The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
THE YOUNG FOLKS.

lHE IUUNG fULkA.
Bright and Interesting Letters for the
Coming Men and Women.
BY AUNT SUSIE.
This is Corner set aside for the Little Friends of
The CONSTITUTION for their entertainment and de-
veiopment In the art OF Letter riting.l
want to tell the children that I have re-
ceived two stories this week that have been
written by two of the cousins They are very
well written and they deserve q great deal of
credit. l cannot publish the chidren's stories,
for all would want to write, and we have so
little room we cannot accommodate ALL I
only give you a story when get an extra good
one but it will do the little girls good who try
to write to practice, and will read all they
write even If 1 do not publish them. Ida
Deason, of Messenger, Tenn, and Minnie Du-
pree, of Wylie's Mill, S. c., are the girls who
have sent me stories this week. 1 congratu-
late you girls; you have done we'll. Many
letters received this week have been written
ON both sides of the paper and many with
pencil; of course the waste basket caught
them. Children, don't forget our rules-some
have been too long. AUNT SUSIE.
ALL letters for this column must be adj
dressed to THE CONSTITUTION
CORRESPONDENTS.
c. p Warnook. Oxford, Fla: thank you for all
the nice instructive letters you have written to us
children, but enjoyed the letter from Washington
more than all. 1 should have been delighted to
| journey down the classical Potomac with you and
stroll through the grounds, and especially the
garden-made precious to the heart of every citizen
| of United States because it was the home of
George Washington. II is so kind of you to be eyes
for many who will never have the pleasure of see
Ing 1t with their own eyes. Mama read your letter
| to me because she thought I would enjoy il more
| than to read it myself, for Pm only years old.
Mama said your description of that garden pleased
| her more than all because she loves those old
flowers the sweet wild roses and blue flags are her
fayores but she has not seen them since she was
little girl and gathered the blue flags in the garden
| and picked the understanding wild from the
| vines that grow on the roadside she went to
school away up in valley of the Blue Ridge noun
| tains. Will some of the cousins tell me when the
| tunnel under tho Thames river in England was
| made and why?
Sallie Frier. Plant City, Fla: live In the south.
ern part of Florida. Plant City is beautiful loca
| ton for town. We have about 500 Inhabitants
! ten business houses two railroads. There Is good
land all around for growing ali kinds ofvegetabes
for which the climate is adapted and there Is some
as fine orange groves here as there is in the state
| 1t is useless to mention our climate everybody
knows that we have pleasant climate all the time
| The only draw back is that horrd disease called
yellow fever. 1t is true, we have had 1t all the past
| winter and summer, in a mild type, but never
| could be called an epidemic-just going from one
house to another viii some of the cousins tell me
how to press flowers and keep their color? II some
of the cousins will send the sample of spiderweb
| crochet, will send them some samples in return
Would like to correspond with some of the cousins
lol,O INV inh To l.
| Robert George, Peachtree N. c.: am country
boy 10 years of age; living with my mother on a
| nicely situated fam, seven miles northeast of
| Murphy. Papa has been dead over year and
| mama is blind, so have to work very hard. Some
Of the cousins tell of their pets; for me- have no
pets except little dog; his name is Fido and hesis
the most playful little fellow You ever saw you may
hold piece Of bread i'll your hand and he will jump
| three feet off the ground and take it from your
| fingers. Invent hazlenut hunting this afternoon,
| and returning home bad to cross a creek where
| it was very deep; the wind was blowing and it
| carried my hat off my head 1t dropped into the
! water and sank in It's blue depths so had to come
home bareheaded. feeling rather abashed at my APP
| pearance, as there were some girls present who
began laughing at my discomfort / am going to
school at this time. like my teacher splendid; he
is kind to me- he takes all necessary pains to in
struct me- try to bring up good lessons, and far
have succeeded admirably. will ask the cousins
| Lillian Word Egypt Miss: live three miles
from Egypt in what is called Egypt prairie. This
| Is good farming country and derives it's name
| from the abundance of corn produced In working
| Howard Williams rat and cat example, l get
different answer to the one sent by Timothy Ed
| wards, of Texas. He thinks cats could catch 400
rats In 80 minutes If cat and half catch rat and
half In minute and half / work 1t thus.
Since cat and a half catch rat and half In q
| a ha1R md l,.lF unf1a atal.x
rat in minute, 90 rats in 80 minutes; and it
would take as many cats to catch 400 rats in SO
minutes IL times lis OF 400, which is g. n times
is r. Therefore, 1t would take IL cats to catch 400
rats in SO minutes, If ~ cats catch ~ rats in
minutes / can answer the puzzle sent by Farmer
Boy" The husbands age was 45 years and the
| wife's Is years on their wedding day
Nixon N. Wellons, Webster, Fla: Dear Aunt
| Suse--Don't 1 say dear mighty big, when 1 don't
know but what I'll go tumbling into the waste
basket But have just stepped up to the door to
see if you'll say, come in. l am small boy and
have no brother nor sister, but have lots of
cousins and that is most as good. If you win let
| me in I'll tell you the names of some of them
| Mother takes The CONSTITUTION, and father, she
| and / have lots of fun reading 1t. Sometimes
father says wife, THE CONSTITUTION is rotton on
the tariff question:; and the first thing you know
| he is laughing the biggest kind over something
that Bill Arp or Mr. Punkett says, and Its all right
| again. Fatner Calls mother BIO haDDit ana me
| 'Bro Postum" and We all call him BRO Fox" If
we had some little brothers and sisters to be "Bro
| Bar" and "Bro Coon" we would have nearly ell of
Uncle Remus's family. Tell him to come again and
tell another Tar Baby yarn. Tell the cousins
| am Mississippi boy transplanted to Florida soil,
and II they will ask you 70 let In, I'll tell them
about our trip from Mississippi to Florida some time
soon.
| Ada D. league, Moscow, Tenn: We live about
four miles from the little village Of Moscow and
mile from the Methodist church and in site of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad. Aunt Susie,
why don't you write every week. you write such
nice letters and give such good advice to the chill
dren. Uncle WILL lot us hear from you again. 1
think one of you could write every week. What
has become of Betsy Hamilton; why don't she write
again? am not going to school now; felt terrible
lonesome when It first closed. We are having a
good Sabbath school here now, which / like TO at