Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-08

/ Dear Aunt Julie and Cousins: May l Join
I your happy circle1 ! am a little gorl of seven
| teen summers. | live among the SUNNY hills
! of western North Carolina. The beautiful Land
and the climate is very pleasant. Wild flow.
/ era grow in great profusion. The laurel and
| rhododendron thickets are truly beautiful when
4 in bloom
My horns ia IN Macon county. Franklin, the
/ county seat, is situa ted on the Little Tennessee
/ river which flows through the central part of
/ while through the western part of the county
| flows the beautiful wantahala rives. Its
waters clear az crystal, sparkling in the
/ sunlight.
! Education is encouraged in this state. We
| have the compulsory school law. The boys and
/ girls of this community have organized a
literary and debating society. 1t is proving
a success. ] am very fond Of reading and have
] read several good books.
Vests Nils. y. c.
Well. cousins. move lust little. I'm not
very large; il won't take much room for me,
/ If there's one in the bunca. | have Just nea
| letter that v. V. Boswell wrote and listen!
/ girls. he said nc kne wthe girls that had been
T T wHy s Inv nus wripg g See? re never seem
girl but what thought -hC was pretty, did
| you? But I'm not going 10 say that about
]
me some sine, then they would get fooled.
| Yes. f. v. answer SINE OF your ques'
/ tons and riddles. The shortest verse in the
/ Old Testament is First Cbrnicles, first cha p
/ ter and twenty fifth verse. Is it right? The
reason girls thoughts ar like the moon IS
because they are so far away. And the rea-
son a girl t,oks at the moon much is b.
| cause there's a man in it,. Am | right: IT
not write rhc correct answers next time. LrI
me ask one why is girls mind and the moon
| alike? Can you answer it, I'd better quit;
my letters getting too long. Your cousin.
| BROWN EYES.
Eastanoollee. Ca
My Dear Aunt Julia: VIM you please ad-
nit two North Carolina girls into your letter
boy. as we do not see very many letters from
| this state
I, Hattie. am twelve years old. have black
| hair and brown eyes. and am feet inches
! tall. I live on a farm and enjoy farm life
! much better than city life. For pets I have
COW and a hundred little chicks. I like to
| crochet and make tatting, but rather tat than
crochet ] going fishing this afternoon
| Come on. cousins. and go with me. am
sure we will enjoy it.
| 7. Keron. am nine years old. have light hair,
| brown eyes and fair complexion. live on a
farm. too. My occupation is feeding chickens
and washing the dishes.
! I have two sisters and three brothers, and
they are all older than ] am, so you see
never get. lonely. for I am the baby they
all say How many Of the cousins have my
birthday. May ~ birthday cards will be
| appreciated.
I like TO crochet and can crochet anything.
| can't make tatting very much but am going
| to try.
nodding when this gets there.
Wake up. North Carolina girls and boys.
We think you all have been asleep long
enough. Don't You sec the other states arc
wishing Aunt Julia much success, are,
HATTIE AND KERoN CANADY.
McIver. y. c., r. No. I.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins Will you al
low another little Alabama boy. to join your
circle? / am ten years old. l live on a farm.
I am in the fifth grade. Our teachers names
are Miss Emma McWilliams and Miss May
I will close for this time. hoping this to miss
MARCUS LEWIS.
Gateswood. Ala, star Route.
Dear Aunt Julia: have been screwing up
my courage almost to the sticking point) to
dertand the letter box is for the children:
Now, I am not exactly a child neither am
dead with old age. so won't you let me write
TO the grown-up boys and girls?
am q convalescent now. having undergone
an operation for appendicitis, and should he
glad to hear from the cousins.
know descriptions are distasteful to some
people, but going to give one Of myself;
I have blue eyes. fair complexion, weigh 1Oe
pounds. Am five feet four inches tall and
eighteen years old. Now really, I'm not Toe
old to join you am I? Sincerely yours.
EFFIE BALDWIN.
| Rockingham, y. c.
Dear Aunt Julia: viii you let an Arkansas
/ girl enter your merry band? ! have heen
reading the cousins letters We take the
/ Journal. and enjoy reading "D1ana or the
! Great Game" and lone Woman's Story.
| was fourteen years old November Il ana
| am five feet five inches tail, fair complexion
/ dark curly hair, gray eyes. so to school and
am in the eighth grade.
| I go to Sunday school. In my class there
are twenty girls s and Sunshine TeTi B Bend gave pon
/ You think 1t a good one? For pastime GRO
/ Get, and read books.
| We haveS lived in Arkansas four years. We
/ came from good old snow-bound Michigan II
| Is very beautiful here. Binds are singing.
| love music and flowers above all things, he
| oause they are so pure and do no wrong, bu'
| thev fill this dark world with love and music
| I read the beautiful lines Of poetry that
| Eretta May Williams wrote and enjoyed thfn
Saw cousins. don't you think 1t would he
| nice for Aunt Julia TO put her picture at the
head Of the column VIA am c gops 80 fhs IS my
/ first attempt and my letter Is getting lengthy
/ and If Mr.. Waste Basket don't get this VIII
! would like TO correspond with some of the
COUSINS iOO' WINS FREDA ]. HARTzoG.
Higginson, Ark. White Co.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: As am
very lonesome I will drop you just few lines
.
| 90 We pad nice time. There were reel,
| tations and declarations by the girls ana
! bovs and songs by the school and prayer by
4 The pastor Literary address by Pros. Wade
/ 3 Crawford and dialogues at night, whlcl
/ were very good. We had nice day and tSere
were a good many people present. Well,
| guess 7 have said enough about that. How
| MANY Of Won are ready 20 60 to war? | sure
| " hate il that people want to fight against
! one another l think II is very ridiculous
/ Mr. f. V. Boswell. write again 10 the paper,
for 7 surely enjoy your letters and want u
| saw to the cousins who have written me not
10 become inpatient. for | have received Sc
! many letters and have been so busy ] could
/ not write Gu, farmers around here are get
I ting busy planting their crops and tell you !
lis busy lin in Wharrie, y. G. Mr.. r. V
| Boswell the arswer to OF your riddles Is
| because there IS man In the moon. Yes,
| hope TO see more letters from North Carolina
| as II is dear old state l forgot TO tell
you about our "hall game Of April goth. II
| was surely fun. Wharrie team beat the
| TROY team AMI We eniovcI ourselves very much
As nv letter Is growing very lengthy | will
| ring off Goodnight.
| GERTIE MORTON.
! wharrie. y. e.