The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-13

ing I have read i. good deal. Charles
Dickens is my favorite author. Some Of the
has become Of Indian Girl" Write again
some more of the cousi@s write about his
| tory? Write again. Aunt Susir. We think
| I'ho Constitution Is very good paper. VIII
| close by asking the cousins few questions
What general rushed into battle without
| orders and won it? What town and army
| were surrendered without firing q shot? Was
| Washington ever wounded in battle?
Lucy Carter, Cairo Cal thought would
scat myself this beautiful morning fer = chat
| with the many cousins L meet iii the grand
| Old Constitution.
beautiful home In the country. II IS about
seven miles from the, prosperous little town
| do you like TO ride horseback? l think it is
very nice. I have Jolly times IN the winter
| We have II sugar boiling at home nov.
| Cousins. | wish you could enjoy it with me.
Sa,lr,ay night. [ enjoyed 1t very much:
u nave m organ an, ana can Riay very WEI, ao,
anG 10 yrE ''T nicely. very too think is $50 So
nice for II girl to learn how to cook, If they
meyer hnys to do il ~. would ike srd to cT'rss
| cnt states. either sex Age seventeen.
| Bral IT, Wilson Wortham Texas.-Frank
| Lock. of North Carolina. Is Dragging on his
state. ! do not think II best Texas, fol-
| Teyas has nearer a, general variety of every.
| thing t,an amy other state We can raise
| cotton, corn, wheat. oats in fact nearly every
J thing that can be raised anywhere. I am q
boy OF seventeen Summers, live on farm
near Wortiam in the central part Of the
| state. This is n beautiful country, mostly
| prairie. My home is surrounded by large
! potatoes, ground peas. etc.
| like 10 read Bill Apps letters and Uncle
| RemuS / would ike to correspond with some
| take pleasure in answering letters. l not
going TO school, but would like to go advise
| all the cousins to go 10 school when they can
! and apply themselves we'll while there.
! Phil Reed, Lancaster, Wis-Thc cousins
| will please get ready TO draw, either on
! slate or paper. with icadpenci or crayon Get
or so long and wide, and either drive row
tackS or make small holes up aud down the
| en's and sides, all just one or two inches
apart: then run strong thread through the
| holes or around the tacks. BEDFORD fashion
making squares just one or two Inches across
| Hang It in a frame or make feet for It, or
| hang it on the window frame II YOU wish to
| sketch landscape or outdoor object. Now
| draw lines lightly across your paper. or
| slate, as to form same siz" squares as In
| frame. unlcss you want to enlarge OF diminish
| your picture: then draw the lines wider OF
| narrower. Look through the skctching frame
| and note where each angle object, etc.
| appears, then draw your picture the same:
| An amatcud can soon make correct pie
| ture if he practices Il while, aud with colorcd
pcnci'S can make pretty scrnc~thrrc on
| -four colored pencils for , cents. Notice the
| iiGht ana shady SIDES ana shade accordingly.
| Rub out the lines on the picture. II You have
a map 10 draw, or want 10 copy II picture
lay Your frame over the map or picture OF
stand both up. II this crosses Mason anC
DXoD's line l may give another lesson IN
'S3 with a word about amateur photography
Bessie Owens Boston. Cal will answer
one of the cousins questions. Who was Paul
Revere. do not think il has hrn 2nsH~Had
yet. | will give u description of his home on
the scacoast OF Florida: Paul Revere was
Lrenchnan who owned large palace on
with It's orange groves and rice plantations
had been inherited from his father. His
house WAS built after the style OF the chateau
he had in the south OF France. Paul had re-
manned unmarried, because he was diSap
pointed in his first love. He kept two OF his
nephcws VINO were orphans 10 live with him.
The r2Iuc of his beautiful home was l. Aigle.
The big. gray house looming mp TT the end of
the moonlit vista of cape jasmine and fcath-
blance to great gray eagle. This effect
was produced by the observatory that rose
round. towerlikc assr2~ essc >s~=t aiding up
10 II. giving it thc Resemblance OF the
stretched neck and head of huge bird
while the two wings OF the building project
ing IN front from, either end of The house.
Gle. When driving in front OF his mouse. You
drove for mile through n grove OF lcmon
and grange trees. when your carriage stopped
before an archcd entrance thickly covered
t T e"rioscd the house " Ks So you 'aS' got
out out and passed through raS the s ,l1n,
covered archway. you found yourself
In Kind Of courtyard. formed by tho house
! aud It's projecting wings. AS You enter the
| large hall which was hung with elk antlcrs.
| boars tusks. hunting horns. rifles. swords
| and two pieces Of old armor. there
were groups of strange stuffed birds of brill
| liant pt,lmage. and immense lions skin
was spread over the floor in the middle of
| the hail. Paul Revere had been q Traveller
| In many lands and had hunted noble game in
| the wids OF Africa and Australia If this
| escapes the waste baSAet, l Will come again.
The Farmer and Politics.
The prosperity Of n farmer today depends