Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
AUNT JULIA.

they sure are good layers. In December they
laid $50 eggs, and now with the weather below
part of the time, they have laid 10j and
the month OF January is not gone yet. We
have about twenty hens, pullets and all.
keep a record for mamma the back of the
calendar, for ] think 1t Is best to keep rec
ords. because you know when you are profiting
losing. Last year mamma, sister and made
about $3.50 with chickens and the garden, above
what was consumed at home, and we had about
$50 worth of turkeys to just leave home and we
never heard of them any more. We also canned
lots Of fruit and vegetables. In all, pickles and
preserves, be canned about $50 cans, all half
gallon size, which sure has been good during
this cold weather, and it helps TO save the food
which we need to send across the seas. We in
tend TO more this year and to raise every
thing to help win this great
will close, leaving my age for you to guess,
which is between sixteen and twenty. With
lots OF love TO Aunt Julia and the cousins.
MARY THOMAS.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you admit
another little Alabama girl to your happy band
of cousins? l am nine years old aud in the
fourth grade. l study six books. | live on a
farm. My father owns 100 acres of land. We
keep Jersey cows and Leghorn chickens. We
nave all the fine winter apples we want that
were raised at home. CL0TILDA HAYNES.
Good Water. Ala, Route s.
Z. S.-Pease find incosed 10 cents in coin
for which you will send me a club button.
My dearest Aunt Julia: Won't you open your
Eeart TO lonely little girl from the dear old
state of Georgia into your happy band of boys
and girls? ] live on n farm of eighty acres
five miles from the little city of Eastman. Pre-
pare yourselves for great shock. am a
blue-eyed girl of fourteen summers; have light
hair, dark complexion. | suppose most of your
cousins are in school. What do most of you
do for pastime? | crochet some and tat also
Aunt Julia, have asked for admittance before
but was not accepted but now l hoping Mr.
Wsstebasket was in the blaZzard. Aunt Julia,
please find enclosed 10 cents, for which send
me a club button. Hope you dear cousins had
nice time Christmas. ! certainly did. II
see this in print. will write again Hoping
ycu cousins and Aunt Julia much success in
the new year, with love, ] will close:
LULA MATTHEW'S.
Eastman, Ga, Route 4.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Though a re-
cent subscriber to this paper, l have enjoyed
much that l writing one, though l do not
know the rules df there are any, Of the
club.
am n girl from the northern part of Iowa,
so ] have not that charming little drawl that
characterizes you southerners speech. But
love our big middle west, with its sweeping
winds and billiards, and the hot, lovely days
in summer. Still it would be delightful to
me to visit the south and enjoy for myself
its sunny climate, but most of all, its people.
dare say we all have a hobby. Mine is
studying people, and learning their various ways
and characters. l suggest that we tell our
hobbies; just for a diversion.
Will some. girl about my age Il am six
teen) write to me, for the custom of writing
letters, / think, is very beneficial and very
interesting, too; and many happy friendships
have been formed in this way.
am glad to read that so many of the
cousins like schoolwork; to me nothing is much
more interesting, though would not be human
if l did not find it irksome sometimes.
1 wish all of you happy spring. and will
be glad to correspond with many of you.
~ HESTER BEAMAN,