The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29
TIE CONSTITUTION JUNIOR
A Department for the Young Readers
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realities of life. 1t Is easy to acquire the
habit of reading books that hide what IS
sad and bitter and show US only what Is
sweet and joyous in life; but we should
reflect that while TIL" intoxicaticn or 50
doing is most pleasant at the time It's AFTER
effect is mental enervation. Not that we
should never read fiction. for believe light
literature really beneficial when the mind
needs to be relaxed from that high tension
worthy aim Let us all try and realize the
great and lasting effect our reading VIII
have on our characters and lives and read
only those books whose influence will be
for our good Correspondents solicited.
G. c. Bowden. Clarkson. A'a.-Dear Ju-
Nor: ] will take for my subject Mature.
How wonderful is nature. | can sit for
hours and never tire looking at the beaud-
full trees and flowers that nature with her
skilled hand has produced. Why do We
not enjoy country life more than we do?
Where we are free from the rumble OF busy
towns and cities; whore We have the lux
uries nature has provided for us. We may
go into the forest ana see tall trees or
every kind. We may so along the oank OF
a small stream where fish abound and see
the sweet smelling honeysuckic Would
like to exchange one set OF ioWc's I'M
PROVED guitar charts for either "Peck's
Bad Boy or "Sut LoVingood."
Ora Cleveland. Union. Miss.-Dear Jul
Nor: I have read with much interest the
and they are improving every week. Ihen
let all try to improve, for Improvement
Is the important result of striving. We do
not lose the Improvement when we fail
while striving for an object. our hopes are
cruShCu. but gain as much mentally
morally and physically as II We had won
the prize. The loss becomes to us gam:
The education, moral and intellectual, or
every Individual must be principally his
own work Men OF the same opportunities
nv, ant f., "a
let Us present the very best results maj
is possible. Striving Will improve our tact
and talent, which are among me most nm
portant faculties bestowed upon man. We
gam experience by striving. which Is not
only a great benefit TO US. Dut 10 O,ners
who may undertake the same thing.
Charles F. Jackson. Dry Pond, Ga.-Dear
Junior: There Is nothing more interesting
and Instructive than 10 exchange our
Thoughts on different subjects. but why
not discuss some important subject and
not say so much about which nave the
harder time, boys or girls? Life Is TOO
short to waste our time in any such way
We should improve our time 50 that we
may make the world better by having lived
In It, Don't say you can't accomplish any
thing in life because your opportunities
are NOT as good as somebody clSes. II you
will read the biographies Of men, you
VIII find shat the greatest men the Wof.d
ever produced began at the bottom. Don
sit down and wait for something to turn
up for by and by something Will turn up
gray hairs and old age will turn up; Make
a resolution to be somebody in TINS NE
and then have energy and determlhatloh
to do It, Correspondence solicited.
Iora Whatley. Yates, Ala.-Dear Junior:
We take The Constitution and l ENJOY
reading all dhe cousins letters ana Aunt
srsie's, too. think Mr.. Lees stories are
for, LITTLE children. For sub