Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-27
A DAY AT ATRENs. ALA.

Dear Household: You always have
something interesting in your page to
me. and you see and feel with such q
bigness of heart I'd love to tell you of
my spend the day trip to Athens last
Sunday.
Even though it was the Sabbath day
think L must have enjoyed every
thing all the more for there was a sa-
credness about every pleasure that came
to me.
DR.. Walker, whose kind invitation
accepted TO go with them, was going
to see his little daughter, Mary who
is in school there this winter. There
were three big baskets of dinner packed
so nicely. il was a temptation to those
of us who frequently enjoy those Things
not to 90 into ii when we shifted the
odor from under the fresh linen ami
Just think of the thrill 1T must nave
brought to the poor starved CD college
girls who shared it with us.
We went by way of Florence and Rog-
ersville, and while we enjoyed every
minute of our ride, we mush have eaten
mouthfuls of dust. The roads were so
badly ditched that it was not unusual
for us to find ourselves bounding like
rubber balls only to be knocked back into
our seats again by the top OF the car. All
of us took il turn about crtticizlng our
chauffeur, yet we knew all the time that
we might have done even worse than he
did had we been at the wheel. There
was very little scenery on our way that
could have been called picturesque, the
white fields of cotton. I think, attracted
our attention more than anything else
for we heard so much said about the
short crops"
when. we. reached the dormtory every
body had gone to church so we seated
ourselves on the porch to wait their re-
turn. have a very dear friend at Athens
college also, and found l was as anX-
ious 20 see her and was growing as i'm
patient as DIR. w was to see Mary V.
Marinda and I decided we would go
and meet them and be the first to spring
a surprise on the girls. So we slipped
of from the rest, as we thought, but not
being familiar with the little town OF
Athens we must have taken a long way
and in the meantime Dr. Walker gain
ed on us He had reached the church
and was coming back with Mary v.
arm in arm, and we were trying TO imag-
ine who the gentleman could be with
Mary V. We were so sure we had left
Dr. w on the porch we could scarcely
believe our own eyes when we really
got close enough to recognize him.
My friend, however. happened to be
attending another church and services
were not over so went back to the
dormitory to wait for my second
share of fun. had planned TO be in
Annie Lois room when she came. but
| Mary V was so elated over all our sur
prises and her good times that she ran
I all the way down the long hall to tell
Annie Lois 7 was there. That, very
evidently, didn't lessen Annie Lois pleas
ure I'm seeing me for she almost burst
/ the door open and ran to ME with out
/ stretched arms and all but crushed me
In her strong embrace. IT was like
being home to both Of us for we had
spent one summer together and both left
/ for our school at the same time.
We took Annie Lois. Mary V. and
two other college girls with us and we
went to WeIlswood Farm. a beautiful
home and plantation about a mile from
Athens. We We're given the privilege
Of spreading our lunch out i'm the grove
I in front Of the home and with plenty Of
good water we thoroughly enioved our
dinner. After we had rested we went
/ for drive taking in all Of Athens most
4 interesting features. We went out to
see the agricultural school and also
Green's university for boys We then
returned to the dormintory and were
shown throu=hout the entire building
/ There were many interesting things TO
see especially in the art room and the
4 laboratories. We met a number of the
/ students and nearly all the teachers.
We left Athens about 3:45. II was a
| Jolly bunch we left standing there on the
I campus for they were still enjoying
/ their freedom Of the day. but dare say
/ Il was forlorn crowd who had to go TO
their rooms afterwards for meditation
3 hour.
( Since the roads were so bad we chang
, ed our course and came home Nv wav
of Decatur. ave enjoyed the little ex-
perience which was new to some of our
crowd. crossing the river a ferry
/ boat. When we got to Decatur who
should we sec there on the street but an
old schoolmate of mine 7 knew she
was teaching there but I did not hone
to see her as we stopped only Ions
enough TO get n refreshing drink. OF
course we almost had a scene, when we
two met.
We left Decatur at about ESQ and