Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-13

ished when 1 let her think that !
do not know
"Hey Older, hey older
The tat an the fiddler,
The tow jumped ober the moon.
The litter dog 'affed to see the port
An the dish wan away wifi the 'poon."
I've repeated it word for word after
her until she finally said 81 fink you'll
member now"
Yes, I am in Florida. My mother is
up and more like herself than she was
when I left her last year. The three
little girls. Adela, Louise and Janet, met
me. Their mother had been having too
strenuous a time so she collapsed be-
fore my arrival Let me give you a
piece of advice: If you have no urgent
business, you would better stay off the
railorad trains. 1 am we'll and strong
and decided that War Savings Stamps
meant more than Pullman cars, and
went in the day coach" as I hear it
called, and stood up as much as 1 sat
down. Prices have risen until 1 could
get exactly two War Savings Stamps
with the money usually spent in sleep
ing cars. There was delay after
delay, and instead of getting here Mon
day at 6 a. m. 1 arrived Tuesday at 4
p. m. 1 won't say one word hereafter
when The Journal fails to arrive oh
time. , ... .r -
l wish that you could be here. There
has been rain enough to keep the grass
green. 1 heard one man say he would
make thousand bushels of corn, one
gathered 265 bushels off of ten acres,
but a ffty-acre field belonging to that
man will not give them 800 bushels. So
there it goes, we must do our very best
all the time and let our hearts give
thanks as the harvest comes in.
This is a beautiful town; there are
pecan trees shading some streets and
massive mossdraped oaks everywhere.
The green grass is restful and the
wide, wide streets have all sorts of
flowers growing between the sidewalk
and the yards. Most of the fences have
been taken down and it gives the town
the appearance of a beautiful land
scape garden.
The little lady, Janet, has come to
tell me IIldI SHe Is going 10 I0eO the
taft and would I like to help? Who
could resist such an invitation? She
is trying to teach me another ~peech.'
It's "DiIla, dilla dollar this time. and
she has promised to teach me all she
knows in Mother Goose if I'll live here,
and if 1 want to catch the humming
birds that are lowering over the saliva
bed, or fitting from marigold to
morning glory she will Cry to help
me.
The big black Langshan thought the
humming bird a toothsome morsel and
almost got one of them. There seems
no scarcity of eggs here, though we all
know that the Langshan speciality is
furnishing eggs in winter.
Isn't it fine to see how responsive
the better class of people are to the
requests our government makes Of
them? Last Sunday really seemed like
the old-time day of rest and glad
ness" Everywhere that I've been, At
lanta, Macon, ValdoSta, Madison, I've
heard how the people planned early in
the week to get things fixed up on Sat
urday And 1 heard some girls say
that the big wagon" would take them
to church, quarterly meeting being out
of town.
This war has brought sorrow and real
grief, homes have been demolished and
Germany has taught the world what
terrible place this would be if might
were right and God had not given His
Son to redeem us from barbarism and
bestiality.
From the battlements of heaven
there are heroes looking down, men VINO
met the iegions and helped to stem
the tide. Each would say if permitted
to speak, "Grieve not for me. Mine was
a God-given privilege. I did what Jesus