The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-12-28
JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE

Ed Landlord Warm Springs, Ala Dear
Junior: I thought I would write n short
letter and see IL Aunt Susie would print
It, I want the cousins to give me n
letter party on the 25th Of December.
Christmas day. I live z miles from the
little town of Sylacapga back in the
mountains. and have 4 pretty lonesome
time. My sister Is writing this for me,
for I am a blind boy. 7 VIII close, wish
ing all merry Christmas
Arthur Green McCarters. s C.-Dcar
Junior: On a visit to some Of my friends
I read some OF the letters from the boys
and girls, which enticed me 10 write
my first time live about i miles
north OF Greenvile My home is situated
on a hill in plain view Of Paris and Blue
Ridge mountains l like to travel around
and see the country; but | soon get tired
and want to return home again. Home
is quiet. secluded place whore loving
hearts dwell Al home have a loving
mother and father, who try to teach us
the way Of life. a home without a kin
affectiOnate mother is dark and dreafy.
To make our homes pleasant we ought to
be Kind one to another Correspond
ence solicited,
Jessie NJ. Vann lido, Fla,--Dear Junior:
As this is very cold, cloudy evening.
thought I would write letter. | am not
going TO school now. as our school closed
the last Of September. Our teacher has
gone 10 Defunlak Springs 70 attend
school Well cousins it VIII soon be
time for old Santa Claus TO visit us. !
don't know what he will bring me this
year. but know what he brought me last
year-me and my little sister nice bis
doll 2 feet high and we named them
Alberta and Annie. after our school
teacher. l sold some pecans and got
little money and ] am going to send
cents for Aunt Susie 10 bug something
for the little children on Christmas. Age
II.
Pantha Bishop, Pennington, Ca, r p.
D. No. Dear Junior. I've been think
ing for some time that | would write and
ask 10 be permitted into your happy
band OF correspondents I will select Tor
nv subject Gambling 1t is the most
degrading habit that any man or boy
ever possessed just think OF a man with
house full Of nice little boys and girls
sitting off in some place with crowd
gambling, probably running some moth
er's boy. and happiness Of many a home.
They viii actually get men and boys De-
fore they know what they are after to
playing cards or throwing dice Just Tor
FUN as they call it; then they see that
Won ike To play and they viii say, lust
have a little skin game II not any
harm. The best Of people gample, then
they tell of some Of the wealthlest men
who gamble, and how they rank WI n
the best of people. and most Of them VIII
take Sunday and spend the whole DAY
without eating or drinking anything
without it's whisky. Some or their
families at home are without the hcces-
sites of life: wife almost heart~proken'
and their. little boys in all kinds OF bad
ness and some of them hid from their
mothers with their deck OF cards. trying
to do like their father. In the neishpoT-
hood where there Is gambling therc IS
no Sunday school, or prayer neelihS'
and q few that will go to preaching
Boys. for your sake and your mothers,
fathers and sisters sake, and Tor the
good Of your country don't be oVer-per-
suaded by those wicked and low NC
gam oilers Best wishes to Aunt SUSIE ana
the cousins Would like a few CORE
spondents
Kate NJ Chapman Paynes' ;.
C.-Dear Junior: Here comes
stranger Will you admit her into
your band? She is from the RAJ
metto State. and a happy country GIL
and has lived in the country all my HE.
Know nothing about town only "hal
learn while visiting there, and that was
enough What glorious time we coon-
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