VoL XXXIIL No. 47.
A Farm and Home Weeklv for
vThe Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
$1 a Year; 5c Copy
SATURDAY, N0V4BER 23, 1918
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A THANKSGIVING THOUff T ON BEAUTY
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THE Thanksgiving season, coming at a time when the world is so
beautiful, brings to mind the "prayer of Moses, the man of God,"
in the wonderful 90th Psalm: "And let the beauty of the Lord
be upon us." Here in the rural South unfortunately we are yet far
clearing out any raed places that may divide the tract into piddling
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yaiuies, anu ny oh we place into even, well-shaped, symmetrical
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Let us make the home beautiful outside by painting the building,
DON'T FAIL TO READ
Good Ideas for Hog-killing Season . . . .
Dan T. Gray's Seven Rules for Curing Meat
How to Feed Fattening Beef Cattle in the
South
behind most other sections in our appreciation of beauty as is only
too painfully revealed by our countless unpainted houses; ragged,
patchy fields; the too scanty use of our glorious possibilities in shade
trees, flowers, and lawns; and a common tendency to use inartistic
yu-iuies in ine nome instead 01 reproauc
tions of the world's masterpieces of art
and beauty.
Now is a good time to call to mind
Mohammed's advice: "He that hath two
cakes of bread, let him sell ane of them
for flowers of the narcissus; for bread is
food for the body, but the narcissus is
food for the soul ;" and the later saying of
our American sage, Ralph Waldo Emer
son: "Never lose an opportunity of see
l"g anything that is beautiful: for beauty
's God's handwriting a wayside sacra
ment. Welcome it in every fair face, in
every fair sky, in every fair flower, and
thank God for itus a cup of blessing."
, Now at this Thanksgiving season let us
indeed resolve that the coming year shall
bnng into our homes and lives more of
the element of beauty.
Let us make the farm itself beautiful
y baling the gullies or waste places,
Curing Beef on the Farm .
How Farmers May Get More Political Power 1 2
Probable Effect of the Ending of the War on
Southern Agriculture and Business . ! .
Tennessee Fertilizer Results ........
Recipes for Hog-killing Time ......
Cotton Producers Must Fight for Tfieir
Rights .....
and setting about it not only stately shade trees but flowering shrubs
the redbud or Judas tree to blossom in early spring; the dogwood in
later, spring; the mimosa in early summer; and the crape myrtle through
all the latter part of summer and early fall besides bulbs and a glori-
ous aounuance ot otner nowers.
Then let us make the inside of the home
beautiful by putting on the walls repro
ductions of famous pictures, and by util
izing in all appropriate forms the beauty
not only of cultivated flowers but also of
Our too often forgotten wild flowers.
The poorest " family, as well as the
richest, may have all these, things. The
poorest family, too, as well as the richest,
may have the more intangible forms of
beauty we need to cultivate the beauty
of song and music and play, all of which
need more attention among us; the an
cient beauty of courtesy and chivalry and
unselfishness in everyday speech and con
duct; the beauty, too, of Thanksgiving
not merely on one day in the year, but on
all days, to Him who offers us all' these
things if we but have the will to seek
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