Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-30
After Two Years Absence

Dear Household: 1t has been a little more
than two years since / have written TO this
page; time goes by so fast one can hardly keep
up with the years, to say nothing OF the days
and weeks.
Sam Jones said It was against the law to
preach without a text. / guess had best get
a subject, SO I viii say a few things this time
you go TO church and haven't got on to the style
you had just well to take a back seat and
when preaching is over sneak out easy pos
sible. But IL you have things in style you
may come in just in time to see who are there
and hear part Of the sermon and let everybody
see you and when the preacher says amen, 3"
get up and try 10 be first one out the door,
and whatever you do don't speak to a fellow
unless he is in style.
They say a lift dog VIII boiler. I am afraid
that II some OF my readers in town see this
will be the one TO do the bowling. But II
can find a remedy for the situation at this
time and put away some Of these fashions and
get the people back where they should be. and
get religion In the heart and not the back,
I WIN be ready to take my medicine.
1 don't know Just what this old world Is com
ing to. / do know one thing. that Is that the
situation at present is pretty bad Sam Jones
used 10 say the boys would plat their toes all
shoes on sunday uss9 to ou love T to hear bim
preach when I was q student in Atlanta, some
years ago. I often think OF him and wonder
what he would say about these fashions now
adays.
reckon there certainly must be a crowd Of
skin-headed girls somewhere unless hair grows
on trees. for see some rats sometimes as
large good sized watermeIOns and II looks
like folks hair TO me / don't think our girls
here IN the United States should rob the girls
in foreign countries OF their hair. for I think
they all would look better with little hair
than some with bushels and some poor girls
baidheaded.
attended a funeral once and remarked 10
my wife that the relatives OF the deceased
didn't seem to take the death Of their loved one
much to heart.
"Oh." she said. ''it isn't stylish nowadays
for you 20 show your grief
II that is to be the condition OF affairs we
had all best get off TO a foreign land and die
Grass I'm this country is running away with
the crops and fashion with the people /
guess the next thing VIII be something else.
Ny last subject liquor. hut now Chatta-
circulars coming in from there; but what
about Jacksonville7 My! don't you know the
boys are kept busy down there?
What has become 81 many Of gifted
without permission from me. And there are so
many others should write IN a while, and
help Miss Thomas. who Is doing such fine work
and striving 70 make the world better by hav-
ing lived I'm Il. She and Mrs. FELTON, are doing
work for which I believe God will one day
richly reward them.
exrect TO ask Mrs. FELTON,. as she certainly
writes things 10 the point, 10 give MS some idea
final result. But have drifted away from my
subject. Hoping more gifted than I
VIII send their opinion fashions and
help get back where wear Jeans
Many a poor fellows nose r. at the grindstone.
fear there is warm climate somewhere for
the originator Of these fashions-made to rob
poor people, some Of even bread from their
children and many Of an education.
Well. time and space foTbids me writing more.
Hope Miss Thomas will live many years to con-
tinue her good work. Much love for her and
The Journal family. J. HENRY NJ.