Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-13

! twelve. will try to answer all letters and
! cards received fr. m cousins.
Your new niece and cousin,
| LOUISE BRADFIELD.
| Rome, Ga, Route o.
P. ST. will send cents for the French
| baby.
Dear Aunt and Cousins: Will you let
another North Carolina cousin join your
happy band of boys and girls? 1 have been
a reader of the letter box for some time.
| Wonder what you cousins are all doing
! these rainy days How many Of you cous-
| ms have a brother over there? l have one
| and Germany and, believe me, l would like
| to him come home. Well. as am q
| stranger to most all you cousins, l will
describe myself and go. have light hair.
| gray eyes, fair complexion, weigh 125
pounds, and am 5 feet inches tall, age
between 10 and %. Would like to hear
from some of you cousins. Aunt Julia, l
am sending 10 cents for Yvonne. Think
her picture real cute. A new cousin:
EDITH MABEL HAYES.
Wilkesboro, n. c., R. l, Box "a.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes new fell
low an eight-year-old, curly-headed boy,
from way out west where caps are best;
have a garden at school. Say, smell spice
cake baking, SO good by. .o,,-r, n.uus
Hickman, Col.
Dear Aunt Julia: thought I would write
again. How many of you cousins have
brother in France? 1 have, he, will be back
some time in June I guess. sure Will be
glad to see him. 1 sure do enjoy the letter
box, don't all of you cousins? / read the
other papers but I like The Journal the best.
Inclosed you will find cents for the
French baby Lovingly LOIS CONFER.
McFaT, Ala, Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
let me in again for just few minutes! l
have written once and my letter in
print. 1 saw Yvonnes picture, she sure did
to be with you and help you pick straw
berries and fish. 1 sure do enjoy fishing.
live close to two rivers. l would ike
for some of you cousins to come and heip
day April 10th, we are both the same age,
too Well if you want to me smile and
laugh and cut a little caper, just let me
see the mail man coming with the Atlanta
paper Well, 1 guess / had better get quiet
before Aunt Julia sends Mr.. w. B. after
me. Will answer all letters received. Will
close with lots of love: NErr1E HERR1N.
Leaf, Ga, Route ..
2. ST. am sending 10 cents for 9Yonne.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
kindly admit little Mississippi girl in your
delightful circle? AS this is my first at
tempt to write to the cousins, l viii make
my letter short. I am ten years old, have
blue eyes and fair complexion and have
black hair. I live in the pine section of
southeast Mississippi and live on farm
We take The Journal and enjoy reading
the letters so much I'm sending 10 cents
for the French baby. With much love to
UNI 0--" anu '''' BLIEKAo McRAE.
Waynesboro, Miss, R. F. D. 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you all
| let little South Carolina country girl Joih
Won for n short while? Oh, cousins, don
| YOU all think Aunt Julia is a dear, sweet
auntie to adopt a little French girl? l do.
Aunt Julia, 1 am sending 10 cents for little
Yyonne.
what are you cousins doing these long
days? Having grand times, eh? l am
working on the farm for the present. wen,
as all the rest describe themselves, l will
do the same. l am blond, feet inches
tall, weigh 1876 pounds, will be sixteen the
18th of July. Now you all can imagine
how ] look.
as I see Mr.. w. b. coming for my letter,
L had better hurry, or he will sure get it:
l would like to hear from the cousins. l
am your new niece and cousin,
MATTE NAE DUKES.
| Dear Aunt Julia aud Cousins: Please let
us into your happy band of boys and girls.
| Our pets are dolls. We are sending 10 cents
| for the little French baby. How many of
you cousins have a garden? We have. We
are writing, too, to dear cousins. We live
on the farm and like farm life fine. We
| will close by asking a riddle:
Crooked as a rainbow, claws like a cat;
Guess all your lifetime can't guess that.
Much love to Aunt Julia and cousins
RUBY and PAULINE SMITH.
Vidalia. Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: L beg to
make my debut jill your charming circle of
girls and boys by describing myself and
handing in my mite for the little French
girl. | am feet inches high, weigh 12O
pounds, dark hair, brown eyes, rosy cheeks
and plenty of dir!ples. / am on the shiny
side of twenty. My birthday is on the 14th
day of February. 1 want all the girls and
boys to come by letter to my letter party,
beginning today 1 Will return all calls
and bring a prize to the one who guesses
how old l was the 14th of last February.
Now, my Gear friends, let the letters scoot
| to COUSIN MAUD.
| Fountain Inn, S. G., r. f. D. 2, Box 43.
My Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: VIII
you admit a south Georgia girl into your
happy band of boys and girls?
My father takes The Journal and I enjoy
reading the Letter Box, advice to Lonely
Girls at Home ond Deans Diary but
| Deans Diary has stopped.
| What do you all do for pastime? l
| crochet, tat and read. l live on a farm
and like farm life fine How many of you
| cousins have a brother across the water?
l have one in Germany.
! Gladys Green, the answer to your riddle
| Is chimney Am I right?
/ will ask riddle:
Treat me well, am everybody;
| Scratch my back, 1 am nobody.
1 think it is nice in Aunt Julia to adopt
| the French baby.
| As my letter is getting long, 1 will de-
| scribe myself and go. l have light hair,
| gray eyes, fair complexion, feet 4 inches