Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-31

Hello! Aunt Julia: Let's all give some way
to make home neat and beautiful every
time write. L think plain trimmings
prettier than fancy. Plain curtain scrim makes
pretty curtains and scarfs for the manteI,
dresser and washstand, are pretty with crochet
and tatting on them. Table spreads pretty
with embroidery in them. Pot plants pref
ty in the windows. Wandering Jew is pretty
hanging in the porch. Pillow cases are pretty
with knitting them. / heard Aunt Julia
say, "She must be going to stay forever" so
l guess I better be ''hiking" It,. Love to all.
From cousin.
vASHTI MCCULLOUGH.
Baisbridge. Ga. r. F. D. A. Box 26.
p. S.-'Always have lots Of kind words and
deeds for the old and helpless" 1 like your
suggestion about passing the book around.
Dear Aunt Julia I think / would like to
Join your pleasast band Of jolly young folks.
er with the house work, but like Dixie" i
enjoy riding most anything that is fun.
Some Of the boys speak Of washing dishes.
think II is nice Of them 70 help with the
house work My brothers think they are to-
grown to do house work, except one. and he
is at school away from home. He came TO see
us last Saturday and drove the car fcr mother
had a plcasast time together.
Yes, r. o. s.. ! can leave embroidery and
crochet long enough . to go fishing most a,n any
club girl?'' and l have already learned there
is work to be done In that business. The
most difficult thing to do so far is getting
those ugly worms from the tomato plants.
hope to be successful with my work. l think
would like a friendship garden, but guess
would need Aunt Julia here to help me fix It
right. / try 10 help mother with the chickens,
but tell you, cousins, when an old hen ruff
files up her feathers and starts my way al
most feel compelled to run Now. don't 'ay
she would not make brave soldier.
KATHLEEN STRINGER.
- .ooS. - Iovolv mini vino
that 1 would like to share with the cousins II
they will send a self-addressed, stamped en-
velope.
Dear Aunt Julia: have written to the letter
box once but have not seen 1t in print. am
little girl of Alabama and am fourteen years
with Willie Brewer. Bunger, Ala. R. l. Box
No. -'"' ANNIE MAE ALTERNATELY.
Cedar Bluff. Ala, r. 1, Box 105.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
Georgia girl asking to be admitted into your
happy band. am thirteen years old and can
crochet and make tatting. go TO school some
time / go to school at Clermont and like to
go fine. 1t will begin in September My great
est pleasure is roaming in the woods gather
ing wild flowers. l like to go fishing. but
do not go very often. VIII come again soon.
Lovingly. DOlA THOMAS.
Leo, Ca, Route l.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: VIII you let an
Idaho girl have a seat by the eousinsl am
ten years old and in the fifth grade.
live on a farm six miles from Idaho Falls.
have two brothers smaller than myself and
sister older than l. have a little pony. My
little brother and I ride her every day. The
summers nice and cool here, but the winters
are cold. Well. l must close for this time.
Your cousins, ALBERTA DYER.
Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Hello, Aunt Julia and Cousins! am hoy
thirteen years old and live on farm OF thirty
acres. / live about a mile from Walballa.
like country life fine. For pets l have a little
oxen and dog and the hoe and pillow handle.
How many of you boys belong ito the Boy
Scouts? I don't, but am going TO join. have
read several good books. My favorites are
BLACK Beauty and beautiful joe" I will
be in the fourth grade next season at school.
Jessie L. Chandler, l will aswer your riddle:
What is the longest word in the English Ian
guage7 Smilesl Because there is a mile be-
tween the first and last letter l will close
by asking two riddles: why is stick of candy
like race horse? Who may marry many a
wife and still be single all his life? l will
close with best wishes 70 Aunt Julia and the
cousins. ROMAN V0IHATH.
Walhalla, s. c.
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