Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11

weight LAG pounds. Age between seventeen
and twenty-five.
lengthy, l will close with dime Tor
Yvorne and love for all the rest of you.
A new cousin,
ANDREW p. THOMPSON.
Eastman, Ga, Route 6.
Dear Aunt and Cousins: As it is raining
and 1 can't do much else, l thought would
been doing these days? 1 have been working
most of the time. 1 live on farm, and can
always find something to do. Isn't that
the way with you cousins who live on farms
Aunt Julia, think you must be noble
woman. You have such grand ideas, and 1t
was so nice of you to think of adopting the
French baby. I am sending 20 cents for her.
Most of the cousins describe themselves,
so / will follow their example: Brown hair,
blue eyes, fair complexion, 5 feet 3 inches
tall and am sixteen years old. At school
I'm in the seventh grade.
You cousins write to me- / will answer
every card and letter received. Just Try me.
Your niece and cousin,
RACHEL TILLER.
Duty, Va.
Dear Aunt Julia: viii you let a Nortn
Carolina boy into your happy band? l have
Just returned from service and it is sure
lonesome here. for all of the girls have mar
ried around here since / was away. live
on the farm and my father likes The Journal
and | enjoy reading the Letter Box. Here
go: Forty-nine inches high, fair complexion
gray eyes, hair brunette, age bet" zen eight
cen and twenty-siX. l sure would like tC
sure would like to correspond with some Ct
the cousins. Will answer all cards and ,et
tiers, as 1 am sure lonesome. With love to all
ELLIS HATCHER ROCKINGHAM.
P. s.-A dime for baby.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Won't ycr
please let Virginia girl join your happy
and I can't do much else, though I woulj
| Journal for some time and think it the Bes
R Bog Dear Morgery Th re"f Dark Star
band? have been reading The Atlanta
| in it.
What have you cousins been doing? have
| been hoeing corn. But we cannot hoe now
| because of the rain.
Say, Lowenia Rogers. I have your birth
| day-August 10: | will be fifteen years o.
| age then. l will describe myself and go, a
! see Aunt Julia glancing at the clock d.
| be quiet, cousins: Brown hair, blue eyes
medium complexion, 6 feet tall.
All of you cousins write to me and seC
HATTIE NJ. TILLER.
P. S.-A bit for Yvonne.
Away in this land of fragrant flowers,
| OF many lakes and beautiful places,
| Where breezes fan the feverish cheek,
| A welcome visitor comes each week.
And what do you think is this visitor
| name?
| The Semi-WeekIy, with it's worldwide fame
| |, lassie of sixteen years,
| With now a smile and now few tears
| Do sit and read each passing week
| Until now l think should like to speak
| 10 the many cousins and their betters
| or my growing interest in their letters
In full leaf now are the many trees,
| And the soft murmur of pine trees
| Suggest the thought of gentle spring
And the manifold pleasures she doth bring.
| l. lassie, think through work of fiction.
Should in the minds Of the young meet will
restriction.
| Though some of these works I've often read
l feel that my heart is much better fed.
By reading the thoughts of some haste
mind
| That encourage us ever to seek and find;
| Now is the day of our youth
| The foundation of eternal truth
| Aunt Julia, if I don't soon say adieu,
| The waste basket, 1 fear will emerge iat,
view.
Now, won't some Of the cousins kindly spent
| A few moments writing to their FloriI;
friend:
Your niece and cousin,
| CORA MATHEWS.
Lcesburg, Fla, R. F. D. /.