce outer one day when rumatiz is goin’ fer you than
outer a hundred meetin’s. You may not feel so bloomin’
happy in the rumatiz business, but you have got a sight bet
ter chance to show God how much relijun you’ve got.
So / reckin its bekase I've got them views that you don’t
heer me orate bout my convarsion and the number of times I
have got happy in meetin’s. These times is when God jest
visits me. But walkin’ the common muddy roads of every
day life is the time when God is naterally hankerin’ to walk
with me. And your real experunce comes when He walks
with you just like Enick walked with Jehovy.”
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