Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-22

country and think country life just grand
would surely Ike % correspond with Charlie
Parker, Hester Henderson and william 40.
tiFeene. How many OF you cousins crochet.
/ DO Dot. Tor can't crochet much. l have
rat and embroidery Just beautiful. IL jim
Miner my brother. who left Georgia seven
OF eight yssrs ago. sees my letter IN Prln,
be pleased very much 10 hear from him. Here
IS riddle. toys and girls which bet you
can't snSwsr: Once in q minute, twice in
moment, not tucs in ten thousand years. What
IS the difference between Uncle sam, a crow
ing hen and old maidG Well. as this 10 NV
first attempt 20 write 20 the corner and my
letter is geTtlng long l viii come TO a eoncln
sion fOr his time. Hope 10 see my letter In
print Nov, Mr. Waste Basket, Just as my
letter steps n the door yOu crawl IN corner
until il passes you I am going 10 hitch
race horse 20 It 70 zee If :, Gan,t pas ss, yIg 1
Cuthbert. Ca. R. F. D. No. /. Box Al.
2. 81 SOGld Ike to correspond with al
the cousins
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins. Here comes
south "ssOIina girl 70 Join you. have
been a realeE Of your letters for some time,
and I enjoy them fine l can crochet and
Tat. I ike both. but / like to crochet best.
] live In chester with my grandfather ami
grandmother. 1 sm in the seventh grade At
school. l have four teachers and | like them
sn. Our school will BE out in June. HoS
many Of you Ike flowers l have lots Of
roses blooming now and / am enjoying them
because they are my faTOrite flower. l like
TO read some Of my fayOrite books are: The
Harvester '.FreckIes." ''LAddie' and The
LampIighter- also like poetry. such as
the cousins. like the country. / like 10 visit
there during the summer ! am going TO take
music this GUNNER and l am sure that l am
not the Jnly that LIKES it, ! will describe
myself. l sm four feet nine inches tell and
weight los ISunds have brown hair. olde
eyes AMI = fair complexion, and am fourtesl
years old. For fear l am taking too much
space I will & -ose, with best regards. ! would
like TO correspond with any Of you cousins. II
vhE sic haskell I will
again. EDNA KITCHENS.
III LAncas-sr Street. Chester. ;. c.
Dear Auat Juis and Cousins: viii you
please admit another Georgia girl into your
happy band Of boys and girls? Father takes
the dear Did Semi-Weekly Journal and l enjoy
reading ''One WOmsn's Story" but l entOy
reading the cousins letters most Of all.
think IL is 80 nice OF the kind editor 20 allow
rs page tOr our letter box in this dear Did
paper. I i've in the little town OF NOrcrOss,
in Gvinnett county, Georgia i 60 to school
school viii c.ose May "a Cousins. what 80
you all think about the war; / think IL i
very serious problem myself for the young men
upon whom the life OF our country depends
20 have to 20 and fight those German people.
Well. / guess I had better describe myself snf
go ] have Ozark hair. brown eyes and rather
dark complexion; am five feet four inches tall
and weight l0s pounds ! willslesve nv age
Tor yOu % guess. between fourteen and eight
lay cards will be appreciated. l viii be glad
To exchange letters and cards with any OF the
cousins ! viii close by asking some riddles:
Why Is love Ike potatne What word Is II II
five letters. OF which two being removed,
ANNIE COOPER.
Dear Aunt julia: VIII you permit = little
space for q little Alabama bOyE I have dark
brown eyes, dark complexion. black hair. 1
an twelve years old. live six miles from a
little town called Evergreen. a farm I
like farm life fine I have q corn patch. two
pigs snd a hen with ten biddies two pets a
cat and dog go fishing often-dO wish
some Of the cousins we're here to 60 with me.
What Joyous time we would have. Wishes
BEN MILLER.
Rsbb. Ala.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins; Have just
finished reading the cousins letters and think
them fine. Didn't mine in print, thought
I'm Georgia girl. live one mile from VILLA
~u0chee, a little farm. like il fine.
Say, Rosa Corey. ! nearly have your birth
day VIII h sixteen the 5th OF June. I
have dark brown hair and eyes and fair com
plexiCn. am five feet tall and weigh 100 lbs.
in the gardens and help Nth the Ro as WORK.
am in the seventh grade. our school goes out
next Thursday
say. Lucy Carson, black and white and read
al over i newsEaper- Am ! right:
Will close asking q riddle. The more you
take from Il the larger il gets
With best wishes to Aunt Julia and the
cousins LEONA CROSBY.
p. S.-would ike 20 correspond with some
~ the cousins WiIIacOOehee, Ga.
Dear Aunt IuIia ami Cousins: Will you ad-
init a little girl from the north 20 Join your
like % read the letters very much | haven't
seen any u our New York girls and boys
letters I live large farm way Up here
in the Adirondack mountains. where the snow
II any Of the cousins care to write will be
glad 70 answer all cards and letters received.
! am fifteen years old; c,rr
JOhusburs. y. Y.
Dear Aunt Julia I en- glad that you have
started letter box This i nv second let
ter ! have been trying TO answer Jennie h.
MUS riddle. but ] can get no answer.
would like 90 exchange letters and cards
vith The cousins am Nlrgiaia girl You
cousins can guess my age, Il Is between IL
Sylvia Baker. Of Virginia. So 2 will close.
I guess Mr- wastebasket will get this.
Your niece, BERTHA SOUTH.
Greendsls. Va
Dsar Aunt JuIis and Cousins: VIII you al
nit smother Florida girl TO your happy band
of eOusinsE Papa takes The SeuiWsekly Jour
nal I like 70 read the letters in the Letter
Box I think they nice / live in the
northern part OF JacksoI county. I am SIX
teen years Ole. How many Of the cousins b.
long 10 the Girls Csnuins club' l do. last
year ny first year On oue-tenth OF
acre l male l.1Ol pounds of tomatoes. 2O6
Eershaws- hope ! can do better this year.
an the president Of club in this pre-
I have taught one month OF school.
Ike teaching fine. I would like 20 exchange
cards with some Of the cousins I will an
sweT ali saris and letters that I receive. Will
some 81 the cousins work this example for me:
II a pies Of land 1875 yards around, how
many acTe- srp there In IL The plot Is rouuf.
ill close with best wishes 70 Aunt Julia
az1 cousins. GERTRUDE SITIS.
Marisnua. Tia.
17sr Aunt Julia. Here comes \ South Caro-,
lima girl 20 chat with the cousins a little
WSi.e- I live on q farm and I Ike II fine
atsc - all % the cooking
Sow many Of you cousins crochetT I DO not
hut I trying 20 learn. and ! sure would an
s-rcf1te some samples from some Of the cousins
SAY. I1s Anderson, yOu have my name. Lucy
carson, the answer 60 your riddle Is q news
paper
going 70 leave my sgs for you all 70
guess. Il is between eighteen and tweuty-one
will answer all cards AMI letters. I will
close BY asking a riddle What IL alive on
each end and dead In the middlsr
IDA WATERS.
RoIdsys. 8. &. Route /.
uesr Aunt Julia Here comes 3 little south
,ariliHE girl % Join your happy band. am
-ht years old. have brown eyes and brown.
rIrly hair I have two little sisters ons
named Hazel. five years old. and one named
Iris. ous year old Z have been picking straw
berries My papa has about three acres. Hazel
and ase raising chickens We have a little