Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-04
The DeIiqht of Winter

Dear Household Friends: Il want to thank
all who sent cards. You can never kn0"
the pleasure Ii gave me to know that my poor
efforts at writing to our page arc appreciated.
I received a generous shoyer OF cards
many more than expected, for had no ldet
so many people read my letters receiver
too many to undertake answering all OF them,
and IL would not be fair to answer only pnrt
l wish ] could correspond with those who ask
me. for ! like to get letters, but my houseWork
and baby keep busy, and whenever the
weather is nice / roll the baby out, and the oniJ
time l ever get chance TO write is when my
baby is Gsleep.
l wish TO say to the lady of Anderson. :. e..
that ! do not know the person she asked me
about | never went to school there.
We awoke the other mornoing to find ne
had drifted the front steps higher
than our heads. They have shoveed IT off the
sidewalks and there is solid wall of snow
on each side. In places where the snow mas
irifted there are banks of 1t higher than ore )
head, and in MIST places IL forms wall waist
deep each side of the walk | like TINS
place fine. / had much rather sIend my WIN
( tors here than in the south. Here II turns
cold and stays that way, and one doesn ieei
thu cold much as they do where 1t Is
hot one day and freezing the next, and we nave
prettier days when II is warm enough TO so out.
No. Mr.; Smell, ] don't like the way they
here, SO it doesn't bother me so much. Every
one Is more on an equality In the north thah
/ in the south: tho women think it proper 10 do
their own work, even to the washing. In the
smaller towns they hustle to see who can Ief
out the biggest string Of clothes the earliest
If the southern lady mas 10 WASH Shc very OlleH
tries 10 hang them back of the house where
they won't be seen. In email town where l
; lived in the north ! had neighbOr who was
, an invalid. She hired her washing done, ana
as there was NJ negroes in the town, / was
curious to know who her washerwoman was.
Imagine my surprise when on a Monday mOrnA
ing | saw the Mcthodstp reachers wife coming
from the neighbours Yfth the bundle OF clothr
on her hip. She wasn't trying to slip around
tho back way with them, either; but was
marching bravely down the street and looking
II she proud Of them.
Here the hired girl, who is white, eats with
the rest Of the family. and very often receives
her beau in the front parlor. like some
ways in the north better than the south, al
though | love the south, as | was raised there
ard shall never be anything but a southerner.
All day the fog horn has been blowing; Al
sounds so lonesome. it almost gives me the
blues.
! had the happiest Christmas have had since
I was a child. Santa Claus came to see MS.
| The dear old fellow came TO my home again.
and II brought gladness 10 the hearts or all oi
nv little family to have him come. We had
plenty of TO make IL look like Christmas.
They don't celebrate the day with fireworks
here; think they spend II more III the churcneS.
I didn't hear Il single tirccracker; one reason
/ being the cold. and another being that they use
, them on the fourth Of July.
! had two cards from soldier boys. One SAID
ne was lone soldier boy and it made me
! feel Eomesick for him.
| expect to visit my home folks soon, Miss
| Thomas needn't be surprised TO see a go-cart
fine boy and Pansy coming into her office.
| have had 10 stop every few minutes since
starting this letter and rock the baby DacR
| to sleep.
Belinda, you are right in your determination
! 10 marry a man who Can make enough money to
live On comfortably. Love is nice, but there
should be money, too. ! believe il would be bet
ter to marry a nan with money that you did
net love than TO marry man you did love
that was not able to make decent living.
don't trink girl who Is old enough to marry
would fall in love with a lazy, thick headed.
! stiftIcss man II she lad any sense. When one
Is going 10 link her destiny with another's is
the time to do serious thinking. Mar
risge is not a game TO play little while ard
then quit; 1t is lifetime job, so let's be
careful about partners.
Thanks tc those who sent me cards, and pest
wishes 10 all our band. Sincerely yours,
MRS. PANSY.
! 1905 North Erie street, Racine, Wis.
Information Wanted
Please help me find my son, Ben Bowles.