Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
ATTIC TREASURES
Ny Dear Boys and Girls:

My Dear Boys and Girls:
"OW many of you have ever been
III in grandmother's garnet? Those
IL who have will remember with
pleasure the wonderful secrets which
were revealed to their eager searching,
and will delight to tell all the other
Juniors about it. There are ever so
many things which might have been
found in the garnet, and I hope each
Junior will describe either truthfully or
from his imagination all the wonders
of grandmas store room.
These letters do not need to be
founded upon actual facts at all, but
of course it will be pleasant to hear
descriptions that are true in every de-
tail and to learn of the remarkable con-
ditions which may exist in some gar
rets.
Almost anything might be found in a
garnet. In fact one girl told me the
other day that in her grandmothers
garnet there was everything from the
rag bags, containing the carpet rags, to
the family ghost. I am sure you would
each like to have real attic like that
to plumber and play in, would you not?
We will see how much imagina ton
some of our Juniors have who have been
bred in this country of bungalows and
never have known the joys of a real
attic. The boys and girls who came
from any of the eastern states will have
their own experiences to draw upon, for
there is scarcely a house there but has
it's storeroom where old trunks filed
with forgotten garments, broken
furniture, some battered family silver
perhaps, and all the innumerable odd
pieces of stuff too good to throw
away" are preserved among the dust
and cobwebs by thrifty grandmothers
and great-aunts
Sometimes old-fashioned family por-
traits are put away in this receptacle
for odds and ends, and I have known
houses in the farming districts of Penn
sylvania and New York where great
punches of dried herbs, sage, thyme,
sweet marjoram and lavender were
hung to dry, and the fragrant, spicy
odor made a delicious perfume through
the entire length and breadth of the
low-ceiled gabled room. Then there are
generally boxes of old letters, old books
and sometimes old music, copied out
by hand as so many of the songs of our
great grandmothers time were. All
these things will make most interesting
material for letters to me, and 1 do
hope that there will be a fine, big crop
of splendid letters.
The competitors in the Young Artists
contest will find a new idea for their
work this time. The topic what l See
from My Window" ought to bring some
beautiful pictures for there is scarcely
a window in California which does not
offer some glimpse of loneliness. Some
Juniors will see hills some the ocean
and beach. There are some looking
afar off who will send us group OF
waving treetops, with the fieecy blue
sky beyond, and others with their eyes
close to the ground will see only the
nearby garden or lawn with the chill
dren at play, or perhaps only Towser OF
Tabby lying in the sunshine.
Whatever you see from your WlnuoW
is the picture for you to draw, and per-
haps even the most simple bit of pie
ture may be, drawn so we'll that it will
win the prize. But the picture must be
absolutely original in every respect.
1t is something which every boy and
girl may try, and 1 anticipate many in
teresting pictures. Lovingly,
AUNT LAURIE.