Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-26


Spivey tatting from Ruth Howa.
| Summerall. Thank you, dear chill
ness to our Yvonne's clothes.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; May I drop
in for just few moments? The first thihg
| | would say is | want some of the cousins
| to write my best friend, a brunette girl OF
| about seventeen years, who is now III the
hospital suffering from an operation Tor an
| abcessed appendix. l am writing because
| she wrote the Letter Box about year ago:
If her letter was printed maybe, some OF
! the cousins remember her AM VIII surprise
| and cheer her by writing her. sShe was oper-
ated OH about three years ago IN hospital
| in Augusta. She said she got many letters
| and postcards from unknown friends WHICH
cheered her and helped her very much. SHe
| is among my very best friends and she is
! bright and happy and always tries to make
others just as happy l love her so much
| that don't want her unhappy one hour she
| there. | know many of her large circle of
| friends will visit and write her, but want
| to do all ] can to keep up her courage, ana
| trust that my dear friend will soon be back;
| l will now give you all her address, as
| won't give my own, for l knocked at Aunt
julia door twice before, but was not ad-
nlitted. The last time 1 sent 20 cents for
| little Hvonne, but my letter may have got
lost My beloved friends address is Miss
| Bessie Mae Douglas, The Aiken hospital,
| Aiken, S. G. So, my cousins, ask you all
| to try and cheer her by sending pretty view
| cards or letters to her. But / ask you all
| not to expect early reply, as you know
| she will have to have her nurse do her writ
ing for a while until she's able to do so her
self.
Aunt Julia, please pardon me for my long
| letter. 1 will come again Next time Will
| sign my whole name. Three cheers for Aunt
| Julia and cousins! Luther Huff, of Talbot,
| Tenn, am very glad you're home with your
mother again. Aunt Julia, please print the
babys photo again, as 1 and other cousins
| didn't see it. FANNIE.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
comes a North Carolina girl to Join your
you all getting along these hot days? Fine.
/ guess. Well. as l am a stranger, will
describe myself Blue eyes, light hair.
| fair complexion and weight 11S pounds.
| Aunt Julia is nice to adopt little French
baby. 1 am sending nickel for her. l
live on the farm and sure do like it fine.
I have twin sister and we are 10 years
old. Come again., Enid r. Kettleman and
Mr.. Burr Baker, your letters are fine;
guess I had better not break Aunt Julia's
| rule, so good-by. From your niece and
| cousin. ESSIE MATHIS.
Rutherfordton n. c., Box II, Route ,.
P. S.-Would like to get a letter from
some of you boys and girls. Would like
exchange photos with some of you ALL
Dear Aunt:
While the. birds are singing their sweetest
| lay;
| A soft breeze stirring the tppmOSt leaves,
And soft low humming of the bees.
To your little girl, now, send a dollar,
| sure would like to hear her boiler
And try to talk and dance and sing,
| For she's just too cute for anything.
But then she's got the greatest aunt
| Ever seen in this country or in France,
And she is mine and your aunt, too,
1 sure am glad, and so are you.
Hello! school girls who are in a muddle.
| With Latin and other high school trouble.
| Geometry of course is dandy and fine,
| Anything hard about it l could not find.
And you, too, I greet, you dear old maid,
| May 1 not join you in the shade?
1 would like to stop a while with you,
For L that you are lonely, too.
| What that aunt, did you say?
Some others, l see, are laughing, too,
| SO l have to bid you all adieu
That no longer l must stay.
III. MIR. LONELY.
L. H. G., Belmont, o., r. No. 8.
| Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: l guess you
| will be surprised to receive this letter from
| me- but have Just been reading The Jour
nal and thought | would take a few mo-
mcnts as pastime and write you. This has
been grand day with me-canning fruit.
| | live on the farm, and take great pleasure
| in fixing for the home.
| Well, the rule is to give your description,
| so here come: Dark hair. gray eyes, feet
inches tall, ana will leave my age for
| and my birthday is the goth of July, and
| weigh 105 pounds.
Well. will close by. asking some one to
| answer. I am sending 10 cents for dear lit
| tie Yvonne. Love to all.
MATTIEIEENE RAINES.
Wrightsville, Ga, Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I will write
! you line or two to let you know my de-
scription. 1 have black, curly hair, brown
eyes, fair complexion, weigh 112 pounds,
| age fourteen. Well, by-by, cousins. From
Your new cousin,
DELLA BARRON.
2. Sind inclosed 5 cents for Yvonne.
| Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: 1 will write
| you few lines to let you know my descrip-
| ton. Black hair, brown eyes, fair complex
iol4, weight seventy-fiVe pounds, age twelve.
| From Your cousin,
ESTELLE BARRON.
| F. Sind incIosed cents for Yvonne.
Hello, Aunt and Cousins: Will you all
| let a Ncrth Carolina boy into your merry
from this part of the state. Just thought
1 would drop in and chat with Aunt Julia
and tAe cousins a while. | have been
silent reader. of the letter box and enjoy
! it fine l live on a far min the country
and I like farm life. AS this is my first
attempt to write, 1 will describe myself
and run: 1 am feet tall, weigh 40
complexion. L will leave my age for yOu
| all to guess 1t is between 10 and p
years. Some of you good-looLing girls
write to me and see if you don't get an
answer. With heaps of love, from your
nephew and cousin,
WESLEY CHANCE.
| Abbottsburg, N. c.
Dear Aunt Julia: I've been reading
some of the cousins letters and would like
| to join the happy circle. 1 will be eleven
! years old in September. I am feet .
| inches tall, very light hair, brown eyes
and medium complexion. l would like II
write to any of the cousins. Sincerely,
SARAH ADAMS.
Talhotton, Ca, R. F. d. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia AND Cousins: Will you
admit Il lonely North Carolina girl into your
happy. band of girls and boys? My father
| takes The Journal, and 1 like to read all
| the letters. 1 live on the farm, and like it
| fine, only l get awful lonesome sometimes,
| for 1 haven't any sisters. l have two
| brothers.
| Mr., Abner Baker, come again. Your letter
was fine. Well, as most of the cousins de-
| scribe themselves, l will do likewise: l have
| black hair, dark gray eyes and am feet
| inches high; will be sixteen my next birth
day; weigh 1913 pounds.
think Aunt Julia is doing a great thing
in adopting the French baby. Say, Aunt