The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-05-21

termelons wus de coolest, but never
knowed 'possum wus dat way. 700 md
So after eating all the opossum ana
potatoes, he took the bones ana Srease9
Uncle Sambo's hands and mouth ana
scattered potato peaiings ann pon s,inn al
out and got back In the chimney corner
to await the results. :.
He didn't have long to walt. Uncle sam
DO turned over and yawned ana salu'
We'll. i reckon old 'possum's done.
What was his surprise? NO opossum;
hut bones and potatoe pealings scattered
all around.
After looking at his hands and finding
them greasy. he licked out his tongue.
and getting a taste. he exclaimed: MY
goodness! | may have eat dat poSSum,
but If / did. l can say one thing. dat
'possum lay lighter on my stomach dan
eny possum l ever eat In my life.
i send cents for Grady hospital. Age
ten years.
Mrs. Hattie l.. whiteside. Keysville. Va.
Dear Junior: / reckon some OF you
country cousins never heard of fresh
air" children. so l will tell you something
of them.
Two years ago my brother-in-law, Rev.
w. T. Clark, asked the people around
here to take a few poor children from the
Fresh Air Society,"" in Baltimore. 80
the farmers said how many they would
take and on the day set for them to come
we all went I'm to our little village-keys-
ville-to meet the train. When the train
come In there was a carload OF sixty
children from six to twelve. Each had
tag around his or her neck with the name
of the person they had to stay with, ana
on the other side their name and num-
Der of street and place. so II they got lost
any one would send them on to either one
of the places The car was put OH on tne
side track and our agent went TO the
door and called up each person and de-
Iivered their children to them. Then a
good many children began TO cry. IWo
Sunday school teachers came on win
them; they talked TO them a while be
fore we left KeySville, but the teachers
had to go back on the next train. TOOK
three children-a boy and two girls.
hal three of my own-a girl ana two boys
so l told them ! felt rich In children
Just think dear children, II great many
of them had never seen watermelons, APP
pies or any kind of vegetables groWlhs
Some of them used some pad WoruS' ou1
| was so glad to find that never ndu
to correct one twice for the same thlhS.
took mine to church, Sunday School anu
TO visit good many places. lhey sot a
little homeSicK at first, but j would TAX
to them and show them new things ana
toward the last they did not want 10 go
4uy heart went out to those poor children,
almost worse than orphans. for good
many of their parents were poor, ignorant
people that could not read or write.
talked and read to them and, on, now
earnestly / prayed each day that might
set them an example that they would
never forget. That they might be petter
men and women on account OF the TWO
weeks stay in my home me , 1ay Ihey
had to leave Albert begged TO I'VE WIN
me. ! felt as ii l could not send MN
from me. he was such good BOY, put ne
had to go. Two months later got a let
ter telling me one of the little girls WAS
dead How | gricvcd over that poor ut
tie child. When L walked through my or
chard yesterday and saw the treets 50
full of all kinds OF fruit, | said. Il must
write for some poor children from the
city to help enjoy IT.
The society pays the children's way 10
the country and the railroad company
orI,. charges half price. The children can
only go once a season ana often ohce AZ
a lifetime, and II Is pltiful 70 heal, tItelu
tell how hot ii is in the city anu tncS
only get half-rotten fruit and melons, WneA
they get any; and one poor little teiloW
said it was seldom he had enough 70 eat
of anything. | would be glad 10 take
little boy to live with me; shall try 10
ger one this year / can give him COM
Portable home and try to make man OF
him. II 90 | shall write you word now
/ succeed.
Zuella Martin. Spray. n. Gear Jun
for: VIII YOU kindly admit me 10 JOIN
your happy band this beautiful spring
morning? How many of the cousins ike
spring? l think 1t is the loveliest season
Of All the year Just think how many
noonIn mass on from day to day without
stonninc for one moment to look at the
rare loneliness which surrounds them. To
see everything richly clothed In green
the flowers Just blossoming to furnish
MS with the sweet, pure fragrance OF their
, first horn youth. the birds sweetly singing
from bough to bough and best OF all the
beautiful sunshine to make everything
bright and gay. oh. who would dare 10
say we do not live in a perfect para
dise?" oh. Just think what beautiful
world we have TO live in! Are We worthy
o. an this that God should shower down
such blessings upon us? / live three
miles from the thriving town Of Spray.
NV mountain home Is called Mountain
View. and is beautifully situated on u
lovely little hlll on Martins creek. about
half mile from Smiths river. | have
been attending school at LeaksVillc y.
G.. and have just returned home. | dear
~ love To so to school. a good education
is something we should strive very hard
to win. ! do great deal of embroidery,
painting in oil paints. drawing portraits
and really almost anything that comes 70
hand. such as cooking. too, if II is nee
cSsary / am n devoted lover of reading.
Every spare moment we have we should
spend Il in reading some good book, and
thus literally try TO improve our minds.
Every golden moment of our lives should
be necessarily employed in accomplishing
one good deed after another. and not
simply allow our lives to drift away in
mere idlencSs. Oh! there are many pre-
cious moments lost Time wasted can
never be recalled. so let us make the best
of It ere IL IS too late. Let us be good,
loving. gentle and hcedful of the we'll
being of all around US and we will not
lack kind words OF admiration. Loving
associations will cluster around us.
Handsome is that handsome does"
What is good looking but looking good?
Never mind the ugly reflections which
your glass may give you. That mirror
H,a hort Ou{fa upoflpr niefuyp Is