The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-01
JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE.
Interesting Letters From Our Jul
yeniIe Writer'S.

Prentiss McC,anahan. BENEFIT, Miss
Dear Junior: l write ana send cents
for the children's ward. l hope you VIII
not put my letter i'm the waste basket. |
am little boy seven years old and cannot
write very well My mamma takes your
paper ami likes ii very much. Hoping to
ste this in her paper / will say Soodby
with best wishes.
May and Myrtle Coppedge. SteelvilIe.
Crawford County Mo.-Dear Junior: We
viii venture 10 write "A short letter To your
cepartihent. We admire The Constitution
very much. our papa thinks ii is the best
pepper that he can get. We think 50, too,
and when our mail comes we read il first.
We Ike Mr.. Thimbleiinger's Queer Ccun-
Try very much, as well as The Junior.
inclosed md 10 cents each for the cnildren's
ward IN the Grady hospital. We think the
Nca' .erln. the answer 10 your question
s this: IL was Commodore Perry, at the
battle OF Lake Erie. Viii close with
query: How many eyes has a honey bee!
Frennie and BESSIE Stewart, Fairview.
: C.-Dcar Junior: VIII you allow two
lttlc county sirIs-thirteau and ten-to i0in
The band Of correspondents We have long
wished To become members of u is happy
band We live en- a farm; haN D three cows
ala TWO horses. Papa is a doctor and has
a good practice the year round. When
there IS school we 80 ard walk three
The school is cut for the season of rest
And now for the sChoolroom l love best.
We Rave three little brothers The baby is
sorry Mr.. Thimbchnger's stories have
St"ppoi. We win close by asking a Qucs-
ton: Why is the letter X like a pigs tail?
ward.
Mabel Downey Java. Miss.-Dear Junior:
l am Il little CIR; only five years old. ] can
rot write. but my sister is writing for me
| am not going to school now. but think
l "a go tins sumner L can spell, but can't
My sister reads the cousins letters 10
me every week. ANA | enjoy them very
much. How mary OF the little cousins like
10 go 10 Sunday school? / learn my lesson
ard 80 cveiy Sunday.
] sYmpath:zc with the little sick children
and so / send 10 cents To help build them
nice home. ] think every one that writes
sn Sriu Sf b"n, ~, dime Gin II not more Aunt
basket as II is my first letter
Pauline Carroll. Oxford. Ga.-Dear Ju-
nor; nave been a reader of The Consti-
alt"mpi 20 write you a letter.
am q little country sir eleven years of
Tour miles from CoVngton, the county seat
have been gong TO school. but our
school closed last week and now / VII
have 20 ~ mamma wash dishes make
W ocgs. sweep ana cook.
-, utr' ~. ,,-.'tL 'ti' qUi TINS year and
Apps ana sarge Fiunka5t's letter., iilsN v ,,i
5llerest sung, hu; / appreciate The Junior
department more than anything else.
= this is my first letter, 1 Will close
asking a question. When was the first
rei I onS newspaper issued? Correspon-
dents solicited.
Robert Horn. Harsctt. Ca am a
country boy and live on farm. I enjoy
the LIE spent as a farmer very much. I
I've 'n inc western part of Harris county
georgia, eighteen miles north OF Columns
This is beautiful country. mild and
healthy and Wei adapted 10 agriclltlIre
our principal crops ar'. corn. coftan 80
AN
toes our fruit trees are loaded with fruit
and i i TO be hoped that no disaster viii
b9t1ll them for tae year 1856.
pathy Tor an children similarly situated
| have. been reared under the hospitabie
roof Of my unci since infancy and feel
very much attached 10 him. / have made
one conir button go the ch.ldren's ward ami
VII send more as soon as I collect NV
success to 20 The JUNIOR.
bertha II. Mays, opelila. Ala.-Doar
Junior; As my papa has been reading The
Constitution for The past three years I
am delighted with IT, and I take this
method q becoming "a member Of the
happy little band. n 10 meets the approval
and views OF the dear little correspond
ents- am thirteen years Dad. reside in
Lee county, seven miles west of the Chat
tahoochee river. our $, hool closed in
April. We had about sixty pupils. Ny
time is engaged On attending 20 house
work. feeding the chickens. milking the
COWS. wo-iln" in the Earien and feeding
the pigs. will close D. asking a question:
What has become OF the bluebrds? None
have been seen i'm this part of the country
since the February snow.
Ebert Uedaoc, Armstrong, Ala.-Dear
Aune Susie ana Cousins: / am a little Ala
bama boy, and will soon be eleven years
old. and wish to join the children's de-
partment as l am fond OF reading the
cousins letters, especially Earnest Willie's
and yours. l enclose YOU 10 cents for the
children's ware; Also q l-cent stamp for the
.tfefr.c CHI
give 10 cents. Mamma has bought one of
Earnest Willie's books and we all like IL so
much. Cousins, you all ought to read it.
Bessie Delay, TeNarkana, Ark.-Dear Junior;
I ana little Girl ten years old. As have not seen
any letters from this place, l thought would
have been going to school. hut our school was
out the 18th of May. was promoted to A class
All OF the Sunday schools had picnic the 2sth
of May, and We had nice time. go to the Chris
tian Sunday school. aud have a very nice teacher
will close by sending 10 cents to the Grady
hospital.
Flora Thompson, Scottsbnrg, va.-Dear Junior:
i ann little gill nine years old / have two little
sisters, Lillian and Marjorie. We Ia We three pet
pigeons.
going TO spend the summer with our aunt IN Co.
lumbus, OHIO. We had twenty four boarders
when school was in session.
send 10 cents TO the Grady hospital.
Yula Lee whatley. Antioch. Cal am going TO
school and taxing music lessons. like my teach
er very much. 1 will send cents the Grady
hospital
Aunt Susie is certainly noble woman to take
snch an interest IN this great work, and think
every child ought to help her.
l would like to correspond with some OF the
northern cousins.
Lucy Heartsill, Marshall, Tex Dear Junior My
mamma has taught me to give one-tenth OF all
money get to charitable purposes, and as have
Just opened my bank, which holds 30 dimes, my
papa (who from Georgia., tell. me to send 1T to
the children's ward of the Grady hospital; so in
closed lind 20 cents fOr that good cause.
Edith l.. Corbin, Pine, Col.-Dear Aunt Su>-~
am little first reader girl. can write little
, bu my mother thinks you cannot make out all
my words, so she will write just what tell her to.
| live away Off here in Colorado, on a rancho in
the big Rocky mountains. 1 wish You could he
here to help me gather wild flowers and cat the
fine specked trout nsh, and wish could see your