The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-31

take music lessons and can play several pretty
pieces. went 10 the graded school last session and
was in the sixth grade l was promoted. l would
like TO correspond with some of the cousins
Albert Morgan, Cambria, Iowa: I live in the
southern part of the state and about the center
east and west. 1t is fine country for farming, as
almost all kinds of crops are successfully grown
here, l presume the south is better for fruit but
there IS any amount of 1t raised in Iowa. Mollie
Darling in relating about her fishing party reminds
me OF similar ones that have frequently attended;
lots OF fun but no fish. would like very much to
correspond with some OF the cousins
Fannie Lee LeveIette, Eatonton, Ga:
1.-THE last red splendor fades and did
And one by one the shadows rise
To light.the candles of the skies"
Ali how beautiful do these words of our sweet and
lamented songster, Alice Cary, express in the mind
and TO the imagination the twilight hour of this
June day. The hour of which the poets sing and
the novelist pictures in glowing array. tbs then
that this of life grow lighter and new aspira
tions and longngs come thronglng o Ter the souand
we feel as bouyant as some sprite fairy and long
10 do some great deed action. which will forever
make our name famous to posterity But bark!
hear the sound of footsteps and suddenly some one
taps me lightly on the shoulder and whispers softly
in my ear, "My child, what are you sitting here
dreaming about?" "0h auntie dear is that
you? had just fallen asleep before could write
my promised letter to the cousinsl' So now l am
wide awake and here will begin. am a girl very
fond of politics. but not at all believer in womans
rights. think it very well for O woman to be up
with the times in politics. literature etc, but when
she leaves her family, of whom she is the gentle
flower ana PRIDE to go to the polls to votes with
men and brawling ruilians, why then she is as much
out of her sphere as fish toundering about on dry
land. l always love to finely educated lady
and long TO be one myself and to drink decp of the
Purian spring. and this is the height of my ambi-
tion but the Office of woman, educated or uneduca-
ted is TO spread gontleness and love around her to
the rich and poor to the sick and suffering and all
of Gods creatures. When come again am going
to tell you of n fine mineral spring in east Putnam
called oconee spring, and nice plan want to srig-
gest to you all. have yet received no answer to
my request for some white leghorns; surely The
CONSTITUTION goes TO the home of some dear cousin
who has some and would like to share them. Ifany
one has any would be delighted to write TO them.
My address is the same, Box a, Eatonton. Ga. am
anxious for girl correspondent IL or II years Of
age from Kentucky, the old blue grass state.
NIargie Carter Eolia, Mo-: We are having very
warm weather now and plenty of rain. In some of
the latec numbers one of the cousins wanted tor
know something about the Chinese wall ] VIII
write all know about it, 1t is solid granite sr,lc.
ture twenty to fifty feet high, and really wide
enough for six horses to travel abreast stretching
and winding in either direction over the crest the
mountains and down the slopes of the plains as far
as the eye can follow and for leagues and leagues
beyond, the distance broken at every mile by high
square watch-towers of defense. II is 500 miles
long. This great structure was built by the Chinese
2l5 years d. G. II was built for defense against
their enemies. II served that purpose perfectly for
many hundred years, until the Northerners grew
stronger than the Chinese and overthrow
the reigning dynasty and put a Manchoo on tho
throne whose descendant Is the ruling monarch TO-
day of China.
Marian and Bessie Mccall Hammond, Texas: As
we have seen no letters from Our county wo
thought that we would write. We know that the
dear old CONSTITUTION is a welcome visitor in many
homes ofths country and you may rest assured
that 1t is not more welcomed OF any house than
ours. Every Wednesday night after supper there
arc six racing for The CONSTITUTION, but as we are
children we let mama have Woman's Kingdom and
papa Bill Arp. We believe the reason we love THR
CONSTITUTION so is because It is "Dixio" paper,
and our papa who fought four years for Dixie"
has nstilled IL into very souls to love the cost
cause" We are little 'rebs' and will ever remain
so, ready to fight until our jeff Davis can VOTE We
are growing rather too enthusiastic. We are eleven
in family; seven boys and two girls. We live In the
country and papa is a farmer. The crops are very
good this year. We have two pets n little dear
baby brother and little deer named Phil, We en-
10y reading tho cousins letters SO much. Hope
that this our first will not find its way to tho waste
basket. We have little brother four months old
without name. Will you, Aunt SUSIE, OF some Oh
the cousins suggest u name for III
Alice Alexander, Kingston, Tenn. / have just
been perusing tho Young Folks columns and
found one letter that liked very much, and one
tnat did not like in every particular. Tho one II
liked was from "Indian Malden," and the other was
from X. s. Crockett Mr.. Crockett says the reason
why girls write better letters than boys is because
they have more leisure time. And he asks the
question, ibid you get letter from girl who
had Just been at work2' He says they all going
to sehoo! Or doing some iancy work. Now Mr..
Crockett, think you arc just little bit too broad
in your assertions, and If you never have read q
letter from girl who had just been at work, YOU
can have that exquisite pleasure now, for | have
been working 80 hard all day that my nerves are
unstrung can hardly write. am one of the many
girls who take in sewing" in order to be self
sustaining. And If Mr.. Crockett don't believe that
is hard work. would like for him to just try 1t for
few days. am u farmers daughter and think
that know the whole alphabet Of hard work, IL
not nom experience, from observation. But when
get tired and all out Of patience with work throw
IL all aside 20 to the larn and bride and saddle
horse ret on and take ride of two or three miles
and come back feeling refreshed In body and mind.
Why don't more OF the sixteen year old girls and
boys write? Lets hear from you girls and boys. 1t
will do you good and perhaps you may write spme-
thing that will comfort and cheer some other poor
soul VINO has to paddle their own canoe" through
this world. Much success TO you, Aunt susie, and
long may the dear old CONSTITUTION live to gladden.
homes and make better men and women Of its
readers Would like 10 correspond with some Of the
cousins who are out Of their teens.