The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-27
BY AUNT SUSIE.

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lks Of THE CONSTITUTION for their entertain
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shed reading "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
ike it very much--Dickens is my favorite author.
l ain very fond of reading.
Christmas is almost here, and guess the cousins,
especially the little ones, are very Ead. Cousins,
we all know some little children whose parents
not able to give tEem presents, and we can All
earn little money, too. by somes mean. SO, sup
pose we spend our earnings buying presents lof
these poor little childrenit will make our hearts
glad as well as theirs-and we Shall never nave
cause to regret it. "God loveth cheerful GiVer
Wishing Aunt Susie and the cousins merry
Christmas and happy New Year, close.
G. A. Henderson, Bowman. Miss.-I am quite
stranger in your midst, this being my first attempt
to find an entrance into your happy circle.
think the Young Folks corner is improving
very much OF late, ana | think Aunt Susc's letters
etiquette very instructive. Ii every editor ana
editress would strive as hard to improve the chill
dren mentally, many would grow to flne and for
tune so let us all work for IN education. we
should put away iooiishess and devote our time
to something profitable.
viii some OF the cousins be so kind as to send
me the songs: 100 Late and the reply to TOO
Late?"
Milford Ford, Floy, Ala.--I have just read poor
Amos Gipson's letter, and every word he Writes is
true, for while have been afflicted only seven
sit in his chair withhis poor limbs drawn WIN
rheumatism, and he has suffered thousand
deaths, and wish every one OF you would SEM
him all the old stamps you can to enable MN to
get his medicines for he is needy and Will give
you good references from his pastor.
His address is A. c. GIpson, epson, Ala.
Wishing you all happy Christmas, am your
loving friend.
Rose Miller. Mocksville, N. C.-Cousins, are you
all fond OF reading? ! am. We have good IL
t,yart in, sGhnf, / Ist
and school will be ont. am so glad, for am all
ticipat quite nee time during the holidays:
My brother and had a candy stew last week.
would like to exchange cancelled stamps for
silk and velvet scraps, or something else use
full. have several hundred stamps ana nave no
use for Them myself. 50 II any one wants them l
would like to hear from them.
We ought to make Tins PAGE more interesting,
and think if each one will try we can succeed.
would like to have a few correspondents.
Molly Elliott, 81 North Fifth Street, Marshall
town io-Aithough find no on eng gcu in the
same business that am, thought perhaps some
Of the readers We're.
Two yeas ago commenced a course in stenog-
raNhy and alter studying three n.y. nthS took pO
st.On in land office i'll tiarShalltoWn. kept on
with my studies until had completed a six
months course and remained In the law Of1C" for
nearly year. when took one in a railroad office
in the same town.
Irems incd there about two month. I now am
again writing contracts nd petitions in another
law Office and enjoy my work very much, now /
| have become accu@ toned to the terms.
would be pie sed t" correspond with any who
may be engag d in the same business, as think
we would derive considerable pleasure as well as
benefit from 1t.
Oney Nicely, Santa Paula, Call am quite
stranger in your midst, a. this is first attempt
to enter the happy band OF cousins.
am country boy living il the wi west in the
southern part OF the go den state sixty-six miles
from Los Anleles, and thirteen miles from the
Pacific ocean.
How m ny of the cousins anticipate visiting the
Worlds Fair in 1898? l, for one, expect to be
| there.
letters very interesting, but have one ohjec
| ton, that is the way you talk about the girls.
| do not agree with you IN that respect. enjoy
| their comp ny much.
AS history is my favorite study, will ask some
| questions: What treaty settled the boundary
! between the United states and CanadA, from
Maine 10 the Rocky mountains"
''Wh the Wilmot iroviso?"
Any of t. girls wanting jolly correspondent
| in California, please write to me. ! will answer
! all letters.
Annie Reid, San Marcos. Texas.-I enjoy read
ing the letters IN the Young Folks corner so
much
will answer J. VI. Moments question:
Penmakers are Incl ed TO do wrong, for they
make people (steeD pens
Has I-ntlc Hemu, stopped writingo l am so
sorrv: enjoyed his stories much.
If Claudia c. sheds will send Inc postage
stamp ill send her the words to "GlpSy's
Warning"
60 to school, and would not give up my school
days for anything. Aunt Susie, when you was
little girl and went 10 school, what study did you
like best?
Iw!ll send stamp to any cousin who viii send
me the words: swinging on the Grape Vine
Swing"
close asking question: "What Is the third
and the half of third OF Il dol 70"
Any child under ten years ct ago sending me
(firStl the | will send chem nice,
large sea urchin shell got myself off the Pacific
ocean.
Correspondents solicited.
Lila Martin, Tilton, Gal come for 4 chat with
the cousins, and first, / make this request; If any
one has he poem "Od l., tiers" and Will send to
me l shall be very much obliged
When last wrote was i'll Vicksburg, and since
my return, have often thought | would write a
description of the place and things seen while
| there. You all read Cuyler's letter from Vicks
| burg. and Will remember his description of the
queer little tent houses built OF RATS out on the
| lake | would like Rudyard kipling Enough, as a
| rule, do not like his writngs) to go there and
give Us pen picture OF sunset on the lake as
| saw it at one time.
We we're leaving the national cemetery just as
| the sun setting in bank OF many Go ored
clouds of fantastic shapes which were reflected in
| the lake, itself ripping sea of gold The smoke
rising in wreathsf from the raft houses away
the gathering twilight red light from a steamer
| sent rosy glare over the water.
would like to tell the cousins of many things.
The visit of the ounboat Concord the concert civ
en- by the Knights Templat, and describe the
| many quaint old homes there but will come again.
Carrie Jones, Camp Hill, Ala.--Ever since I can
! remember mamma has had an old pOrtforliO in
! which she keeps lot OF old letters / always
| thought it one which grandpa used to have md
| asked her questions, until a few days ago when
had it out looking same of the letters, and
| happened to think had never heard mamma say
! how she came to have it in her possession, SO
! asked her. and she told lne that during the war
one OF her sisters taught school in little country
! schooihouse i'll Chambers county, Alabama, and
! once. from some cause she (rnamm a. taught the
school u week, and while she was teaching day,
| some confederate soldiers i'll passing that way,
stopped well near the school and rested awhile
| in the shade.
! While there of the soldier sent her, by one
| of the pupils, that portfolio and two books,
| novel and the other u Baptist church member $
guide, saving he was too much fatgued to carry
| them any further.
| His name, John Carothers, in the books.
! Some one borrowed the novel and failed to return
| it, but mamma has the other yet.
! | thought then that IL the soldier had any rea-
tiyes living, they might DO glad to have the port
| folio as Il relic OF tho and a keepsake.
| The soldiers address when at home was John s.
| Carothers, Wood Lawn Mississippi
| Minnie T.. Rodgers, Shower Springs, Ark.--With
fear and trembling approach the threshold of
your charming circle and hnmbly seek admittance.
This is not my first letter to Our corner but
! Shall rely on the much taxed patience of Aunt
Susie not to "rule OUT this effort. ] did think
| would not write again to you because have been
| leased so.
want to thank you for your letter on etiquette,