The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31

Hdu me must powerful anu Skill VA
maker Musi. sweetens the cup Of Bit
terness. softens the hands of want. light
ems the burdens of life and indeed many
other important things. Make home at
tractive; music affords means of doin:
this. Show lis the home where good mu-
sic is cultivated, where the parents and
children are accustomed oftcn to mingle
their voices together in song, and we will
show you the home in which peace and
love prevail. and where the great imper-
fectons find no abiding place. Home is
the place of rest--we feel it 50 when we
enter Il after the busy cares and trials of
the day are over j have meyer made
an attempt to write befose to the Junior
page With best wishes and much love
for all.
James Chastain, Tigerville, s C.-Dear
Junior: | live in the northeast part of
Greenvie county. I will tell you lit
tie about my home. Churches are plenti-
full, being about seventy-five IN the coun-
ty. We have the finest water to be
found; it is cold that it will make
your teeth ache to drink it. We raise
cotton, corn, wheat, oats and both kinds
of potatoes and nearly every kind of gar
den stuff. We have d great many high
mountains and water falls From the
top OF Glass Rock you can see many
miles across fields of growing stuff and
farm houses and mills. You can see
Greenville city thirty miles away,
and many other towns We have
lots of wild game-foX and deer
and so on down to rabbits and
squirrels. Crops are good and people are
healthy this year. There is high school
at Tigervile with an attendance of 80
scholars This is melon country Water
melons grow to weigh 70 TO 50 pounds
Above all things l love reading best
think reading is good education. | Will
close with much love to all I would like
a few letters from the cousins.
Country Girl" Box 50. Palestine, Ark
Dear Junior: Time has sped on golden
wings; days have dropped into weeks;
weeks into months since last | visited
the Junior page Though ! read the
cousins letters each week with much
pleasure How many of the cousins are
reading "The Life and Times of Thomas
Jefferson" by Thomas Watson? ! am
very deeply interested in it myself. Emo
retter Shivers and Addic p. Cooper how
] admire you all. You two are just the
kind Of girls you ought to be. If more
of the girls would help their mothers
as l know you all do, they would know
more how to do their own work. Bar
tow 4. Smith, your letters were both
very interesting. come again. Will be
pleased to receive the word In the
Shadow Of the Pine" l don't know the
name of the other one, but some Of the
words are weep not for me as one who
is gone though l am going far away
will appreciate them most sincerely
and will return the favor in any way
that can.
Berta Bryson, IIigdonville, n. C.-Dear
Junior: l see 50 many Interesting letters
from the cousins that | am tempted to
write a few woYds. ! like very much to
read the Junior page My brother, Jo-
seph, takes The Constitution. The girls
have no reason for critcisng the boys
now, as there are nearly as many boy
correspondents as there are girls. | take
for my subject "Ideness.' What is there
to be gained by idleness? Nothing at all.
I do not mean to say that We should not
have any enjoyment Wholesome en-
ioyment is necessary. But to see boy
or girl with nothing to do all day long
but to idle about You need never ex-
nect much of that girl or boy till they
fetal to them We should all have some
hind Of employment For can idle mind
is the devils Workshop" We do not
read that our great men and women
We're all brought up in luxury. Many o.
Them had a very bad chance. Let US
take for ar example James A. Garfield.
He was only > years of age when nus
father died. His mother Wa very poor
They had to earn their living as best they
could. James was not afraid of work.
When he was quite small he wOuld PICK
cherries, plant corn gather vegetables
and help his mother in hundred ways,
As he grew up he learned the carpen-
ter trade and during the long summer
days James by the use % his tools, earn
cd money TO help pay for his schooInS
in the winter. There isn't any use OF
going into details about what ne has
done. for you all know. So he is one
Of our great men who made use of the
golden moments, Abraham Lincoln is
another He was once d ragged lad. But
he climbed to the top Of the ladder by
saving the swiftly flying hours. Let rs
NOT spend our time in idleness. Would
like to correspond with some of the
cousins.
Fannie Boyle Cooledge, Kans.-Dcar
Junior: | am a little Arizona girl living
in western Kansas on a cattle ranch
Our ranch is situated nine miles north
east Of Coolidge and thirteen miles north
west of Syracuse town of 500 inhabit-
ants. l enjoy riding horseback very
much. \ good many iris here ride with
i skirt divided. I think they are all
right Ny two sisters and odect brother
graduated in May from the county
schools. Ny brother will go to high school
this winter We have seven diplomas
My sisters are attending the normal in
stitute at Syracuse; it lasts month
Kansas has one Of the best school sys-
TENS in the United States, and ranks
fourth in railroads.
The prare is covered with sunflowers
Most Of the wild flowers in Kansas are
yellow.
There few Wild animals in t,is
country; the jack rabbits and cotton tails
coyotes. badgers, coons. skunks and
prairie dogs
Some tell how much they have travelled
/ have travelled from .rilona To TLa,,as,
from Kansas to southern Georaia o,,d
from there to Atlanta. fran t1,au.
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